Chapters 36-40
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| Competition between capitalism and communism | Cold War
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| What percentage of women fulfilled non-traditional roles in the 1950s? | 20-25%
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| Relationship where politics controls the military | Military Industrial Complex
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| True or false: Eisenhower was in favor of a Military Industrial Complex. | False. He warned against it in a speech.
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| Cheap housing where all houses look the same | Levy housing
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| Who created Levy housing and where? | Levitt brothers on Long Island
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| What happened to industry as a result of the baby boomers? | They benefited a lot.
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| Meeting between Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt where Stalin promised to allow democracy in Poland but it actually became part of the USSR | Yalta Conference
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| What were the 5 main causes of tension between the US and USSR? | We took a long time to recognize the USSR as a country; we delayed the western front of WWII; we stopped giving lend-lease to USSR; Soviets invade nearby countries to create buffer; US wants to make sure Europe doesn't go communist
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| Telegram that said the US and USSR couldn't coexist; we couldn't overthrow their government but we couldn't let it expand | Long Telegram
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| Who sent the Long Telegram? | George Kennon
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| The US's policy of not allowing communism to spread | Containment Policy
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| Our policy of funding any country that is fighting communism | Truman Doctrine
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| Defense alliance joined by the US that said if the USSR attacked any member, they attacked every member | NATO
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| Defense alliance joined by the USSR in response to us joining NATO | Warsaw Pact
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| Communist leader of China | Mao Ze Dong
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| Where did the Chinese nationalist government flee to after communism took over? | Taiwan
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| Why was the Soviet detonation of the atomic bomb significant? | It leveled the playing field - we were no longer the only ones who had one.
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| How did we gain an advantage after the Soviets detonated the atomic bomb? | We detonated a hydrogen bomb
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| Program that background checked federal employees to make sure they weren't communist | Loyalty Review Program
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| Organization that put suspected communists on trial | House of UnAmerican Activities Committee
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| Cabinet member who was proved to be a communist | Alger Hiss
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| What document proved that Alger Hiss was a communist? | Pumpkin Papers
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| Senator who accused anyone who went against him a communist and put them on trial | Joseph McCarthy
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| What group did Joseph McCarthy go after that was just too far? | Army
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| Couple accused of giving nuclear secrets to the USSR that was found guilty and executed | Rosenburgs
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| The Korean War was the ______-occupied North vs. the ______-occupied South. | Soviet; US
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| What event caused China to become involved in the Korean War? | We pushed the North all the way back to the Yalco River, which China was across from and made them feel threatened.
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| Book by Betty Friedan that challenged the cult of domesticity | The Feminine Mystique
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| Why was Nixon attacked when he ran for Eisenhower's VP in 1952? | He had a "slush fund" where people remembered him for political expenditures
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| Speech given by Nixon when he was attacked for having a slush fund that proved how powerful TV was in political campaigning | Checkers speech
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| How did Eisenhower end the Korean War? | He used the threat of nuclear weapons to make China sign an armistice
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| What group did Joseph McCarthy attack for being communist that became his downfall? | Army
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| What three events happened during this era that showed the roots of the civil rights movement? | Military integrated; desegregation of schools; Warren Court
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| Supreme Court case that called for the desegregation of schools | Brown v. Board of Education
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| Woman whose actions started the Montgomery County Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks
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| Give an example of the peaceful resistance shown by African Americans in this era. | Sit ins at restaurants
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| Act that created highways across the country | Interstate Highway Act
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| What was Eisenhower's policy toward communism? | Massive Retaliation/Brinkmanship
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| Policy that if someone attacks us, we will attack back with nuclear weapons | Massive Retaliation
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| Policy that we will push our enemy to the brink of war to get what we want | Brinkmanship
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| Communist leader of Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh
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| Battle that makes us start actually fighting in Vietnam instead of just aiding France | Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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| Theory that if Vietnam falls to communism, the rest of Asia will follow | Domino Theory
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| Split Vietnam in half along the 17th parallel and made the North communist and the South not | Geneva Accords
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| Leader of the non-communist South Vietnam | Ngo Dinh Diem
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| Who became the leader of the USSR after Stalin died? | Kruschev
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| Undercover agency used to combat communism in third world countries | CIA
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| Name two countries the CIA helped overthrow. | Iran, Egypt
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| Doctrine that the US will help any country threatened by communism | Eisenhower Doctrine
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| Oil coalition formed by Middle Eastern countries | OPEC
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| Who launched the first satellite into space and what was its name? | USSR; Sputnik
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| What was created in response to the USSR launching Sputnik? | NASA
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| Place where the US and USSR met to discuss problems in Lebanon | Camp David
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| Leader of Cuba we supported who was overthrown | Batista
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| Communist leader of Cuba | Fidel Castro
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| Who was the youngest President ever elected? | John F. Kennedy
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| What President assembled one of the youngest cabinets in history? | Kennedy
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| Structure that was the iconic symbol of the Cold War | Berlin Wall
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| Who gave the Iron Curtain speech? | Churchill
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| President of France who was frustrated with the US and assembled his own nuclear weapons in case we didn't help in a time of crisis | Charles Degall
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| What was JFK's policy toward communism? | Using more diplomatic measures with some military
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| Attempt by Cuban refugees to overthrow Castro that failed horribly | Bay of Pigs
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| What do we do when we discover that Cuba has missiles from the USSR? | Blockade
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| How do we keep our blockade of Cuba from being considered an act of war? | Call it a quarantine
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| How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved? | We pledge never to invade Cuba and secretly remove missiles in Turkey if they'll remove their missiles
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| Why was Kennedy slow to get into the civil rights movement? | Any thing radical was related to communism
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| City where MLK led a peaceful protest that was met with police using hoses, dogs, etc. | Birmingham, Alabama
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| MLK's leading of 2000 protestors where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech | March on Washington
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| City where JFK was shot | Dallas, TX
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| Who killed JFK? | Lee Harvey Oswald
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| What was the first thing Johnson did when he took over for JFK? | Assembled Warren Commission to investigate his assassination
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| How was JFK's reputation hurt after his death? | Found out about affairs and connections to organized crime
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| LBJ's method of bullying people into doing what he wants | Johnson Treatment
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| Johnson's plan to end poverty that was very similar to the New Deal | Great Society
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| Organization designed to fix poverty, especially in Appalachia | Office of Economic Opportunity
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| Act that banned literacy tests and sent registrars to voting booths to make sure they're fair | Voting Rights Act
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| Amendment that banned poll taxes | 24th Amendment
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| What event caused Congress to allow us to get involved in the Vietnam War? | Two US ships were fired on by North Vietnam
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| Act that gave LBJ the power to do whatever he thought was right against North Vietnam; Congress basically gave up their power to declare war | Tonkin Gulf Resolution
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| Act that said the President must alert Congress within 48 hours of putting soldiers in a country and if Congress doesn't declare war he must pull troops out in 90 days; revoked Tonkin Gulf Resolution | War Powers Act
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| Massive bombing campaign on North Vietnam that used more bombs than all of WWII | Operation Rolling Thunder
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| Aggressive civil rights group | Black Panthers
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| Radical civil rights group founded by Malcolm X | Nation of Islam
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| Who killed MLK? | James Earl Ray
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| Coordinated attack on all North Vietnamese major cities that proved there was no way we could win | Tet Offensive
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| What event made the public start protesting the Vietnam War? | Tet Offensive
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| Name for societal changes in the 60s | Counter-culture
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| What invention made sex a more casual thing? | Birth control
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| What three things caused the economic downturn in the 70s? | Spending on Vietnam War; increased oil prices because of OPEC; Germany and Japan's economies finally improve after WWII and they take a share of the market
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| Nixon's policy of turning over the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese | Vietnamization
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| Nixon's policy of still honoring our commitment to Vietnam but letting them fight their own battle | Nixon Doctrine
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| What three factors made someone most likely to be drafted into the army? | Young, poor, probably African American
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| City where a soldier killed 200 innocent people in Vietnam that made the public disgusted with the war and soldiers in general | Mylai, Vietnam
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| Secret trail through Cambodia that North Vietnam used to get supplies | Ho Chi Minh Trail
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| Two protests of the Vietnam War that led to the killing of students | Kent State University; Jackson State College
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| Amendment that lowered the voting age to 18 | 26th Amendment
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| Article published by the New York Times that showed how JFK and LBJ lied to the public and messed up that made people find the government less credible | Pentagon Papers
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| What was the one positive thing Nixon did as President? | Got better relations with China and USSR
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| Conference with USSR that called for limitation of missiles | Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
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| We send our ping pong team to China as a display of better relations | Ping Pong Diplomacy
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| Extremely liberal court under Nixon | Warren Court
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| Supreme Court case that removed prayer and Bible readings from schools | Ingle v. Vitel
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| Supreme Court case that legalized abortion | Roe v. Wade
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| Organization that sets environmental standards for waste, emissions, etc. | Environmental Protection Agency
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| Nixon's term for our cease-fire in Vietnam | Peace with honor
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| War between Israel and Egypt where Israel gained land in the Middle East | 6 Day War
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| What was the consequence of us helping Israel when they were attacked by Egypt and Syria? | Arab nations embargo our oil and it starts an energy crisis
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| Hotel where the Democratic Party strategized and came up with platform | Watergate Hotel
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| Group that planted microphones in the Watergate Hotel | Committee to Re-Elect the President
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| Nixon's firing of the Attorney General and people investigating Watergate | Saturday Night Massacre
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| Who was the first unelected person to become President? | Gerald Ford
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| What was the first thing Ford did as President? | Pardon Nixon
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| Meeting between US and USSR that established the boundaries of Eastern Europe (communism) and the USSR pledged not to commit human rights violations against their people or satellite nations | Helsinki Accords
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| Idea brought about by the Vietnam War that we aren't as tough as we thought we were | Vietnam Syndrome
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| Law that said it was against the law to discriminate sexually in any educational program | Title 9
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| Amendment that said no one could be discriminated against due to gender that fell 3 states short of passing | Equal Rights Amendment
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| Giving preference to minorities and women for jobs, colleges, etc. | Affirmative action
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| Supreme Court case where a guy claimed he was turned down from a college because he was white and he won | Bakke v. University of California
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| Meeting between Egypt and Israel where Israel agreed to give back lands won in 6 Day War and Egypt agreed to respect their borders | Camp David Accords
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| What were the main problems during Carter's presidency? | Bad economy, Iranian Hostage Crisis
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| How did Carter try to solve the Iranian Hostage Crisis? Was it successful? | Embargoing Iran and doing a rescue mission; no
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| The hostages in Iran were released when? | The day Reagan was elected president
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