27th-28th

Convicted of being atomic spies for the Soviet Union [Rosenbergs]

200 Architect of the Containment of Communism Policy [George Kennan]

300 Leader of the communist revolution in Cuba [Fidel Castro]

400 CIA organized the overthrow of a suspected communist government in this Latin American country in

1954 [Guatemala]

500 National security council document that urged a massive increase in US defense spending [NSC-68]

Social Change

100 Greatest rock and roll singer of the 1950s [Elvis]

200 Group of young people who challenged the authority and culture of the 1950s [the Beats, or the Beatniks]

30 Transportation project that increased travel and tourism [interstate highways]

400 Book that exposed, in the midst of tremendous prosperity, the persistence of poverty in the US [The Other

America]

500 Any writer who criticized the conformity of the 1950s [Whyte, Riesman, Bellow, Salinger, Kerouac,

Ginsberg]

Politics 1940s

100 Law designed to limit the power of Labor Unions [Taft-Hartley Act]

200 1944 law to give $ to veterans for college and housing [GI Bill]

300 By convicting Alger Hiss of perjury, he established his anti-communist reputation [Nixon]

400 DD Truman’s program to find and fire communists in the US government [Federal Employee Loyalty

Program]

500 Truman’s term for the expansion of the New Deal programs [Fair Deal]

Civil Rights

100 Leader of the Montgomery Bus boycott, and by the late 1950s, the entire civil rights movement [Martin

Luther King]

200 Court case that demanded an end to segregated schools; widely ignored in the South [Brown v. Board of

Education]

300 Most public challenge to integrated schools took place here in 1957 [Little Rock]

400 Truman’s lasting legacy in Civil Rights was this military change [integration]

500 According to your text, the growth of these groups of Blacks were the key to the civil rights movement

[northern voters, middle class, college-educated]

Review World War II

100 Program to provide weapons to Britain and the Soviet Union without cost [Lend-Lease]

200 Organization that guided the wartime economy in the US [WPB or OPA]

300 Group working to keep the US out of war in 1939-1941 [America First]

400 Black leader who pushed Roosevelt on Civil Rights [A. Philip Randolph]

500 ND Senator who supported the isolationist policy of the 1930s [Gerald Nye]

AP US History: Chapter 27 and 28 Double Jeopardy

Europe

200 US program to provide money to rebuild Europe after World War II [Marshall Plan]

400 Alliance between US and Western Europe [NATO]

600 German city that was the focus of Cold War tensions [Berlin]

800 DD boundaries and government of this nation were the main point of disagreement at Yalta and Tehran,

US gave in to Soviet demands at Potsdam [Poland]

1000 1st test of containment came with these two south eastern European Nations [Greece and Turkey]

Middle East and Asia

200 Leader of the Chinese communist party, triumphant in the Civil War in 1949 [Mao]

400 DD Creation of this new nation in 1948 complicated US foreign policy, and created all kinds of new

reasons for war [Israel]

600 US commander in Korea, fired for insubordination [Douglas MacArthur]

800 Leader of Vietnamese communists—drove the French out at the battle of Dien Bien Phu [Ho Chi Minh]

1000 Egyptian Leader, who created a crisis in 1956 by taking control of the Suez Canal [Gamal Abdel Nasser]

Politics 1950s

200 Leading anti-communist crusader of the 1950s [Joe McCarthy]

400 US policy designed to save money and avoid conflicts like Korea in the future [Massive Retaliation]

600 Most common occupation of Eisenhower’s cabinet members before entering government service [heads of

corporations, lawyers for larger corporations]

800 Eisenhower opposed expanding the New Deal, except for this program, which he did expand [Social

Security]

1000 McCarthy was exposed as a demagogue when he accused this group of being full of communists [The US

Army]

Social Change II

200 This part of the country grew most rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s [the West]

400 The most important new medium of entertainment of the 1950s [TV]

600 Population in the US grew most rapidly in the 1950s in these cities around larger cities [suburbs]

800 Developments in transistors and other electronics at Bell Labs were critical to advancing this important

technology [Computers]

1000 Jonas Salk and Alfred Sabin developed a vaccine to prevent this paralyzing disease, a vaccine now

sometime rejected by idiotic parents [polio]

Review: 20th century

200 Wilson’s plan for peace at the end of World War I, largely rejected [14 points]

400 TN event, that showed the 1920s division between modernists and fundamentalists [Scopes Trial]

600 Centerpiece of the First New Deal, largely a failure and killed by the US Supreme Court [NRA]

800 Radio preacher and demagogue who criticized Roosevelt’s New Deal for not nationalizing the Banks [Fr.

Charles Coughlin]

1000 British economist, upon whose ideas much New Deal thinking was based [J.M. Keynes]