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US History: Cold War and Civil Rights
US History: Cold War and Civil Rights
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New organization that allowed countries to work out problems; US joins
League of Nations
SEATO
United Nations
NATO
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Military alliance of US and its "friends" in Western Europe
SEATO
NATO
GATT
Warsaw Pact
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Jellified gasoline dropped by American forces to clear jungles--its indiscriminate use turned many against the US
Potash
Zyklon B
Napalm
Bromine
4
First Communist leader of China; helped North Korea during the Korean War
Ngo Dinh Diem
Mao Zedong
Kim Il Sung
Ho Chi Minh
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Truman's policy of keeping communism from spreading like a cancer
Realpolitik
Detente
Rapprochement
Containment
6
Brutal S Vietnamese dictator supported by the US because he was an anticommunist
Kim Il Sung
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
DIem Ngo DInh
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Gorbachev's program of increased personal freedom--wasn't enough to save communism in Russia and Eastern Europe
Perestroika
Apparatchik
Glasnost
Nomenklatura
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Peaceful way of protesting during the Civil Rights Movement--refusing to leave a business until it changes its policies
Referendum, recall and petition
Boycott--like the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama
Sit in--like in Greensboro, NC
Strike--Like the Pullman Railway Strike
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Which was an effect of the Cold War ending in 1991 during the George HW Bush presidency?
The triumph of the US civil rights movement and the spread of democracy
US is left as the only superpower; but has a huge budget deficit
US helped support Islamic terrorist groups who had opposed communism
All of the above
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South Vietnamese village that was the site of a massacre by US forces killing at least 500 people; turns many against US
My Lai
Danang
Hue
Saigon
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US President in the 1960s; passed a lot of civil rights laws like Voting RIghts Act, 24th Amendment, Civil Rights Act
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon Johnson
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Communist leader of North Vietnam; enemy of US
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Il Sung
Ngo Dinh Diem
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Why did the Civil Rights movement gain momentum during the 1950s?
Returning Black WW2 veterans refused to accept segregation
Organizations like NAACP were successful in a series of Supreme Court cases
Realization that discrimination against Blacks hurt the US in the Cold War
All of the above
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Gorbachev's program of increased economic freedom--wasn't enough to save communism in Russia and Eastern Europe
Glasnost
Perestroika
Apparatchiks
Nomenklatura
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European city that was blockaded by the Soviet army; US had to airlift supplies
Madrid
Paris
Berlin
London
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US general who believed in building Europe back up to avoid communism spreading
Marshall
Bradley
MacArthur
Eisenhower
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Which is NOT true about the Civil Rights movment?
Many White Americans agreed to change to stop the chance of revolution
Many whites feared the radicalism of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers
The Civil Rights movment failed to get new laws passed in the 1960s
Many whites saw Dr King as a reasonable man they could make deals with
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Foreign policy approach beginning with Richard Nixon--negotiating with communist states instead of having armed conflict
Brinkmanship
Detente
Domino Theory
Containment
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We almost went to war with Russia when they put missiles in this country
Cuba
Mexico
France
Turkey
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Which is NOT a factor explaining why the Cold War started?
The US believed that communism did not do enough to create an equal society
Distrust between the US and USSR dating from WW2
USSR wanted to control its neighbors to prevent future military invasions
US government was afraid of communism spreading to our country
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African American leader and minister in the Nation of Islam. Believed in using violence to defend Black civil rights
Martin Luther King Jr
Jesse Jackson
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
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Cuba's communist dictator during the missile crisis
Jorge Luis Borges
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hugo Chavez
Fidel Castro
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Russia's leader who was FIRED after the Cuban Missile Crisis
Krushschev
Stalin
Brezhnev
Kosygin
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Military alliance of Russia and its "friends" in Eastern Europe
NATO
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
GATT
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1954 Supreme Court decision that overturns Plessy vs Ferguson; finally desegregates schools
Brown vs Board of Education
Marbury vs Madison
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Miranda vs Arizona
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Peaceful way of protesting during the Civil Rights Movement--Refusing to use a good, service until a business changes
Sit in--such as in Greensboro, NC
Recall, referendum or petition
Strike--such as the Pullman Strike
Boycott, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama
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US President who broke with detente and bankrupted Russia with increased military spending
Reagan
Ford
Carter
Nixon
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US general who defeated Japan in WW2; fired for suggesting we should nuke China
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Marshall
Patton
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US leader at end of WW2; beginning of Cold War
Kennedy
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
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US President during the Cuban missile crisis
Kennedy
Truman
Eisenhower
Nixon
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Communist leader of North Korea; enemy of US
Mao Zedong
Kim Il Sung
Ho Chi Minh
Ngo Dinh Diem
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This government agency started as a way to develop better missile systems
CIA
NASA
FBI
NAFTA
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Baptist minister, head of the SCLC, believed in non violent resistance to support civil rights. "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King Jr.
H Rap Brown
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
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Provided economic,military aid to any “free” country fighting communism
Truman Doctrine
Hoover Doctrine
Coolidge Doctrine
Roosevelt Doctrine
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Which is
NOT
a reason the US won the Cold War?
With cable TV, many in E Europe saw the higher living standards in the West
USSR wasn't able to pay for both social programs and military spending
US defeated Russia by avoiding human rights abuses and foreign invasions
Gorbachev's reform programs were too little, too late
