US History-May Exam Review-Part I

President who authorized increased numbers of military "advisors" to train counter-insurgents

Once UN troops pushed North Korean troops out of the South, they faced a new challenge when

This 1964 law banned discrimination on the basis of race, color, or religion in public places

The actions of Rosa Parks and the NAACP in Montgomery in 1954 were designed to

Congress authorized this "blank check" to Johnson to counter communist aggression in Vietnam

America responded to Stalin's blockade of Berlin by

Lyndon Johnson's promoted Civil Rights as part of his domestic agenda known as

Martin Luther King, Jr. is most associated with which of the following organizations?

Federal agency in WWII to transform economy from peace to war and mobilize production and labor

The US financed much of this nation's effort to retain colonial control of Indochina after WWII

T/F: Ho Chi Minh had been promoting independence for Vietnam since the end of WWI

FDR's final Allied conference, plan to create UN, divide Germany - but contributes to Cold War

Black nationalism was associated with all of the following EXCEPT:

T/F: After WWII ended, Truman ordered the U.S. military to be desegregated

Kennedy began to take a stronger stance on Civil Rights as a result of

Architect of the U.S. policy to "contain" communism

The cross-channel invasion in 1944 that opened up a western front against the Germans was

In the 1954 landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Ed, all justices ruled that

Federal programs for WWII veterans to receive aid for education and low-interest loans

The Red Scare intensified when reckless allegations against communist sympathizers were made by

"I believe we should protect ourselves by any means necessary when we are attacked by racists"

The temporary division of Vietnam at 17th parallel, with plans for unification in 1956, came at

The Truman Doctrine ordered US military/economic aid to help those fighting communism, first in

Allied military offensive in the Pacific theater preparing for an invasion of Japan was called

Secret WW II program in U.S. between 1941-45 to develop atomic weapon before the Axis powers.

The Red Scare, fear of communism at home in the U.S., led to

The US committed more than $13 billion in aid to help rebuild post-war Europe through

The desegregation of Little Rock High School in 1957 came as a result of

All the following created political and social upheaval during 1968 EXCEPT

After passage of the Civil Rights Act, black voters registered in South without incident

John F. Kennedy faced Cold War challenges iin all the following areas EXCEPT:

Franklin Roosevelt was one of the "Big Three" Allied leaders along with:

US soldiers in Vietnam faced all the following challenges EXCEPT

The insurgents against US backed regime of Ngo Dinh Diem were called

Malcolm X was a prominent spokesman for which organization

The 1963 March on Washington is significant because it was the

Truman was forced to fire this General for his public criticism of a limited war in Korea.

The U.S. created it first peace-time alliance in 1950 to defend against communist aggression

The U.S. joined the Allied powers in World War II after

Americans responded to the launch of Sputnik by

The Soviets' successful launch of a satellite into space in 1956, causing widespread panic

Four African American student activists in Greensboro, NC, in 1960 were noteworthy for

The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when Kennedy and Khrushchev agreed that

Emmett Till's murder helped facilitate the modern Civil Rights movement for all reasons EXCEPT

Truman's first Allied conference, receives word of successful atomic bomb test.

Resistance to 1950s conformity came in all the following ways EXCEPT:

Winston Churchill warned Americans of divide between communist east and free west, called

When North Korea invaded South Korea, Truman sent troops to defend the South through

In 1949, the U.S. was shocked when China fell to communism and

JFK faced an embarrassing setback in the failed Bay of Pigs invasion when the CIA