Era 8 Review

Question 1

espionage

Answer 1

spying to obtain secret information from a government

Question 2

judicial activism

Answer 2

using the constitution to answer questions involving civil rights if the accused

Question 3

conglomerates

Answer 3

major corporation that includes several small businesses in unrelated fields

Question 4

planned obsolescence

Answer 4

purposely designing products to wear out ir become out of date

Question 5

HUAC

Answer 5

Targeted hollywood stars for communist beliefs

Question 6

fair deal

Answer 6

truman and eisenhower extended roosevelt’s new deal

Question 7

Civil Rights Commission

Answer 7

A commission that is tasked with advising on civil matters

Question 8

Chiang Kai-Shek

Answer 8

leader of china and the US supported his resistance to communist takeovers

Question 9

Mao Tse Tung

Answer 9

the communist leader of China

Question 10

George F. Kennan

Answer 10

The ambassador to the soviet union, the father of containment

Question 11

julius and ethel rosenberg

Answer 11

accused of selling information about the atomic bomb to the soviets

Question 12

Charles De Gaulle

Answer 12

A french general who led in resistance against Nazi Germany

Question 13

Alger Hiss

Answer 13

A soviet spy working for the US government, sold secrets to the soviets

Question 14

Dixiecrat Party

Answer 14

A faction of the Southern Democrat party, this made democrats weak and allowed for the rise of republicans

Question 15

Jack Kerouac

Answer 15

The author of a book “On the Road” where he described his travels across America looked for authentic experiences

Question 16

John Foster Dulles

Answer 16

Secretary of State, anti-communist and believed that communism was a moral problem

Question 17

Francis Gary Powers

Answer 17

Pilot of U2 flight over Russia, it was shot down and captured by the soviets

Question 18

Earl Warren

Answer 18

chief justice who used the constitution to answer questions involving civil rights

Question 19

Orval Faubus

Answer 19

the governor of Arkansas

Question 20

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 20

Conservative and anti-ERA who believed in would take away benifuts to “dependent wives” and would

Question 21

Explain how consumerism and mass media led to the 1950s becoming an era of “Keeping up with the Joneses”

Answer 21

American culture becomes about competing with neighbors, everyone wanted the next best thing, and most people lived in suburbs but worked in cities

Question 22

Why did the Beats resist popular culture of the 1950s?

Answer 22

They were social nonconformists artists, poets, writers, and musicians who avoided regular work and constantly searched for a higher consciousnes

Question 23

Explain the Suez Crisis

Answer 23

The society union backed Egyptian government and construction of 2nd canal on the nile

Question 24

Why did Congress pass the Taft-Hartley Act

Answer 24

Unions couldn’t require membership for employment and outlawed union boycotts of companies

Question 25

De Facto segregation

Answer 25

exists by practice or custom

Question 26

De Jure segregation

Answer 26

exists by law

Question 27

Explain the Military Industrial Complex

Answer 27

warned to watch the nations military, economic and politics

Question 28

Alliance for Progress

Answer 28

provided economic and technical assistance for Latin America provided 12 bill in aid

Question 29

Test Ban Treaty

Answer 29

prohibits nuclear explosions and testing in space or under water

Question 30

Explain why the Bay of Pigs was considered a failure for John F. Kennedy

Answer 30

the US promised air support, but never followed through & invaders were immediately captured

Question 31

Stokely Carmichael

Answer 31

A SNCC leader who coined the term “black power” they wanted blacks to force change and didn’t recruit whites to help

Question 32

What was Title IX?

Answer 32

prohibits sex discrimination in public education

Question 33

What was NOW?

Answer 33

the National Organization for women it pushed for equality in the workplace and daycare centuries so women could work

Question 34

Explain the importance of Freedom Summer

Answer 34

it drew national media attention because whites began getting killed too

Question 35

“Hawks” and the “Doves”

Answer 35

hawks; believed hat the war was an act of the USSR backed by communist aggression
doves: believed the conflict was a civil war fought by nationalists and communists

Question 36

Why did the Tet Offensive bring about an end to the war?

Answer 36

The US gave Vietnam a week long cease fire to celebrate their holiday, but they attached anyways & killed 3,000 troops

Question 37

What was the 26th amendment

Answer 37

lowered the voting age

Question 38

What was the War Powers Act

Answer 38

the president must inform congress within 48 hours of defending troops to war & can only keep troops in area for 90 days

Question 39

What was the 24th Amendment?

Answer 39

prohibited any poll tax in elections

Question 40

How does New Federalism relate to revenue sharing?

Answer 40

new federalism is the burden of funding social programs bc it falls in states, it related to revenue sharing bc it allows states to spend federal money any way they wanted to

Question 41

What caused the economic programs of “stagflation” under Nixon?

Answer 41

the war and great society programs

Question 42

explain realpolitik and how it helped ease cold war tensions

Answer 42

it was foreign policy based on power and not on ideas or moral principles, they began to ignore small unimportant countries