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Multiple-Choice Questions

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This activity contains 10 questions.

Question 1.
The first major success in the struggle to dismantle the Jim Crow system in the South came in the 1954 Supreme Court decision:

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Question 2.
As the civil rights movement picked up steam, state legislatures passed resolutions vowing to protect segregation, and most southern congressmen signed the ____________, promising to oppose federal desegregation efforts.

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Question 3.
In February 1960, four students of North Carolina A&T inaugurated the _____________ which quickly spread across the South.

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Question 4.
In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched __________, the first artificial Earth satellite.

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Question 5.
Dwight Eisenhower easily defeated the "cerebral" governor from Illinois, ______________, to win the presidency in 1952.

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Question 6.
In 1949, the nations of western Europe and the United States formed the ________________ to defend against Soviet encroachment.

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Question 7.
In 1956, the Soviet Union brutally crushed a revolution in:

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Question 8.
In 1954 the CIA, working closely with ____________ overthrew the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala.

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Question 9.
The revolutionary leader in Cuba who overthrew the US-friendly dictator Fulgencio Batista was:

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Question 10.
One of John Kennedy's most popular initiatives was the creation of the ____________, a program that sent Americans, especially young people to nations around the world to work on development projects.

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