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Chapter 12 - Changing the Boundaries

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