Final Exam

This person dropped the atomic bomb in 1945: ending WWII

• Harry Truman

• John F Kennedy

Involved in Watergate- conspiracy to mislead nation

• Richard Nixon

• Harry Truman

Created the Interstate Highway Act

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Lyndon B. Johnson

Involved in the Space Race-Cuban Missile Crisis-Bay of Pigs

• John F Kennedy

• Franklin D Roosevelt

Formed the Great Society to help alleviate poverty

• Lyndon B Johnson

• Dwight Eisenhower

The Venona Papers revealed that some Americans had in fact been helping the ________

• Cubans

• British

• Soviet Union

The _________ encouraged independent thinking in an age of conformity

• Beat Generation

• Tin Pans

Rock & Roll affected society in the US by contributing to a ____________________ between generations.

• cultural divide

• pay gap

• gender gap

More people bought new housing units in 1945-1965 because of assistance offered by the __________________ to soldiers returning form WWII

• GI Bill

• Medicare

• Selective Service Act

Leader of South Vietnam – US provided military aid for him

• Ngo Dinh Diem

• Ho Chi Minh