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Explore key figures and events from the 1960s, including JFK, Nixon, civil rights leaders, space race milestones, and Supreme Court cases.
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CH. 27-33 TEST REVIEW This power point contains some of the people, events, and terms you should be familiar with.
QUESTION: WHO ARE THE TWO CANDIDATES THAT PARTICIPATED IN THE FIRST TELEVISED PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE?
ANSWER RICHARD NIXON AND JOHN F. KENNEDY
QUESTION: IF YOU LISTENED TO THE DEBATE WHO DID YOU THINK WON THE DEBATE?
ANSWER IF YOU LISTENED YOU THOUGHT NIXON WON!!! BUT, IF YOU WATCHED, THE WINNER WAS KENNEDY.
QUESTION: WHO WON THE 1960 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?
ANSWER JOHN F. KENNEDY!!
QUESTION: DOES HE WIN WITH A LARGE OR SMALL MARGIN?
ANSWER HE WON BY A SMALL MARGIN.
QUESTION: WHO WAS JFK’S VICE PRESIDENT?
ANSWER LYNDON B. JOHNSON
QUESTION: EXACTLY WHEN AND WHERE WAS JFK ASSASSINATED?
ANSWER HE WAS IN DALLAS, TEXAS. THE DATE WAS NOV. 22, 1963.
QUESTION: WHO IS THE ALLEGED LONE ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY?
ANSWER LEE HARVEY OSWALD
QUESTION: WHO GAVE AMERICA THE NEW FRONTIER?
ANSWER PRES. KENNEDY GAVE AMERICA THE NEW FRONTIER.
QUESTION: WHO GAVE AMERICA THE GREAT SOCIETY?
QUESTION: WHO BECAME PRESIDENT WHEN KENNEDY WAS ASSASSINATED?
ANSWER LYNDON JOHNSON
QUESTION: WHO ASSASSINATED LEE HARVEY OSWALD?
ANSWER JACK RUBY
QUESTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO JACK RUBY?
ANSWER HE GOES TO PRISON.
QUESTION: IN THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, WHOM DID THE U.S. SUPPORT, CASTRO OR BATISTA?
ANSWER THE U.S. SUPPORTED CASTRO!!
QUESTION: WHICH CAME FIRST THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS OR THE BAY OF PIGS?
ANSWER THE BAY OF PIGS IS 1961, IT WAS FIRST.
QUESTION: WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE INVESTIGATION INTO KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION?
ANSWER THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT
QUESTION: WHO WAS THE FIRST BLACK MAN APPOINTED TO BE A JUSTICE ON THE U.S. SUPREME COURT?
ANSWER THURGOOD MARSHALL
QUESTION: WHO REACHED SPACE FIRST, THE U.S. OR THE U.S.S.R.?
ANSWER THE SOVIETS, WITH SPUTNIK!
QUESTION: WHO WAS THE FIRST MAN TO GO INTO SPACE?
ANSWER YURI GAGARIN, A SOVIET!!!
QUESTION: WHO WAS THE FIRST FEMALE TO GO INTO SPACE?
ANSWER A SOVIET, VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
QUESTION: WHO WAS THE FIRST U.S. ASTRONAUT TO GO INTO SPACE?
ANSWER ALAN SHEPHARD
QUESTION: WHO WAS THE FIRST U.S. ASTRONAUT (HE ORBITED THE WORLD THREE TIMES)?
ANSWER JOHN GLENN, HE IS NOW ALSO THE OLDEST ASTRONAUT TO GO INTO SPACE!
QUESTION: WHAT EVENT MADE MARTIN LUTHER KING A NATIONALLY KNOW PERSON?
ANSWER MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
QUESTION: WHO REFUSED TO SIT IN THE BACK OF THE BUS AND SPARKED A BUS BOYCOTT?
ANSWER ROSA PARKS
QUESTION: WHO WAS THE YOUNG MAN FROM CHICAGO THAT WAS MURDERED FOR FLIRTING WITH A WHITE WOMAN?
ANSWER EMMETT TILL
QUESTION: WHICH SUPREME COURT CASE GIVES US THE RIGHT TO HAVE AN ATTORNEY APPOINTED FOR US IF WE CAN NOT AFFORD ONE?