Unit 9

What term refers to the act of dressing and behaving as your peers?

What did suburbs, corporations, and consumerism encourage?

Who wrote The Organization Man, a book that criticized the lack of creativity and independence in corporations and government?

What was the most popular new product that dominated 1950s culture?

What’s the name of the debate between VP Nixon and Khrushchev in which they debated communism vs. capitalism at an exhibit of an American home?

What term refers to the idea of a woman belonging in the home?

What concept was developed during the generation of Baby Boom children, primarily in movies and magazines?

What form of literature was blamed for delinquency due to criticisms of violence, gore, and sex within it arguing that it was harmful to youth?

What group of young artists rebelled against middle class life?

What music genre caused panic among adults due to beliefs it encouraged bad behavior in teens?

Who began playing major league baseball in 1947?

When did President Truman end segregation of the armed forces?

What famous court case established de-segregation in schools, causing hostile behavior all across the South?

What 14 year old boy was brutally murdered in Mississippi, causing many to distrust the justice system and denounce Mississippi?

What woman, in 1955, refused to give up her seat on the city bus, resulting in her arrest and an organized bus boycott by local pastor Martin Luther King, Jr.? (Montgomery Bus Boycott)

What event refers to the protection of 9 black students from a hysterical mob in trying to attend Central High School after they were allowed to enroll?

What was President Eisenhower’s greatest legacy, which was originally meant for national defense but allowed for a boon in the economy and private citizens?

Why were Khrushchev and Mao divided? (One wanted peaceful coexistence and the other wanted confrontation)

Who believed that the Soviet Union wanted to keep China weak and subservient? (felt insulted by Khrushchev’s criticisms of Stalin)

Who threatened nuclear response to China’s attacks on Taiwanese territories of Quemoy and Matsu?

Why was Khrushchev horrified at China for? (As a result, Chinese debts were lowered and military coop ceased)

Who were “revisionists” in the eyes of the Chinese and who were “splittists” in the eyes of the Soviets?

Who appealed to the UN to retake wealthy region of the Congo known as Katanga?

What does Lumumba do after the UN sends 10,000 peacekeepers to fire under self-defense? (leads to Lumumba’s removal from US pressure, leading Colonel Joseph Mobutu’s installation)

What US president approved a CIA plan to oust Fidel Castro, with the help of 1,500 anti-Castro Cubans? (known as The Bay of Pigs invasion)

Why did The Bay of Pigs Invasion fail?

Who called for all four powers to withdraw from West Berlin in fear that West Berlin’s western standards would hinder East Germany’s communist control?

What was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from going to the West? (popular symbol of the Cold War; also known as the Anti-Fascist Protection Wall in East Germany)

What term refers to the fear Castro had of another invasion (Bay of Pigs), leading to the installment of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba (meant to be response to American nukes in Turkey)?

When were the Soviet nukes removed from Cuba?

What American family was well-known for their wealth and political power?

What was the first televised presidential debate, involving John F. Kennedy and Eisenhower’s VP Richard Nixon?

What was the name of JFK’s administration?

What was the name of JFK’s program?

What program under the New Frontier allowed for volunteers to go abroad to provide education and technical services to others?

What program under the New Frontier allowed the US to provide almost $5 billion to help Latin American nations?

What term refers to the competition during JFK’s presidency with the Soviet Union to accomplish new things in space (like going to the moon)?

What court case ruled for the ability of all defendants to have a lawyer regardless of their ability to pay?

What court case found that evidence that is obtained illegally cannot be used in court?

What court case ruled that anyone that is arrested by the police must be informed of their rights?

What organization committed to militant nonviolence was formed by MLK in 1957?

What organization was formed by Black and white student activists in 1960?

What term refers to the integrated bus rides by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)?

Where did MLK try to provoke racists to display their hatred in public?

What event was held in August of 1963 in which 200,000 Americans went to the National Mall to demonstrate in favor of a civil rights bill, where MLK delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech?

Who did the US support after the French left the area?

What’s the name of the South Vietnamese communist guerillas who attacked Diem’s government with supplies from North Vietnam?

When was Diem killed by South Vietnamese generals?

When was JFK assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on a visit to Dallas, Texas?

How was the Alliance for Progress perceived in Latin America?

Why did many Latin American democracies fail in the 60s?

What belief was started by Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutierrez that stated that Christians should fight inequality in Latin America?

What country has a history of wealth inequality, peasant revolutions, and US-supported military dictators?

What Leftist candidate won the 1970 Chilean elections with only 36% of the vote?

What American organization assisted in the opposition of Salvador Allende?

When does General Pinochet take over Chile?

What term refers to the integrated intelligence network in South America to eliminate socialists and communists?

When does Chile become a democracy after Pinochet resigns?

What family dominated Nicaragua due to their control of the National Guard, most of the economy, and their close ties to the US?

What group, also known as the FLSN, started a revolt in 1961 against the Somozas?

What natural disaster in 1972 led to middle class opposition of the Somozas after foreign aid was diverted to them?

When did the Sandinistas secure power of Nicaragua?

What act prohibited racial segregation in public facilities?

What’s the name of LBJ’s domestic program, in which he declared a war on poverty?

What book, written by Michael Harrington, argued that millions were mired in a culture of poverty?

What were some of the programs started by the Great Society?

What Great Society program provided healthcare for the elderly and poor?

What act set an annual ceiling on immigration?

What civil rights march, led by MLK, was violently dispersed by state troopers?

What act, passed in 1965, ended tools of disenfranchisement, like literacy tests?

What term refers to the preferential hiring of disadvantaged groups? (mostly college related)

Who was a famous spokesman for black pride and black separatism?

What did Stokely Carmichael, head of the SNCC, call for? (kicked white people from the organization)

What act tried to stop discrimination in housing and redlining?

What’s another word for the anti-war baby boom children (now adults)? (focused on protesting the Vietnam War)

What term refers to the period of political unrest in Eastern Europe?

What doctrine states that if a socialist country tried to reform, the Soviet Union will stop them?

What movement was inspired by Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique, focusing on the dissatisfaction of the housewive lifestyle? (NOW organization focused on workplace discrimination)

What court case in 1973 made abortion legal (until they reversed it in 2021)?

Who founded the United Farm Workers to improve the lives of migrant farm workers?

What movement began with the Stonewall Riots, initially focusing on encouraging LGBTQ+ to come out, then focused on equal marriage rights?

What term refers to the middle class young whites who were alienated due to their positions on the Vietnam War and racism?

Why did South Vietnam call upon American assistance?

What congressional act in 1964 began US involvement in the Vietnam War?

What operation in 1965 did LBJ order to bomb North Vietnam to stop the flow of supplies to the Viet Cong?

What term refers to an infamous North Vietnamese prison camp?

What method did the US Army use to hunt Viet Cong in the jungle, where if they saw evidence of the Viet Cong in a village, the village was to be destroyed? (while the CIA focused on protecting the SV population against VC)

What was the first televised war?

What term refers to the attacks that the Viet Cong unleashed on South Vietnam, reversing public opinion on US performace in the Vietnam War?

When did LBJ announce he wouldn’t run for re-election?

Who was assassinated four days after LBJ’s rejection of re-election?

What were the Democratic candidates of the 1968 election? (One was anti-war, the other was LBJ’s VP)

Who was killed after winning the California primary?

What event was infamous for anti-war protests that were met with tear gas and aggression unleashed by the Chicago PD by Mayor Richard Daley?

What’s the name of SDS’s revolutionary group that set numerous bombs in attempts to overthrow the government?

What Black organization promoted Black Power and self defense from police?

What Republican candidate won the 1968 election by referring to the “Silent Majority” in a speech? (Silent Majority referred to the Americans who thought Great Society was ineffective)

What term refers to the simultaneous occurrance of recession and inflation? (Occurred under Nixon’s Presidency)

What organization started an oil embargo against the US?

When did Neil Armstrong land on the moon?

What term refers to the movement to protect the environment? (Inspired by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring)

Who organized a campaign to defeat new-age feminism?

What term refers to Nixon’s strategy to convince white Southerners to vote Republican?

What term refers to diplomacy guided by practical considerations, not ideology or morality?

What term refers to the replacement of US troops with South Vietnamese troops to defuse anti-war activity?

What offensive, in 1972, saw the South Vietnamese Army stop a North Vietnamese offensive?

What term refers to the leaked defense department study showing that LBJ lied to the public?

What’s the name of the US-led massacre of 347 Vietnamese civilians?

What term refers to diplomacy that eased Cold War tensions?

What major fight occurred in 1969 between China and the USSR over the border?

What accords led to East and West agreement on European borders?

What US-led bombing caused peace talks to resume after North Vietnam had left originally?

What accords ended our involvement in the Vietnam War in 1973?

What act, signed in 1973, limited the war making powers of the president?

What scandal referred to the actions of former CIA agents associated with Nixon’s re-election campaign to spy on the Democratic headquarters in the Watergate Hotel? (Nixon’s tapes showed his awareness and attempts to cover up the scandal, leading to his resignation)

Who took over after Nixon resigned? (first and only unelected president)

When did South Vietnam fall to the control of North Vietnam?

What communist group took over Cambodia with a genocidal campaign to destroy all opposition, resulting in the loss of 1/3 of total population?

Who capitaized on post-Watergate cynicism to win the 1976 elections?

What was Carter’s foreign policies?

What accords were made by Carter to convince Israel and Egypt to sign a peace treaty?

Where did the 1979 American nuclear accident occur, convincing many that nuclear power was dangerous?

What insurgent group did the US support in fighting the Soviets for years before they withdrew? (Afghanistan)

What did the Iranians do in response to the muslim overthrow of the Shah? (Iranian Hostage Crisis)

What term refers to the political movement that focuses on traditional American values? (less government, more Jesus)

Who won the 1980 elections? (Known as the Great Communicator)

What term refers to the shift in migration to the South and West, leading to those states gaining political power?

What’s the name of the evangelical christian political movement?

What term refers to Reagan’s economic program, also known as trickle down economics? (cutting taxes, causing the economy to grow, lowering the budget deficit)

What did the Reagan administration authorize? (anti-missile defense system)

What term refers to the anti-communist guerillas in Nicaragua that Reagan ordered the CIA to assist?

What term refers to the act of selling arms to Iran in return for their influence in releasing US hostages in Lebanon, in which the money was then funneled to supporting the Contras in Nicaragua?

What epidemic during the 80s was seen as a gay disease?

Who was the 1st female Supreme Court justice, appointed by Reagan?

What Czechoslovakian man wrote a human rights manifesto in which he referenced the Helsinki Acts?

Who wrote The Gulag Archipelago, a book that documented Soviet slave labor, placing blame on Lenin and communism, as well as exposing the Soviet Union as a militaristic nation who depended on slave labor for its economy?

What country had the first labor union in a communist country?

What’s the name of the Polish Pope that spoke out against communist oppression and was almost assassinated 4 times?

What excercise was conducted annually by NATO to simulate the event of a nuclear war? (almost caused a nuclear war as the Soviets thought it was a cover-up for an attack)

What US General averted a war by ignoring Soviet preparedness for war due to a false alarm?

Who was the new Soviet leader that wanted communist reforms to save it?

What Russian word refers to the restructuring of the Soviet economy to allow some amount of free enterprise?

What Russian word refers to the openness in allowing some amounts of critism of the Soviet system?

What nuclear disaster occurred in Ukraine that caused USSR citizens to be more critical?

When did the Soviets leave Afghanistan?

Who won the 1988 election?

What massacre in China in 1989 led to the deaths of between 500 and 3,000 protesters?

What event in November of 1989 was seen as a symbolic end of the Cold War?

What war resulted from Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait to threaten Saudi Arabia, resulting in the involvement of a US coalition against Iraq to liberate Kuwait?

Why did the USSR collapse?

When did the Soviet Union officially dissolve?