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Final test
Final test US HISTORY II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jackie Robinson | Brooklyn Dodgers, 1st Black player in Major League Baseball. |
| Whittaker Chambers | Former Soviet Union agent, Editor for Time Magazine. |
| William Levitt | Brassy NY developer, built 10,600 homes on 1,200 acres. |
| Alan Freed | Cleveland D.J. coined term rock & roll in 1951 played $&B on air briged gap between "white & black" music." |
| Eugene "Bull" Connor | Police Commisioner- unleashed dogs, tear gas, electric cattle kprods, & fire hoses on protestants, all televised! |
| Stokely Carmichael | 25 yr old graduate of Howasrd head of SNC 1966, adopted separtists philosopy of black power, kept whites from organizing. |
| Port Huron Statement | Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Hayden drafted "We are the people of this generation, bred in at least moderate comfort, housed in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit." |
| Timothy Leary | zany Harvard professor, "tune in, turn on, drop-out." |
| Betty Friedan | Led women's movement "The feminine mystique" 1963 launced new phase of female protest on national level. Founded, National organization for women (NOW) |
| Community Service Organizations | Social service group tht sought to educate & organize migrant poor to become self-reliant |
| Ed Roberts | Developed prototype of so-called personal computer, the altair 8800, imperfect & cumbersome. |
| Iron Curtina Speech | Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a higly controversial speech at Fulton, Missouri warning of Soviet expansionism. |
| Marshall Plan | aid selled the outlay for Europe. little aid for the "Third World" countries. |
| Postwar Partition of Germany | Germany lost much of its territory in the east to Poland and to the Soviet Union. The military zones formation composed of two separate countries when the British, French, and American zones became West Germany and the Soiet Union became East Germany. |
| Nuremburg War Trials | 1st time in history people put on trial for crimes against humanity. |
| George Kennan | Communist- the policy of "containment"-don't let it spread. |
| 1947 Truman Doctrine | Money to countries to remain democratic. |
| 1948 Marshall Plan | 13 billion to rebuild Europe, resounding success. |
| How was security strengthened? | National Security Council, Central Intelligence Agency, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
| NATO | 1st peace time military alliance |
| constitutional democracy | Japan rebuilds under MacArthur |
| Two Major Events in 1949 | Truman was blamed for the Chinese Civil War and Soiet Union explodes 1st atomic bomb |
| Chinese Civil War | China Communist; won by Mao & communist |
| Mao Tse-tung | Communist |
| Chiang Kai-sheck | supported by US |
| GI Bill | Education for Veterans |
| Economic Problems from the Domestic Policy | Inflation and strikes |
| Truman orders | ban discrimination in federal hiring and integrated the military. |
| Korean War | WWII ended along the 38th parallel i Korea |
| "Police Action" | Pusan- UN almost drives off Korea; MacArthur orders landins at Inchon-UN now on offensive. Chinese are on N. Korea's side. |
| MacArthur/Truman feud | Macarthur wants to bomb- concept of "limited war"; Truman fires MacArthur; A truce takes place in July. |
| 1952 Election | Dem. Aldai Stevenson Rep. Dwight Eisenhower & Richard Nixon- "I like Ike" Ike promises; result- Eisenhower wins. |
| Richard Nixon | Red Hunter- Congressman who examines microfilm in Alger Hiss's conviction for perjury. |
| Alger Hiss | Accused of leading a Soviet spy ring. |
| Brown vs Board of Education | said "seperate but equal" was inherently unequal, overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson |
| "Declaration of Constitutional Principles" | 100 southern Senators and Representatives signed- opposing intergration of schools |
| Dr. Martin Luther King | Baptist Mininster begins boycott of segregated buses. in Alabama wrote "Letter from a Birmingham Jail". Lead over 200,000 in Washington D.C march. |
| 1956 Federal Hwy Construction | changed how America looked and made transportation easier. |
| 1956 Election | Eisenhower won by a landslide |
| "brinkmanship" | a strategic effect upon those very frear of nuclar disaster. "go to the brink of war" America threatened Korea. |
| Vietnam | a colony of France |
| Ho Chi Minh | a seasoned revolutionary proletarian (a man of the people) wants Vietnam's independence form France |
| Dien Bien Phu | French defeated & left Vietnam |
| Sputnik | 1st satellite by Soviet Union |
| Natiional Defense and Education Act | millions for college to study science and math |
| 1960 Election | Rep. Richard Nixon, Dem. John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson; campaign issues- Kennedy Catholic, "missle gap", the 1st tv debate |
| Amendment 22 | two term limit - Eisenhower accused of "golfing and goofing" |
| Berlin Wall | It separated East and West Berlin |
| Bay of Pigs in Cuba | failed. Kennedy took blame. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | Soveits had missles in Cuba compromise; America moved out of Turkey, Soviet Union moved out of Cuba |
| Peace Corp | voluteers who would provide educational and technical services abroad. |
| Civil Rights movement | aimed to achieve the racial integration of public services and equal acess to politicl rights. |
| Ceasar Chavez | organized the United Farm Workers |
| American Indian Movement | Dennis Banks and George Mitchel, "Broken Treaties Caravan" |
| JFK's Assassination | JFK was shot and killed when vistiting Dallas. |
| Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby | conspiracy-Jack was involved with but Harvey shot Kennedy |
| President Johnson | When Kennedy died, he took over Presidency |
| Barry Goldwater | Ran against Johnson in 1964 election |
| 1964 Election | Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater |
| "Great Society" war | Medicare, Civil Righsts Act, 24th ammendment, Voting Rights Act, Open Housing Bill; King assassinated. |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | prohibited racial segreation in public facilites such as bus terminals, restaurants, theaters, and hotels. |
| 24th ammendment | Citizens the ridht to vote in any Presidency election and cant be denied by reason fo failure to pay taxes. |
| Voting Rights Act of 1965 | ensured all citizens the right to vote |
| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | authorized theh president to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further agression." |
| Pleiku | Viet Cong guerillas killed 8 and wounded 126 Americans at Pleiku, in South Vietnam. |
| "Operation Rolling Thunder" | the first sustained bombing of North Vietnam, which was intended to stop the flow of soldiers and supplies into the south. |
| Tet Offensive | Many Vietnamese were driven from their homes during the bloody street battles of l1th 1968 Tet offensive. |
| 1968 Election | Dem. Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, riots in Chicago; Rep.-Richard Nixon; Campaign- honorable peace; Result- Johnson Legacy |
| Johnson's Legacy | The Vietnam war became the Lyndon Johnson war, lost support decided not to run for relection and became depressed. |
| Vietnamization | gradual troop withdrawal, Nixon Doctrine, appeals to "silent majority" |
| Cambodia | bombings ordered on April 29, 1970 |
| Kent State | National Guard fires into crowd, four students killed |
| 1972 Election | Rep. Nixon, Dem. Geroge McGovern; Result- Nixon 520-17 wins all lbut MA and DC, 47 million to 29 million |
| June 1973, CREEP hearings | 5 burglars arrested at Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex. |
| B-52 bombings- US withdrawal | US ceased fire Jan 23,1973, split the nation "no more Vietnams" Peace with Honor after 56,00 died, 300,000 wounded, cost $118 billion. |
| Nixon's resignation | tapes are publicly known and are shocked, and Nixon claims "executive privilige"; Supreme Court orders the tapes released. House of Representatives draws up Articles of Impeachment in July 1974. |
| Gerald Ford | Ford pardons Nixon, unpopular at time-probably cost him 1976 Election |
| Jimmy Carter | Bicentennial President |
| Why did Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? | human rights, America boycotted Olympics in Moscow |
| Camp David Accords, Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin | Highlight of Carter's Presidency- ivited Sadat & Bengin to a retreat at Camp David to negotiate and relsove the Palestanian refugee dilemma. |
| Economy | inflation, interest rates, OPEC |
| OPEC | uses its huge oil supply as a political land economic weapon and refused to sell oil to nations who supported Israel. |
| Hostages in Iran | Teheran, failed rescue Ayatollah Khomeini, American embassy hostage led for 1yr didn't use military force. |
| 1980 Election | Rep. Ronald Reagan Dem. Jimmy Carter; Result- 489-49; Reagan wins- hostages released 52 Americans. |
| Inaguration Day | hostages releasd after 444 days |
| Reagan Administration | Assassination attempt, defense spending, wins re-election in 1984 525-13 over Walter Mondale, "Reaganomics" |
| Reaganomics | raise spending; tax cuts, large deficts, income rise 20%, longest post-World War II expansion. |
| 1988 Election | George Bush wins- "read my lips, no new taxes" |
| The fall of the Soveit Union and the Soviet Empire | Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is overthrown, The WEST wins the COLD WAR! The BErlin wall falls in 1989. Saddam Husseins's Iraq invades Kuwait, Desert Storm begins. |
| 1992 and 1996 Elections | Won by William "Bill" Jefferson Clinton 370-168 over Bush and 379-159 over Bob Dole. The largest peacetime economic expansion-the DOW and NASDAQ; he was impeached (lied about a scandal) |
| 2000 Election | George Bush wins over Al Gore- Controvery on votes in Florida. 9/11 and the War on Terror, Economic Recovery? not much |
| 2004 election | still Bush-"surge" in Iraq, recession, bailouts and stimuls packages. |
| 2008 election | Barack Obama wins; bailouts and stimulus packages, unemployment and ObamaCare |
| 2010 elections | Republicans take control of the House of Representatives, Tea Party, record defecits, national debt, Revolutions in the Middle East |
| Joseph McCarthy | Accuses many governments of Communism |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | convicted of spying |
| After WWII security was strengthened | NSC, CIA, and NATO |
| 1948 Election | Dem. Harry Truman- 271 speeches traveled 30,000 miles; Rep. Thomas E. Dewey- expected Presidency; |
| Cease Fire | Eisenhower goes to Korea; Ike threatens to end fighting or America will up the ante; |
| Rosa Parks | refuses to give up seat on bus to a white man. |
| Eisenhower orders | Federal troops to Arkansas to allow blacks to attend school |
| Orval Faubus | Arkansas Governor uses the National Guard to prevent blacks from attending white schools. |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban leader following three years of guerilla warfare against the Batista regime and planned a revolution and opposed control of the Cuban economy. |
| John F. Kennedy | a Catholic, and had Addison's diesease; speech of the New frontier and youngest person to run for president |
| Lyndon Johnson | Kennedy's running mate for Vice president |
| Nixon Doctrine | let United Nations fight own war |
| Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Star Wars | Hastened End of Cold War; Protective Shield over america; refers to Soviet Union as "the evil empire" told Mr. Gorbachev "tear down this (Berlin) wall. |
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