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Phillips History Final Exam Part 2
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The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created by Congress with the intention of
Monitoring Southern states abuses of African Americans
Encouraging Americans to buy consumer goods on credit
Increasing US defense spending to combat the Soviet Union
Investigating the spread of Communism in government and private citizens
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President Kennedy's space race goal was to
put a man on the moon before USSR
put a man in space before USSR
put a man into orbit before USSR
put a space station into orbit before USSR
3
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
b. turned govt communist investigations into a witch hunt
a. said had a list of 205 men in US govt who were communists
c. proved a huge communist conspiracy in the US govt
only a and b
4
Arms Race
A competition to build more powerful weaponry, especially nuclear weapons
promoting science & technology to improve space travel
Public accusation of disloyalty, often without evidence
disarmament of conventional weapons
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Which country was not a part of the Axis powers?
Germany
Japan
Italy
Australia
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Hitler’s political party affiliation
Republican
Nazi
Communism
Democrat
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How did desegregation in baseball impact the nation?
all of the above
Americans saw that integration could succeed.
Other teams and other sports desegregated
Long-held perceptions, or views, of minorities were changed
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What was Children's Crusade in Birmingham AL?
Adults forced their children to march with them
Neither Choice
Both choices
Thousands of children marched to protest segregation
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What was the Nuremberg Trials
Where it was decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
War crimes trials for the Japanese actions pre WWII
War crimes trial for Nazis and Holocaust executors
Where Japan decided to enter an alliance with Germany
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Ho Chi Minh...
led the North Vietnamese group called the Vietcong
was the leader of Communist North Korea
attempted to destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail used by South Vietnam
was the leader of communist North Vietnam
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Who became president following Nixon's resignation? He granted Nixon a full pardon.
Jimmy Carter
Lyndon B. Johnson
Ronald Reagan
Gerald R. Ford
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When and where was the "I Have a Dream" Speech delivered?
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Alabama in 1966
The steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC in 1963
The Howard Theater in Washington, DC in 1965
The White House in 1962
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What is Capitalism?
Farms and businesses should be owned by the workers
Privately owned means of production for profit
The name of a government
A name of a political party
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What is a fallout shelter?
A place to go to for people who faint a lot
A place to go to in the event of a hurricane or tornado
A place to go to avoid radiation exposure during a nuclear war
A place to go for medical intervention
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Who were the Axis powers during World War II?
the United States, Great Britain, and France
the United States, Great Britain, France, & the Soviet Union
Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union
Germany, Italy, and Japan
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The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to
assure the reelection of Nixon in 1972
control all appointments for the Supreme Court
tighten security leaks to reporters over bribes and Vietnam War
control inflation in the U.S. in the early 1970s
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Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Truman's Vice President
I don't know / I don't care
A Representative of Oregon
U.S. Senator who accused people of being communist, but never succeeded
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What is baby boom?
massive increase in birth rate
massive employment of soldiers
massive movement of refugees
massive murder of innocent people
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What was "Iron Curtain"?
The key element of the Communist Manifesto as developed by Joseph Stalin
The name of the largest concentration camp run by Stalin - called Gulag
A chain-link fence that divided Western and Eastern Germany.
Divided Europe between capitalist West and communist east.
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What are the parallel divisions for Vietnam and Korea?
20th & 38th
17th & 38th
23rd & 17th
42nd & 11th
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Brown V. Board of Education
Ended "Separate but equal" doctrine established in Plessy V Fergusson
Created "Separate but equal" doctrine that Plessy v Fergusson was based on
Supreme Court case where Superintendant Brown sued the Board of Education
Let schools choose brown for their school color.
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What is fragging?
Assassination of politicians in South Vietnam
American soldiers killing their own officers
Starvation of rebel villages of Viet Cong
Chemical bombing of jungles of Vietnam
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Why was the Children's Crusade significant?
All of the above
It was the first massive civil disobedience campaign MLK led
There were not enough adults prepared to be arrested
The event exposed racial discrimination and brutality
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Why were Japanes-Americans sent to internment camps?
they lived too close to the White House which made people nervous
they were making too much money
they were not fluent in English and needed to be taught
people were suspicious of them after Pearl Harbor
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Who were the Viet Cong?
Democratic protestors in favor of continued division
Northern supporters of the U.S. that fought against Communism
Southern democratic force who helped Korea
Communist guerrilla force that fought against the South for the North
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March on Washington
In 1964, outlawed segregation in public areas.
A massive rally in Washington to urge passage of JFK's civil rights bill.
A year long boycott protesting segregation on public buses.
Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices the South had adopted.
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What best defines communism?
Government owned means of production with no individual ownership
A government that controls every aspect of daily life
Government allows privately owned means of production for profit
A government that controls the freedoms and liberties of its people.
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The Arms Race was...
Competition b/w the US and Soviet Union over weapons tech.
England's attempt to build the fastest jet before Germany.
Which nation would be the first to access the internet?
The Olympic event the U.S. won in Germany.
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Non-violent protesting was used and promoted by
Malcolm X
Neither
Martin Luther King Jr.
Both
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What prompted the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to target the “Hollywood Ten”?
Fear of communist infiltration within the American entertainment industry
Growing anxiety related to the economic effects of the Great Depression
Support for American isolationism in the years leading up to World War II
political pressure from racial groups regarding civil rights legislation
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Which physicist helped run the Manhattan project with General Leslie Groves?
Albert Einstein
J Robert Oppenheimer
Henry Kissinger
Douglas MacArthur
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In both the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the...
lack of U.S. success led to growing anti-war sentiment
U.S. managed a stalemate with communist forces
United Nations sanctioned the U.S. to stop
U.S. fought for years without to contain the spread of Communism
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American involvement in Vietnam
was intended to stop the spread of Communism in Asia
ended in 1973
was the source of much social unrest
began in earnest during the 1950's
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Where is the divide in Korea, separating the North and South?
28th parallel
17th parallel
45th parallel
38th parallel
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy meeting with Kruschev for Nuclear Testing ban
Official fall of Fidel Castro to Cuban militia
Attempt by the Soviets to put nuclear weapons in Cuba
Cuba becoming communist nation due to Soviet threats
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Why did the US enter Vietnam?
To colonize Vietnam
Oil
The Vietnamese killed JFK
To stop the spread of Communism
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Sent to internment camps during WWII
Jews
dictators
Japanese Americans
POWs
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Great Society
Hoover sent troops under MacArthur to run soldiers out of Washington DC.
end poverty, provided lots of things including healthcare for the old, poor
US strategy in WW2, Island-hop across Pacific
Deploy Peace Corps, save lives in Vietnam, win Space Race, scare the USSR
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What was the Manhattan Project?
a complicated code machine used by the German military
the world’s first computer
the effort by the United States to build an atomic bomb
radio beams used to determine the locations of objects
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What is the Cold War?
United States Democracy vs. the Soviet Union's Communism.
The battle between Conservatives and Liberals.
Fighting in Antarctica.
Hitler vs Stalin
