UNIT 10 AND SEMESTER REVIEWAmerican History

WAS RESOLVED WHEN KENNEDY ACCEPTED KHRUSHCHEV’S OFFER TO REMOVE THE MISSILES FROM CUBA IN EXCHANGE FOR KENNEDY’S PLEDGE NOT TO INVADE THE ISLAND

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In the Stem Cuban Missile Crisis

WHAT EVENT BEST SYMBOLIZED THE COUNTERCULTURE OF THE 1960’S AND 1970’S

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Music Festival Woodstock

NIXON’S PROGRAM TO IMPROVE RELATIONS WITH THE SOVIET UNION WAS KNOWN AS

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French Word Detente

THE ____________________ COURT MADE RULINGS THAT SUPPORTED CIVIL LIBERTIES.

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Earl’s Court Warren

THE EVIDENCE IN THE _______ CASE, BASED ON TESTIMONY AND ON THE WHITE HOUSE TAPES, INCLUDED EVIDENCE THAT NIXON WAS GUILTY OF A MAJOR CRIME: OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE BY __________EVIDENCE OF THE CRIMES OF OTHERS

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Not AirgateNor Making Up

WatergateCovering Up

CONGRESS RESTRICTED THE USE OF DDT IN RESPONSE TO THE PUBLICATION OF ____________________BY RACHEL CARSON.

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Not Loud Fall Silent Spring

WHO WON THE 1968 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?

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Not Humphrey Nixon

THE IRAN-CONTRA SCANDAL SERIOUSLY DAMAGED THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION’S REPUTATION WHEN IT REVEALED THAT THE UNITED STATES USED THE MONEY FROM THE SALE OF ARMS TO ____________________ TO AID THE CONTRAS IN ____________________

Clue AnswerPersia, Latin

AmericaIran, Nicaragua

THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION WAS AN ATTEMPT TO OVERTHROW

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Still There Fidel Castro

IN 1979, THE U.S. FACED A HOSTAGE CRISIS IN

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Persia Iran

LYNDON JOHNSON’S _____________ PROGRAM WAS AIMED PRIMARILY AT SECURING CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL AMERICANS AND ELIMINATING POVERTY

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Terrible Living Great Society

WHO PARDONED RICHARD NIXON?

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Never Elected Gerald Ford

WHAT WAS THE TURNING POINT IN THE VIETNAM WAR?

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New Year Attack Tet Offensive

EMPHASIZED TAX CUTS.

Clue AnswerSupply Side

Voodoo EconomicsReaganomics

A KEY DIPLOMATIC ACHIEVEMENT OF RICHARD NIXON’S PRESIDENCY WAS A VISIT TO ____________________ IN FEBRUARY 1972

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Not Japan China

IN THE LATE 1980S AND EARLY 1990S, THE DOMINANT FACTOR IN FOREIGN AFFAIRS WAS THE ENDING OF THE ____________________BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION

Clue AnswerDeep Freeze

conflictCold War

THE WARREN COMMISSION DETERMINED THAT ____________________ ACTED ALONE.IN KENNEDY’S ASSASSINATION.

Clue AnswerShot by Jack

RubyLee Harvey Oswald

THE _________________________, PUBLISHED IN 1971EXPOSED THE GOVERNMENT DECEPTION THAT HAD LED THE UNITED STATES INTO THE VIETNAM WAR

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Ellsberg did it Pentagon Papers

THE __________ OF THE ____________________SYMBOLIZED THE END OF COMMUNISM IN EUROPE

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German City Barrier

FallBerlin War

THE AMERICAN COMMITMENT IN VIETNAM INCREASED SUBSTANTIALLY WHEN PRESIDENT ________ ASKED FOR AND CONGRESS APPROVED THE ___________________ RESOLUTION

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After JFKBody of Water

JohnsonGulf of Tonkin

PRESIDENT __________ WAS THE FIRST SITTING AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO VISIT RUSSIA AND CHINA.

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Tricky Dicky Nixon

THE FOLLOWING EVENTS TOOK PLACE IN 1968: THE ASSASSINATION OF BOTH _______ AND ________, VIOLENCE AT THE _______ CONVENTION IN CHICAGO, AND THE ________ OFFENSIVE .

Clues AnswersGreat speakers,Political party

New Year

KingBobby

Kennedy

Democratic Tet

AS A RESULT OF JOHNSON’S _______________________ THE LIVES OF MANY UNDERPRIVILEGED AMERICANS IMPROVED.

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His New Deal Great Society

PRESIDENT CARTER’S GREATEST FOREIGN POLICY ACHIEVEMENT WAS

Clue AnswerPresidential

RetreatCamp David Accords

WHO NEGOTIATED THE AMERICAN WITHDRAWAL FROM VIETNAM

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Not Huginger Henry Kissinger

PUBLIC OPINION TURNED RADICALLY AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR AFTER THE VIET CONG LAUNCHED THE 1968

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New Year Tet Offensive

PRESIDENT KENNEDY FACED TWO MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY CRISES IN

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Rumba Island Cuba

WHO WAS THE LEADER OF THE SOVIET UNION DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?

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Nikita Khrushchev

WHO WAS THE LEADER OF NORTH VIETNAM FROM 1954 TO HIS DEATH IN 1969?

Clue AnswerSaigon renamed

after him.Ho Chi Minh

SOUTH VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST GUERRILLAS

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Not Dietpong Vietcong

WHO WAS THE LEADER OF IRAN AFTER THE 1979 REVOLUTION?

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The Ayatollah Khomeini

WHO BEGAN THE REFORM PROGRAMS OF GLASNOST AND PERESTROKIA THE ENDED THE COLD WAR

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Mikail Gorbachev

FRENCH PULLED OUT OF VIETNAM AFTER THEIR DEFEAT AT

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Not Din Ben Po Dien Bien Phu

THE STUDENTS AT KENT STATE WERE PROTESTING NIXON’S __________ OF ____________

Clue AnswerDrop on

IndochinaBombing, Cambodia

HEAD START, FOOD STAMPS, AND JOB CORP WERE A PART OF LBJ’S ______________ ON _____________

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SocietyWar, Poverty

USE OF ___________ AND _______ IN VIETNAM WAS CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE THEY INCREASED BIRTH DEFECTS IN INDOCHINA. USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS WAS BANDED BY GENEVA CONVENTION, AND THEY WAGED WAR AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATION AS WELL AS THE MILITARY.

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reddish & jellyAgent Orange

Napalm

WAS CALLED THE TEFLON PRESIDENT BECAUSE SCANDAL NEVER STUCK TO HIM.

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Former actor Reagan

__________ MILLION TONS OF BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON INDOCHINA DURING THE VIETNAM WAR

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Double WWII 700

THE VIETNAM AND KOREAN WARS ARE SIMILAR IN THAT BOTH WERE NEVER _____________ WARS, BOTH WERE FOUGHT TO _________ ___________ BOTH WERE ____________ ___________ BETWEEN TWO DIVISIONS OF ONE NATION

Clue AnswersUnannounced,

can reds, Blue v Gray

declared

Contain communism

civil wars

SEMESTER REVIEW

CHANGED THE ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT BY COMMUNICATING DIRECTLY WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, ASSUMING RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HEALTH OF THE ECONOMY, AND BREAKING THE TWO TERM TRADITION ESTABLISHED BY WASHINGTON.

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New Deal FDR

GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER TO HIT THE GREAT PLAINS WAS THE _____________________ OF THE _____________ (DECADE)

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Wind ErosionDust Bowl

1930s

CHANGED THE ROLE OF THE FIRST LADY BY BEING POLITICALLY INVOLVED.

Clue AnswerTeddy’s Tall

NieceEleanor Roosevelt

VERY FEW AMERICANS KNEW THAT FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT WAS CRIPPLED BY

Clue AnswerIron Lung Disease

Polio

THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE 1930S, THE UNITED STATES WAS UNWILLING TO COMMIT ITSELF TO WORKING WITH OTHER COUNTRIES TO RESTORE STABILITY TO THE WORLD. THIS ATTITUDE WAS CALLED

Clue AnswerI Want to Be

AloneIsolationism

COMPARED WITH WOMEN WHO WORKED OUTSIDE THE HOME BEFORE 1939, THE NEW WORKING WOMEN OF WORLD WAR II WERE MORE LIKELY TO BE ENGAGED IN HEAVY INDUSTRIAL WORK. THE SYMBOL OF THE WAS ____________ THE __________

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We Can Do ItRosie

Riveter

________________ AND ____________ EMERGED AS THE STRONGEST FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II

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Us & them USA & USSR

IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING WORLD WAR II, MANY AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE DETERMINED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR

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Montgomery Rights

DURING WORLD WAR II, AMERICAN FAMILIES AT HOME FACED _______________ OF FOOD AND FUEL.

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Clue rationing

THE ROSENBERGS, HUAC, AND MCCARTHYISM WERE ALL PART OF

Clue AnswerNot Blue Fearless

Red Scare

IN THIS DECADE AMERICA WAS THE MOST ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS.

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Cars, TV, Elvis 1950’s

EISENHOWER’S COLD WAR POLICY WAS _______________ OR MASSIVE RETALIATION.

Clue AnswerEdge of the

cliffdudeboatBrinkmanship

TRUMAN’S COLD WAR FOREIGN POLICY WAS

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Can the reds Containment

WAS THE CLOSEST THE WORLD GOT TO A NUCLEAR WAR.

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Havana Horror Cuban Missile Crisis

DECADE WHERE THE NATION FACED THE MOST PROTEST MOVEMENTS AND RIOTING.

Clue AnswerSelma, Watts,

Vietnam1960’s

20TH CENTURY PRESIDENT’S WHOSE VICE-PRESIDENT FINISHED THEIR TERM IN OFFICE.

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rsDeath, assassination,

resignation

FDRKennedy

Nixon

AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS ASSASSINATED IN THE 1960S

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Also MedgarKing

Malcolm X

_______________ OF _________ MOST IMPORTANT LEGISLATION ENDING SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MINORITIES.

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Ended Jim CrowCivil Rights Act of

1964

HER BOOK THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE REVIVED THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT.

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Freedame Betty Friedan

EVENT THAT CAUSED CONGRESS TO LOWER THE VOTING AGE TO 18 WITH THE 26TH AMENDMENT.

ClueAnswerOld enough to

die=old enough to vote

Vietnam

CAUSED THE U.S. TO ENTER WORLD WAR II.

Clue AnswerNot Diamond

PointPearl Harbor

WINSTON CHURCHILL’S PHRASE FOR WHAT HAD DIVIDED EUROPE AND STARTED THE COLD WAR.

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Metal Shades Iron Curtin

2 WARS U.S. FOUGHT DURING THE COLD WAR.

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Both in Asia Korea & Vietnam

FDR USED THE ____________ TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, BUT BY KENNEDY’S PRESIDENCY THE _______________ WAS USED.

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Music & Drama Radio, TV

LBJ’S GREAT SOCIETY WAS AN EXTENSION OF FDR’S

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3 R’s New Deal

THERE WILL BE SOME QUESTIONS TESTING YOUR ABILITY TO INTERPRET PRIMARY SOURCES.