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