History Exam Flashcards
Imaginary line that separated the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West
Iron Curtain
The period when the US and the Soviets tried to stop the spread of each others ideologies
Cold War
Sending millions of tons of aid after the Soviet blockade in East Germany
Berlin Airlift
Leader of the People’s Republic of China
Mao Zedong
The period after WW2 when Americans feared that communist were infiltrating the American government
Red Scare
Going to the edge of war to force the other side to back down
Brinkmanship
Lead the AUAC
Joseph McCarthy
trying to stop the spread of communism
Containment
Boosted the economy by providing generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college
GI Bill
The period of rapidly increasing birthrates between 1945 and 1961
Baby Boom
Invented the polio vaccine
Jonas Salk
When rock ‘n’ roll helped to create a cultural separation between children and their parents
Generation Gap
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Sputnik
Brought many Mexican migrant workers to the US
Bracero Program
Kennedy’s legislative agenda was called this
New Frontier
?”one man, one vote” all citizens votes would have equal weight
reapportionment
Stated that separate but equal wasn’t exactly legal
Brown vs. Board of Education
Anyone who is arrested has the right to a lawyer
Gideon vs. Wainwright
Banned prayer in public schools
Engel vs. Vitale
One of Kennedy’s plans that called for a buildup of conventional weapons
Flexible Response
April 17, 1961, armed Cuban exiles landed on the south coast of Cuba at where
Bay of Pigs
The closest the US has come to being involved in nuclear war after WW2
Cuban Missile Crisis
To find out if more than one person was involved in the Kennedy assassination
Warren Commission
Assassinated President Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
President Johnson’s vision of the more perfect and equitable society the US could and should become
Great Society you
Declared when President Johnson felt that wealthy government should try to improve the lives of its citizens
War on Poverty
Military group- armed conflict to save our civil rights movement is what we should do
Black Panthers
Members of the nation of Islam and turned again their ideas
Malcolm X
Bloody Sunday
Selma March
Young people from the North who came to the South and tried to integrate places
Freedom Riders
Southern Christian Leadership Conference , Afro Church members in the Souther (Leader MLK Jr.)
SCLC
African who wouldn’t move to the back of the bus in Montgomery
Rosa Parks
Leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia make up what
IndoChina
The French withdrew fro Indochina after this battle
Dien Bien Phu
Put into power in the South
Ngo Dinh Diem
The belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, so too would the other nations of Southeast Asia
Domino Theory
Special fortified villages that Vietnamese peasants moved into to protect them and prevent them from aiding the Vietcong
Strategic Hamlets
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Separate- but- Equal
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
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Filibuster
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Martin Luther King Jr.
When Congress gave its war powers to the president
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Jellied gasoline that explodes on contact
Napalm
The goal of this was to destroy the ability to hide in jungles
Agent Orange
?Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped create this
Credibility Gap
The US attacked all of the bases in North Vietnam
Tet Offensive
Revealed that the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam
Pentagon Papers
Capital of South Vietnam
Saigon
Split Vietnam
17th Parallel
This law, passed by Congress after the war, limited the President’s ability to engage US troops overseas without the approval of Congress
War Powers Act
Expressed the views of the Students for a Democratic Society
Port Huron Statment
Led the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley
Mario Savio
Members of this dropped out and lived in communes, sharing living arrangements with other youths
Counterculture
Rock festival that drew hundreds of thousands of people in 1969
Woodstock
Founded the National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan
Ruled that state could not regulate abortion in the first three months of pregnancy
Roe vs. Wade
Called for companies and institutions to actively recruit African American employees
Affirmative Action
Organized a successful grape boycott
Cesar Chavez
Wrote Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
A town where residents experienced health problems because an old toxic waste dump under the community was leaking into the ground
Love Canal
Pollution standards in America are enforced by this agency
EPA
The incident here left many people in great doubt about the safety of nuclear energy
Three Mile Island
Wrote unsafe at any speed that led the movement to make cars safer
Ralph Nader
President Nixon’s national security advisor
Henry Kissenger
Easing tensions between the US and the Soviet Union
Dètente
White House Plumbers broke into hotel at Dem. Nat. Con.
Watergate
A person who believes government power, particularly government power, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom
Conservative
Strategic Defense Initiative, it called for the development of weapons that could intercept and destroy incoming missiles
Star Wars
A place in Beijing where many people were killed and hundreds of pro-democracy activists were arrested- private government enterprise “ “
Tiannanmen Square
Chinese students for Democracy
Perestroika
Created Apple
Steve Jobs
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Microsoft
Invented DNA
Watson and Crick
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NAFTA
Promised to reduce emissions but very few went into affect by Clinton
Kyoto Protocol
