Review for Spring Final

I am just giving the answers for now. Leave a post if you need clarification on anything.

1. The US and Soviet Union - bad relationship
2. Fear that Communists had infiltrated the federal government
3. National defense; protection against Soviet Union; possible nuclear attack
4. when N. Korea invaded S. Korea
5. Truman wanted a limited war while MacArthur wanted to bomb China
6. Successful containment, but not a victory
7. providing new funds to help the nation's educational system
8. We airlifted in supplies to the West Berliners
9. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO
10. auto sales increased, travel time decreased, suburban communities grew
11. polio
12. the car allowed people to travel longer distances to and from their jobs
13. crime, poverty, etc
14. to reward those that served in the military by helping pay their tuition, home loans
15. countries that were dominated by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
16. July 4, 1776, no taxation without representation
17. AofC gave states too much power; Constitution in 1787
18. The both list unalienable rights like: freedom of speech, no quartering of soldiers, no excessive bail, right to bare arms
19. Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness
20. power that is divided between the federal government and state government
21. 1861-1865 states rights and slavery
22. the idea that the states ultimately control the federal government and the states are simply allowing the federal government to exist
23. Free, Citizens, Vote
24. poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause
25. separate but equal
26. Brown v. Board 1954
27. Montgomery Bus Boycott
28. MLK - peaceful protest; Malcolm X "any means necessary"
29. granted right to vote to African American males (former slaves), women's sufferage, abolished poll tax
30. Kennedy promised to remove missiles from Turkey, Khrushchev promised to remove missiles from Cuba
31. they built bomb shelters
32. first televised presidentioal debate, Kennedy young and vibrant; Nixon old and unkept
33. economic opportunities, better way of life and freedom. Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to keep people from going to the West
34. The Warren Commission; he acted alone
35. Yes, he knew how to work with Congress, sympathy over JFK's death, speedy passage of legislation
36. greater government involvement in the daily life of Americans
37. Domino Theory - spread of communism
38. gave the war powers to the president
39. containment - stop the spread of communism
40. if you are old enough to be drafted, then you should be old enough to vote
41. supply line from North Vietname to South Vietnam - Viet cong
42. War Powers Act of 1973
43. The Viet Cong could mount a major/massive attack within South Vietnam/The US could actually lose a war
44. That China would enter the war to aid North Vietham and the Vietminh
45. A credibility gap in the case of the Vietnam War was that it was hard to believe what the Johnson administration said about the war. Public support dropped - suspicion of government truthfulness
46. jungle terrain, difficult to find the enemy, reason for the lack of American success
47. original document
48. my lai massacre
49. roberty kennedy and mlk
50. 1968

This is where my sheet ends. I will go over any questions that I did not list here before the final.