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Chapters 28 and 29
History 109
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What put Soviets in an uncomfortable position where they would have fight if they wanted to keep supplies from West Berlin? | Berlin Airlift |
| With Trumans victory he bagan to press forward with _____________ which urged Congress to raise minimum wage and fund public housing programs? | Fair Deal |
| What court case made segregation illegal? | Brown vs. Board of Education |
| What was a massive infussion of American aid to rebuild Europe after WWII called? | Marshall Plan |
| What was caused when an immense number of nuclear bombs was loaded on the nations formidable fleet of bombers would ensure? | Massive Retaliation |
| What endangered the very structure of our society? | military industrial complex |
| Eisenhower called his warning of grave complications resulting from the conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry what? | Military industrial complex |
| Kennedy stressed | New Frontier |
| _________ called for an enormous military expansion. | NSC-68 |
| What conference moved to the forefront of the civil rights movement? | Southern Christian Leadership Confrence |
| Truman asked congress to approve the ____________ which asked for $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey. | Truman Doctrine |
| What outlawed the closed shop which was a provision written into into many labor contracts? | Taft-Hartley Act |
| What described a manic, drug laced flight from traditional values and institutions? | Beat School |
| __________ was a barrier of concrete blocks and barbed wire across the city to stop the flow of East Germans into Berlin? | Berlin Wall |
| What act outlawed discrimination by employers against blacks and women? | Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
| What new policy meant the relaxation of tensions between governments? | Detene |
| Roosevelt declared war on poverty and set out to create a _______________ where poverty no longer exist? | Great Society |
| Johnson composed a compulsory hospital insurance system called? | Medicare |
| The __________ as a series of raids the communist did not expect? | Teft offensive |