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APUSH Chapter 36

Quiz by Faulkner, Tai N

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  • Q1
    (nicknamed "Ike") Became a very popular 2 term Republican American president. He was elected because he was a WWII war hero. Ike planned the successful Operation Torch attack and was later appointed to be "Supreme Allied Commander" in Europe (he was placed in charge of all generals for all nations allied with the US). His next big plan was Operation Overlord.
    Dwight Eisenhower
    30s
  • Q2
    1950s; Wisconsin senator claimed to have list of communists in American gov't, but no credible evidence; took advantage of fears of communism post WWII to become incredibly influential; "McCarthyism" was the fearful accusation of any dissenters of being communists
    Joseph McCarthy
    30s
  • Q3
    Chief Justice during the 1950's and 1960's who used a loose interpretation to expand rights for both African-Americans and those accused of crimes.
    Earl Warren
    30s
  • Q4
    Civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national civil rights movement (born in 1913)
    Rosa Parks
    30s
  • Q5
    U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    30s
  • Q6
    Emerged as a leader in the Soviet Union after the death of dictator Josef Stalin. In 1956, he advocated reform and indirectly criticized Stalin and his methods. He became the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1974.
    Nikita Kruschev
    30s
  • Q7
    Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the corrupt regime of the dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and soon after established a Communist state. He was prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and has been president of the government and First Secretary of the Communist Party since 1976.
    Fidel Castro
    30s
  • Q8
    35th President of the United States; only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize; events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement and early events of the Vietnam War; assassinated in Dallas, TX in 1963
    John F. Kennedy
    30s
  • Q9
    1960s; wrote "The Feminine Mystique," an account of housewives' lives in which they suboordinated their own aspirations to the needs of men; bestseller was an inspiration for many women to join the women's rights movement
    Betty Friedan
    30s
  • Q10
    The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee.
    McCarthyism
    30s
  • Q11
    Conservatives believed that many of the New Deal programs were beginning to resemble socialism programs
    "creeping socialism"
    30s
  • Q12
    The ending of authorized segregation, or separation by race. After Brown v. Board of Education
    desegregation
    30s
  • Q13
    This was a military doctrine associated with President Eisenhower's secretary of state, John Foster Dulles. In the event of an attack by the Soviet Union or any other hostile power, the United States would retaliate with massive force, including nuclear weapons. The threat of ______ was designed to deter an enemy from launching an initial attack
    Massive Retaliation
    30s
  • Q14
    Eisenhower first coined this phrase when he warned America against it in his last State of the Union Address. He feared that the combined lobbying efforts of the armed services and industries that contracted with the military would lead to excessive Congressional spending.
    military industrial complex
    30s
  • Q15
    A female movement for gender equality.
    feminism
    30s

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