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Worksheet time: 25mins
What was the significance of the Cold War?
A political, economic and military competition between the Japan and America, last four decades
A political, economic and military competition between the Soviet Union and America, last four decades
What was the significance of the Containment Policy?
U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of Capitalism
After Soviet Union takes control of Berlin, U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of Communism
What was the significance of the Marshall Plan?
U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of Communism by giving any country military and economic aid (example Turkey and Greece)
U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of Communism in Europe by giving European countries $13 billion dollars to rebuild their countries.
What was the significance of the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of Communism by giving any country military and economic aid (example Turkey and Greece)
U.S. foreign policy to stop the spread of Communism in Europe by giving European countries $13 billion dollars to rebuild their countries.
What was the significance of the Korean War?
U.S. troops help stop the spread of Communism to South Korea
U.S. troops help stop the spread of Democracy to South Korea
What was the geographic significance of the Korean War?
Creates the 38th Parallel to divide Communist North Korea from Democratic South Korea
Creates the 38th Parallel to divide Democratic North Korea from Communist South Korea
How did the G. I. Bill impact Americans?
Provided education, medical care, pension, and mortgage loans for military veterans
Decreased taxes, increase in military spending, decrease in social programs
How does President Truman impact the Civil Rights Movement?
He passed an executive order requiring Japanese-Americans to enter internment camps
He passes an executive order integrating the U.S. military
How did Joseph McCarthy impact the Cold War?
He criticized Roosevelts attempt to get Americans out of the Great Depression
He accused government workers of being spies for the Soviet Union
Define: McCarthyism
Rule by the people, when the population is allowed to vote on a political issue
The reckless accusations unsupported by evidence
What was the significance of the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act?
To develop interstate highways that connected major cities and provide a system of roads for public defense
To deliver weapons, food and medical supplies to troops in the European Theater
What was the significance of Brown v. Board of Education?
Supreme court case that ruled the “Separate but Equal” Doctrine was unconstitutional
Supreme court case that ruled Affirmative Action was constitutional
What court case was overruled by Brown v. Board of Education?
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was Sputnik?
An artificial satellite developed by the Soviet Union
An artificial satellite developed by the United States
How did Sputnik impact American Society?
It helped unify the national culture by increasing communication between citizens
It led to an increase in U.S. technological innovations and education (more math and science)
What political dictator started a revolution in Cuba that led to the country becoming Communist?
Fidel Castro
Cesar Chavez
What was the significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Soviet Union attempts to provide Cuba with Nuclear weapons, U.S. agrees to remove troops from Vietnam to prevent Soviet Union’s plan
Soviet Union attempts to provide Cuba with Nuclear weapons, U.S. creates a naval block-aid to prevent the Soviet Unions plan.
What did the Soviet Union agree to do as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Remove nuclear weapons from Cuba
Remove nuclear weapons from China
What did the United States agree to do as a result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Remove nuclear weapons from Afghanistan
Remove nuclear weapons from Turkey
Why did the United States participate the Vietnam War?
To stop the spread of communism in Vietnam.
To stop the spread of democracy in Vietnam.
What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Nixon’s administration is caught breaking into the Democratic Headquarters
Led Lyndon B. Johnson to escalate U.S. War efforts in Vietnam
What was the political result of the John F. Kennedy Assassination?
The Soviet Union agrees to remove nuclear weapons from Cuba as a sign of respect
Showed the American government would live on and helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965
What was the purpose of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society?
Use government to provide economic support for disadvantaged Americans
Provides old-age insurance for people over 65, unemployment compensation, and aid for the disabled
Which of the following were part of Johnson’s Great Society?
Head start programs, Economic Opportunity Act, and Medicare
G.I. Bill, Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine
Which of the following were impacted by the creation of the Television?
Civil Rights movement, Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate, and Vietnam War
Tennessee Valley Authority, Wagner Act and Social Security Act
List two tactics used by Civil Rights groups?
Violent and Non-violent protests (civil disobedience)
Labor strikes and work stoppages
What was the significance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail?
MLK calls for an end to racism in America and called for civil and economic rights for minorities
He addresses white Christian leaders and their belief that the Civil Rights Movement was moving too fast
What was the significance of Cesar Chavez?
Created the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, uses non-violent protests to gain labor and civil rights for Hispanic Americans.
Created the National Farm Workers Association, uses non-violent protests to gain labor and civil rights for Hispanic Americans.
Which of the following were part of the social and political problems of 1968?
Camp David Accords, Iran Hostage Crisis, Watergate Scandal and Assassination of Robert Kennedy
The Tet-Offensive in Vietnam, Assassination of MLK Jr., Assassination of Robert Kennedy, and the Election of Richard Nixon
What was the significance of the Tet-Offensive of 1968?
North Vietnamese surprise attack U.S. troops during a holiday, result U.S. citizens want out of Vietnam
Laos surprise attacks U.S. troops during a holiday, result U.S. citizens want out of Vietnam
What was the significance of the 1968 Presidential Election?
The United States elects conservative Jimmy Carter as president
Nixon tried to look like the one that was going to restore law and order, bad politics increased the number of Republican.
What was the significance of Nixon’s trip to China?
Nixon agrees to remove U.S. Troops from Vietnam and South Korea
Nixon makes economic and political agreements with China, opens trade with China
What was the significance of the War Powers Act?
Nixon’s administration is caught breaking into the Democratic Headquarters
Limits the power of the President, President must notify Congress within 48 hours after deploying military abroad, Troops cannot be deployed for more than 60 days without congressional approval
What was the significance of Carter’s Camp David Accords?
Congress gives Jimmy Carter the authorization to take any action necessary to prevent the spread of Communism in Vietnam
President Jimmy Carter help Israel and Egypt reach a peace agreement, peace in the Middle East.
What was the significance of the 1979 Iranian Revolution?
The Shah (supporter of America) of Iran goes to America for cancer treatment, the Grand Ayatollah takes control of Iran
The Grand Ayatollah and Iranian students take 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, in hope of America returning the Shah to Iran.
What was the significance of the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
Afghanistan starts providing financial support to Al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden
Jimmy Carter responded to the raid of U.S. by demanding hostages be released but this failed.
What was the significance of the Environmental Protection Agency?
Use on conserve resources more wisely, sets limits on pollution, to conduct environmental research
Conserved millions of acres of wilderness land such as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park
What was the significance of the National Organization for Women?
They want equal rights for women, especially equal pay
They want equal rights for women, especially the right to be drafted into the military
What was the Watergate Scandal?
Nixon losses support from the republican congress and loses the 1972 Presidential Election
Nixon’s administration is caught breaking into the Democratic Headquarters
Which of the following were two results of the Watergate Scandal?
Nixon resigns, Americans lose faith in politicians
Nixon is impeached, Americans lose faith in politicians
Which president pardoned Nixon?
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
What happened to the Soviet Union during the Reagan Administration?
Collapsed due to Reagans overspending on the military
Collapsed due to China’s desire to become an economic power
Why was Bill Clinton impeached?
He broke the Tenure of Office Act
He lied under oath
What was the result of Bill Clinton’s impeachment?
Clinton was impeached and removed from office
Clinton was acquitted of all crimes
Describe the attacks of September 11, 2001?
U.S. invades Iraq to help the nation of Kuwait
Terrorist attack the Twin Towers in New York, the Pentagon, and one crashes in Pennsylvania
What was the result of September 11, 2001?
Starts the War on Terror
Terrorist attack on Harpers Ferry, Bleeding Kansas and the Dredd Scott vs. Sanford case
What was the goal of Reganomics?
Balance the budget and encourage economic growth, cut taxes on wealthy so they can invest
Provided education, medical care, pension, and mortgage loans for military veterans
Social media…..
Lets people buying more stuff online opposed to in stores
Was a place where biases and incorrect information can be spread
The Internet
Was a place where biases and incorrect information can be spread
Lets people buying more stuff online opposed to in stores
What was the significance of the Presidential Election of 2008?
Election of Barack Obama, Many people gathered in D.C. to see his inaugural address, the first African American President
Election of Donald Trump, low turn out at inaugural address, the 48 white president of the United States
