Test #4

Question 1

USA vs USSR

Answer 1

democracy + capatilism vs. communism

Question 2

buffer states or soviet satellites

Answer 2

poland, east germany, bulgaria, romania, hungary, czechoslovakia

Question 3

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) vs. warsaw pact

Answer 3

if we set foot in their territory, they’ll attack

Question 4

containment

Answer 4

US policy to halt the spread of communism

Question 5

marshall plan

Answer 5

-did this to help build other countries up, keep peace, regulate economy, and avoid conflict & war
-massive economic aid to war- torn countries
-part of peace plan carried out by on eof the oldest generals (George Marshall)

Question 6

milestone of the cold war

Answer 6

-berlin airlift: 1948
-berlin wall

Question 7

1950-53 korean war

Answer 7

north= communist
south= democratic

Question 8

1956 suez canal crisis

Answer 8

-egypt siezes canal
-britain & france retakes canal
-hungary holds democratic elections
-russia crushes evolution
-egypt gets land back but canal remains open for trade

Question 9

1957 sputnik ll orbits the earth

Answer 9

-space race
-america goes to the moon [1969] (jfk was pres,., wanted to beat soviets in something)

Question 10

1961 bay of pigs fiasco

Question 11

1962 cuban missle crisis

Answer 11

-kennedy v. khrushcher
-missile silos in turkey sacrificed

Question 12

detente

Answer 12

relaxation of tension

Question 13

redphone

Answer 13

-a literal red phone
-created, super popular

Question 14

tracking software for nuclear weapons

Answer 14

created

Question 15

SALT treaties (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

Answer 15

-nixon travels to USSR + china
-nixon was a good president w/ foreign policy
-china + russia are U.S biggest enemies

Question 16

vietnam war (1950s- 1973)

Answer 16

-containment
-cold war
-democracy & capatalist is better
-N- communist, S- democracy

Question 17

attricition (vietnam war cont.)

Answer 17

-keep adding force until the other side can’t keep up anymore
-“hearts & minds”
-quagmire = muddy mess

Question 18

the bright and shinning lie

Answer 18

-by john paul rann
-book talking about the ar w/ vietnam
-media, politicians, generals, soldiers = lost

Question 19

tet offensive (1968)

Answer 19

-1973 US troops withdraw
-1975 north vietnam wins
-1980 reagan wins
-military buildup to win cold war
-economic race = arms race

Question 20

soviet satellites

Answer 20

poland, east germany, czechoslovakia

Question 21

what happens to the USSR in 1991

Answer 21

they disintegrate

Question 22

what happens to germany in 1989

Answer 22

the berlin wall is torn down, germany begins reunification

Question 23

reagan & george bush

Answer 23

-national debt
-1981-88 tripled the debt
reagan: 0-8, bush: 0-4, clinton: 4-8, obama: 0-4, trump: 0-4, biden: 0-2

Question 24

affluent (wealthy) society

Answer 24

consumer society

Question 25

middle class

Answer 25

-disposable income
-recession until 1947 as transition to peacetime economy happens

Question 26

unemployment falls

Answer 26

-productivity increases
-GNP: climbs repeatedly (23 trillion)
-recession: GNP declines for 2 quarters
-expansion: GNP increases for 2 quarters

Question 27

housing boom

Answer 27

-levittown: assembly line model
-suburbs: automobiles & homes
-segregation in suburbs: class + race
-white flight: pattern where whites/racial groups voluntarily move w/ the race group they pertain to, (like schools & neighborhoods)

Question 28

automobiles

Answer 28

become a necessity for modern life

Question 29

consumer appliances

Answer 29

-refrigerator, oven/stove, dishwasher, washer/dryer, microwave, A/C
-electronics/entertainment, TV, stereo

Question 30

credit cards (invented by americans)

Answer 30

-fast food= lifestyle
-kids’ toys: became esp. popular in US w/ creation of plastic in the 20s

Question 31

youth culture

Answer 31

-war protests
-huge impact on civil rights movement
-18 yr olds can vots
-spending, consumerism $$$
-music= rock n roll
-drug culture- more normalization + glorification of drugs, esp. in 60s
-sexual revolution, sex ed.
-teen pregnancy/std rates climb
-sleeping where i fall - peter coyote

Question 32

civil rights movement- post ww2 (causes)

Answer 32

-abolition
-13th- slavery aboloished
-14th- citizenship
-15th- voting rights
-all passed by 1870
-segregation
-full civil rights
-progressivism- NAACP
-lynchings
-great migration
-new deal

Question 33

WWll

Answer 33

-holocaust exposes hypocrisy on racial discrimination worldview
-leaders & presidents are veterans
-black civil rights leaders

Question 34

milestones: 1947

Answer 34

jackie robinson plays in MLB, signed by Branch Rickey of Dodgers

Question 35

milestones 1948

Answer 35

harry truman desegragates the military and federal drill service

Question 36

milestones 1954

Answer 36

brown v. board of education, topek, KS
-school desegregation, all segregation is constitutional
-NAACP learned to use the courts and 14th amendment instead of legislatures
-brown has no timeline

Question 37

milestones 1955

Answer 37

-charleston, ar and itoxie, ar
-the first stand (documentary)
-emmitt till

Question 38

milestones 1956

Answer 38

rosa parks
-montgomery bus boycott

MLK jr
1) church involvement
2) economic boycott

Question 39

milestones 1957

Answer 39

LR central high school
-governor orral faubus sends our state troopers, ARNG to keep the peace
-president eisenhower sent ARNG home, deployed 101st
-airbourne

Question 40

milestones 1960s

Answer 40

nonviolence
-sitins
-protest
-marches
-freedom rides

Question 41

milestones 1964

Answer 41

civil rights act
-segregation in public places is illegal
-affirmative actions
-access to education
-includes gender

Question 42

milestones 1965

Answer 42

-bariers to voting
-literacy tests
-poll taxes

Question 43

black muslims

Answer 43

malcolm x
-black panthers
-nonviolence

Question 44

1968 memphis garbage workers

Answer 44

-MLK- economic opportunities
-mountaintop speech 12 hrs before assination
-civil rights over