Final Exam

Question 1

HUAC’s purpose

Answer 1

The purpose was the expose the communist

Question 2

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Answer 2

Electric chair= atomic bomb info leak

Question 3

Alger Hiss

Answer 3

Used to be a spy; part of FDR’s team wasn’t arrested

Question 4

McCarthyism

Answer 4

Unfair allegations and investigation

Question 5

Who to remember from Hollywood Ten?

Answer 5

Dalton Trumbo: Wrote Roman holiday

Question 6

Blacklisted

Answer 6

Weren’t allowed to be employed in Hollywood

Question 7

Reactions to the atomic bomb?

Answer 7

Bomb shelters and Duck and cover

Question 8

Why did the baby boomer age happen?

Answer 8

Great Depression
Couldn’t afford to wait
Prosperity

Question 9

How did gender roles relate to the Cold War?

Answer 9

• Told woman to stay at home

Question 10

Cold War Propaganda

Answer 10

• Nuclear Family came out of it

- Women play her role, the man plays his, everybody does what they are supposed to do and we’ll win the Cold War

Question 11

Why was prosperity part of the baby boomers?

Answer 11

Gi bill & Military spending (cost)

Question 12

Why was the GI Bill successful?

Answer 12

It enabled soldiers to steer toward the education system

Question 13

White-Collar Vs. Blue-Collar

Answer 13

White-collar wears a suit and has an office.
Blue-Collar does manual labor; outside
White-collar make more money so they pay more taxes

Question 14

American Dream in the Suburbs

Answer 14

Conformity: all houses looked the same

Question 15

William Levitt

Answer 15

• Father of Modern American Suburbia

- Made Levittowns, mass-produced housing (all looked the same)

Question 16

What did the home represent?

Answer 16

• Comfort from the fear of the Cold War

Question 17

Elvis Presley

Answer 17

King of Rock

Question 18

Alan Freed

Answer 18

• First white R&B DJ

- Credited for the term Rock & Roll

Question 19

Why was Rock & Roll important?

Why was Rock & Roll a common culture?

Answer 19

• Represented rebellion against parents

- Common culture for black and white teenagers

Question 20

Rosa Parks

Answer 20

Bus rider that led to the bus Boycott

- Leader of that boycott was Martin Luther King

Question 21

Thurgood Marshall

Answer 21

• Represented Brown V Board
• First black supreme court justice
• selected by President Johnson

Question 22

Earl Warren

Answer 22

• Chief Justice

- expanding civil rights, civil liberty, and judicial power

Question 23

Little Rock Nine

Answer 23

9 students in Little Rock wanted to go to the white high school but they were turned away. They thought they could go because of Brown V. Board of education.

• Mass of resistance comes out of Brown V. Board
• Eisenhower

Question 24

Jackie Robinson

Answer 24

First Black man to play for a white baseball team

Question 25

Seeds of discontent for the civil rights movement post-WW2?

Answer 25

- Still being segregated | - Blacks and women soldiers didn’t get the Gi Bill

Question 26

When did Jim Crow begin?

Answer 26

Compromise of 1877

Question 27

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 27

Separate but equal

Question 28

Southern Manifesto

Answer 28

- After the supreme court accusation of abuse of power - Answer to Brown V Board - Resistance of southern congressman as a result of Brown V Board

Question 29

Who participated in March on Washington?

Answer 29

Martin Luther King

Question 30

What did television represent?

Answer 30

Escapism

Question 31

How did consumerism have to do with television?

Answer 31

- TV encouraged products to be bought

Question 32

What were purchasing habits based on?

Answer 32

- Television sitcoms that portrayed wealthy families | - affluence

Question 33

What changed the face of politics?

Answer 33

The face of television

Question 34

First campaign ad on television

Answer 34

Eisenhower

Question 35

Thomas Dewey

Answer 35

- Ran against FDR | - Famous photo that shows Truman holding up a newspaper that says Dewey wins, but Truman actually won

Question 36

What was Eisenhower the father of?

Answer 36

Modern Interstate

Question 37

Who enacted the GI Bill?

Answer 37

FDR

Question 38

What case did Brown v Board reverse?

Answer 38

Plessy v Ferguson

Question 39

What amendment did Brown v Board reverse?

Answer 39

14th amendment

Question 40

Gideon v Wainwright

Answer 40

Right to counsel

Question 41

Loving v Virginia

Answer 41

Interracial marriages

Question 42

Miranda v Arizona

Answer 42

Right to hear your rights

Question 43

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 43

- Basis for Jim Crow - based on the 14th amendment - separate but equal - One of the worse supreme court decision ever

Question 44

13th Amendment

Answer 44

Emancipation of slaves

Question 45

14th Amendment

Answer 45

Equal rights under the offer of all citizens

Question 46

15th Amendment

Answer 46

Right for all men to vote

Question 47

Where did the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment come out of?

Answer 47

Civil War

Question 48

Which president enacted the Civil War Amendments?

Answer 48

Eisenhower

Question 49

Browder v Gayle

Answer 49

- Supreme court decision coming out of Montgomery bus boycott - Segregation of public transportation

Question 50

38th Parallel?

Answer 50

Divison of North and South Korea

Question 51

How did the Korean War end?

Answer 51

Stalemate: nobody won

Question 52

Who backed the North Korea and who backed South Korea

Answer 52

Communist backed North | US backed the South

Question 53

What happened to Doulas Mcarthur during the war?

Answer 53

He was removed from command

Question 54

MASH represented what?

Answer 54

Hospitals, mobile units

Question 55

Harry S Truman

Answer 55

- He dropped the atomic bomb - The first president to appear on television - President during the Korean War.

Question 56

Which military leader did Truman fire?

Answer 56

Mcarthur

Question 57

What was Eisenhower known for?

Answer 57

- Interstate Act - Civil Rights Acts - First president to run candidate ads on television

Question 58

Nixon

Answer 58

- HUAC made his career - First debate to be broadcasted - Vice President under Eisenhower both terms

Question 59

Lyndon Johnson

Answer 59

In regards to Thurgood Marshall

Question 60

JFK

Answer 60

First Presidential debate on television

Question 61

FDR

Answer 61

Signed the GI Bill

Question 62

Reconstruction of Japan

Answer 62

Mcarthur

Question 63

Benjamin Spock

Answer 63

Best selling book about babies during the boomer age

Question 64

Who did Alaska and Hawaii become states under?

Answer 64

Eisenhower

Question 65

Mcarthur

Answer 65

- Accusing the army Was his downfall - dies of chronic alcoholism. - The Senate formally censured him - Leader of the NATO US forces