Unit 26 Test

Question 1

The Committee to Re-Elect the President hired burglars to break into an office at the ___. President Nixon covered up ___ and eventually resigned as president.

Answer 1

Watergate; evidence

Question 2

A mob of Iranian students took over the American ___ in Iran and took 66 Americans hostage.

Answer 2

embassy

Question 3

___ from many countries have worked in the fields of California’s farms. The crop that brings in more money than any other crop grown in California is ___.

Answer 3

Immigrants; almonds

Question 4

The ___, which was designed at the ___ Space Flight Center, launched the Apollo missions to the moon.

Answer 4

Saturn V; Marshall

Question 5

After the war in ___ ended in 1973, the Nixons hosted former ___ at the largest dinner ever held at the White House.

Answer 5

Vietnam; POWs

Question 6

President Nixon appointed Romana Acosta Bañuelos to be ___ of the United States.

Answer 6

treasure

Question 7

The Apollo 8 astronauts gave a message from ___ while they were in moon orbit. The two Apollow 11 astronauts who walked on the moon were Neil ___ and Buzz ___. Apollo 11 astronaut Michael ___ orbited the moon in the command module.

Answer 7

Genesis; Armstrong; Aldrin; Collins

Question 8

President ___, who replaced Nixon as president, granted him a ___.

Answer 8

Ford; pardon

Question 9

President Nixon visited the Communist countries of ___ and the ___ in 1972.

Answer 9

China; U.S.S.R

Question 10

NASA called its first seven astronauts the ___. The NASA program that carried two astronauts in one spacecraft was called ___.

Answer 10

Mercury 7; Gemini