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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.


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