Chapter 23&24

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 Existence”

Question 11

Massive rise in the U.S. population after World War II

Answer 11

Baby boom

Question 12

Black attempts to secure protection of legal entitlements

Answer 12

Civil rights movement

Question 13

What 1961 operation against communist Cuba was originally backed by the United States but resulted in disaster when aid was withdrawn at the last minute

Answer 13

Bay of Pigs

Question 14

Communist leader in China

Answer 14

Mao Zedong

Question 15

This act objective was to weaken unions

Answer 15

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Brown v. The board of education

Question 17

Commander of the UN military forces in Korea

Answer 17

Douglas McCarther

Question 18

Communist leader in Cuba

Answer 18

Fidel Castro

Question 19

Democrat who advocated the Fair Deal

Answer 19

Harry Truman

Question 20

Rebellious youth movement of the 1960s

Answer 20

Counterculture

Question 21

Relaxation of U.S.-Soviet tensions

Answer 21

Détente

Question 22

Government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses

Answer 22

Medicare

Question 23

Pro-Communist South Vietnamese guerillas

Answer 23

Viet Cong

Question 24

Republican who advocated “Dynamic Conservatism”

Answer 24

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 25

Belief that the fall of one nation in Southeast Asia to communism will lead to the fall of other nations there

Answer 25

Domino Theory

Question 26

East Germany begin building this in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West

Answer 26

Berlin Wall

Question 27

This term was coined to describe accusations based on lies, distortion, and innuendo.

Answer 27

McCarthyism

Question 28

This law was designed to ban the union shop

Answer 28

"Right-to-Work" law

Question 29

President Nixon's policy of reducing American forces in Vietnam and increasing the role of the South Vietnamese

Answer 29

Vietnamization

Question 30

University where four students were killed during a 1970 antiwar protest

Answer 30

Kent State

Question 31

This act created the CIA, National Security Council, and Department of Defense

Answer 31

National Security Act

Question 32

His policy was The Great Society

Answer 32

Lyndon Johnson

Question 33

This revolution escalated the number of American troops in Vietnam

Answer 33

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

Question 34

He was a judicial activist

Answer 34

Earl Warren

Question 35

Antiwar Democratic candidate who challenged Johnson in the New Hampshire primary in 1968

Answer 35

Eugene McCarthy

Question 36

Location of the worst urban riots in the 1960s

Answer 36

Los Angeles

Question 37

Popular Democratic leader who was murdered in 1968

Answer 37

Robert Kennedy

Question 38

Republican "law-and-order" campaign

Answer 38

Richard Nixon

Question 39

Fiery conservative candidate of the American Independent Party in 1968

Answer 39

George Wallace

Question 40

Secretary of State who negotiated the SALT Treaty

Answer 40

Henry Kissinger

Question 41

Zealously liberal Democrat who lost by a landslide in 1972

Answer 41

George McGovern

Question 42

This act created the Equal Opportunity Commission, forbid racial discrimination, and promoted desegregation of public schools

Answer 42

Civil Rights Act of 1964