History Definitions and multiple choice

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, planned and funded by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs to overthrow Cuban Leader, Fidel Castro. Many of the Cuban Exiles were captured and killed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. He opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Additionally, he won a Nobel Peace Prize (1964)

The Truman Doctrine set a new course for American foreign policy by

promising to help nations struggling against communism.

Concerning the uprising in French Indochina the Truman and Eisenhower administrations:

sided with the French

In his Farewell Address, Eisenhower warned against:

the growing military-industrial complex

During the 1968 campaign for President, for what group did Richard Nixon cast himself as the spokesperson?

the silent majority

What was the goal of the bay of pigs invasion

to overthrow fidel castro

In response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, Truman

used a massive airlift to supply the city

The events that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott were set in motion

when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus

The united states entered the Korean war

without a declaration of war by Congress.

The beatniks (or beats) were a group of

writers and artists who despised materialism and conformity

Why was President Kennedy's approach to civil rights timid

He did not want to anger conservative, white members of his party

Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh or "Uncle Ho" was the communist leader of North Vietnam. He helped form the Viet Cong and had a trail named after him during the war called the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

Levittown

In 1947, William Levitt used mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in surburban New York to help relieve the postwar housing shortage. Levittown became a symbol of the movement to the suburbs in the years after WWII.

In 1965, the U.S. government helped the military of this country kill approximately one million innocent civilians-thereby eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the Soviet Union

Indonesia

Nixon's Watergate-related downfall came with the revelation that he had

ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in

1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago

resulted in massive rioting in the streets

Timothy Leary, communes, and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco were part of

the counterculture

What was a key provision of the GI Bill of Rights

the financial aid it gave to veterans who wanted to go to college

The Weather Underground Organization

were committed revolutionaries who bombed US government buildings

The United Farm workers

were especially concerned with Hispanic Migrant workers

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

were executed for passing American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

Critics of the culture of the 1950's complained

about its emphasis on conformity

In 1946, Winston Churchill used the term iron curtain to refer to the

boundary between Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe

What did the term McCarthyism become a catchword for?

extreme, reckless charges

Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" involved:

gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam

Cuban Missile Crisis

The 1962 confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba. The crisis eventually came to an end after Khruchsev proposed a deal with JFK stating that he'd take the missiles out of CUba if the U.S. took missiles out turkey. They agreed on the deal.

The protest at Kent State University that resulted in the deaths of four students was a response to

The US and South Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia

The US secretly bombed this country from 1964 to 1973, making it the most heavily bombed country in history

Laos

Henry Kissinger

National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon. He is often referred to as a war criminal due to his terrible acts through the Vietnam War and other times including the killing of innocents in the Cambodia bombings, the aiding of the Pakistani war, and more.

Marshall Plan

Offered Western European countries with aid and support if they were being affected by communism or war. This plan helped many countries to rebuild their economy back to thriving.

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

Ole Miss

Joseph McCarthy

1950s Wisconsin senator that claimed to have a list of communists in the American gov't, but he had no credible evidence. He took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential. He had a popular term called "McCarthyism". McCarthyism means making rash and reckless charges against something.

Brown v. Board of Education

1954 Supreme Court case that ruled discrimination and segregation in public schools "unconstitutional". They ordered all public schools desgregated

Counterculture

A culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture or "norm". They experimented with different things and did not care what other people thought of them. A big group of people who followed counterculture were Hippies.