Test 9

Who was the first American to orbit the earth?

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

What was America’s first nuclear-powered submarine?

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

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

What was built by Communists between 2 parts of Berlin?

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

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

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

Who was Medicare created to provide medical care for?

Who was the first American in space?

Who developed the ARPAnet?

Who was the first Black American Supreme Court justice?

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

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

Atheism is when people do NOT believe in what?

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

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

Who developed the polio vaccine?

Which Apollo Mission made the first successful moon landing?

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

Who invented technology that led to the internet?

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

The CIA was created when what act was signed?

Which president focused on his plan for a Great Society?

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

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

Who was the first man on the moon?

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

Who invented modern mouse-operated computer?

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

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

Who was the minister who worked to achieve civil rights?

Who was the American evangelist whose meetings were televised worldwide?

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

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

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

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

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

The first ______ was launched by NASA was Explorer 1 .

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

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