Unit 2

Question 1

De Facto Segregation

Answer 1

Occurs in practice

Question 2

NAACP

Answer 2

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 3

Dedure Segregation

Answer 3

Actual laws that discriminate and segregate

Question 4

Deficit Spending

Answer 4

America in recession
Increased government spending while decreasing taxes

Question 5

SNCC

Answer 5

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Black college students protesting

Question 6

Three Actions Kennedy Changed Economy

Answer 6

Tax cuts
Technology investments
Limiting poverty

Question 7

A New Frontier of His Own

Answer 7

Mocking his slogan with Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 8

Bay of Pigs

Answer 8

Failed military invasion aimed at overthrowing Cuban government

Question 9

Freedom Riders

Answer 9

Kennedy calls MLKJ our of jail
FBI had advanced info but didn’t act
JFK kept trying but things kept failing

Question 10

Kennedy’s Solution

Answer 10

Guarantee safety and you can arrest protestors
Funds decrease
Texas Democrats before election
Killed by Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 11

Great Society

Answer 11

Johnson wished to fight poverty
Lots of acts

Question 12

Main Programs Johnson Created

Answer 12

Economic Opportunity Act
Office of Economic Opportunity
Job Corp
VISTA
Medicare
Medicaid

Question 13

Birmingham Campaign

Answer 13

Peaceful protest of sitting in white only areas
Everyone arrested

Question 14

Key Demands of March on Washington

Answer 14

End segregation in schools
Voting rights
Fair employment
Raise minimum wage
Economic justice and job equality

Question 15

Freedom Summer

Answer 15

Trained student volunteers to go to Mississippi to register votes

Question 16

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 16

Fled to China and organized under him
Indochinese Communist party
Returns to Vietnam and forms Vietminh

Question 17

Stokely Carmicheal

Answer 17

Freedom rider
Organizes Lowndes County Freedom Organization/Black Panthers

Question 18

Malcolm X

Answer 18

Early troubled life
Joined Islam
Black Muslim
Spoke for Black nationalism
Views evolved to unity
Shot and killed by Black Muslim
Influenced Black Power and nationalism and economic self sufficiency

Question 19

SDS

Answer 19

Students for Democratic Society
Anti coorporation

Question 20

Washington Protest

Answer 20

Organized by SDS
President Johnson is frusturated because he is against Communism but wants money for poor
Decides if you want college deferment, need to be in good standing academically
That means going to class and not protesting

Question 21

Election

Answer 21

Johnson doesn’t run again and RFK had died
McCarthy who is anti war
Hubert Humphrey who is Johnson’s VP

Question 22

End of War

Answer 22

Week long truce
Defeat for North
Psychological defeat in America
Stalemate pretty much

Question 23

US Ambassador of UN

Answer 23

Adligh Stevinson

Question 24

Target 33

Answer 24

Spy plane ordered by Soviets to be shot down

Question 25

Operation Raincoat

Answer 25

Code name for invasion of bombs on Cuba

Question 26

Arkansas Governor Resonse

Answer 26

National Guard to only let white students in Does this to be re elected

Question 27

Eisenhower Little Rock Response

Answer 27

Didn't wish to address as focused on Cold War and didn't want America to look bad Tried to convince guard eventually

Question 28

Black Power Movement in Communities

Answer 28

Breakfast programs Community health clinics Educational programs for heritage

Question 29

Black Power Lasting Change

Answer 29

Community service addressed immediate needs Empowerment Influenced public opinion

Question 30

Black Panther Cold War Threat

Answer 30

Armed prescense viewed as challenge to established authority Call for revolution conflicted with stable, Democratic portrayal