chapter 26

Question 1

year that Alaska and Hawaii became states

Answer 1

1959

Question 2

year JFK was assassinated

Answer 2

1963

Question 3

year President Nixon resigned

Answer 3

1974

Question 4

president from 1945-1953

Answer 4

Harry Truman

Question 5

president from 1953-1961

Answer 5

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 6

president from 1961-1963

Answer 6

John F. Kennedy

Question 7

president from 1963-1969

Answer 7

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 8

president from 1969-1974

Answer 8

Richard Nixon

Question 9

president from 1974-1977

Answer 9

Gerald Ford

Question 10

president from 1977-1981

Answer 10

Jimmy Carter

Question 11

president from 1981-1989

Answer 11

Ronald Reagan

Question 12

a law that provided financial and educational aid for soldiers returning from war

Answer 12

G.I. Bill of Rights

Question 13

removed labor abuses and curbed the power of labor unions

Answer 13

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 14

Truman’s economic plan for America aided by socialist policies

Answer 14

“Fair Deal”

Question 15

________ gave the president power to fix wage and price ceilings

Answer 15

Defense Production Act

Question 16

made it illegal to advocate the violent overthrow of the US government

Answer 16

Smith Act

Question 17

designed for surveillance of Communist Party activities

Answer 17

Internal Security Act

Question 18

state department official who transferred information to the Soviet Union during war

Answer 18

Alger Hiss

Question 19

former Communist Party member and Soviet spy who sold out Soviet spy rings

Answer 19

Whittaker Chambers

Question 20

couple who were executed for selling secrets to Russia

Answer 20

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 21

senator who led an investigation into the American government for Communist spies which was ultimately unsuccessful

Answer 21

Joseph McCarthy (“McCarthyism”)

Question 22

nominated as Republican candidate with Richard Nixon as his vice president

Answer 22

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 23

true or false: Eisenhower easily won the election of 1952

Answer 23

true

Question 24

Eisenhower’s secretary of state

Answer 24

John Foster Dulles

Question 25

president who organized the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Answer 25

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 26

new unified organizations of labor in America; __2__ president of this group

Answer 26

1. AFL-CIO 2. George Meany

Question 27

joint project with Canada that gave America a fourth coast of transportation

Answer 27

St. Lawrence Seaway

Question 28

allowed for private, commercial development of atomic power

Answer 28

Atomic Energy Act

Question 29

first nuclear-powered merchant vessel

Answer 29

Savannah

Question 30

allowed us to join the International Atomic Energy Agency

Answer 30

"Atom's for Peace Program"

Question 31

in Eisenhower's second term, this midterm election was significant

Answer 31

1958

Question 32

49th state; January of 1959

Answer 32

Alaska

Question 33

50th state; August of 1959

Answer 33

Hawaii

Question 34

first Japanese American in Congress

Answer 34

Daniel Inouye

Question 35

true or false: inflation plagued Eisenhower's second term

Answer 35

true

Question 36

chief justice of the Supreme Court who struck down Plessy vs. Ferguson (which had ruled “separate but equal”)

Answer 36

Earl Warren

Question 37

court case where racial segregation in public schools was abolished

Answer 37

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

Question 38

first election to feature televised debates

Answer 38

JFK's election

Question 39

JFK's vice president

Answer 39

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 40

youngest elected president

Answer 40

JFK

Question 41

first Roman Catholic president and first president born in the 20th century

Answer 41

JFK

Question 42

Kennedy’s social welfare program for America

Answer 42

New Frontier

Question 43

true or false: during JFK's administration, the government ran large deficits and created a false prosperity

Answer 43

true

Question 44

on __1__, JFK was shot and killed in __2__

Answer 44

November 22, 1963; Dallas, Texas

Question 45

Kennedy's assassin

Answer 45

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 46

JFK's assassin was murdered by _______

Answer 46

Jack Ruby

Question 47

_______ defeated Barry Goldwater in the election of 1964

Answer 47

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 48

amendment that limited presidents to 2 terms

Answer 48

22nd Amendment

Question 49

amendment that gave 3 electors for Washington, DC

Answer 49

23rd Amendment

Question 50

amendment that outlawed poll taxes

Answer 50

24th Amendment

Question 51

amendment that established official presidential succession

Answer 51

25th Amendment

Question 52

amendment that lowered the voting age to 18

Answer 52

26th Amendment

Question 53

LBJ's welfare program

Answer 53

Great Society

Question 54

two things Johnson's welfare program focused on

Answer 54

education and eradicating poverty

Question 55

prohibited racial discrimination in public places

Answer 55

1964 Civil Rights Act

Question 56

strengthened previous voting right laws

Answer 56

1965 Voting Rights Act

Question 57

first black American Cabinet officer

Answer 57

Robert C. Weaver

Question 58

first black American associate justice of the Supreme Court

Answer 58

Thurgood Marshall

Question 59

prohibited discrimination in renting or selling houses

Answer 59

Fair Housing Act

Question 60

1. JFK's brother 2. his assassin

Answer 60

1. Robert F. Kennedy 2. Sirhan Sirhan

Question 61

main cause of inflation

Answer 61

deficit spending

Question 62

under this president, the American dollar was devalued 2x and national debt limitation was raised 3x

Answer 62

Richard Nixon

Question 63

________ was used as a means to end segregation

Answer 63

court-ordered busing

Question 64

vice president of Richard Nixon who resigned in 1973 after accepting bribes and evading taxes

Answer 64

Spiro Agnew

Question 65

vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned

Answer 65

Gerald Ford