United States Unit 8 Review(Standards 21-23)

Which Cold War conflict included the CIA training/arming Cubans living in America in attempt to over throw Fidel Castro's Government(that ultimately failed)

• Vietnam War

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Korean War

• 9/11

The result of the Bay of Pigs attempted invasion of Cuba was the Cuban Missile Crisis, where Cuba requested protection from the US and received it in the form of nuclear weapons from what Cold War Adversary of the US?

• China

• Germany

• Japan

• The Soviet Union

An attack on the US Navy while it was being deployed to discourage the spread of communism to the southern part of this country led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which allowed the President Lyndon Johnson to have over 500,000 troops controversially deployed there in a Cold War Conflict which would last a decade.

• China

• South Africa

• Vietnam

• Cuba

Lyndon B Johnson took over after which president was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas TX?

• John F Kennedy

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• Richard Nixon

Pressure from Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and sympathy following the death of JFK forced/allowed president Lyndon Johnson to push through this piece of legislation(law) that outlawed all forms of public discrimination based on race.

• 19th Amendment

• the Missouri Compromise

• Manifest Destiny

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

This piece of legislation(law) outlawed states discriminating against citizens based on their race when it came to voting was called-

• Brown V Board of Education

• 15th Amendmentr

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

This series of laws introduced by Lyndon B Johnson was meant to attack the issue of povert with America's vast wealth by funding programs like Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start PreK, Job Corps, and funding for the arts was called/

• The Great Society

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• The 19th Amendment

This invention had a profound impact on how Americans viewed many events like Presidential debates between JFK and Richard Nixon, the Vietnam War, The Civil Rights Movement, and the US landing on the Moon.

• Telephone

• Telegram

• Text Message

• Television

Organizations like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee(SNCC) were formed to challenge laws in court and organize protests during what period?

• The Cold War

• The Space Race

• Vietnam War

• THe Civil Rights Movement

Martin Luther King Jr wrote this to white moderate pastors criticizing them for telling him to slow down his fight for justice for black Americans.

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Declaration of Indepedance

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

• The Zimmerman Note