American Heritage - Semester Test Second Semester

Matching and multiple choice for the second semester study guide for American Heritage 7th hour.

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 Invasion

JFK’s brother and Attorney General

Robert F. Kennedy

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

Brown vs Board of Education

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

J. Edgar Hoover

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

Joseph R. McCarthy

First African-American to be admitted to Ole Miss.

James Meredith

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

Rosa Parks

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

The 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.

Fast food

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.

Emmett 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 Guatemala in order to secure the fruit industry.

John Foster Dulles and Allen 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 where found buried in an earthen dam.

James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman

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

Apollo Program

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.

Sit-ins

Governor of Arkansas

Orval Faubus

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

Warren Commission

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 1960s.

Beat generation

Won the 1960 Presidential Election.

John F. Kennedy

Racist Governor of Alabama in the 1960s.

George C. Wallace

Location of Bloody Sunday during the Selma March.

Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama

American author and poet in 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 Place

The idea of controlling another country through industry or business.

Economic Imperialism

Wrote the poem “Howl” and a long 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 the idol of Malcolm X.

Elijah Muhammad

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

Ngo Dinh Diem

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

The Geneva Accord

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

Domino effect

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 University

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

The White House Plumbers

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

Carl Bernstein and 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 Meltdown

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 its principles soon loses both”.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Which of the following was an international peace organization established after WWII?

The United Nations

Which of the following was the plan to contain communism where its already existed?

Truman Doctrine

Which of the following was the first satellite in space?

Sputnik

Which of the following forbid the above ground and underwater testing of weapons of mass destruction?

Limited Test Ban Treaty

Which of the following was a movement to encourage African-Americans to register to vote throughout the South?

Freedom Summer

Which of the following was caused by Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a bus?

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Which of the following outlawed the use of poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause?

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Which of the following divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel and called for free elections?

The Geneva Accords

Which of the following was the belief that if Vietnam fell to communists, than the rest of Southeast Asia would follow?

Domino theory

Which of the following was the gradual turning over of the Vietnam War in to the South Vietnamese?

Vietnamization

Which of the following was the bombing of North Vietnam by the U.S. from 1965 to 1968?

Operation Rolling Thunder

Which of the following was the French fort attacked by the Vietminh, ending French efforts in Vietnam.

Dien Bien Phu

The leader of North Vietnam was…

Ho Chi Minh

The struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union for global dominance was known as…

The Cold War

Where was the U.S. at war from 1950 to 1953?

Korea

Who was JFK’s Republican opponent in 1960?

Richard Nixon

The leader of the U.S.S.R. during JFK’s Presidency was…

Nikita Khrushchev

How faithful was JFK to his wife, Jackie?

Not very

Where does the word Watergate come from?

The Watergate Complex/office building

What newspaper did reporters Woodward and Bernstein work for?

The Washington Post

What evidence ended up being the smoking gun that proved the President was involved?

A tape of him authorizing the use of the CIA to stop the FBI from investigating Watergate

Who became President after Richard Nixon?

Gerald R. Ford

What government agency did Deep Throat belong to?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation