APUSH 9

Question 1

A product of the Cold War, it was a war between North Korea, with the support of China and the Soviet Union and South Korea, with the support of the United Nations, with the principal support from the United States. The war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border. It became the first test of the Truman Doctrine and the UN intervention when communist aggression threatened the Far East.

Answer 1

Korean War

Question 2

A phrase used by Eisenhower to refer to the relationship between the military and business in the U.S.

Answer 2

Military Industrial Complex

Question 3

Supreme Court ruling that overturned “separate but equal” for education. Ruled that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal and thus violated the 14th amendment.

Answer 3

brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, KS)

Question 4

The domestic and foreign policy of President Kennedy

Answer 4

New Frontier

Question 5

Political power politics practiced by Kennedy and Khrushchev in the early 1960’s. Berlin Crisis of 1961 (Wall) and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). Using the threat of war.

Answer 5

Brinkmanship

Question 6

Unsuccessful attempt by Cuban refugees backed by the U.S. (Kennedy) to overthrow Castro in Cuba.

Answer 6

Bay Of Pigs

Question 7

Closest USSR and USA ever came to starting WWIII. Kennedy objected to the Soviet medium range missiles – he blockaded Cuba and threatened invasion.

Answer 7

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 8

Made discrimination for employment, education, and public accommodations illegal. In response to the civil rights movement, the strongest measure since Reconstruction and included a ban on sex discrimination in employment.

Answer 8

Civil Rights Act (1964)

Question 9

Militant organization dedicated to protect African Americans from police violence. Founded in Oakland, CA by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton had a radical agenda and the belief in armed self-defense and armed clashes with the police.

Answer 9

Black Panther Party

Question 10

UFW founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta that sought to empower Mexican American migrant workers who faced discrimination and exploitative working conditions.

Answer 10

United Farm Workers

Question 11

After the attack on US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, this resolution gave LBJ the authority to use combat troops in Vietnam.

Answer 11

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 12

Lyndon Johnson’s program of bringing economic, social and political progress to the U.S. from 1965-1969 – So-called “war on poverty”.

Answer 12

Great Society

Question 13

The Cold War belief that if one nation comes under communist control its neighboring nations would also fall to communism.

Answer 13

Domino Theory

Question 14

Part of the complexity of the Vietnam war when Gen. Westmoreland’s assessment of the war turned out to be wrong. The media believed he was deliberately misleading them.

Answer 14

Credibility Gap

Question 15

968 offensive action by North Vietnamese Army and the National Liberation Front that was a military failure but a propaganda victory.

Answer 15

Tet Offensive

Question 16

In the Vietnam War, the supply route was used by the communist forces of Vietnam to ferry war supplies through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam.

Answer 16

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 17

Part of the Nixon Doctrine and began the Johnson Administration. It was the policy of turning the war in Vietnam to the ARVN (Army of the Republic of [South] Vietnam).

Answer 17

Vietnamization

Question 18

A break in by Nixon staff members into the Democratic National Convention Headquarters housed in the hotel. It resulted in cover-ups, obstruction and the eventual resignation of Nixon

Answer 18

Watergate

Question 19

The mainstream of middle American society that supported the U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s and opposed the loud student/anti-war types and protestors in general with slogans such as “America Love it or Leave it”

Answer 19

Silent Majority

Question 20

Daniel Elsberg released top secret documents revealing U.S. dealings in Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War that reinvigorated the waning anti-war movement.

Answer 20

Pentagon Papers

Question 21

1960’s-1970’s anti-establishment youth movement that opposed the Vietnam War, believed in the use of mind expanding drugs and extreme liberalism.

Answer 21

Counter Culture

Question 22

Students for a Democratic Society was a radical anti-war organization during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s responsible for leading Anti-War protests and campus violence.

Answer 22

SDS

Question 23

SDS leader Tom Hayden manifesto that rejected the establishment and what he claimed was a system of power rooted in possession, privilege, racism, or circumstance.

Answer 23

Port Huron Statement 1962

Question 24

4 students killed on campus during SDS led anti-establishment/anti-war protests in the 1970s

Answer 24

Kent State

Question 25

Committee to Re-Elect the President. They were the overzealous supporters of Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign.

Answer 25

CREEP