U.S. chapter 18

Question 1

terrorism

Answer 1

acts of violence intended to terrify people

Question 2

brown vs. board of education

Answer 2

case in which the Supreme Court ended segregation in public schools

Question 3

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 3

young black minister who organized a civil rights campaign

Question 4

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 4

law that quarantined voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities

Question 5

Robert Weaver

Answer 5

America’s first black cabinet member

Question 6

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 6

first black-American Supreme Court justice

Question 7

Senator Daniel Ken Inouye

Answer 7

first Japanese American to serve in the U.S. Congress

Question 8

Representative Patsy Takemoto Mink

Answer 8

first Japanese-American woman

Question 9

Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Answer 9

first American to fly in space

Question 10

John Glenn

Answer 10

first American to orbit the earth

Question 11

Neil Armstrong

Answer 11

first man to walk on the moon

Question 12

Cold War

Answer 12

40 year period in which the U.S. and Soviet Union threatened to use atomic weapons against each other

Question 13

John F. Kennedy

Answer 13

President of the U.S. during Cuban Missile Crisis; assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963

Question 14

Fidel Castro

Answer 14

Communist dictator of Cuba

Question 15

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 15

a time when the Soviet Union shipped missiles to Cuba; ended when President Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of Cuba

Question 16

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 16

became President after Kennedy’s death; sent American troops to Vietnam

Question 17

Richard Nixon

Answer 17

President who withdrew American troops from Vietnam; first President to resign from office

Question 18

Ronald Reagan

Answer 18

President who sought to return American to traditional Christian values; known as a Great Communicator

Question 19

Reagan Doctrine

Answer 19

belief that Communism should be stopped before it can attack and enslave a country

Question 20

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 20

Soviet president who agreed to reduce Soviet weapons strength, to free the enslaved nations of Eastern Europe, and to stop encouraging Communist revolutions throughout the world

Question 21

Sandra Day O’Connor

Answer 21

first Woman justice appointed to the Supreme Court

Question 22

John G. Roberts, Jr.

Answer 22

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after William Rehnquist

Question 23

George Bush

Answer 23

President during Operation Desert Storm

Question 24

George W. Bush

Answer 24

President during the September 11 terrorist attacks and Operation Iraqi Freedom

Question 25

Saddam Hussein

Answer 25

dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait and was suspected of hiding chemical weapons; removed from power during Operation Iraqi Freedom

Question 26

Operation Desert Storm

Answer 26

the move to free Kuwait from Saddam Hussein; the shortest war our nation has ever fought

Question 27

Bill Clinton

Answer 27

President when acts of terrorism against the United States began to increase

Question 28

Osama bin Laden

Answer 28

leader of al Qaeda, the radical Islamic terrorist network responsible for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks

Question 29

“war on terror”

Answer 29

term used for America’s war against terrorists

Question 30

Operation Iraqi Freedom

Answer 30

war fought to remove Saddam Hussein from power and to help the Iraqi people build a stable and free government

Question 31

Hurricane Katrina

Answer 31

hurricane which hit Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana in 2005; devastated the city of New Orleans

Question 32

Cuba

Answer 32

islands country 90 miles south of Florida; ruled for years by Communist dictator Fidel Castro

Question 33

Grenada

Answer 33

small island that President Reagan helped to free from Communism

Question 34

Iraq

Answer 34

country once controlled by dictator Saddam Hussein

Question 35

Kuwait

Answer 35

tiny country invaded by Iraq before Operation Desert Storm