XUS Final Review

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XUS Final Review

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Team Quizzo

• Scoring the honors system
• When we go over answers, lets talk about them a
  bit and answer the age old question why is this
  important
• You may take notes by all means
• Study over the weekend!

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Round 1

• 1.Belief that communism would spread to other
  countries (particularly in South East Asia)
  used to justify our involvement in Vietnam
• 2. she wrote The Feminine Mystique and later
  became leader of NOW
• 3.converted Muslim who aggressively fought for
  civil rights
• and was killed in 1965
• 4. group of students in Arkansas who integrated
  Central High School
• 5. invention that led to the standardization of
  society in the 1950s
• 6. policy that the US followed to stop the
  spread of communism

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Round 1

1. Domino Theory
2. Betty Freidan
3. Malcolm X
4. Little Rock 9
5. TV
6. Containment

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Rnd 2

• 7. Aura that surrounded the Kennedy family
• 8. amendment that changed the voting age from 21
  to 18
• 9. separation of the races in S. Africa US
  showed disapproval with sanctions
• 10.Nickname given to Reagan for his ability to
  speak informally and down-to-Earth to the
  American public
• 11. scandal during Nixons administration that
  proved the president was not above the law
• 12. Offensive during the Vietnam New Year that
  proved the Vietnamese were not about to give up

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• 7. Kennedy Mystique
• 8. 26th Amendment
• 9. Apartheid
• 10. The Great Communicator
• 11. Watergate
• 12. Tet Offensive

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Round 3

1. The Interstate Highway Act was passed during his
   administration
2. This famous Supreme Court case protected the
   rights of the accused by saying that a person had
   to be read their rights prior to arrest
3. LBJs domestic program that was undermined by the
   Vietnam War
4. This man lost the very close 1960 election some
   say due to a televised presidential debate
5. An extension of the Cold War that included
   Sputnik and landing on the moon.
6. A general feeling of confusion and hopelessness
   felt by many towards the end of the 1970s

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Rnd 3

1. Eisenhower
2. Miranda V. Arizona
3. The Great Society
4. Nixon
5. Space Race
6. Malaise

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Rnd 4

• 7. Nixons idea of turning the responsibility of
  fighting the Vietnam War over to the Vietnamese
• 8. The most glaring physical symbol of the Cold
  War
• 9. The energy crisis of the 1970s was created in
  large part due to
• 10. The biggest nuclear accident in US history,
  contributed to lack of faith in using nuclear
  energy towards the end of the 1970s
• 11. The discovery of these wound up being the
  evidence that brought down Nixon during the
  Watergate Scandal
• 12. Secret US documents leaked to the NY times in
  1971 that revealed instances of government
  secrecy, lies and incompetence in handling the
  Vietnam War throughout the 1960s

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• 7. Vietnamization
• 8. Berlin Wall
• OPEC crisis (embargo)
• 3 Mile Island
• White House Tapes
• Pentagon Papers

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Round 5

• 1. This brought the US to the brink of Nuclear
  War during Kennedys administration, involved
  Castro and Khrushchev
• 2. Established by Kennedy, this group
  successfully helps 3rd world countries build all
  types of infrastructure
• 3. Government supplied health insurance for the
  elderly
• Program of Kennedys that was designed to improve
  relations in Latin America
• 5. discrepancy between what the media reports
  and what the government says
• 6. Nixon expanded the Vietnam War into this
  country to disrupt the VCs supply lines

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Round 5

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Peace Corps
• Medicare
• Alliance for Progress
• Credibility Gap
• Cambodia

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Part II -- Presidents Round list in order

• 1. 1945-1953 9. 1989-1993
• 2. 1953-1961 10.1993-2001
• 3. 1961-1963 11. 2001-2009
• 4. 1963-1969 12. 2009-present
• 5. 1969-1974
• 6. 1974-1977
• 7. 1977-1981
• 8. 1981-1989

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Rnd 6

• 7. A voter registration drive in Mississippi in
  1964 that resulted in the murders of 3 civil
  rights workers
• 8. Many argue that Nixons greatest diplomatic
  achievements were opening up relations with these
  two countries
• 9.This was the Supreme Court case that legalized
  abortion within the 1st trimester
• 10. This man won the 1968 presidential election
  by appealing to the silent majority
• 11. This act was a result of the recognition that
  the office of the president had too much power
  when administering/starting a war it reversed
  the Tonkin Resolution
• 12. This agency was set up during Nixons
  administration and was later important in such
  places as Love Canal

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Round 6

• 7. Freedom Summer
• 8. Soviet Union and China
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• 10. Nixon
• 11. War Powers Act
• 12. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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Round 7

• 1. Reaganomics can be best describe by one of
  these two economic terms
• 2. to keep up w/ the Joneses Americans in the
  1950s bought many goods. This is called
• 3. He was president at the start of the Korean
  War
• 4. Landmark Supreme Court case that desegregated
  schools in 1954, reversed Plessy V. Ferguson
• 5. segregation by law
• 6. These individuals acted to enforce the
  integration of interstate busing in the South in
  1961

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Round 7

1. Trickle-down/supply-side economics
2. consumerism
3. Truman
4. Brown v. Board of Ed, Topeka, KS
5. De jure
6. Freedom Riders

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Rnd 8

• 7. The King of Rock and Roll
• 8. Jack Kerouac wrote, On the Road, which became
  the most famous book of this group of writers
• 9. a child was born every seven seconds at the
  height of the __________ _______.
• 10. First use of the phrase black power is
  attributed to him
• 11. His book The Other America influenced LBJs
  War on Poverty
• 12. He became a leader of the civil rights
  movement when he organized the bus boycott in
  Montgomery, AL

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• 7. Elvis
• 8. Beatnik generation (or beat generation)
• 9. Baby Boom
• 10.Stokely Carmichael
• 11. Michael Harrington
• 12. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Round 9

• Group who went after communists in entertainment
  industry during the early years of the Cold War
• This failed invasion of Cuba led to an alliance
  between Castro and Khrushchev
• This plan promised Europe 13 billion in aid so
  that nations devastated by WWII would not fall to
  communism
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by this
  president
• Huey Newton and Bobby Seale are most readily
  associated w/ this group.
• 6. Secretary of state who promoted of massive
  retaliation and brinkmanship

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Round 9

1. HUAC
2. Bay of Pigs
3. Marshall Plan
4. LBJ
5. Black Panthers
6. John Foster Dulles

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Rnd 10

• 7. MLK promoted this type of civil disobedience
• 8. Busing was an issue during integration what
  president tried to appease whites by slowing down
  busing?
• 9. The Interstate Highway Act led to the
  formation of these (which depleted the tax base
  in urban areas)
• This act, passed under Clinton, allowed moms/dads
  to stay home for 12 weeks with new babies without
  fear of losing jobs
• Massacre of approx 350 under 2nd Lt William
  Calley during the Vietnam War
• This was the education policy of George W. Bush

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• Non-violent
• Nixon
• suburbs
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• My Lai
• 12. No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

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End of part I

• Add up total point so far
• Wager
• Part I bonus question category national landmarks

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What and Where is this?
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Which president?

• 9. Monica Lewinsky scandal
• 10. Read my lips no new taxes.
• 11. promised a man on the moon by the end of the
  1960s
• 12. Proposed a Fair Deal during the postwar era
  of the early 50s
• 13. Was president when the U-2 spy plane
  incident occurred
• 14. He was criticized for not handling Hurricane
  Katrina well
• 15. Opened up relations w/ China and the Soviet
  Union w/ the help of Henry Kissinger
• 16. The Teflon President

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1. Who and Where?
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2-Author of Silent Spring
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4. What year?
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6 what Civil Rights group
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9 Leader of N. Vietnam
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10-what did they remember to do?
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12. President
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14. Year?
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15-Reaction to this young boys murder in 1955
galvanized the Civil Rights movement
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16-where was the Democratic National Convention
held that summer?
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17-Name of event?
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18-Who was killed here?
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19-When?
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20-When?
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21-How did Ford heal the nation?
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22-Who was responsible?
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23Term used to describe modern day
witch-hunting named for this Wisconsin Senator
from the 1950s
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25-What is shown in red and blue?
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26-Chief Justice
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28 First female on Supreme Court
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• 1st African American Supreme Court Justice

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End of Part IIFinal Overall Question

• Add up total points from part II
• Add to total points from part I
• Wage from total so far
• Category Be True to your Man

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The Truman Doctrine stated that the U.S. would
support_________  and _________ with economic and
military aid to prevent them from joining
the Soviet sphere
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And the winner is