APUSH 23 & 24

Demonstrated how to protect oneself in case of nuclear attack

Duck and Cover

King of Rock and Roll

Elvis Presley

The couple executed for spying

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

Ended segregation in the armed forces

Executive Order 9981

Why was it inevitable that the United States and the Soviet Union would eventually come into conflict after the war ended?

Historically, both nations had never shared long-term interests or values.

Case that frightened many into testifying before HUAC

Hollywood Ten

Developed to deliver powerful nuclear weapons

ICBMs

Site of the amphibious landing in South Korea

Inchon

During the 1950s, American teenagers:

Increased in number and were often perceived to be alienated.

What made the Army-McCarthy Hearings unusual for American television programming of the 1950s?

It was deeply political and controversial.

Developed the polio vaccine

Jonas Salk

Accused the military of hiding Communists in the US

Joseph McCarthy

Ordered the invasion of South Korea in June 1950

Kim Il Sung

The program based on the belief that economic prosperity would keep countries free and democratic

Marshall Plan

The Housing Act of 1949:

Reinforced the concentration of poverty in non-white urban neighborhoods.

Why did France and other Europeans understand NATO as a form of double containment?

The pact would guard them against Soviet aggression as well as against the resurgence of a powerful Germany.

After World War Il, the automobile:

altered the American landscape.

Japan:

A and B Was aided by the United States in rebuilding its postwar industrial base to establish a strong economic counter to communism in the Far East AND Was under the control of the supreme commander Douglas MacArthur from the end of the war until 1948.

Used to describe an America overly focused on wealth

Affluent

Teenage Rock and Roll show hosted by Dick Clark

American BandStand

1945 through 1964 increase in the birth rate

Baby Boom

Rejected the norms of American society

Beatniks

A plan that provided crucial supplies to the British, French, and US occupied zones

Berlin Airlift

Supreme Court decision to desegregate public schools

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS

Under Eisenhower and Dulles, the United States developed a nuclear strategy for defense based on

Building more conventional and nuclear weapons.

William Levilk, with the help of the Gl Bill, gave many Americans the opportunity to:

Buy a home.

Conducted secret actions against foreign targets

CIA

Which statement about the Korean conflict is FALSE?

Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.

The era of high tensions between the world's superpowers

Cold War

The Truman Doctrine:

Committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.

The ideas expressed in this passage are an example of

Containment.

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation:

Declared that any Soviet attack would be countered by a nuclear attack

Recommended using atomic weapons in the Korean War; dismissed by President Turman

Douglas MacArthur

1959 came to power in Cuba and established a dictatorship

Fidel Castro

Helped veterans make a successful return to civilian life

GI Bill

Key architect of the containment policy

George Kennan

A group that focused on the thread of Communism in the US

HUAC

What made Elvis such a popular celebrity?

He brought the rhythms and sexually provocative movements of black musicians to white audiences.

The 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon:

Highlighted the impact of television on political campaigns.

The symbolic representation of a sharp division in Europe

Iron Curtain

Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team

Jackie Robinson

President of Teamsters that disappeared

Jimmy Hoffa

Believed only the threat of nuclear war would stop of the Soviets; coined the word "Brinkmanship"

John Foster Dellus

The spy who worked on the Manhattan Project

Klaus Fuchs

In 1949, Mao Zedong:

Led a successful communist revolution in China.

Military alliance formed in 1948

NATO

First man to walk on the moon

Neil Armstrong

Emerged as the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death

Nikita Khrushchev

Dangerous product of nuclear explosion

Nuclear Fallout

The Marshall Plan:

Offered economic assistance to noncommunist governments.

Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 in part because he:

Pledged to use nuclear weapons in the Korean War

The policy of "containment" can best be described as:

Preventing the spread of communism worldwide

Southern port city of Korea; defended by UN troops

Pusan

In the 1952 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon' Checkers speech:

Reflected the growing importance of television in American life

President Truman's civil rights plan called for all of the following EXCEPT:

Reparations.

Why were American suburbs of the 1950s so heavily segregated?

Residents, brokers, and realtors dealt in contracts and mortgages that barred the sale to non-white residents.

Most likely why did the U.S. Supreme Court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling in Brown V. Board of Education in 1954?

Some justices on the Court feared the outbreak of widespread violence with such a bold ruling.

Soviet satellite launched in 1957

Sputnik

The demographic changes that resulted in the development of housing projects like the one in the image could be described as

Suburbanization

The president of South Korea's Republic of Korea

Syngman Rhee

Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?

The Philippines.

After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was:

The Soviet Union.

The charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954?

The army.

What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?

The idea of peaceful civil disobedience

Which event did President John F. Kennedy blame on the failures of the Eisenhower administration?

The launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik

Operation Dixie was:

The postwar union campaign in the South.

The Berlin Blockade was:

The reaction by the Soviet Union to the establishment of a separate currency in western Berlin's occupied zones.

Why did nearly 5 million workers walk off their jobs over the course of 1946?

The removal of price controls resulted in a drop in workers' real income.

The shopping mall was the inevitable result of what institution?

The suburb.

Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?

They were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence.

How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?

Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift

Operation Wetback:

Was a military operation that rounded up illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods for deportation.

Ngo Dinh Diem:

Was backed by the United States in his decision to ignore the Geneva Accords' plan for elections in Vietnam.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott:

Was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her scat to a whine man.

After World War I, most working women:

Were concentrated in low-paying, nonunion jobs

Coined the term "Iron Curtain"

Winston Churchill

A community of inexpensive homes in the suburbs

Levittowns

Famous red headed television actress and comedian

Lucille Ball

Led the Chinese Communists

Mao Zedong

Between 1946 and 1960, the American gross national product:

More than doubled, and wages increased.

Refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus

Rosa Parks

An object put into orbit around the Earth

Satellite

Capital of South Korea

Seoul

The "Iron Curtain":

Separated the free West from the communist East

What did Eleanor Roosevelt do of particular significance several years after the war ended?

She chaired the committee that drafted the United Nations "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

Why did auto manufacturers and oil companies vault to the top ranks of corporate America in the 1950s?

The consumer demand for the automobile boomed in this decade

Governor Orval Faubus responded to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School:

With defiance, refusing to comply and allowing violence to break out.

During the 1950s, television:

Became an effective advertising medium.

President Truman's plan for America

Fair Deal

Ambitious building project of the 1950s

Interstate Highways