History B

Question 1

Why was Goldwater defeated?

Answer 1

because he was made to look like an extremist, nuclear cowyboy

Question 2

What court cases did the Warren Court decide?

Answer 2

Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Question 3

What was Woodstock?

Answer 3

Biggest hippie counterculture event. It was a festival for people to forget about war and go into music and spread a message of unity and peace.

Question 4

What was the Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas ruling?

Answer 4

That racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional.

Question 5

What was Silent Spring?

Answer 5

It introduced critical new ideas into the public mind. That spraying chemicals to control insect populations can also kill birds that feed on dead or dying insects. These chemicals travel not only through the environment but through food chains.

Question 6

What was the legacy of the Great Society?

Answer 6

To end poverty and racism

Question 7

Why was Rosa Parks arrested?

Answer 7

Because she purposely sat in the front of the bus that was for “whites only” when she shouldn’t have been sitting there

Question 8

Why were the Little Rock Nine not allowed into school?

Answer 8

Because they were black and the governor sent the national guard to prevent them from entering the school.

Question 9

What is Snick?

Answer 9

“Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee”, they traveled through segregated South, did sit-ins, and much more

Question 10

What was the Plessy vs Ferguson ruling?

Answer 10

Separate but equal is constitutional, led to black codes and Jim Crow Laws

Question 11

What were Martin Luther King’s methods to fight for Civil Rights?

Answer 11

Soul Force - nonviolent resistance

Question 12

What did the Freedom Riders do?

Answer 12

Traveled in busses though segregated South

Question 13

What happened at the March on Washington?

Answer 13

MLK had his “I have a Dream” speech, and 250,000 people came to D.C. to persuade to pass the Civil Rights Bill

Question 14

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 14

Buses were segregated. Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus which was for “whites only”

Question 15

Freedom Riders

Answer 15

SNCC-filled busses to travel through the segregated South leading to slashed tires. bombs in the busses and riders beat

Question 16

Baptist Church Bombing

Answer 16

The Civil Rights Bill was passed, many people weren’t happy so they bombed a baptist church killing 4 girls

Question 17

Little Rock Nine

Answer 17

9 A black students were chosen to go to Central High, a white school, only 1 out of the nine graduated

Question 18

March on Washington

Answer 18

250,000 people came to D.C. to persuade in passing the Civil Rights Bill, MLK gave his “I have a Dream” speech

Question 19

Sit-Ins

Answer 19

A group of black people would come into an only whites diner, and sit there until they were served. Many were kicked out or arrested but when that happened, a new group of black people would come in and replace them

Question 20

What was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?

Answer 20

Congress gave the President the authority to use force during war

Question 21

Why was fighting in Vietnam supposed to be easy?

Answer 21

Because we’ve already fought communists way much stronger than Vietnam and we had superior soldiers and weapons

Question 22

What was Agent Orange?

Answer 22

It was a herbicide to clear vegetation. It caused many people to have cancer and many other diseases

Question 23

Why did Johnson want to send troops to Vietnam?

Answer 23

Because of the assignation of Kennedy, he didn’t want to make it seem as if America was soft on communism

Question 24

How did television change people’s attitudes toward Vietnam?

Answer 24

This was the first televised war, showing all the dead American soldiers and the bad side of war. People started to hate the war and protested why we have to help Vietnam

Question 25

Who ruled Vietnam prior to WWII?

Answer 25

The French

Question 26

What was the Tet Offensive?

Answer 26

Tet is the Vietnamese New Year celebrating 7 days of peace. The Viet Cong attacked all over killing 3000, Americans responded and killed 32,000 Viet Cong

Question 27

Who was drafted into the military more?

Answer 27

African Americans

Question 28

Neil Armstrong

Answer 28

First man on the moon

Question 29

Emmit Till

Answer 29

14-year-old black boy who whistled at a white woman and was later beaten to death by her husband and brother-in-law.

Question 30

Bull Conner

Answer 30

A sheriff who gave the police a day off of work, making sure that Alabama remains the most segregated state. This led to people throwing bombs, slashing tires, and beating the Freedom Riders

Question 31

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 31

A communist leader in North Vietnam that America had supported against the Japanese during WWII. We saw him as a hero but he wanted communism.

Question 32

Lyndon Johnson

Answer 32

Had suddenly became president, he passed Kennedy’s tax cuts and civil rights laws

Question 33

Martin Luther King

Answer 33

Local pastor who was asked to lead a boycott, he didn’t want to unless the led in his rules

Question 34

Diem

Answer 34

South Vietnam’s leader, was corrupt, U.S. supported him even though he was a bad guy. He was then killed leaving the South unstable

Question 35

General Westmoreland

Answer 35

The leader of the troops in Vietnam requested more troops but politicians didn’t want to

Question 36

President Johnson’s decision to fight in Vietnam

Answer 36

He believed that if he could save South Vietnam, other countries would be saved from communism too, a domino effect. On April 1965, he held a speech at an American University saying, “We are there because we have to keep a promise. Since 1954, every American President has offered support to the people of South Vietnam. We are also there to strengthen world order. Around the globe, from Berlin to Thailand, are people counting on us if they are attacked.” alphahistory.com