Unit 5 (Cold War and Beyond)

  1. What did President Kennedy believe the United States needed to do in order to eradicate poverty and solve most social problems?
  2. How did the Civil Rights Act of 1968 address racial equality?
  3. Where did Malcolm X attract an especially large following?
  4. What made the Community Action Program (CAP) the most controversial part of the War on Poverty?
  5. Which Amendment was an example of the sweeping change forged by feminists in the 1960s and 1970s? 
  6. Why was Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis when he was assassinated in 1968? 
  7. Why was the Apollo Program important?
  8. What was the Peace Corps?
  9. What were the Pentagon Papers?
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    2. What was the structure erected by the East Germans in 1961 to stop the massive exodus of East Germans to the West?
    3. What was the final outcome of the Vietnam War in Vietnam itself?
    4. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? 
    5. What made the Tet Offensive an important turning point for President Johnson?
    6. By 1990, about what percentage of married women with young children worked outside the home?
    7. How long were the American hostages held in the U.S. Embassy in Teheran by their Iranian captors?
    8. What did Carter do to help with Peace in the Middle East? 
    9. What was the Equal Rights Amendment? 
    10. What was the Iran-Contra Scandal?
    11. What was Watergate?