ALL THE PEOPLE: 1945—1999

BOOK 10, A HISTORY OF US

1. Who became President upon the 1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt? [9]

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2. What new international organization set up its headquarters in New York City in

1946, in part as a result of a gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.? [16]

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3. In 1947, this Brooklyn Dodger broke the major league color barrier. [18-22]

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4. Who ruled Russia from the late 1920s through his death in 1953? [24-25]

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5. In his famous 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, he warned

that an Iron Curtain had descended across Europe. [27]

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6—8. Name three Eastern European countries that the Soviets controlled after World

War II. [28] ___________________________; ____________________________;

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9. Which Eastern European nation rose up in rebellion against Soviet domination in

1956? [29] ________________________

10. $400 million of aid to Greece and Turkey provided the backdrop for this broad

American enunciation of a policy of steadfast opposition to communism – it promised

support to “free peoples resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or

outside pressures.” [29] ___________________________________

11. In 1961, the Soviets built a concrete wall in the middle of which divided German

city? [29] __________________

12. Introduced in a speech by the secretary of state at Harvard, it promised economic aid

to European nations in the immediate post-war era. [30] _______________________

13. Which World War II general was sent to Japan as the head of the occupying army that

would remain there until 1952? [32] _____________________________________

14. What party was formed by those post-World War II Democrats opposed to Harry

Truman’s push for civil rights? [36] ____________________________

15. By giving World War II veterans free college education and subsidized mortgages,

this federal legislation helped to create a vastly expanded post-1945 middle class.

[37] ___________________________

16. He was chief of the FBI for some fifty years. [40]

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17. If Franklin Roosevelt talked of the New Deal, Harry Truman used this tem to refer to

his own liberal reform agenda. [40] ____________________________

18—19. A former State Department official and diplomat, he was convicted during the

Red Scare of perjury and sentenced to jail in 1950. [41] ________________________

What anticommunist congressman first made a national name for himself as a result of

this case? [41] ____________________________________

20. Convicted in 1951 of selling atomic secrets to the Soviets, they were executed by

electrocution. [41] ________________________________________

21—24. The previously-unified Korea was divided along which parallel at the end of

World War II? [43] ______________ Which Russian-educated communist became

leader of North Korea? [43] __________________________ Which American-educated

authoritarian became leader of South Korea? [43] __________________________

When American forces pushed back the invading North Korean forces and took the

fighting into the North itself, which nation entered the war? [43]

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25. The commander of the American forces during the Korean War, he would ultimately

be fired by Truman for insubordination. [43] ______________________________

26. In 1949, the United States and ten European nations formed which military alliance to

protect Western Europe from possible Soviet attack? [43]

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27. In a speech at Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950, who held up a piece of paper

claiming that it contained the names of 205 Communists who worked in the U.S.

State Department? [44] ___________________________________

28. The Congressional committee responsible for investigating possible subversion in the

1950s, it identified the movie industry as one particular hotbed of communism. [45]

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29. The vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk in the 1950s virtually eliminated which

debilitating disease? [49] __________________

30. Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during World War II, he served as Republican

President from 1952-1960. [50] _______________________________________

31. How many Americans died in the Korean War? [51] _______________

32. Who became leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin in 1953? [51]

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33. From 1956 to 1958 he made 14 consecutive million-selling records and is credited

with bringing rock-and-roll into the mainstream of American popular culture. [52]

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34. Bringing mass-production techniques to the construction industry, this post-war

developer broke down the building of a house into 27 separate steps and thus helped

to spur massive growth of suburbia in the 1950s. [55] ________________________

35. American consumption of which resource rose from 5.8 million barrels a day in 1949

to 16.4 million barrels a day by 1979? [56] _______________

36. A Bing Crosby movie provided the inspiration for the name of which Memphis-based

chain founded by house builder Kemmons Wilson? [57] ____________________

37. Founded by two brothers based in San Bernardino, California, it was transformed by

Ray Kroc into an enormously successful franchise empire. [57-58]

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38. The name given by the French to their Southeast Asian colony, it comprised Vietnam,

Laos, and Cambodia. [60] ____________________

39—40. A nationalist and communist, he became leader of Vietnam’s independence

struggle against the French. [61] ________________________ What was the name

adopted by his forces? [61] ___________________________

41. What nation had been the dominant influence on Vietnam throughout its long

history? [62] ______________________

42. President Eisenhower compared the possible impact of Vietnam going Communist to

the first in a row of these falling. [63] ___________________

43. Defeated at this mountain outpost in 1954 after the Vietnamese transferred weapons

through the jungle by bicycle, the French pulled out of Vietnam. [63]

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44. “No State shall . . . abridge the privileges . . . of citizens of the United States. . . ; nor

deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” are words

associated with which Civil War era amendment? [64] ___________________

45. They were not granted citizenship until 1924. [66] ________________________

46—50. Which 1954 civil rights case involving a Topeka, Kansas student is typically

seen as overturning the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision? [68-70]

_________________________________ What was the civil rights organization that

spearheaded the legal challenge that led to the case? [69] _________________________

Who was the lead civil rights lawyer who worked on the case? [70]

________________________________ The law school that educated not only this lead

lawyer but also so many others who became involved in civil rights law. [69]

_____________________ Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court at the time

the decision was rendered? [71] _______________________________

27. What famous 1969 Supreme Court decision supported the right of a student to wear a

black armband to protest American involvement in Vietnam – free speech, the

justices argued, could not be blocked at the entrance to the school house? [71]

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28. Schools in which Virginia county were closed down for five years as a white protest

against court-ordered integration? [72] ________________________________

29. Which nineteenth-century American writer, the author of Civil Disobedience,

profoundly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr.’s political and moral philosophy?

[76] ____________________________________

30. Secretary of the Montgomery, Alabama chapter of the NAACP, her refusal to

surrender her bus seat to a white passenger as custom and law dictated in December

1955 sparked one of the most famous boycotts in American history. [78]

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31. Who was the 26-year-old minister vaulted to international fame by the Montgomery

Bus Boycott? [81] ______________________________________

32. How did the Montgomery Bus Boycott end? [82] _______________________

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57—60. Which Southern city’s Central High School became the scene for a famous civil

rights struggle in 1957? [83] __________________________ What was the collective

name given to the students who first integrated Central High? [84]

_______________________________ Who was governor of Arkansas at the time? [84]

_______________________ How did President Eisenhower respond when the governor

sent in the National Guard to keep the black students out of Central High? [85-86]

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61. John F. Kennedy founded this government agency to recruit volunteers for two-year-

service missions in various developing nations. [89-90] ____________________

62. In Silent Spring (1962), she attacked the chemical and food-processing industries for

their reckless promotion of the use of pesticides, particularly DDT. [90-91]

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63. Who came to power in Cuba in 1959 after leading a revolution in that island nation?

[93] ____________________________________________

64. Established in 1947, it serves as America’s foreign intelligence-gathering

organization. [93] ________________________________________

65. This 1961 American-backed invasion of Cuba failed miserably. [93]

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66. Photographic evidence from American U-2 spy plane flights over Cuba was used by

President Kennedy as justification for the steps he took during which tense 1962 13-

day showdown between the Soviet Union and the United States? [94]

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67. In 1963, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain signed which treaty, which

banned atmospheric atomic tests amongst the signatories? [96]

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68. How many American “advisers” were in Vietnam by 1963, the year of Kennedy’s

assassination? [96] ___________________

69. The commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama, he became during the

early 1960s one of the civil rights movement’s most vociferous opponents. [97]

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70. This civil rights organization, headed by Martin Luther King, Jr., was very closely

associated with Southern black churches – most of its leaders were ministers. [101]

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71. Known popularly as SNICK, this civil rights organization depended upon the

idealism and energy of the young, and many of its members criticized the more

established organizations as gradualist and hypocritical. [101] ________________

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72—73. One of the main organizers of the 1963 March on Washington, which long-time

activist and former head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters served as a symbolic

and practical link between generations of struggle? [102]

____________________________________ What speech is most closely associated

with this event? [103-104] ______________________________________________

74. Three civil rights activists – James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew

Goodman – were lynched in the early summer of 1964 on the eve a major project

designed to spur racial reform in which southern state? [103] ___________________

75. John F. Kennedy used which term to refer to a domestic agenda that would push

beyond the accomplishments of Roosevelt’s New Deal? [105]

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76. The name Lyndon Johnson gave to his legislative vision, with emphasis upon health

care, education, and job training. [113] ________________________________

77. On January 8, 1964, President Johnson declared war on what? [115] ____________

78. Which Johnson-supported measure provided federal funding to help prepare children

for kindergarten? [118] _____________________________________

79—80. The two most important health-care initiatives of the Johnson Presidency, the

first provided assistance to help the elderly pay their medical expenses; the latter

provided similar financial relief for the poor. [118] ______________________;

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81. A bill signed by President Johnson at the Statue of Liberty opened up this to a much

more representative cross-section of the world’s population. [118]

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82. A leader of the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, he broke with the group shortly

after his trip to Mecca. [123] ____________________________

83—85. The killing of Jimmy Lee Jackson by an Alabama state trooper provided the

immediate impetus for the famous civil rights march from which town to the state capital

58 miles away in Montgomery? [124] ________________________ Who was the

Alabama governor at the time? [124] ______________________________ What is the

name typically given to the March 7, 1965 showdown between police authorities and

peaceful marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge as demonstrators first attempted to march

towards the capital? [125] _____________

86. An incident involving an American intelligence mission in which gulf off the coast

of North Vietnam led to a resolution that gave the President expanded powers to

wage military action? [130] _____________________________

87. What was the jellied-gasoline explosive that was used by American forces in

Vietnam? [132] _____________________________

88. Founder of the Catholic Worker, this elderly activist went to jail for her opposition

to American involvement in Vietnam. [132] ___________________________

89. Riots in which section of Los Angeles in 1965 lasted six days and left 34 people

dead? [134] ___________________

90. What federal commission appointed in the aftermath of the mid-1960s race riots

concluded that the United States was in the process of “moving toward two societies,

one black, one white – separate and unequal?” [134] _________________________

91. Who became the first black justice ever appointed to the Supreme Court? [135]

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92-93. Members of Charlie Company massacred some 350 Vietnamese at this village in

March 1968. [136] _________________________ The lieutenant who took the

blame for the incident, he was court-martialed and sentenced to life in prison at

hard labor but was pardoned by President Nixon. [136]

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94. Whose 1963 bestseller Feminine Mystique openly questioned the idea that suburban

housewifery was the best that women could aspire to? [138]

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95. In 1966, 30 women banded together to found which feminist organization? [140]

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96. Which former party operative for the 1964 Presidential candidacy of Republican

Barry Goldwater became national leader of the “Stop the Equal Rights Amendment”

movement? [142] ___________________________________

97. What 1973 Supreme Court decision ruled that a woman, in consultation with her

doctor, could choose to have an abortion? [143] ________________________

98. The number of blacks who moved from the South to the North between 1910 and

1970. [145] ____________________

99. The 1955 lynching of this 14-year-old who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago

became a defining event for an entire generation of Southern African-Americans.

[145] _____________________________

100. The leader of the Farm Workers Association, he organized California migrant grape-

growers to push for their rights. [149-52] _____________________________

101. Native Americans seized which abandoned federal prison and held it for a year and a

half, offering to pay for it with $24 in beads and cloth, the price paid for Manhattan

Island three hundred years earlier? [156] ______________________________

102. Who was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis? [159]

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103—104. Gold- and bronze-medal winners respectively in the 200-meter sprint at the

1968 Mexico City Olympics, they raised their fists in the Black Power salute on the

victory podium and were stripped of their medals. [164]

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105. Who was assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles on the eve of his victory in

the Democratic primary in California? [164] __________________________

106. Four students at which midwestern university were killed in May 1970 when

National Guardsmen opened fire on a group of anti-Vietnam protestors? [166]

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107. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, which Minnesotan helped to bridge the gap

separating folk and rock music? [167] _____________________________

108. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong launched a major offensive in early 1968

timed to coincide with which Vietnamese holiday? [170] ________________

109. The ratification of the 26th Amendment in 1971 extended the vote to which group?

[172] ______________________

110. Despite his credentials as a staunch anticommunist, Richard Nixon visited which

Asian nation in 1972 and began the process of opening diplomatic relations with it?

[173] _________________
111. The political scandal that ultimately brought down the Nixon Presidency, it got is

name from the fancy Washington hotel that housed the burglarized Democratic

Party headquarters. [174-75] _______________________

112—113. Who were the two young Washington Post reporters vaulted to celebrity

status for their dogged pursuit of the story? [174] ____________________________;

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114. Nixon’s Vice President, he resigned after admitting to filing a fraudulent tax return

and to receiving kickbacks whilst governor of Maryland. [175]

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115. What was the American agency set up in large measure to best the Soviets in the

race to explore space? [176-77] _________________________________________

116. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” were whose words on

becoming the firs human to set foot on the Moon in July 1969? [177]

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117. A peanut farmer and one-term governor of Georgia, he replaced Gerald Ford as

President in 1976 in a campaign emphasizing truth-telling and his own outsider

status. [180] _______________________________________

118—119. Revolutionaries in which Middle Eastern nation seized American embassy

staff in 1978 and held them hostage 444 days? [181] ________________ Who was the

fundamentalist Islamic ruler who replaced to Shah as head of this country? [181]

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120—122. In 1978, which three world leaders met together at the Presidential retreat in

Camp David, Maryland, and worked to produce a U.S.-brokered peace treaty between

traditional rivals Israel and Egypt? [181] ___________________________________;

____________________________________; _______________________________

123. In 1978, the United States agreed to surrender control of which waterway at the

turn of the century? [181] _________________________

124. When Ronald Reagan entered the White House, he took down a portrait of Thomas

Jefferson and put up a picture of which President in its place? [183]

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125. Derided by critics as “trickle-down” economics, this cornerstone of Reagan’s

thinking contended that all would benefit from an expanded economic pie. [183]

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126. In October 1983, a terrorist drove a truck loaded with explosives into a U.S. Marine

barracks in which Middle Eastern nation, killing 239 Marines? [185]

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127. In 1987, President Reagan and Soviet General Mikhail Gorbachev signed which

treaty at the White House in 1987? [188] _________________________________

128. What did Reagan urge Mikhail Gorbachev to do when he went to Berlin in 1987?

[189-90] _________________________________________________________
129—130. Who was the military commander of the U.S. forces in the Gulf War? [196]

_____________________________________ American military in the Gulf was a

response to the invasion by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq of which Middle Eastern neighbor?

[196] ______________________

131. The company founded by Californians Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak in the

mid-1970s. [205] _______________

132. In 1989, who was elected governor in Virginia, the first African-American to hold

that office in any state since Reconstruction? [209] _________________________

133—134. During the Clinton Presidency, the attorney general appointed a special

prosecutor to investigate which failed Arkansas real-estate investment that Clinton had

made while governor? _____________________________ Who was the special

prosecutor? ______________________________________

135—136. These Congressional hearings were held from 1984 to 1986 to investigate

charges that the Reagan administration had secretly sold weapons to Iran in an effort both

to secure the release of American hostages in the Middle East and to raise money to

support opposition military forces in Nicaragua. ______________________________

Who was the lieutenant colonel who became the most famous witness in this case?

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