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Unit 11 Review - Cold War & Kennedy
Unit 11 Review - Cold War & Kennedy
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1
Who became leader of Cuba in the late 1950s?
Jose Gomez
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Tomas Estrada Palma
2
Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald?
CIA
Soviet Assassins
LBJ
Jack Ruby
3
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
Organized a committee to accuse others of being spies
All of these things
A man who created a Black List with no evidence
A Senator from Wisconsin
4
What did Brown v. Board of Education (1954) establish?
Segregation in Schools
Separate But Equal
Desegregation in Schools
Desegregation of Public Transportation
5
According to the Warren Commission, who was responsible for Kennedy's death?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Soviet Assassins
Cubans
Jack Ruby
6
What new music genre gained popularity during the 1950s?
Rock-n-Roll
Jazz
Pop
Rock
7
\What state was JFK assassinated in?
Tennessee
Texas
Alabama
California
8
August 28, 1963 was the 100th anniversary of the signing of what historical legislation?
13th Amendment
Declaration of Independence
Emancipation Proclomation
15th Amendment
9
What is a Soviet "satellite?"
Technical Equipment that orbits earth
Locations of Soviet weapons
Countries under communist rule
Locations of secret Soviet troops
10
Who was elected President in 1952?
Eisenhower
Nixon
Truman
Kennedy
11
Who was the first African American enrolled at the University of Mississippi
Jefferson Thomas
James Meredith
Ernest Green
Linda Brown
12
What is the Marshall Plan?
Containment
The Domino Theory
Financial support for nations promising democracy
Money for nations promising communism
13
What movement did Rosa Parks inspire?
Desegregation of Lunch Counters
Civil Rights Movement
Desegregation of Schools
Desegregation of Transportation
14
How many days did the Cuban Missile Crisis last?
12
14
11
13
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What new kind of protest did the 1960s give birth to?
Violent Protest
Silent Protest
Non-violence Protests
Hunger Strikes
16
What was the competition between the USSR and the US called regarding Space Exploration?
Space Race
Cold War
Race for Space
Star Wars
17
Where did American families move to in the 1950s?
Urban Areas
Cities
Suburbs
The West
18
Why was the Cold War referred to as "COLD?"
Fighting happened in the winter
War was fought in cold climates
War was done by missile launch and no combat
There was no fighting
19
What was the red scare?
Scaring people that communists are going to bomb America
Forcing people to wear red if they were communist
Accusing people of being communist in America
People afraid of the color red
20
The generation born between 1946 and 1964 were called what?
G.I. Generation
Silent Generation
Generation X
Baby Boom
21
Who won the Election of 1960?
Stevenson
Johnson
Nixon
Kennedy
22
What was Sputnik?
A Soviet Bomb
A Soviet dog
A Soviet Rocket
A Soviet Satellite
23
What is the policy of the Truman Doctrine?
Collaboration
Communism
Composure
Containment
24
Who was the keynote speaker on August 28, 1963 in Washington DC?
JFK
LBJ
MLK Jr
Malcolm X
25
After Stalin died, who became leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Alexei Kosygin
Vladimir Putin
Nikita Khrushchev
26
What was the objective of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Check Cuba for Soviet Weapons
Assassinate Castro
Allow exiles to be returned home
Overthrow the Cuban Government
27
What line divided Korea into a North and South?
The DMZ
There is no divide
49th Parallel
39th Parallel
28
How did the Soviets prevent people from escaping East Berlin to West Berlin?
The Berlin Blockade
Established Democracy in East Germany
Removed railway lines between the city limits
Built a wall
29
Who became president after Kennedy's Assassination?
Bobby Kennedy
LBJ
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
30
Who was responsible for killing 4 young African American girls at a city church in Alabama?
Communists
Civil Rights Protesters
Black Panthers
KKK
31
What were the African American students of Little Rock High School nicknamed?
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock 10
Central HS Nine
Sit-In Seven
32
What city and state did the Lunch Counter Sit-Ins occur?
Charleston, SC
Greensboro, NC
Birmingham, AL
Jackson, MS