US history 2Semester

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What is segregation imposed by law called?

de jure segregation

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what is segregation imposed by unwritten customs/tradition called?

de facto segregation

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Who is thurgood marshall?

A lawyer that won many cases on segregation

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What did the Plessy V fersguson talk about?

seperate but equal, segregation didn’t violate 14th amendment

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brown v board of education did what?

Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

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What is the Munich pact?

agreement that allowed Nazi Germany to annex the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia, appeasement

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What does hitler force to join reich first?

Austria

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Who is Nevile chamberlain

prime minister of britian, created munich pact w US

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What is Blitzkreg?

lighting war, attack from 3 sides by German to take over Poland

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What is the line France was prepared to fight on

Marginot line, but instead Hitler attacked Arennes and France falls

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Who is prime minister of britian after Neville chamberlain

Winston churchill

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Who is the tripartite act between?

Germany, Italy, Japan

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What is battle of midway

Battle between Japan and US, most important naval battle that put Japan on the defensive side

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What is battle of stalingrad

Battle between Germany and USSR, turning point in war for Europe

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how much did WWII cost US?

330 billion, national debt went from 42 billiion to 264 billion

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Executive order 9066

Japanese americans in internment camps

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Who are the lost land?

Japanese people prove loyalty to US, including the 442 regimental combat team

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executive order 8802

fair hiring practices in jobs with government money, stop racism

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What is the Bracero program?

laborers from Mexico brought to work, mostly in farms

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Where did d-day happen?

at the beaches of France

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What is Battle of the Bulge?

Hitler’s last ditch effort in which he tried to wedge between Britian and US forces, didn’t work and he killed himself.

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Who becomes president after FDR dies

truman

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Who lead manhattan project? what is it?

Oppenheimer, produce nuclear weapons

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Nuremberg laws

denied citizenship of Americans, marriage between two groups not allowed and they had to wear the star of david so many would know they were Jews.

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Where were most of the concentration camps at?

Poland

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What was the most famous concentration camp?

Auschwitz

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What is the Yalta conference?

US Britian and USSR try to decide how to split Europe after Germany falls, USSR disagrees.

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Nuremburg trials

Nazis prosecuted for war crimes, violated Geneva convention

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Who calls USSR “iron curtain” and why?

Churchill, because it displays how USSR was trying to split and create a wall between two diff sides -closed eastern europe off.

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truman doctrine

support countries fighting USSR-Greece and Turkey

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What does soviet respond to NATO with

warsaw pact

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What happens when US refuses to seat China as new representative at UN because they turned to communism?

USSR started to boycott security council sessions

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What is SEATO

created to prevent communism from spreading in Asia, Manlia pact

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Mutually assured destruction

US and USSR prevent them from using bombs because they can both destroy each other

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Who is secretary of state under Eisenhower?

Dulles

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Massive retaliation

crushing with overwhelming force

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who becomes leader of USSR after stalin dies?

Nikita Khruschev

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suez crisis

marked the definitive end of British and French imperial dominance as global superpowers and cemented the United States and the Soviet Union. France and Britian wanted to help seize control of suez canal.

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Smith act

unlawful to teach or advocate for overthrow of government

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HUAC

investigate facists, nazis and communists

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Hollywood ten

investigated for communism etc, use 5th amendment right, blacklisted from industry

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Alger hiss

sentenced to 5 years for being spies

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Julius and Ethel rosenburg

executed for being spies

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Veona papers

List of people that had communication to USSR from US, prove that they were spies.

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Lavendar scare

homosexuals targeted for communism etc

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BI bill

unemployment and paid college

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Taft-Hurtley Act

outlawed closed shop, only union members being hired

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Interstate highway act

connected major cities through highways, 41000 miles

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Who is Dr Benjamin spark

wrote a book on how to raise children and family

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Billy Graham lead what?

religious revival

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California master plan

college, cal state, university created, 3 types

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Beatniks

people who refused to conform to society

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Urban renewal

try to revive certain run down areas

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termination policy

end tribal gov relocate to major city

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What did Arkansas governor do?

Oral Faubus used national guard to stop letting in African American students, Eisenhower had to send in troops.

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Civil rights act of 1957

protect the voting rights of African Americans good start but lacked teeth

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“a freedom ride”

two buses from Washington DE to New orleans, one fire bombed other attacked in Birmingham

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Who is racist govenor of alabama

George Wallace

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Civil rights act of 1964

passed house, Filibuster in senate for 80 days to stop votes.

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Freedom summer

register African Americans to vote in missisippi

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Who breaks color barrier in baseball?

Jackie Robinson

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Voting rights act of 1965

banned literacy tests

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24th amendment

no poll tax

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Marhin luther king was killed by who?

James Earl Ray

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Bloody sunday

police attack nonviolent protestors and churches bombed

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presidential election of 1960 was between who?

Kennedy Democrat and Nixon republican

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New frontier

launched by JFK

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equal pay act

equal pay for equal work

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deficit spending

borrow money to spend money, tax cut on middle class and tax the rich.

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warren commission

who shot kennedy, ruled that Oswald killed kennedy

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who launched Great Society and what did it do?

launched by johnson, provided medicad, education and war on poverty

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warren court

controversal issues

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judicial interperetation

how we interperate the constitution

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1967 Louing V virginia

marriage outside of race

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Tinkir V Ohio

evidence gained illegally, violates 4th amendment

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Gideon V wainwright

all accused criminals have right to a lawyer

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Esubede v Illinois

offered lawyer before questioning

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Miranda v arizona

told your rights, 5th and 6th amendment

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Peace crop

launched by kennedy, stop communism

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hotline installed between where

moscow and washington dc

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Nuclear test ban treaty

no more testing nuclear bombs above land

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How did the vietnam war start?

France wanted to take back colonies in IndoChina

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Gulf of Tokin resolution

Gave Johnson war powers

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US used what to attack vietnam

napalm and agent orange

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who supports vietnam war and who against?

Hawks, doves

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Credibility gap

what johnson does and what he said was happening

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Tet offensive

assult of Vietnam on cities, showed public how US wasnt doing well

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Who was killed in LA

Robert Kennedy, while trying to be elected for president

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Democratic convention in where?

Chicago, complete disaster

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Richard Nixon promises what

to “peace with honor” and end Vietnam war, republican

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My Lai massacre

US troops look for vietcong and kill citizens because they all blend in

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Pentagon papers

government involed in Vietnam with american public knowing

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paris peace accords

US out of Vietnam war

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War powers act

had to tell congress 48 hours after committing US forces

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Hippie movement

people didn’t want to fall to societal norms, started doing drugs

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Battle of the Sexes

Bilie Jean King beat Robby Riggs in tennis

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Title IX

prohobits sex based discrimination in education

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Who fought for migrant farm workers

Ceasar Chavez and Dolores Huerta

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United farm workers

union nonviolent wanted collective barganing