Final Exam Review US HISTORY Lyn Bordenet S2
The Korean War
1950 and 1953 between North Korea and South Korea/UN coalition.
Imaginary line that divides North and South Korea
38th parallel
This was the name of the German, Japanese and Italian alliance in World War II.
Axis
This action provided vital supplies to a city in Germany blockaded by the Soviet Union.
Berlin Airlift
This day marked the invasion of Nazi-controlled Europe
D-Day
Nixon's policy towards the Soviets; less tension, better communication
Detente
Led American troops during the first nine months of the Korean War
Douglas MacArthur
President Carter brokered a peace agreement between these two former enemies at Camp David
Egypt and Israel
Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Pilot of an American U-2 spy plane that was shot down over the Soviet Union
Francis Gary Powers
What gave job training, education and low interest rate home loans to veterans after World War II?
GI Bill (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
containment implemented when President Truman asked Congress to send $400 million in aid to
Greece and Turkey
He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece.
Harry S. Truman
President of the United States at the start of the Korean War
Harry S. Truman
Who did we fight against in the Pacific Theater in World War II?
Japanese
Why did the U.S. enter World War II?
Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor
The most famous crusader against communism after World War II was
Joseph McCarthy
Flexible response, Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corp are all associated with President
Kennedy
This death camp was the first liberated by the Allies
Majdanek
The top-secret program to build an atomic bomb in the U.S. was called the _____.
Manhattan Project
Term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence
McCarthyism
This progressive leader from the Soviet Union encouraged glasnost and perestroika (openness and reform)
Mikhail Gorbachev
The Soviet leader who came to power after Stalin's death
Nikita Khrushchev
The Supreme Court decision that sanctioned (approved) segregation based on "Separate but Equal" was.......
Plessy v. Ferguson
In 1938, this country was Germany's first target in WW II
Poland
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized
President Johnson to escalate our troop level in Vietnam.
This type of music made popular in the 1950 and early 60s
Rock and Roll
This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
Satellite nations
Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 and 1949 by
airlifting more than two million tons of goods to West Berliners.
Levittown, New York, was
an example of the assembly-line approach to producing affording housing.
Generally, the Civil Rights movement
began non-violently and ended up more militant
What was the major difference between the draft during WW II and the Vietnam War?
college students were exempt from the draft during the Vietnam War
Effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations
containment
The Soviets were mainly interested in ________ after World War II.
creating and controlling buffer states to its west and south
What was the Dustbowl?
erosion, drought and high winds that blew away topsoil
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was
hearings designed to expose communist influence in American life
The Vietnamization of the Vietnam War in 1968 meant that the U.S.
hoped to achieve its objective by relying on South Vietnamese to take over
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized the Chicanos primarily to
improve the conditions of migrant farm workers in California.
The Tet offensive was an important turning point for President Lyndon Johnson because
it exposed the credibility gap between his statements and war's reality.
The objective of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to
oust the government of Cuban nationalist Fidel Castro
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that..
police had to advise a suspect of constitutional right to remain silent.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned the doctrine/practice of
separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896).
In 1961, East Germany erected a wall between East and West Berlin to
stop the mass departure/defection of East Germans to West Berlin.
This was the symbolic ending to the Cold War
tearing down of the Berlin Wall
All of the following are similarities of Korea and Vietnam EXCEPT
the U.S. was successful in winning and uniting the countries
Three Mile Island, Silent Spring and the Love Canal have what in common
they all concerned the degradation of the environment
President of the United States when the hydrogen bomb was dropped
Truman
This music festival in 1969 featured acts such as Crosby Stills and Nash, Richie Havens and Jimi Hendrix.
Woodstock
The Montgomery bus boycott of 1956 kept going until
Supreme Court decided Alabama's laws on segregation unconstitutional.
During World War II, what was significant about the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on both of these cities.
