USVA Year-long Review: Part 4, Cold War to Present Day

Question 1

Led the U.S. into the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

President Truman

Question 2

This case established that interracial marriage was legal?

Accepted Answer

Loving vs. Virginia

Question 3

This president signed the North American Free Trade Agreement?

Accepted Answer

President Clinton

Question 4

The name of the U.S. policy that attempted to stop the spread of communism?

Accepted Answer

Containment Policy

Question 5

Who was the most prominent NAACP lawyer who argued in Brown vs. Board of Education?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 6

Which country opposed the United States in the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

The Soviet Union (USSR)

Question 7

Who organized and led the 1963 March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 8

This president starts conservatism in the 80s and 90s with tax cuts and building the military?

Accepted Answer

President Reagan

Question 9

This president began our role in the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) in 1990-91?

Accepted Answer

President George H.W. Bush

Question 10

This idea led the United States to fight in Vietnam for South Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 11

What policy did Nixon create to train South Vietnamese soldiers and turn the war over to them?

Accepted Answer

Vietnamization

Question 12

What happened to North Vietnam and South Vietnam at the end of the war?

Accepted Answer

The merged as a communist country

Question 13

This increased security at home and in travel after the series of terror attacks in America?

Accepted Answer

Patriot Act

Question 14

This patient signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010?

Accepted Answer

President Obama

Question 15

This was the policy of threatening to destroy a communist nation with nukes if they misbehaved?

Accepted Answer

Massive Retaliation

Question 16

Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education?

Accepted Answer

Earl Warren

Question 17

This prohibited discrimination based on race, sex, religion, gender, or national origin?

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 18

This was bombed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks?

Accepted Answer

World Trade Center Towers

Question 19

This case established the enforcement of the right to privacy?

Accepted Answer

Roe vs. Wade

Question 20

This president signed No Child Left Behind?

Accepted Answer

President George W. Bush

Question 21

Which court case said segregated schools were unequal and they needed integration?

Accepted Answer

Brown vs. Board of Education

Question 22

This law established that needy persons who are arrested have a right to a lawyer?

Accepted Answer

Gideon vs. Wainright

Question 23

Who assassinated President Kennedy in 1963?

Accepted Answer

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 24

Which president resigned due to the Watergate Scandal?

Accepted Answer

President Nixon

Question 25

Medicare, Medicaid, and Economic Opportunity Act were part of this President Johnson program?

Accepted Answer

The Great Society

Question 26

Which country aided North Korea during the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 27

Which court case claimed separate but equal was fair?

Accepted Answer

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Question 28

What is the basis of communist economic theory?

Accepted Answer

Destroying private ownership and dividing all equally

Question 29

Led the communist takeover in Cuba?

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 30

In which western Hemisphere country did the Soviets attempt to put nuclear missiles?

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 31

In this plan, America gave money, supplies, and builders to rebuild western Europe after WWII?

Accepted Answer

The Marshall Plan

Question 32

The senator who widely accused Americans of being communists?

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 33

When this country fell to communism, many Americans feared communism would take over the world?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 34

Name President Kennedy's attempt to send a small invasion into Cuba against communism?

Accepted Answer

Bay of Pigs

Question 35

Negotiated an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

President John Kennedy

Question 36

The name of the alliance of Western European nations and the United States resisting communism?

Accepted Answer

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 37

This act for veterans helped build the middle class?

Accepted Answer

G.I. Bill

Question 38

Building this helped trade develop after World War II?

Accepted Answer

Interstate Highway System

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