US HISTORY CHAPTER 28 QUIZ

Baby boo

A marked increase in the US birthdate during 1946-1964

Blacklist

A list of people suspected of having communist sympathies, who were denied work as a result

Cold War

The prolonged period of tension between the United States and Soviet Union based on ideology complex and competition for military economy, social and tech superiority and marked by surveillance and Espanade, political assassins, and armed race attempts to secure alliances with developing nations and proxy wars

containment

The US policy that sought a limit the expansion of communist abroad

desegregation

The removal of laws and policies requiring the separation of different racial or ethical groups

domino theory

The theory that if communist made in Rhodes in one nation surrounding nations, would also succumb one by one like a chain of dominoes one another

Fair deal

President Harry Truman’s program of economic and social reform

G.I. bill

A program that gave substantial benefits to those who served in World War II

Iron curtain

A term coined by Winston Churchill to referred to the portions of Eastern Europe that the Soviet Union had incorporated into its spiritual influence and that no longer we’re free to manage their own affairs

Levittown

Suburban house, developments, consisting of acres of mass produced homes

Little Rock nine

The nickname for the nine African-American high school students who first integrated Little Rock Central high school

Marshall Plan

A program giving billions of dollars of USA to European countries to prevent them from turning communist

Massive retaliation

A defense strategy sometimes called mutually assured destruction or MAD adopted by Ein Hauser that called launching a large scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to a first Soviet strike at the United States

Military industrial complex

The matrix of relationships between officials and the defense department and executives and the defense industry who have all benefited firm increases in defense spending

Rock ‘n’ roll

A musical form popular among the baby boomers, that encompass styles ranging from County to blues and embracing them such as useful rebellion in love

Sputnik

The first man-made orbital satellite launched by the Soviet Union in October 1957

States rights

The political belief that states possess authority beyond federal law, which is usually seen as a supreme law of land, and thus can act in opposition to federal law

Truman referred to his program of economic and social reform as the

Fair deal

Which of the following pieces of Truman’s domestic agenda was rejected by Congress

National healthcare

How did the G.I. bill help veterans return to civilian life what were its limitations?

The G.I. bill helped veterans by providing funding for education low cost mortgages and unemployment benefits. It’s limitations include equal access, especially for black veterans who often face discrimination from the banks and colleges

What was the policy of trying to limit expansion of Soviet influence abroad?

Containment

The Truman administration tried to help you recover from the devastation of World War III with the

Marshall plan

What was agreed to add the armistice talks between north and South Korea

The pharmacist established a cease-fire and created the Korean demilitarized zone roughly along the 38th parallel foot, but did not officially end the war

The name of the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 was

Sputnik

The first Levittown was built

In Nasu County, New York

How did suburbanization help the economy?

Suburbanization boosted the economy by increasing demand for houses, cars, appliance appliances, and infrastructure, creating jobs and stimulating industries

The district jockey who popularized rock ‘n’ roll was

Alan Freed

What challenges did Hollywood face in the 1950s

Hollywood face competition from television, declining theater, attendance and investigations, like the red scare that led to blacklisting of suspected communist

The NAACP lawyer, who became known as Mr. civil rights was

Thurgood Marshall

The Arkansas governor who tried to prevent the integration of literal highschool was

Orval Faubus

What was the significance of Shelley versus Kreamer

Shelly vs kraemer ruled that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants, helping the weaken legal segregation, and housing