Post Wwii Flashcards

Front 1

What is the name given to the ideological struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union

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cold war

Front 2

The C.I.A. used an attempted military invasion in dealing with which third world country?

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Cuba

Front 3

Under which President did the U.S. build up in Vietnam reach its peak?

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Johnson

Front 4

What nation since the late 19th century controlled the area of Indo-China that later became Vietnam?

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France

Front 5

The Soviet Union’s attempt to establish missile bases in Cuba was stopped by President

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Kennedy

Front 6

Communist leader of North Vietnam who died during the war

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Ho Chi Minh

Front 7

American military commander in South Vietnam

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William Westmoreland

Front 8

In his speech on the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy used the term “quarantine” because

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a blockade was considered an act of war

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Leader of South Vietnam who was eventually overthrown

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Ngo Dinh Diem

Front 10

Khrushchev objected to West Berlin because:

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it was an island of democracy in the midst of East Germany
it served as an escape hatch for fleeing East Germans
it was a symbol of democracy in East Germany

Front 11

Nightly news coverage of the war in Vietnam helped

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Increase the number of antiwar activists

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Vietnam had formally been a colony of

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France

Front 13

Jackie Robinson, Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King, Jr. were alike in that they:

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stood up against racial segregation

Front 14

In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that:

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segregation was no longer legal in public schools

Front 15

List three factors in suburban growth during the 1950s?

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the baby boom
mass production of affordable homes
the GI bill

Front 16

What role were most American women expected to fulfill in the 1950s?

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full-time mothers and homemakers

Front 17

What impact did Sputnik have on most Americans

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It made them question America’s technological supremacy

Front 18

Gender roles for men in the 1950s included

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managing important decisions
financially supporting their government
going to school

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The NAACP launched a series of court cases aimed at:

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overturning Plessy vs. Ferguson

Front 20

The beatniks of the 1950s promoted

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spontaneity, non-conformity, and anti-materialism

Front 21

By waging war in Vietnam, the United States government hoped to contain

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Communism

Front 22

What gave President Johnson the freedom to take military action in Vietnam

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Front 23

Which President’s political future was destroyed by the Vietnam War?

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Front 24

In what year did the last United States troops leave Vietnam?

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1973

Front 25

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached that blacks should gain their rights by

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staging nonviolent protests

Front 26

As a result of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968

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many Americans turned against the war

Front 27

What was the goal for President Nixon’s plan of “Vietnamization?”

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gradually replacing U.S. troops with South Vietnamese troops

Front 28

The Vietnam War and Watergate

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decreased trust in the federal government

Front 29

One result of McCarthyism was that

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thousands of people were “blacklisted” and lost their jobs

Front 30

Which of the following was a new social trend in the 1950s?

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the creation of suburbs outside urban areas

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The Great Society program focused on providing solutions to

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poverty and civil rights
medical care for the elderly
education for children living in poverty

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system in which society as a whole owns and controls property and the means of production

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Communism

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term used to describe the icy rivalry that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union

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Cold war

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jellied gasoline that explodes and splatters, clinging to whatever it touches

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Napalm

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revolutionary who overthrew the dictator of Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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person who refuses to fight or carry arms in battle for moral or religious reasons

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Conscientious objector

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volunteer program to fight poverty and disease in developing nations

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Peace corps

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postwar Soviet defensive alliance

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Warsaw Pact

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postwar European and North American defense alliance

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NATO

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claimed to have a list of Communists employed by the State Department

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Joseph McCarthy

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event that symbolized the youth counterculture in the 60’s

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Woodstock

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massive American recovery plan for European nations after World War II.

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Marshall plan

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preventing further spread of communism

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Containment

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Fear of Communism in the U.S. Actors blacklisted.

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McCarthyism

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chemical defoliant used by the United States during the Vietnam conflict

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Agent Orange

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European countries outside of the Russian border that fell under Soviet domination after WWII

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Satellite Nations

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President who promoted "Vietnamization" later resigned due to a cover-up scandal

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Richard Nixon

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Author of the Feminine Mystique founding member of the National Organization for Women

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Betty Fridan

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Communist sympathizers in South Vietnam

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Vietcong

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Beatnik poet wrote On the Road

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Jack Kerouac