grade 6 history cap 14 test 13
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- President who replaced Richard Nixon
- Gerald R. Ford
- Desert Storm lasted only
- 2 and a half months
- general who led the troops into combat during Operation Desert Storm
- Norman Schwarzkopf
- general in command of Operation Desert Storm
- Colin Powell
- dictator whose armies invaded Kuwait in 1990
- Saddam Hussein
- first woman justice appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- in 1983, President Reagan sent troops to liberate
- Grenada
- the belief that Communism should be attacked before it can enslave a country is called
- Reagan Doctrine
- medical advance made in the 1950's was Dr. Jonas Salk's development of
- polio vaccine
- one of the greatest opera singers of her time
- Marian Anderson
- legislation that guarantees voting, housing, and job rights for ethnic minorities
- 1964 Civil Rights Act
- President whose welfare program was called the New Frontier
- John F. Kennedy
- decision by Supreme Court in 1970s was Roe vs. Wade which legalized
- abortion
- remembered for major military commitment to South Vietnam
- President Johnson
- only President to resign from office
- Richard Nixon
- President who gave up Panama Canal
- Jimmy Carter
- President who helped bring about peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
- Jimmy Carter
- system of producing and distributing goods
- economy
- first black major league baseball player
- Jackie Robinson
- lady who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama
- Rosa Parks
- Communist dictator who overthrew the government of Cuba in 1959
- Fidel Castro
- man who opposed dictator of Cuba and spent 20 years in prison
- Huber Matos
- first American in space
- Alan Shepard
- first American to orbit earth
- John Glenn
- first man to walk on the moon
- Neil Armstrong
- Term which means "killing unborn babies".
- abortion