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The use of the word __________ legally distinguished this action from a blockade, which assumed a state of war existed.
Quarantine
The Space Race was an outgrowth of the 20th century Cold War, a tense global conflict that pitted the ideologies of _________ and _________ against one another.
communism and capitalism
_______________ from Apollo 11, attended Perpetuo Socorro.
Michael Collins
Khrushchev reached an agreement with Castro to place Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba to _________ any future invasion attempt.
Prevent
__________________became president on 20 January 1961.
John F. Kennedy
The Space Race started with the launching of the first satellite by ___________ (country).
USSR
Two brothers that were assassinated in the 1960’s were __________________, and _____________________.
John (Jack) and Bobby
The Space Race became a race to the ____________________.
Moon
In the 1960s, people used debates and demonstrations, posters, poetry and paintings, films and songs and even clothing to _________________.
Express their opinions
Reconnaissance, surveillance, and military communications spacecraft retain their importance for _______________ and ________________
American Dept of Defense and Russian Ministry of Defense
“Hippies” grew their hair _________________.
Long
The Cuban Missile Crisis started in _____________ (month/year) and finished in __________________ (month/year).
Oct 1962, Oct 1962
The United States won the Space Race because _________________________
The US landed on the moon first
The leader of Cuba during the missile crisis was ________________________.
Fidel Castro
____________________ and __________________were disasters for Kennedy.
Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis
____________was the Soviet Premier, and _____________________ was the President of the US in October of 1962.
Khruschev, Kennedy
President ____________ developed a set of programs that would give poor people “a hand up, not a handout.”
Johnson
The 1960s have become part of our __________and _____________ lives.
political and cultural lives
On ________________(date), two Americans stepped onto another world for the first time.
July 29, 1969
In the summer of 1969, more than 400,000 young people attended the ____________ music festival in upstate New York.
Woodstock
The order of the US space programs was Mercury, ____________, and Apollo.
Mercury, Gemini, Apollo
The first man to land on the moon was ____________________.
Armstrong
In 1968 the _____________________ convinced many people that the Vietnam War would be impossible to win.
Tet Offensive
For the Americans, landing on the moon before the Soviets constituted _________ the Space Race.
winning
The Space Race actually started as an _______ race.
arms