Unit 19

Question 0

Soviet leader after the death of Stalin

Answer 0

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 1

Term created by Eisenhower that described weapons makers and military influence on US foreign-policy

Answer 1

“Military-industrial” complex

Question 2

Term that referred to idea that a nuclear attack by one nation would result in the destruction of both nations

Answer 2

Mutual assured destruction (MAD)

Question 3

Cuban dictator in 1950s; overthrown by communist revolution in 1959

Answer 3

Fulgencio Batista

Question 4

Cuban communist leader Who overthrew US backed dictatorship in 1959

Answer 4

Fidel Castro

Question 5

Communist nationalist leader of Vietnamese

Answer 5

Ho Chi Minh

Question 6

Fortress or French were defeated by Vietminh in Vietnam in 1954; resulted in French withdrawal and American involvement in Vietnam

Answer 6

Dien bien phu

Question 7

After French defeat, these split Vietnam at the 17th parallel into communist north, non communist south

Answer 7

Geneva peace accords, 1954

Question 8

Idea that if one country in Southeast Asia was allowed to fall to Communists others would soon follow

Answer 8

Domino theory

Question 9

Cited national security reasons to build interstate highways (troop/nuke movements)

Answer 9

Highway act of 1956

Question 10

Term created by David Riseman of Harvard referred to concept that people measured themselves against images created by mass media

Answer 10

“Other-directed” society

Question 11

Cultural controversy of the 1950s that claimed American culture was becoming too standardized

Answer 11

Mass culture debate

Question 12

Said women were natural child rearers; future of US depended on their role; parenting books that promoted traditional gender roles for women

Answer 12

Dr.Benjamin Spock

Question 13

Example of youths revolt against conformity; first great “rock ‘n roll” star, lyrics and moves seen as sexually promiscuous and “black”

Answer 13

Elvis Presley

Question 14

Example of male revolt against conformity, founded playboy magazine

Answer 14

Hugh Hefner

Question 15

Example of female revolt against conformity; method of contraception that became available in 1960

Answer 15

Birth control pill (life savers)

Question 16

Leader of NAACP in 1950s; later became 1st Supreme Court justice

Answer 16

Thurmond Marshall

Question 17

Chief Justice of Supreme Court appointed by Eisenhower moderate views helped civil rights movement

Answer 17

Earl warren

Question 18

Court case that ruled state mandated segregation of schools violated by constitution (equal protection under law)

Answer 18

Brown v Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

Question 19

Court case that ruled desegregation would move forward “with all deliberate speed”

Answer 19

Brown II (1955)

Question 20

100 members of congress denounce Supreme Court segregationist rulings and said they would support any legal resistance

Answer 20

Southern manifesto

Question 21

Black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat on bud sparked awareness of civil rights in 1954

Answer 21

Ross Parks aka Shereen (shereen is a bad bitch)

Question 22

His leadership of Montgomery bus boycott makes him the leader of the entire civil rights movement to many

Answer 22

My boy Martin Luther King

Question 23

Civil rights organization of MLK that demanded desegregation of public facilities, started voter registration drive, and promoted passive civil disobedience

Answer 23

Southern Christian leadership conference (SCLC)

Question 24

Expedited lawsuits by African-Americans who claimed voting rights were violated and created commission on civil rights to advise government on issues

Answer 24

Civil rights act of 1957

Question 25

High school that was forcibly desegregated by US troops in 1957 on the orders of Eisenhower

Answer 25

Little rock central high school

Question 26

Claimed US was becoming "other directed" society of conformists

Answer 26

David Riseman (Harvard)

Question 27

Write The Affluent s | Society; claimed wealthy Americans needed to spend more for common good

Answer 27

John Kenneth Galbraith

Question 28

Wrote the catcher in the Rye; showed individual struggle against conformity (Holden Caulfield) and refers to "phoniness" of society

Answer 28

J.D. Salinger | His name makes him sound like a phony

Question 29

Leader of Beats; wrote on the road; rebelled against conformity by promoting spontaneity, drugs, improvised jazz, and unorthodox literary styles to rebel against conformity

Answer 29

Jack Kerouac | My kind of man

Question 30

Senator from Arizona who started modern conservative movement (reducing support of civil rights and domestic programs, tougher policies toward USSR

Answer 30

Barry Goldwater

Question 31

First artificial satellite in space launched by USSR in 1957

Answer 31

Sputnik

Question 32

Space agency founded largely as reaction to Soviet launch of Sputnik

Answer 32

National aeronautics and space administration (NASA)

Question 33

Failed 1961 invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles lacked enough American support

Answer 33

Bay of pigs invasion

Question 34

1962 crisis in which Soviet attempted to place nuclear missiles in Cuba JFK responded with blockade

Answer 34

Cuban missile crisis

Question 35

Largest civil rights march of 1960s MLK gave I have a dream speech

Answer 35

March on Washington (1963)

Question 36

Wrote the feminine mystique (1963) complained about confinement to home and lack of career opportunities for women

Answer 36

Betty Friedan

Question 37

Conservative female activist who believed equality with men would take away many of their privileges in society (like exemption from draft)

Answer 37

Phyllis schafly

Question 38

Accused assassin of JFK assassinated by jack ruby

Answer 38

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 39

Commission set up to investigate JFK and Oswald assassinations; said both Oswald and Ruby acted alone

Answer 39

Warren commission