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| 389715448 | Who was America's fav patriot? | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 0 | |
| 389715449 | Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe? | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1 | |
| 389715450 | Who was Eisenhower's VP? | Richard Nixon | 2 | |
| 389715451 | What was Eisenhower's political party? | Republican | 3 | |
| 389715452 | What did Eisenhower promise to do? | End Korean War | 4 | |
| 389715453 | How was Eisenhower/Ike successful? | His policy of Consensus Decision Making and signing of Atomic Energy Act 1954 | 5 | |
| 389715454 | What is Consensus Decision Making? | A management style based on the group efforts to solve problems | 6 | |
| 389715455 | What is the Atomic Energy Act 1954? | Allowed private companies to operate nuclear power plants | 7 | |
| 389715456 | What was the first nuclear powerplant? | Arco Idaho | 8 | |
| 389715457 | What was Ike's slogan? | Peace, progress, prosperity | 9 | |
| 389715458 | Who supported the Fed. Interstate Highway System of 1956? | Oil companies, auto & rubber companies, US post office, bankers, truckers | 10 | |
| 389715459 | Congress approved $32 bill, but what was the actual cost? | $80 bill | 11 | |
| 389715460 | Who launched the first space satellite? | Soviets | 12 | |
| 389715461 | What was the name of the 1st space satellite? | Sputnik I | 13 | |
| 389715462 | Who launches the Explorer I? | US, first US satellite | 14 | |
| 389715463 | What was the onboard experiment? | James A. Van Allen discovers a radiation belt surrounding the earth | 15 | |
| 389715464 | What does NASA stand for? | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | 16 | |
| 389715465 | Minimum wage went up from...? | 75 cents to $1/hr | 17 | |
| 389715466 | What played a major role in the election? | New media/TV | 18 | |
| 389715467 | What did Nixon look like in the 1960 election? | haggard/tired | 19 | |
| 389715468 | What did Kennedy look like in the 19960 election? | tanned/rested | 20 | |
| 389715469 | What percentage was Nixon's popular and electoral votes? | Pop - 49.5%; Elect - 219 | 21 | |
| 389715470 | What percentage was Kennedy's popular and electoral votes? | Pop - 49.7%; Elect - 302 | 22 | |
| 389715471 | What were the claims of fraud? | 100,000+ votes in Chicago & TX were in dispute over possible mobster relations | 23 | |
| 389715472 | What are Jim Crow Laws? | Selectively discriminated against blacks to enforce segregation of the races: schools, trains, buses, restaurants | 24 | |
| 389715473 | What was the Supreme Court Decision for Fred Scott vs. Sandford? | 7-2, slaves were considered legal property | 25 | |
| 389715474 | What was the Supreme Court Decision for Plessy vs. Ferguson? | 8-1, separate but equal accommodations for blacks and whites... didn't go against 13th & 14th amendments | 26 | |
| 389715475 | What is segregation? | The forced separation of racial groups in public areas | 27 | |
| 389715476 | What happened in Topeka, Kansas? | 7 year old Linda Brown was forced to ride a bus 5 mils to school while white public school was 4 miles away from house | 28 | |
| 389715477 | What was the Supreme Court Decision for Brown vs. Board of Education? | 9-0; declared that racial segregation in education is unconstitutional | 29 | |
| 389715478 | Why was Dred Scott and his wife Harriet sued? | for their freedom: lived a number of years in free states | 30 | |
| 389715479 | Why was Homer Plessy jailed? | He sat in an all white car | 31 | |
| 389715480 | Plessy appealed to uphold which amendments? | 13th (abolition of slavery) and 14th (rights of citizens) | 32 | |
| 389715481 | What percentage resisted to Brown? | 80% | 33 | |
| 389715482 | How else did people resist to Brown? | White students didn't go to school, KKK reemerged, southern legislators passed 450 laws trying to prevent enforcement | 34 | |
| 389715483 | The Fed. troops protected what? | Little Rock 9 | 35 | |
| 390722295 | Who was associated with the Civil Rights Act? | JFK & signed into law by Lyndon B Johnson | 36 | |
| 390722296 | What act allowed the Fed Govt to sue city schools refusing to integrate? | Civil Rights Act 64 | 37 | |
| 390722297 | The Civil Rights Act mandated what? | End of segregation in all public facilities | 38 | |
| 390722298 | The Voting Rights Act of 65 began with what amendment? | 24th: abolition of Fed Poll tax | 39 | |
| 390722299 | The Voting Rights Act made what illegal? | pay local/city poll tax, fill out registration form (illiteracy), take constitution test | 40 | |
| 390722300 | Who were allies in WWII? | US and Vietnam | 41 | |
| 390722301 | What does Vietminh mean? | Army | 42 | |
| 390722302 | What army leader declared independence from French colonial rule? | Ho Chi Minh | 43 | |
| 390722303 | What did France want while controlling Vietnam? | Rice, rubber, tin | 44 | |
| 390722304 | Who turns communist and supports Ho Chi Minh? | China.. US supports France | 45 | |
| 390722305 | What was the agreement with the conflict in SE Asia? | Vietminh withdraws to north (17th parallel) and France withdraws to South (17th parallel) which led to REUNIFICATION | 46 | |
| 390722306 | What 3 reasons did the US disagree on the agreement? | communism, containment, US wants to keep open markets w/ all of SE Asia | 47 | |
| 390753567 | Who cancelled the promised '56 election? | S. Vietnam leader, Ngo Dinh Diem | 48 | |
| 390753568 | Name 3 characteristics about Ngo Dinh Diem | corrupt/fixed elections, anti-communist, catholic | 49 | |
| 390753569 | What does NLF stand for? | national liberation front | 50 | |
| 390753570 | Why was the National Liberation Front formed? | Overthrow Diem: communist supported by N. Vietnam | 51 | |
| 390753571 | What was the other term for NLF? | Vietcong | 52 | |
| 390753572 | What was Kennedy's plan? | 1. Strengthen S. Vietnamese army (send technology and 16,000 military advisors) 2. Force Diem to make political and economic reforms | 53 | |
| 390753573 | Who set himself on fire to protest the policies of Ngo Dinh Diem? | Quang Duc | 54 | |
| 390753574 | S. Vietnamese army, supported by the US, assassinated who? | Diem | 55 | |
| 390753575 | Who was assassinated after Diem? | Kennedy | 56 | |
| 390753576 | What happened in the Gulf of Tonkin? | N Vietnam torpedoes 2 US destroyers | 57 | |
| 390753577 | Where do the Vietcong forces attack? | Military base in Pleiku | 58 | |
| 390753578 | Describe Operation Rolling Thunder | 3 year bombardment of N Vietnam.. by '68, 500,000 troops were active in Vietnam | 59 | |
| 390753579 | What did the US/S. Vietnam want during the Paris Peace Talks? | Vietcong to leave S. Vietnam | 60 | |
| 390753580 | What did N. Vietnam/Vietcong want during the Paris Peace Talks? | US to leave and Vietcong to help establish a new S. govt. | 61 | |
| 390753581 | About how many Americans were dead in Vietnam? | 36,000 | 62 | |
| 390753582 | Define "Vietnamization" | S. Vietnamese soldiers would be trained to take place of Americans | 63 | |
| 390753583 | What was the exception when the US agreed to no longer protect Asian allies military from communists? | US would provide weapons and money. They would no longer fight for themselves. | 64 | |
| 390753584 | From 1969 to 1972, how many Americans were left in Vietnam? | 500,000 to 25,000 | 65 | |
| 390753585 | What was the excerpt in the "Pentagon Papers" ? | "Vietnam is not about defeating communism and longer, it's about avoiding a humiliating defeat." -memo from Johnson admin | 66 | |
| 390753586 | What was the Jan '73 agreement for Vietcong? | Stay in Vietcong, help build new govt. in South | 67 | |
| 390753587 | What was the Jan '73 agreement for the US? | withdraw troops, get back pows, agreed to ceasefire | 68 | |
| 390753588 | In the Fall of Sargon, where did fighting break out? | Vietnam, Laos, Cabodia | 69 | |
| 390753589 | Communists troops march where? | Ho Chi Minh City | 70 |
