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Cold/vietnam War, Civil Rights Flashcards

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The Cold War:
International organization formed in 1945 that maintained world peace and served as a forum for countries or work out their differences

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League of Nations

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The Cold War:

Bulgaria,Hungary, Romania, and Poland were all satellite countries of what nation

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Soviet Union

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The Cold War:

The United States’ program to rebuild Europe was known as what?

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Marshall Plan

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The Cold War:

NATO was the military alliance of what side of the Cold War

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Soviet Union

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The Cold War:

What is the iron curtain

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An imaginary boundary between east & west Europe

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The Cold War:

The Truman doctrine was a means to keep communism in check through what method

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Provide political,military, economic assistance

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The Cold War:

Who won the Korean War

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Tie

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The Cold War:

The house of un-American activities committee investigated communists in what industry

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House of Representatives

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The Cold War:

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg wee accused of passing along what type of secrets to the soviets

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Fake secrets/ conspiracy theories

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The Cold War:

Senator Joseph McCarthy was from what state

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Wisconsin

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The Cold War:

The name o the 1 satellite launched by the Soviet Union (and in world)

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Sputnik

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The Cold War:

McCarthy made his name by accusing people of being what

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Communist

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The Cold War:

Type of spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960

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U-2 spy plane

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The Cold War:

The leader of the Soviet Union who succeeded Joseph Stalin was whom

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Khrushchev

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The Cold War:

The secretary of defense in the Kennedy administration was whom

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McNamara

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The Cold War:

What did JFK decide to do to pressure the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis

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He started blockade of Cuba-prevent more ships from coming in

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The Cold War:

What parallel divided north and South Korea

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38th parallel

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The Cold War:

What is the “containment” policy

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Stop the spread of communism

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The Cold War:

What is McCarthyism

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Accusations of communist people (even if they weren’t)

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The Cold War:

2 main countries involved in Cold War

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USA and Russia

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The Vietnam War:

What parallel divided north and south Vietnam

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17th parallel

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The Vietnam War:

Who was the leader in north Vietnam

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Kim 2 sung

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The Vietnam War:

Vietnam was a colony of what country before WW2

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France

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The Vietnam War:

Name of the battle that the French lost to the Vietminh that resulted to the north Vietnamese winning its independent

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Dien Bien Phu

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The Vietnam War:

What is the Geneva Accord

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Peace treaty-outlined terms-split Vietnam into 2 states

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The Vietnam War:

Which 2 countries did the Ho Chi Minh trail overlap in sending supplies to the south

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Laus and Cambodia

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The Vietnam War:

This president sent 3500 American advisors to south Vietnam

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President Eisenhower

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The Vietnam War:

What is the domino theory

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Chain reaction of neighbor SE countries becoming communist

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The Vietnam War:

What is the gulf of Tonkin incident

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Us destroyers report N Vietnamese attacked them

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The Vietnam War:

His president used the golf of Tonkin incident to instigate Americas involvement in Vietnam

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President Johnson

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The Vietnam War:

What is the college deferment

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Getting you out if Vietnam fighting(draft) by going to college

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The Vietnam War:

What were the VC’s fighting for

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Wanted USA out, on N Vietnamese side

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The Vietnam War:

Name 3 tactics that Americans used to fight in the Vietnam war

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Agent orange
Napalm
Search and destroy missions

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The Vietnam War:

What was the draft system

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People randomly picked to fight war

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The Vietnam War:

Why was draft system unfair

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Primarily lower class men were drafted

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The Vietnam War:

Name 3 advantages the VC’s had over American troops

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Home ground
Underground Tunnels
Traps

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The Vietnam War:

Explain search and destroy missions

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Missions to uproot enemy

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The Vietnam War:

South Vietnamese president

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Ngo Dinh

39
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The Vietnam War:

According to the US, when did the Vietnam war end

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March 39, 1973

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The Vietnam War:

How was Tet Offensive significant in the Vietnam war

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Showed war wasn’t going well

Turning point of war (for people’s opinion)

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The Vietnam War:

What happens at Kent state? How many killed?

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Students protested invasion of Cambodia

2 killed

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The Vietnam War:

Who won election in 1968

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Richard Nixon

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The Vietnam War:

What is vietnamization

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US training Vietnamese to fight on their own

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The Vietnam War:

How many Americans died in the Vietnam war

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58,200

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How many Vietnamese died in the Vietnam war(soldiers and civilians)

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Soldiers: 1.5 million
Civilians: 4 million

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Civil Rights:

What is the Jim Crow laws

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Segregation in the south

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Civil Rights:

Who was Rosa parks

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Civil rights activist, refused to give up seat on bus

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Civil Rights:

Other than being a civil rights leader, what other occupation did MLK Jr. Have

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Pastor

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Civil Rights:

Where was Dr. King killed. City and place. What became of the hotel where he stayed

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Memphis, Tennessee

Civil rights museum

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Civil Rights:

Where did the I Have A Dream speech take place

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March in Washington DC

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Civil Rights:

Who was Eugene “Bull” Connor

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Governor of Arkansas

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Civil Rights:

explain segregation and desegregation

A

Separating and not separating

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Civil Rights:

What were the seeds of the civil rights movement

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Bus boycott

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Civil Rights:

Who was Emmett Till

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Northern boy killed for whistling at A white woman

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Civil Rights:

How does the pleasure vs Ferguson contradict the civil rights act of 1856

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They technically got the same things but the quality was different

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Civil Rights:

How was brown vs board significant to the civil rights movement

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It allowed mixed/ integrated schools

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Civil Rights:

Who was Elizabeth Eckford

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Little rock 9: one of first to integrate a school in Arkansas

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Civil Rights:

Who is James Meredith

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Went to old miss and integrated college

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Civil Rights:

When did the civil rights act pass

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1956

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Civil Rights:

Who wore the black panthers and who founded the group

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Group based off Oakland: controversial black power group

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Civil Rights:

What changed Malcom X’s view on the movement? How did the black community react

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When he converted to being Muslim and they got on board/supported it

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Civil Rights:

When and how was Malcom X killed

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Murdered in 1965

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3 evidences we see in present day that are outcomes of Cold War

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People in space
Better math and science classes
Better atomic weapons

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Was it worth Us getting involved in Vietnam war? Why or why not?

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No: lost soldiers
Wasn’t our battle to fight
Cost money

65
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Name 3 civil rights activists that are important and why

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Rosa parks: got people to notice issue
MLK: people followed him, awareness
James Meredith: made difference in schools

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