Post WWII/Misc.
What is the GI Bill? List 2 benefits.
Government program to help returning veterans adjust to civilian life.
College Money/Home Loans/Business Loans/Unemployment Benefits.
POST WWII GI Bill=Middle Class, Suburbanization, Baby Boom
What was the outcome of the Korean War?
Stalemate, Communism contained to North Korea along the 38th Parallel.
WARS: Korean War=Containment Successful/United Nations involved/stalemate.
What was the Domino Theory and what conflict did this theory led the United States into?
If one country falls to communism the others around it will eventually fall to communism.
Vietnam War
WARS: Domino Theory/Vietnam War
How did the strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X differ in regards to the Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. King focused on Civil Disobedience while Malcolm X had a more aggressive approach. Malcolm X became frustrated with the lack of progress made by Dr. King at the start of the movement.
CIVIL RIGHTS: Boycotts/sit ins/marches
The 1960s started a time period known as Third Wave Immigration. Where did most of these immigrants come from?
What event led to the Persian Gulf War? (Operation Desert Storm)
Latin America and Asia
Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein for oil
WARS: Persian Gulf/Hussein/Kuwait/Oil
How was LBJ's approach (Democrat) to economic policy differ from that of Ronald Reagan (Republican)?
Johnson focused on more government involvement in the economy while Reagan focused on a more de-regulated Laissez Faire approach.
Presidential Policy: Johnson: Direct government intervention/Reagan Laissez Faire/Deregulation.
What was the MAIN goal of the following U.S. policies towards Communism; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and Eisenhower Doctrine?
Containment
Presidential POLICY: Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Eisenhower Doctrine=Containment
What legislation outlawed racial segregation in the United States?
What program was this legislation a part of?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Great Society
CIVIL RIGHTS: Civil Rights Act ends segregation
What major Supreme Court case was seen as the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement?
What two voting roadblocks did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlaw?
Brown V. Board of Education
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests
CIVIL RIGHTS: Brown V. Board of Education desegregation of schools.
What policies of the 1980's and 1990's eventually led to the Great Recession? (Policy of little government interference in the economy/deregulation).
Laissez Faire type economy, deregulation in the banking and financial industries.
PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES: Laissez Faire 80's/90's and deregulation=Great Recession
What event led President Eisenhower to start the Space Race?
How was this approach different with the International Space Station?
Launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union.
ISS was a collaborative effort with the two countries working together rather than competing against one another.
POST WWII: Sputnik/arms race/enemies/ISS: Collaboration.
What was the main goal of the Marshall Plan (be specific, do not just say containment)?
Rebuild war town Europe so it would have strong economies and be able to resist communism.
PRESIDENTIAL POLICY: Marshall Plan prevent spread of Communism.
What role did television play in the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement?
People for the first time could see what was happening leading to a credibility gap between the people and the government.
WARS: TV=Credibility Gap/Vietnam/Civil Rights
Who was the outspoken critic of the Equal Rights Amendment?
Who wrote Feminine Mystique?
What movement were both of these a part of?
Phyllis Schlafly
Betty Friedan
Women's Rights
CIVIL RIGHTS: Women's Rights/Friedan/Schlafly/Equal Rights Amendment
What president was associated with the energy crisis?
What did he began to talk about for the first time as a replacement to some fossil fuels?
Barrack Obama entered into the Paris Climate Accords during his presidency. What major agency is this associated with?
Jimmy Carter
Green Energy Sources/Alternative Energy
EPA
PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES :Carter/OPEC/Energy Crisis/Green Energy
What event led to the passage of the War Powers Resolution?
What is the War Powers Resolution?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution/Incident/Vietnam War
Took back war powers from the president and returned them to Congress.
WARS: War Powers Resolution reverses Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
What organization was formed by the United States and many Western European countries to counter Communism?
What organization was formed by the Soviet Union to counter the above organization?
What was the name of the metaphorical barrier that separated the two?
NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
Iron Curtain
POST WWII: NATO response to Communism in Europe
How was LBJ's Great Society Programs similar to that of FDRs New Deal?
Relied on deficit spending to fund government social programs.
Presidential Policy: Great Society extension of New Deal
What did the Pentagon Papers, Kent State Protests, and the My Lai Massacre have in common?
All continued to cause more distrust within the federal government/credibility gap, loss of support for the Vietnam War.
WARS: Credibility Gap/Vietnam
What was the major event that had a negative impact on Jimmy Carter's presidency?
What event was seen as a major success of Jimmy Carter's presidency?
What were two immediate responses by the government following the terror attacks of 9/11. (War/country) and (Law)
Iranian Hostage Crisis
Camp David Accords
Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and the Patriot Act
PRESIDENTIAL POLICIES: Carter/Iranian Hostage Crisis
WARS: 9/11=Afghanistan=Patriot Act=IRAQ War
How was the dispute in Florida voter ballots in the Presidential Election of 2000 decided?
What two major events directly followed the 9/11 attacks? (Not Operation Iraqi Freedom, that came a few years later)
Supreme Court Case Bush V. Gore
Operation Enduring Freedom (Invasion of Afghanistan to pursue Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden) Patriot Act
PRESIDENTIAL POLICY: Election of 2000/Supreme Court Decides/Bush V. Gore
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
What conflict is the Domino Theory mainly associated with?
What was the overall outcome of the Vietnam War?
Passed by Congress giving LBJ a blank check and the means to protect Vietnam at all costs.
Vietnam/Southeast Asia
Containment Failed/Communism spread throughout the country
WARS: Gulf of Tonkin/Domino Theory/War Power/Vietnam
What is New Federalism?
What political party would most likely support this policy?
What two major programs (FDR had 1 and LBJ had the other) was New Federalism a response to?
Directing federal money to the states.
Republicans
New Deal and Great Society
PRESIDENTIAL POLICY: New Federalism=state power for social spending programs.
Why was the Warren Court so important to the different Civil Rights Movements in the 60's and early 70's?
What group did the court often side with?
Sided with minorities and marginalized groups upholding key Civil Rights Legislation.
CIVIL RIGHTS: Warren Court/Civil Rights/Minorities
What cold war policy of Richard Nixon did Ronald Reagan reject?
What was Reagan's main focus that eventually led to the end of the Cold War?
What is NAFTA and what was a major criticism of the program?
Rejected Detente for an arms race.
Outspending the Soviet Union in an arms race they couldn't match.
North American Free Trade Agreement: Led to outsourcing of U.S. Jobs to Mexico
PRESIDENTIAL POLICIY: REAGAN rejects Detente for arms race/NAFTA/U.S. job outsourcing