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33 Cards in this Set
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What was the Cold War? |
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What was the Truman Doctrine? |
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What is the Domino Theory? |
Once one country falls to communism, it's only a matter of time before many more fall. |
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What was the Iron Curtain? |
Communist nations
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Why was the Berlin Airlift necessary? |
Countries affected by WWII were left in squalor. Plus, when the US attempted to assist these countries, Stalin tried to block all paths, leaving one option: travel by air. |
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What was NATO? |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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Who lead the Communist takeover of China? |
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The occupation of Japan can be divided into what three phases? |
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Who invaded South Korea? |
Japan |
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What is McCarthyism? |
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What president was responsible for the Interstate Highway System? |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Who lead the US space program? |
Werner von Braun |
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What president decided to push for a moon landing? |
John F. Kennedy |
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What was the name of the space program that landed a man on the moon? |
NASA |
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Who was the first American in space? On the moon? |
Alan Shepherd; Neil Armstrong |
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What replaced radio as the primary media platform in America? |
television |
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Who developed a vaccine against polio? |
Jonas Salk |
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Who changed the way homes were built in America? |
William Levitt ("Levitt-towns") |
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From 1945 to 1964, 77 million babies were born. What was this called? |
the Baby Boom |
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What was the failed invasion of Cuba called? |
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What did the Soviets build to keep people from leaving East Berlin? |
the Berlin Wall |
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What Cuban crisis brought us to the brink of nuclear war? |
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Who was accused of JFK's assassination? Who killed the person accused? |
Lee Harvey Oswald; Jack Ruby |
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LBJ declared war on what as a part of his great society? |
poverty |
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Who started the Civil Rights Movement when she refused to give up her seat on the bus? |
Rosa Parks |
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Who lead the Civil Rights Movement? |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
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What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban? |
ended segregation based on race, gender, religion, color, or national origin |
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How did Dr. King die? |
He was shot/assassinated by a white supremacist mercenary |
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Who was the Vietnamese leader of Communist North Vietnam? |
Ho Chi Minh ("Uncle Ho") |
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Who killed Robert Kennedy? |
Sirhan Sirhan |
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What was Nixon's new policy that aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War? |
detente |
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What scandal forced Nixon to resign? |
Watergate |
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What ultimately happened to South Vietnam? |
Communism spread throughout all of Vietnam because the US lost support from its citizens. |
