Final Review Part 3 Eisenhower-Clinton

1. Final Review Part 3Eisenhower-Clinton

2. This law authorized giving hundreds of millions in federal money to schools for science and foreign language education National Defense and Education Act Eisenhower

3. The 1957 policy which provided for U. S. troops to be sent to a Middle Eastern country at the request of that country's government Eisenhower Doctrine Eisenhower

4. A military alliance between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European Communist satellites. Warsaw Pact Eisenhower

5. This policy, encouraged by John Foster Dulles, stated that if the Soviets took hostile action, the U. S. would demolish them with nuclear bombs. It was dropped in 1949 when the Soviet Union developed nuclear capabilities • massive retaliation Eisenhower

6. A small artificial Soviet satellite launched into space in 1957. This spread fear in the hearts of Americans who felt that the U. S. was lagging behind the USSR in science and technology • Sputnik Eisenhower

7. The downing of a U. S. spy plane by the Soviet Union in 1960 U 2 Incident Eisenhower

8. John Foster Dulles' belief that the U. S. had to show the Communists it was willing to use force and go to the edge of war in order to keep the peace in a nuclear age brinksmanship Eisenhower

9. The first African American Supreme Court Justice, he successfully argued for Brown in the famous 1954 case against the Topeka, KS Board of Education Thurgood Marshall

10. In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that statements of policy were protected under the First Amendment and that only statements leading to dangerous actions could be prohibited Yale v U.S. Society in the 1950s

11. This Arkansas Governor called out the National Guard in 1957 to prevent black children from attending Little Rock's Central High School • Orville Faubus Society in the 1950s

12. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, he was appointed by President Eisenhower and wrote the landmark decision in Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka, KS Earl Warren Society in the 1950s

13. He founded the "Beats", a literary group that rejected the materialism of the 1950s • Jack Kerouac Society in the 1950s

14. He built thousands of reasonably priced homes on small plots of land in Long Island, NY, which served as a model for the post-World War II suburbs William J. Levitt Society in the 1950s

15. This African American challenged a city ordinance in 1955 by refusing to give up a bus seat to a white person • Rosa Parks Society in the 1950s

16. This Supreme Court decision declared Plessy v. Ferguson unconstitutional Brown v Topeka Society in the 1950s

17. This U. S.-Soviet agreement called for the end of atmospheric testing of nuclear devices Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Kennedy’s New Frontier

18. The U. S. government agency which sought to assist developing countries by sending American volunteers to teach and to provide technical assistance Peace Corps Kennedy’s New Frontier

19. Kennedy's Attorney General and his most controversial cabinet appointee Robert Kennedy Kennedy’s New Frontier

20. The policy that JFK used when dealing with the Communist Bloc. It called for the preparation of more conventional weapons to be used against Soviet aggression, since nuclear weapons were to be used only as a last resort Flexible Response

21. This African American Air Force veteran of the Korean War attempted to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi, but was denied admission because he was black. Five thousand federal troops had to be sent so that he could register James Meredith Kennedy’s New Frontier

22. Cuban exiles, secretly trained by the C. I. A. and supplied by the U. S. government, attempted to invade the island and overthrow Castro's Communist government there Bay of Pigs Kennedy’s New Frontier

23. The program of economic aid to Latin American countries initiated by President Kennedy to build on the good will established by FDR's Good Neighbor Policy Alliance for Progress Kennedy’s New Frontier

24. President Kennedy's Secretary of State who said during the Cuban Missile Crisis: We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked • Dean Rusk Kennedy’s New Frontier

25. Erected by the East German government to prevent an embarrassing "Brain Drain" to the West, it was here that JFK assured the West Germans and peoples fighting Communism throughout the world that the U. S. would continue to protect them from Soviet aggression • Berlin Wall Kennedy’s New Frontier

26. This 1962 U. S.-Soviet confrontation was the closest the world ever came to global thermal nuclear war • Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy’s New Frontier

27. The young American lieutenant who was brought to trial for the My Lai massacre of Vietnamese civilians William Calley Johnson’s Great Society

28. After much investigation, it came to the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President Kennedy Warren Commission Johnson’s Great Society

29. This federal law declared discrimination on the basis of race and sex to be illegal • Civil Rights Act of 1964 Johnson’s Great Society

30. The belief in the 1950s and 1960s that the fall of one nation to Communism would lead to the fall of neighboring countries Domino Theory Johnson’s Great Society

31. The widespread public suspicion that President Johnson's statements about the Vietnam War were not trustworthy Credibility Gap Johnson’s Great Society

32. A provision of federal law that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex in many educational programs receiving federal funds Title IX Johnson’s Great Society

33. The belief in the 1950s and 1960s that the fall of one nation to Communism would lead to the fall of neighboring countries Domino Theory Johnson’s Great Society

34. President Johnson's domestic programs for social renovation that included VISTA, Job Corps and Head Start. War on Poverty Johnson’s Great Society

35. This federal law defended the right of African Americans in the South to register to vote Voting Rights Act Johnson’s Great Society

36. A government insurance program under the Social Security System that pays for the medical care of elderly citizens • Medicare Johnson’s Great Society

37. In this legislation, Congress gave President Johnson full authority to employ U. S. armed forces in Vietnam • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

38. This conservative Republican Senator from Arizona, who ran unsuccessfully against Johnson in 1964, said that Extremism inthe defense of liberty is no vice Barry Goldwater

39. A federally funded program for disadvantaged pre-school children Head Start Johnson’s Great Society

40. The full-scale attack by Communist forces in 1968 against major South Vietnam cities Tet Offensive Johnson’s Great Society

41. This U. S. Supreme Court case (1966) ruled that police officers must inform an arrested person of his or her constitutional rights before they could question that suspect Miranda v Arizona Turbulent 1960s

42. A major women's organization whose purpose is to end discrimination of all kinds on the basis of gender N.O.W. Turbulent 1960s

43. A revolutionary group of African Americans who believed in violent methods for remedying racial injustices Black Panthers Turbulent 1960s

44. In this 1963 case, the Supreme Court declared that states must provide an attorney to a defendant in a criminal case if they are too poor to pay for one • Gideon v Wainwright Turbulent 1960s

45. He said: That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind in the summer of 1969. Neil Armstrong Turbulent 1960s

46. This seventy-day stand in South Dakota by Native American rights activists attempted to dramatize Indian suffering and call for preferential hiring and government reimbursement for lands taken from them in the past Wounded Knee Turbulent 1960s

47. He worked to win rights for migrant farmers. He is most famous for a strike he organized with the help of grape pickers in California in 1965 Cesar Chavez Turbulent 1960s

48. Founded by Elijah Muhammed, they rejected anything related to white culture and championed the creation of a separate black nation Black Muslims Turbulent 1960s

49. These urban riots in Los Angeles in 1965 were fueled by frustration and despair among African Americans who felt that the civil rights techniques of the early 1960s were not generating enough changes for most blacks in America Watts Riots Turbulent 1960s

50. Social reformer and author of The Feminine Mystique, a book that had a great influence on the development of the modern feminist movement Betty Friedan Turbulent 1960s