internment camps - Jimmy Carter

Question 1

internment camps

Answer 1

110,000 Japanese-Americans were removed from west coast

Question 2

Cold War

Answer 2

standoff between US and Soviet Union 1941-1991

Question 3

Truman Doctrine

Answer 3

-US will economically & military assist any country fighting communism
-first used in Greece and Turkey
also known as “containment”

Question 4

NATO

Answer 4

-created in Truman doctrine
-established to protect western Europe

Question 5

Marshall Plan

Answer 5

-rebuild Europe so the conditions for communism to spread will not exist

Question 6

China (under cold War in notes)

Answer 6

-resumed civil war after WWII
-Chiang Kai Shek (Nationalist) vs. Mao Zedong (communist)
-communists won

Question 7

Korea (under cold War in notes)

Answer 7

-was to be administered jointly by both US & Soviet Union
-divided itself between North and South
-Kim il-Sung (North) invaded the south
-Truman & UN sent troops to support the south
-Korea was officially divided along the 38th parallel
- Korean war is an example of “containment” & Truman Doctrine

Question 8

G.I. Bill of Rights (cold War @ home)

Answer 8

-low interest Housing Loans
-business loans
-college education grants (don’t need to pay back)

Question 9

The Cold War Period at Home

Answer 9

-Suburban Housing developments started driven by the housing loans
-Levittown, New York - first subdivision
-National Interstate and Defense Highways Act 1956: Eisenhower built the interstates to improve our defense ability

Question 10

McCarthyism

Answer 10

-senator McCarthy claimed that communists got into the government
-He led congressional hearing against various people he claimed were communist
-largely false accusations

Question 11

Desegregation/Integration

Question 11

Civil rights

Question 12

Cold War in space

Question 13

Cold War in Cuba

Question 14

Cold War era - JFK

Question 15

Cold War - Vietnam

Question 16

LBJ (CW-Vietnam)

Question 17

Johnson’s Great Society

Question 18

Cold War tech

Question 19

1968

Question 20

Nixon pledged to end Vietnam war 1968

Answer 20

In 1970 he expanded war by invading Cambodian

Question 21

Jimmy Carter

Answer 21

•camp David accords
-peace deal between Israel&Egypt
•Iran revolution 1979
-terrorist seized control of US embassy
-took workers hostage, Iran Hostage Crisis
•stagflation took root during Carter’s administration
•carter blamed for not being able to solve it, though Nixon caused it
•Stagflation - high inflation & shrinking GDP

Question 22

Nixon Years

Answer 22

•war protests
-kewt state protest ended with 4 students killed by national guard
•Nixon want better relations with Soviet Union and china
-1972 visits china
-opens china up for business
-says we will try for a peaceful solution regarding Taiwan
-visit causes Soviet Union to stop supporting Vietnam
-north Vietnam signs treaty with US 1973 allowing the US to withdraw from SouthEast Asia
•Democratic National Headquarters burglarized @Watergate hotel by republican party
-Nixon attempted to cover up
-Nixon impeached if he doesn’t resign first
-he resigns & vp Gerald Ford became president

Question 23

War Powers Act 1973 (Nixon Years)

Answer 23

-time limit on how long a president can deploy troops into combat without congressional approval