APUSH Period 8 Matching Practice #1 2023

Match the following

• 36th President / Civil Rights Act 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 / Great Society / Vietnam War

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• 33rd President / Decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan / Shaped US Cold War Policy

• Harry S. Truman

• 34th President / Led Allied forces in Europe during WWII / D-Day Commander / New Look Foreign Policy

• John F. Kennedy

• 35th President / Cuban Missile Crisis / Bay of Pigs Failure / New Frontier Foreign Policy

• Richard M. Nixon

• 37th President / Vietnamization / Southern Strategy / Detente with China & USSR / Watergate

• John F. Kennedy

Answer explanation

Focus on the following for review:

1) Know their foreign policy approach to the Cold War

2) Failures and Accomplishments

3) Connection to Civil Rights

Reorder the following from 33rd-37th President of the United States

• Eisenhower

• Johnson

• Kennedy

• Nixon

• Truman

Match the following

• 36th President / Great Society / Gulf of Tonkin Resolution / Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Jimmy Carter

• 38th President / Republican / 1st never elected President / Pardoned Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• 35th President / Bay of Pigs / Cuban Missile Crisis / New Frontier

• John F. Kennedy

• 37th President / Republican / Vietnamization / Southern Strategy

• Lyndon Johnson

• 39th President / Democrat from Georgia / Iran Hostage Crisis / Crisis of Confidence Speech

• Richard Nixon

Reorder the following from 35th-39th President

• Richard M. Nixon

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Jimmy Carter

• Gerald R. Ford

Match the following Period 8 Amendments to the Constitution

• Voting age lowered from 21 to 18 years of age

• 25th Amendment

• Eliminated Poll Taxes

• 24th Amendment

• Limits President of the US to 2 terms or a total of 10 years in office

• 26th Amendment

• Allowed American citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote for presidential electors

• 22nd Amendment

• Procedures for replacing the President or VP due to death, removal, resignation, or incapacitation

• 23rd Amendment

Match the following Cold War Figures

• Former State Department official accused of being a Communist spy / convicted of perjury

• George Kennan

• American diplomat in USSR at the end of WWII / Father of Containment Policy

• Barry Goldwater

• Arrested 1950 / Executed 1953 / Convicted with wife of espionage - passing atomic secrets to USSR

• Joseph McCarthy

• Wisconsin senator / claimed list of Communists in Gov - didn't / created hysteria / demagogue

• Julius Rosenberg

• Republican candidate 1964 Election / Origin of Modern Conservative Movement / Daisy Girl Ad Target

• Alger Hiss

Match the following terms related to domestic life in Period 8

• Preoccupation with purchasing material goods

• Baby Boom

• 1958 book - Kenneth Galbraith - analyzed US successful middle class / argued poor were afterthought

• Beat Generation / Beatniks

• adjusting one's behavior and thinking to coincide w/group standard / 1950s suburbia

• Conformity

• Rebellious writers & intellectuals 1950s / rebelled against conformity / origin of counterculture

• Affluent Society

• cohort of individuals born in US 1946-1964 - conditions allowed better education & job opportunities

• Consumerism

Match the following foreign policy ideas from period 8

• Reducing Cold War tensions / Nixon / China and USSR meetings

• Detente

• Eisenhower / Cut back on army & navy to rely more heavily on air force & nuclear striking power

• Brinkmanship / Massive Retaliation

• If one nation comes under Communist control, neighboring nations will also fall to Communism

• Containment Policy

• practice of pushing dangerous events to the point of disaster to achieve best outcome

• Domino Theory

• George Kennan / Truman Doctrine / Keep Soviet influence at bay by limiting spread / Cold War Policy

• New Look Foreign Policy

Reorder the following events within the Period 8 timeline, starting with the earliest

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• Berlin Crisis / Berlin Wall

• Fall of Saigon

• Iran Hostage Crisis

• Truman Doctrine

Match the following international agreements

• 1972 Treaty US and USSR / Led to 2nd treaty in 1979 / limitation of missiles / slowed arms race

• Camp David Accords

• 1978 / Hosted by Carter / Peace treaty Egypt & Israel / 1st Israeli Arab Treaty

• Bretton Woods Conference

• 1944 / FDR / United Nations Monetary and Financial / in New Hampshire / World Bank created

• Salt I

• French leaving Vietnam 1954 / Division at 17th Parallel / Free Elections? / Ho Chi Minh & Diem

• Geneva Conference