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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what did the truman doctrine do? | said the US most fight communist aggression, give weak countries money in order to do so and give aid to minorities who were resisting. |
| What countries did the Truman doctrine intially help | Greece and Turkey |
| Who wrote "Foreign affairs" | George Kennan |
| What did the National Security Act of 1947 create? | the FBI |
| What did the Marshall Plan do? | Give financial aid to countries threatened by Communism. Particularly in Europe. |
| What did the Taft-Hartley act do? | It monitored labor Unions starting in 1947. |
| Who was the 1st player to break MLB's racial discimination? | Jackie Robinson |
| What was Levittown? | Long-island suburb that opened in 1947 which had similiar homes for middle class families (mostly white) |
| What is NATO? | North atlantic treaty organization: military and political alliance between western europe and the us |
| Where is the division between north and south korea? | the 38th paralell (d.m.z.= demilitarized zone). |
| How did the Korean war start/ | north korea (communist) crossed the border into south korea |
| Who did harry truman fire/ | General macarthur |
| who were the rosenbergs? | a couple who was executed in 1953 for espionage (selling nuclear secrets) |
| What is the name of an information-gathering agency with authroity to participate in international covert actions? | CIA |
| How did truman respond to the Berlin blockade/ | he airlifted tons of supplies to the city. |
| Who were dixiecrats? | Southern democrats who did not like the civil rights movement. Also called the states' rights democratic party |
| Why was Macarthur fired? | He publically disagreed with the President. |
| What was the name of the committee that conducted an anticommunist witch-hunt int he 1950s? | HUAC- house of unamerican activities commission |
| Who overthrew fulgencio Batista in cuba? | Fidel Castro |
| What is the eisenhower doctrine? | attempt to defend middle eastern countries from communist aggression |
| who was the communist leader of north vietnam/ | ho chi minh |
| What did Rosa Parks do/ | refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955. |
| who founded SCLC? | Dr. MLKj |
| 1961 Cuban disaster led by kennedy/ | Bay of Pigs |
| After deliberation during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962- Kennedy ultimately ordered Cuba to be...? | quarantined (blocked off) |
| Betty Friedan | wrote 'The Feminine Mystique" |
| killed JFK | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Brown v. Board of Education Chief Justice? | Earl Warren |
| French invovlement in Vietnam ended with their defeat at? | Dien Bien Phu |
| Dr. MLKj proposed to end segregation through? | passive civil disobedience |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Soviet Leader who build the Berlin Wall |
| Biggest mistake of kennedy? | bag of pigs |
| Why did eisenhower support the national highway act/ | national security reasons- needed to be able to flee quickly |
| 1964 republican nominee? | barry goldwater |
| winner of 1964 election/ | lyndon b. johnson |
| what 'allowed' johnson to escalate teh war | attack of a navy ship at gulf of tonkin--> gulf of tonkin resolution |
| What was operation rolling thunder? | sustained bombing in vietnam launched by lbj |
| who wrote the port huron statement? | students for a democratic society (SDS) |
| who led the Black muslims? | Malcolm X |
| North Vietnamese military attack of 1968? | tet offensive |
| SALT I talks were held in ? | the us and soviet union |
| 1st president to visit china/ | nixon |
| where did Nixon invade during the vietnam war because he thought that that was where all the VC were hiding/ | cambodia |
| college where students were shot in 1970/ | kent state |
| Paris peace accords in 1973 | withdrew US troops from vietnam |
| 1972 presidential election winner? | richard nixon |
| nixon was the first president to... | resign. |
| Barry Goldwater was characterized by critics... | as a fanatical, reactionary extremist. EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE |
| Major events in 1968/ | MLK/ROBERT kennedy assassination, LBJ would not seek releection, DNC riots in chicago, Nixon elected presidents |
| Nixon's policy of detente | charactterized by accomoddation, easing of tensiosn and establishment of friendly relations with the Soviet union and china |
| where was MLK assassinated/ | memphis hotel |
| What was rachel carsons "silent spring' about/ | protecting the environement |
| President after FDR? | Truman |
| Containment | sought to control communism... stop it from spreading |
| iron curtain | imaginary line between eastern (communist) europe and western (democratic) europe. phrase coined by winston churchill |
| GI BILL | provided returning veterans a college education, loans and preferential job treament |
| Brown v. Board of education | stop segregation of schools |
| anti-feminist woman | phyillis Schafley |
| Senator from arizona who started the conservative movement | Barry Goldwater |
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