Unit 8a

Question 1

World Bank

Answer 1

To fund the rebuilding of a war torn world

Question 2

Cold War

Answer 2

The political and economic confrontation between the Soviet Union and United States to dominated world affairs from 1946 to 1989

Question 3

Truman Doctrine

Answer 3

Doctrine pronounced in President Harry Truman statement in 1947 that the United States should assist other nations that were facing external pressure or internal revolution

Question 4

International Monetary Fund

Answer 4

International organization established in 1945 to assist nations in maintaining stable currencies

Question 5

Marshall plan

Answer 5

Committing the United States to help with the rebuilding of post World War II Europe

Question 6

Berlin blockade

Answer 6

300 day Soviet blockade of land access to United States, British, in French occupation zones in Berlin

Question 7

NATO

Answer 7

A military alliance for defending all members from outside attack

Question 8

Military-industrial complex

Answer 8

In Eisenhower’s farewell address, he speaks about the negative impact of the Cold War on the US

Question 9

Taft-Hartley act

Answer 9

Check the growing power of unions.

• contract requiring workers to join a union before and after being hired
• outlawing secondary boycotts
• giving the president the power to invoke an 80 day cooling off period

Question 10

Dixiecrat

Answer 10

States rights democrat

Question 11

National Security Council

Answer 11

The policymaking body for national defense and foreign relations consisting of the president, the secretary of defense, the Secretary of State, and others appointed by the president

Question 12

CIA

Answer 12

Coordinated the intelligence gathering activities of various government agencies

Question 13

House un-American activities committee

Answer 13

Held hearings indicating that communist agent had flourished

Question 14

McCarthyism

Answer 14

Anti-Communist attitudes and actions associated with Senator Joe McCarthy in the early 1950s, including smear tactics and innuendo

Question 15

G.I. Bill

Answer 15

Ease the return of veterans into American society providing educational and employment benefits

Question 16

Korean War

Answer 16

Pacific war started with North Korea attacked South Korea

Question 17

NSC-68

Answer 17

Secret report by the National security council that states to quadruple US government defense spending, form alliances with non-Communist countries, convince the American public that a costly arm buildup was imperative for the nations defense

Question 18

Federal highway act of 1956

Answer 18

Measure that provided federal funding to build a nationwide system of interstate and Defense Highways

Question 19

National Defense education act

Answer 19

Authorized giving hundreds of millions of federal money for the schools for math, science, and foreign language education

Question 20

Beat movement

Answer 20

A group of rebellious writers and intellectuals. Who advocated spontaneity, use of drugs, and rebellion against societal standards

Question 21

Jack Kerouac

Answer 21

Led the Beat Generation win Allen Ginsberg

Question 22

Nikita Khruschev

Answer 22

Soviet Leader who denounced the crimes of Joseph Stalin supported “peaceful coexistence” with the west

Question 23

Detente

Answer 23

Easing of tension. Used to describe the new US relations with China and the Soviet Union in 1972

Question 24

Geneva accord

Answer 24

Called for reunification a national elections in Vietnam in 1956

Question 25

New frontier

Answer 25

JFK’s domestic and foreign policy initiatives, designed to in reinvigorate sense of national purpose and energy

Question 26

Alliance for progress

Answer 26

Program of economic aid to Latin America during the Kennedy Aministration

Question 27

Bay of Pigs

Answer 27

Sites in Cuba of an unsuccessful landing by 1400 anti-Castro Cuban refugees in April 1961

Question 28

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 28

Crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba

Question 29

Limited nuclear test ban treaty

Answer 29

Signed by the United States, Britain, in the Soviet Union, outlawing nuclear testing in the atmosphere, and outerspace, and underwater

Question 30

Great society

Answer 30

theme of Lyndon Johnson’s administration, focusing on poverty, education, and civil rights

Question 31

Congress of racial equality

Answer 31

Civil rights group formed in 1942 committed to nonviolent civil disobedience

Question 32

Brown versus Board of Education

Answer 32

Supreme Court decision in 1850 that declared that the “separate but equal” schools for children of different races violated the Constitution

Question 33

Southern Christian leadership conference

Answer 33

Formed by Martin Luther King Jr., Organized ministers and churches in the south to get behind the civil rights struggle

Question 34

Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 34

After Rosa Parks’s arrest, A massive African-American protested the buses

Question 35

Student nonviolent coordinating committee

Answer 35

A committee formed to keep the sit-in movement organized

Question 36

Freedom rides

Answer 36

Civil rights activists who traveled across to south on a crusade to end segregation facilities serving interstate bus passengers

Question 37

March on Washington

Answer 37

A peaceful protest led my MLKJr. One of the largest and most successful demonstrations. (I have a Dream speech)

Question 38

Civil rights act of 1964

Answer 38

Made segregation illegal in all public facilities and gave the federal government additional powers to enforce school desegregation

Question 39

Freedom summer

Answer 39

Voter registration effort in rule Mississippi organized by black and white civil rights workers 1964

Question 40

Nation of Islam

Answer 40

Religious movement among black Americans that emphasizes self-sufficiency, self-help, and separation from white society