2. TRUE or FALSE? President Kennedy convinced Congress to invest in space exploration?

3. Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

4. Who was the Republican nominee in the election of 1960?

5. Many returning soldiers were able to purchase homes thanks to the… Equal Housing Opportunity Act. Great Leap Forward initiative. New Deal program. kindness of banks. GI Bill.

6. TRUE or FALSE? Rock ‘n’ Roll was an offshoot of ragtime.

7. The role of the Warren Commission was to… create Civil Rights legislation. root out communist spies. investigate fraud in the 1960 presidential election. investigate the deaths of the crew of Apollo 1. investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.

8. The Governor of Arkansas tried to prevent black students from entering an all-white high school by… working closely with Pres. Johnson to block their admission. closing down the school. locking the doors. arresting the black students. using the National Guard to block their entry.

9. TRUE or FALSE? SNCC stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

10. Which amendment to the Constitution guarantees due process?

11. Who were the candidates in the first televised presidential debate?

12. What was Kennedy’s ultimate goal for the space program?

13. Dr. King followed the teachings of passive resistance used by this historic figure.

14. In 1896, Plessy v. Ferguson… reorganized voting districts based on population. ended poll taxes. overturned segregation on buses. forced African-Americans to pass citizenship tests to vote. established the separate but equal doctrine.

15. TRUE or FALSE? Malcolm X argued that black Americans should physically fight back when attacked.

16. SCLC stands for…

17. Where was SNCC focused on registering voters: the rural south or inner cities?

18. The ____________ worked to end segregation at buss stations. Montgomery Bus Boycotters SCLC CORE VISTA Freedom Riders

19. TRUE or FALSE? Malcolm X had a change of heart and agreed that blacks and whites could live together peacefully.

20. The purpose of The Alliance for Progress program was to… increase funding for science and space research. give low-cost loans to farmers and ranchers. provide low-cost housing units to poor, rural areas. build new schools in poor, urban areas. aid Latin American governments.

21. TRUE or FALSE? It only took 5 months for the Montgomery Bus Boycott to work.

22. Thurgood Marshall was the first African- American appointed to…

23. Kennedy’s legislative agenda was called The… My Way or the Highway Initiative Great Society Square Deal Great Leap Forward New Frontier

24. TRUE or FALSE? Most members of the counterculture movement were from a young, white, middle-class background?

25. Who was the leader of North Vietnam?

26. What resolution gave President Johnson the power to wage ware in Vietnam?

27. Some people were against bilingualism because… it was too expensive. they didn’t want to have separate schools for Latinos. the Constitution requires that people speak English. they didn’t want to learn Spanish. it could make it harder for students to assimilate.

28. TRUE or FALSE? A Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest US bombings in Vietnam. He set himself on fire to protest the anti-Buddhist laws of Ngo Dinh Diem.

29. The Tet Offensive was a… nickname for Nixon’s bombing campaign in Cambodia. a military victory for the communists. a military victory for the US. political disaster for the communists. political victory for the communists.

30. In his “Domino Theory,” Eisenhower argued that… if you give the delivery driver a difficult address to find, he’ll arrive late and you will get your pizza for free. if we send in one soldier, we will end up sending in more and more. If you kill Ho Chi Minh, the rest of the communists will fall in line. if you let the hippies take over one university, they will soon take over all of them. if Vietnam went communist, so would all of South East Asia.

31. TRUE or FALSE? Ngo Dinh Diem was unpopular in South Vietnam because he was Catholic.

32. What flammable jelly did US planes drop in Vietnam?

33. What did US planes drop on the jungles in Vietnam to kill the vegitation?

34. In which city did protestors battle police at the ‘68 Democratic National Convention?

35. What lost battle convinced the French to leave Vietnam?

36. In Rowe v. Wade the Supreme Court ruled… men could not avoid the draft by going to college. university students had the right to protest. schools could not be segregated. hippies didn’t have to take showers. states could not regulate abortions that occurred in the first 3 months of a pregnancy.

37. TRUE or FALSE? Cesar Chavez organized the United Farm Workers Union.

38. The goal of La Raza Unida was to…

39. Students involved in the ________ _________ movement cut classes and occupied school buildings.

40. The ____________ worked to increase educational opportunities for women. UAW WPA CORE LULAC NOW

41. TRUE or FALSE? The US originally considered Ho Chi Minh an ally.

42. The Pentagon Papers revealed that… Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime was unstable. Generals were being unjustly promoted. soldiers were killing civilians. the US was paying for 80% of the French war in Vietnam. the government had not told the truth about Vietnam.

43. TRUE or FALSE? The Geneva Accords called for a permanent division of North and South Vietnam.

44. The part of the Educational Amendments that prohibit schools from discriminating against female students is called…

45. President Eisenhower sent __________ to Vietnam. Bob Hope Henry Kissinger surface-to-air missiles B-52 bombers military advisors

46. What was Operation Rolling Thunder?

47. What was the credibility gap?

48. What “act” prohibited paying women less than men for performing the same job?

49. In Hernandez v. Texas the court ruled… schools in Texas did not have to teach kids in Spanish. schools in Texas had to teach students in English & Spanish. farm owners had to negotiate with Latino unions. Mexican-Americans could not be excluded from diners. Mexican-Americans could not be excluded from juries.

50. TRUE or FALSE? Students involved in the Free Speech Movement eventually rejoined “normal” society.

51. What was Woodstock?

52. The book “Feminine Mystique” argued that women… would regret passing the Equal Rights Amendment. needed to get married in order to have a normal life. wanted to join the military just like men. in the workplace had difficulty getting promoted. at home found their lives unfulfilling.