23 And 24 Terms

Question 1

Elimination of all forms of poverty and inequality

Answer 1

Great society

Question 2

Banned poll taxes

Answer 2

Twenty fourth amendment

Question 3

Equality of population in legislative districts

Answer 3

One man one vote decisions

Question 4

Broad legal interpretation to attack social problems

Answer 4

Judicial activism

Question 5

A call for civil rights by any means necessary

Answer 5

Black power

Question 6

American politician conducted the congressional investigation of Alger hiss

Answer 6

Richard Nixon

Question 7

Separation of Eastern Europe from the west

Answer 7

Iron Curtain

Question 8

Policy of resistance to continuing communist aggression

Answer 8

Containment

Question 9

Policy of a war objective short of total victory

Answer 9

Limited war

Question 10

Goal of accommodation with communism

Answer 10

Peaceful coexistence

Question 11

Massive rise in the US population after ww2

Answer 11

Baby boom

Question 12

Black attempts to secure protection of legal entitlements

Answer 12

Civil rights movement

Question 13

Communist leader in China

Answer 13

Mao zedong

Question 14

This act objective was to weaken unions

Answer 14

Taft Hartley act

Question 15

This Supreme Court decision said public schools should not be segregated by race

Answer 15

Brown V the board of education Topeka

Question 16

Commander of the UN military forces in Korea

Answer 16

Douglas MacArthur

Question 17

Communist leader in Cuba

Answer 17

Fidel Castro

Question 18

Democrat who advanced the fair deal

Answer 18

Harry Truman

Question 19

Rebellious youth movement of the 1960’s

Answer 19

Counter culture

Question 20

Republican who advocated dynamic conservatism

Answer 20

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 21

This law was designed to ban the union shop

Answer 21

Right to work law

Question 22

This act created the CIA national security council and department of defense

Answer 22

National security act 1947

Question 23

His policy was the great society

Answer 23

Lyndon Johnson

Question 24

This resolution escalated the number of American troops in Vietnam

Answer 24

Tankin gulf resolution

Question 25

He was a judicial activist

Answer 25

Chief Justice Earl warren

Question 26

Anti war democratic candidate who challenged Johnson in the new Hampshire primary in 1968

Answer 26

Eugene MacArthy

Question 27

Location of the worst urban riots in the 1960s

Answer 27

LA

Question 28

Fiery conservative candidate of the American independent party in 1968

Answer 28

George Wallace

Question 29

Secretary of State who negotiated the SALT treaty

Answer 29

Henry Kissinger

Question 30

Zealously liberal democrat who lost by a landslide in 1972

Answer 30

George MCGovern

Question 31

This act created the equal opportunity commission , forbid racial discrimination and promoted desegregation of public schools

Answer 31

Civil rights act of 1964

Question 32

Phrase that best describes post war society in America

Answer 32

Consumer culture

Question 33

The main rallying point of the disaffected youth in the 1960s and early 1970’s was

Answer 33

The anti war movement

Question 34

What happened at Selma Alabama that encouraged the passage of the voting rights act of 1965

Answer 34

Murder of three white civil rights activists

Question 35

Why was the Vietnam war harder to fight than the Korean War?

Answer 35

Procommunist among the Asian allies