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Final Exam Flashcards

1
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HUAC’s purpose

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The purpose was the expose the communist

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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Electric chair= atomic bomb info leak

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Alger Hiss

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Used to be a spy; part of FDR’s team wasn’t arrested

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McCarthyism

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Unfair allegations and investigation

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5
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Who to remember from Hollywood Ten?

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Dalton Trumbo: Wrote Roman holiday

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6
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Blacklisted

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Weren’t allowed to be employed in Hollywood

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Reactions to the atomic bomb?

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Bomb shelters and Duck and cover

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8
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Why did the baby boomer age happen?

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Great Depression
Couldn’t afford to wait
Prosperity

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How did gender roles relate to the Cold War?

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  • Told woman to stay at home
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Cold War Propaganda

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  • Nuclear Family came out of it

- Women play her role, the man plays his, everybody does what they are supposed to do and we’ll win the Cold War

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11
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Why was prosperity part of the baby boomers?

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Gi bill & Military spending (cost)

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12
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Why was the GI Bill successful?

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It enabled soldiers to steer toward the education system

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13
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White-Collar Vs. Blue-Collar

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White-collar wears a suit and has an office.
Blue-Collar does manual labor; outside
White-collar make more money so they pay more taxes

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14
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American Dream in the Suburbs

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Conformity: all houses looked the same

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William Levitt

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  • Father of Modern American Suburbia

- Made Levittowns, mass-produced housing (all looked the same)

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16
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What did the home represent?

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  • Comfort from the fear of the Cold War
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17
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Elvis Presley

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King of Rock

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18
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Alan Freed

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  • First white R&B DJ

- Credited for the term Rock & Roll

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Why was Rock & Roll important?

Why was Rock & Roll a common culture?

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  • Represented rebellion against parents

- Common culture for black and white teenagers

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20
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Rosa Parks

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Bus rider that led to the bus Boycott

- Leader of that boycott was Martin Luther King

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21
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Thurgood Marshall

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  • Represented Brown V Board
  • First black supreme court justice
  • selected by President Johnson
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Earl Warren

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  • Chief Justice

- expanding civil rights, civil liberty, and judicial power

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Little Rock Nine

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9 students in Little Rock wanted to go to the white high school but they were turned away. They thought they could go because of Brown V. Board of education.

  • Mass of resistance comes out of Brown V. Board
  • Eisenhower
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Jackie Robinson

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First Black man to play for a white baseball team

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25
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Seeds of discontent for the civil rights movement post-WW2?

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  • Still being segregated

- Blacks and women soldiers didn’t get the Gi Bill

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26
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When did Jim Crow begin?

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Compromise of 1877

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27
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Plessy v Ferguson

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Separate but equal

28
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Southern Manifesto

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  • After the supreme court accusation of abuse of power
  • Answer to Brown V Board
  • Resistance of southern congressman as a result of Brown V Board
29
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Who participated in March on Washington?

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Martin Luther King

30
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What did television represent?

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Escapism

31
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How did consumerism have to do with television?

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  • TV encouraged products to be bought
32
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What were purchasing habits based on?

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  • Television sitcoms that portrayed wealthy families

- affluence

33
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What changed the face of politics?

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The face of television

34
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First campaign ad on television

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Eisenhower

35
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Thomas Dewey

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  • Ran against FDR

- Famous photo that shows Truman holding up a newspaper that says Dewey wins, but Truman actually won

36
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What was Eisenhower the father of?

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Modern Interstate

37
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Who enacted the GI Bill?

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FDR

38
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What case did Brown v Board reverse?

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Plessy v Ferguson

39
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What amendment did Brown v Board reverse?

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14th amendment

40
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Gideon v Wainwright

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Right to counsel

41
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Loving v Virginia

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Interracial marriages

42
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Miranda v Arizona

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Right to hear your rights

43
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Plessy v Ferguson

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  • Basis for Jim Crow
  • based on the 14th amendment
  • separate but equal
  • One of the worse supreme court decision ever
44
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13th Amendment

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Emancipation of slaves

45
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14th Amendment

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Equal rights under the offer of all citizens

46
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15th Amendment

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Right for all men to vote

47
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Where did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment come out of?

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Civil War

48
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Which president enacted the Civil War Amendments?

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Eisenhower

49
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Browder v Gayle

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  • Supreme court decision coming out of Montgomery bus boycott
  • Segregation of public transportation
50
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38th Parallel?

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Divison of North and South Korea

51
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How did the Korean War end?

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Stalemate: nobody won

52
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Who backed the North Korea and who backed South Korea

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Communist backed North

US backed the South

53
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What happened to Doulas Mcarthur during the war?

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He was removed from command

54
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MASH represented what?

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Hospitals, mobile units

55
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Harry S Truman

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  • He dropped the atomic bomb
  • The first president to appear on television
  • President during the Korean War.
56
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Which military leader did Truman fire?

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Mcarthur

57
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What was Eisenhower known for?

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  • Interstate Act
  • Civil Rights Acts
  • First president to run candidate ads on television
58
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Nixon

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  • HUAC made his career
  • First debate to be broadcasted
  • Vice President under Eisenhower both terms
59
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Lyndon Johnson

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In regards to Thurgood Marshall

60
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JFK

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First Presidential debate on television

61
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FDR

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Signed the GI Bill

62
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Reconstruction of Japan

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Mcarthur

63
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Benjamin Spock

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Best selling book about babies during the boomer age

64
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Who did Alaska and Hawaii become states under?

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Eisenhower

65
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Mcarthur

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  • Accusing the army Was his downfall
  • dies of chronic alcoholism.
  • The Senate formally censured him
  • Leader of the NATO US forces

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