WWII
Name 4 Allied Countries and 3 Axis Countries.
Allies: USA, UK, France, Russia, Greece, Canada, Australia, Philippines
Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan
This was a reaction to the Berlin Blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
These two court cases shaped a century of US Segregation Policy. The first claiming 'Separate but Equal,' and the second claims 'Separate cannot be Equal.'
What are Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, Kansas?
This is withdraw of troops was called "Peace with Honor"?
What is Vietnamization?
These students who integrated a School is the phone number you call for an emergency.
The Little Rock Nine One One
These two Supreme Commanders were incredibly famous. The first stationed in the Philippines and later commanded UN troops in Korea stated, "I shall return." The second had a brother who oversaw the Japanese Internment Process.
Who are Generals Douglas MacArthur and Eisenhower?
What does NATO stand for? Also, Name 4 Founding NATO Members.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
USA, Canada, UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Denmark
This organization, founded by MLK lead many non-violent protests including the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
What is the SCLC or Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
This president is the only one to never be elected to the office.
Who is Gerald Ford?
The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that gets illegal substances off the streets.
The Cold War on Drugs
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
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Draw on the Board the Chart of Parties and Leaders in China, Korea, and Vietnam, and include the leader's names.
This leader of the Nation of Islam, also inspired the Black Nationalism Movement. Also explain Black Nationalism.
Who is Malcolm X?
Black Nationalism is the belief in the separate identity and racial unity of the African American community.
The Camp David Accords Eased tensions between these Two Nations.
Who are Egypt and Israel?
This decision by President Truman pushed the world into a new age that forced people from the US Coasts inland during WWI.
Atomic Bombing of Japanese internment
List in order of occurrence the Dates of V-E day, V-J Day, and Pearl Harbor Day.
Pearl Harbor Day - Dec. 7, 1941
V-E Day - May 8, 1945
V-J Day - Sept. 2, 1945
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis, how did it end, and what was its significance?
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a period of Tension between the United States and the USSR. The USSR's new ally, Cuba, had just undergone a Communist Revolution under Fidel Castro. Confident in his new regime, Castro allowed the USSR to house Nuclear Missiles in their country in exchange for aid and protection. The united states, fearing a communist takeover in the United States, ordered the USSR to remove the weapons from Cuba. The USSR refused and said they would agree if the United States removed their Missiles from Turkey (a neighbor of the USSR). The tensions rose greatly until the US and USSR made a deal to remove missiles from both nations. The optics showed Khrushchev backing down, making the United States look very good.
Name three major events in 1968
January 31, 1968 - Tet Offensive
March 31, 1968 - Johnson withdraws candidacy for President
April 4, 1968 - MLK assassinated
June 5, 1968 - RFK assassinated
November 5, 1968 - Nixon Elected President
The First Gulf War saw the full might of the United States at war; this was the name of the operation that lasted for 100 hours and decimated the Iraqi military.
What was Operation Desert Storm?
Kuwait is the 'spigot of the middle east' because it lies on this water way that gets the United States to send troops into Vietnam.
What is the Persian Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Before the start of WWII name and explain two events that show Hitler's aggression being appeased.
Allies doing nothing over Kristallnacht and the Nuremberg Laws.
Allies allowed the take over of the Rhineland, the Anschluss, and through the Munich Pact, Czechoslovakia.
Russia agreeing to the Non-Aggression Pact.
Name and explain three (3) pieces of Johnson's Great Society legislation.
Tax Cut Bill of 1964, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Immigration Act of 1965.
Which Alabama Governor and 1968 presidential candidate was a Southern Democrat who favored segregation.
Who was George Wallace?
Firstly explain Reaganomics. Then, What was the promise George H.W. Bus gave to the American People on the economy?
Reaganomics - Cut taxes for wealthy corporations to reduce the federal government's spending power and reduce prices on goods. This would then lower inflation and give the consumer more economic power.
Bush 41 - "Read my Lips, NO NEW TAXES"
Postion of the Lawyer to the President that was the Commander of the Third Army during WWII.
Attorney General George Patton