History Exam 4- 1302 Flashcards

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Only nation able to rival U.S. after WWII

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Russia/ Soviet Union

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2
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Containment

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Idea that the U.S. will embark on a worldwide emission to stop the spread of communism.

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3
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Truman Doctrine

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Commits the U.S to fighting communism everywhere it can.

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Berlin Blockade

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After the war Berlin ,similar to Germany, was broken into 4 blocks/sectors
-Soviets agreed that railroad tracks would bring in supplies to areas in berlin
-Allies set up a currency for West Germany
- Stalin man and cuts all shipments through the railroad
-U.S has to do an 11 month airlift program

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5
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Mao Zedong

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Becomes the leader of China after the end of the civil war.

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NSc-68

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A permanent military buildup the U.S. embarks on in applying containment.

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7
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Korean War

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Korea divided into 2, nothing changes and ends in a crease fire
General MacArthur criticizes Truman publicly and Truman fires him

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Reason U.S. backed away from pressuring its European allies to grant their colonies. independence…

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American diplomats valued nations like France because of there alliance in the European cold war.

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9
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Totalitarianism

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The idea that a person or government controls everything in society which keeps it from changing.
-Describes Nazism, fascism, Soviet Union.

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10
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Impact of Cold War on American life

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immigration policy
expand higher education
scientific research in medicine/computers
lead to end of segregation

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11
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Harry Truman’s loyalty review system’s target and why

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Targeted homosexuals in government jobs because it argued that they were suspectable to back male because they lacked the manly qualities it took to fight communism.

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12
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Operation Wetback

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A program utilized by the military to round up illegal aliens in Mexican American neighborhoods and deported them.

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How did white supremacists use anticommunist rhetoric?

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Accuse attacked groups of being communists
-Ex. African Americans promoting civil rights, jews, and any others they saw as enemy’s.

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14
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The “Golden Age of Capitalism” between 1946 and 1960 benefited Americans through…

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Most monetary (money) gangs reached ordinary people through rising wages. So most people are making more money

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Religious differences during the Cold War

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Anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish clash between other Christian denominations is absorbed into a common Judeo-Christian heritage.

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Libertarian conservatives and freedom

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Their definition of freedom: Individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism.

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17
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New conservatives trusted the government to do what

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regulate personal behavior.

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18
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President Eisenhower’s biggest government intervention in the economy

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Promoted building of the interstates
-Gets his idea form Hitler’s auto bonds.

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“Massive Retaliation”

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Declares that any soviet attack on us or an ally will result in us attacking as well.
-We’re not just going to send one, were going to send them all.

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20
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“Third World”

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Term invented to describe developing nations not allied with the soviet union or the U.S.
-Includes countries who used to be former European colonies

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21
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Reason Supreme Court did not implement Brown v. Board of Education immediately

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Overturned separate but equal yet, the judges feared, outbreak of violence on such and bold decision.
-Violence breaks out anyways.

21
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Ngo Dinh Diem

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A leader in south Vietnam that the U.S. backs specifically when he decided to ignore what is called the Geneva accords that planned free elections in Vietnam.

22
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Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Begins when rosa parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat

23
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Big difference between 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon

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It is held on national tv
-Nixon was sick and appears as the worse candidate even though when re listened to it sounds like Nixon won

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1963 March on Washington

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Involved numerous groups of African Americans and whites and other rights movements. Not just about civil rights, however, this was the high-water mark of white and black cooperation over civil rights

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Bay of Pigs invasion

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Failed CIA attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow the Castro government.

26
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The Berlin Wall

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Built in 1961 by the soviets to stop immigration from east berlin to west berlin
-Because they are losing all the good people “doctors, lawyers, etc.”

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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Starts because U.S. spy planes discover soviet nuclear missile in Cuba.

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Civil Rights Act 1964

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Going to help start promoting protection for African americans and desegregation. But its initial sponsor JFK gets assassinated. So his vice president signs ht law saying it is a memorial to JFL.

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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-Empowered federal officers s to oversee voter registration.
-Strongly endorsed by President Johnson.
-After Johnson gives a speech about it, congress quickly passes it.
–It’s also passed because of the Selma to Montgomery march.

30
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The Great Society

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-Included health care, education, and urban development programs funded by the federal government.
-Established the department of housing and urban development and transportation.

31
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Malcom X and interracial cooperation

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Is convinced that interracial cooperation is possible after he witnesses interracial harmony among Muslims in Saudi Arabia.

32
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Powerful advocate of Chicano farm workers

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Caesar Chavez

32
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The Black Panther Party

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-Provided education and healthcare to urban residents.
-Became a target of the FBI and California police

33
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Authorized president Johnson to take all necessary measures to repel an armed attack in Vietnam.

34
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Loving v. Virginia

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Prohibited laws in the states that did not allow interracial marriage.

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Miranda v. Arizona

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If you are in police custody you have certain rights.

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Roe v. Wade

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Created a constitutional act for women to get an abortion.

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Nixon administration’s biggest agencies

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Environmental protection agency (EPA)
occupational safety and health administration (OSHA)
National transportation safety board (NTSB)

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Nixon’s foreign policy of “detente”

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-Nixon’s attempt to have a peaceful coexistence with communist nations.
–Demonstrates this by going to China and the soviet union.

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What were the burglars at the Watergate apartment complex breaking into?

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The democratic headquarters.

40
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Americanization

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Nixon’s attempt to end the Vietnam war by gradually pulling American groups out and replacing them with south Vietnamese troops.

41
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Stagflation

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Stagnant economic growth and high inflation.

41
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Cause of Khmer rouge rise in Cambodia

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The U.S. secret invasion in 1970 under Nixon.

42
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Three Mile Island

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-A nuclear power plants in the United States that had a near meltdown but still released radioactive gasses into the air.
–Incident halted the nuclear industries expansion.

43
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Iran Crisis

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-In 1979, there was a popular revolution in Iran that over threw Shah of Iran
–Revolution demonstrated that movements in the middle east were shifting to religious fundamentalist ideologies.

44
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President Carter’s response to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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-boycott the Moscow Olympics
-Places an embargo on grain exports to the soviet union
-Funneled money to Muslims in Afghanistan fighting the soviets.
-Dramatically increased military spending

45
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“Trickle-down economics”

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Claims to increase government tax revenue by lowering tax rates

46
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Bowers v. Hardwick

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Upheld state laws that outlawed homosexual acts.

47
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Iran-Contra Affair

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The greatest scandal of the Iranian ministration that involved selling weapons to Iran and funneling money to the contras in Nicaragua.