8.1
What is the policy of containment?
Contain communism where it currently is and prevent the spread of it elsewhere.
What side of Korea did US support during the Korean War?
South
What was the first major success of the early civil rights movement under President Truman? (1943)
Desegregation of the armed forces
Who leads the successful communist revolution in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
Which US President pursued Vietnamization, or the pulling of US troops out of Vietnam?
Richard Nixon.
What two ways did US try to economically contain communism?
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
Who claimed he had "a list of all Congress members linked to communist activities?"
Joseph McCarthy
What Supreme Court case reversed Plessy v. Ferguson?
Brown v. Board of Education
What was Dwight D. Eisenhower's policy regarding the USSR and nuclear arsenals?
Mutually Assured Destruction
When Gerald Ford said he wished to end "the national nightmare" of America, he was referring to...
The Watergate scandal
What two collective security alliances were created towards the start of the Cold War?
What was the significance of the GI Bill?
Gave veterans of WWII access to cheap education, housing, and careers.
What nonviolent methods of protests were used by African-Americans during the civil rights movement?
Church rallies, bus boycotts, sit-ins.
Explain the Bay of Pigs operation and its outcomes.
What two problems did Jimmy Carter face during his presidency?
Oil embargo - high prices and inflation
Iranian Hostage Crisis
What two political entities were created in the US after NATO was formed?
The National Security Council and the CIA.
Why were the 1950s known as the Boom Years?
Immense US prosperity and GDP growth
Baby boom + vaccinations
TVs and automobiles widely available
Air conditioning - migration to Sun Belt.
During the civil rights movement, Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party were both advocates of what?
Black power, black militancy and self-determination
Why is it significant that Eisenhower was Republican?
First Republican President since Hoover
Did not reverse previous Democrat policies (such as New Deal agencies and orgs)
Explain the significance of the Great Society laws.
Great Society provided reforms to impoverished Americans across the country through food stamps, soup kitchens, job trainings, employment opportunities, and massive tax cuts.
Which Chinese leader led China through a successful communist revolution at the start of the Cold War?
Chairman Mao Zedong
What was the significance of the Beat movement?
Despite growing teenager / American pop culture, there were still groups of people who protested against cultural homogeneity and wished to be countercultural (wore black clothes, berets, wrote poetry and music, did drugs, etc.)
What were the two biggest successes of the civil rights movement under LBJ?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965
Why was the Vietnam War so unpopular at home?
Mounting distrust of the government decisions to go to war, to draft citizens, etc.
Televised footage, very graphic
Lots of American lives and money spent
Explain the Watergate scandal and its outcomes.
5 burglars caught breaking into the DNC at Watergate apartments - led to connection with Richard Nixon's reelection campaign and his obstruction of justice to block the connection - led to first ever resignation of US President in face of criminal conviction.