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Abeka U.S. History 8
Ch. 21: Time for Freedom & Responsibility
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Replaced newspapers as the main source of American news and information | Television |
| Famous director of the FBI | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Leader of the civil rights movement | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Term for government bonds | Treasury Bills |
| Soviet leader who pretended to desire "peaceful coexistence" with other nations | Nikita Khrushchev |
| The 49th and 50th states admitted to the Union | Alaska and Hawaii |
| The First Lady who redecorated the White House | Jacqueline Kennedy |
| Seaway that connected ocean shipping with the Great Lakes region | St. Lawrence Seaway |
| Gave the President the power to use force if necessary against Communist aggression in the Middle East | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| Spy plane shot down over Russia | U-2 |
| Levitt and Sons were famous for their mass production of these | houses |
| What was the first American space satellite? | Explorer I |
| The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion of this country | Cuba |
| Who was the first American to fly in space? | Alan Shepard |
| What was President Kennedy's welfare program called? | New Frontier |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Berlin |
| What senator fought to remove Communists from government offices? | Joseph McCarthy |
| Jim Elliot was a famous American one of these | missionary |
| President Kennedy was assassinated in this city | Dallas, Texas |
| Who was the world's foremost rocket scientist? | Werner von Braun |
| Low interest loans were provided to military veterans through this bill | GI Bill of Rights |
| The first American astronaut to orbit the earth | John Glenn |
| The Alliance for Progress was an attempt to encourage democracy and investment in this area | Latin America |
| This couple was convicted of treasonous activities against the United States | The Rosenbergs |
| This Supreme Court ruling called for desegregation in all public schools | Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas |
| This nearly led to nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| The first major synthetic fabric | nylon |
| The polio vaccine was developed by this doctor in the early 1950's to end the spread of polio | Dr. Jonas Salk |
| This first passenger jet was introduced in 1958 | Boeing 707 |
| President Kennedy established this volunteer organization | Peace Corps |
| State Department spy | Alger Hiss |
| Famous American evangelist | Billy Graham |
| Lost a close presidential race to Kennedy | Richard Nixon |
| Famous African-American baseball player | Jackie Robinson |
| Killed President Kennedy's assassin | Jack Ruby |
| Communist revolutionary in Cuba | Fidel Castro |
| Famous African-American vocalist | Marian Anderson |
| Arrested for assassinating President Kennedy | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Sold nuclear information to the Russians | Julius Rosenberg |
| Passed State Department secrets to a Soviet agent | Alger Hiss |
| This Egyptian President seized the Suez Canal from Great Britain in 1956 | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
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