Flashback Review #12

Post WWII America - Chapter 29

Name: _______________________________
Period: ____ Date: __________________

1)

After WWII, soldiers were aided by the ____ Bill. It helped by: _______________________________________

2)

_________________ was the middle of the road president who symbolized the good life of the Fifties.

3)

Soaring birth rates after WWII became known as the ________________________.

4)

People were moving to the _____________ because more cars and roads were being built than ever before.

5)

The music of the 1950s _________________ New technology that connects America ________

6)

Some young people see America as materialistic (buy stuff to be happy) the __________ (yo daddy-O)

7)

_____________ fought for black rights, end discrimination & segregation.

8)

This made segregation legal after Civil War ________________v._____________________ Case

9)

Integration in baseball _________________________ Pres. Truman integrated the __________________

10)

Court case ends segregated schools ________________________________________

11)

To test integration of schools ____________________________________

12)

End segregated busing, Rosa Parks refuses & MLK becomes a leader _________________________________

13)

MLK, Jr. used civil disobedience to make social changes this means

____________________________________________________________________
14)

What was unique about JFK? ____________________________________________

15)

..ask not what your ____________ can do for you, ask what you can do for your ____________. - JFK

16)

JFK starts the US space program to put a man on the ________ (happens 1969), fought to end ___________ in

the US and worked with civil rights leaders (unsuccessfully).

17)

____________________________ assassinated JFK in Dallas, TX in Nov. 1963. Jack Ruby kills the assassin and

numerous conspiracy theories arise.

18)

LBJ works to be like FDR by proposing the ________________________. It would improve America by helping

the poor, expand social security for elderly and provide job training for unemployed. ________________ used up
money that would have paid for these programs although we have many of these programs today.
19)

Nixons greatest blunder was Watergate. What was Nixon doing with his presidential power?

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________

20)

Pres. Ford _________ Nixon because the nation had been humiliated by his crime & the investigation.

21)

Carters administration comes after the Vietnam War & Watergate Affair. America was looking for a president

they could ________________. The economy of the late '70s is in a ______________ & Carter can't stop inflation.
22)

More protest for civil rights __________ at lunch counters or _________ rides on buses through South.

23)

MLK's ___________________________ speech in Washington, DC is finally realized after JFK is killed and LBJ

pushes Congress to pass...

a. Civil Rights Act (1964) - ___________________________________________________________________
b. Voting Rights Act (1965) - ______________________________________________________________________
24)

_________________ , a leader in the Black Muslims, believes in force & does not trust whites. (labeled the

angriest black man in America). He starts to change & work with whites & MLK, he is _______________________.
25)

The Black _____________ is another militant group. Black Power is a chant that represents pride in black

history and culture (something blacks were told was insignificant).

26)

After MLK's ________________________ and fact that even with laws passed, blacks were still frustrated at

discrimination. A series of ________ riots across north cities break out.

27)

People like ____________________ see discrimination of women as another civil rights issue and she writes a

book about it called __________________________________.

28)

___________ works to fight for womens issues like the ________ Pay Act.

29)

Cesar Chavez fought to help __________________________. He used boycotts and rallies to get people to see

the unfair treatment of mostly Hispanic workers.

30)

Native Americans in the 1970s formed groups like _______. It wanted the govt to...

___________________________________________________________________________________________