6th Grade - Test 12

He believed Communism should be stopped before it could attack and enslave a country

Ronald Reagan

This President's welfare program was called the New Frontier.

JFK

He strengthened the military alliance of NATO.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Operation Desert Storm in Iraq was under his Presidency.

George H. W. Bush

He was the only President to resign from office.

Richard Nixon

This President convinced the Soviet Union leader Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall and begin Perestroika.

Ronald Reagan

President Johnson's plan for social reform was called the?

Great Society

The attempt to return America to the traditional values of church , family , and free enterprise was called

Reagan Revolution

The legislation that guarantees voting, housing and job rights for ethnic minorities is the...

1964 Civil Rights Act

One of the decisions handed down by the liberal Supreme Court of the 1970s was Roe vs. Wade, which _____________

Legalized abortion

The system of producing and distributing goods

economy

two events that caused a slowdown in the space program

explosion of shuttle challenger, explosion of space shuttle columbia

an Islamic terrorist group responsible for the attack on September 11, 2001

Al Queda

two countries where the U.S. military attacked terrorists in the "War on Terror"

Afghanistan, and Iraq

First black major league baseball player

Jackie Robinson

Supreme Court Justice who stressed the importance of moral character

Clarence Thomas

First American to orbit the earth

John Glenn

First man to walk on the moon

Neil Armstrong

first black President of the United States

Barack Obama

lady who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, an act which led to a change in segregation laws

Rosa Parks

first woman appointed to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan

Sandra Day O'Connor

doctor who developed a vaccine for polio

Jonas Salk

one of the greatest opera singers of her time

Marian Anderson

first American to fly in space

Alan Shepard

helped bring about a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

Jimmy Carter

black minister active in civil rights movement

Martin Luther King Jr.

President during the Cuban Missile Crisis

John F. Kennedy