Final Exam

Question 1

WWII Major Mile Stones

Answer 1

1939: Germany Invades
1940: Germany Conquers
1940-41: Battle of Britain
1942: Pearl Harbor and USA entry into WW2
1943: Battle of Stalingrad
1943: Allies invade Italy
1944: D-Day
1945: Concentration Camps Liberated
Nuremberg trials

Question 2

Lend-lease Program

Answer 2

act that permits the us to lend or lease arms and other supplies to the allies

Question 3

Four Freedoms

Answer 3

freedom of speech, from want, worship, and from fear

Question 4

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 4

Propaganda character that increased female production workers in factories

Question 5

Executive Order 9066

Answer 5

FDR order to place all Japanese Americans in Internment Camps

Question 6

Dwight D Eisenhower

Answer 6

American president and General who became the commander of allied forces in europe

Question 7

A Phillip Randolph and Executive Order 8802

Answer 7

prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry

Question 8

Double V Campaign

Answer 8

victory that demanded African Americans who were risking their lives in the war be given full citizenship rights a home

Question 9

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 9

Law passes in 1944 to help returning vets buy homes and pay for higher education

Question 10

Baby Boomers

Answer 10

78 million people born following WW2

Question 11

Levittown

Answer 11

Suburban communities built by William Levitt in new york and philadelphia

Question 12

Causes of the Cold War

Answer 12

Soviet Union tensions and the desire to contain communism

Question 13

George Kennan and Containment

Answer 13

State department best way to keep communism out of europe

Question 14

Truman Doctrine and Harry Truman

Answer 14

Policy to counter soviet union expansion and aid in any country under threat of being overthrown

Question 15

Marshall Plan

Answer 15

Program of economic aid for Europe

Question 16

National Security Act

Answer 16

Department of defense, CIA, National Security Council

Question 17

National Security Council

Answer 17

Office created to coordinate the presidents foreign and military policies

Question 18

Proxy Wars of the Cold War

Answer 18

North vs South Vietnam
North vs. South Korea
Afghans vs. Soviets

Question 19

McCarthyism/Red Scare

Answer 19

Fear of communism and hunt for communist supporters

Question 20

HUAC and Witch Hunts

Answer 20

House un-American Activists to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activity suspected of having communist ties.

Question 21

Lavender Scare

Answer 21

Government-sponsored attack on sexual minorities and those who engage in sax sex behaviors

Question 22

Civil Rights why now

Answer 22

After the post-war, African Americans were still due their civil rights.

Question 23

Military Integration ex order 9981

Answer 23

presidents committee on equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services committing the government to integrating segregated military

Question 24

Dixiecrat’s

Answer 24

southern democrats who opposed Truman’s position on civil rights

Question 25

The Clark Doll test

Answer 25

Experiment on effects of segregation of black children, results showed negative bias towards darker skin

Question 26

Brown vs. Board

Answer 26

Plessy V. Ferguson declared that public schools be desegregated

Question 27

White Citizens Council

Answer 27

In the south, the group was known for its opposition to racial integration

Question 28

KKK

Answer 28

Organization that promoted hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic religions and groups

Question 29

Emmett Till

Answer 29

14 year old black boy who was lynched by a Mississippi mob for leering at a woman

Question 30

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 30

Rosa Parks was arrested and then MLK boycotted city busses which lead to the desegregation of public transportation

Question 31

The SCLC

Answer 31

Southern Christen Leadership Conference churches led by African American civil rights activists

Question 32

Civil Disobedience

Answer 32

refusal to comply with certain laws as a form of peaceful political protest

Question 33

highlander Folk School

Answer 33

school in Tennessee that allowed african Americans and focused on labor, union, and civial rights leadership

Question 34

MLK

Answer 34

organized nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was called De Lawd by activists

Question 35

Bayard Rustin and the Washington March

Answer 35

Gay civil rights activist who led several protests including the march on Washington to protest racial descrimination

Question 36

A Phillip Randolph

Answer 36

American civil rights activist

Question 37

COINTELPRO

Answer 37

FBI program that sought to expose, disrupt, and discredit groups

Question 38

Students Nonviolence Coordinating Committee

Answer 38

30 freedom schools throughout the sate to register african Americans to vote in mississippi

Question 39

Albany Movement

Answer 39

Desegregation coalition from albany georgia

Question 40

Fred Shuttlesworth

Answer 40

Preacher in Alabama who lead MLK to visit Birmingham

Question 41

Bull Conner and Bimingham

Answer 41

Racist police commissioner who ordered the police and firefighters to use dogs and fire hoses on children during the protest

Question 42

Children's Campaign

Answer 42

Series of civil rights movement that involved children to advocate their case which was startling and disapproved by many people

Question 43

Selma

Answer 43

March led by MLK that was violent and got turned down by the national tv

Question 44

Johnson Treatment

Answer 44

LBJs tactic of negotiation with members of congress, he used his size and abrupt manner to manipulate them