Chapter 36-38

Question 1

Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 1

Banned all-union shops

Question 2

Operation Dixie

Answer 2

wants to unionize southern industries

Question 3

Employment Act of 1964

Answer 3

wants to promote maximum employment, production and purchasing power

Question 4

GI Bill

Answer 4

gives veterans education

Question 5

Sunbelt

Answer 5

fifteen state area stretching from Virginia and California

Question 6

Levittown

Answer 6

Home-construction revolution, suburbs

Question 7

baby boom

Answer 7

huge leap in birthrate in the decade and a half after 1945

Question 8

Yalta conference

Answer 8

meeting of the Big Three in Yalta

Question 9

Cold War

Answer 9

Political war between USA and Soviets

Question 10

Bretton Woods Conference

Answer 10

Establishes International Monetary Fund

Question 11

United Nations

Answer 11

Successor to the League of Nations

Question 12

Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

Answer 12

Puts Nazi war criminals on trial

Question 13

Truman Doctrine

Answer 13

Starts with Greece, gives allies financial support

Question 14

Marshall Plan

Answer 14

Same as Truman

Question 15

NATO

Answer 15

European and American alliance

Question 16

House Un-American Activities Committee

Answer 16

Lead by Nixon, catches the reds for suspicious behavior

Question 17

Fair Deal

Answer 17

Truman’s New Deal

Question 18

National Security Council Memorandum Number 68

Answer 18

Quadruples US military spending

Question 19

The Feminine Mystique

Answer 19

Betty Friedan

Question 20

Checkers Speech

Answer 20

Nixon defends himself

Question 21

Army-McCarthy hearings

Answer 21

McCarthy says US army is red

Question 22

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 22

segregationist

Question 23

Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 23

MLK debut

Question 24

Brown v. Board of Education….

Answer 24

Supreme court rules that segregation in public schools is inherently unequal

Question 25

Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee

Answer 25

Sit in on cafeterias

Question 26

Operation Wetback

Answer 26

Keeps the Beaners out

Question 27

Federal Highway Act of 1956

Answer 27

Eisenhower makes big highway

Question 28

policy of boldness

Answer 28

more bangfor buck nuclear bombers

Question 29

Hungarian uprisings

Answer 29

US sits idle to communist revolt

Question 30

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Answer 30

Forces allies to split Nam into two

Question 31

Suez Crisis

Answer 31

Egypt nationalizes canal without Brit consent

Question 32

Organization of Petroleum exporting countries

Answer 32

Arab oil alliance

Question 33

Kitchen Debate

Answer 33

Nixon debates Khruschev about the economy

Question 34

abstract expressionism

Answer 34

means wierd things

Question 35

International style

Answer 35

steel boxes wrapped in glass

Question 36

European Economic Community

Answer 36

freed trade within Europe

Question 37

Bay of Pigs Invasion

Answer 37

Sent a bunch of Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro

Question 38

Freedom Riders

Answer 38

Sit-inners tryna ends segregation

Question 39

Voter Education Project

Answer 39

significant in anti-segregation

Question 40

March on Washington

Answer 40

mLK rally, I have a dream

Question 41

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 41

banned racial discrimination in private and pbulic places

Question 42

affirmitive action

Answer 42

LBJ asks all contractors in government to take affirmitive actions towards ending segregation

Question 43

Freedom Summer

Answer 43

voter registration drive in Mississ

Question 44

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Answer 44

Black southern democratic branch, denied

Question 45

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 45

gives black better access to the ballot

Question 46

Black power

Answer 46

Malcolm X and others wants blacks to destroy white civilization

Question 47

Stonewall rebellion

Answer 47

gay men fight against the police in NYC

Question 48

Students for a Democratic Society

Answer 48

student revolution druggie group

Question 49

Earl Warren

Answer 49

Justice behind end of school segregation

Question 50

John Foster Dulles

Answer 50

Early form of McCarthy

Question 51

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Answer 51

Egyptian president

Question 52

Jackson Pollock

Answer 52

abstract expressionist painter

Question 53

Andy Warhol

Answer 53

famous artist

Question 54

Eero Saarinen

Answer 54

International style architect

Question 55

Allen Ginsberg

Answer 55

Beat poet

Question 56

Arthur Miller

Answer 56

Wrote Death of a Salesman

Question 57

Ralph Ellison

Answer 57

black author and playwright

Question 58

Robert F. Kennedy

Answer 58

Attorney General of JFK

Question 59

Robert S. McNamara

Answer 59

Business man and Secretary of Defense

Question 60

Ngo Dinh Diem

Answer 60

First South Vietnam president

Question 61

James Meredith

Answer 61

First black to be accepted into Ole Miss

Question 62

Lee Harvey Oswald

Answer 62

Supposed assassin of JFK

Question 63

Eugene McCarthy

Answer 63

Democratic rival of Robert Kennedy

Question 64

George C. Wallace`

Answer 64

Independent part member

Question 65

Dewey

Answer 65

competitor of truman

Question 66

Dave Beck

Answer 66

Union leader sent to prison for embezzlement

Question 67

Billy Graham

Answer 67

TV preacher