APUSH Easy Test Chapter 14

NATO

Defensive military alliance formed by western democracies in 1949.

HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)

Security department meant to monitor communist activities in the United States.

-Richard Nixon

-Martin Dies

Two key members of the HUAC.

Truman Doctrine (I cant remember if this was the right answer)

Policy in which the US determined it must stop communism by preventing it from spreading.

Yalta and Potsdam

Two primary conferences held near the end of WW2 in which allied powers decided what to do with European governments and Germany following the second world war.

Hollywood 10

Several famous actors or writers who were blacklisted due to their speaking out against Constitution violations of the second red scare.

Greece and Turkey

First two European countries in which the US provided aide in order to prevent the spread of Communism in 1947.

Self-Determination (I think this is right, not sure)

The allies decided to do this with European governments following WW2.

Joseph McCarthy

Senator who utilized fear of Communism to accuse several members of conspiring against the US as Communists with little or no evidence.

MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)

Policy in which the US and USSR both had nuclear weapons and therefore did not fight directly from 1947-1991.

Warsaw Pact

The Eastern Bloc defensive military alliance among Communist nations in 1955.

Republican (conservative)

Party that had a more handlined approach to communism and anarchism following WW1.

-Afghanistan

-Korea

-Vietnam

-China

Four countries in which the primary proxy war conflicts were fought.

-CIA

-KGB

Two espionage or intelligence agencies used by the US and USSR during the Cold War.

Marshall Plan

Massive aide program offered by the US to any country that agreed to use the free market economy and purchase certain American goods.

Berlin Airlift

Supply of American, British, and French occupants of Berlin when Stalin closed East Germany off from the West in 1947.

Billy Graham

Most famous TV evangelist in the 50s and 60s who helped greatly increase church attendance in the US.

Truman

President who created the containment policy for communism following WW2.

Washington DC

Location of the 200,000+ civil rights members who marched to pass the Civil Rights Act.

Military-Industrial Complex

Term coined by Eisenhower to represent the continued American federal deficit spending on military production and foreign sales of weapons.

Suburbs

Areas of common tract homes that often form outside of dense urban areas.

-Equal Pay Act of 1963

-Civil Rights Act of 1964

-Voting Rights Act of 1965

Three acts passed by Congress in the 60s designed to eliminate systematic sexism and racism.

Civil Disobedience

When a group of people intentionally disobey a nonviolent crime in order to expose its injustice.

Counterculture

Movement against the status quo in the 60s and 70s in which mostly young people rejected and attempted to dismantle the culturally and systematic oppression in the US.

-Television

-Movies

Two major cultural/technological innovations of the 50s and 60s.

Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka

1954 Supreme Court case that declared it was unconstitutional to practice segregation in public schools.

Sunbelt Region

Region of the southeast/southwest in which many families moved following WW2.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks to combat racism in the bussing system.

Gandhi

This person influence King Jr’s nonviolent practices.

-Eisenhower

-Truman

Two presidents who either actively combated segregation or enforced Supreme Court decisions regarding segregation.

GI Bill of Rights

Piece of legislation providing returning soldiers with assistance for housing, training, and college following WW2.

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Chief justice who led many unanimous decisions in favor of civil rights in the 50s and 60s.

SNCC (Student National Coordinating Committee)

The committee which organized students to participate in sit-ins.

Loving v Virginia

Court case forbade the state-level ban on inter-racial marriage.

Postmodern Thought

Philosophical movement perplexed by the destruction of WW2 and the Cold War posed several different critiques of society, including among others, group power dynamics.

Civil Rights Movement

Movement designed to practically dismantle the explicit institutional, mostly at state level, racial and gender discrimination through mostly non-violent means.

Berkeley Free Speech Movement

California movement in 1964 in which activists opposed limits on free speech and other rights as they protested government infringement on their rights.

Immigration and Nationality Act

Bipartisan act that abolished the national origins quota of 1924 and greatly expanded US immigration.

Malcolm X

Leader of the more violent side of the Civil Rights Movement

Second Wave Feminism

Movement in which women fought for equality of opportunity and equal rights.

-Betty Friedan

-Simone de Beauvoir

Two authors who helped spur second-wave feminism.

-Household appliances

-Birth control (Contraception)

Two factors that gave women greater control of fertility and freedom time in the home in the 50s and 60s.

Black Power Movement

Movement emphasizing racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and social institutions for blacks.

Black Panther

Militant group formed in Oakland in the 60s meant to protect blacks from systematic racism.

Cesar Chavez

Hispanic-American labor and civil rights activist who formed the national farm workers association in 1962.

Alfred Kinsey

Psychology researcher who wrote extensively on human sexuality along with publications such as Playboy, allowed for US opinion on sex to become less taboo.