Final Review-Basic Nuclear Era
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| The __________________ refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II. | show 🗑
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| show | satellite nations; Warsaw Pact
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| show | Marshall Plan
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| The defensive alliance known as ____________ was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime. | show 🗑
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| show | MacArthur’s public criticism of Truman
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| Accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military were made by Senator _____________ | show 🗑
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| show | building the Hydrogen bomb
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| show | Sputnik I
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| Who wrote a book of advice on child-rearing that sold 10 million copies in the 1950s? | show 🗑
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| show | Mexican workers who came to the U.S. during WWII
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| show | a failed federal program directed at Native Americans
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| Who developed the first effective vaccine against polio? | show 🗑
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| The two candidates for president in the 1960 election were _________ and _________. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| True or False: John F. Kennedy served as Vice-President before becoming President. | show 🗑
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| True or False: John F. Kennedy served as Senator from 1952-1960. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| True or False: John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic elected President. | show 🗑
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| True or False: John F. Kennedy was the youngest elected President at the age of 43 | show 🗑
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| ____________ was the Communist dictator of Cuba from 1959-2016. | show 🗑
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| The _________ was a failed invasion of Cuba that attempted to start an uprising to overthrow Castro in April of 1961. | show 🗑
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| The _____________ ended when Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles from Cuba in exchange for America’s promise not to invade Cuba. | show 🗑
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| The ____________ crisis began when Khrushchev threatened to sign a treaty with East Germany that would close all access roads to West Berlin. | show 🗑
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| The Soviet cosmonaut, ________ , became the first human in space. | show 🗑
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| show | Neil Armstrong
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| show | The Other America
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| _________ was arrested for the assassination of JFK. | show 🗑
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| True or False: Lyndon Johnson served in both the House and the Senate. | show 🗑
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| True or False: Lyndon Johnson served as Senate Majority Leader. | show 🗑
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| True or False: Johnson served as Vice-President under John F. Kennedy. | show 🗑
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| show | Civil Rights Act of 1964
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| show | Miranda v. Arizona
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| In __________ , the Court ruled that separate schools for whites and blacks was illegal. | show 🗑
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| show | Thurgood Marshall
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| show | Rosa Parks
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| Who was the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi? | show 🗑
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| show | Shirley Chisholm
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| _________ was a pastor who was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, gave the famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his civil rights efforts. | show 🗑
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| __________ studied the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, openly preached that blacks should separate from whites, and called for “armed self-defense,” but changed his thinking later on and called for African Americans to choose “Ballots or bullets." | show 🗑
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| show | Civil Rights Act of 1968
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| show | Voting Rights Act of 1965
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| The ________ prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender in most employment and public accommodations and created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. | show 🗑
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| show | the containment of communism
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| What act authorized President Johnson to conduct the war in Vietnam? | show 🗑
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| Who served as the commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam? | show 🗑
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| show | the Vietnamization of the war
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| show | the Tet offensive
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| The main purpose of the War Powers Act was to _______________ | show 🗑
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| show | Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford
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| Who was the Communist leader of North Vietnam? | show 🗑
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| show | Ngo Dinh Diem
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| show | Vietcong
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| _________________________ was Nixon’s chief National Security advisor, represented the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, and won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts. | show 🗑
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| What year did the last U.S. troops leave Vietnam? | show 🗑
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| show | 58,000
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| __________ have always made up the largest group of Latinos in the United States. | show 🗑
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| ______________ began settling in Miami after a political revolution occurred in their country in 1959. | show 🗑
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| Cesar Chavez and _____ helped establish the national Farm Workers Association in 1962. | show 🗑
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| ____________ was an organization formed by young Native Americans who demanded greater rights and sometimes used violence to obtain their goals. | show 🗑
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| The _____________________________________ was a 1972 march on Washington, D.C. organized by AIM leader Russell Means that called for the restoration of 110 million acres of land to Native Americans. | show 🗑
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| show | Feminism
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| show | Betty Friedan
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| _____________ is an organization founded in 1966 to pursue feminists’ goals, such as better child-care facilities, improved educational opportunities, and an end to job discrimination. | show 🗑
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| The Court case _______________________ allows women to choose an abortion. | show 🗑
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| The _____________________ was a failed amendment that would have guaranteed equality of rights, regardless of sex. | show 🗑
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| show | glass-ceiling
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| show | hippies
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| _________ was a 3-day music festival in August 1969 in New York attended by 400,000 people. | show 🗑
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| show | Weathermen
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| What were Nixon’s beliefs about the size and influence of government ? | show 🗑
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| show | Using the FBI to illegally wiretap the Democratic Party offices; Using the CIA to investigate and compile documents on thousands of people who objected to the government’s policies; Using the IRS to audit tax returns of antiwar and civil rights activists
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| show | High unemployment and high inflation
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| What was realpolitik? | show 🗑
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| Nixon’s policy aimed at easing Cold War tensions was called ___________ | show 🗑
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| What was Nixon’s policy toward China? | show 🗑
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| show | a five-year agreement that limited the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles held by the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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| Watergate refers to ______________ | show 🗑
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| show | He resigned from office and he was granted a full pardon by President Gerald Ford
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| President Gerald Ford called on Americans to cut back on their use of oil and gas and to take other energy-saving measures in a program he called _______________ | show 🗑
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| What were the Helsinki Accords? | show 🗑
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| What were the Camp David Accords? Who were the leaders and the countries involved? | show 🗑
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| Who was the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini? | show 🗑
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| Shortly after President _________ was sworn in on January 20, 1981, the Americans held hostage in Iran were finally released after 444 days in captivity. | show 🗑
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| show | Gerald Ford
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| This president sought to use moral principles as a guide for U.S. foreign policy and believed that the U.S. needed to commit itself to promoting human rights. | show 🗑
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| show | Harry Truman
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| He was president who lied about the Tonkin Gulf incident. | show 🗑
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| show | John F. Kennedy (JFK)
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| show | Richard Nixon
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| He was president during the Iran Hostage Crisis. | show 🗑
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| The name of Kennedy’s legislative program was ____________. | show 🗑
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| show | the Fair Deal
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| The name of Lyndon Johnson’s legislative program was _____. | show 🗑
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| The ________ became an important dividing line between North and South Korea. | show 🗑
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