History 1302 - Segment 4 (Mayhew)

Front 1

T/F:_____ The “kitchen debates” were between Paul Prudhomme and Julia Child.

Back 1

False - Richard Nixon & Nikita Krushchev

Front 2

T/F:_____ Working women in the 1950’s worked primarily part-time for extra disposable income.

Back 2

True

Front 3

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s relied on the ___________________ branch of government for institutional changes.

Back 3

Supreme Court

Front 4

____________________refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus was the catalyst that led to the mobilization of the black community, which led to recruitment of Dr. Martin Luther King, which led to the bus boycott, which led to the Civil Rights movement.

Back 4

Rosa Park's

Front 5

In his farewell speech President _______________ warned against the powers of the military-industrial complex.

Back 5

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Front 6

After WWII the center of gravity for American agriculture was concentrated in the states of __________, _____________, and ________________.

Back 6

Texas, Arizona, and California

Front 7

In the 1950’s the CIA was responsible for the overthrow of the government in the Middle Eastern country of __________________.

Back 7

Iran

Front 8

In the ________________ case the Supreme Court declared that segregation did lifelong damage to children.

Back 8

Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Front 9

During the 1950’s agricultural production rose by as much as _________ percent.

Back 9

50%

Front 10

During the 1950’s _______________ was indirectly responsible for changing the eating schedules for many Americans.

Back 10

Television

Front 11

T/F:_____ During the 1950’s wage disparities between women and men virtually disappeared.

Back 11

False - 59-64 cents/dollar

Front 12

The __________________ bus boycott ended with the ruling by the Supreme Court that segregation in public transportation was illegal.

Back 12

Montgomery, Alabama

Front 13

In response to the refusal of the Arkansas National Guard to admit, and protect, incoming black students at Central High School, in Little Rock, Arkansas, President _______________ replaced the Guard with federal troops.

Back 13

Eisenhower

Front 14

In1960 the Catholicism of _______________ was considered to be a handicap in the presidential race.

Back 14

John F. Kennedy

Front 15

The1960 presidential debate between _______________ and ________________ showed the impact Television would have on future political campaigns.

Back 15

John F. Kennedy & Richard M. Nixon

Front 16

T/F:_____ In his April 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” martin Luther King announced he was abandoning his policy of peaceful civil disobedience.

Back 16

False

Front 17

The1964, ________________ Act did not address laws that suppressed suffrage.

Back 17

Civil Rights Act

Front 18

It can be argued that the book _____________ helped to launch the environmental movement.

Back 18

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Front 19

The ______________ Court effectively agreed that the family unit was a collection of sovereign individuals rather than a unit with a single male head.

Back 19

Warren Court

Front 20

The1964 campaign of presidential candidate _______________ emphasized the need for a reduction in governmental regulations.

Back 20

Republican Barry Goldwater

Front 21

T/F:_____ in 1963 the Birmingham, Alabama Fire Department refused to participate in the attacks on the civil rights demonstrators.

Back 21

False

Front 22

With the passage of the __________ lyndon Johnson remarked, "I think we have just delivered the south to the Republican party."

Back 22

1964 Civil Rights Act

Front 23

Cesar Estrada Chavez was the co-founder and spokesman for the _______________.

Back 23

National Farm Workers Union

Front 24

T/F:_____ By the end of the 1960's, some 70,000 demonstrators had taken part in sit-ins across the south to protest desegregation.

Back 24

True

Front 25

The organization known as _________________ launched the Freedom Rides to test the Supreme Court order banning segregation in interstate transportation.

Back 25

Congress of Racial Equality - CORE

Front 26

In his correspondence titled ___________________ Martin Luther King discussed a litany of abuses faced by blacks in the South and the need for change.

Back 26

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Front 27

The ________________ brought the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to the brink of nuclear war.

Back 27

Cuban Missile Crisis

Front 28

The 1965 ___________ empowered the federal government to oversee voter registration.

Back 28

Voting Rights Act

Front 29

The _____________ offered a new vision for social change based on participatory democracy.

Back 29

Port Huron Statement

Front 30

The________________ authorized the president to “take all necessary steps to repel armed attack” in Vietnam.

Back 30

Golf of Tonkin Resolution

Front 31

By 1968 America had over _____________ troops in Vietnam.

Back 31

500,000

Front 32

The gay liberation movement was inspired by the tactics of the _____________movement.

Back 32

Civil Rights Movement

Front 33

The1960’s _______________ were the focus of the United Farm Workers Union and the Puerto Rican Nationalist group known as the Young Lords.

Back 33

Latino Rights

Front 34

T/F:_____ The American Indian movement demanded the end of the tribal system.

Back 34

False

Front 35

The __________________ case led to the use of busing as a tool to achieve school integration.

Back 35

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

Front 36

The EPA, OSHA and the NTSB were all established during the ________________ administration.

Back 36

Nixon

Front 37

Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy was based on ____________________.

Back 37

Human Rights

Front 38

Ronald Reagan’s economic policy was based on ________________.

Back 38

Tax Cuts

Front 39

The accident at the ______________ nuclear facility brought a halt to the nuclear industry’s expansion plans.

Back 39

Three Mile Island

Front 40

In November 1979 ____________ captured 53 Americans and held them hostage until January 1981.

Back 40

Iran

Front 41

One of the first actions taken by Ronald Reagan as president was to fire the ______________ who were on strike when they refused his order to return towork.

Back 41

Air Traffic Controllers

Front 42

In 1972 president ________________ restored diplomatic relations with China.

Back 42

Nixon

Front 43

“_______________” was the term given to the economic policy based on “supply side” or “trickle-down” economics.

Back 43

Reagonomics

Front 44

By 1960 approximately __________ percent of Americans would be classified as enjoying a middle-class standard of living.

Back 44

60%

Front 45

Which of the following was a common household item in use before the 1950’s: Television - Air Conditioner - Automatic Dishwasher - Electric Iron

Back 45

Electric Iron

Front 46

The state of _____________ saw the greatest population increase between 1945 and1975.

Back 46

California

Front 47

By the end of the 1950’s it is estimated that __________ percent of American households included a Television.

Back 47

90%

Front 48

By the end of the 1950’s in addition to a T.V. the average American family also owned at least one _________________.

Back 48

Automobile

Front 49

President ___________________ appointed wealthy businessmen to government positions in hopes of running the government like an efficient business.

Back 49

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Front 50

_______________, was the lead NAACP attorney who argued the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, case before the U.S. SupremeCourt.

Back 50

Thurgood Marshall

Front 51

The Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case overturned the 1896 case known as _______________________________.

Back 51

Plessy v. Ferguson

Front 52

One extreme policy adopted by the Southern white School systems in opposition to integration was to ________________________________.

Back 52

Close all the public schools

Front 53

Bill Levitt was instrumental in making ________________________________ available to many returning servicemen.

Back 53

Affordable Housing

Front 54

T/F:_____ River Rouge and Willow Run were huge auto factories that were devoted to war production during WWII.

Back 54

True

Front 55

Countries that were not aligned with either of the two Cold War superpowers were labeled as _____________________________________.

Back 55

Third World Countries

Front 56

Following the Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King established the organization known as ________________________________ to further the civil rights struggles.

Back 56

Southern Christian Leadership Council - SCLC

Front 57

Planned suburban communities such as ______________ and policies embraced by stateslike California increased suburban growth.

Back 57

Levittown

Front 58

After WWII the __________________ was instrumental not only in increasing mobility but it can also be argued was also instrumental in altering the American landscape.

Back 58

Automobile

Front 59

The resulting housing patterns brought about by the phenomenon known as ________________ also served to harden racial divisions in American life.

Back 59

Suburbanization

Front 60

____________________ was elected president in 1952 in part because he projected an image of“fatherly warmth.”

Back 60

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Front 61

Contrary to popular myth Modern republicanism included core elements of ______________________.

Back 61

The New Deal

Front 62

The defense policy known as “__________________” was indicative of the increase reliance on nuclear weapons.

Back 62

Massive Retaliation

Front 63

T/F:_____ At the 1954 Geneva peace conference the U.S. supported Vietnam’s quest for independence.

Back 63

False

Front 64

The basic ruling in the ______________________ case was that the principle of “separate but equal” was unconstitutional.

Back 64

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Front 65

Martin Luther King was heavily influenced by the teachings and practices of______________________.

Back 65

Mahatma Gandhi

Front 66

In his 1961 farewell address _____________________ warned of the dangers inherent in the military-industrial complex.

Back 66

President Eisenhower

Front 67

In a reaction to the slow pace of racial change in six years after the Brown ruling students in Greensboro, North Carolina staged the first ________________ demonstration.

Back 67

sit-in

Front 68

On several occasions Freedom Riders were attacked by members of _____________________.

Back 68

the ku-klux-klan

Front 69

Violence against civil rights demonstrators in the ________________ area would force President Kennedy to take federal action.

Back 69

Birmingham, Alabama

Front 70

Republican Barry Goldwater asserted that “the New Deal welfare state” was an internal danger to _________________.

Back 70

Freedom

Front 71

According to the Port Huron Statement many college professors were puppets of _____________________________________.

Back 71

Military Industrial Complex

Front 72

The1968 military offensive by the Viet Cong known as _________________ convinced President Johnson that he had been lied to by his military advisors and that the war was unwinnable.

Back 72

The TET Offensive

Front 73

In his 1968 presidential campaign Richard Nixon appealed to what he called _____________________.

Back 73

The Silent Majority

Front 74

_____________________ was the first black student admitted to the University of Mississippi since reconstruction.

Back 74

James Meredith

Front 75

In his Letter from a Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King’s target audience was _______________________.

Back 75

Local Clergymen

Front 76

To combat communist influence in non-aligned countries President Kennedy created the organization known as ________________________________.

Back 76

The Peace Corps

Front 77

____________________ uttered the famous phrase, “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is novice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”

Back 77

Republican Barry Goldwater

Front 78

The 1968 Kerner Report was commissioned to study __________________.

Back 78

Urban Riots

Front 79

The Young Lords Organization of New York City represented the ______________ ethnic community.

Back 79

Puerto Rican

Front 80

The _________________ was JFK’s “Marshall Plan” for Latin America.

Back 80

Alliance for Progress

Front 81

T/F:_____ JFK was an ardent supporter of the Civil Rights movement even before taking office as president.

Back 81

False

Front 82

The _________________ party challenged the all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

Back 82

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Front 83

The ____________________ blamed the urban riots on segregation and poverty.

Back 83

Kerner Report

Front 84

Civil Rights leader _________________ insisted that blacks should work towards economic and political autonomy.

Back 84

Malcolm X

Front 85

The ______________ movement began in Berkeley to protest a campus band on political literature.

Back 85

Free Speech

Front 86

The _______________ of the 1960’s can best be described as a youthful rejection of mainstream values.

Back 86

Counterculture

Front 87

Radical ______________ argued that “personal is political.”

Back 87

Feminists

Front 88

The 1966 ___________________ ruling declared that those in police custody had certain rights including the right to have an attorney present during police questioning.

Back 88

Miranda v. Arizona

Front 89

The __________________ decision established a woman’s right to an abortion.

Back 89

roe v. Wade

Front 90

On April 4, 1968 _________________ was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while supporting a garbage worker’s strike.

Back 90

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Front 91

T/F:_____ One of the lasting legacies of the 1960’s has been the transformation of the status of women.

Back 91

True

Front 92

The Kent State students were protesting the escalation of the Vietnamese war into neighboring ________________________.

Back 92

Cambodia

Front 93

When arrested the Watergate burglars had broken into the _________________________ offices.

Back 93

Democratic National Committee Headquarters

Front 94

Jerry Falwell created the quasi-Republican support group which he called ________________.

Back 94

Moral Majority

Front 95

Phyllis Schlafly argued that passage of the ____________________ would relieve men of their responsibilities in terms of child support and alimony payments.

Back 95

Equal Rights Amendment

Front 96

Proposition 13 in California banned __________________________________.

Back 96

Further Increases in Property Taxes

Front 97

In his inaugural address Ronald Reagan declared ____________ is not the solution to our problems ____________ is the problem.

Back 97

Government -- Government

Front 98

T/F:_____ President Nixon responded to cross-border attacks by the Cambodian military by launching large-scale air attacks on that country.

Back 98

False

Front 99

The handling of the ___________ crisis made President Carter look weak and inept.

Back 99

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Front 100

The so-called ________________ Revolution made conservatism seem progressive.

Back 100

Reagan Revolution