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Saturday, July 29, 2023

U.S. History Week 29: Contesting Futures - America in the 1960s

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U.S. History Week 29

Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s

I designed a quiz related to chapter 29 at the bottom of this article.

Directions for the quiz:

Scroll down & click on the first thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
Choose an answer for each question.
Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
The correct answer is on the screen following the question.
Compare your answers with those provided.
If you cannot easily see the correct answer, check the captions.

An interactive version is available on Kahoot!
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Review the following Chapter 29 pages:

Practice learning Chapter 29 Key Terms on Quizlet.

Week 29 Videos:

Crash Course: The 1960s in America (15:14)
Student Civil Rights Activism (13:26)
History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (4:51)
Freedom Riders History (5:03)
Martin Luther King Jr. Minister & Civil Rights Activist (4:47)
Apollo 11 Landing on the Moon (2:36)

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U.S. History Week 29 Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s

Who was the first U.S. President born in the 20th Century?
Answer choices include: Richard Nixon,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford

The correct answer is John F. Kennedy.

In what year did America first put a person on the moon?
Answer choices include 1959, 1969, 1979, 1989

The correct answer is 1969.

JFK founded the ___, in which young people administered
humanitarian projects in a variety of other countries.
Answer choices include: Peace Corps, Army Corps of Engineers,
Black Berets & Green Berets, Delta Force

The correct answer is Peace Corps.

The failed Bay of Bigs Invasion preceded the Missile Crisis in ___.
Answer choices include:
the Philippines, Key West, Soviet Union, Cuba

The correct answer is Cuba.

The Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba
if the U.S. agreed to remove missiles from ___.
Answer choices include: Greece, Turkey, Poland, Norway

The correct answer is Turkey.

Into what country did the U.S. send money
and military advisors in the 1960s?
Answer choices include:
Vietnam, Korea, France, Cuba

The correct answer is Vietnam.

John F. Kennedy was riding in a motorcade in ___
when he was mortally wounded by a gunshot.
Answer choices include:
Merritt Island, Los Angeles, Dallas, Arlington

The correct answer is Dallas.

In addition to environmental protection, which were passed
under Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration?
Answer choices include:
National Endowment for the Arts/Humanities,
Public Broadcasting Act,
Higher Education Act,
All of these

The correct answer is all of these.

The Johnson Administration preferred immigrants who
had family ties in the U.S. and those who ___.
Answer choices include: were from Western Europe,
had desirable skills, were from Northern Europe, all of these

The correct answer is: had desirable skills.

Creating programs related to housing, urban development,
and healthcare, LBJ proposed a war on ___.
Answer choices include:
drugs, poverty, Republicans, free enterprise

The correct answer is poverty.

During the Vietnam Conflict, approximately __
of African American men & __ of White men were drafted.
Answer choices include:
1/3, more than 2/3;
2/3, less than 1/3;
1/2, 1/2;
1/4, 3/4

The correct answer is: 2/3, less than 1/3.

On February 1, 1960, 4 students from ___ started
a sit-in that spurred multiple civil rights demonstrations.
Answer choices include:
North Carolina A&T College, University of Virginia,
Southern Methodist University, Clemson University

The correct answer is North Carolina A&T College.

Efforts to desegregate buses involved the ___,
some of whom traveled from Washington, DC to Jackson, MS.
Answer choices include: Freedom Riders,
Jackson 5, Jim Crow Champions, Exonerated 5

The correct answer is Freedom Riders.

Martin Luther King Jr. led much of the civil rights movement
and soon after Easter 1963, he penned “Letter from ___.”
Answer choices include: the light that will never go out,
a humble servant, a Birmingham Jail, America's Negros

The correct answer is a Birmingham Jail.

The Mississippi Summer Project’s purpose
was to help African Americans ___.
Answer choices include:
to join the military, to be served in all restaurants,
have full access to libraries, register to vote

The correct answer is register to vote.

___ was a well-known civil rights advocate who rejected
non-violent protests in favor of violence if necessary.
Answer choices include: Malcolm X,
Andrew Goodman, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker

The correct answer is Malcolm X.

Who organized striking farm workers in California,
called for a grape boycott,
and engaged in a hunger strike?
Answer choices include: Richard Loving,
"Corky" Gonzales, Cesar Chavez, Santiago Iglesias Pantin

The correct answer is Cesar Chavez.

In the 1960s, almost ___ percent of households had at least one car.
Answer choices include: 20, 40, 60, 80

The correct answer is 80.

What clothing item was often associated
with youthful rebellion in the 1960s?
Answer choices include:
corsets, burkas, penny loafers, jeans

The correct answer is jeans.

What was the first magazine to focus on domestic violence,
sexual harassment, and body image issues?
Answer choices include: Ladies Home Journal,
Ms., The American Mercury, Harper's Magazine

The correct answer is Ms.

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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Week 33 World History: Restructuring the Postwar World 1945-2012

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This world history resource focuses on restructuring during
the postwar world from 1945 to 2012 and includes
quiz questions and answers and video links to related topics.

I utilized World History: Patterns of Interaction (Holt McDougal) for our world history textbook. It has multiple options for different learning styles and covers a wide array of information.

This quiz accompanies Chapter 33: pages 962-993.

Directions for the quiz:

Scroll down and click on the thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
Choose an answer for each question.
Compare your answers with those provided.

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World History Week 33 Restructuring the Postwar World 1945-2012

Which country experienced the highest number
of fatalities (deaths) due to World War II?
Answer choices include: Russia/USSR, United States, Germany, British Empire

The correct answer is Russia/USSR.

Which were the leading 2 countries in the Cold War?
Answer choices include:
China & Japan, Germany & France,
Britain & Switzerland, Soviet Union & United States

The correct answer is Soviet Union & United States.

___ was an international peacekeeping organization formed in 1945 in which
49 countries intended to protect members from aggression.
Answer choices include: NASA, NATO, UN, SS

The correct answer is UN.

Three leaders met in July 1945 regarding
the Soviet Union securing communist
governments in neighboring countries.
Who was NOT in the meeting?
Answer choices include: Stalin, Truman, Hirohito, Churchill

The correct answer is Hirohito.

Europe’s division into a mostly democratic
western region and mostly
communist eastern region was called the ____.
Answer choices include:
Golden Bar, Great Divide, Iron Curtain, Line of Death

The correct answer is Iron Curtain.

In 1945, the United States provided $12.5 billion
under the Marshall Plan to countries
that were not under Soviet domination.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

What did the U.S. & Britain do as a response
when the Soviet Union cut off
highway, water, and rail traffic into West Berlin?
Answer choices include:
They declared war on the Soviet Union & forcibly lifted the blockade.
They flew food/supplies in for ~ a year before the blockade was lifted.
They ignored the action & the majority of people in West Berlin starved.
They began a series of guerilla warfare tactics & weakened the blockade.

The correct answer is: They flew food/supplies in for ~ a year before the blockade was lifted.

Which of the following did NOT align
with either NATO (favoring democracy)
or the Warsaw Pact (favoring communism) in 1949.
Answer choices include:
China & India, Canada & United States,
Soviet Union & East Germany, Czechoslovakia & Bulgaria

The correct answer is China & India.

The ___ was developed in 1952 and had thousands
times more power than the original atomic bomb.
Answer choices include:
tooth nor token bomb (TNT-bomb),
final frontier bomb (double F-bomb),
hydrogen bomb (H-bomb),
fusion bomb (F-bomb)

The correct answer is hydrogen bomb (H-bomb).

In what year did the United States and Soviet Union
launch their first joint space mission?
Answer choices include: 1945, 1957, 1975, 1990

The correct answer is 1975.

Mao Zedong of China created “The Great Leap Forward”
in which collective farms, called ___,
leading to crop failures & famine that killed ~ 20 million.
Answer choices include:
communes, tenant farms, megafarms, commercial farms

The correct answer is communes.

China’s Cultural Revolution was an uprising of the ___,
who were mainly teens who destroyed & lashed
out at professors, officials, factory managers, & parents.
Answer choices include:
Mao Troops, Bonzai Platoon, Young Revolution, Red Guards

The correct answer is Red Guards.

In the late 1940s, Korea was controlled by Soviet forces in the north &
American forces in the south with the division at the ___ parallel.
Answer choices include: 17th, 38th, 47th, 66th

The correct answer is 38th.

What was the result of the Korean War?
Answer choices include:
Korea became completely communist.
Korea became completely free.
Korea was completely devastated by atomic
bombs dropped by American Air Force pilots.
Korea remained divided nearly at the
same place it was before the war began.

The correct answer is:
Korea remained divided nearly at the same place it was before the war began.

What happened two years after President Nixon of the United States
withdrew troops from Vietnam in 1973.
Answer choices include:
The communist North Vietnamese overran South Vietnam.
The democratic South Vietnamese overran communist North Vietnam.
Vietnam remained divided at the 19th parallel, with communism
in the north & capitalism in the south. Vietnam divided
into a communist eastern half and democratic western half.

The correct answer is: The communist North Vietnamese overran South Vietnam.

The U.S. military sent planes over ___ to take photos showing that Krushchev
was secretly building 42 missile sites after the Bay of Pigs defeat.
Answer choices include: Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Argentina

The correct answer is Cuba.

How long did Ayatollah Ruholla Khomenini’s regime keep
more than 60 Americans hostage in Iran?
Answer choices include: 111 days, 222 days, 333 days, 444 days

The correct answer is 444 days.

When war broke out between Iran & Iraq in the 1980s,
what did the United States do?
Answer choices include:
The United States gave aid to Iran.
The United States gave aid to Iraq.
The United States gave aide to both Iran and Iraq.
The United States remained neutral & did not provide aide to either nation.

The correct answer is: The United States gave aide to both Iran and Iraq.

What policy was focused on decreasing Cold War tensions by dealing
with other nations in a practical & flexible manner?
Answer choices include:
Strategic Defense Initiative, Detente, Brinkmanship, Espionage

The correct answer is Detente.

Nixon & Brezhnev signed the ___ I Treaty, an agreement limiting the countries
to 1972 levels of intercontinental ballistic & submarine-launched missiles.
Answer choices include: SALT, COLD, BFF, FREE

The correct answer is SALT.

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