1960's and VIETNAM

Regenerated attention to the women's rights movement with her book "Feminine Mystique".

• Frances Willard

• Susan B. Anthony

• Rosa Parks

• Betty Frieden

Recognized for the affect it had on women's involvement in organized sports at the college and high school levels.

• Title XI

• 19th Amendment

• Title IX

• Women's suffrage

The agreement between the US and the Soviet Union was that they would remove the missiles from Cuba if the US did what?

• Take missiles out of Poland
• Promised not to attack Cuba
• Promised to not attack the Soviet Union
• Take missiles out of the Soviet Union

What did the US Navy established around Cuba?

• A naval blockade
• Bases
• Missiles
• Ship Ports

WHAT STARTED THE SPACE RACE ?  

• SOVIET UNION LAUNCHED  SPUTNIK 
• UNITED STATES ESTABLISHED NASA
• THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE APOLLO PROGRAM
• 1ST FEMALE COSMONAUT LAUNCHED INTO SPACE

Kennedy approved an invasion plan called

• Destroy Castro

• Operation Cuba's Biggest Regret

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The U-2Coastal Operation

• The Soviet Nuclear Crisis

Which of the following justifies Kennedy's Navy block around Cuba?

• Khrushchev removed all Soviet missiles from Cuba.

• An American spy plane caught the Soviet Union placing nuclear weapons in Cuba.

• Fidel Castro becomes dictator of Cuba and launches his new line of army fatigues with matching beards.

• Khrushchev led a conference in Yalta but the US was not invited.

• Castro threatened to launch four missiles at the US if Kennedy refused to take down the US missiles in Turkey.

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The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

• Inchon Invasion

• Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

What were the implications of Cuba possessing nuclear armaments?

• Cuba’s nuclear weapons marked its emergence as a superpower rivaling the United States and the Soviet Union.
• Missiles from Cuba could hit major targets in the United States: not just Miami, but New York City and Washington, D.C.
• The missiles demonstrated that Cuba had broken international laws barring the possession of nuclear weapons.
• None of the above

Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Minh, was ?

• the democratically-elected leader of South Vietnam
• a Vietnamese Catholic priest who espoused non-violent resistance to colonial rule
  
• the founder of Vietnam’s Communist Party, who opposed the French colonial presence.
• Prime Minister of pro democracy South Vietnam