Final Exam

Question 1

Lend Lease Act

Answer 1

Allowed America to lend or lease arms and other supplies to the allies in WW2. Signified the Likely hood of American involvement.

Question 2

Pearl Harbor

Answer 2

Japan’s surprise attack on a naval fleet in Hawaii. Due to the U.S cutting off oil to Japan.

Question 3

Joseph Stalin

Answer 3

Leader of Cuba the alliance between Cuba and the Soviet Union allowed The Soviet Union to move nuclear weapons to Cuba. Increased tensions in the Cold War.

Question 4

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 4

American first dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima and without the surrender of the Japan 3 days later bombed Nagasaki. Forcing the unconditional surrender of Japan.

Question 5

George Kennan and Containment

Answer 5

Call for the halting of the Soviet Union expansion was the choice of strategy through the Cold War.

Question 6

Truman Doctrine

Answer 6

The aid provided to European countries particularly Greece and Turkey in fear of communism taking over

Question 7

The Marshall Plan

Answer 7

Program for reconstruction of post WW2 through massive aid to former enemies as well as allies.

Question 8

NATO

Answer 8

Defensive alliance founded in 1949 by 10 Western European nations the U.S and Canada.

Question 9

Joseph Mcarthy

Answer 9

Claimed that the government was full of communism and led a witch hunt to find said communists. Never was able to uncover a single communist agent.

Question 10

Baby Boom

Answer 10

Markedly higher birth rate in the years following WW2 led to the biggest demographic bubble in U.S history.

Question 11

Brown vs. Board of Education

Answer 11

Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in public schools. Declared “separate but equal” unconditional.

Question 12

Freedom Riders

Answer 12

A group of black and white demonstrators that rode busses to test the federal court ruling that banned segregation on busses.

Question 13

Montgomery bus boycott

Answer 13

Sparked by Rosa Parks. A successful year long boycott of protesting segregation on city busses; led by MLK

Question 14

Martin Luther King

Answer 14

Important leader in the civil rights movement. Was assassinated

Question 15

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 15

Was the leader of the Vietnamese communist that drove the U.S and French out of Vietnam.

Question 16

Berlin Wall

Answer 16

A wall separating the capital of Germany. East Germany being communist Soviet Union. West being free democratic Germany. Was torn down by Gorbachev in 1989

Question 17

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 17

Caused when America discovered soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba. Closest brush in the Cold War with nuclear war.

Question 18

Great Society

Answer 18

Term by president Lyndon Johnson he proposed legislation to address problems of voting rights, poverty, diseases, education, immigration, and the environment.

Question 19

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Answer 19

Passed by congressional reaction to supposedly unprovoked attacks on American warships off the coast of Norther Vietnam. Gave the president unlimited authority to defend U.S. forces and troops of SEATO.

Question 20

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Answer 20

Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment.

Question 21

Tet Offensive

Answer 21

Surprise attack by the Vietnam Cong and North Vietnamese during the Vietnamese new year of 1968; turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Question 22

Counterculture

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Hippie youth culture of the 60’s , which rejected the dominant culture in favor of illicit drugs, communes, free sex and rock music.

Question 23

Detente

Answer 23

An agreement between America and the Soviet Union that agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles each could possess. Also signed new trade agreements.

Question 24

Watergate

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1972-74 scandal during the Nixon presidency, when his realization of the break in and cover up forced his resignation.

Question 25

Jimmy Carter

Answer 25

Capitalized on watergate. Won the 1976 presidential election. Created Energy and Education departments and signed into law several environmental initiatives.

Question 26

Moral Majority

Answer 26

Conservative evangelical Protestants who helped ensure Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory.

Question 27

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 27

Tries to reform the Soviet Union. Signed denete with Reagan, he allowed freedom of speech and lead to the break up of the Soviet Union.

Question 28

Ronald Reagan

Answer 28

Softened tensions with Russia through the denete.

Question 29

The New Deal

Answer 29

FDR's campaign promise, in his speech to the democratic convention to combat with the Great Depression.