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.
