Test 4- His 202

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President Kennedy started this organization which sent young Americans abroad to aid in the economic and educational progress of developing countries.

Peace Corps

In response to the Democrats and Hubert Humphrey’s push for civil rights in 1948, several southerners walked out of the national convention and started this party.

States’ Right Democratic Party

Before turning to politics, Adolf Hitler aspired to be a pilot, but failed flight school. 

False

The term given to the scare tactics used to by a Wisconsin senator in which he identified people in government as communists.

McCarthyism

On June 6, 1944, D-Day, nearly 200,000 American, British, and Canadian soldiers under the command of Eisenhower invaded the beaches Normandy.

True

The group of producers who were sentenced to six months in jail and blacklisted for refusing to answer questions from the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Hollywood ten

What year did Congress pass the Voting Rights Act? 

1965

This 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation.

The Brown Decision

This SNCC leader advocated “Black Power” and is credited for making the term popular.

Stokeley Carmichael

This African American student  integrated the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1962, which caused a serious of riots.

James Meredith

This leader of Cuba formed close relations with the Soviet Union after several failed American attacks, a relationship that led to the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

Fidel Castro

 This U.S. president stated that placing Earl Warren on the Supreme Court was one of his worst decisions

Dwight Eisenhower

In this Supreme Court case, the court ruled that the University of Texas Law School must admit the black plaintiff.

Sweatt v. Painter

In this Supreme Court case, the court outlawed the all-white primary.

Smith v. Allwright

A surprise act at Pearl Harbor prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to ask Congress for a declaration of war. 

True

The followers of the Chinese nationalists fled to this island off of the coast of China after the communist takeover

Taiwan

President Johnson welfare plan that provided Medicaid and Medicare to the general public.

Great Society

This leader was a follower of the Nation of Islam and advocated the separation of races before taking a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Malcom X

The conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union that never resulted in a “hot” war, but urged each side to build nuclear arsenals.

Cold War

During World War II, over 100,000 Japanese Americans were sent to internment campus across the United States. 

True

The event in which hundreds of white college students traveled to Mississippi to organize a voting registration with help of several civil rights groups.

Freedom Summer

This chief justice of the Supreme Court worked tirelessly to secure a unanimous decision in the Brown Case.

Earl Warren

In a speech in Missouri, this politician announced that an “iron curtain” had been drawn between the free west and the communist east in Europe.

Winston Chruchill

Joseph McCarthy

used lies about a list of 205 communists who worked in the government to gain support.

This organization launched the Freedom Rides in 1961.

CORE

This young Democrat took the 1960 election because of his charm and youthful appearance on the first televised presidential debates.

John F Kennedy

The event in which innocent marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers after crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge.

Bloody Sunday

Germany fought on the side of the Allies during World War II. 

False

The passage of this law was championed by President Johnson as the most fitting memorial to President Kennedy.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

This former NAACP secretary gained national fame after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

Rosa Parks