US History (B) Final Exam Review Part 2 Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for US History (B) Final Exam Review Part 2

James Earl Ray

The person who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr.

Senator Joseph McCarthy

The United States Senator that claimed he had a list of communist spies working for the U.S. government.

James Meredith

The person who attempted to integrate Ole Miss.

13th Amendment

Freed the slaves.

Parchman

Name of the prison that the Freedom Riders were sent to in Mississippi.

Flappers

Women who dressed “boyishly”, with shorter hemlines, and challenged the accepted norms of the 1920’s.

The Atlantic Wall

The name of the German defensive system in Western Europe during WWII.

The 38th parallel

Where North and South Korea are divided.

1965 Voting Rights Act

Banned poll taxes and literacy tests.

Treaty of Versailles

The name of the Treaty that the British and French used to punish Germany after WWI.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The enforcement mechanism for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Black Nationalism

The idea that African Americans should rely upon themselves and keep separate from Whites.

Stokely Carmichael

The SNCC/Black Panther who popularized the term Black Power.

Elijah Muhammed

The leader of the Nation of Islam.

Nation of Islam

The Pro-Black group that Malcolm X was the spokesman for.

Fundamentalism

Strict literal interpretation of the Bible.

Operation Rolling Thunder

The sustained bombing of North Vietnam.

14th Amendment

Applied the Bill of Rights to the States.

Vmail

The name for the microfilm that 12 million letters to soldiers was put on during WWII.

Vietnamization

Nixon’s policy to bring home American troops slowly while increasing air attacks and slowly increasing South Vietnam’s role.

Feminine Mystique

About the dissatisfaction of women in America.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The first major civil rights organizations in the South.

Viet Cong

Synonymous with The National Liberation Front.

Ho Chi Minh

The leader of North Vietnam.

Brinksmanship

The foreign policy concept that has nations maneuvering dangerous situations to the limits of safety in order to secure the greatest possible advantage.

Zimmerman telegraph

The document that suggested an alliance between Germany and Mexico during WWI.

Sharecropping

How southern landowners tried to keep African American forced labor after the Civil War.

Nagasaki

The Japanese city on which Fatman (nuclear bomb) was dropped.

Hiroshima

The Japanese city on which Little Boy (nuclear bomb) was dropped.

Communism

An economic and political system based on one-party government and state ownership of property.

Capitalism

The economic system in which private individuals can make economic decisions (buy/sell/produce)

Truman Doctrine

The doctrine that says the US must support self-determination around the world.

Warsaw Pact

The alliance the Soviet form to counter NATO.

Totalitarianism

A type of government characterized by absolute and centralized political control over all aspects of life.

NATO

The defensive alliance created to counter the Soviet Union, formally known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Plessy v Ferguson

The court case that ruled that separate but equal was constitutional.

Nationalism

Loyalty to the state and the desire to unite all of those of an ethnic group under a single government.

Trench Foot

The fungal infection of the feet that plagued troops in the trenches during WWI.

Red Scare

The fear of communist influence taking hold in America.