WDSTF

9 African American students were prevented from attending school. Eisenhower protects them

Supported Communism in Cuba & alienated the United States.

Quit school, dropped his slave name, and moved toward orthodox Islam

husband & wife who were arrested and executed for selling secrets of the atomic bomb to the SU.

Proved Alger Hiss guilty, ran for Senate, became Vice-President and eventually President

First orbiting satellite sent into space by the USSR

Became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962

Shot by Lee Harvey Oswold

Supporters and staff of Pres. Nixon were accused of breaking into the Democratic headquarters

This divided a city into two halves to keep citizens on the Russian/communist side

Poorly planned attack on Cuba that failed 

leader of the Communist North Vietnamese, who first fought the French and then the Americans.

Ascended to the throne in England upon the death of her father, King George VI.

Popular "sex symbol" & movie star

________ became U.S. President when President Roosevelt died in 1945

The French lose control over Indo-China—now known as Vietnam.

The first African American student, James Meredith, was admitted to ____ university 

True or False: You have a quiz on Monday over these WDSTF topics?

Theme park that opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California.

disease that started to rapidly spread throughout the world. 

Supreme Commander in the World War II and later President

focused on suspected communists in the gov't & known for his brutal interrogations of suspects

Former movie star turned U.S. President

___ sat in a Montgomery, Alabama bus seat designated "for whites only", was then arrested

Secret plane flying over the Soviets, which was shot down. 

Developed under the guidance of Dr. Edward Teller. Required an atomic bomb to detonate it.