Containment

1. What is containment? -stalling the spread of communism

2. Who is credited with creating the policy of containment? -Kennan

3. The policy Johnson adopted for the Vietnam War was ________. -escalation

4. What was the Truman Doctrine? -U.S. declaration to aid Greece and Turkey

5. What does HUAC stand for? -House Un-American Activities Committee

6. What did HUAC establish? -investigatory body to expose communist influence in U.S government and society

7. What does SALT stand for? -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

8. What did the SALT II talks accomplish? -limited levels of lethal strategic weapons

9. What was McCarthyism? -anticommunist paranoia

10. What were Jim Crow laws? -informal system “separate but equal” facilities

11. What led to the fall of McCarthy? -televised Army-McCarthy hearings

12. What was the Marshall Plan? -massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild Western Europe

13. What does NATO stand for? -North Atlantic Treaty Alliance

14. What are MIRVs? -Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles

15. Who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott? -Rosa Parks

16. What was Operation Wetback? -government program to deport Mexicans

17. What was the significance of Sputnik? -it put the Soviet Union ahead of the U.S. technologically and militarily

18. The blockade of what European city in 1948 caused an emergency airlift of supplies? -Berlin

19. The planned placement of missiles in what country caused a crisis in 1962? -Cuba

20. What Soviet leader disagreed with Kennedy over the future of Berlin? -Khrushchev

21. What was the Peace Corps? -American volunteer program started under Kennedy

22. How did Kennedy deal with the Cuban Missile Crisis? -he quarantined Cuba

23. How did the Cold War end? -the Soviet Union broke up

24. What was the Checkers Speech? -Nixon’s speech defending himself from claims of corruption and taking bribes; said the only gift he kept was his dog Checkers

25. List two famous court cases that took place under Warren? -Brown vs. Board of Ed Gideon v. Wainwright Brown v. Board of Education, Gideon v. Wainwright, School District v. Schempp, Miranda v. Arizona

26. What does SNCC stand for, or what did they do? -Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, sit-ins NON VIOLENT

27. What was the American Dilemma? -contradiction between racism and democratic values/”The American Creed” -a book written by Gunnar Myrdal -Ida B. Wells (anti-lynching activist)

28. Eisenhower believed in being ________ while dealing with people’s money, economy, or government and being _________ when dealing with people -conservative/liberal

30. One of largest and costly public works project that Eisenhower took on was -Federal Highway Act of 1956, or interstate highway system

31. The Eisenhower Doctrine of 1957 gave U.S military and economic aid to nations in the _____ -Middle East

32. List 3 countries that were part of the OPEC -Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Venezuela

33. What was “white flight”? -large scale migration of whites from racially mixed urban centers to suburban regions

34. What was detente during Kennedy’s presidency? -peaceful coexistence with the Soviet

35. How did Levittown change suburbs? -it mass-produced houses based on the same archetype

36. What was the Truman Doctrine? -a policy opposing aggressive Communism all over the world

37. Which President created the Peace Corps? -John F. Kennedy

38. What was the War Powers Resolution? -joint resolution passed by Congress to restrict the President’s power to commit the US to an armed conflict w/o Congressional approval

40. Kennedy’s failed invasion attempt of Cuba in 1961 was called _______________ -Bay of the Pigs

41. Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? -The man who allegedly assassinated John F. Kennedy

42. What was the Six Days War? -A war in the mid East -Israel’s military victory over Arab states Egypt, Syria, and Jordan

43. Name three nations that were a part of NATO. -United States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg.

44. What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution enable President Johnson to do? -Congress authorized LBJ to take all steps necessary to protect American troops and prevent further aggression in Southeast Asia - escalate American commitment to war in Vietnam

45. What was the Tet Offensive? -A massive attack on South Vietnamese and U.S forces that resulted in large U.S loss

46. What did the Pentagon Papers reveal? -the government had misled the US public about Vietnam, bombing Cambodia, etc

47. What was the 26th Amendment? -gave the right of citizens 18 years or older to vote

48. How did Reagan handle the Cold War? -He renewed it. Brought on a new round of the arms race (SDI)

49. Why did the Equal Rights Amendment fail twice to become the 28th Amendment? -failed to gain ratification by necessary 38 states

50. Name one of the charges that the House would have impeached Nixon on. 1. obstruction of justice 2. abusing authority and violating oath of office 3. contempt of Congress

51. What were perestroika and glasnost? -liberalizing reforms in the Soviet Union

52. What was the Warsaw Pact? -Soviet version of NATO

53. What was the cause of the energy crisis in the 1970s? -After the Arab-Israeli War, several oil-rich Arab states of Middle East decided to cut off shipments of oil to U.S (because it supported Israel)

55. What were the SALT agreements? -Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, treaties that aimed at limiting nuclear missiles

56. What was Reaganomics? -Reagan’s theory of supply-side economics

57. What was the Iran-Contra Affair? -a political scandal in which the Reagan administration was illegally selling arms to Iran to fund Nicaraguan Contras

58. What was one theory that supply-side economics held -cuts in income taxes would stimulate new investments -cuts in corporate taxes would spur businesses -economy revived by increase in supply of goods rather than demand -spending cuts in federal government balance budget and reduce federal deficit

59. What was the Domino Theory? -a theory that if one country came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would fall to communism like dominoes

60. Who were the Contras? -anti-Sadinistas that U.S sponsored and sent arms to to overthrown the Sandinistas

1. Act out: Elvis - rock n’ roll, “cross over” black and white

2. Act out: Jackie Robinson and why was he significant? first black man in major league

3. Act out: nuclear war drills (duck and cover!)

4. Act out: Daisy commercial (girl picking flowers)

5. Act out: moon landing

6. Act out: sing a stanza of “We Didn’t Start the Fire” -We didn't start the fire, It was always burning. Since the world's been turning, We didn't start the fire, No we didn't light it, But we tried to fight it”

7. Act out: Sputnik - why significant? - terror of Russian power

8. Act out: McCarthyism

9. Act out: the “Iron Curtain” (Pageant 927) - secrecy and isolation Stalin clang down on Europe

10. Act out: the U2 incident

11. Act out: the My Lai massacre (Pageant, 1005)

12. Act out: Freedom Riders

13. Act out: race riots

14. Act out: Berlin Air Lift

15. Act out: Checkers Speech

16. Act out: Rosa Park

17. Act out: Martin Luther King Jr.

18. Act out: Bay of the Pigs

19. Act out: Peace Corps

20. Act out: Watergate Scandal

21. Act out: Emmett Till

22. Act out: Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as Star Wars)

23. Act out: Gulf of Tonkin

24. Act out: Marilyn Monroe

25. Act out: ‘60s counterculture--”flower children” (996)