FINAL Flashcards
The characteristics of fascist governments include each of the following except
A government owned economy
Which one of the following was not a provision of the neutrality acts of the 1930s?
Complete trade embargo with all belligerent
Which one of the following was not a pricniple expressed in the Atlantic Charter?
complete disarmament
The Joint Declaration issued by the Allies included each of the following expect:
A plan to create an international peaekeeping organization after the way
The functions of the War Production Board included all of the following except
regulating wages and prices
The provisions of the Yalta Agreement included each of the following except
The Soviet Union agreed to enter the war against Japan following the defeat of Germany
Douglas McArthur introduced each of the following democratic reforms to Japan after the war except:
Freedom of speech
T/F: During the war, women held jobs that had not been open to them before, but women in the armed forces were assigned traditional women’s duties exclusively.
False
Giving in to the demands of a bully, such as Hitler, in the vain hope that the will be satisfied and that war will be avoided is ______________.
Appeasement
The American policy of selling non-military goods to belligerents, with the understanding that they would pay in advance and would pick up the goods with their own ships
Cash-and-carry
The American practice of loaning wa supplies to the British in exchange for the right to use their naval and air bases in the Caribbean
Lend-Lease
The German war tactic that combined rapid troop movement with close coordination between land and air forces
Blitzkrieg
Limiting the amount of certain products that consumers could purchase in any given month
Rationing
The strategy of attacking certain Japanese-held islands while bypassing others of lesser importance
Island Hopping
Japanese suicide pilots who attempted to sink American ships by deliberately crashing their airplanes into them
Kamikaze
The British Prime minister who led his people safely through WWII
Winston S. Churchill
Leader of the Committee to Defend America by helping the Allies
William Allen White
Leader of the daring attack on Tokyo and other Japanese cities in April 1942
James Doolittle
Pilot and author of “Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo”
Ted Lawson
Builder of prefabricated “Liberty” ships
Henry Kaiser
Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme Allied Commander in the South Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Commander of the U.S Navys Pacific fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
U.S. Navy pilot shot down and rescued by a U.S. submarine
George H Bush
Physicist who led the top secret U.S. program to develop the atomic bomb
J Robert Oppenheimer
The goals of the marshall plan
A,B,C,D
The provisions of the Geneva Peace Accords of 1954 included each of the following except
A date was set for an international conference to negotiate the reunification of Vietnam
The actions taken by Johnson in escalating the war in Vietnam included each of the following except:
Bombing of North and South Vietnam
The provisions of Nixons strategy for ending the US combat role in Vietnam included each of the following except
Covert ground operations in Cambodia and Laos
T/F: The outcome of the North Vietnamese Tet offensive of 1968 was a serious military defeat for the US
False
The policy adopted by Harry S Truman of resisting he expansion of communism anywhere in the world
Containment
President Eisenhowers proposal that the US and the Soviet Union conduct reconnaissance flights over each other’s territory
Open Skies
The Worlds first artificial satellire, launched by the USSR in 1957
Sputnik
Kennedys tactic of refusing to permit the USSR to install nuclear weapons in Cuba by intercepting ships transporting them
Quarantine
The belief that if South Vietnam fell to communists, the rest of Southeast Asia would follow
Domino Effect
The American tactic of locating the enemy, calling in air strikes, and sending in ground forces to mop-up any remaining enemy soldiers
Search and destroy
The chemical defoliant that was dropped on Vietnamese rain forests in order to strip the land of all vegetation
Agent Orange
The knowledge, shared by the US and the Soviet Union was an attack by either against the other would result in the devastation of both
Mutally assured destruction
People who flee a country because of a well-founded fear of persecution and seek safety in another
Refugees
American State department official who sugested the Soviet expansion be resisted
George Kennan
Secretary of State who planned to rebuild Europe’s war-shattered economy
George Marshall
Commander of UN forces in Korea
Douglas MacArthur
Wisconsin Senator who sought to uncover communists in the US government
Joseph McCarthy
American U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960
Francis Gary Powers
Commander of US forces in North Vietnam
William Westmoreland
Richard Nixons national Security Advisor who later became Secretary of State
Henry Kissinger
Sculptor who designed the Vietnam Memorial in DC
Maya Lin
The methods used by southern states to prevent their black citizens voting included each of the following except
Property requirements
Which one of the following was not a goal of the government’s termination policy?
To encourage Indians to move to cities and assimilate into the white community
Which of the following was not a provision of the Civil rights act of 1964?
a ban on discrimination based on sex
The system of complete separation of the races that was adopted throughout the south
Jim Crow
Racially motivated murder
lynching
The belief that black Americans should accept society as it was, learn a trade, get a good job, support their families, and leave civil rights for the future
Accomodationism
the movement of large number of European americans to the suburbs, in order to avoid to avoid living near member of minority groups
white flight
Agrreements among neighbors designed to prevent racial or religious minorities from buying homes in certain neighborhoods
restrictive covenants
Civil rights demonstrations in which people would politely request to be served in restaurants or diners and would not resist if they were attacked
sit-ins
The brave people who undertook interracial bus trips across the south, protesting the segregation of interstate transportation
Freedom Riders
The summer of 1964, when northern volunteers went to Mississippi to assist black southerners in their attempts to register to vote
Freedom Summer
The civil rights law which states that women must receive equal opportunities in interscholastic and intercollegiate sports
Title IX
The effort to improve educational and employment opportunities for women and minorities, without the use of a quota system
Affirmative Action
the only supreme court justice to dissent from the “separate, but equal” decision
John Marshall Harlan
Newspaper publisher who campaigned to make racially-motivated murder a federal crime
Ida B. Wells
Educator who believed that black men should learn a trade, support their families, and not to worry about civil rights
Booker T. Washington
Co-founder of the NAACP and editor of its magazine, the crisis
W.E.B. DuBois
First African-American to play major league baseball in the 20th century
Jackie Robinson
Black youth murdered by racists for being “disrespectful” to a white woman
Emmet Till
Person arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus when ordered to relinquish a seat to a white passenger
Rosa Parks
leader of the Alabama bus boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr
black student who enrolled at the all-white University of Mississippi
James Meredith
three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964 for trying to assist black Americans in registering to vote
James Chaney
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner
Chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam who was later murdered by members of that group
Malcom X
Leader of STOP-ERA
Phyllis Schlafly
Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy initiatives included each of the following except
Obtaining the release of our hostages in Iran
George H Bush’s foreign policy initiatives included each of the following except:
permanent suspension of arms shipments to the People’s Republic of China
Bill Clinton’s foreign policy initiatives included each of the following except
seeking the capture of Osama Bin Laden
Clintons domestic policy successes included each of the following except
a major overhaul of the national health care
Which of the following was not a provision of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation act?
It created a system of block grants that the states could use to design their own back to work programs
T/F: The event that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union was the tearing down of the Berlin wall.
False
Ronald reagans theory that sizeable tax cuts wll stimulate the economy by putting more cash in the hands of the consumers is known as
Supply-side economics
The conservative agenda proposed by the Republican Party during the 1994 midterm elections
Contract with America
The attempt by Serbian forces to rid Bosnia and Herzegovina of its Muslim population, either by killing them or driving them away
ethnic cleansing
To lie under oath in a court of law
perjury
A network that allows all computers linked to the Internet to communicate and exchange information
Worldwide Web
First female Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor
Chief Justice of the US (1986-2005)
William Rehnquist
Commander of the US- led invasion of Iraq
Norman Svhwarzkopf
Creator of the largest chain of discount stores in the US
Sam Walton
Creator of the PC
Steve Jobs
The servicemen’s readjustment act included each of the following benefits excpept
Cash Bonuses
The gains made by workers during the 1950s included each of the following excpet
The number of strikes declined dramatically as job satisfaction increased
The reasons for the relocation of many northern industries to the south included
- the south reduced labor costs
2. favorable tax laws
The cause of juvenile delinquency, according to Freserick Wertham, was
comic books
The criticisms of rock n roll during the 1950s included each of the following except
it was played too loudly
The components of Johnsons War on Pverty included
A, B, C, D, E
The dramatic increase in the birth rate that followed WWII and continued for 18 years
Baby boom
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act was commonly known as
GI Bill
A derogatory name applied to television during the 1950s
Boob tube
Eisenhower, in hid farewell message, cautioned the American people that a potential problem for the US was the _________________, a powerful alliance between business and the armed forces.
Military- industrial complex
Nixons proposal to return a portion of federal tax dollars to state and local governments in the form of grants to be used as they saw fit
Revenue Sharing
Nixons proposal to replace most federal welfare programs with a guaranteed annual income for all families
Family-assistance plan
The strange, unprecedented combination of high unemployment and high inflation that afflicted the US in the 1970s
stagflation
Creator of post- WWII suburbs
William Levitt
Publisher of National Review and founder of the modern conservative movement
William F. Buckley, JR.
Republican presidential candidate (64)
Barry Goldwater
President of Egypt and Prime Minister and of Israel who negotiated a peace treaty
Anwar Sadat
Menachem Begin
George W. Bush’s Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld
George W. Bush’s National Security of State Advisor who then became his secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice
The Term used to refer collectively to biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons is _______________
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Extracting oil and natural gas trapped in layers in shale by pumping fluids under pressure into, and cracking, the rock is _____________
hydraulic fraction
