SSUSH21 Review

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The goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to get rid of which communist leader?

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Fidel Castro

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The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

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Domino Theory

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What resolution passed that gave Lyndon Johnson broad powers to defend South Vietnam from communism? Options: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Gulf of Maddox Resolution, USS Tonkin Resolution, Gulf of Vietnam Resolution

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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This law made it illegal to prevent citizens from voting because of their race or ethnicity.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Who was the US president who signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act into law?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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The communists fighting the US in the Vietnam Conflict were called the

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Viet Cong

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The U.S. got involved in Vietnam because of what foreign policy? Options: containment (aka Domino Theory), isolationism, Roosevelt Corollary

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containment (aka Domino Theory)

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What ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?

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The USSR removes missiles and the US leaves Cuba alone.

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Which country sent money and weapons to protect Cuba after the Bay of Pigs?

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Soviet Union

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Brown vs Board of Education overturned this case from 1896 that said separate but equal was legal:

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Plessy vs Ferguson