U.S. History Semester Exam2

African-American Islamic heavyweight boxer who refused to join the Vietnam War draft in 1960,s

How did the U.S. respond to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

First satellite in space, sent by the Soviet Union

In 1957, President Eisenhower ordered the army to enforce desegregation of Central High School

Mexican-American civil rights leader protested for better conditions for migrant workers

President Herbert Hoover believed in rugged individualism which means that 

N.A.T.O. was created during the Cold War to protect Western Europe against: 

to ease tension during the cold War, a direct line was established between the US and USSR

The vast majority of the Viet Cong belonged to which religious group?

Two historical figures that inspired M.L. King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent protest: