Final Exam US History new

SNCC

(Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)-a group established in 1960 to promote and use non-violent means to protest racial discrimination; they were the ones primarily responsible for creating the sit-in movement

When did JFK die

1963

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam - LBJ promised to not get involved with Vietnam and then drastically escalates it

Freedom Summer

1964 effort to register African American voters in Mississippi - Large voting rights drive

Rise of Black Power

1965 - want to see change happen more rapidly - Stokley Carmichael was big on this

My Lai Massacre

1968, in which American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai, also led to more opposition to the war. - killed over 300 civilians

Who went missing right before Freedom Summer was about to start

3 college students, 1 was black and 2 were white - FBI searches for them - declared dead

Geneva Accords

A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

A 1972 treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union limiting the number of defensive missiles each country could build. In 2001 President George W. Bush withdrew the United States from the treaty.

Dien Bien Phu (1954)

A French fort in Vietnam that was massacred and destroyed by Vietnamese fighters. The fort was in the middle of a valley and the Vietnamese assembled artillery in the surrounding mountains.

Fred Shuttlesworth

A head preacher in the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, who convinced Martin Luther King, Jr. and his SCLC to visit Birmingham. With King's help, he was able to plan boycotts and demonstrations to rid "the most segregated city in America" of its hate and prejudice.

Detente

A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

Paris Peace Conference 1973

Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam - compromise to leave SV and NV government in place - stopped American bombing

Who was the U.S. government official accused of being a communist spy and convicted of perjury

Alger Hiss

What is the name of the failed military invasion on Cuba that made JFK look really bad?

Bay of Pigs

At what conference did the American dollar get established as the main currency for all international transactions

Bretton Woods Conference

What U.S. Supreme Court Case made seperate but equal illegal?

Brown V Board of Education

Freedom Rides

Bus journeys challenging racial segregation in the South in 1961.

Malcolm X

Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s - assassinated in 1965

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

Church that was bombed by the KKK two weeks after the march on Washington, killing 4 teenage girls

Ho Chi Minh

Communist leader of North Vietnam - wanted US help but eventually had to go to Soviet Union

1962 crisis that arose between the United States and the Soviet Union over a Soviet attempt to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis

What is the name of the land that serves as a buffer zone between North and South Korea

DMZ (demilitarized zone)

What battle successfully got France out of Vietnam?

Dien Bien Phu

What did Nixon promise?

End of Vietnam War

Who controlled Vietnam from the 1850s-1954

France

Alabama governor best known for his pro-segregation attitudes during the Civil Rights Movement and tried to prevent 2 black students from attending

George Wallace

1975 and Vietnam

Government collapses. Became communist

What is LBJs domestic policy called?

Great Society

In what City and state did the first protest occur

Greensboro, North Carolina

What committee of US house of rep was formed in 1938

HUAC

Why was Hoover a bad president

He was the President during the Great Depression

First black baseball player?

Jackie Robinson

Who won the election of 1960

John F. Kennedy

After JFK was asassinated in 1963, who became President?

LBJ

Low-cost housing in long island New York

Levittown

What was the name of the plan that channeled $12 billion to Western Europe?

Marshall Plan

Name of the Southern Response to Brown V Board

Massive Resistance

What is the name of the anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthys "witch hunts" attacking the loyalty of politicians

McCarthyism

Name of the healthcare program designed by LBJ to help older people?

Medicare and Medicaid

Name of the idea expressed in 1960 that the Soviet Union had more nuclear weapons than the U.S.

Missile Gap

What was the name of IKEs domestic plan

New Direction

What was the name of JFKs domestic plan?

New Frontier

Vietnamization

President Richard Nixons strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawl of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces

Who refused to give up her seat on the bus?

Rosa Parks

What is the name of the interracial civil rights movement

SNCC (student nonviolent coordinating committee)

North Vietnam

Soviet Union control

Who was the candidate for the newly formed party called Dixiecrats

Strong Thurmond

Childrens Crusade 1983

Teens, kids and college students march in Alabama where police sent out dogs and fire hoses to attack the marchers - arrested 1200 people

What policy was established to prevent governments from devaluing their currencies to gain an advantage in international trade.

The International Monetary Fund.

What is the name of debate Nixon had with Khrushchev

The Kitchen Debate

What was FDRs domestic plan

The New Deal

What policy provided money to developing countries to help rebuild Eastern Europe?

The World Bank

Project C

The system of segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The "C" in the project stood for confrontation, the strategy of nonviolent direct action designed to confront segregation through peaceful demonstrations, rallies, boycotts, and appeals to justice.

What US President desegregated US military with executive order 9981

Truman

What was the name of the plan that provided $400 million to aid Greece and Turkey?

Truman Doctrine

South Vietnam

United States control

Integration at Alabama

University of Alabama. When the blacks wanted to go to college with the whites (Jimmy Hood and Vivian Malone) "Stand in the school house door"

What was the name of the meeting between JFK and Khruschev where Khruschev walks all over JFK and makes him look bad?

Vienna Summit

What was LBJs downfall

Vietnam

Was there an attack on a US ship in North Vietnam

Yes but later found to be untrue - what LBJ used to launch war on Vietnam

Voting Rights Act of 1965

a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage - signed into law by LBJ - ends literacy tests

George Kennans long telegram expressed what idea?

containment

What did George Wallace do when he stood at the door

he did not want to let the students in

March on Washington

held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally

SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons

Was War ever declared on vietnam?

no

Civil Rights Act of 1964

outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin - signed into law by LBJ

Sit Ins

protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served; in 1960 over 50,000 participated in sit-ins across the South. Their success prompted the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. - Greensboro, NC

What was the goal of Project C

to get arrested to draw media and national TV to them

When did LBJ get involved

when JFK was assassinated

Did JFK send military advisors to go help train Vietnam

yes

Was Freedom Summer violent

yes

did SNCC get violent over time

yes

Did TV show the Childrens Crusade

yes, it made people mad this was happening