The Neutrality Act of 1939 allows nations at war to buy weapons from the U.S. as long as those nations did what?
Pay cash and transport the materials themselves
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Which 2 countries came out of World War II the strongest?
The U.S. and Soviet Union
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What is the idea behind the policy of 'containment'?
Keep communism in it's current borders; keeping it from expanding to more nations
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Which rights movement had a lasting effect on many other movements of the 1960s and 1970s
The Civil Rights movement
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Who was the president during the majority of World War II?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Name 3 Axis nations and 3 Allied nations during WWII; also, which group signed the Tripartite Pact?
Japan, Italy, Germany ; US, Great Britian, French, USSR. The Tripartite Pact became the Axis nations
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What is McCarthyism?
A catch-phrase for making accusations of subversion or treason without proper evidence
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What were the Americans Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg charged with doing?
Giving Soviets information about the atomic bomb.
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Which national event first started in 1970 as a protest to environmental problems?
Earth Day - Apr 22, 1970
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What was the policy of President Nixon that was defined as relying on more responsibility to the South Vietnamese armed forces to take the leading role in the fight against the North?
What is Vietnamization
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What was some of the main differences between 'isolationists' and 'interventionists'
Isolationists wanted to stay out of the war and worry about our economy, etc. Interventionists wanted to get involved the war
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What did the G.I. Bill provide for soldiers returning home from war.
Home loans, tuition for college, assistance in job placement, etc.
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In order to reduce the flow of communist supplies from the North, the President ordered that bombings happen in Cambodia along what?
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
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The passage of which Supreme Court decision allowed for the event at a Little Rock, AR high school to occur?
Brown v. Board of Education
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Name the U.S. presidents in order (without using books) from Roosevelt to Ford.
Roosevelt - Truman - Eisenhower - Kennedy - Johnson - Nixon - Ford (then Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama)
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What was the main reason why Truman decided that it was in the best interest of America to drop the atomic bombs?
Force Japanese surrender to protect American lives if a ground attack were to occur in Japan
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In 1950, how did the Korean conflict begin? (Who did what?)
North Korea invaded South Korea south of the 38th parallel
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The Bay of Pigs invasion was an attempt to overthrow who?
Fidel Castro in Cuba
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What event led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on the bus.
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What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allow President Johnson to do if the U.S. was attacked?
Take any necessary actions to defend U.S. forces from armed attacks
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What is "appeasement" and why did the U.S. initially follow the policy of appeasement toward German aggression in Europe at the start of WWII?
Making concessions to a potential enemy to maintain peace.. The U.S. followed it initially by wanting to focus on their own economic troubles at home.
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In Vietnam, what happened after the United States pulled out of South Vietnam?
The North ended up taking control of South and the communist government took control of the country.
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What effect did SALT I have on U.S-Soviet relations? aka, did it make Cold War tensions higher or lower
Eased cold war tensions
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How did the counterculture come to an end?
The discovery of the danger of drugs; death of many notable figures; end of Vietnam war
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What was the effect of Nixon's visit to China? Also, how did the Soviet Union respond to Nixon's visit to communist China?
Made relations between US-China better; first US president to visit communist China. The Soviet Union in response offered an invite to Nixon to visit the Soviet Union