US History Unit 8 Review

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The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 came to an end when

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the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its nuclear missiles from Cuba.

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In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy earned national attention by

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falsely accusing many people of being communists.

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President Kennedy's first months in office were stained by what foreign-policy disaster?

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CIA-backed rebels were defeated in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs

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Since the Cuban Revolution, which resulted in the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista's authoritarian regime, Cuba has had a

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communist government

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The case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) resulted in

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a ruling that stated segregation in American public schools was inherently unequal.

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The activities of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and the NAACP in Montgomery in 1955 and 1956 are MOST accurately examples of

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an economic boycott to gain social rights

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was the first president of this organization that used African-American churches to coordinate the civil rights movement.

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SCLC

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Jackie Robinson was MOST notable for

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breaking the "color barrier" in Major League Baseball.

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Which measure eliminated literacy tests, which often disqualified potential voters?

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Emmett Till, Sit-Ins, Malcolm X, Montgomery Bus Boycotts. These items are MOST associated with which era?

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Civil Rights Era