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US History 2nd Semester Final Review
US History 2nd Semester Final Review
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US History since World War 2 final Review
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The first object put into space by humans
Sputnik
Voyager 1
Laika
Explorer
2
This president was the first to resign
Clinton
Carter
Nixon
Ford
3
The face of the Gay Rights Movement
Richard Nixon
Emmett Till
Harvey Milk
Malcolm X
4
The first man on the moon
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
Neil Armstrong
5
A Chicano civil rights leader
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Emmett Till
Martin Luther King, Jr.
6
The leader of the North Vietnamese
Ho Chi Mihn
Kim il Sung
Syngman Rhee
Mao Zedong
7
The Cuban Missile crisis was sparked by...
The USSR attacking Cuba
The US attacking Cuba
USSR putting nuclear missiles in Cuba
US putting nuclear missiles in Cuba
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The president who started the "Great Society"
Carter
JFK
LBJ
FDR
9
The last US President to be assassinated
JFK
Reagan
Abraham Lincoln
LBJ
10
The scandal that made Nixon resign
Lewinsky Scandal
Watergate
Iran-Contra
Wiretapping Scandal
11
This president was impeached in the 1990s
George W. Bush
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
12
The president who ended the Vietnam War
Nixon
LBJ
JFK
Carter
13
The Great Society aimed to help...
Businesses
Professionals
Students
The rich
14
Muslim Civil Rights leader
Malcolm X
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Emmett Till
15
This war sparked massive protests in the USA
Korean War
Invasion of Granada
Vietnam War
World War 2
16
This started the Korean War
S. Korea attacked the US
N. Korea attacked Japan
The US attacked N. Korea
N. Korea attacked S. Korea
17
This Civil Rights leader preached non-violence
JFK
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Richard Nixon
18
The alliance of "Western" nations that the US led
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Triple Alliance
London Alliance
19
Cesar Chavez encouraged people to boycott
Bananas
Bell Peppers
Grapes
Apples
20
Nixon was the first president to visit
Vietnam
Italy
China
India
21
The woman who had "improper relations" with President Clinton
Kenneth Starr
Linda Tripp
Paula Jones
Monica Lewinsky
22
The Afghan group that the US funded in the 1980s
Mujahideen
Hamas
Taliban
Hezbollah
23
The US-backed leader of Iran
Osama bin Laden
Shah Pahlavi
King Abdullah
Saddam Hussein
24
The boy whose death helped spark the Civil Rights Movement
Lyndon B. Johnson
Emmett Till
Cesar Chavez
Harvey Milk
25
This was NOT used to justify the Iraq War
Spread democracy
Iraq attacked the USA
Saddam killed his own people
Weapons of Mass Destruction
26
The first person in space
Yuri Gagarin
Buzz Aldrin
Alexey Leonov
John Glenn
27
The Gulf of Tonkin incident led to the...
Korean War
World War 2
Iraq War
Vietnam War
28
The only un-elected US president
Carter
Truman
Reagan
Ford
29
The current president of the USA
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Jon Stewart
Joe Biden
30
_____ was president during the Iranian Hostage Crisis
LBJ
Reagan
Ford
Carter
31
Native American Protestors occupied this site
Los Angeles
Catalina Island
Alcatraz Island
Roanoke Island
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The Anti-War protest where students were shot
Compton Riots
Kent State
March on the Pentagon
March on Washington
