Show:
SPACE & NASA
ELECTION
COLD WAR
CONFRONTATION WITH CUBA
MISSELANEOUS
100
What president established NASA?
Eisenhower
100
Who were the two final canditates in the 1960 presidential election?
John F. Kennedy vs. Nixon
100
Where was the Summit Conference held?
Geneva
100
Did the US give more money to Europe or Latin America?
Europe
100
What two symbols appear on the Soviet Union flag?
Hammer and sickle
200
What two Space craft did The Soviet Union launch in 1957?
Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2
200
Of what faith did JFK come from?
Roman Catholic
200
Who did Britain and France attack in October of 1956?
Egypt
200
What year did America break diplomatic ties with Cuba?
1961
200
From 1955-1961 what political party had control of congress? (you have a 50/50 shot!)
Democratic party
300
How much money did the National Defense and Education Act give in loans to college students and in grants to improve teaching sciences and languages?
$887 million
300
Why did Kennedy clearly have the advantage in the televised debates?
He was younger and had more glamour and vitality that was far more appealing.
300
What dictator ruled over Cuba?
Fidel Castro
300
Why was it called the cold war?
Because there was no weapons fired just very high tensions.
400
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
400
What two unique presidential traits did Kennedy have? (something new that never occurred before that stand to this day)
Youngest president, first Roman Catholic president
400
In which two months did The Soviet Union and the US suspend nuclear tests? (extra 50 points... what year?)
March + October of 1958
400
Who threatened to launch missels at the US if it attacked Cuba?
Khrushchev
400
Which literary profession had the highest suicide rate post WW2?
poetry
500
What day did the Soviets launch Sputnik 1?
October 4, 1957
500
How many electoral votes did Kennedy receive?
303 votes
500
Who was invited by Ike to America for talks in 1959?
Khrushev
500
What was Eisenhower's "Marshall Plan" for Latin America? (extra 50 points... how did many Latin Americans feel?)
The US gave $500 million dollars the the area Many felt that it was too little, too late.
500
What novelist won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1962?
John Steinbeck