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ch 37 What happened to home construction after World War II? |
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ch 37 How did science and technology contribute to economic growth? |
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ch 37 What are some ways the work force changed after WW II? |
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ch 37 Describe the expansion of the consumer culture in the 1950s. |
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ch 37 Who did Eisenhower defeat in 1952? What was McCarthyism? |
Adlai Stevenson |
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ch 37 What were the Jim Crow laws? |
any of the laws that enforced racial segregation in the South between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s. |
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ch 37 What happened in the Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education? |
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ch 37 What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Commission established in 1957? |
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ch 37 What was the “sit-in” movement? |
any organized protest in which a group of people peacefully occupy and refuse to leave a premises |
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ch 37 What was the Federal Highway Act of 1956? |
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ch 37 Describe Eisenhower’s policy of “massive retaliation.” |
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ch 37 What happened with the French in Vietnam after WW II and what role did the U.S. play? |
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ch 37 What is OPEC and why was it created? |
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ch 37 What were Sputnik I and II? |
was the first and second artificial Earth satellite |
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ch 37 What is NASA and why did Eisenhower create it? |
an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and space flight, |
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ch 37 How did Cuba become a satellite of the Soviet Union? |
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ch 37 How did television play a role in Kennedy’s win over Nixon in 1960? |
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ch 37 What was the philosophy of the Beat Generation? |
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ch 38 What was President Kennedy’s “New Frontier” about? |
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ch 38 What was the Berlin Wall and why was it erected? |
Barrier constructed in 1961 to separate East Berlin from West Berlin and East Germany. |
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ch 38 What was Kennedy’s new military policy of “flexible response?” |
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ch 38 What was the Cuban missile crisis and how was it resolved? |
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ch 38 How did the March on Washington demonstrate Martin Luther King’s philosophy of non-violence? |
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ch 38 How did Lyndon Johnson become president? |
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ch 38 What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964? |
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ch 38 What was President Johnson’s “Great Society” program? |
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ch 38 What are “entitlement” programs? |
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ch 38 What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do? |
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ch 38 What was the black nationalist movement? |
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ch 38 What major change occurred in the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s? |
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ch 38 How did the Viet Cong attack at Pleiku in 1965 escalate American involvement in the Vietnam War? |
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ch 38 What happened in the Six-Day War? |
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ch 38 What are some ways that Americans began to show their discontent with the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s? |
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ch 38 What was the Tet Offensive in 1968 and how did it affect public opinion on the Vietnam War? |
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ch 38 Why did LBJ decide not run for re-election? |
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ch 38 What happened at the Democratic convention in 1968? |
For eight days, protesters and the Chicago Police Department fought in the streets of Chicago while the US Democratic Party met at the convention in the International Amphitheater. |
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ch 38 Describe the cultural upheaval that occurred in the 1960s. |
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ch 39 What was President Nixon’s plan to “Vietnamize” the Vietnam War? |
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ch 39 What was the Nixon Doctrine? |
the policy declared by President Nixon in 1969 that the U.S. wouldsupply arms but not military forces to its allies in Asia and elsewhere. |
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ch 39 Why did Nixon send troops into neutral Cambodia? |
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ch 39 What did the 26th Amendment do? |
gave the right for citizens to vote at 18 years of age |
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ch 39 What Nixon’s policy of détente and how did he carry it out? |
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ch 39 What were the Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s regarding police warnings of suspects and prayer/Bible reading in public schools? |
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ch 39 List some domestic policies that Nixon implemented in the 1960s. |
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ch 39 What were the terms of the ceasefire agreement in the Treaty of Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam? |
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ch 39 What was the War Powers Act? |
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ch 39 What was the Yom Kippur War? |
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ch 39 Why did OPEC cut oil production and put an embargo on oil shipments to the U.S. in 1974? |
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ch 39 How did this affect the price of oil in the U.S.? |
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ch 39 What was the Watergate Affair? |
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ch 39 Why did Nixon finally resign as President? |
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ch 39 How did President Ford deal with Nixon’s alleged crimes? |
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ch 39 Why did South Vietnam fall to North Vietnam? |
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ch 39 What was the result of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade? |
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ch 39 What action did President Carter take to try to bring peace to the Middle East? |
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ch 39 What happened to the economy while Carter was president? |
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ch 39 What happened at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on November 4, 1979? |
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ch 40 Who were “neoconservatives” and the “New Right?” |
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ch 40 Who was Margaret Thatcher? |
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ch 40 What was President Reagan’s attitude toward government? |
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ch 40 What was President Reagan’s interest in tax reform? |
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ch 40 What is supply-side economics? |
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ch 40 Why did Reagan want to expand the U.S. military? |
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ch 40 What was the Strategic Defense Initiative? |
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ch 40 Why was Reagan interested in Nicaragua and El Salvador? |
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ch 40 Who was Mikhail Gorbachev? |
Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
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ch 40 What new policies did he introduce in the Soviet Union? |
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ch 40 What was the Iran-Contra Affair? |
secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran. |
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ch 40 Was Reagan successful in reducing government regulations, lowering taxes, and balancing the budget? |
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ch 40 Who was the Religious Right and what role did they play in politics? |
a voting block comprising of religiously-motivated right-wing conservatives such as American conservative Christian voters, it helped propel many candidates to victory. |
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ch 40 Who was Sandra Day O’Conner and why is she important? |
first woman to be appointed to the Court. |
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ch 40 How did the Cold War come to an end under President George H. W. Bush? |
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ch 40 What happened to the Soviet Union? |
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ch 40 Why did Saddam Hussein invade Kuwait? |
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ch 40 What was Operation Desert Storm and what role did the U.S. play? |
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ch 40 Why did the U.S. stop short of removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq? |
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ch 40 What was the Americans with Disabilities Act? |
prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. |
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ch 40 What happened when President Bush nominated Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court? |
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ch 40 What campaign promise did President George H. W. Bush break? |
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ch 41 Who was Ross Perot? |
an American businessman best known for being an independent presidential candidate in 1992 and the Reform party presidential candidate in 1996 |
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ch 41 What did he do in the 1992 presidential election? |
he was an independent presidential candidate in 1992 |
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ch 41 What was the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy? |
the official United States policy on service by gays and lesbians in the military instituted by the Clinton Administration on February 28, 1994 |
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ch 41 What role did First Lady Hillary Clinton play in President Clinton’s attempt to reform the health-care system? |
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ch 41 What was the Welfare Reform Bill of 1996? |
a bill aimed at substantially reconstructing the welfare system. |
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ch 41 What happened with the economy under President Clinton? |
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ch 41 What was the Lewinsky Affair? |
was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998, from a sexual relationship between 49-year-old United States president Bill Clinton and a 22-year-old White House employee, Monica Lewinsky. |
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ch 41 Why was President Clinton impeached in 1999? |
charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Monica Lewinsky affair |
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ch 41 Why did the Supreme Court decide the outcome of the 2000 election between Bush and Gore? |
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ch 41 What were President Bush’s “faith-based” initiatives? |
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ch 41 How did President Bush address the issue of taxes? |
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ch 41 What happened in the U.S. on September 11, 2001? |
a series of four coordinated terrorist attacksby the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001 |
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ch 41 Why did President Bush launch a war in Afghanistan? |
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ch 41 Why did many Americans object to the USA Patriot Act? |
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ch 41 Why did President Bush convince Congress to authorize the use of force against Iraq? |
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ch 41 What was the result of the U.S. invasion of Iraq? |
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ch 41 What was the No Child Left Behind Act? |
most recent iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), the major federal law authorizing federal spending on programs to support K-12 schooling. ESEA is the largest source of federal spending on elementary and secondary education. |
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ch 41 Who opposed Bush in his bid for re-election in 2004? |
John Kerry |
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ch 41 What was the result of Hurricane Katrina? |
disaster, many lost lives, others lost homes |
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ch 41 Who was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House? |
Nancy Pelosi |
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ch 41 What was the Troubled Assets Relief Program? |
a program of the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions to strengthen its financial sector that was signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush |
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ch 41 Who did Barack Obama defeat for president in 2008? |
John McCain |
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ch 41 What is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? |
also known as ObamaCare |
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ch 41 What is the “Tea Party” movement? |
an American political movement known for its conservative positions and its role in the Republican Party ("GOP"). It demands a reduction in the U.S. national debt and federal budget deficit by reducing government spending and taxes. |
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ch 41 What was the worst oil disaster in U.S. history? |
Deep Water Horizon |
