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Final Exam Review Flashcards

1
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Which president offered a Fair Deal agenda to the American people?

A

Harry S. Truman

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2
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Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, and - are the first 3 Rock and Roll stars

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Little Richard

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What organization was Fannie Lou Hamer the co-founder of?

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Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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4
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What was proposed in 1972 and stipulated that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.”?

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The Equal Rights Amendment

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5
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T/F: According to Communist ideology, the bourgeoisie will overthrow the capitalist order.

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False; the proletariat

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Who was an outspoken opponent of fascism who traveled across the world advocating for civil rights, to the dismay of the United States?

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Paul Robeson

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T/F: The Truman Doctrine is a 1947 foreign policy that establishes the concept of containment that targeted the rise of communism across the world.

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True

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T/F: Ho Chi Minh was the Communist leader of the Chinese revolution who lost support from the U.S. after WWII.

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False

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What was a piece of legislation that provided “separate but equal” housing, healthcare, and education to veterans.

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GI Bill

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T/F: Harry Ueno was accused of leading an uprising at the Manzanar Relocation Center during the period of Japanese Incarceration during WWII.

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True

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T/F: Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) was the Supreme Court decision that affirmed the legal enforcement of racially restrictive housing covenants.

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False

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T/F: The Marshall Plan was a European Recovery Program that provided aid to Western Europe following the devastation of WWII.

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True

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13
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The “Great Society” was President Lyndon B. Johnson’s program that sought to eliminate poverty and segregation through expansive liberal reform.

A

True

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14
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Which president created the Peace Corps in 1961?

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John F. Kennedy

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T/F: Betty Friedan, a graduate of Smith College, was a co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW)

A

True

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16
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Which feminist icon famously spent 3 weeks working as a Playboy Bunny to gather information for an entertainment magazine article?

A

Gloria Steinem

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17
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What movement started in 1966?

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The Black Power Movement

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18
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T/F: Reaganomics is the name ascribed to President Reagan’s conservative economic policy that aimed to cut taxes for the wealthy, increase military spending, increase production, and produce a trickle-down economy.

A

True

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T/F: The Gulf of Tonkin is associated with the Vietnam War.

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True

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20
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What was the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion?

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Roe v. Wade

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21
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The Black Panther Party was the most iconic representation of this militant movement that strove for Black self-determination across the world.

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Black Power

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T/F: During the Cold War, the term “Third World” was coined to describe poor, underdeveloped countries run by dictators.

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False

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23
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What were the differences between Roosevelt and Truman’s foreign policy with the Soviet Union?

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Roosevelt believed that he could get along with Stalin and tried to tame the tensions between the US and the Soviet Union, but Truman was more focused on using force and confrontation in his foreign policy with the Soviet Union.

24
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In 2015, the United States joined this international agreement with 195 nations to limit greenhouse gases.

A

The Paris Agreement

25
Q

T/F: New conservatism is the resurgent conservative ideology of the 1950s and 1960s, reiterated the old conservatism’s faith in individual freedom and liberal government and added an aggressive, anti-Communist defense policy.

A

True

26
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What was not a concrete gain of second wave feminism?

A

Equal Rights Amendment

27
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What is the name of the Black activist and feminist, who became a part of the Black Panther Party, which was founded on the principle of self-determination for African Americans, and was also wanted throughout the US by the FBI?

A

Angela Davis

28
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What did the HUAC stand for?

A

House Un-American Activities Committee

29
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T/F: Kennedy supported South Vietnam with financial aid and military training.

A

True

30
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Who were Levittowns named after?

A

William Levitt

31
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What was the name of the 1965 Supreme Court case that protected the liberty of married couples to buy and use contraceptives without government restrictions?

A

Griswold v. Connecticut

32
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T/F: Kennedy voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Bill.

A

False

33
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What is not a civil rights organization that was active in the 1960s?

A

The National African American Association

34
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Who wrote the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” after being imprisoned during a non-violent protest in Alabama in 1963?

A

Martin Luther King Jr.

35
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T/F: Kimberle Crenshaw founded the National Organization for Women.

A

False

36
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Who was the first Black women to serve in the United States Congress?

A

Shirley Chisholm

37
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T/F: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were two of the most visible figures of the Black freedom struggle in the 1960s.

A

True

38
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T/F: The conservative Tea Party movement formed and mobilized in the late 2000s in response to the accomplishments of the Obama administration.

A

True

39
Q

Which grant exponentially increased access to college education?

A

Pell Grant

40
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Who believed that the US should base their relationship with the Soviet Union on trade and aid, and argued that an aggressive response to the Soviet Union would cause them to respond in the same way?

A

Henry A. Wallace

41
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What year did most US cities have their peak populations?

A

1950

42
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Who was the first billionaire from music?

A

Jay-Z

43
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Who was the first woman Supreme Court justice?

A

Sandra Day O’Connor

44
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Who was the most interviewed man in America during the Civil Rights Movement?

A

Malcolm X

45
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How many times did MLK and Malcolm X meet?

A

1 time

46
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Which Republican senator famously condemned fellow Republican Joseph McCarthy’s crusade against alleged Communists in the federal government?

A

Margaret Chase Smith

47
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T/F: JFK tried to support South Vietnam with financial aid, military training, but Diem was an unpopular leader who was murdered in November 1963, the same month of Kennedy.

A

True

48
Q

Most whites were not poor after WWII, but most Americans that were poor were white.

A

True

49
Q

Former South Carolina senator and Truman’s Secretary of State, who appealed to the “common man”, despite this he held conservative policies on economics and race. He became the leader of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party.

A

James Byrnes

50
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What are the three things the Black Panther Party fought against?

A

Racism, imperialism, and capitalism

51
Q

Name other groups formed in the image of the Black Panthers.

A

Young Lords, Yellow Brotherhood, Redguard, American Indian Movement

52
Q

Which president established the Environmental Protection Agency?

A

Richard Nixon

53
Q

What was JFK’s liberal vision for the United States?

A

The New Frontier

54
Q

Who coined the term “War on Poverty”?

A

LBJ

55
Q

What ended the ban on Asian immigration?

A

The Immigration Act of 1965

56
Q

The majority of African Americans were in poverty prior to his presidency, but by the time he left office the majority were not in poverty. Which president?

A

LBJ

57
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Who were the groups that consisted of the main constituents of the New Deal Coalition?

A
  1. African Americans
  2. Women
  3. White Southern Democrats
  4. Laborers/Labor Unions
  5. Urban white ethnics

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