Chapters 25-28

Question 1

GI Bill

Answer 1

Paid GO’s for stuff

Question 2

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 2

Separate but equal

Question 3

Little Rock Nine

Answer 3

The school wouldn’t let black kids in the school so they sent the national guard to escort them into school

Question 4

Federal Highway Act

Answer 4

President Eisenhower passed it to regulate US interstate highway system

Question 5

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Answer 5

Formed by MLK on 1957

Question 6

Brown vs. Board

Answer 6

Ruled all schools must desegregate with all deliberate speed

Question 7

Election of 1960

Answer 7

JFK and Richard Nixon

Question 8

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 8

Apparently there were missiles in Cuba pointed toward the US. Russian leader agreed to move missiles in exchange that the US doesn’t invade Cuba

Question 9

Ngo Din Diem

Answer 9

Leader of the south non-communist Vietnam

Question 10

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 10

Gave the president Johnson broad powers to increase troop levels and bombings in northern Vietnam.

Question 11

The Great Society

Answer 11

President Johnson to help people below the poverty line

Question 12

Election of 1968

Answer 12

Opposition to the war intensified. Senator McCarthy ran for president.

Question 13

Tet Offensive

Answer 13

US victory, Vietnam Cong destroyed. And it turned the public opinion against the war

Question 14

Vietnamization

Answer 14

US would gradually withdraw troops as ARVN assumed an increasing combat role

Question 15

My Lai Massacre

Answer 15

Troops massacred a village and increased opposition to the war

Question 16

Nixon’s visit to China

Answer 16

Secretly agreed to support communist China’s bid for admission into the UN

Question 17

Detente

Answer 17

Nixon also went to USSR. SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Talks) the US and USSR agreed to stop making missiles and reduce their numbers.
Cease fire in Vietnam

Question 18

Kent State Protest

Answer 18

Caused Nixon to pull troops out of Cambodia

Question 19

OPEC Oil Embargo

Answer 19

Causes a gas shortage in 1973

Question 20

Gerald Ford

Answer 20

Pardoned Nixon
Helsinki Accords- more rights for citizens
Saigon fell to communist invasion in 1975

Question 21

Watergate

Answer 21

“The Plumbers”

Nixon secretly taped conversations and phone calls in the Oval Office and wouldn’t show them to the court

Question 22

Betty Friedan

Answer 22

Wrote Feminine Mystique

Question 23

NOW

Answer 23

National Organization for Women

Question 24

Cesar Chavez

Answer 24

Organized national boycott of grapes

United Farm Workers (UFW)

Question 25

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Answer 25

Embassy in Tehran seized and held hostages.

“Desert One” rescue mission failed

Question 26

Stagflation

Answer 26

When a stagnant economy experiences inflation

Question 27

Camp David Accords

Answer 27

Brokered peace treaty between Egypt and Israel

Question 28

AIM

Answer 28

American Indian Movement

Militant group occupies Alcatraz and Wounded Knee

Question 29

Reagan Anti-communist Interventions

Answer 29

Testified against communism before House Un-American Activities Committee

Question 30

Sandra Day O’Conor

Answer 30

First woman nominated to Supreme Court

Question 31

Geraldine Ferraro

Answer 31

First woman to run for Vice President

Question 32

NASA Setbacks

Answer 32

Star Wars? To destroy missiles from space?

Question 33

H Ross Perot

Answer 33

Third Party runner for president

Question 34

Clinton Intervention in Bosnia

Answer 34

Breakup of Yugoslavia caused war and ethnic cleansing. UN and NATO intervened and NATO bombed Serbia

Question 35

Bill Clinton’s Impeachment

Answer 35

1998 Perjury and Obstruction of Justice

Question 36

Persian Gulf War

Answer 36

1990- Iraqi army invaded Kuwait

Operation Desert Storm