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| Describe the Postdam Conference |
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| meeting of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin after Germany's surrender. Resulted in division of Germany into 4 zones of occupation |
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| List the 4 powers who divided Germany/Berlin and who received each side |
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US, Britain, France,
USSR |
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| Who was the Japanese emperor allowed to stay in power after WWII |
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| Describe the Nuremberg Trials |
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court trials against 22 Nazi leaders that were charged for lawas against wars and humanity
12 hanged
7 given life in prison
rest committed suicide
After this trial, it is no longer acceptable to say "I was just following orders" |
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| What 2 sections is the UN divided into |
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General Assembly
Security Council |
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| competition fo global power and influence between US and Russia |
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| What makes up satellite nations? |
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| any country controlled by Soviet Union |
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| Who coined the Iron Curtain phrase |
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| plan for US to give Europe 12.5 million dollars to rebuild after war |
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| Define the Berlin Airlift |
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| dropping off of supplies in west berlin by the US because of iron curtain put up by Russia |
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| When was the Berlin Airlift over? |
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| List the 2 political groups in China |
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| List the 2 leaders of the political groups in China |
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Nationalists- Chiang Kai-shek
Communists-Mao Zedong |
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| What parallel was the Korean War taking place? |
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| Describe the 2 sides in Vietnam |
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Japan vs France
China, France, Japan, France (again) taken over China |
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| The Korean war was the first war for 2 countries with _______________________ to fight |
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| Describe the Inchon landing and recapture of Seoul |
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McCarthy pushed North Korea back across 38th parallel
Truman warns McCarthy not ot cross river because he would be entering China
McCarthy does anyway, we are fought off by men and tanks |
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| to get on the verge of war without getting into war |
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| describe the incident in Iran and Guatemala under Eisenhower |
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| Describe incident in Iran and Guatemala under Eisenhower |
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| Describe the Egypt crisis with Nasser under Eisenhower |
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| Which powers were involved with the Suez Canal crisis |
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| Describe the meeting between Kruschev and Eisenhower. how did it end? |
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| Who was the leader of the HUAC? |
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| Define the "Hollywood Ten" |
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| group of California film directors and writers who were accused of being communist |
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| Describe the event with Alger Hiss |
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| convicted by Nixon for perjury |
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| Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenburg? |
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| spies in the US that provided the Soviets with atomic energy secrets during WWII |
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| making accusation of treason without proper evidence |
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| How much more powerful was the H bomb |
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| List the 2 phrases that began in the 1950s that had to do with God |
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"in God we trust"
"One Nation Under God" |
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| What is "Duck and Cover"? |
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| student would go under their desks and cover in case of nuclear warfare |
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Russia had and launched Sputnik first, so we got worried and started NASA
a year later, we sent Explorer 1 into space
Russians launched Sputnik II which had a dog on it
We won the race because we were the first to send man into space |
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| Which nation put a dog on their satellite? |
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| What programs were started in US after space race? |
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| How many children were born during the baby boom? |
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| What vaccine came at the end of the 1950s? |
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| How did television affect AM? |
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| List some famous television shows of the 1950s |
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I love Lucy
The Honeymooners
Playhouse 90
Nat King Cole Show |
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| In the 1950s what were some famous movies/books |
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Old Man and the Sea |
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| List some famous songs of the 1950s |
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Summertime Blues
Fever
Shout |
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| Define Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, KS |
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led to integration in public schools
said discrimination was unconstitutional |
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| Who was the lady that did not give up her seat on the bus |
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| What boycott took place after Rosa Parks? |
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Basically, all blacks marched and boycotted being told what to do |
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| took place in Arkansas; a group of black students were escorted to high school by the Nat'l guard |
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| Where was the lunch counter that the sit=in took place? |
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| Who was the leader of the SCLC? |
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| Why was the SCLC so well organized? |
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modeled after Ghandi's movements
a lot of sit ins and marches |
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| Describe election between JFK and Nixon |
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JFK young, vibrant, good looking, RICH
Nixon older, thinning on the hair, sweaty on Camera lights, just looked nasty |
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| How did TV play a role in the 1960 election? |
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| first televised presidential debates |
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| List JFK's foreign policies |
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bay of pigs invasion
cuban missel crisis |
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| Describe Bay of Pigs invasion |
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Castro took over Cuba, thousands of Cuban refugees fleeing to Florida
basically asking JFK to overthrow Castro
we train 150,000 men and tell them we would have them overthrow Cuba
1961-150,000 men land, AM abandons them |
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| Why did the Berlin Wall go up? |
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had two lines of men ready to attack on Berlin and East Germany sides; Berlin starts to build the wall
technically on their side, we cant do anything about it. |
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| Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis, how did it end? |
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Russia begins building nuclear bases in Cuba
JFK starts naval blockade of Cuba
closes we got to nuclear Armageddon
UN gets involved and tells Krshev he has to move his missiles |
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| Who was JFKs attorney general |
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| What were 3 domestic issues that JFK dealt with |
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peace corps
green berets
lets young people be part of the political system |
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| What was the date JFK was shot? Who shot him? |
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November 22, 1963
Oswald *cough* (maybe) |
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| What was the name of LBJ's programs? |
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| Describe the War on Poverty |
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did more for civil rights than any other president
knwon for medicare
gets sesame street started |
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| Who was the 1st AF-AM in a president's cabinet? |
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| Why did LBJ's popularity fall? |
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| What is LBJ remembered most for |
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| Describe the SNCC and CORE |
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-student activists throughout the south
Congress of Racial Equality-northern civil rights activists |
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| What happened to the Freedom Riders |
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| bus trips through south; one of the freedom busses they were on was firebombed |
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| What state did the Freedom Riders take place in |
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| What was the name of the man who was forbid to register at the University of Mississippi |
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| Describe the March on Washington |
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200,000+ people gathered at Lincoln Memorial
musicians and speakers from diverse backgrounds
MLK speech |
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| What was the name of MLK's famous speech |
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| Where were 4 young black girls killed in the south? |
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| Define the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
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banned discrimination in employment on basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
outlawed discrimination in public accomodations and gave Justice Department th eauthority to bring lawsuits to enforce school desegregation |
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| plan for civil rights on college campuses |
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| Define the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
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| put the entire registration process under federal control |
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| Why did the black "militants" gain popularity during the Civil Rights Movement? |
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| Who coined the phrase "Black Power" |
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| Why did some Af-Am reject their last names and replace it with an X? |
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| slaves couldn't read or write, so they put an X as their last name |
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three black muslim assassins
they did not like his new ideas |
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| Which 2 men began the black panthers? |
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| Bobby Seale and Huey Newton |
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| What is the date MLK was assassinated |
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| Describe the Poor People's campaign |
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| Why was busing such a crucial controversy? |
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| kids would have to integrate with kids from other neighborhoods WHITES MAY HAVE TO ASSOCIATE WIHT BLACKS OMG!!! |
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| Define affirmative action |
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| gave preference to ethnic minorities and women in admission and hiring |
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| Define the case of Bakke v. University of California |
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| a white man had been unfairly denied admssion to med school on basis of quotas |
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