Test 9

Who was the first American in space?

After fighting in the Korean War, who went on to become the first Black American four-star general?

Who was the first Black American Supreme Court justice?

Who was Medicare created to provide medical care for?

Be able to name each STATE and give the CAPITAL for each.

Fidel Castro was the Communist dictator of what island during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Which war was over a 40-yr period in which the U.S. & Soviet Union threatened to use nuclear weapons against each other?

What was built by Communists between 2 parts of Berlin?

Which Apollo Mission made the first successful moon landing?

Who invented technology that led to the internet?

Who was the American evangelist whose meetings were televised worldwide?

What was the first nuclear power plant built in the United States?

What offered financial help from the US to European countries that had been harmed during WWII?

During the Berlin ________, planes loaded with food and supplies were sent to West Berlin.

What was created to be a world organization in which nations could work together to settle problems?

Which president succeeded in forcing the Soviet Union to remove any nuclear weapons they had delivered to Cuba?

What president began the Interstate Highway System to connect all parts of America?

Which president focused on his plan for a Great Society?

Atheism is when people do NOT believe in what?

What was America’s first nuclear-powered submarine?

What was built to connect all parts of America for safer travel?

The CIA was created when what act was signed?

In Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, the _____ ruled that schools should not be segregated.

After Fidel Castro took control of Cuba, the Soviet Union shipped missiles there, causing the ________.

Who invented modern mouse-operated computer?

What program did President Kennedy found to send volunteers to help improve living conditions of people in poor nations?

NATO was organized to be an alliance of countries to defend each other against what?

The truce of which war kept South Korea free while North Korea was to remain under Communist control?

Who was the first American to orbit the earth?

Who was the first man on the moon?

Who developed the ARPAnet?

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw in employment and in public places?

Be able to name each STATE and give the CAPITAL for each.

Who developed the polio vaccine?

Freedom rides, sit-ins, and the March on Washington were ways people _____ protested segregation.

Who was the seamstress whose actions resulted in the bus boycott that ended Montgomery bus segregation?

What did the GI Bill of Rights make available to servicemen returning from war?

The first ______ was launched by NASA was Explorer 1 .

Who was the first Black American to be an adviser to the president?

Who was the minister who worked to achieve civil rights?

Who gave his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln memorial?

Essay: Be able to EXPLAIN the changes that occurred in the US because of the civil rights struggle during 1950-1960.