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WorksheetsThe Cold War, Eisenhower, the 60s and 70s, Postwar Order
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What are the 4 main purposes of the United Nations?
keep peace, develop relations, improve the life of the world's poor, center for discord
keep peace, wage war, improve the life of the world's poor, centre for harmony
keep peace, develop relations, improve the life of the world's poor, center for harmony
keep peace, develop relations, improve the life of the world's rich, centre for harmony
Which of the following was a reason for creating NATO?
Stop Democracy from spreading to Central America
Protect the USSR from the West
Help the Communist spread their propaganda
Preventing the spread of Communism
June 1947- Allies program to rebuild Europe after WW2. What is this called?
NATO
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
June 1948 Soviets blocked land and water access to Berlin. Allies dropped supplies to help. What is this known as?
NATO
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Berlin Airlift
Truman's extension of the New Deal is called what?
NATO
Fair Deal
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
US proposal to give aid for Greece and Turkey to fight Communism is called what?
Fair Deal
Truman Doctrine
NATO
Marshall Plan
Who was a leader of the Black Muslims?
Rosa Parks
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
John F. Kennedy
MLK Jr organized a __________ of buses in Montgomery after Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white man.
sabotaging
strike
boycott
slow-down
What Amendment did the Supreme Court rule "separate but equal" violated?
14th Amendment
1st Amendment
13th Amendment
15th Amendment
Where did MLK Jr. deliver his famous "I have a Dream" speech?
at the voting rights march in Selma
while he was in a Birmingham jail
in defense of the Freedom Riders
at the March on Washington
The main group of Freedom Riders stated their bus ride in what city?
Washington DC
Montgomery
New York
New Orleans
Kennedy approved an invasion plan called _______ during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Operation Cuba's Biggest Regret
The Soviet Nuclear Crisis
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
Destroy Castro
What was the war between 1954-1975?
Korean War
Vietnam War
War of Roses
Civil War
What caused President Nixon to resign?
Watergate Scandal
Vietnam War Scandal
Stagflation
Westwood Scandal
Which amendment that gave voting rights to Americans 18 and older?
25th
20th
23rd
26th
Which communist country did Richard Nixon go to in 1972 to open up diplomatic and economic relations, that was seen as a success?
North Korea
Russia
China
South Korea
Iran holds 52 American hostages over controversy with exiled Shah in America. This is known as the ________.
Iranian Outrage
Iran Contra Affair
Iranian Revolt
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Stagflation- high unemployment combined with inflation occurred under what president?
Reagan
Ford
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Which case established abortion laws in the United States?
Gideon v. Wainwright
Brown v. Board
Miranda v. Arizona
Roe v. Wade
This case reversed Plessy v. Ferguson and ended segregation in schools.
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. Board of Education
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
How did the US respond to finding out that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba?
They placed a naval blockade around Cuba
They sent the Air Force to bomb Cuba
They began placing missiles in the Soviet Union.
They invaded Cuba and the Soviet Union.
When did the Iranian Hostage Crisis begin ?
November 25 , 2003
November 4, 1977
November 4 , 1979
January 4 , 1979
Who was the The Feminine Mystique written by?
Betty Friedan
Gloria Steinem
Rosa Parks
Simone de Beauvoir
This man helped Nixon formulate the policy of détente.
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
John F. Kennedy
Henry Kissinger
This volunteer campaign in the United States, launched in June 1964, attempted to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. What was this campaign/project called?
Freedom Summer
Civil Rights Movement
Freedom Riders
Mississippi Summer Project
