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Mr. Lewis
Test - Years 1945 - 1975 Flashcards |
CUT APART AND STUDY
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Who won the Presidential election in 1944?
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FDR (look up the correct spelling in the book-last name Roosevelt)
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Who won the Presidential election in 1948?
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Truman (look up the first name in the book)
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Who won the Presidential election in 1952?
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Eisenhower (look up the first name in the book)
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Who won the Presidential election in 1956?
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look up in the book
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Who won the Presidential election in 1960?
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JFK (look up the proper name in the book, the last name is Kennedy)
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Who won the Presidential election in 1964?
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LBJ (look up the proper name in the book, the last name is Johnson)
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Who won the Presidential election in 1968?
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Nixon (look up the first name in the book)
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Who won the Presidential election in 1972?
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Nixon
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What is the "Great Society?"
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Johnson's domestic program
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What was the Berlin Airlift?
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supplies flown in to East Germany
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WHAT IS NATO?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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What is the 17th Parallel?
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Divided Vietnam, North & South
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Who was John Glenn?
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First American to orbit the earth
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What is the Domino Theory?
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idea that one nation after another would fall to communism
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What is Sputnik?
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First satellite in space
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What is the Marshall Plan
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look up in text and notes
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Who was Robert F. Kennedy?
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Assassinated June 1968
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Who was Barry Goldwater?
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Republican Candidate 1964
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Who was Adlai Stevenson?
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Democratic Candidate in 1952 and 1956
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Who was Thomas Dewey?
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Nearly defeated Truman in 1948
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Who was Neil Armstrong?
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First Man on the Moon
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What was ALCAN?
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Alaskan-Canadian Highway
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What was the Warren Commission?
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Report on Kennedy assassination
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Who was H. H. Humphrey?
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Lyndon Johnson's VP
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Who was Gerald R. Ford?
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38th U.S. president, after Nixon
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What happened at Kent State Univ.?
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College campus shooting by national guard - 4 students killed
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What was the Bay of Pigs?
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attempted invasion of Cuba
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What was the 38th Parallel?
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Divided Korea, North and South
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What was the Security Council?
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look in text and notes
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