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2. Who wrote to President Roosevelt proposing the development of an atomic bomb?

3. Albert Einstein

4. NASA was created largely in response to the Soviet launch of ______.

5. Sputnik

6. Who was the leader of North Korea during the Korean War?

7. Kim Il Sung

8. Who became the leader of the People’s Republic of China in 1949?

9. Mao Zedong

10. What Cold War Policy was President Truman following when he ordered U.S. troops to help repelled a communist invasion of South Korea?

11. Containment

12. What were the protests at Kent State University about?

13. The U.S. War in Vietnam

14. What precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis?

15. The placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

16. What leader overthrew the U.S. backed dictator of Cuba and set up a communist government?

17. Fidel Castro

18. Which Soviet leader opposed President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

19. Nikita Khrushchev

20. Which U.S. city became the center of the Counterculture movement in 1967?

21. San Francisco

22. Who led the Vietminh during the Vietnam War?

23. Ho Chi Minh

24. The U.S. took up fighting the Vietminh army after this foreign nation surrendered?

25. France

26. Identify the capitals of North Vietnam and South Vietnam

27. Hanoi and Saigon

28. What is the name for a gellied form of gasoline which was dropped in cluster bombs on North Vietnam?

29. Napalm

30. 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?

31. Agent Orange

32. What Organization did Martin Luther King Jr. lead?

33. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

34. This event signaled the start of the modern day Civil Rights Movement

35. Brown v. Board of Education Decision

36. Literacy Tests and Poll Taxes were ended by this constitutional amendment.

37. 24 th Amendment

38. Segregation based on economic differences and job opportunities is called...

39. De Facto Segregation

40. This is the name of the leader of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) during the 1960s...

41. Elijah Muhammed

42. The Watergate Scandal was exposed due to the vigorous investigation of...

43. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Washington Post reporters)

44. This event signaled the end of the Iron Curtain in Europe

45. The Fall of the Berlin Wall

46. A crisis was created in 1979 when hostages were seized at the U.S. embassy in this country?

47. Iran

48. What is OPEC?

49. An oil cartel which was formed to put economic pressure on oil- dependent countries by Middle Eastern nations

50. This man’s presidency was largely destroyed due to the failing American economy (created by the oil crisis) and due to events in Iran

51. Jimmy Carter