HIST 2112- Exam 3 UGA Test
Questions with Complete Answers
2026 Updated.
containment - Answer American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around
the world
Truman Doctrine - Answer President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid
to any country threatened by communism
Monolithic communism - Answer communist countries are all united.
the Marshall Plan - Answer a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after
World War II in order to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of
communism.
The Korean War - Answer The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-
Communist South Korea. China and the Soviet Union aided North Korea. The US aided South
Korea.
Post war liberalism - Answer focus on economic growth and make a middle class
Levittown - Answer small houses made for cheap and were able to be produced quickly
Cold War military spending - Answer spending on containment was able to boost the
economy after the war
The Liberal Consensus - Answer The bipartisan popularity of moderate, corporate friendly
liberalism in the 1950-60s
Federal Highway Act of 1956 - Answer -A massive program to build major highways
-There were defensive/evacuation reasons for building these roads during the Cold War
-Lots of industries benefit from building highways
-Building highways employs a lot of people
hyperconsumerism - Answer consumerism as freedom
, The Second Reconstruction - Answer The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s was
called the Second Reconstruction because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 70s had not
brought equality for blacks.
What led to the Civil Rights movement? - Answer -The war exposed a lot of contradictions
against black people
-the war gave black people the motivation to start a movement
-the US needed to make sure their rhetoric on freedom matched what they were actually doing
during the Cold War
Civil Rights legal approach - Answer -challenge laws that uphold segregation (specifically in
education)
Brown vs BOE - Answer ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional due to the
schools being unequal and violating the Equal Protection Clause (14th Amendment)
Little Rock High School - Answer the site of forced school desegregation. had to be
integrated by force through Pres. Eisenhower
Murder of Emmett Till - Answer 14 year old Af. Am. boy from North (Chicago) spending time
w/ relatives in South, was flirty w/ a white woman, woman's husband and brother kidnapped
him and murdered him, beaten beyond recognition, husband and brother put on trial and found
innocent => international outrage (later sold their confession b/c couldn't be tried again)
Montgomery bus boycott - Answer In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give
up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the
Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
sit ins - Answer protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites
only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served; in 1960 over 50,000 participated in sit-
ins across the South. Their success prompted the formation of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee.
nonviolence as an official strategy - Answer black people would get attacked by racist people
and do nothing in order to grab the media's attention and show that they were not violent
LBJ - Answer -liberal- believed strongly in liberalism and government impact
-inspired by FDR and the New Deal
-"The Great Society"
Questions with Complete Answers
2026 Updated.
containment - Answer American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around
the world
Truman Doctrine - Answer President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid
to any country threatened by communism
Monolithic communism - Answer communist countries are all united.
the Marshall Plan - Answer a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after
World War II in order to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of
communism.
The Korean War - Answer The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-
Communist South Korea. China and the Soviet Union aided North Korea. The US aided South
Korea.
Post war liberalism - Answer focus on economic growth and make a middle class
Levittown - Answer small houses made for cheap and were able to be produced quickly
Cold War military spending - Answer spending on containment was able to boost the
economy after the war
The Liberal Consensus - Answer The bipartisan popularity of moderate, corporate friendly
liberalism in the 1950-60s
Federal Highway Act of 1956 - Answer -A massive program to build major highways
-There were defensive/evacuation reasons for building these roads during the Cold War
-Lots of industries benefit from building highways
-Building highways employs a lot of people
hyperconsumerism - Answer consumerism as freedom
, The Second Reconstruction - Answer The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s was
called the Second Reconstruction because the first Reconstruction in the 1860s and 70s had not
brought equality for blacks.
What led to the Civil Rights movement? - Answer -The war exposed a lot of contradictions
against black people
-the war gave black people the motivation to start a movement
-the US needed to make sure their rhetoric on freedom matched what they were actually doing
during the Cold War
Civil Rights legal approach - Answer -challenge laws that uphold segregation (specifically in
education)
Brown vs BOE - Answer ruled that segregation in schools is unconstitutional due to the
schools being unequal and violating the Equal Protection Clause (14th Amendment)
Little Rock High School - Answer the site of forced school desegregation. had to be
integrated by force through Pres. Eisenhower
Murder of Emmett Till - Answer 14 year old Af. Am. boy from North (Chicago) spending time
w/ relatives in South, was flirty w/ a white woman, woman's husband and brother kidnapped
him and murdered him, beaten beyond recognition, husband and brother put on trial and found
innocent => international outrage (later sold their confession b/c couldn't be tried again)
Montgomery bus boycott - Answer In 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give
up her seat on a city bus, Dr. Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the
Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.
sit ins - Answer protests by black college students, 1960-1961, who took seats at "whites
only" lunch counters and refused to leave until served; in 1960 over 50,000 participated in sit-
ins across the South. Their success prompted the formation of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee.
nonviolence as an official strategy - Answer black people would get attacked by racist people
and do nothing in order to grab the media's attention and show that they were not violent
LBJ - Answer -liberal- believed strongly in liberalism and government impact
-inspired by FDR and the New Deal
-"The Great Society"
