American History Final 2
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- What did MacArthur suggest the US do in the Korean war?
- Attack China
- What was the first priority of the Berlin Airlift
- Get food and supplies into west Berlin in Soviet Blockade 1948
- Why did the US rush to develop a Hydrogen bomb
- race with Soviet union
- Where did the Eisenhower Doctrine deal directly with
- the middle east
- Eastern Europ- immediatly following WWII
- Soviet troops occupied Eastern Europe
- Why did Eisenhower fire Mac Arthur
- sent letter of disapproval
- McCarthys final straw
- bullied witnesses of US army
- Containment - What was it
- stopping the spread of communism
- Korea after the war
- nothing changed
- President that integrated African Americans into armed forces
- truman
- THe Iron Curtain what was is
- zone of communism, seperated east and western Europe
- NATO - What did it involve
- ten western European countries, the US and Canada
- CIA responsible during the Cold War
- gather secret information of foreign governments
- Truman's fair deal -What all was passed
- domestic reform to solve America's economic problems
- Population shift in 1950's - from where to where
- cities to suburbs
- Baby Boom size of -What contributed to it
- Soldiers returning from war
- Know what planned obsolescence is and why it was used
- marketing strategy, made objects appear obsolete
- Who were the main players in the Beat movement
- Poets, hippies
- Who developed the Polio Vaccine
- Dr. Johas Salk
- Eisenhower's Native American policy
- Assmiliation policy - breaking up reserves
- Franchise- what are they - Who were big franchises
- company that sells goods of services, McDonalds
- What is the definition of a conglomerate
- Major corporation that inculdes smaller companies
- Housing industry - Main trend in the 1950s
- Levittowns
- 1950s Rock and Roll - How it was viewed by adults
- corrupting the minds of children
- What is the definition of consumerism
- they buying of material goods
- Agency that regulated TV, RADIO Ect
- FCC
- Separate but Equal - Supreme court case
- States could prohibit the use of public facilities by African Americans, Plessy Vs Ferguson
- What case overturned the "separate but equal" case
- Brown vs. Board of Education
- MLK Jr, - president of what organization
- American Civil Rights Movement
- Freedom Rides - WHat were their main goals
- Rode busses to protest segregation
- Eisenhower's response to Little Rock
- Sent National Guard to protect the African American Students
- Malcolm X's beliefs on whites participating in the civil rights movement
- Whites could help but could not join
- Montgomery Bus Boycott - Biggest immediate effect
- Desegregation of busses
- Freedom Summer - major event of it
- One black and two white men killed, while getting blacks to vote
- Voting Rights Act of 1965 - What was it's main purpose
- Ensure vothing rights of African Americans
- Nixon loses TV debates with Kennedy- Why
- Nixon refused to wear makeup
- Kennedy's New Frontier program - What did it accomplish
- Increased minimum wage, No social security
- CIA backed attempt to overthrow Castro
- Bay of Pigs
- Warren Commission findings of JFK assassination
- Oswald acted alone, magic bullet theory
- Final compromise in the Cuban Missile Crisis
- Nikita Khrushchev said installations would be dismantled
- Vietcong - Where were they from and who did they fight againts
- North Vietnam. those who did not support communism
- Diem - Why did Kennedy remove him from power in Vietnam
- No sympathy towars buddist monks
- Vietnam in the 1940s (which countries controlled it)
- France and Japan
- US' main goal in Vietnam
- to rid communism
- Turning [oint in the Vietnam War back in the US
- My Lai Massacre
- What ended Freach rule in Vietnam (treaty)
- The Geneva Accords
- Gave LBJ power to go to war in Vietnam
- The Golf of Tonkin resolution
- Domino THeory
- One country falls to communism more will follow
- Doves - What did they believe
- peace not war, did not like Johnson
- Communist leader of Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh
- Major college campus demonstrations
- Kent State
- Gasoline based bombs used in Vietnam
- Napalm
- Reason for struggle of US troops in Vietnam
- Vietnamese camouflaged, tunnels, troops did not know the sode from side
- Reasons for avoideing the war
- College, medical reasons, religious beliefs
- My Lai Massacre
- 100 innocent killed in village
- Cesar Chavez organized which group of Americans
- United Farm Workers, Latinos
- By the 1970s NOW supported what
- Same wages for men and women
- Why was the counter culture weak
- People grew older and more moderate
- 1st president to visit post WWII USSR
- Nixon
- Intentions of Watergate break in
- Get democrat campaign information
- Nixon's role in Watergate
- His aid spied on democratic headquarters
- US Economy by 1970s - Main dependency
- Foreign oil
- Energy Crisis - main contributer
- OPEC, broke off oil trade with US
- Ford's loss in election 1976
- Could not shake the republican embarrassment of Watergate
- Camp David Accords - countries involved
- Egypt, Isreal and America
- Supply - side economics means what
- Increase production rather than focusing on increasing demand
- Reagan's foreign policy
- fought with soviets in an arms race
- Reagan's view on USSR military spending
- could not outspend the US
- What was SDI (strategic Defense Initiative)
- "star wars" protection from strategic nuclear ballistic missiles
- Election of 1988 - Who ran?
- George Buch, Micheal Dukakis
- George H. Bush - Persian Golf War
- Remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait
- Bill Clinton's legacy as president
- Monica Lewinsky