Test 9

During the Berlin ________, planes loaded with food and supplies were sent to West Berlin.

The CIA was created when what act was signed?

After Fidel Castro took control of Cuba, the Soviet Union shipped missiles there, causing the ________.

Essay: Be able to EXPLAIN the changes that occurred in the US because of the civil rights struggle during 1950-1960.

What was the first nuclear power plant built in the United States?

The first ______ was launched by NASA was Explorer 1 .

What president began the Interstate Highway System to connect all parts of America?

Who developed the polio vaccine?

What program did President Kennedy found to send volunteers to help improve living conditions of people in poor nations?

Be able to name each STATE and give the CAPITAL for each.

Who was the first American in space?

What did the GI Bill of Rights make available to servicemen returning from war?

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw in employment and in public places?

Fidel Castro was the Communist dictator of what island during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Who was the American evangelist whose meetings were televised worldwide?

Who was Medicare created to provide medical care for?

Who developed the ARPAnet?

What offered financial help from the US to European countries that had been harmed during WWII?

Who was the minister who worked to achieve civil rights?

What was created to be a world organization in which nations could work together to settle problems?

Which war was over a 40-yr period in which the U.S. & Soviet Union threatened to use nuclear weapons against each other?

Atheism is when people do NOT believe in what?

Freedom rides, sit-ins, and the March on Washington were ways people _____ protested segregation.

Which president focused on his plan for a Great Society?

What was built to connect all parts of America for safer travel?

Who invented technology that led to the internet?

Who was the first Black American to be an adviser to the president?

Be able to name each STATE and give the CAPITAL for each.

NATO was organized to be an alliance of countries to defend each other against what?

What was America’s first nuclear-powered submarine?

Who gave his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln memorial?

After fighting in the Korean War, who went on to become the first Black American four-star general?

Which Apollo Mission made the first successful moon landing?

Who was the first American to orbit the earth?

Which president succeeded in forcing the Soviet Union to remove any nuclear weapons they had delivered to Cuba?

In Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, the _____ ruled that schools should not be segregated.

Who invented modern mouse-operated computer?

Who was the seamstress whose actions resulted in the bus boycott that ended Montgomery bus segregation?

Who was the first Black American Supreme Court justice?

The truce of which war kept South Korea free while North Korea was to remain under Communist control?

What was built by Communists between 2 parts of Berlin?

Who was the first man on the moon?