AP US History Unit 8 Review

Cold War to 1965

100

This Wisconsin Senator threatened his political opponents by accusing them of being communist agents. 

Joseph McCarthy

200

These three country's occupations zones became West Germany.

Britain, France, USA

300

These were the two concessions the US made with the USSR to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1. Remove Nukes from Turkey

2. Promise not to invade Cuba

400

This was the original dividing line between North and South Korea.

38th Parallel

500

This uprising against communism was not supported by the United States, as it was not containment policy to do so.

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Cold War after 1965

100

This 1979 Revolution overthrew a US backed anticommunist monarchy.

Iranian Isalmic Revolution

200

This was the policy under Nixon to build better relationships with communist countires.

Detente

300

This supply route outside of Vietnam was extensively bomb by the United States during the Vietnam War.

Ho Chi Minh Trail

400

This treaty brokered peace between Israel and Egypt, ensuring that the Middle East would not become a Cold War front.

Camp David Accords

500

These were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the production of ballistic missiles.

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (I and II)

Civil Rights Movement

100

This was Malcom X's famous quote.

By any means necessary.

200

Dr. King was inspired by these three people.

1. Jesus

2. Gandhi

3. Henry David Thoreau

300

This was Dr. King's next focus was on after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. (Two correct answers)

Poor People's Campaign OR Antiwar Vietnam Campaign

400

This was the effort by young people to register African American in the South in 1964 which was met by much violence by Southern whites who viewed them as carpetbaggers.

Project Freedom Summer

500

This California gun control law was aimed at reducing the influence of armed black power groups in California.

Mulford Act (1967)

Culture & Politics

100

This was Richard Nixon's plan for winning over southern whites disaffected by the Democratic Party's embrace of Civil Rights.

The Southern Strategy

200

Yippies was a nickname for this movement/political party.

Youth International Party

300

These were the academics and students who preceded the hippies.

Beatniks

400

This was the term given to conservative voters who were not in favor of the many new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s.

Silent Majority

500

This Supreme Court case ruled that illegally sized evidence cannot be used at a trial.

Mapp v. Ohio

Postwar Economics

100

This landmark 1944 legislation provided returning World War II veterans with benefits such as low-interest home loans and tuition assistance.

GI Bill

200

This invention helped spur the consumerism of the postwar economy.

T.V.

300

Suburbanization was in part fueled by this government act.

The Interstate Highway Act

400

This 1947 law restricted the power of labor unions by banning closed shops and allowing states to pass right-to-work laws.

Taft-Hartley Act

500

This established that the U.S. dollar was the dominant reserve currency and that the dollar was convertible to gold at the fixed rate of $35 per ounce. It was ended by Nixon in 1971.

Bretton Woods system

MR. GRAHAM'S CHALLENGE

100

While not named after any civil rights movement, this super hero has become synonymous with black empowerment. 

Black Panther

200

This Catholic Civil Rights leader was one of Milwaukee's greatest civil rights champions.

Father James Groppi

300

Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman of the Yippies made a mockery of this House of Representatives group in 1967.

HUAC (House Unamerican Activities Committee) 

400

The Soviets sent this dog into space, making it the first animal in space.

Laika

500

Mutineer Valery Sablin's attempt at start a new communist revolution in the USSR inspired this novel and the 1990 film of the same name.