Post WWII
Cold War
Economy
Kennedy
Johnson
100
Leaders agreement at Yalta conference:
What is Leaders agreed to recognize the Polish government that the Soviets had set up if Stalin agreed to hold free elections there as soon as possible
100
Provided humanitarian aid to the West Germans.
What is Berlin Airlift
100
After WWII, labor unrest was triggered by rising inflation.
What is Impact of rising inflation:
100
Why was Kennedy unable to pass many of his domestic programs?
What is Because many Democrats in Congress did not feel that he helped them win their seats.
100
Lyndon Johnson’s vision of the more perfect and equitable society could and should become.
What is What is The Great Society
200
Soviet view at Potsdam:
What is Germany must make reparations. (pg. 657)
200
Formed for the purpose of mutual defense.
What is NATO
200
JFK & Deficit spending
What is Kennedy advocated this in an effort to increase growth and create more jobs.
200
Kennedy’s legislative agenda.
What is New Frontier
200
How were Johnson’s goals for a better America supported?
What is By the prosperity resulting from the strong economy
300
The “Iron Curtain”
What is Separated the Communist dominated countries of Eastern Europe from the Western democracies.
300
The Korean War pitted the military forces of North Korea and China against who?
What is the United Nations
300
To benefit from a cheaper labor pool, some businesses in the 1950s began to expand overseas
What is Business expansion overseas:
300
Kennedy convinced Congress to invest spending in what two areas?
What is Defense and space exploration.
300
Financed health care for welfare recipients / created under Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society
What is Medicaid
400
Truman’s view concerning Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan:
What is Both were essential for containment
400
One result was that many returning soldiers attended college.
What is the G.I. Bill
400
1.) Outlawed the Closed Shop, 2.) Prohibited Featherbedding, 3.) Allowed right-to-work laws
What is The Impact of Taft-Hartley Act:
400
Kennedy’s goal during the space race:
What is To be the first nation to land a man on the moon
400
Why did President Johnson refuse to order a full-scale invasion of North Vietnam?
What is He feared that it would bring China into the war.
500
The Soviet Union’s response to the U.S., Britain, and France merging their zones in Germany:
What is Soviet Union responded by blockading West Berlin
500
1.) Kennedy promised publicly not to invade Cuba, 2.) Kennedy promised privately to remove missiles from Turkey, Khrushchev promised to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba.
What is Agreements to end the Cuban Missile Crisis:
500
Rested in large part on easy access to raw materials around the world and a strong manufacturing industry
What is Reasons for prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s:
500
The purpose was to find out if more than one person was involved in the Kennedy assassination.
What is The Warren Commission
500
Congress gave its war powers to the president.
What is Golf of Tonkin Resolution / Presidential powers