Test 11 - People Flashcards
Who was the first American in space?
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
Who was dictator of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Who won the election of 1964?
Lyndon Johnson
Who did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate in 1968?
Robert Kennedy
Who was the first American President to resign from the office?
Richard Nixon
Which president granted a full pardon to former President Richard Nixon?
Gerald Ford
Who was the Communist dictator that established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
Vladimir Lenin
Who was the nationalist leader of China?
Chiang Kai-shek
Who was the leader of the Chinese communists?
Mao Tse-tung
Who walked on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Who ordered the capture of 63 Americans?
Ayatollah Khomeini
Who was the commander in Vietnam?
William Westmoreland
Who was the American minister from Montgomery AL who began a civil rights campaign?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What husband and wife team passed State Department documents to the Soviets in the 1930s and 40s?
Rosenbergs
Who was the first American to orbit the earth?
John Glenn
Who assassinated President Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who was elected President in 1960?
John F. Kennedy
Who discovered the polio vaccine in 1955?
Jonas Salk
Who recommended the withdrawal of US troops from China?
George C. Marshall
Who was the first black American ballplayer to play for a major league team?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the Supreme Commander in the Allied occupation of Japan?
Douglas MacArthur
Who nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956?
Gamal Nasser
Who succeeded President Roosevelt after FDR died in 1945?
Harry S. Truman
who established a Communist dictatorship in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
Who investigated the Communist associations and activities of various government employees and officials?
Joseph P. McCarthy
Who used the term “iron curtain” to refer to the Communist tyranny that enslaved Easter Europe?
Winston Churchill
