Final Exam

Question 1

Explain George kennans containment policy

Answer 1

US should restrain Soviet expansionists

Question 2

How did pres Truman respond to the Berlin blockade

Answer 2

launched a massive airlift into West Berlin and it was very successful

Question 3

What is mc carthyism

Answer 3

Public charges of disloyalty with no sufficient regard for evidence

Question 4

Why was gen mcArthur relived of command

Answer 4

For insubordination and to preserve civilian control of the military

Question 5

What was the hist significance of brown v board of edu

Answer 5

Struck down “separate but equal” in public edu

Question 6

How did pres eisenhower respond to Little Rock Arkansas crisis of 1957

Answer 6

Sent 1000 troops to protect the black students

Question 7

A new phase in the civil rights movement began on aug 11 1965, explain the significance of the watts riot and new call for “black power.” what was the split in the civil rights movement?

Answer 7

Watts riot= frenzy of 4000 rioters and rejected MLKs idea of people’s protest

Question 8

What was the Cuban missile crisis 1962

Answer 8

US and Russia almost went to war, Kennedy guaranteed Cuba and soviet ships stepped short of the quarantine line

Question 9

What did the Geneva Accords 1954 specify

Answer 9

Split Vietnam on the 17 parallel until elections were held

Question 10

Define the Tonkin Gulf resolution

Answer 10

Allowed pres Johnson to escalate the war

Question 11

Define Levittown

Answer 11

An example of a neighborhood that had an assembly line approach to reproducing affordable housing

Question 12

Why did the US pass the servicemen’s readjustment act (GI Bill) after ww2? Did the US experience a depression or an economic boom in the 1950s

Answer 12

To help Vietnam reenter society (edu, finances, success) US had an economic boom

Question 13

Compare and contrast Americanization and Vietnamization

Answer 13

Americanization= Johnson increasing American troops in Vietnam
Vietnamization= Nixon decreases troops and sent money and guns

Question 14

What is the meaning of the “iron curtain” as used by prime minister Churchill

Answer 14

Soviet suppression in Eastern Europe isolated the region from the free world

Question 15

Define and evaluate the success of the Marshall plan

Answer 15

Economic recovery plan to rebuild eastern and western europe after ww2

Question 16

Why was it significant that the US participate in NATO? How did that mark a departure in foreign policy

Answer 16

“U attack them u attack us” Americans stepping away from isolationism

Question 17

What was discussed in the kitchen debates

Answer 17

Talks between Nixon and soviet khushev argued over washing machines, etc, useless stuff

Question 18

In what ways did Betty Friedan encourage the feminist movement in the 1960s

Answer 18

Wrote feminist mystique, accused ppl of pressing women National Organization of women

Question 19

Explain the significance of the Truman doctrine which was initially applied to turkey and Greece

Answer 19

Pledged to support the fight against communism

Question 20

Why did pre Eisenhower define the republican platform as dynamic conservatism

Answer 20

When dealing with humans he had liver views and the rest opinions were conservative ( financial,political,etc)

Question 21

What was the objective of the 1964 freedom rides

Answer 21

Unsegregated ppl who ride on the buses to the segregated south to the test the Supreme Court

Question 22

Describe MLKs philosophy

Answer 22

Peaceful protest, non violent protesting

Question 23

What triggered the Korean War

Answer 23

Communist N Korea invaded democratic South Korea

Question 24

What term did Richard Nixon coin to refer to the generally content law abiding middle class Americans

Answer 24

The silent majority