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SALT Gr 5 History
Chapter 12 - Changing the Boundaries
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Communist China was opend to trade by this president | Nixon |
| A policy was made to help other nations struggling with Communist takeover by this president | Truman |
| This president survived a gunshot wound during his first term of office | Reagan |
| The laws that made it illegal for African Americans to eat in restaurants, or drink from water fountains labeled "whites Only" | Jim Crow Laws |
| The first African American to hold America's highest military post | Colin Powell |
| The nation became concerned about issues of civil rights during this president's term of office | Eisenhower |
| This president feared that General MacArthur's expansion of the war into China would lead to WWIII | Truman |
| The only president not elected by the American people | Ford |
| In 1986, the space shuttle that exploded, killing everyone onboard | Challenger |
| Was the first woman appointed a Supreme Court justice | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| The president that started a program called Star Wars | Reagan |
| The youngest man ever elected as president | Kennedy |
| The first American astronaut that stepped on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| What was left on the moon by the astronauts of Apollo 11 | an American flag and a plaque with their names and President Nixon's name |
| Martin Luther King Jr. was a leader of what movement during the 1960s | Civil Rights Movement |
| President that boycotted the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow | Carter |
| President that made a promise to provide health insurance for all Americans | Clinton |
| President during the Cuban Missile Crisis | Kennedy |
| Formed a rescue mission to save American hostages in Iran | Carter |
| The money people had to pay in order to vote was called | Poll taxes |
| What states became the 49th and 50th states of the US | Alaska and Hawaii |
| The African American arrested for sitting in the "Whites Only" section of a bus | Rosa Parks |
| President involved in the Persian Gulf War | Bush |
| President that resigned before possible impeachment | Nixon |
| Became president the same day another president died | Johnson |
| The Korean War erupted during the president's term of office | Truman |
| What country had the first manmade satellite that orbited the earth | Soviet Union |
| The US launched a satellite called | Explorer I |
| Cuba became Communist when this person came to power | Fidel Castro |
| The US military helped South Vietnamese fight against Communism during this president's office | Johnson |
| The longest war America had ever fought and the only war America lost | Vietnam War |
| Since 1840 every American president elected during a year ending with zero had died in office. This was known as | The Zero Factor |
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