Exam 2

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

1947-1991

Question 2

TET offensive

Answer 2

January to June 1968

Question 3

Battle of Ap bac

Answer 3

January 1963

Question 4

Battle of Dak to

Answer 4

November 1967

Question 5

My Lai massacre

Answer 5

March 1968

Question 6

USSR gave north

Answer 6

Vietnam US1 billion each year during the height of the war

Question 7

Battle of Khe Sanh

Answer 7

1409 Americans killed and 7000 wounded

Question 8

Operation rolling thunder launched

Answer 8

Feb 7 1965 which included extensive bombing in north Vietnam

Question 9

NATO

Answer 9

Established April 4th 1919

Question 10

NATO members

Answer 10

12

Question 11

UN

Answer 11

24 October 1945 with 51 nations

Question 12

UN created at

Answer 12

San Francisco at the conference of international organisations

Question 13

Hiroshima

Answer 13

6 August 1945 Erola gay

Question 14

Nagasaki

Answer 14

Bock’s car

Question 15

Bock’s car

Answer 15

Killed 40,000 people within minutes

Question 16

Marshall plan

Answer 16

15 nations received funding
Increased industrial production in Germany by 35%
51% of Americans had not heard of it

Question 17

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 17

Us controlled 90% of Cuban mines

Question 18

Castro signed a trade pact

Answer 18

In February 1960 with the USSR which resulted j diplomatic ties being cut with the U,S by Jan 1961

Question 19

In April 1960

Answer 19

The cia trained and equipped 1400 men to invade Cuba after landing on the beach in the bay of pigs

Question 20

Bay of pigs

Answer 20

100 men killed

Question 21

Operation mongoose

Answer 21

A ban on Cuban imports to the us and ban on travel to Cuba

Question 22

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Answer 22

The Cold War could have been avoided only if the Soviet Union had not been possessed by convictions both of the infallibility of the communist word and of the inevitability of the communist world

Question 23

Daniel Leab

Answer 23

The us and its allies tried to convince their citizens that they lived the best possible society. It may not have been as free as the propaganda asserted but it did boast free markets, limited government, the rule of law, individualism and human rights

Question 24

Enderlin

Answer 24

The Marshall plan set out to help only those who accepted it

Question 25

John Lewis Gaddis

Answer 25

Stalin's postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country and his ideology, in precisely that order

Question 26

Michael hart

Answer 26

The west had no way of ending the conflict

Question 27

IB standard history project

Answer 27

The Cold War was caused by fear not aggression

Question 28

March on Washington

Answer 28

More than 250,000 petitioners | August 28 1963

Question 29

Freedom riders

Answer 29

May 29 1961 more and more join

Question 30

Kkk

Answer 30

Average of 150 lynchings between 1882 and 1910

Question 31

Death of emmett till

Answer 31

1955

Question 32

African Americans

Answer 32

Made up more than 75% of buses

Question 33

Montage dry bus boycott

Answer 33

Involved 35,000 petitioners and ended on the 21st of December 1956

Question 34

Sit ins

Answer 34

On Monday fen 1st 1960 four young black men sat in a white diner

Question 35

By the next day

Answer 35

There were 23 students and before the week passed there were more than 400

Question 36

Defiance campaign

Answer 36

1952 when the ANC attempted to appease the youth league | Approx 8500 people arrested

Question 37

Freedom charter

Answer 37

1955 wanted lots of things such as freedom to vote, fair trial before imprsionment, right to speak etc.

Question 38

Soweto riots

Answer 38

1976 government schools were to teach in the language of Afrikaans

Question 39

8000-10000 students protested at

Answer 39

Naledi high school

Question 40

Steve Biko

Answer 40

Created Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) | Died in 1977

Question 41

Truth and reconciliation commission

Answer 41

Anyone who felt they had been a victim of violence could come forward with a petition

Question 42

Truth and reconciliation results

Answer 42

5392 people refused amnesty and 849 were granted

Question 43

1964 civil rights act

Answer 43

Over 70% of the American vote went to Kennedy

Question 44

Battle of little rock

Answer 44

9 students went to an all white school

Question 45

Virginia historical society

Answer 45

Although brown death only with discrimination in education it effectively sounded the death knell for the whole Kim crow system of second class citizenship

Question 46

Richard Malone

Answer 46

The boycott buses in Montgomery Alabama sparked the civil rights movement

Question 47

Richard Malone 2

Answer 47

The key feature of the sit in were that the protests were totally peaceful

Question 48

Eric Foner

Answer 48

Helped spark other social protest movements

Question 49

Clarence Taylor

Answer 49

The movement was also important because it helped eradicate the American apartheid system