Unit 3 Vocab

Question 1

The Affluent Society

Answer 1

Book by John Kenneth Galbraith; denotes the loss of civic spirit and critiqued the wealth gap, felt the gov. had responsibility to the people who could not afford new technology

Question 2

Levittowns

Answer 2

white-only mass-produced homes built in 1947 on Long Island, inspired many others

Question 3

G.I. Bill of Rights

Answer 3

government program meant to help veterans pay for college and pay for their mortgages

Question 4

Interstate Highway Act of 1956

Answer 4

act passed in govt. to build interstates across the country, used “defense” purpose to allow for federal management (defense as in moving weapons quickly)

Question 5

Federal Housing Administration

Answer 5

long-term, low interest mortgage, federal mortgage guarantees (biased towards single-family suburban homes)

Question 6

Brown v Board of Education

Answer 6

1954 Supreme Court decision to overturn Plessy v. Ferguson and outlawed segregation, tried to get unanimous decision through “deliberate speed”

Question 7

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 7

Rosa Parks and other NAACP members, eventually MLK, boycotted buses in order to cripple the bus economic system; in 1956 intrastate seg. on buses was made illegal

Question 8

Sit-In Movement

Answer 8

1960, black college students begin to sit at white-only lunch counters, mass amount of people start to join

Question 9

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 9

passed by LBJ, barred discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation

Question 10

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Answer 10

passed by LBJ, outlawed southern strategies of disenfranchisement and allowed Attorney General power to oversee voter reg. in any county where less than 50% of the population was registered to vote

Question 11

The Black Power Movement

Answer 11

Malcolm X, Black Panther Party, March against Fear 1966

Question 12

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 12

stalemate between USSR and US, soviet missiles places in Cuba, Kennedy negotiates to cool down crisis and agrees to remove missiles from Turkey if soviets remove missiles from Cuba

Question 13

The Great Society

Answer 13

domestic program aimed at getting rid of poverty, LBJs version of the New Deal (Medicare, Dep. of Housing, Job Corps, Office of Economic Opportunity)

Question 14

The Warren Court

Answer 14

Sat 1953-69, passed Brown v Board, Baker v Carr, Engel v Vitale (separation of religion in public schools), Gideon v Wainwright (attorneys to poor people)

Question 15

Students for a Democratic Society

Answer 15

1962, published the Port Huron statement, strongly antiwar, affluent college kids

Question 16

The Election of 1968

Answer 16

assassination of Bobby Kennedy, MLK assassination, George Wallace and white backlash, Eugene McCarthy and antiwar, “police riot” at DNC, Nixon and “Silent Majority”

Question 17

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 17

won Vietnam’s independence from France, leader of North Vietnam and founded the Indochina Communist Party

Question 18

Strategic Hamlet Program

Answer 18

would control the entrance and exit of villages to “protect them”, garnered a lot of resentment towards the war and US occupation

Question 19

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 19

granted LBJ a lot of power in Vietnam and allowed him to do anything “necessary” to combat communism there

Question 20

Tet Offensive

Answer 20

series of major surprise attacks from North Korea in 1968

Question 21

War Powers Act

Answer 21

limits the power of the president, reestablished checks and balances essentially

Question 22

Detente

Answer 22

Nixon’s attempt to ease foreign tensions

Question 23

Watergate

Answer 23

Nixon “Plumbers” caught bugging in DNC, recorded tapes puts Nixon on the line for withholding information, Nixon resigns

Question 24

Limited Hangout

Answer 24

tell some of the truth to better conceal other parts

Question 25

Survivalism

Answer 25

movement by white, educated, and wealthy men and families who were afraid of inflation, nuclear war, communist takeover

Question 26

New Hollywood

Answer 26

Lucas, Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg

Question 27

Dr. Benjamin Spock

Answer 27

“Baby and Child Care” book in 1946, critiqued neglect and petitioned for more motherly care

Question 28

Betty Friedan

Answer 28

Feminine Mystique, said the media was NOT liberating women but rather pushing them into trad roles

Question 29

Second Wave Femininism

Answer 29

New Left, Miss America Protest, NOW, Ms. Magazine, Roe v Wade

Question 30

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 30

protested the ERA, advocate of family values, legitimate and alarmist concerns

Question 31

Iran-Hostage Crisis

Answer 31

1979-81 when 66 Americans were siezed at the Embassy in Tehran and held until the very day Reagan was put into office

Question 32

George Wallace

Answer 32

conservative populist, used race as a tool to divide, criticized the “undeserving poor”, attacked liberal establishment

Question 33

Young Americans for Freedom

Answer 33

released Sharon Statement in 1960, believed communism was the biggest threat, rights should be delegated to the states, importance of market economy

Question 34

Election of 1980

Answer 34

Ronald Reagan victory captured “Reagan Democrats”, centered on politics of sacrifice

Question 35

9/11

Answer 35

September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in NY by Al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden. Tensions in the Middle East

Question 36

The Clash of Civilizations

Answer 36

Samuel Huntington’s thesis on replacing the cold war order, focused on Islam as a threat, self-fulfilling prophecy?

Question 37

Oklahoma City Bombing

Answer 37

Bombing carried out by two men as a response to an “overstep” of federal government in the aftermath of Waco and Ruby Ridge; supported white nationalism and militia

Question 38

USA Patriot Act

Answer 38

allowed more domestic and international “surveillance” for the federal gov. and allowed for indefinite detention time for immigrants, increased penalties for terrorism