History Standard 5 Vocabulary (everything not familiar with)

Question 1

Lyndon B. Johnson

Answer 1

36th president of the U.S. who assumed office after the assassination of President Kennedy, he had a vision to create a “great society” for the American people

Question 2

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 2

Outlawed discrimination in public places and employment

Question 3

24th Amendment

Answer 3

Prohibits poll taxes

Question 4

Voting Rights Act

Answer 4

Banned literacy tests and empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration

Question 5

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 5

1964 congressional resolution that authorized president Johnson to commit U.S. troops to South Vietnam and fight a war against North Vietnam

Question 6

Tet Offensive

Answer 6

Communist assault on a large number of South Vietnamese cities in early 1968

Question 7

Richard Nixon

Answer 7

37th president of the U.S., he started and ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam, was involved in the Watergate scandal, and became the only president to resign after fear of possible impeachment

Question 8

Detente

Answer 8

Flexible diplomacy adopted by Richard Nixon to ease tensions between the United States, the Soviet Union, and the People’s Republic of China

Question 9

Ronald Reagan

Answer 9

40th president of the U.S. who helped end the Cold War and was known for his economic plan of Reaganomics; his theory was that if you cut taxes, it will spur the growth of public spending and improve the economy

Question 10

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 10

The eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union

Question 11

Iran-Contra Affair

Answer 11

Political scandal under president Reagan involving the use of money from secret arms sales to Iran to illegally support the Contras in Nicaragua

Question 12

George H.W. Bush

Answer 12

41st president of the U.S. who successfully pushed for the reunification of Germany and led a coalition of countries which invaded and defeated Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in the Gulf War

Question 13

Bill Clinton

Answer 13

42nd president of the U.S. who oversaw the country’s longest peacetime economic expansion and became the second U.S. president to be impeached

Question 14

George W. Bush

Answer 14

43rd president of the U.S. who ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban; he signed the Patriot Act in order to authorize surveillance of suspected terrorists

Question 15

Camp David Accords

Answer 15

1978 agreement brokered by president Jimmy Carter between Egyptian and Israeli leaders that made a peace treaty between the two nations possible

Question 16

Globalization

Answer 16

Process by which national economics, politics, cultures, and societies mix with those of other nations around the world