Test 11, Chapters 21-22

Question 1

Who introduced mass-production of low-cost housing in the 1940s?

Answer 1

Levitt and Sons

Question 2

What country won the Yom Kippur War in 1973?

Answer 2

Israel

Question 3

President Johnson called his social welfare program the ____

Answer 3

great society

Question 4

Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for ____

Answer 4

polio

Question 5

President ____ negotiated the surrender of the Panama Canal Zone to the military dictator of Panama.

Answer 5

Carter

Question 6

Communists took over all of South Vietnam in what year?

Answer 6

1975

Question 7

Did Israel win or lose the Six-Day War in 1967 against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria?

Answer 7

win

Question 8

Marian Anderson was a great black American ____ who used her talent and influence to peacefully bring about change.

Answer 8

opera singer

Question 9

who was the first black major-league baseball player

Answer 9

Jackie Robinson

Question 10

which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?

Answer 10

26th

Question 11

which amendment did away with poll taxes?

Answer 11

24th

Question 12

what act prohibited racial discrimination in all public places?

Answer 12

civil right act of 1964

Question 13

in what year did the US put a man on the moon?

Answer 13

1969

Question 14

who was the communist leader of North Vietnam

Answer 14

Ho Chi Minh

Question 15

The US fought the Vietnam War between what years?

Answer 15

1965 - 1973

Question 16

What country signed the SALT I treaty with the US

Answer 16

Soviet Union

Question 17

which US President was the first to resign from office?

Answer 17

Nixon

Question 18

which president was the first man from the deep south to win the presidency since Zachary Taylor in 1848?

Answer 18

Carter

Question 19

what communist dictator took over cuba in 1959?

Answer 19

Fidel Castro

Question 20

negotiated the cease-fire in Vietnam

Answer 20

Henry Kissinger

Question 21

held anti-Communist hearings in congress

Answer 21

Joseph McCarthy

Question 22

passed State Department secrets to a Soviet agent

Answer 22

Alger Hiss

Question 23

negotiated the Camp David Peace Accords

Answer 23

Carter

Question 24

sold nuclear information to the Russians

Answer 24

Julius Rosenberg

Question 25

assassinated Robert F. Kennedy

Answer 25

Sirhan Biashara Sirhan

Question 26

Soviet leader that met with Pres. Eisenhower at the 1955 Geneva Summit in Switzerland.

Answer 26

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 27

In what case did the Supreme Court rule to legalize abortion.

Answer 27

Roe vs. Wade

Question 28

What city was divided by a barbed wire fence and later a solid wall to keep people from escaping Communism

Answer 28

Berlin, Germany

Question 29

What did Pres. Kennedy call his welfare program?

Answer 29

the New Frontier

Question 30

What Egyptian Pres. seized the Suez Canal from Great Britain in 1956

Answer 30

Abdel Nasser

Question 31

what city was Pres. Kennedy visiting when he was assassinated?

Answer 31

Dallas, TX

Question 32

What young black minister was the leading figure of the civil rights movement?

Answer 32

Martin Luther King, JR.

Question 33

first American to orbit the earth

Answer 33

John Glenn

Question 34

first black Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

Answer 34

Thurgood Marshall

Question 35

first American to fly in space

Answer 35

Alan B. Shepard, Jr.

Question 36

first man to walk on the moon

Answer 36

Neil Armstrong

Question 37

first black American to achieve the rank of 4 start general in the US Army

Answer 37

Daniel "Chappie" James

Question 38

Vice President who succeeded Nixon

Answer 38

Gerald Ford

Question 39

prominent black supremacist leader

Answer 39

Malcolm X

Question 40

first black American cabinet officer

Answer 40

Robert Weaver

Question 41

America's first satellite, launched in 1958.

Answer 41

Explorer I

Question 42

Who led the movement to have prayer and Bible reading banned from the public schools?

Answer 42

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Question 43

the group of liberal lawyers who began in the 1960's to use the courts to limit public references to Christianity

Answer 43

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

Question 44

What act passed in 1968 prohibited discrimination in renting or selling houses?

Answer 44

Fair Housing Act

Question 45

Name the civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, TN

Answer 45

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 46

What incident in 1964 gave Pres. Johnson reason or "excuse" to increase US military presence in South Vietnam?

Answer 46

Gulf of Tonkin

Question 47

Name the monopoly formed by oil-producing nations of the Middle East to control the supply and price of oil.

Answer 47

OPEC

Question 48

What scandal forced Pres. Nixon to resign from office in 1974?

Answer 48

Watergate Affair

Question 49

How did television influence the McCarthy hearings and the election of 1960?

Answer 49

The Am. public was in agreement with McCarthy until the TV broadcasts of the Army hearings. Although his views were correct, McCarthy seemed sarcastic and stern. Kennedy and Nixon debated on TV in 1960, Nixon, ahead in the polls at the time, seemed unsure of himself. Those listening by radio said Nixon won the debates. but because TV had the greater impact, Kennedy won the election.

Question 50

know the following locations:

Answer 50

Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, Colombia, Falkland Islands, Cerro Aconcagua, Amazon River