US History Unit 10 Chapters 27,28,29*

Question 1

____ were guerrilla fighters who launched an insurgency in Vietnam.

Accepted Answer

Vietcong

Question 2

______ was the name for Johnson's social welfare plan.

Accepted Answer

Great Society

Question 3

To which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students

Accepted Answer

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 4

This banned literacy tests for voter registration.

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 5

What was the case that overturned 'Plessy vs Ferguson'?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 6

This was a coordinated assault by communist forces on more than 40 cities in Vietnam.

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 7

____ court became one of the most liberal courts in American history.

Accepted Answer

Warren

Question 8

_____ was the idea that if Vietnam fell to communism, its neighbors would follow.

Accepted Answer

domino theory

Question 9

____ was the Chinese premier who normalized relations with President Nixon.

Accepted Answer

Zhou Enlai

Question 10

What was the bus trip staged by CORE to defy segregation codes?

Accepted Answer

freedom ride

Question 11

This program issued under Johnson provided health care for the poor and disabled.

Accepted Answer

Medicaid

Question 12

Who won the 1968 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

Richard Nixon

Question 13

President Nixon ordered the secret bombing of Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia to

Accepted Answer

reduce the flow of communist supplies.

Question 14

SALT I

Accepted Answer

reduced tensions between the US and the Soviet Union.

Question 15

Conflict led by exiles to attack Cuba.

Accepted Answer

Bay of Pigs invasion

Question 16

The first confrontation on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the march on Selma became known as

Accepted Answer

'bloody Sunday'

Question 17

The conflict at Little Rock's Central High School was a reaction to

Accepted Answer

Brown vs Board of Education

Question 18

What effect did the Vietnam War have on the American people?

Accepted Answer

It undermined public trust in American leaders.

Question 19

When 3 civil rights workers disappeared during Freedom Summer, the SNCC claimed they had been

Accepted Answer

murdered

Question 20

Who was the communist rebel leader who demanded independence for Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh

Question 21

What occurred at My Lai?

Accepted Answer

Americans soldiers killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians.

Question 22

What were Jim Crow laws?

Accepted Answer

Laws that enforced the strict separation of the races.

Question 23

____ was the physical representation of of the political division in Germany.

Accepted Answer

Berlin Wall

Question 24

Term in 70's to describe difference in what the govt said and what journalists reported?

Accepted Answer

'credibility gap'

Question 25

____ was a massive 1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi.

Accepted Answer

Freedom Summer

Question 26

Which of these African Americans is famous for breaking into Major League Baseball?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 27

What showed the classified government history of American involvement in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Pentagon Papers

Question 28

What effect did the Vietnam War have on the American people?

Accepted Answer

It undermined public trust in American leaders.

Question 29

Who was Nixon's top national security advisor?

Accepted Answer

Henry Kissinger

US History Unit 10 Chapters 27,28,29*

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US History Unit 10 Chapters 27,28,29*

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