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WorksheetsAmerica's Century Poisoned Dreams
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
How was a "stand" made by African Americans "sitting down" at segregated lunch counters?
Challenge Brown v. Board
Challenge Jim Crow Laws
Challenge the draft
Challenge McCarthyism
Sit-ins often ended with the protester being arrested and/or beaten
True
False
Young president elected in 1960 who seemed to promise to re-vitalize the world.
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Bob Dole
Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Nixon ran against John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.
True
False
Both Nixon and Kennedy were strong anti-communist presidential candidates
True
False
The 1960 presidential debates was the first televised to the nation. Why did Kennedy appear to win the debates on television?
Kennedy charm and earnestness and idealism was felt more over television
Kennedy's suit looked superior to Nixons
Richard Nixon stumbled and fell over the podium during the second debate which embarrassed him greatly
A protester stormed the stage and Kennedy wrestled him to the ground until he could be arrested by his security detail
Kennedy's presidential staff was much older than him
True
False
Young Americans felt compelled to be included in Kennedy's presidency.
True
False
On April the 12th 1961 the Soviets achieved what?
Orbited the first man around the globe
Sent the first satellite into space
Tested a hydrogen bomb that could destroy the whole world
Alan Shepherd was the first to do what?
First American into space
First American to the moon
First American to travel to the center of the Earth
John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to go where by the end of the 1960s?
Go to the moon
Travel to the Sun
Go to Mars
Defeat the Soviet Union with atomic weapons
FAILED CIA scheme to land Cuban exiles in Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Airlift
Havana Airlift
For the second time in the century Americans faced the threat of war with the Soviet Union over what city?
Berlin
Paris
Moscow
Seoul
Kennedy advised families to build what?
Fallout Shelters
Telescopes
Statues of him
Gardens
In October 1961 the Soviet's built what?
Berlin Wall
Paris Wall
Great Wall of Russia
Super human soldiers
October the 14th 1962 an American U-2 spy plane flying over Cuba discovered what?
Soviet nuclear missile sites
Fidel Castro's secret bunker
Soviet submarine bases
Soviet landing forces preparing to invade Florida.
DEFCON 2 means what?
Highest level of American military alert
Imminent nuclear strike incoming
Alien invasion underway
Godzilla is approaching
Kennedy ordered a what to prevent Soviet ships from reaching Cuba with nuclear missiles.
Blockade
Nuclear strike
Chemical strike
Rode buses into the South to challenge segregation. Many were attacked, beaten, and bombed.
Freedom Riders
Montgomery boycotters
Peace Corps
One of SNCC Civil Rights tactics was to fill local jails with protesters
True
False
The most violent and vicious racist city in the South
Birmingham Alabama
Montgomery Alabama
Jackson Mississippi
Richmond Virginia
Governor of Alabama who said "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"
George Wallace
Orval Faubus
Strom Thurmond
Bull Conner
Leader of the non-violent civil rights campaign
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
John Lewis
Malcom X
John F. Kennedy
Children were used to protest segregation in Birmingham Alabama
True
False
Nine month effort to desegregate Albany Georgia was a success
True
False
"race has no place in American life or law" who said this?
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
200,000 activists and supporters showed up in DC in 1963 to pressure Congress to do what?
Pass Civil Rights laws
Pass Cold War Laws
Protest the passage of Civil Rights laws
Protest the stockpile of nuclear weapons
"no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice flows down like water"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
John Lewis
Provided a way for young people to serve their nation
Peace Corp
Civilian Conservation Corp
NASA
Communist Party
Kennedy created what special forces unit?
Green Berets
Navy Seals
Delta Force
101st Airborne
Kennedy sent advisors to which country to prevent communist expansion
South Korea
South Vietnam
Japan
China
Kennedy sent advisors to South Vietnam to prevent a rippling effect of communist spread. This is known as what theory?
Domino Theory
Arms Race
MacArthur Theory
Truman's Tactic
By 1963 in the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, what group protested by setting themselves on fire?
Buddhist Monks
Catholic Priests
Communist supporters
The United States supported the assassination and removal of what countries leader?
South Vietnam
South Korea
Cuba
Germany
In 1963 the United States and the Soviet Union met and agreed to what?
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Chemical Weapons Ban treaty
Free Berlin
John F. Kennedy was killed in what American city
Dallas
Memphis
Houston
Los Angeles
November 22nd 1963
John F. Kennedy was killed
Civil Rights Laws were passed
Birmingham ended its segregation
Berlin was destroyed by an atomic bomb
