KSU History 2112 Final Exam questions
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"Double-V" campaign - correct answer ✔✔- Campaign by African Americans for
victory against racism abroad (Nazi Holocaust) and racism at home (Jim Crow
laws). It held the government responsible for acting consistently toward all human
beings.
- African American civil rights campaign during WW2.
Smith vs. Allright - correct answer ✔✔- The Supreme Court decision that ended
the racist all-white election primaries nation-wide.
- (1944) Supreme Court Case which ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny
membership in political parties to African Americans as a way of excluding them
from voting in primaries.
- Smith (Black) tried to register in Demorcatic party.
What the Negro Wants - correct answer ✔✔- Collection of 14 essays written by 12
professors.
- In 1944, distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan gathered
together essays on the subject "What the Negro Wants" written by fifteen
prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling
Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roy
Wilkins. The outspoken views expressed in the essays shocked even white liberals
by their unanimous call for an end to segregation. The publication of What the
Negro Wants thus helped set the agenda for the Civil Rights Movement to come.
,An American Dilemma - correct answer ✔✔- A criticism of the American values of
"liberty, equality, and humanitarianism" that we supposedly held while still
practicing racial segregation.
- Swedish scholar Gunar Myrdal's powerful book highlighting the conflict between
America's high democratic ideals and its treatment of its black citizens.
Containment theory - correct answer ✔✔- The US theory that stated, if
Communism in Asia could be contained in the area the system would eventually
die out.
- If communism was contained, it would collapse.
- The US policy to use strategies to stop the spread of communism.
George Kennan - correct answer ✔✔- A specialist in soviet affairs. Was
responsible for coming up with the idea of a containment policy when dealing
with Communism. Created the Truman Doctrine.
The "Long Telegram" - correct answer ✔✔- Delivered in 1946 by Gerogre Kennan.
Explained Soviet objectives and foreign policy to the American executive. His ideas
formed the basis for the containment policy.
- The telegram described the methods of containment that the U.S. would use
during the Cold War.
The "Iron Curtain" speech - correct answer ✔✔- Given by Winston Churchill at the
beginning of the cold war. He claimed that an iron curtain had descended blocking
out/separating the free west from the communist east.
,The Truman Doctrine - correct answer ✔✔Policy that stated the the US must help
and support free people through economic and financial aid. They pushed for
economic and political stability. This doctrine led to the Marshal Plan.
Atomic Energy Commission - correct answer ✔✔- Created in 1946 to oversee the
research and production of atomic power.
- After World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission worked on developing more
effective ways of using nuclear material such as uranium in order to mass-produce
nuclear weapons.
- US fails to reach an agreement with Soviet Union on international control of
nuclear weapons, redoubled efforts in atomic research, basically because of it's
failure, it made a heavy arms race.
National Security Council - correct answer ✔✔- An office created in 1947 to
coordinate the president's foreign and military policy advisers. Its formal members
are the president, vice president, secretary of state, and secretary of defense, and
it is managed by the president's national security assistant.
- A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president
on foreign and military and national security.
Central Intelligence Agency - correct answer ✔✔- CIA
- Agency that coordinates the gathering and evaluation of military and economic
information on other nations. Established in 1947.
- Established to coordinate American intelligence and counterintelligence
activitiies oversees (this includes spying, conspiracy, etc).
, The Marshall Plan - correct answer ✔✔- After WWII, this document was created
by George Marshall, it said that the US would provide food and economic
assistance to any European country that needed help recovering from WWII.
Truman offered it to the Soviet Union but Stalin didn't accept it. It greatly
improved many western European countries.
Japanese Reconstruction Act - correct answer ✔✔- Japan was under a military
occupation of General MacArthur who wrote a democratic constitution, gave
women the right to vote, destroyed the nation's weapons, revitalized the
economy, and increased censorship in Japan. Traditional customs were banned
such as suicide, arranged marriages, and swordplay, and anti-American
propaganda forbidden. A Mutual Security Act was signed which stationed forces
on Okinawa.
- U.S. helped rebuild Japan by reforming their government, education, labor
standards, and the economy.
Douglas MacArthur - correct answer ✔✔- (1880-1964), U.S. general. Commander
of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he
accepted Japan's surrender in 1945. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea.
- WWII general for US, led UN forces in Korea, oversaw construction and
occupation of Japans reconstruction until being fired by Truman.
The Berlin Crisis - correct answer ✔✔- 1961, In the 11 years since an important
event, 3 million East Germans had fled into west Berlin. They were seeking to
escape communism. This is a big deal because it represents the failure of the East
German communist government. It also weakened the economy of East Germany.
In order to prevent the East Germans from escaping, Khrushchev built the Berlin
wall around the city, pretty much cutting it in half. It greatly reduced the amount
with correct answers passed
"Double-V" campaign - correct answer ✔✔- Campaign by African Americans for
victory against racism abroad (Nazi Holocaust) and racism at home (Jim Crow
laws). It held the government responsible for acting consistently toward all human
beings.
- African American civil rights campaign during WW2.
Smith vs. Allright - correct answer ✔✔- The Supreme Court decision that ended
the racist all-white election primaries nation-wide.
- (1944) Supreme Court Case which ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny
membership in political parties to African Americans as a way of excluding them
from voting in primaries.
- Smith (Black) tried to register in Demorcatic party.
What the Negro Wants - correct answer ✔✔- Collection of 14 essays written by 12
professors.
- In 1944, distinguished Howard University historian Rayford W. Logan gathered
together essays on the subject "What the Negro Wants" written by fifteen
prominent African American intellectuals, including Langston Hughes, Sterling
Brown, Mary McLeod Bethune, A. Philip Randolph, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Roy
Wilkins. The outspoken views expressed in the essays shocked even white liberals
by their unanimous call for an end to segregation. The publication of What the
Negro Wants thus helped set the agenda for the Civil Rights Movement to come.
,An American Dilemma - correct answer ✔✔- A criticism of the American values of
"liberty, equality, and humanitarianism" that we supposedly held while still
practicing racial segregation.
- Swedish scholar Gunar Myrdal's powerful book highlighting the conflict between
America's high democratic ideals and its treatment of its black citizens.
Containment theory - correct answer ✔✔- The US theory that stated, if
Communism in Asia could be contained in the area the system would eventually
die out.
- If communism was contained, it would collapse.
- The US policy to use strategies to stop the spread of communism.
George Kennan - correct answer ✔✔- A specialist in soviet affairs. Was
responsible for coming up with the idea of a containment policy when dealing
with Communism. Created the Truman Doctrine.
The "Long Telegram" - correct answer ✔✔- Delivered in 1946 by Gerogre Kennan.
Explained Soviet objectives and foreign policy to the American executive. His ideas
formed the basis for the containment policy.
- The telegram described the methods of containment that the U.S. would use
during the Cold War.
The "Iron Curtain" speech - correct answer ✔✔- Given by Winston Churchill at the
beginning of the cold war. He claimed that an iron curtain had descended blocking
out/separating the free west from the communist east.
,The Truman Doctrine - correct answer ✔✔Policy that stated the the US must help
and support free people through economic and financial aid. They pushed for
economic and political stability. This doctrine led to the Marshal Plan.
Atomic Energy Commission - correct answer ✔✔- Created in 1946 to oversee the
research and production of atomic power.
- After World War II, the Atomic Energy Commission worked on developing more
effective ways of using nuclear material such as uranium in order to mass-produce
nuclear weapons.
- US fails to reach an agreement with Soviet Union on international control of
nuclear weapons, redoubled efforts in atomic research, basically because of it's
failure, it made a heavy arms race.
National Security Council - correct answer ✔✔- An office created in 1947 to
coordinate the president's foreign and military policy advisers. Its formal members
are the president, vice president, secretary of state, and secretary of defense, and
it is managed by the president's national security assistant.
- A committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president
on foreign and military and national security.
Central Intelligence Agency - correct answer ✔✔- CIA
- Agency that coordinates the gathering and evaluation of military and economic
information on other nations. Established in 1947.
- Established to coordinate American intelligence and counterintelligence
activitiies oversees (this includes spying, conspiracy, etc).
, The Marshall Plan - correct answer ✔✔- After WWII, this document was created
by George Marshall, it said that the US would provide food and economic
assistance to any European country that needed help recovering from WWII.
Truman offered it to the Soviet Union but Stalin didn't accept it. It greatly
improved many western European countries.
Japanese Reconstruction Act - correct answer ✔✔- Japan was under a military
occupation of General MacArthur who wrote a democratic constitution, gave
women the right to vote, destroyed the nation's weapons, revitalized the
economy, and increased censorship in Japan. Traditional customs were banned
such as suicide, arranged marriages, and swordplay, and anti-American
propaganda forbidden. A Mutual Security Act was signed which stationed forces
on Okinawa.
- U.S. helped rebuild Japan by reforming their government, education, labor
standards, and the economy.
Douglas MacArthur - correct answer ✔✔- (1880-1964), U.S. general. Commander
of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he
accepted Japan's surrender in 1945. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea.
- WWII general for US, led UN forces in Korea, oversaw construction and
occupation of Japans reconstruction until being fired by Truman.
The Berlin Crisis - correct answer ✔✔- 1961, In the 11 years since an important
event, 3 million East Germans had fled into west Berlin. They were seeking to
escape communism. This is a big deal because it represents the failure of the East
German communist government. It also weakened the economy of East Germany.
In order to prevent the East Germans from escaping, Khrushchev built the Berlin
wall around the city, pretty much cutting it in half. It greatly reduced the amount
