Desperate for assistance during the War, England made a deal with the United States to grant access to naval ports in exchange for warships. This agreement was called
Destroyers for Bases
100
The main focus of the Truman Doctrine was
to work to contain communism from spreading to other parts of the world
100
In 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka case determined that
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal and, therefore, unlawful
100
The _________________ was established by JFK to aid lesser developed countries and to promote America, democracy, and Capitalism there.
Peace Corps
100
One of the negatives of supply-side economics was that
America began to run a deficit (it spent more than it brought in in taxes)
200
One role the War Production Board played during World War II was
trying to organize the production of the correct military supplies needed for the war
200
During the Korean War, President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur argued over
MacArthur’s demand that Truman drop bombs on China during the Korean War
200
College students in the South targeted segregation in private businesses like lunch counters by:
staging sit-ins, which were a form of non-violent passive resistance
200
The ___________________ which included the War on Poverty was the collection of domestic programs pushed through Congress by President Johnson. Many of these programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare, still exist.
Great Society
200
The three nations George W Bush singled out for being a part of the “Axis of Evil” for sponsoring terrorism around the world were
Iran, Iraq, North Korea
300
One of the reasons the Japanese attacked the United States was its anger that the U.S.
stopped shipping oil to Japan
300
The largest body inside the United Nations is the ____________, which has almost 200 countries participate
General Assembly
300
How was Thurgood Marshall significant?
as the key attorney in Brown vs. Board of Education and the first black US Supreme Court Justice
300
The Pentagon Papers revealed that
the government had not been honest with the public about Vietnam.
300
This President sent US troops to destroy Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and overthrow Saddam Hussein in a preemptive war that started in 2003.
George W Bush
400
In pursuing a military strategy against Germany, President Roosevelt initially chose to support the British by concentrating on North Africa. This strategy had the benefit of:
giving much needed experience to the untested American Forces
400
Senator Joseph McCarthy led a movement to find communists inside America after WWII. What led to his downfall?
He accused members of the military as being spies for the Soviet Union.
400
The goal of Mississippi’s Freedom Summer was to
work to get blacks in rural Mississippi registered to vote
400
What was Vietnamization?
the withdrawal of US troops while turning the actual combat over to the South Vietnamese troops.
400
What is stagflation?
the combination of high unemployment and inflation
500
The rulings of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), Plessy v. Ferguson(1896), and Korematsu v. United States (1944) all demonstrate that the Supreme Court has
sometimes failed to protect the rights of minorities
500
A key factor that enabled the U.S. economy to continue to grow after World War II was
increased consumer spending.
500
“Bloody Sunday” was the name given to the violence that occurred connected to this event:
The March from Selma to Montgomery
500
The one major event that allowed President Johnson to gain Congresses’ authority to escalate the war in Vietnam early on was the ___________________. The details around this event have since been questioned.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
500
In the late 20th Century,, the Soviet Union under Gorbachev enacted the policies of glasnost and perestroika to make reforms in the country. These reforms ultimately helped lead to:
the collapse of the Soviet Union and an end of the Cold War.