Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

American History II > History Exam > Flashcards

History Exam Flashcards

1
Q

Imaginary line that separated the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West

A

Iron Curtain

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

The period when the US and the Soviets tried to stop the spread of each others ideologies

A

Cold War

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Sending millions of tons of aid after the Soviet blockade in East Germany

A

Berlin Airlift

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Leader of the People’s Republic of China

A

Mao Zedong

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

The period after WW2 when Americans feared that communist were infiltrating the American government

A

Red Scare

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Going to the edge of war to force the other side to back down

A

Brinkmanship

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Lead the AUAC

A

Joseph McCarthy

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

trying to stop the spread of communism

A

Containment

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Boosted the economy by providing generous loans to veterans to help them establish businesses, buy homes, and attend college

A

GI Bill

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

The period of rapidly increasing birthrates between 1945 and 1961

A

Baby Boom

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Invented the polio vaccine

A

Jonas Salk

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

When rock ‘n’ roll helped to create a cultural separation between children and their parents

A

Generation Gap

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

?

A

Sputnik

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Brought many Mexican migrant workers to the US

A

Bracero Program

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Kennedy’s legislative agenda was called this

A

New Frontier

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

?”one man, one vote” all citizens votes would have equal weight

A

reapportionment

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Stated that separate but equal wasn’t exactly legal

A

Brown vs. Board of Education

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Anyone who is arrested has the right to a lawyer

A

Gideon vs. Wainwright

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Banned prayer in public schools

A

Engel vs. Vitale

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

One of Kennedy’s plans that called for a buildup of conventional weapons

A

Flexible Response

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

April 17, 1961, armed Cuban exiles landed on the south coast of Cuba at where

A

Bay of Pigs

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

The closest the US has come to being involved in nuclear war after WW2

A

Cuban Missile Crisis

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

To find out if more than one person was involved in the Kennedy assassination

A

Warren Commission

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Assassinated President Kennedy

A

Lee Harvey Oswald

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
President Johnson's vision of the more perfect and equitable society the US could and should become
Great Society you
26
Declared when President Johnson felt that wealthy government should try to improve the lives of its citizens
War on Poverty
27
Military group- armed conflict to save our civil rights movement is what we should do
Black Panthers
28
Members of the nation of Islam and turned again their ideas
Malcolm X
29
Bloody Sunday
Selma March
30
Young people from the North who came to the South and tried to integrate places
Freedom Riders
31
Southern Christian Leadership Conference , Afro Church members in the Souther (Leader MLK Jr.)
SCLC
32
African who wouldn't move to the back of the bus in Montgomery
Rosa Parks
33
Leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
34
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia make up what
IndoChina
35
The French withdrew fro Indochina after this battle
Dien Bien Phu
36
Put into power in the South
Ngo Dinh Diem
37
The belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, so too would the other nations of Southeast Asia
Domino Theory
38
Special fortified villages that Vietnamese peasants moved into to protect them and prevent them from aiding the Vietcong
Strategic Hamlets
39
?
Separate- but- Equal
40
?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
41
?
Filibuster
42
?
Martin Luther King Jr.
43
When Congress gave its war powers to the president
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
44
Jellied gasoline that explodes on contact
Napalm
45
The goal of this was to destroy the ability to hide in jungles
Agent Orange
46
?Nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War on television helped create this
Credibility Gap
47
The US attacked all of the bases in North Vietnam
Tet Offensive
48
Revealed that the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam
Pentagon Papers
49
Capital of South Vietnam
Saigon
50
Split Vietnam
17th Parallel
51
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
52
Expressed the views of the Students for a Democratic Society
Port Huron Statment
53
Led the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley
Mario Savio
54
Members of this dropped out and lived in communes, sharing living arrangements with other youths
Counterculture
55
Rock festival that drew hundreds of thousands of people in 1969
Woodstock
56
Founded the National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan
57
Ruled that state could not regulate abortion in the first three months of pregnancy
Roe vs. Wade
58
Called for companies and institutions to actively recruit African American employees
Affirmative Action
59
Organized a successful grape boycott
Cesar Chavez
60
Wrote Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
61
A town where residents experienced health problems because an old toxic waste dump under the community was leaking into the ground
Love Canal
62
Pollution standards in America are enforced by this agency
EPA
63
The incident here left many people in great doubt about the safety of nuclear energy
Three Mile Island
64
Wrote unsafe at any speed that led the movement to make cars safer
Ralph Nader
65
President Nixon's national security advisor
Henry Kissenger
66
Easing tensions between the US and the Soviet Union
Dètente
67
White House Plumbers broke into hotel at Dem. Nat. Con.
Watergate
68
A person who believes government power, particularly government power, should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom
Conservative
69
Strategic Defense Initiative, it called for the development of weapons that could intercept and destroy incoming missiles
Star Wars
70
A place in Beijing where many people were killed and hundreds of pro-democracy activists were arrested- private government enterprise " "
Tiannanmen Square
71
Chinese students for Democracy
Perestroika
72
Created Apple
Steve Jobs
73
?
Microsoft
74
Invented DNA
Watson and Crick
75
?
NAFTA
76
Promised to reduce emissions but very few went into affect by Clinton
Kyoto Protocol

American History II (18 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions