History Final

Big international group that tries to keep the peace

United nations

Ways the united states tried to win the cold war

Brinkmanship

Containment (President Truman (Doctrine)

What was the marshall plan?

• To stop countries from turning communist by building up their economy

Who were the Americans convicted of giving atomic secrets to the soviet union

• Rosenbergs (they were put on trial and then later executed)

Who built their policy on the red scare and used it for their campaign 

• McCarthy

What is a franchise?

A store or place where you can own it (Mcdonalds)

After WWII, what piece of legislation help veterans?

• GI BILL

What was the first satellite?

• Sputnik(Soviets)

Early in the cold war through the 50s we built a spy plane, the russians eventually shot down.

U-2 incident

Why was the Berlin Wall built?

To stop east Germans from escaping

In cuba in 1962 we came close to going to war with russians

Cuban Missile Crisis (closests we came to )

Who killed JFK

Lee harvy Oswald (investing by the warren commission)

What is the domino theory?

As a country falls to communism, so would all the other countries

Who did great society and civil rights

LBJ

Who was assassinated in 1968?

MLK and RFK

What was lunar new year offensive set by the Viet Cong

Tet offensive

Village massacre

Mai Lai

What was Johnson’s domestic policy on war on poverty

Great society

One long term impact of Watergate

Lost of trust in government

What happened to Nixon after he resigned?

Fully pardoned by Gerald Ford

What party controlled america in the 70s

Democrats

In 1979 where were us citizens attacked at the embassy

Iran

Carter tried to rescue the citizens. What happened?

• It failed, the helicopters crashed

Who was elected in 1980

• Reagan

What happened with the aids epidemic

• Started not as a big deal and they ignored it

Who was first woman justice

Sandra day o'connor

Reaganomics

• Deregulation

• Tax cuts

• Deficit spending

• Supply side economics

Who introduced glasnost and perestroika

Gorbachev

When this barrier came down then you could have free elections in east germany

Berlin Wall

This country invaded kuwait

Iraq

What was clinton's gay men policy

Don’t ask Don’t tell

Clinton was impeached what were the crimes

Perjury and obstruction of justice

In the election of 2000 who won the popular vote

Al Gore

Where was the demilitarized zone established

Where was the demilitarized zone established