exam final pt 2 Flashcards

1
Q

What fast food chain served donuts and coffee?

A

Dunkin Donuts

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2
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Eisenhower puts in place where employs 15 million Americans who lay down pavement and maps out roads. Used for rapid transportation of military goods and troops through the United States. What act was this?

A

The Interstate Highway Act

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3
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Who worked together and create a cold war policy with the Soviet Union called Massive Retalitions?

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John Foster Dulles and Eisenhower

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3
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North Vietnam leader named Ho Chi Minh who was fighting for what? Why does Eisenhower refuse to help?

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A war of independence against the French. / Because France is ally to USA and North Vietnam is communist.

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3
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What is Massive Retaliation?

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Where Eisenhower threaten the Soviet Union and China with using nuclear weapons on them and making boasting statements.

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4
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Who drops nuclear weapons around the world?

A

Bombers

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4
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Who helps Ho Chi Minh? / What Fort does Minh attack? / What event helped the French government to withdraw from Vietnam. This is Americas most unpopular wars in American history.

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Soviet Union/French Fort Dien Bien Phu and kills 20 thousand Frenchmen/ Vietnam War

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5
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Who overthrows government in Cuba and turns Cuba into a communist nation?

A

Fidel Castro

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5
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What is the first man made satellite the Soviet Union created?

A

Sputnik 1

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6
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Who is the Soviets new leader and is in power during the Cuban missile crisis?

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Nikita Khrushchev

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7
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What is the first election where people can watch on tv a presidential debate? / Who did the democratic party nominate? / Who did the republicans nominate?

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy vs Richard Milhous Nixon / JFK/ Nixon

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8
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Who won 1/6th popular vote because the women loved him and his looks? / What happened after Nixon lost?

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JFK / Riots broke out saying that the election was rigged but Nixon got on tv saying he lost.

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9
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What is the fictional idea the media made up that John F Kennedy presidency was perfect, and he had a perfect family? / Was it true?

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Camelot / no because JFK had lots of affairs one famously with Marilyn Monroe and since his secret service men were young in 2013, they made money off of books talking about Kennedy.

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10
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What is the closest to nuclear war that the USA and Soviet Union came in the Cold War that was the tipping point of WW3?

A

Cuban Missile Crisis

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11
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What was JFK addicted to and took 9 shots a day of?

A

Demerol

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12
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Why did JFK rival the new deal? / What was JFK going to call his program?

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To make more social programs than FDR was going to call the The New Frontier but was renamed The Great Society by Johnson.

13
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What is the quote “Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.” ?

A

JFK Inaugural address

13
Q

What is the Man on the Moon Speech?

A

Address that says within 10 years we will put a man on the moon before the Soviet Union.

14
Q

What does JFK replace Massive Retaliations with where we need various approaches with dealing with various problems around the world?

A

Flexible Response