unit 8

Question 1

____ gave the “I Have a Dream’ speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

Answer 1

Dr. Martin Luther King

Question 2

The downing of a U.S. increases tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Answer 2

U-2 spy plane

Question 3

The Chinese Revolution resulted in China coming under____ rule

Answer 3

communist

Question 4

Escaped convict___ admitted to shooting and killing Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 4

James Earl Ray

Question 5

The ____ Effect theory illustrates President Eisenhower’s view that the communist take over and the government might cause others to FALL.

Answer 5

Domino

Question 6

In 1963, as many as 200,000 protestors gathered in___to demand new civil rights legislation.

Answer 6

Washington

Question 7

The____Commission concluded that President Kennedy’s assassin acted alone.

Answer 7

Warren

Question 8

Appointed in 1967, Thurgood___was the first African American justice to serve on the Supreme Court.

Answer 8

Marshall

Question 9

Under Chief Justice Earl___the Supreme Court experienced a new era of power and prominence.

Answer 9

warren

Question 10

___provided leadership for Blacks seeking separation, not integration.

Answer 10

Malcom x

Question 11

The successful launch of___into space by Russia shocked and disappointed Americans.

Answer 11

Sputnik1

Question 12

___sought to improve the life of all Americans with his Great Society proposals.

Answer 12

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 13

Legislation removed ambiguities in the law concerning rights and empowered the Attorney General and the courts to enforce the measures.

Answer 13

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 14

Protestors overcame obstacles to deliver a letter to Governor George Wallace leading to a personal meeting with President Johnson to discuss civil rights.

Answer 14

Selma-to-Montgomery

Question 15

In 1953, the United States signed a treaty pledging to defend___

Answer 15

South Korea

Question 16

__is the risky game in which governments push to the edge of nuclear war without actually starting one.

Answer 16

Brinkmanship

Question 17

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolished___and poll taxes.

Answer 17

literacy tests

Question 18

___drove the economic expansion of the 1950s.

Answer 18

Consumerism

Question 19

Passage of the___led to the creation of the interstate highway system.

Answer 19

Federal Aid Highway Act

Question 20

The passing of laws to end the separation of people due to class or race is____

Answer 20

desegregation

Question 21

After the death of Joseph Stalin, Nikita became the premier of Russia.

Answer 21

Khrushchev

Question 22

In the ___ruling, the Supreme Court determined that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to classes of people, not just races.

Answer 22

Pete Hernandez v. Texas

Question 23

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were signed into law during the ___administration.

Answer 23

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 24

American astronaut Neil__was the first man to walk on the moon.

Answer 24

Armstrong

Question 25

The___caused the Soviet Union to relent from placing nuclear weapons close to the United States.

Answer 25

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 26

The___was when the United States and the Soviet Union competed to prove their political, military, and economic superiority.

Answer 26

space race

Question 27

The Warren Court’s willingness to break with earlier rulings led to___changes in the United States.

Answer 27

major

Question 28

The___invasion by Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Cuba’s communist government.

Answer 28

Bay of Pigs

Question 29

The Supreme Court ruled that police should follow procedures in order to protect rights when making an arrest.

Answer 29

Miranda V. Arizona

Question 30

This Court decision stated that the requiring of prayers by government officials for students was unconstitutional.

Answer 30

Engel v. Vitale

Question 31

___refused to give up a bus seat to a White man, which became a rallying point for the civil rights movement.

Answer 31

Rosa Parks

Question 32

The passing of the ___allowed President Johnson to use military force in Vietnam.

Answer 32

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Question 33

Russian cosmonaut Yuri___ was the first man to orbit the earth.

Answer 33

Gagarin

Question 34

____or MAD, is the theory that neither side would start a nuclear war because neither would survive.

Answer 34

Mutually assured destruction

Question 35

White Southerners expressed their desire to continue___by issuing the Southern Manifesto.

Answer 35

Segregation

Question 36

The___program successfully landed Americans on the moon.

Answer 36

Apollo

Question 37

Revolutionary Fidel____ turned Cuba into a communist state.

Answer 37

Castro

Question 38

___proposed New Frontier plans including proposals for health insurance for the elderly and federal aid to education.

Answer 38

John F. Kennedy

Question 39

The construction of the____prevented East Germans from escaping to West Germany.

Answer 39

Berlin Wall