Unit+11+Information

Here are the review questions. Don't forget to check out the chapter quiz questions. I posted Ch. 27 below these questions and tried to answer as many of them as I could do quickly since we never went over the answers in class (that I recall)

1. What was the name of the ship full of Jewish German refugees that was refused landing rights in America and whose occupants went on to the death camps in Europe? (St. Louis) 2. The group known as “America Firsters” were opposed to what? (U.S. entering WWII) 3. What is the $2 billion plan called to develop the atomic bomb? (Manhattan Project) 4. What was the court case that challenged the internment of Japanese-Americans? (Korematsu vs. United States) 5. Name the place of the last conference of the leaders of WWII Allies. (Yalta) 6. What happened at Alamagordo? (A-Bomb test) 7. Name the second city hit by the Atomic bomb. (Nagasaki) 8. What was the name given to the alliance of Germany, Japan and Italy? (Axis powers) 9. What was the name of the economic agreement after the war that established the U.S. dollar as the standard of currency for other foreign currencies? (Bretton Woods Agreement) 10. What did Winston Churchill say had come down in Europe between Communist and Democratic countries? (Iron Curtain) 11. What pro-business labor bill was passed during the Truman Adminstration? (Taft-Hartley Act) 12. What was the name of the committee that investigated supposed Communists in the U.S.? (House Un-American Activities Committee) 13. Name someone executed for spying on the U.S. (Julius or Ethel Rosenberg) 14. The group name of the film directors who refused to answer questions about their communist affiliations was what? (Hollywood Ten) 15. During the Eisenhower administration the largest public works program in American history was enacted—what was it? (Interstate Highway Act) 16. In what city did the Brown vs. Board of Education case take place? (Topeka, Kansas) 17. Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court appointed by Eisenhower? (Earl Warren) 18. What kind of war weapon did the new look of the U.S. defense program emphasize in the 1950s? (atomic weapons) 19. What American group was responsible for returning the deposed Shah of Iran to power? (CIA—also supported a coup in Guatemala, intervened in Philipine elections, and put King Hussein of Jordan on its payroll) 20. The U.S. gave money to the French as its first involvement in the military issues in what Asian country? (Indochina/Vietnam) 21. Who was the Egyptian President during the Eisenhower administration? (Nasser) 22. What important structure was nationalized by the Egyptian government under Nasser? (Suez Canal) 23. What incident strained U.S-Soviet relations in 1960? (U-2 incident—plane shot down) 24. What book by John Kenneth Galbraith described the U.S. economy during the postwar period? (The Affluent Society) 25. What was the Diner’s Club? (credit card) 26. What did William Levitt create? (Levittowns—standardized houses to build suburbs) 27. The New Cult of Domesticity encouraged women to choose what as their career? (housewife) 28. Name an important religious popularize in the 1950s. (Bishop Fulton Sheen, Billy Graham, Norman Vincent Peale) 29. What two words were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in the 1950s? (“under God”) 30. In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on the bus? (Montgomery Alabama) 31. What was the name of the Soviet satellite launched in 1957? (Sputnik) 32. What book argued against the use of DDT? (Silent Spring by Rachel Carson) 33. What was the name of the agreement that prohibited war as an instrument of national policy in 1928? (Kellogg-Briand Pact) 34. What was the name of the committee that investigated the motives of munitions dealers during WWI? (Nye Committee) 35. In what country is Omaha Beach? (France) 36. Name one program designed to help the Allies before Pearl Harbor? (“Cash and Carry,” Destroyers for Bases, Lend-Lease Act) 37. What American President first suggested that the U.S. would be better off staying out of the affairs of other nations, otherwise known as Isolationism? (Washington in his Farewell Address) 38. What was the line of latitude that divided North and South Korea (38th parallel) 39. Within 110, how many Americans were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack (2402—accept 2290-2512) 40. What was the name of the person who increased productivity of warships at the beginning of WWII? (Henry J. Kaiser) 41. The double V campaign was for victory over fascism and what else? (discrimination) 42. Who was the leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a union that organized a march for civil rights for blacks in Washington DC? (J. Philip Randolph) 43. What was the name of the plane that was used to drop the atomic bomb? (Enola Gay) 44. Who was Francis Gary Powers? (U-2 pilot shot down over the USSR) 45. What specific kind of clothing did Latinos wear during the war that angered Americans

1. What was President Dwight David Eisenhower’s nickname? ______Ike___ 2. To whom did an attorney for the Army direct this question: “Until this moment, Senator, I think I really never gauged your cruelty or your recklessness….Have you no sense of decency?” ___________Joseph McCarthy_______________________________________ 3. Who was the Chief Justice of the more liberal Supreme Court in the 1950s, beginning with his selection in 1953? ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­___ ________Earl Warren_______________________ 4. Who was the attorney and later Supreme Court Justice that argued the Brown V. Board of Education case at the U.S. Supreme Court? Thurgood Marshall 5. What Supreme Court case overturned a previous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? Brown vs. Board of Education 6. What city’s high school was desegrated by nine black students in September of 1957, requiring the National Guard to come in to guarantee their safety? ____Little Rock, Arkansas_______________ 7. Who was Eisenhower’s anti-Communist, “never-back-down” Secretary of State, whose brother was the head of the CIA? ____________Dulles__________________________________ 8. Name one of the four countries mentioned in the textbook where the CIA helped to overthrow a government to install a more friendly government to the U.S. _____________Guatemala, Philippines, Iran, __________ 9. To what did the “domino theory” refer? ______communism taking over______________________ 10. The First Industrial Revolution was powered by the steam engine, and the Second Industrial Revolution was driven by the electric motor and the internal combustion engine. What invention does your textbook say caused that same level of change in the 1950s? ________________Computer_________________________________ 11. The high intensity computer innovation of California’s Silicon Valley began in the 1950s with input from what nearby university? ___________________Stanford__________________ 12. Who is the author of the bestselling book on the dangers of DDT pesticide poisoning Silent Spring? __________Rachel Carson__________________________ 13. What was Rachel Carson’s bestselling book on the dangers of DDT pesticide poisoning? _________________Silent Spring______________________________________________ 14. Diner’s Club was the first example of what? ____________________Credit card_______________ 15. What was a Levittown? ___________mass produced housing suburb_________________________________________ 16. Mass-produced 720 square foot houses that all looked alike were a feature of what new area of metropolitan areas? ________________suburbs___________________________________ 17. Who wrote the line, “I am an invisible man” from the book of a similar title? _______Ralph Ellison________________________ 18. Whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man began the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56? ____Rosa Parks__________________ 19. In what city did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a public bus? ________________Montgomery____________________________ 20. Eisenhower’s program “Operation Wetback” was aimed at immigrants from what country? _________________________Mexico________________ 21. Who was the Soviet leader (from 1953-1964) who boasted that the Soviet Union would bury the U.S. economically and that Americans’ grandchildren will live under Communism? ___Kruschev________________________________________________________- 22. What was the name of the first satellite launched into space? ________Sputnik_____________ 23. What did segregationists call a plot to “mix the races,” conservative politicians call a communist plot to corrupt American youth, and some churches call the “devil’s music”? _____________________________________rock n roll______________________________ 24. What did Bill Haley and Chuck Berry make famous in the mid-1950s? _____________________________rock n roll__________________________________ 25. What performer from Tupelo, Mississippi became the big musical idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s? ___________________________Elvis Presley________________________________ 26. What was the group of non-conformist writers called that included Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac? ___________________________________Beat Generation_____________________ 27. What phrase was added to U.S. money in the mid-1950s? _____In God We Trust________________________ 28. What author’s works were based on the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi? ____ __________________________William Faulkner_____________________________

Unit 11 Vocabulary

Good Neighbor Policy Fascism Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler Joseph Stalin Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill Nye Committee Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 Spanish Civil War Francisco Franco Manchuria Anschluss “Peace in our time” Sudetenland 1938 Munich Conference <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Appeasement <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Pacifism <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Nuremberg Laws <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Voyage of the //St. Louis// <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Cash and carry <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Lend-lease <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Destroyers for bases <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Blitzkrieg <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Luftwaffe <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Fortress America <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Arsenal of Democracy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Atlantic Charter <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Neutrality Act of 1939 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Battle of Britain <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wendell Wilkie and the election of 1940 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Pearl Harbor – December 7, 1941 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">War Production Board and other agencies to fight the war <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rosie the Riveter <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Manhattan Project <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Robert Oppenheimer <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">A. Philip Randolph <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Bracero Program <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Japanese American Internment <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Executive Order 9066 //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Korematsu v. United States // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Germany First Policy <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Allies vs. Axis <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Stalingrad <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">El Alamein <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Midway <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">D-Day – June 6, 1944 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Second Front <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Operation Overlord <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Battle of the Bulge <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Island Hopping <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Holocaust <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Final Solution <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Wartime Conferences <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Casablanca <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Yalta <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Tehran <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Potsdam <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Harry S Truman <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Enola Gay <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Atomic Bombs – Hiroshima & Nagasaki <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Servicemen’s Readjustment Act/ GI Bill of Rights <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Bretton Woods Agreement <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">GATT – 1947 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">United Nations/ Security Council <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Partition of Germany <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">National Security Act of 1947 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">George F. Kennan <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Containment <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Truman Doctrine <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Marshall Plan <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Iron Curtain <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Berlin Blockade & Airlift <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">NATO <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">“Fall of China” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">NSC-68 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Hydrogen Bomb <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Korean War <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Fair Deal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Taft-Hartley Act, 1947 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">President’s Committee on Civil Rights <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Truman’s Civil Rights policies <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Election of 1948 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dixiecrat <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Buck Stops Here <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">22nd Amendment <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Smith Act <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Red Scare <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">House Committee on Un-American Activities <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Executive Order 9835/ Federal Employee Loyalty Program //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Dennis v. United States // <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Alger Hiss/ Whittaker Chambers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Julius and Ethel Rosenberg <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Blacklisting <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Richard Nixon <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dwight David Eisenhower <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Election of 1952 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Checkers Speech <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Baby Boom <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Levittown <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Brown Vs. Board of Education <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Thurgood Marshall <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Central High School, Little Rock AR <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Warren Court <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Montgomery Bus Boycott <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rosa Parks <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">John Foster Dulles <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Federal Highway Act <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Baby boom <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Role of women in the 1950s <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">New cult of domesticity <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rachel Carson <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">consumerism <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">conformity <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"vast wasteland" of television <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In God We Trust <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Beat Generation <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Jack Kerouac--On the Road <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sputnik <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Jackson Pollock <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">William Faulkner <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ralph Ellison <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">James Baldwin <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Edward Hopper <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Elvis Presley <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Rock and Roll