Period 8

Question 1

Why was there such extreme conflict between capitilistism and communism?

Answer 1

• Both ideologies wanted to spread across the whole world

Question 2

Truman Doctrine

Answer 2

The Us said it would provide military and economic support to contain the spread of communism

Question 3

Marshall Plan

Answer 3

Gave tons of aid to Western countries to hold off communism

Question 4

NATO

Answer 4

Created as an alliance of North Atlantic Countries to fend off Soviet agression

Question 5

MAD

Answer 5

Mutually Assured Destruction

Question 6

HUAC

Answer 6

House Un-American Activities Commitee

Question 7

What happened with the population after WW2 and where did they move?

Answer 7

• There was a baby boom
• They moved into suburbs, and the modern suburb was Levittown in New York

Question 8

What happened the US culture in the post war years and why?

Answer 8

• Cultural Conformity started to occour creating mass culture
• The television was a major cause of this
• There was a reaction against this too, however

Question 9

Support this Main Idea: Gains were made for civil rights inthe 1940s and 1950s which set the stage for gurther gains in the 1960s

Answer 9

• Brown v. Board of Education desgregated schools and overturned Plessy v. Fergesson in 1954.
• Desegregation of schools was very slow, and even 10 years after the result only 2% of Southern schools were desegregated
• The Montgoemery bus boycott in the 50s led by MLK led to the Supreme Court ruling that segregation of busses was illegal
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Question 10

Support this idea: Building on the progress made in the 40s and 50s, the Civil Rights Movement wom major victories in the 1960s with signifiacnt legislation outlawing racial discrimination

Answer 10

• Protestors used sit-ins, boycotts, and marches
• The March on Washington in 1963 saw MLK deliver his I have a Dream speech, which was highly influential
• Civil Rights Act of 1964: prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin
• Voter Rights Act of 1965: No voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure shall be imposed or applied by any State or political subdivision to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color.

Question 11

What were the other kind of Back activists?

Answer 11

• Malcolm X was more militant and said that blacks should defened themselves from white violence
• He supported Segregation and the creation of strong, independent, black communities
• He was islamic

Question 12

Black Panthers

Answer 12

They were an armed group of black students in Oakland, California who advocated for armed resistance to police brutality

Question 13

Show this statement: Worldwide postwar decolonization was the occaision for increasing Cold War involvement for both the Soviet Union and the United States

Answer 13

• The US was involved in many regime changes in Latin America due to some democracies becoming too socialist in the eyes of the CIA. You can literally name a latin american country as an example. Argentina, Chile under Pinochet, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala.
• There was a sponsered coups in Iraq to verthrow the socialst government and replace it with a shaw
• Equipping of rebels to create a succession of juntas in Guatemala

Question 14

What was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Answer 14

It allowed the US president to take military actions without declaring war, allowing the escalation of the Vietnam War

Question 15

What was the Great Society Program?

Answer 15

• It expanded upon the social welfare prodided by the New Deal
• Started the War on Pverty
• Created Office of Economic Opportiunity that provided opportunities for vocational training
• Expanded Medicare and Medicaid
• The Immigration act removed immigration quotas

Question 16

Give evidence: The Civil rights movement expanded ot include Latinos, American Indians, Asian Americans, and LGBT Americans

Answer 16

• Cesar Chavez’s Grape Boycotts granted granting workers better pay, benefits, and protections
• American Indians occupied Alcatraz Island protested the casual breaking of federal treaties. It started future American Indian activism
• Police raided Stonewall Inn and LGBT activism leads to the recognition of gayness as a sexual orientation as opposed to a mental illness
• The Feminine Mystique - Gave words to the furstration many women felt as housewives. NOW - national organization for women used methods similar to those of the Civil Rights movement to try to guarentee more rights for women, and proposed the ERA, which still hasn’t been passed

Question 17

Give evidence: Youth culture of the 1960s was defined by a rejection of social, political, and economic noms fo their parent’s generation

Answer 17

• called the counterculture, rejected ideas of parents
• hippies
• Peak was in the Woodstock festival

Question 18

Give examples of how the relationship with the environment changed in the 60s and 70s and what caused it.

Answer 18

• Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring brought light to the harmful effects of pesticide such as DDT
• Creation of EPA
• Passage of Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species act

Question 19

Effects of Watergate

Answer 19

• Distrust in govenrment
• Conflict between Republicans and Democrats over the role of government in the economy and society