U.S. History Final

The war divided the country into two different sections; people who wanted war and the ones who did not. The ones who wanted war were known as the ________ and who didn't were known as the "Doves."

"Hawks"

National Organization for Women (NOW), American activist organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women. It is the largest feminist group in the United States, with some __________members in the early 21st century.

500,000

What is an amphibious tractor warfare vehicle and amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy in WWII?

Amphtrac

After Germany declared war on the US, the US Navy decided NOT to instigate _________ on American eastern seaboard.

Convoys

________ ____ is a term that came into wide use with journalism, political and public discourse in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. At the time, it was most frequently used to describe public skepticism about the Lyndon B. Johnson administration statements and policies on the Vietnam.

Credibility gap

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II were better known as _ Day

D

On ______ _ ____, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from January 1, 1944 to December 31, 1950.

December 1, 1969

_________ theory, also called _______ effect, theory adopted in U.S. foreign policy after World War II according to which the "fall" of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighboring states *

Domino

The __________ ______, also known as the Tokyo Raid, on April 18, 1942, was an air raid by the USA on the Japanese capital Tokyo, the first air strike on Japanese Home Islands.

Doolittle Raid

The _______ _______ ___________ is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in matters of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.

Equal Rights Amendment

What is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes?

Feminism

____________ is a group or cohort in social science signifies the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time, most of whom are approximately the same age and have similar ideas, problems, and attitudes

Generation

Heinz Alfred Kissinger is an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and _______ ____.

Gerald Ford

________ warfare is a very unconventional style of warfare; it refers to small conflicts where groups of stealthy combatants use the element of surprise to eliminate the opponent. This tactic was widely used by the North Vietnamese Communists, also called the Vietcong. *

Guerrilla

What is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire"?

Holocaust

The invasion of the Philippines by Japan started on 8 December 1941, ten ______ after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Hours

What was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps landed on and eventually captured this island from the Japanese in 1945?

Iwo Jima

What was a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target?

Kamikaze

What College was the sight of the National Guard Shooting? (not in notes)

Kent State

_______ was a foreign policy that was pursued by the United States and championed by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1970s détente, during the Cold War.

Linkage

The role of the ______ in the Vietnam War is a subject of continuing controversy. Some believe that the _____ played a large role in the U.S. defeat.

Media

Battle of _______ was Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles, a turning point for the offensive strategy.

Midway

What is a flammable liquid used in warfare. It is a mixture of a gelling agent and either gasoline (petrol) or a similar fuel?

Napalm

_______ is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel). The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: co-precipitated aluminum salts of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid.

Napalm

The name code talkers is bilingual _________ speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater.

Navajo

The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of ______occupied northwestern Europe

Nazi

What are the outer limits or edge of an area or object in WWII?

Periphery

___ v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.

Roe

Labor feminists did not want to end all distinctions based on sex, only those that hurt women. For example, they felt that _____ ____ that put in place wage floors and hour ceilings benefited women.

State Laws

_________ was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops

Vietnamization

What is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders?

Zoot Suit

The 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs became the most watched televised sports event of all time. The highly publicized "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match, top women's player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked men's player and self proclaimed male ________.

chauvinist

Not only did feminism influence equality among ________, but also in race. The Chicana Feminism Movement became politically active in the search for female and lesbian equality within American society.

genders

The Vietnam conflict is often referred to as the "first _________ war." Film from Vietnam was flown to Tokyo for quick developing and editing and then flown on to the United States. Important stories could be transmitted directly by satellite from Tokyo.

television