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AMH 2020 Final Review University Of Central Florida Question and answers verified to pass AMH 2020 Final Review What are the various phases of of the cold war? - correct answer Containment Massive Retaliation (nuclear attack to soviet if they tried to attack a US ally) Detente Define ...

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AMH 2020 Final Review
What are the various phases of of the cold war? - correct answer
✔Containment
Massive Retaliation (nuclear attack to soviet if they tried to attack a US ally)
Detente


Define Detente: - correct answer ✔Period of improved relations between the
US and communist countries, specifically the Soviet Union and china, during
the Nixon administration.


What were early cold war interventions abroad? - correct answer ✔The US
invaded Guatemala and Iran by taking down their governments and replacing
them


how did the US intervene in Guatemala? - correct answer ✔A series of
military governments succeeded Arbenz in Guatemala


how did the US intervene in Iran? - correct answer ✔The shah of Iran
replaced Mossadegh and remained in office until 79 as one of the worlds most
oppressive leaders. He was overthrown in a revolution led by the anti-
american radical Islamist: Ayatollah Khomeini.


What is modern republicanism and who is associated with it? - correct
answer ✔Eisenhower favored republican ideas like free markets and
conservatism but also felt that the new deal was a necessary safety net for
society. combining Democratic and republican views.


Is modern republicanism a hard right shift and why? - correct answer ✔No.
Modern republicanism used both Democratic and republican views.

,Who won the 1952 presidential election and why? - correct answer
✔Eisenhower won due to his popularity and promise to try and end the
Korean war.


Who did Ike pick to be his VP and why? - correct answer ✔Nixon bc he
needed someone to fill the parts of his campaign he lacked in, one being he
needed someone who was anti-communist which Nixon had a big rep with


What are some affluence and inequalities during the 50's? - correct answer
✔Stereotypes of bread winner husbands and house wives, white picket
fences, and 2.5 kids


What are the two major economic problems during the 50's? - correct answer
✔Farming: new tractors and harvesting machinery and a continuing shift from
cotton production to less labor intensive soybean and poultry raising reduced
the need for farm workers. New machines + bigger farms = less jobs and in
the long term it will be bad for the economy.
Industry: the rapid expansion of oil industries (thanks to the increase in
automobiles) lead to explosive growth of urban centered connections to the oil
industry.


What are the economic trends of the immediate port war decade and what
was Nixon's contribution? - correct answer ✔The age of compression which
lead into the age of inequality. Nixon took the US off the gold standard in
efforts to fix trade deficits and presided over the oil shock.


What is age compression? - correct answer ✔A wage depression that lasted
from 45 to 73. Consisted of highest earners and lowest earners having a
closer income gap. Time of high wages for almost everyone and distributed
income. US allowed this bc they were more concerned with stopping
communism than economic policies (geopolitics)

, What is the age of inequality? - correct answer ✔Reaganomics/ trickle-down
economics. It attacked unionized labor, increased unemployment by 11%,
decline in public schools and buses, and the US traded factories for finances
bc merging was more profitable.


What are trends in women's employment? - correct answer ✔women worked
during the war but that significantly decreased after it ended when the men
came back for their jobs and the baby boom occurred, causing women to be
stay at home moms. Female employment once again rose around 1955. The
modern women worked part time to support the middle class lifestyle but only
earned 60% of the mans income. Women didn't express any unhappiness
toward their employment status yet.


Conformity and the culture of the 1950's: - correct answer ✔People over 30
or "old people" were not universally in favor of a conformist culture
Young people in the era weren't threatening anything with their protests.


Who is C. Wright Mills? - correct answer ✔an old(er) critic of various aspects
of 1950s American culture (proving that not all such critics were young
people)


What is McCarthyism? - correct answer ✔Defined criticism of the social and
economic order as disloyalty. Senator McCarthy's witch hunt for communists.
He accuse people of being Communists.


Who is McCarthy? - correct answer ✔Republican U.S. Senator from the
state of Wisconsin from 1947 - 1957

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