6th History 14.1-2

Who am I

100

The first black Major League Baseball player

Jackie Robinson

200

The greatest opera singer “of the age”

Marian Anderson

300

I am the communist dictator that overthrew Cuba

Fidel Castro

400

I was the first American to fly in space in 1961

Alan B. Shepard Jr. 

500

I was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962

John Glenn

Laws and rights and such

100

Courts called for the desegregation of all public schools in THIS ruling

Brown vs. Board of Education

200

Legislation that guaranteed voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities

1964 Civil Rights Act

300

Name two practices in schools that the Supreme Court made illegal under President Kennedy’s leadership

Prayer and Bible reading

400

The YEAR  and NAME OF THE COURT DECISION which legalized abortion

1973; Roe Vs. Wade

500

THIS had the entire world on the brink of nuclear war

the Cuban Missile Crisis

Name my thing

100

i gave the famous “I have a dream” speech

Dr. MLK

200

Dr. Jonas Salk

polio vaccine

300

Dwight D. Eisenhower

strengthened NATO

400

President Kennedy’s welfare program was called THIS

New Frontier

500

President Johnsons social reform program was called THIS. (I believed that government should be responsible for schools, food, housing, and medical care rather than families, local communities, and private charities)

Great Society

Terms

100

the system of producing and distributing goods

economy

200

THIS promoted close relations between the US and Canada by opening up the Great Lakes region to ocean shipping

St. Lawrence Seaway

300

A person who endeavors to break away from traditional beliefs and values

liberal

400

A person  woh wants to preserve traditional beliefs and values

conservative

500

I was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969

Neil Armstrong

Name the President

100

Great Society (social reform)

Vietnam War

President Johnson

200

Liberal

New Frontier

Outlawed prayer and Bible reading in schools

I was shot and killed in 1963

President Kennedy

300

Pulled all troops out of Vietnam in 1973

Watergate affair caused me to become the first president ever to resign from office

NiXon

400

I gave up the Panama Canal to Panama which made the world think the US was weak and no longer cared about the spread of Communism

I was able to get the leader of Egypt (Anwar el-Sadat) and the Israeli Prime Minister (Menachem Begin) to agree to a peace treaty. This was the first time in 2000 years that Jews and Arabs chose to talk peaceable together

President Jimmy Carter

500

After Richard Nixon resigned due to the Watergate Affair, I became president (because I was his Vice President)

Gerald Ford (I was NOT a liberal like Nixon)