Unit 5

Question 1

Who said “the buck stops here”

Answer 1

Harry Truman

Question 2

How did too much money create a problem

Answer 2

Shortages, inflation, higher prices

Question 3

Benefits to the veterans, gave them unemployment for a year, financial aid, loans

Answer 3

G.I. bill

Question 4

Who said “Do nothing congress”

Answer 4

Truman

Question 5

What phrase means Truman is to blame for inflation, shortages, strikes, mistakes

Answer 5

“To err is Truman”

Question 6

Very anti union, labor management relations act,

Answer 6

Taft Hartley act

Question 7

Which amendment limits presidents to 2 terms

Answer 7

22nd amendment

Question 8

Segregation not by law, but by practice

Answer 8

De facto segregation

Question 9

Major League Baseball player who broke color barrier

Answer 9

Jackie Robinson

Question 10

Used by congress to prevent voting on anything dealing with civil rights, delay tactic unlimited debate

Answer 10

Filibustering

Question 11

Linda browns young NAACP lawyer that argues segregation violated 14th amendment

Answer 11

Thurgood Marshall

Question 12

9 black students try to attend a white school, met with violence and riots/protests

Answer 12

Little Rock nine

Question 13

Black boy visiting relatives, was brutally beaten and murdered, thrown into a lake.

Answer 13

Emmett till

Question 14

To combine blacks and whites

Answer 14

Integrate

Question 15

People had more money to spend after war

Answer 15

Affluent society

Question 16

Man who wrote controversial studies on sexual behavior

Answer 16

Dr Alfred kinsey

Question 17

Birmingham was also called

Answer 17

Bombingham

Question 18

Commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, told the police department and firefighters to hurt the protestors

Answer 18

Bull Conner

Question 19

Applied for ole miss and was rejected, filed a lawsuit

Answer 19

James Meredith

Question 20

Leader of naacp, murdered

Answer 20

Medgar Evers

Question 21

Us attorney general, fought for civil rights, sent troops to help people

Answer 21

Robert Kennedy

Question 22

Gov of Alabama, wanted segregation, now and tomorrow

Answer 22

George Wallace

Question 23

Blacks protesting segregated buses

Answer 23

Freedom riders

Question 24

200000 blacks and whites marched to Washington to protest civil rights

Answer 24

March on Washington

Question 25

Led march on Washington, leader for civil rights

Answer 25

MLK jr

Question 26

4 young girls killed here, bombed by racists

Answer 26

16th street Baptist church

Question 27

Amendment that outlaws the poll tax

Answer 27

24th amendment, civil rights act of 1964

Question 28

March from Selma to Montgomery eventually led to the

Answer 28

Voting rights act of 1965

Question 29

Democrat president after jfk, “war on poverty”

Answer 29

Lyndon b Johnson

Question 30

Republican candidate, extreme conservative, against civil rights

Answer 30

Barry Goldwater

Question 31

Supreme Court ruled gov must provide attorney free of charge to anyone

Answer 31

Gideon v. Wainwright

Question 32

Supreme Court ruled person accused must be read their rights

Answer 32

Miranda v. Arizona

Question 33

Leader of Nation of Islam, believed African Americans should separate themselves completely

Answer 33

Elijah Muhammad

Question 34

Leader of the black Muslims, real name was Malcom little

Answer 34

Malcom x

Question 35

Place Muslims journey to, changed Malcom x’s views on integration.

Answer 35

Mecca

Question 36

Guy who assassinated mlk

Answer 36

James earl gray

Question 37

Programs that hire minority groups

Answer 37

Affirmative action programs

Question 38

Ally to us, against Japan during ww2, became a communist, wanted to dominate Vietnam

Answer 38

Ho chi minh

Question 39

Hit and run, ambush style of fighting

Answer 39

Guerrilla warfare

Question 40

Controlled south, backed by us, fighting against ho Chi, communist

Answer 40

Ngo dinh diem

Question 41

Communists in south Vietnam were called

Answer 41

Vietcong

Question 42

3500 marines sent to protect our air bases

Answer 42

Da nang

Question 43

Massacre led by calley, in Vietnam

Answer 43

My lai

Question 44

Phrase referring to being able to watch the war on their tv

Answer 44

“Living room war”

Question 45

Helicopter pilot who tried to evacuate civilians under attack from Charlie’s company

Answer 45

Hugh Thompson

Question 46

Supported the war, must contain communism

Answer 46

Hawks

Question 47

Opposed the war

Answer 47

Doves

Question 48

Chemical sprayed over jungles to kill plant life

Answer 48

Agent orange

Question 49

Commander of American forces, developed search and destroy strategy

Answer 49

William west Moreland

Question 50

Secretary of defense for jfk and lbj, left position for world bank

Answer 50

Robert McNamara

Question 51

North Vietcong launched this on south’s major cities

Answer 51

Tet offensive

Question 52

Vietnam veteran, spoke to foreign relations committee, currently Secretary of State

Answer 52

John Kerry

Question 53

Almost defeated Lyndon Johnson in primary election

Answer 53

Eugene McCarthy

Question 54

Johnson’s Vice President, democratic candidate

Answer 54

Hubert Humphrey

Question 55

Shot Robert Kennedy

Answer 55

Sirhan sirhan

Question 56

Chicago Mayor who ordered police to shoot to kill to get rid of chaos on the streets

Answer 56

Mayor Daley

Question 57

Youth international party, made fun of society

Answer 57

Yippies

Question 58

Defendant, found in contempt of court of the Chicago 8

Answer 58

Bobby seale

Question 59

Men accused of starting riots

Answer 59

The Chicago 8

Question 60

Concert where hippies and college kids camped out

Answer 60

Woodstock

Question 61

Radical group that suggested violence against the system

Answer 61

Black panthers

Question 62

College students protesting, going against society’s rules

Answer 62

Counterculture

Question 63

Former department of defense analyst, photocopied study and spread it to newspapers

Answer 63

Daniel Ellsberg

Question 64

Study called history of the us decision making process in Vietnam, ordered by Robert McNamara, pattern of incompetence, deception

Answer 64

Pentagon papers

Question 65

Taught how to structure families, said mothers should stay home not work

Answer 65

Fr Benjamin Spock

Question 66

Feminist leader who wrote the feminine mystique

Answer 66

Betty Friedan

Question 67

Forbids discrimination by sex

Answer 67

Equal rights amendment

Question 68

Connecticut law banning contraception

Answer 68

Griswold vs Connecticut

Question 69

Ruling legalized abortion based on womens right to privacy

Answer 69

Roe v wade

Question 70

The easing of hostility between nations

Answer 70

Detente