Cold War 1960sVietnamCivil RightsPotpourri
Who wrote to President Roosevelt proposing the development of an atomic bomb?
Albert Einstein
NASA was created largely in response to the Soviet launch of ______.
Sputnik
Who was the leader of North Korea during the Korean War?
Kim Il Sung
Who became the leader of the People’s Republic of China in 1949?
Mao Zedong
What Cold War Policy was President Truman following when he ordered U.S. troops to help repelled a communist invasion of South Korea?
Containment
What were the protests at Kent State University about?
The U.S. War in Vietnam
What precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What leader overthrew the U.S. backed dictator of Cuba and set up a communist government?
Fidel Castro
Which Soviet leader opposed President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
Which U.S. city became the center of the Counterculture movement in 1967?
San Francisco
Who led the Vietminh during the Vietnam War?
Ho Chi Minh
The U.S. took up fighting the Vietminh army after this foreign nation surrendered?
France
Identify the capitals of North Vietnam and South Vietnam
Hanoi and Saigon
What is the name for a gellied form of gasoline which was dropped in cluster bombs on North Vietnam?
Napalm
What is the name for a chemical defoliant which was sprayed in Vietnam which was later traced to cause chronic ailments in U.S. veterans?
Agent Orange
What Organization did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
This event signaled the start of the modern day Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education Decision
Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes were ended by this constitutional amendment.
24 th Amendment
Segregation based on economic differences and job opportunities is called...
De Facto Segregation
This is the name of the leader of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) during the 1960s...
Elijah Muhammed
The Watergate Scandal was exposed due to the vigorous investigation of...
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Washington Post reporters)
This event signaled the end of the Iron Curtain in Europe
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
A crisis was created in 1979 when hostages were seized at the U.S. embassy in this country?
Iran
What is OPEC?
An oil cartel which was formed to put economic pressure on oil- dependent countries by Middle Eastern nations
This man’s presidency was largely destroyed due to the failing American economy (created by the oil crisis) and due to events in Iran
Jimmy Carter