AP US HISTORY

disc jockey

payments to a _________ to play an artists song is known as payola

elvis presley

recording artist who connected black rhythm and blues music to the white youth

false

(true or false) according to dr. benjamin spock the family and household is to be centered around the father

true

(true or false) disneyland is located in california

true

(true or false) the atomic bomb derives its power from fission

alexander flemming

who accidentally discovered penicillin

beat nicks

jack kerouac wrote on the road. he was a leader of a movement called

false

(true or false) another name for keynesian economics is capitalism

escalator clause

cost of living increase pegged to the consumer price is the __________

jonah salk

who created the original polio vaccine

sputnik

name of soviet union's first satellite

true

(true or false) example of mass production of thousands of near identical homes is called levittown

false

(true or false) television programming presented woman as independent and capable human beings

jimmy dean

actor who conveyed a powerful image of the youth culture and died at the age of 24

true

(true or false) rock n roll drew its sources from country, western and gospel

false

(true or false) white middle class americans were very homogenous

ghetto

inner city neighborhoods where poor people lived

brown v board of education

name of court case that overturned separate but equal in education was _______________

false

(true or false) majority of school districts in the south began to desegregate after the supreme courts ruling

true

(true or false) civil rights movement's leaders originated from urban

adali stevenson

who ran against dwight eisenhower for president and lost both times

brinkmanship

pushing the soviet union to the edge of war to get them to make concessions is called _____

palestinians

when israel was created what other group was pushed out of their homeland

true

(true or false) fulgencio batista was overthrown by fidel castro

francis gary powers

who was pilot of the US plane that was shot down over the soviet union

french

vietnemese nationalists defeated ___ at dien bien phu

US army

senator joseph mccarthy's righn of terror came to an end when he accused _________ of being a communist

rosa parks

who refused to give up her seat on the bus that began the montgomery bus boycott

true

(true or false) the governments response to the poverty of the inner cities was urban renewal

true

(true or false) half of the nation's elderly were included in the governments definition of poor

true

(true or false) most farmers were poor in the 1950s

false

(true or false) most people who were poor were always poor

martin luther king jr

who was the minister who helped lead the montgomery bus boycott

separate but equal

brown v board of eduction of topeka overturned the concept of ____________ in education

john foster dulles

eisenhower's secretary of state was ____________

true

(true or false) though a rebulican president eisenhower expanded social security and raised the minimum wage

iran

the CIA helped install reza shah pahlevi as an absolute dictator of the country of ___

false

(true or false) president eisenhower sent in military aid to the french as they tried to control vietnam

hungary

an attempted revolution faked increase democratic reforms in which country

true

(true or false) television helped contribute to the civil rights movement

brooklyn dodgers

jackie robinson was the first black mlb player. he played for the ______

manifesto

over 100 southern members of congress denounced the supreme court's decision of brown v board of education by signing a ____

gandhi

MLK got his tactic of passive resistance from two men. name one

mccarthy

what senator ruined people's lives by accusing them of being communists or communist supporters

false

(true or false) the united states participated in the war against egypt in support of israel

richard nixon

john f kennedy defeated _______ in 1960 for president

lee harvey oswald

who is credited with killing JFK

false

(true or false) like JFK, LBJ grew up wealthy

true

(true or false) JFK and LBJ wanted a stronger federal government and involvement in public education

greensboro, nc

the first sit in at a lunch counter occured where

george wallace

governor of alabama who stood in the registrations building to prevent black students from enrolling

true

(true or false) the attempted enrollment of black voters in the south in 1964 was called "freedom summer"

false

(true or false) de facto segregation is where the law demands segregation

watts

the massive riots that occured in LA were called

true

(true or false) black power encouraged the natural growing of hair like afro and the wearing of african style clothing

little

malcom x was originally known as malcom _____

mississippi

james meredith was the first black student to attend the university of ____

true

(true or false) LBJ's society will ultimately fail

medicare

federal aid to the elderly to help pay medical costs is _____

new frontier

JFK's program for domestic reforms was the __________

false

JFK defeated richard nixon by a wide margin

jack ruby

who shot and killed lee harvey oswald

medicaid

____ is a federal medical assistant to welfare residents

true

immigration act of 1965 eliminated the national origin of quotas

freedom rides

CORE attempted to desegregate bus stations and interstate buses with a tactic called _______

true

JFK supported the march on washington in 1963

selma, alabama

MLK led a voting rights march in _______ when over 70 marchers were brutally beaten trying to cross a bridge and two others were murdered

true

when the law says that segregation is permitted that is dejure segregation

LA

where did the watts riots take place

black panther

huey newton and bobby seale formed the ________ party

muslim

what religion was malcom x

eugene bull connor

the police commisioner who used firehoses and dogs on protesting children in birmingham alabama

true

LBJ's great society programs did decrease the numbers in poverty

barry goldwater

who did LBJ defeat in the 1964 presidential election

false

the warren commision came to the conclusion that lee harvey oswald did not act alone

alliance for progress

jfk proposed giving money for infrastructure improvements to latin america. his plan is called

khrushchev

the leader of the soviet union ordered a wall to be constructed in berlin. who is the leader

france

vietnam became a colony of ____ in the mid 1800s

korea and vietnam

in geneva two countries will be divided in half with the northern sectors under communist control. what were the two countries

false

(true or false) the leader of north vietnam was ngo dinh diem

true

(true or false) the US dropped more bombs on north vietnam than in all WWII

atrition

to inflict so many casualties and so much damage on an enemy over a period they will eventually surrender. what is it called

true

(true or false) the anti war movement began with college students

tet offensive

communist forces launched a massive attack on US forces on the vietnamese new york. this attack was called the _______

false

(true or false) president johnson loses the 1968 election for president

bobby kennedy

in the 1968 presidential election, __________ was very popular with the poor, minorities, and youth

george wallace

who ran as a third party in the 1968 election

martin luther king jr

james earl ray assasinated ____________________

true

in the vietnam war, american forces controlled the urban areas but not the country side

john f kennedy

the bay of pigs was a very embarassing event for which president

CIA

who poorly advised president kennedy on the bay of pigs invasion

berlin

what city had a wall constructed to keep the people from leaving the communist side

cuba

the soviet union placed nuclear missiles in what country that directly threatened the US

true

the vietnam won the battle of dien bien phu

ho chi min

who was the leader of communist vietnam

korea

along with vietnam, what other country was divided at the geneva conference

buddhist monks

who set themselves on fire in protest of trying to make south vietnam a catholic nation

true

LBJ did not tell the truth about the events leading to the gulf of tonkin resolution

true

the US will drop more tonage of bombs on north vietnam than in all of WWII

true

american forces massacred all the civilians at the village of my lai