60s-70s

The 1960 Election of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon was the first to...

• Be in the newspaper

• Stream Online

• Air on TV

• be heard on the radio.

Sputnik was the first satellite launched into space, who launched it?

• The United States

• U.S.S.R.

• China

• England

America intended to invade and topple ______ ______, the dictator of Cuba. It became known as The Bay of Pigs.

• Nikita Khrushchev

• John F. Kennedy

• Fidel Castro

• Mao Zedong

The Soviets attempted to place missiles in ________, creating the potential for nuclear war between the Soviets and America.

• Cuba

• Poland

• Mexico

• Columbia

Lyndon B Johnson created programs to help with health insurance, education, jobs for the youth, and affordable housing. This was known as...

• The Great American

• Great Society

• A Great World

• Great Help for the Poor

The _________________ gave the president (LBJ) nearly unlimited ability to wage war.

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Test Offensive

• Domino Theory

• War Powers Act

Lowered the voting age to 18.

• Amendment 20

• Amendment 21

• Amendment 24

• Amendment 26

President Richard Nixon left office due to the ________ scandal, when Republicans working under him tried to steal information from Democrats, and he covered it up.

• Oilgate

• Watergate

• Liquidgate

• Solidgate

Nixon visited this communist country, the first U.S. president in over twenty years.

• Cuba

• China

• USSR

• Yugoslavia

What organization placed an embargo on the US in the early 70s causing an energy crisis?

• NATO

• UN

• OPEC

• OSPACE