Ap Big Unit Test
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- Among the causes of the long postwar economic expansion were?
- military spending and cheap energy
- The regions that gaine the most population and new industry in the postwar economic expansion were
- The south and the WEST
- Among the federal policies that contributed to the postwar migration from the cities to the suburbrs were?
- housing-mortgage tax deductions and federally built highways
- High barrier between east and west erected during the 1961 Berlin Crisis
- Berlin Wall
- The primary reason that Franlin made concessions to Stalin at the yalta conference was that?
- he wanted the soviet union to enter the war against japan
- Before ww2, both the united states and the soviet union had?
- had been largely inward looking and isolated from international affairs
- the berlin crisis of 1948-1949 occured when
- soviet forces blocked the western allies rail and highway access to west berlin
- The truman doctrine originally developed because of the communist threat to
- turkey and greece
- The crusade of senator Joseph McCarthy was primarily detected against?
- alleged american communist influence inside the united states
- The Korean war broke out in 1950 when
- North korea invaded south korea
- The sector of the economy that grew most rapidly in the postwar era, surpasing the manufaturing and agricultural sectors
- service
- Big three wartime conference that later became the focus of charges that roosevelt had sold out eastern europe to the soviet communist
- Yalta
- The extended post world war 2 confrontation between the united states and the soviet union
- Cold War
- New international orginization that experienced some early success in diplomatic and cultural areas but failed in areas like atomic arms control
- United Nations
- Term for the barrier that stalin erected to block off soviet dominated nations from western europe
- Iron Curtain
- The new anti-soviet organization of western nations which ended the long time american tradition of not joining permanent military alliances
- NATO
- The Korean War ended with
- a stalemate armistice and constinued division of the north and south
- Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticomunist crusade finally collapsed with
- He attacked the US army for alleged communist influence
- The precipitating event of MLK civil rights movement was
- montgomery bus boycott
- the primary impetus for civil rights within the federal government came from?
- the supreme court
- MLK civil rights orginization, the SCLC, rested on the institutionals foundation of
- the black chruches
- Eisenhowers basic approach to domestic economic policy was?
- to trim back some New Deal programs but keep most in place
- The united states first became involved in vietname by?
- providing economic aid to the french colonialists fighting ho chi minh
- President eisenhower forced britain, France, and Isreal to withdraw from their seizure of the suez canal by 1956 by
- withholding american oil supplies from their allies
- Besides encouraging a space race, the soviet union's successful sputnik satellite led americans to?
- put anew emphasis on improving and funding education, especially in the sciences
- Senator JFK's main issue in the campaign of 1960 was that?
- the US had fallen behind the soviet union in prestige and power
- The industry that provoked a bitter conflict with President Kennedy over price increases was
- the steele industry
- The first major foreign policy disaster of the Kennedy administration came when?
- American backed cuban invaders were defeated at the bay of pigs
- The cuban missile crisis ended when
- the soviets agreed to pull all missisles in cuba and the united states agreed not to invade cuba
- The kennedy administration was pushed into a stronger stand on civil rights by?
- the civil rights movement led by the freedom riders and MLK
- President Johnson was more successful in pushing economic and civil rights measures through congress than President kennedy because
- the democrats gained overwhelming control of congress in the landslide of 1964
- Vietnam was not a major issue in the presidential election of 1968 partly because
- humphrey and nixon had few important differences on the war
- One of the dominant attitudes of the 1960's youth culture that had deep roots in american history was?
- distrust and hostility toward authority
- Kennedy administartion program that sent youthful american volunteers to work in undeveloped countries
- Peace corp
- high barrier between the east and the west erected during the 1961 berlin crisis
- Berlin wall