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AMH 2020 Final Exam
Jackson Pollock - correct answer ✔An influential American painter and a
major figure in the abstract expressionist movement


Levittown - correct answer ✔The name of four large suburban developments
created in the United States of America by William Levitt and his company
Levitt & Sons. Built in the post-WW2 era for returning veterans and their new
families, the communities offered attractive alternatives to cramped central
city locations and apartments


Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas - correct answer ✔A US
Supreme Court case, which declared state laws established separate public
schools for black and white students unconstitutional


Emmett Till - correct answer ✔An African-American boy murdered in
Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white
woman. His murder received a lot of attention from the press and is noted as
a pivotal event motivating the African-American Civil Rights Movement.


Greensboro Sit-ins - correct answer ✔A series of nonviolent protests in
Greensboro, North Carolina in February 1960 that sparked a new passion for
civil rights protests, using direct action tactics mostly led by black college
students


Freedom Rides - correct answer ✔The Freedom Rides (1961) were used to
challenge segregation on public transportation in southern states and declare
it as unconstitutional


Cuban Missile Crisis - correct answer ✔A 14-day confrontation in October
1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States

,on the other side. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever
came to nuclear war.


Students for a Democratic Society - correct answer ✔A student activist
movement in the United States that was one of the main representations of
the New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-
1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969.


The Feminine Mystique - correct answer ✔A 1963 book by Betty Friedan
which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism
in the United States.


Vietnamization - correct answer ✔Upon taking office in 1969, U.S President
Richard Nixon (1913-1994) introduced a new strategy called Vietnamization
that was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War (1954-
1975) by transferring all military responsibilities to South Vietnam.


Equal Rights Ammedment - correct answer ✔A proposed amendment to the
United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. It
was passed by the Senate in 1972.


Rape of Belguim (1914) - correct answer ✔German mistreatment of civilians
during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Belgium during World War
I.


Alice Paul (1916) - correct answer ✔American suffragist, feminist, and
women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the
campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which
prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.

, Jeanette Rankin (1917) - correct answer ✔was an American politician and
women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the
United States.


Zimmerman Telegram (1917) - correct answer ✔was a secret diplomatic
communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that
proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event
of the United States entering World War I against Germany.


CPI (1917) - correct answer ✔promoted public support for the war; this
government propaganda agency, headed by Creel, attracted progressive
reformers and muckraking journalists - educating citizens about democracy,
promoting national unity, assimilating immigrants, and breaking down the
isolation of rural life


Sedition Act (1917) - correct answer ✔was an Act of the United States
Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range
of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the
government or the war effort in a negative light


Espionage Act (1918) - correct answer ✔made it a federal offense to use
"disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the Constitution, the
government, the American uniform, or the flag.


Fourteen Points (1918) - correct answer ✔Fourteen goals of the United
States in the peace negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson
announced the Fourteen Points to Congress


War Labor Board (1918-1919) - correct answer ✔was made up of political,
business and labor leaders and was tasked with providing labor-policy
recommendations. Used to resolve labor disputes during the course of the war

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