2025 Heritage Semester Test

President from 1952-1960

Dwight D. Eisenhower

In Dallas, Texas on this day, President Kennedy was assassinated.

November 22nd 1963

Failed attempt to invade Cuba and kill Fidel Castro

Bay of Pigs

JFK’s brother and Attorney General

Robert F. Kennedy

Supreme Court Case which stated that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board of Education

Director of the FBI who had incriminating evidence on JFK during his Presidency.

Hoover

Senator from Wisconsin who accused over 100 people in the government of being communist.

Joe McCarthy

First African-American to be admitted to Ole Miss.

James Meridith

Was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on the front of the bus.

Claudette Colvin

One of the first programs created by JFK when taking the Presidency which encourages volunteers to help develop third world countries.

Peace Corps

Feminist author who called for women to not accept traditional norms in the 1950s.

Betty Friedan

Communist Dictator of Cuba

Fidel Castro

Idea introduced by the McDonalds brothers

Speedy Hamburger

 Civil Rights worker who was murdered in 1963, but his murderer was found guilty finally 30 years later.

Medgar Evers

The man believed to be the lone assassin in killing JFK

Lee Harvey Oswald

Event in which MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” Speech

March on Washington

14 year old boy who was murdered in Mississippi for whistling at a white girl

Emmet Till

Ran against JFK in the 1960 Presidential Election

Richard Nixon

Author of Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

Sloan Wilson

Banning Hollywood stars from getting involved in movies because of communist ties.

Blacklisting

President who decided to drop the bombs on Japan

Harry Truman

One of the brothers involved in overthrowing the dictator of Guatemaula in order to secure the fruit industry.

Allen Dulles or John Foster Dulles

U.S. Presidential candidate who lost to Eisenhower in 1952

Adlai Stevenson

Soviet attempt to place missiles in Cuba.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Location of the Little Rock Nine

Little Rock, Arkansas

Assassin of Medgar Evers

Byron De La Beckwith

Were murdered by a local sheriff and KKK members in 1964. Their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam.

Mississippi Burning: Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman

President Kennedy’s name of the program to be the first country to put a man on the moon.

Apollo

Civil Rights Worker who demanded African-American rights and preached African-American superiority.

Malcolm X

Civil Rights volunteers who refused to give up their seats in a white lunch counter.

Greensboro Four

Governor of Arkansas.

Oral Fabus

Concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald and only Lee Harvey Oswald

Warren Commision

A drill for school children in the event of a nuclear attack.

Duck and Cover

 Was the process of using psychology to discover what sells to the American people in the 1950s.

Motivational Research

 A barrier between Democratic and Communist East and West Berlin

Berlin Wall

Gave the famous “I Have a Dream” Speech.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Term used to describe the dropout generation of the 1950s

Beatniks

Won the 1960 Presidential Election.

John F. Kennedy

Racist Governor of Alabama in the 1960s.

George Wallace

Location of Bloody Sunday during the Selma March

Edmund Pettus Bridge

American author and poet of the 1950s symbolizing rebellion. Wrote On the Road.

Jack Kerouac

“Dirty” book written in the 1950s that portrayed small town America and the hidden evils of it.

Peyton’s Place

The idea of controlling another country through industry or business.

Economic Imperialism

Wrote the poem “Howl” and along with Jack Kerouac portrayed the Beat Generation.

Allen Ginsberg

 SNCC and CORE members who rode busses into the deep south to show that public bussing can be integrated.

Freedom Riders

Founder of the Nation of Islam and idol of Malcom X

Elijah Muhammed

Was the U.S.-backed leader of South Vietnam until 1963?

Ngo Ding Diem

 Agreement that split North and South Vietnam at the 17^th parallel in 1954.

Geneva Accords

Stated that if one country fell to communism, than others would fall as well.

Domino Theory

Lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.

26th Amendment

Was the name of the U.S. campaign of bombing North Vietnam in 1965.

Operation Rolling Thunder

Location where the Ohio National Guard shot and killed 3 protesters in 1970.

Kent State

Name given to a group of people to “fix the leaks” and to destroy incriminating evidence against Richard Nixon

Plumbers

 Was one of the two reporters for the Washington Post who investigated the Watergate Scandal

Car Bernstein or Bob Woodward

Resigned the Vice-Presidency as a result of tax evasion.

Spiro Agnew

The term that describes the economy in the mid 1970s, in which inflation and slow economy developed.

Stagflation

An incident where a partial nuclear power plant meltdown occurred in Pennsylvania in 1979.

Three Mile Island

President from Georgia who promised “he would never lie to the American people.”

Jimmy Carter

President who said ““If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

President who remarked “A people that values its privileges above it’s principles soon loses both.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower