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Test 11 - People Flashcards

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Who was the first American in space?

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Alan B. Shepard Jr.

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Who was dictator of the Soviet Union at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Who won the election of 1964?

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Lyndon Johnson

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Who did Sirhan Sirhan assassinate in 1968?

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Robert Kennedy

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Who was the first American President to resign from the office?

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Richard Nixon

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Which president granted a full pardon to former President Richard Nixon?

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Gerald Ford

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Who was the Communist dictator that established the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

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Vladimir Lenin

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Who was the nationalist leader of China?

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Chiang Kai-shek

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Who was the leader of the Chinese communists?

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Mao Tse-tung

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Who walked on the moon?

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Neil Armstrong

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Who ordered the capture of 63 Americans?

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Ayatollah Khomeini

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Who was the commander in Vietnam?

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William Westmoreland

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Who was the American minister from Montgomery AL who began a civil rights campaign?

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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What husband and wife team passed State Department documents to the Soviets in the 1930s and 40s?

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Rosenbergs

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Who was the first American to orbit the earth?

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John Glenn

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Who assassinated President Kennedy?

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Who was elected President in 1960?

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John F. Kennedy

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Who discovered the polio vaccine in 1955?

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Jonas Salk

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Who recommended the withdrawal of US troops from China?

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George C. Marshall

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Who was the first black American ballplayer to play for a major league team?

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Jackie Robinson

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Who was the Supreme Commander in the Allied occupation of Japan?

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Douglas MacArthur

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Who nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956?

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Gamal Nasser

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Who succeeded President Roosevelt after FDR died in 1945?

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Harry S. Truman

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who established a Communist dictatorship in Cuba?

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Fidel Castro

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Who investigated the Communist associations and activities of various government employees and officials?

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Joseph P. McCarthy

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Who used the term “iron curtain” to refer to the Communist tyranny that enslaved Easter Europe?

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Winston Churchill

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