history test march 6

Question 1

Brinkmanship

Answer 1

Favored strategy of massive retaliation to Russia aggression (fighting back to Russia)

Question 2

which countries had a communist uprising?

Answer 2

egypt, iran, hungary, guatemala

Question 3

Suez Crisis

Answer 3

Egypt took control of their own canal (Nasser)

Question 4

Sputnik 1

Answer 4

The russian satelitte put in outer space

Question 5

space race

Answer 5

between the US and soviet union

Question 6

Yuri Gagarin

Answer 6

first person to travel space

Question 7

Alan Shepard

Answer 7

1st AMERICAN to travel into space

Question 8

Neil Armstrong

Answer 8

1st man to walk on the moon

Question 9

U2 incident

Answer 9

• spy plane that went over Russia
• they believed the Russian radar couldn’t detect it but it did and shot it down

Question 10

Francis Gary Powers

Answer 10

the pilot of the spy plane

Question 11

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 11

• leads USSR when stalin dies

Question 12

JFK’s new frontier

Answer 12

• jfk’s plan to help the economy
• ## he pushed for tax cuts

Question 13

John F kennedy

Answer 13

• raised tax cuts
• pushed for civil rights
• sponsored the peace corps
• funding for education

Question 14

Flexible response

Answer 14

Strategy of Kennedy keeping a range of options open for dealing with international crises, rather than focusing on the use of nuclear weapons.

Question 15

Peace Corps

Answer 15

for kids who have graduated college, allowed them to go into a third world country

Question 16

Bay of pigs invasion

Answer 16

Eisenhower approved a secret plan made to overthrow Castro

Question 17

Fidel Castro

Question 18

Dwight D Eisenhower

Answer 18

president before jfk

Question 19

cia

Question 20

John Foster Dulles

Answer 20

eisenhowers secretary of state
- favors nuclear weapons

Question 21

Berlin Crisis

Answer 21

us fighting with the soviets over the wall

Question 22

Berlin wall

Answer 22

prevent people from east Germany from escaping

Question 23

Cuban Missile crisis

Answer 23

tested missiles

Question 24

nuclear test ban treaty

Answer 24

telling countries that they cant test nuclear weapons ; after the cuban missile crisis

Question 25

JFK assassination

Answer 25

in dallas TX

Question 26

what was the failed mission to overthrow castro’s communist cuban government?

Answer 26

bay of pigs

Question 27

what year was jfk elected president

Answer 27

1960

Question 28

the new frontier addresses all the following issues in America except:

Answer 28

womens rights

Question 29

Francis Gary Powers was caught spying in a U2 spy plane over this country:

Answer 29

USSR

Question 30

crisis emerged between the US and the soviet union over this:

Answer 30

construction of the berlin wall

Question 31

this was a program for college graduated to use their skill to help people in 3rd world nations

Answer 31

Peace corps

Question 32

Musicians from the 1950’s included:

Answer 32

Elvis Pressely and Chuck Berry

Question 33

Their was a cold war crisis in all of the following nations in 1950’s except:

Answer 33

France

Question 34

this group trained Cuban exiles for the bay of pigs invasion:

Answer 34

CIA

Question 35

what happens between the US and the soviet union in October of 1962?

Answer 35

Cuban missile crisis

Question 36

what was Kennedy’s mission for NASA in his speech given during 1962?

Answer 36

first country to go to the moon

Question 37

who was the accused assaliant in the Kennedy assassination?

Answer 37

Lee harvey oswald ; warren commission

Question 38

who murders the accused assaliant Lee Harvey Oswald?

Answer 38

Jack Ruby