unit 8

Question 1

the cold war

Answer 1

started with the truman doctrine, no shots fired between the ussr and the usa

Question 2

harry truman

Answer 2

took over after fdr died, established the truman doctrine

Question 3

german occupation

Answer 3

germany was occupied by the us, the ussr, britain, and france and berlin mirrored that too, although berlin is in the east

Question 4

the iron curtain

Answer 4

coined by churchill, the boundary between the east and the west in europe

Question 5

containment

Answer 5

truman’s policy, in which he wants communism to not spread

Question 6

the truman doctrine

Answer 6

in 1947, states that the u.s. will provide assistance to any nation that finds itself threatened by communism

Question 7

marshall plan

Answer 7

proposed in 1948 to help europe rebuilt itself, once european countries were economically stable, they would choose democracy, the plan worked

Question 8

nato

Answer 8

founded in 1949 with 12 founding members

Question 9

warsaw pact

Answer 9

the ussr’s version of nato, founded in 1955

Question 10

arms race

Answer 10

the race between the ussr and the usa to develop superior weapons, kinda terrifying but actually also not because of mutually assured destruction

Question 11

hydrogen bomb

Answer 11

approved by truman to be created but never actually used

Question 12

proxy wars

Answer 12

korean war, vietnam war, etc.

Question 13

the korean war

Answer 13

divided by the 38th parallel, soviets in the north, us in the south, both powers withdrew but then in 1950 north korea invaded south korea, the un provided troops

Question 14

macarthur

Answer 14

WRITE IT DOWN YOU FUCKING IDIOT so anyway he’s the one that managed to push the north back to the chinese border, then china sent troops and they pushed the un troops back to roughly the 38th parallel so essentially nothing changed but people died

Question 15

detente

Answer 15

mutual coexistence

Question 16

the second red scare

Answer 16

from 1947-1957 (i guess they got over their fear suddenly), huac tried to sniff out them commies

Question 17

mccarthy

Answer 17

not to be confused with mcarthur, he was a senator and he claimed to have a list of commies and he rose bc of that but he crumpled as he couldn’t back up his claims

Question 18

baby boom

Answer 18

the absurd amount of babies being born post ww2

Question 19

levittown

Answer 19

mass produced houses forming a community and yes it looks weird and creepy

Question 20

sun belt

Answer 20

a lot of internal migration from the 1910s to the 1970s to the sunbelt (west and south) in search of economic opportunity

Question 21

mass culture

Answer 21

helped by television and advertising

Question 22

counterculture

Answer 22

what is against mass culture, particularly with the youth, rebellious styles of clothing, experimental drug use

Question 23

eisenhower

Answer 23

took office in 1953, after truman

Question 24

civil rights movement

Answer 24

i think you know what this is

Question 25

brown v board of education

Answer 25

in 1954, it overturned plessy v ferguson and it said that segregation in schools was not legal

Question 26

arkansas response to brown v boe

Answer 26

they shut down to prevent black students from entering

Question 27

montgomery bus boycott

Answer 27

in 1955, started when rosa parks refused to sit in the back of the bus

Question 28

views on the civil rights movement

Answer 28

mlk jr, who advocated for peaceful measure, and malcom x, who advocated for violent measures

Question 29

march on washington

Answer 29

giant march in 1963, in which mlk jr made his “i have a dream” speech

Question 30

civil rights act of 1964

Answer 30

made discrimination on the basis of race or sex illegal

Question 31

voting rights act of 1965

Answer 31

made racial discrimination in voting illegal

Question 32

women’s rights and second wave feminism

Answer 32

led by the feminine mystique, in which it is argued that a woman should seek fulfillment in a career in addition to serving her family

Question 33

stonewall riot

Answer 33

police raided a gay bay in 1969 and was met with resistance

Question 34

ho chi minh

Answer 34

established a communist government in the north of vietnam

Question 35

military industrial complex

Answer 35

eisenhower warns against it in his farewell address, it’s the close relationship between military and industry

Question 36

eisenhower and vietnam

Answer 36

sent troops and aid to south vietnam because of the domino theory

Question 37

john f kennedy

Answer 37

elected after eisenhower, did stuff in vietnam

Question 38

lyndon b johnson

Answer 38

took office after kennedy is assassinated

Question 39

gulf of tonkin incident

Answer 39

in 1964, north vietnamese ships supposedly fired on an american ship, johnson used this as justification for escalation in the region, which led to the gulf of tonkin resolution

Question 40

great society

Answer 40

johnson’s new deal, essentially, a project to expand on the social reforms, established medicare and medicaid, abolished immigration quotas

Question 41

war on poverty

Answer 41

lyndon b johnson wanting to do something about poverty

Question 42

richard nixon

Answer 42

followed lbj, took office in 1969, ended us involvement in vietnam and established the environmental protection agency

Question 43

watergate scandal

Answer 43

from 1972-1974, honestly i still don’t get it but men were hired by nixon’s people and were caught breaking in an office to steal documents and to tap phones

Question 44

stagflation

Answer 44

slow economic growth, inflation, experienced during a recession in nixon’s time