Cold War

Question 1

Kennedey Assassination

Answer 1

Nov. 22nd, 1963
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Dealy Plaza in Dallas, TX while he was in a parade
- Oswald was stationed in a building right next to the street
- 1st bullet: Miss
- 2nd: the Magic one
- 3rd: hits him right on the head

Question 2

Truman (reelected)

Answer 2

• Truman Doctrine (“containment”)
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• very very close race

Question 3

Eisenhower

Answer 3

1952
- Supreme Commander of NATO
- Only POTUS to serve in WWI an WWII
- creates interstate systems (?)

Question 4

Kennedy v. Nixon

Answer 4

Kennedy wins!
- carries out Bay of Pigs Invasion
- establishes the audio recording device in the Oval Office as a result of the invasion
- picks blockade against the Cuban Missle Crisis
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Question 5

Johnson’s Great Society

Answer 5

“The New New Deal”
1) eliminate poverty
2) eliminate racial injustice
- creates Medicare (retired) and Medicaid (low income) and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Question 6

Nixon

Answer 6

Initial Election:
- fairly good President
- VP was Spiro Agnew
Reelection:
- Watergate

Question 7

Bobby Kennedy Assassination

Answer 7

Assassinated after MLK by Sirhan Sirhan (Palestinian)
- shot in the kitchen
- last words were, “Everybody ok?”
- was a Democrat in the Justice Department

Question 8

Watergate

Answer 8

• Where/What?
• name of hotel in Foggy Bottom neighborhood in Washington, D.C.
• What happened?
• Nixon & administration were breaking into the DNH and spying on their democratic competitor
• Who is involved?
• Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Barker, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis
• Specifically what happened?
• Frank Wills (security) saw a piece of tape on the door, keeping it open
• took off the tape and 30 mins later, it was back on the door
• called the police and they found 5 men hiding in the DNH’s office
• What did Nixon do to cover up?
• told Haldeman and Erlichman (part of CIA) to mess with the FBI’s investigation
• plan to mess with the investigation was caught on the audio recording device, clear as day
• What did Nixon do?
• He resigned before he could be impeached
• Set a precedent for scandals to end in
  “-gate”

Question 9

Reagan

Answer 9

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
#40
- grew up in Illinois
- got the hostages out of Vietnam
- assassination attempt from John Hinkley Jr.
Reelected in ‘48
- “Reaganomics” = trickle-down; make businesses not have to pay as much, we can focus on helping the people
- useless in the Iran-Contra Scandal

Question 10

Marylin Monroe

Answer 10

strong civil rights activist and powerful female entertainer

Question 11

MLK Jr.

Answer 11

Aug. 28th, 1963- March on Washington
300,000 people: 80% black
Assassinated
- shot from his hotel balcony
- 38 years old, but his heart was 68 years old
A Southern Baptist in theology, his language and tone carry into his speeches; why he talks the way he does

Question 12

“I Have A Dream”

Answer 12

-uses repetition, “I have a dream…” “Let freedom ring,” “Five score years ago,”
- 1963
- governments pass around the issue that the speech addresses and keep saying it is the state’s problem

Question 13

Civil Rights Act of 1984

Answer 13

in conjunction with the Equal Opportunity Act of 1964
- forbid discrimination of sex, skin, or national origin
- Headstart and Upward Bound
- Food stamps
- Expanded Peace Corps