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1
Who survived the Great Depression and WWII to build America into a major superpower?
Y Generation
"Greatest Generation"
X Generation
Happiest Generation
2
Which one of these did the GI Bill help provide to veterans and servicemen?
Free car
Housing loans
A job
$1000 dollars a week
3
Who is the first country to launch an artificial satellite into space?
USA
USSR
Canada
United Kingdom
4
When was the Tet Offensive?
1964
1967
1966
1963
5
Who was the leader of Communist USSR during the end of the Cold War?
Lenin
Marx
Gorbachev
Stalin
6
When was the Berlin Airlift?
1941-1942
1948-1949
1919-1920
1958-1959
7
What defoliant used during Vietnam was toxic and caused birth defects?
Agent Orange
Agent Colson
Agent Archer
Agent Man
8
Which of these subjects was not a focus for the National Defense Education Act?
Foreign Languages
Science
History
Math
9
What year was Jackie Robinson the Rookie of the Year?
1946
1955
1947
1945
10
What happened at Kent State?
underwater basket weaving
flash mob protest
student protest turned violent
peaceful prayer circles
11
A borderline under constant guard from north and south as the result of a ceasefire (DMZ)
Trump Wall
Great Wall of China
38th parallel
Equator
12
What protest was started because of Rosa Parks' arrest?
Brooklyn Dodgers 42
Montgomery Bus Boycott
"I Have a Dream" speech
freedom rides
13
Who was Cesar Chavez an advocate for?
the 1%
the physically handicapped
immigrant laborers
animals
14
Who were the Vietcong?
Southern supporters of northern communist forces
Vietnamese refugees
Former NVA captured by US troops
Chinese immigrants to communist Vietnam
15
A policy that included the Marshall Plan, intended to prevent the spread of Communism
Pickle Jar
Red Scare
Containment
Berlin Airlift
16
Which President made the first plans for the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Kennedy
Nixon
Johnson
Eisenhower
17
What was the result of Roe v. Wade?
gave women the right to vote in states starting in "A"
gave the right to women for a legal abortion
determined that the poor should go to college for free
determined that executive orders can relate to social issues
18
How many government workers did Truman require to get loyalty checks during the 2nd Red Scare?
3,000,000,000
3 million
333
300,000
19
How did the Korean War end?
demilitarized zone
treaty
North Korean victory
cease fire
20
The cookie cutter house and large close neighborhoods were really started with what?
Bloomingdale
Happy Hills
Levittowns
Springfield
21
What was Bakke vs. University of California about?
cross examination
affirmative action
in-discriminant termination
process of elimination
22
What large organized Vietcong attack was a major loss for the US?
Hanoi Counter
Saigon Slash
Ho Chi Minh City Bombings
Tet Offensive
23
What is the metaphorical division of Communist Eastern Europe and Capitalist Western Europe?
Communist Curtain
Iron Wall
Eco-divide
Iron Curtain
24
What were the two sides of the Cold War?
US v. Mexico
US. v. Germany
US v. USSR
US v. Russia
25
A military overthrow of the existing dictatorship by communist nationalist Fidel Castro...
Cuban Revolution
Cuba Mania
Ecuadorian Revolution
Chile Revolt
26
Who was NOW?
New Old Weird
National Order of Witches
North Outcry for Widows
National Organization for Women
27
What terrible possibility almost occurred as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
tsunami
aliens
nationwide plague
Nuclear War
28
What is Tet?
it means birthday in Vietnamese
harvest season in Vietnam
Vietnamese new year
celebration of the Vietnamese god of war
29
Helped establish the United Farm Workers (UFW)
Cesar Milan
Ceasar Augustus
Cinco de Mayo
Cesar Chavez
30
Brown vs. Board of Ed. determined that what could no longer be segregated?
apple orchards
public bathrooms
schools
courtroom seating
31
Leader of the NVA
Chang Kai Shrek
Ho Chi Minh
Hu Yaobang
Tet Gin Tet
32
When was the Freedom Summer?
1963
1985
1964
1965
33
What was the SNCC's primary form of protesting?
picketting
marches
sit-ins
rioting
34
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Albert
Truman
35
When did the US first start "advising" on the conflicts in Vietnam?
1955
1959
1963
1965
36
When did North Korea invade South Korea and begin the Korean War conflict?
1951
1949
1952
1950
37
Who was James Meredith?
first black student at Ole Miss
first black student at UCLA
first black student at UTC
first black student at Georgia Tech.
38
What was the name of the first artificial satellite?
Mega-Nerf
Space Dart 37
Spudernacht
Sputnik 1
39
How did TV effect the Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate of 1960?
the broadcast went silent and no one heard what was said
fuzzy reception made them both look like aliens
everyone said Nixon was handsome
gave Kennedy the advantage from his looks
40
Who wrote, "A Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
Martin Luther King Sr.
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Scorsese
