World & US History Exam 2- Praxis 5491|Questions Solved 100% Correct Answers| Already Passed
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Praxis World And Us History
Ten Percent Plan - ANSWER Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new
government after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States
Congress of Vienna - ANSWER ( CE) Meeting of representatives of European
monarchs called to reestablish the old order after...
World & US History Exam 2 - Praxis 5491 |Questions Solved 100% Correct Answers | Already Passed Ten Percent Plan - ANSWER Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form a new governme nt after 10 percent of its voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States Congress of Vienna - ANSWER (1814 -1815 CE) Meeting of representatives of European monarchs called to reestablish the old order after the defeat of Napoleon. Triple Entente - ANSWER A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. Triple Alliance (Central Powers) - ANSWER An alliance between Germany, Austria -Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI. Monroe Doctrine (1823) - ANSWER US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. Roosevelt Cor ollary - ANSWER Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force Interstate Commerce Act - ANSWER Established the ICC (In terstate Commerce Commission) - monitors the business operation of carriers transporting goods and people between states - created to regulate railroad prices Warsaw Pact - ANSWER Alliance against democracy, supporting communism. treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Rom ania NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) - ANSWER A 1949 defense alliance initiated by the US, Canada, and 10 Western European nations League of Nations - ANSWER A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peac e. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946. Wilson's 14 Points - ANSWER President Woodrow Wilson proposed a 14 -point program for world peace Marshall Plan - ANSWER A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948 -1952) Truman Doctrine - ANSWER 1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by commu nism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey Non -Aligned Movement - ANSWER During the cold war, this movement was led by India and Yugoslavia to stand apart from the U.S. -Soviet rivalry. It was undermined by the membership of states such as Cuba that were clearly clients of one of the superpowers. Lend -Lease Act - ANSWER allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S., 1941 law that authorized the president to ai d any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security United Nations - ANSWER An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. Bacon's Rebellion - ANSWER 1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an illness. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - ANSWER 1964 Congressional resolution authorizing President Johnson to take military action in Vietnam Kamikaze - ANSWER Jap anese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships. Great Society - ANSWER President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program the Great Society. In 1965, Congress passed many Great Society measures, including Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education. Equal Pay Act - ANSWER 1963 law that required both men and women to receive equal pay for equal work Civil Rights Act of 1964 - ANSWER 1964; banned discrimination in public accommodations, prohibited discrimination in any federally assisted program, outla wed discrimination in most employment; enlarged federal powers to protect voting rights and to speed school desegregation; this and the voting rights act helped to give African -Americans equality on paper, and more federally -protected power so that social equality was a more realistic goal Plessy v. Ferguson - ANSWER a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal Brown v. Board of Education - ANSWER 1954 - The Supreme Cour t overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated.
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