Social Studies 1132 Self Test

Douglas MacArthur

...... commanded UN troops in Korea

Joseph McCarthy

...... unearthed Communist sympathizers within the government.

John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy

...... was President assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963; ......... was the Presidential candidate assassinated in Los Angeles, California, in 1968.

Ayatollah Khomeini

....... ruled Iran after the shah was deposed.

Boris Yeltsin

....... was Russia's first president.

John Glenn, Jr.

....... was the first American to orbit Earth.

Gerald Ford

....... was the first President not elected to either Vice Presidency or Presidency

Sandra Day O'Connor

....... was the first female Supreme Court Justice.

Fidel Castro

........ overthrew the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

William Clinton

........ twice vetoed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

Martin Luther King, Jr.

........ was at the forefront of the civil rights movement.

George H. W. Bush

......... was more successful in handling international situations than he was in handling domestic ones.

Haitians

After the overthrow of Aristide, thousands of ...... fled their country in boats and tried to enter the United States

Donald Trump

Americans elected ......., a political outsider, as their 45th President.

On the moon

Apollo 11 was the first space mission to put man ........

African-American

Barack Obama, the first ...... candidate to be nominated for President, won the presidential election in 2008.

United States, Soviet Union, and China

During the Cold War, the forces opposed to Communism were led by ........; the forces of Communism were led by .........

Challenger

In 1986 the space shuttle ...... exploded just after liftoff.

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building

In 1995 the .......... was destroyed by a truck bomb, killing 168 people.

Iraqi

In Operation Desert Storm, the sole objective of UN forces was to expel ....... troops from Kuwait

Iraq

In violation of her agreement following Operation Desert Storm, ...... refused to allow the United Nations to conduct a thorough investigation of all weapons facilities.

Kuwait

Iraq's invasion of ....... led to the Persian Gulf War which is also called Operation Desert Storm.

Iran

Militants in ......... took 66 Americans hostage and demanded the return of the shah.

Pentagon

On September 11, 2001, the worst terrorist attack upon United States soil culminated in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and extensive damage, to the ....... near Washington, D.C.

Al Qaeda

Overthrowing the Taliban, capturing Osama bin Laden, and destroying the ...... terrorist network was the three-part objective for the War on Terror.

Iraq

President George W. Bush ordered an invasion of ...... in March 2003.

Watergate

President Nixon resigned in 1974 due to his involvement in the ......... scandal, but President Ford later granted him a pardon

Korean War

The ........ was officially a "police action"

Iran-contra

The ......... affair involved using the profits from the sale of weapons to Iran to support Nicaraguan Contras.

Racial

The 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown vs. The Board of Education of Topeka declared that ...... segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.

Terrorist

The Department of Homeland Security was created to protect America from future ..... attacks.

Education

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 was designed to give all American children equal ....... opportunities.

Canada, Mexico

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an agreement to end all tariffs and trade restrictions between the United States, ........, and .........

opposed

The Serbs in Bosnia started a civil war because they ....... from Yugoslavia.

Defense

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a plan for a space-based ........ system.

last best hope

The United has been called "the ........ for peace."

John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration

The Vietnam War, America's longest military conflict was during the ........ administration.

Carter

The drafting of the Camp David Accords was the most important accomplishment during the ........ administration

Neil Armstrong

The first Astronaut to walk on the moon was .......

South Vietnam

The first United States ground troops landed in Da Nang, ......., in 1965

International

The most powerful body of the UN, the Security Council, is responsible for maintaining ....... peace.

Obamacare

The most significant piece of legislation signed into law by President Obama was the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as "........"

Columbia

The space shuttle ........ that exploded over Texas in 2003

Berlin Wall

To keep East Germans from escaping to West Germany, the Communists built the ........

Cuba

When Khrushchev supplied missiles to ........, the United States and the Soviet Union came close to War.

Reagan

When it was discovered that Cubans were on Grenada in October 1983, President .......authorized military action to prevent her from becoming a Soviet outpost

Soviet Union

When the ...... was dissolved during George H. W. Bush's administration, the Cold War ended.

Osama bin Laden

and his terrorist organization were behind the terrorist attack.

NATO

was formed for the protection of West Germany and for mutual defense against further Soviet expansion