809 Q2 - Changing Frontiers Flashcards
What organization did the United States organize for space research?
NASA
What group of people did not enjoy the prosperity of the 1950s?
Minorities
The proposal to allow the Soviets in the Americans to inspect each other’s military bases from the air
open skies
Who was the communist leader of Cuba?
Fidel Castro
The movement to force the government to give blacks the same treatment as whites is known as what?
The Civil Rights movement
The last two states added to the Union were what?
Hawaii and Alaska
Who organized the truce that resolved the Suez Canal crisis?
The United Nations
Which two governments did the CIA replace in the 1950s?
Iran and Guatemala
Who began a bus boycott by not giving up her seat?
Rosa Parks
The competition to increase the number of weapons held by each country was known as what?
The arms race
Who was the Soviet premier during Eisenhower’s administration?
Nikita Khrushchev
The Civil rights movement achieved a victory when what happened in Little Rock, AR?
Schools were desegregated
Which president tried to ease tensions between the US and the Soviet Union through the Open Skies Policy?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When did the Space Race begin?
The Soviet Launch of Sputnik
Who was the U-2 plane pilot that was shot down over the Soviet Union?
Francis Gary Powers
