Kompletni_otazky_do_USA

lems of  HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornographic_magazine" \o "Pornographic magazine" pornographic magazine editor  HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt" \o "Larry Flynt" Larry Flynt.
Jak se jmenoval plán na bombardování Hiroshimy? operation downfall (dvě části – operation olympic a coronet)
Co to byla great migration? movement of millions of out of the rural Southern_United_States" \o "Southern United States" Southern United States from 1914 to 1950 to the cities.)
Jakou funkci zastával otec M.L.Kinga jr., M.L.King senior? Atlanta minister
K čemu sloužil marshallův plán = european recovery program (erp)? finanční pomoc zemím zničeným 2.sv.válkou
was the primary plan of the for rebuilding the allied countries of pe" Europe and repelling communism after  HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" \o "World War II" World War II.
jim crow laws = new system of segregation
Osoba spojená s containment doctrine: truman doctrine / truman, ideas of g.f.kennan
indian new deal: 1930
Jak se jmenovala kniha vydaná v roce 1936, která měla usnadňovat lidem život? dale carnegie: how to win friends and influence people
Ideálem prvních sitcomů byli: middle class, white, suburban
Ve kterém regionu se v 70.letech výrazně zvedla životní úroveň? sunbelt/ southern rim (nejosídlenější oblast; southeast, southwest, california)
Které země podle Vincenta Davise budou nejvyspělejší? rusko, čína, usa, německo, japonsko
Pulman a jeho pohhled na Civic Society (______ readership)
indiánští spisovatelé, kteří ovlivnili indiánské hnutí
spisovatelé, kteří ovlivnili náš pohled na černochy
50. léta:
rise of tv culture
mccarthyism – witch hunt (army-mccarthy hearings = jeho konec 1954)
1950-53 - korean war
1951 (convinced) /1953 (executed)– rosenbergs trial (Rosenbergs = citizens and members tried, convicted and executed for spying for the (espionage and passing secrets to Russian agents)
1953 – policy of termination = two laws passed, subject to the same local hurisdictions as white residents)
1953 – operation wetback (deportace nelegálních imigrantů, hl. Hispánců)
1954 – brown vs. board of education of topeka (a of the which explicitly outlawed of facilities)
1954 - policy of massive retaliation
1955 – montgomery bus boycott, rosa parks
1956 – federal highway act
1957 - sputnik
1957 – little rock, arkansas
1957 – vrchol baby-boomu
1959 – castro seized power in cuba
60.léta:race riots
sexual revolution
the new left
1960 – rozvoj sds
1960 – sit-ins at woolworth´s lunch counter, greensboro
1960 – american u2 spy plane shot down over Russia territory, collaps of Paris summit
1960 – j.f.kendedy zvolený prezidentem
1961 - omnibus housing act (rozvoj měst)
1961 - constructed berlin wall
1961 – declaration of indian purpose (called for better luife educationally, economically, spiritually)
1961 – the first American launched into space (Alan Shepard)
1961 – fiasco at the bay of pigs in cuba
1962 - baker v. carr a landmark case which decided that reapportionment issues (attempts to change the way voting districts are delineated) present justifiable questions, thus enabling federal courts to intervene in and to decide reapportionment cases. (každý hlas má stejnou váhu)
1962 – cuban missile crisis
1962 – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) students gathered in Michigan, founded the organization
1962 – ufw (united farm workers), cesar chávez
1962 – the first American to orbit the globe (John Glenn)
1963 - freedom rides (protested segregation in interstate bus transportation)
1963 – jfk assassination in dallas (Lee Harvey Oswald)
1963 – march on washington d.c., “i have a dream” speech
1964 - civil rights act (banned segregation in public facilities)
1964 - gulf of tonkin
1964 – 24th amendment (abolished a poll tax)
1965 – affirmative action
1965 – l.a. watts riots
1965 – voting rights act (banned discriminatory practices in denying Blacks and others the right to vote) – literacy tests (grandfather clause)
1965 – elementary and secondary education act (support to parochial and private schools)
1966 – organization now
1966 – chicago, cleveland riots
1967 – detroit riot (the most serious, 43 dead)
1968 – the tet offensive
1968 – martin luther king assassinated (James Earl Ray)
1968 – robert kennedy assassinated (Sirhan Sirhan)
1968 – richard nixon elected president
1968 – the indian civil rights act (tribal laws within the reservations)
1968 – american indian movement (aim)
1968 – democratic convention gathering in chicago, přešlo v bloody riots
1969 – the first men on the moon (Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin)
1969 – stonewall inn, gay liberation movement
1969 - the woodstock music and art festival a held at 's 600 acre (2.4 km˛) in from -, . It is arguably but very widely viewed as the most famous rock festival ever held.
1969 – princeton and yale accepted women undergraduates
1969-1971 – occupation of alcatraz island
70.léta:
fundamentalism – jerry falwell, “old time gospel hour”, moral majority
gas shortages
emerged as a response to US stagflation in the 1970s. It largely attributed inflation to the ending of the in 1971 and the lack of a specific price reference in the subsequent monetary policies (Keynesian and Monetarism).
1971 – 26th amendment; volební právo pro občany věku 18-21
1971 - the pentagon papers colloquial term for US-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, history of the ' political and military involvement in the from to , with a focus on the internal planning and policy decisions within the U.S. Government. Most, but not all of the Pentagon Papers were given ("leaked") to the in early by Department of Defense employee .
1971 – Equal Rights Amendment – proposed, but did not adopted (rovnost práv žen)
1972 – nixon visits china
1972 – trail of broken treaties (occupation of bureau of indian affairs (bia) headquarters)
1972 – watergate affair (burglary in office building in Washington D.C.)
1972 - furman v. georgia a decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the . and , pulling of brief sentences for , had the same result applied to them as part of a combined decision and ruling.
1972 – salt ii :strategic arms limitation talks refers to two rounds of talks and corresponding between the and , the , on the issue of . There were two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I and SALT II.
1973 – oil crisis
1973 – wounded knee (sd) (confrontations)
1973 – roe vs. wade (potrat povolený v prvním trimestru)
1973 – the first american energy crisis
1974 – nixon resigns
1975 – pine ridge: the death of two FBI agents and the controversial extradition, trial, and conviction of the AIM member . This event is chronicled in the film , a production.
1975 – fall of south vietnam, end of vietnam war, evacuation Am. from Saigon
1978 - regents of the university of california v. bakke a landmark decision on . It bars in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of affirmative action programs giving an advantage to minorities.
sit coms: all in the family,
80.léta:
usa bojkotuje oh v moskvě
reaganomics
star wars (military program)
sit coms: the cosby show, married with children, blacks (???), two fathers, single dads, single mothers
1980 - reagan elected president
1985 – M. Gorbachev: glasnost (openess) + perestroika (reform)
1989 – fall of berlin wall
90.léta:
Christian coalition – pat robertson, “the new world order”
aids crisis (act-up movement = aids coalition to unleash power)
1990-1991 - gulf war (also called the persian gulf war or operation desert storm) a conflict between and a force of approximately 30 nations led by the and mandated by the in order to liberate .
1991 – rodney king beating
1992 –los angeles riots/ rodney king uprising /rodney king riots
1993 – nafta agreement
1993 – toni morrison (Nobel Prize)
1995 – o.j. simpson trial; professional player and murdered his wife)
1995 – million man march
Další knihy:
Jacob Lawrence – the migration of the american negro
Kate Millet – sexual politics
Ellison – invisible man
A. Walker – meridian
W.E.B. DuBois – twoness
Malcolm X. – autobiography
Israel Zangwill – the melting pot
Woody Allan - radio days, manhattan
Louis Malle – alamo bay
M. Gold – goodbye columbus, jews without money
Angelina Grimké - an appeal to the christian women of the south
Kate Chopin: emancipation, awakening
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: women and economics, the yellow wallpaper
Louisa May Alcott: little women
Jonathan Demme: philadelphia
Edmund White: a boy´s own story, the beautiful room is empty
Paul Samuelson: economics
D. Potter: people of plenty
Saul Bellow: the adventures of augie march/ seize the day/ herzog
John Winthrop: “city upon a hill”
William Bradford: of plymouth plantation (journal)
John L. O´Sullivan: manifest destiny
Cotton Mather: magnalia christi americana
Pat Robertson: the new world order
Otakar Machotka: amerika
Hubert Selty Jr.: last exit to brooklyn
E. A. Poe: the man of the crowd
John Updike: when everybody was pregnant