HISTORY FINAL
A-Bomb Reaction
Japan was bombed multiple times
Rosa Parks
Montgomery buss boycott
The economic malaise during Nixon's administration was caused by all the following except
a rapid contradiction of the money supply
Dulles's policy of "brinkmanship" involved
averting war through the threat of nuclear force
Elvis Presley's music
blended a variety of musical styles
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court
confirmed the obligation of police to inform arrested suspects of their rights before questioning.
The Purpose of the War Production Board was to:
direct industrial conversion to war production
Truman, Domestic Agenda
expanded the New Deal
The Final Solution
extermination of 6 million Jews, concentration camps
The youthful rebels know as the Beats
favored road trips, Buddhism and Jazz
The Yalta Conference
gave the Soviet Union control of Eastern Germany
To end the deadlock in the Korean peace talks, Eisenhower
hinted that the United States might use atomic weapons
The total cost of WWII
included some 49 million military and civilian dead
The new strategy used in the Pacific in 1943 was to:
isolate the Japanese stronghold, thieving them to die on the vine
In the area of civil rights, President Truman
issued an Executive Order banning racial segregation in the armed forces
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin
All of the following factors promoted the growth of suburbs except
laws forbidding residential segregation by races
To ensure that Russia joined the war against Japan, in 1945 Roosevelt
made certain secret agreements concerning Russian territorial demands
John Foster Dulles argued that the policy of containment was
needlessly defensive
The Southern Manifesto
opposed the Brown decision
the 26th Amendment
protected 18 year old to get the right to vote
The health insurance bill promoted by Johnson and passed by Congress in 1965:
provided medical benefits to Americans over sixty-five.; was supported by Republicans and the American Medical Association; created Medicaid to help cover medical payments for the indigent
Partly inspired by Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique, victories for the women's movement in the 1970s included all the following except
ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment
When the Jewish leaders proclaimed the independent state of Israel in 1948 the United States
recognized the new state within minutes
Among the factors that cushioned the economic impact of demobilization after WWII all of the following except
reductions in business investments
In response to the Little Rock Crisis of 1957, Eisenhower
sent 1000 federal troops to protect black students
The office of price admin
set a price limit
The National Security Act
set up the CIA and the National Security Council
Operation over-load was
the D-Day invasion of Normandy
The area that experienced the fastest rate of urban growth during the war years was:
the far west
When black students tried to enter Little Rock's Central High School in 1957
the governor called out the National Guard to block them
Fidel Castro
the greatest thorn in Eisenhower's side
Following the Cuban missile crisis, several steps were taken that eased Russian-American tensions. These included all the following except
the halting of construction on the Berlin Wall for several years
the student demonstrations at Kent State University resulted in deaths of students were a response to
the incursion into Cambodia
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was
the sit-in
The Immigration Act of 1965
treated all nationalities equally
Ho Chi Minh
was a communist was a Vietnamese nationalists received American aid to fight the Japanese during WWII
The corporate charter of american life
was increasingly regimented conformity
Richard Nixon
was not a catholic
NATO
was originally signed by twelve nations
The battle of Midway
was the turning point of the war in the pacific
The invisible man
was written by Ralph Ellison
Zoot Suit Riots
were caused by Mexican men wearing flamboyant clothing while working, because they were not drafted into the military it targeted them for violence and riots. This lasted about a week.
The Beats
were like abstract expressionists, motivated by a desire to liberate self-expression
The bracero workers
were not drafted into the military
Americans suddenly became concerned about the apparent "missile gap" between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1957
when the Soviets launched Sputnik I.
White Flight
white people moving to the suburbs to live in white neighborhoods
1950s Reading Material
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1950s middle class
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Eisenhower's New Deal
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Eisenhower's Farewell address
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LBJ and Civil Rights
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MASSIVE INSTALLATION
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SDS
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NIXON, CIVIL RIGHTS
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Nixon did not appoint any
African Americans to his cabinet
Who wrote Howl?
Allen Ginsberg
Which country was not originally a member of NATO
Japan
President Truman ordered that the Atomic bomb be used if
Japan did not surrender
The 22nd Amendement
Limited the President to two terms
"Massive Resistance" was a slogan and policy associated with which of the following?
Opponents of the Brown decision
Baby Boom
Parallel a similar boom in consumer demand Peaked in 1957 Was a large part of a 30 percent growth in American population between 1945-1960
As a result of castro's pronouncement that Cuba would be a communist state, President Kennedy
authorized the CIA to begin training a force of Cuban refugees for a new revolution
In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court
cited sociological and psychological findings in support of its decision
Nixon was elected in 1968 election as the voice of the "silent majority," which referred to
conservative working-and middle-class citizens
Nixon's Watergate-related downfall came with the revelation that he had
ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in
In discussing the issue of juvenile delinquency, J. Edgat Hoover insisted that the root of the problem was a lack of
parental oversight
When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea
the United States authorized military intervention against the agressors
Operation "Rolling Thunder"
was the first sustained bombing of North Vietnam
In the 1972 President election
Nixon won by the largest majority ever for a Republican canidate
At the Tehran Conference
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin planned an invasion of France and a Russian offensive
In spite of having a reputation of a "do nothing" president, Eisenhower was
an effective leader
In the 1950s, teenagers became expecially important as
consumers
In the 1948 election
democrats won majorities in both houses of congress in addition to winning the White House
Truman
had been involved in the clothing business, among other things before entering politics he was seen at first as simply a "caretaker" president he replaced much of Roosevelt's cabinet soon after becoming president
Who is usually credited with formulating the policy of containment
George Kennan
Which of the following is not true of the GI Bill?
It's huge cost threw the economy into a recession
The philosophy of "militant nonviolence" was best seen in the work of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The bracero program
brought 200,000 Mexican farm workers into the western United States
According to David Riesman, Dr Spock's book on child care
encouraged parents to develop the talents of their children that would enhance their chances in the "popular market"
The impact of WWII
got us out of the depression
in its first application of the Truman Doctrine congress approved economic aid to:
Greece and Turkey
The Japanese surrender
allowed the emperor to keep his throne under the authority of an Allied supreme commander
State Department Official George Kennan
said the US should contain soviet expansionist tendencies
Nixon's Vietnam policy included all the following except:
"Vietnamization," or the continued buildup of American armed forces in Vietnam.
which of the following statements about the original Levittown is not true?
Children were not allowed until after 1963
The so-called Pentagon Papers:
revealed that Congress and the American people had not been told the full story of the Tonkin Gulf incident.
In response to the Watergate revelations, Congress passed several pieces of legislation designed to curb executive power. This legislation included all the following except
the Presidential Pardon Act
1956 ELECTION
Eisenhower became the first Republican since Reconstruction to win a Deep South state.
At Yalta
FDR and Churchill were deeply concerned about postwar Poland
Who wrote Catcher in the Rye?
J.D Salinger
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following successes except
The Bay of Pigs invasion
Which of the following was not a major stimulant to the post 1945 economy?
The movement of women in the workforce
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following except:
abolishing Social Security
Concerning Vietnam, President Kennedy
announced plans to withdraw US forces by the end of 1965, agreed to the removal of Ngo Dinh Diem, and increased the number of American "advisers" there
The Crack in the Picture Window
argued that suburbanites were living in a "homogeneous, postwar Hell"
The main economic problem faced by Truman in his first term was
inflation
The Battle of the Atlantic
involved German submarine warfare against allied shipping
The "Saturday Night Massacre"
involved the firing of Archibald Cox, special prosecutor for the Watergate case
