Space Race
True or false: The United States was the First Nation to successfully put a satellite in space.
False: That was the Soviet Union with Sputnik 1
This was the name of the operation used to get needed supplies to West Germany during the Cold War after the Soviet Union's blockade.
What is the Berlin Air Lift?
The US spent this amount with The Marshall Plan rebuilding European countries after World War II...
a.). $7.2 billion
b.) $9.5 billion
c.) $13.3 billion
What is approximately $13.3 billion on the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951. (This amount is equivalent to around $150 billion in today's dollars, according to some sources.)
This is the year the Children's March took place in Birmingham, Alabama.
The "Little Rock Nine" did this during the civil rights movement.
The Little Rock Nine were nine African American teenagers who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957
What is the 38th parallel?
This is what happened to Laika (the first dog in space) when attempting to return to Earth?
What is Laika died within a few hours after launch due to overheating inside the Sputnik 2 spacecraft.
The "Iron Curtain" actually refers to this during the Cold War.
What is the imaginary boundary dividing Western and Eastern Europe and communism from capitalism during the Cold War.
This is the amount of money the US spent on World War II...
a.) $3 billion
b.) $330 billion
c.) $ 330 million
What is The US spent an estimated $330 billion (in 1945 dollars) on World War II. In today's dollars, this translates to over $4 trillion.
He was the president when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2nd.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
The main purpose of the Black Panther Party was to do this in their neighborhoods in Oakland, California.
What is protect black people from police brutality?
This was the name of the first chimp the US successfully returned from a space launch.
What is Ham?
The Berlin Wall was built primarily to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West.
a.) $13 billion
b.) $30 billion
c.) $ 300 billion
What is approximately $30 billion on the Korean War, (with an estimate of $320 billion in today's dollars.)
These two Civil Rights leaders were assassinated in 1968 in the United States.
Who are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy?
This was the failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba by the United States.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party believed in using violence in order to do this.
What is self defense?
This nation was the first to successfully send a man to space and return him safely.
What is the Soviet Union (or Russia)
What year did the Berlin Wall begin to be torn down?
This is the amount the US spent on the Vietnam War...
a.) $168.1 billion
b.) $ 201 billion
c.) $310 billion
What is over $168.1 billion directly on the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975. (This figure, adjusted for inflation, translates to approximately $1.3 trillion in today's dollars.)
This is the number of days the Montgomery bus boycott lasted...
a.) 300
b.) 365
c.) 381
What is 381 days?
Cuba having nuclear warheads from the Soviet Union on their island is remembered as this event in history.
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis?
de facto segregation is this.
What is segregation by custom or practice?
What is 1969 (June 16th)?
True or false: The United States won the Vietnam War and Vietnam is still a capitalist country like the USA and Japan.
This is the amount NASA spent on the Apollo program in attempts of winning the space race...
a.) $10.2 billion
b.). $ 15.8 billion
c.) $25.8 billion
The total cost of the Apollo program, from 1960 to 1973, was approximately $25.8 billion. (When adjusted for inflation to 2020 dollars, this figure is equivalent to roughly $257 billion.)
This was the young lady that was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama months before Rosa Parks did.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
What is the housing industry?
de jure segregation is this.
What is segregation by law?