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Chapter 23&24 Flashcards

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Communist leader in China

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Mal Zedong

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Communist leader in Cuba

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Fidel Castro

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

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Eugene McCarthy

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Commander of the UN military forces in Korea

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Douglas MacArthur

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Democrat who advocated the Fair Deal

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Harry Truman

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Conservative republican who attacked communism; “law-and-order” campaign

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Richard Nixon

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Democrat who advocated the New Frontier

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John Kennedy

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The Great Society

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Uncompromising, conservative republican candidate for president

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Barry Goldwater

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Judicial activist

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Earl Warren

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Popular democratic leader who was murdered in 1968

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Robert Kennedy

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Secretary of State who negotiated the SALT Treaty

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Henry Kissinger

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Postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union

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Cold War

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Separation of Eastern Europe from the West

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Iron curtain

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Policy of resistance to continuing communist aggression

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Containment

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

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Domino theory

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Black attempts to secure protection of legal entitlements

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Civil rights movement

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Massive rise in the US population after WWII

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Baby boom

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Elimination of all forms of poverty and inequality

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Great Society

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Broad legal interpretation to attack social problems

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Judicial activism

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Banned poll taxes

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Twenty-Fourth Amendment

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Rebellious youth movement of the 1960’s

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Counterculture

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Relaxation of US/Soviet tensions

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A call for civil rights by any means necessary

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Where did General MacArthur launch a brilliant amphibious invasion of North Korea that saved South Korea?
Inchon
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What 1961 operation against communist Cuba was originally back by the United States but resulted in a disaster when aid was withdrawn at the last minute?
Bay of Pigs
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What did East Germany begin building in 1961 to prevent refugees from escaping to the West?
Berlin Wall
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What name was given to the conservative southern democrats who joined the States’ Rights Party in 1948?
Dixiecrats
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Why term was coined to describe accusations based on lies, distortion, and innuendo?
McCarthyism
30
What government health insurance program was instituted in 1965 to help elderly people pay their medical expenses?
Medicare
31
What were pro-communist South Vietnamese guerrillas called?
Viet Cong
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Where did the North Vietnamese meet with the United States for peace talks?
Paris, France
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What was president Nixon’s policy of reducing American forces in Vietnam and increasing the role of the South Vietnamese called?
Vietnamization
34
At what university were 4 students killed during a 1970 anti war protest?
Kent State University
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What two other Southeast Asian nations fell to communism after the fall of South Vietnam?
Laos and Cambodia
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What was the decision of Brown v. The Board of Education?
Public schools should not be segregated by race
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Which phrase best describes postwar society in America?
Consumer culture
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What was the first country in the Western Hemisphere to fall to communism?
Cuba
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What was the objective of the Taft-Harley Act?
Weaken unions
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What is a “right-to-work” law?
A ban of the union shop
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How did Truman get the United States to intervene against the communists in Korea?
Acting when the Soviets were temporarily absent from the UN
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What was the main provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Outlawing literacy tests for voters
43
What was the effect of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
Escalation of the number of American troops in Vietnam
44
Why was the Vietnam War harder to fight than the Korean War?
Pro-Communists among the Asian allies
45
What happened at Selma, Alabama, that encouraged the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Murder of three white civil rights activists
46
Where did the worst urban riot during the 1960’s occur?
Los Angeles
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What was the main “rallying point” of the disaffected youth in the 1960’s and early 1970’s?
The anti war movement
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What was president Nixon’s greatest triumph in foreign affairs?
Establishment of relations with Communist China
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For which crime was William Calley court-marshaled?
Massacring Vietnamese civilians

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