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Why did President Truman create
the Fair Deal?
A. He wanted to build highways.
B. He thought people should help themselves.
C. He wanted the government to help veterans
find jobs and buy homes.
D. He didn’t think new laws could help people.
c. He wanted the government to
help veterans find jobs and buy
homes.
What happened to the economy
when veterans returned from the
war?
a. The economy shrank because veterans didn’t
have jobs or houses.
b. The economy grew because veterans began
working & buying houses for their families.
c. The economy stayed the same.
d. The economy grew because Jonas Salk
invented a vaccine for polio.
b. The economy grew because
veterans began working &
buying houses for their families.
How did prosperity change
people’s lives?
A. More people had money to spend on
new products and inventions.
B. Fewer people could buy houses or have
families.
C. Businesses could not make enough
products.
D. Modern highways made it easier to
protect the country.
a. More people had money to
spend on new products and
inventions.
1945
Federal-Aid Highway Act,
Salk invents polio vaccine.
Eisenhower elected
Truman’s Fair Deal
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1955
Which happened first?
A. Eisenhower was elected president.
B. Jonas Salk invented the polio
vaccine.
C. The Federal-Aid Highway Act
gave money to build new roads.
D. President Truman created the Fair
Deal.
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d. President Truman created the
Fair Deal.
1945
Federal-Aid Highway Act,
Salk invents polio vaccine.
Eisenhower elected
Truman’s Fair Deal
1950
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1960
President Eisenhower helped create the
Federal-Aid Highway Act in 1956. What
other event also happened in the same year?
A. Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine.
B. The Fair Deal was passed.
C. The Korean War began.
D. The Korean War ended.
a. Jonas Salk invented the polio
vaccine.
Which of the following was not a
form of protest used by the civil
rights movement?
a. The Montgomery Bus Boycott
b. The assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr.
c. “sit-ins”
d. The Freedom Riders
b. The assassination of Martin
Luther King Jr.
What decision did the Supreme
Court make in 1954?
A. All public places had to be
segregated.
B. Desegregation of public schools
was unwise.
C. Sit-ins at restaurants were illegal.
D. Segregation of schools was
illegal.
d. Segregation of schools was
illegal.
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How did police respond to the
children’s protest in
Birmingham?
A. They attacked the protestors violently.
B. They invited them home to stay.
C. They staged nonviolent protests.
D. They brought in federal troops to protect
them.
a. They attacked the protestors
violently.
Which of the following did Martin Luther
King Jr. not help organize?
a. March and speech in Washington, D.C.
b. Children’s march
c. Nonviolent protests for desegregation on
buses.
d. Leading farm workers for better work
conditions.
d. Leading farm workers for
better work conditions.
Which of these happened after the Civil Rights Act of
1964?
a. The Supreme Court said segregation in
schools was illegal.
b. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
c. Freedom Riders tested desegregation.
d. Rosa Parks helped start the protest against
segregation on buses.
b. Martin Luther King Jr. was
assassinated.
Why did President Kennedy start
the Peace Corps?
A. to create new styles of art and
music
B. to give food and housing to poor
people
C. to help people in other countries
D. to land a human on the moon
c. to help people in other
countries
President Johnson’s Great
Society program
A. started the Peace Corps.
B. made fun of America’s interest in
advertising and television.
C. sent the first rocket into space.
D. helped give food, housing,
medical care, and education to
people who needed them.
d. helped give food, housing,
medical care, and education
to people who needed them.
Which of these happened last?
a. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on
the moon.
b. President John F. Kennedy was elected
president.
c. The Soviet Union sent Sputnik I around the
Earth.
d. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
a. Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin landed on the moon.
In the 1960s pop art was created
by artists like
a. John Kennedy and Lyndon
Johnson.
b. Buzz Aldrin.
c. Andy Warhol.
d. Yuri Gagarin.
c. Andy Warhol.
The United States sent military
advisers and supplies to help
South Vietnam fight
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b.
c.
d.
Cambodia.
the Vietcong.
the French.
South Korea.
b. the Vietcong.
The Vietcong fought
a. with better technology and weapons.
b. by bombing Cambodia.
c. using jet bombers, tanks and helicopters.
d. in small groups that hid and moved quickly in
and out of the jungle.
d. in small groups that hid and
moved quickly in and out of the
jungle.
Some people thought the U.S.
should fight in Vietnam because
a. the U.S. spent billions of dollars on the war.
b. many American soldiers were dying.
c. the United States had to stop communism.
d. of the results of U.S. bombing raids on
Vietnamese civilians.
c. the United States had to stop
communism.
US Troups in Vietnam
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The greatest number of U.S. soldiers were in Vietnam
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b.
c.
d.
1965.
1968.
1972.
1975.
b. 1968.
US Troups in Vietnam
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The number of U.S. soldiers who were in Vietnam
in 1971 was
a. More than 50,000
b. Less than 100,000
c. Less than 1,000
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More than 1,000,000
a. More than 50,000
Name a significant contribution of
Eisenhower.
•Helped end Korean War
•Worked to pass Federal-Aid
Highway Act
•Improved US economy
Name a significant contribution
of Kennedy.
*Encouraged American to do
great things.
“Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you
can do for your country.” -JFK
* Peace Corps
* Supported US space program
Name a significant contribution of
L.B. Johnson.
*worked to pass Civil Rights Act
of 1964
* worked to pass the Voting
Rights Act of 1965
*started Great Society program
Why was it an important goal for
the US to try to be first to the
moon?
Soviet’s Sputnik I was first
manufactured object to circle the
earth.
President Kennedy promised that the
US would be the first to the
moon.
Name a social change of the 50s
& 60s.
Name an economic change of
the 50s & 60s.
Name a political change of the
50s & 60s.
Social: “people”
Segregation Laws & civil rights
Economic: “money”
Federal-Aid Highway Act
Political: “ideas/views related to government”
Voting Rights Act of 1965
What does the Peace Corps do?
They work to teach children, help
grow food, and develop businesses.