US II Test Review

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

• 1945-1991
• A war without battles
• A balancing act

Question 2

1968

Answer 2

• Height of cold war
• There was enough fire power between the US & SU to destroy every square inch of the planet 5 times over.

Question 3

Hot War

Answer 3

• A war with battles

Question 4

Rosa Parks

Answer 4

• A seamstress
• “I didn’t want to start a revolution, I was just tired.”
• Gets mugged by a teenager in Michigan during her retirement.
• They’re trying to rewrite her history in books.

Question 5

Truman Doctrine

Answer 5

“We will help any country fighting communism”

Question 6

Emmett Till

Answer 6

• From chicago
• 14 years old
• Body was sent back home
• Grandma has an open casket funeral
• Abducted and lynched

Question 7

Marshall Plan

Answer 7

Used to rebuild Europe after WWII

Question 8

Freedom Rides

Answer 8

• Black and Whites ride interstate buses to segregated southern United States to challenge segregation
• Eliminates segregation throughout the interstate

Question 9

ICBM

Answer 9

• Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
• Launched from land: 30 min left to live
• Launched from sea: 5 min left to live
• All on subs now

Question 10

Sit-ins

Answer 10

• Woolworths - college kids
• Where protestors occupy a place, like a lunch counter, and don’t move until their demands are met. Mostly to fight segregation or other injustices

Question 11

M.A.D

Answer 11

• Mutually Assured Destruction
• What keeps us from blowing each other up
• You fire one at us, we blow everything up.

Question 12

MLK

Answer 12

• Non-violent passive resistance leader
• Jan 15, 1929
• Attended an HBCU
• Pastor or Minister
• Meets Coretta Scott and reads Gandhi in Boston University
• Graduated high school at 15
• Assassinated 1968 Memphis, TN

Question 13

What degrees did MLK receive and where?

Answer 13

• Bachelors in Morehouse College
• Masters in Crozer Theological Seminary
• Doctorate in Boston University

Question 14

Diem

Answer 14

Leader of South Vietnam

Question 15

Space Race

Answer 15

• Starts with Sputnik I and ends with the moon landing
• A race to achieve technological superiority in space exploration
  * SU was the first on the
  moon
  * Voyager I and II -
  Satellites
  * **Neil Armstrong **- First
  man on moon

Question 16

Ho Chi Min

Answer 16

Leader of North Vietnam

Question 17

Berlin Wall

Answer 17

Separates East and West Berlin

Question 18

Gulf of Tonkin

Answer 18

Starts the Vietnam War

Question 19

Berlin Airlift

Answer 19

Months long US Airlift where they bring food to Berlin

Question 20

War Tactics

Answer 20

Guerrilla warfare

Question 21

Draft

Answer 21

18 - 25 year olds

Question 22

JFK

Answer 22

• Assassinated in 1963 Dallas, TX
• Youngest man elected
• Modern presidency

Question 23

Deaths (American)

Answer 23

• 58,000 American deaths in Vietnam

Question 24

Lyndon Johnson

Answer 24

• President after Kennedy
• Had the most troops in Vietnam

Question 25

Secret Bombings

Answer 25

Richard Nixon Bombings of Cambodia during christmas

Question 26

Lynching

Answer 26

A systematic ritualistic murder of a minority

Question 27

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 27

• Segregation Laws
• Jim Crow is a made up character

Question 28

Gandhi

Answer 28

• MLK’s inspiration
• Wrote a book on non-violent passive resistance

Question 29

Voting Rights Act

Answer 29

1965

Question 30

Civil Rights Act

Answer 30

1964

Question 31

Assassinations

Answer 31

• MLK - 1968 Memphis, TN
• JFK - 1963 Dallas, TX
• RFK - 1968 Los Angeles, CA