Quarter 3 EOC Review: Postwar America, Early Cold War, and the 1960s

Question 1

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

Accepted Answer

It was meant to keep E. Germans from escaping to W. Europe.

Question 2

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

US Blockade of Russian warships bring rocket fuel to Cuba

Question 3

Unpassed law which would have made men and women the same in the eyes of the law

Accepted Answer

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 4

The Civil Rights movement began after __ because ...

Accepted Answer

World War II; black soldiers returned to a country w/racism

Question 5

Increasing American involvement in Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Escalation

Question 6

What was the economic cause of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. was capitalists and the Soviets were communist.

Question 7

Which was NOT accurate as a difference between the US and the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Americans believed that Germany should control E. Europe.

Question 8

Which is FALSE about the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

Accepted Answer

It was a success.

Question 9

Which is NOT associated with Betty Friedan?

Accepted Answer

Silent Spring

Question 10

Which is FALSE about the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

It lead to a peace treaty and unification of Korea

Question 11

Anti-war Americans

Accepted Answer

doves

Question 12

JFK's military strategy to be prepared to fight a variety of conflicts

Accepted Answer

flexible response

Question 13

The GI Bill of Rights led to postwar prosperity in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

It ended the Baby Boom

Question 14

JFK's program which sent volunteers to developing nations to help them avoid Communism

Accepted Answer

Peace Corps

Question 15

Which is FALSE about the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

It happened in Mississippi.

Question 16

Why did Nixon secretly bomb Cambodia?

Accepted Answer

To destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 17

Some African Americans became more assertive and joined which movement?

Accepted Answer

Black Power

Question 18

Which Supreme Court decision legalized abortion (in the first trimester)?

Accepted Answer

Roe v. Wade

Question 19

Who did NOT support civil rights?

Accepted Answer

John F. Kennedy, Governors or Alabama and Mississippi

Question 20

Why did Congress create the HUAC, the McCarran Act, and the Loyalty Review Board?

Accepted Answer

to contain Communism domestically

Question 21

Kennedy's attempt to stop the spread of Communism in poor Latin American countries

Accepted Answer

Alliance for Progress

Question 22

Soviet satellite which launched the Space Race

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 23

College students held these protests in restaurants

Accepted Answer

sit-ins

Question 24

Which president desegregated the military?

Accepted Answer

Harry S Truman

Question 25

Nation of Islam leader who wanted to fight racism "by any means necessary"

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 26

Document which gave LBJ wide powers to fight North Vietnam

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 27

What were the Rosenbergs accused and convicted of doing?

Accepted Answer

selling nuclear secrets to the Soviets

Question 28

What happened at the Potsdam Conference? (2 answers are correct).

Accepted Answer

Truman decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan., Truman demanded free elections in Eastern Europe

Question 29

Under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court made decisions that supported...

Accepted Answer

personal freedoms and rights

Question 30

Program through which the U.S. gave money & supplies to war-torn nations to contain Communism?

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 31

The President asked Congress for military aid, money to help fight Communism worldwide especially in Greece and Turkey

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 32

What caused the Berlin Airlift (1948-1949)?

Accepted Answer

Stalin's blockade endangered the people of West Berlin.

Question 33

The non-Communist nations formed __ as a military alliance, so Communists formed the __ later.

Accepted Answer

NATO; Warsaw Pact

Question 34

Supreme Court case which decided that segregated schools were unconstitutional

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education (of Topeka, Kansas)

Question 35

Which is false about the "Iron Curtain"?

Accepted Answer

Most agreed that it was a good thing that it existed.

Question 36

The Tet Offensive was a turning point in the Vietnam War because it made it clear that...

Accepted Answer

the Communists could and would keep fighting.

Question 37

Which amendment made poll taxes illegal?

Accepted Answer

24th

Question 38

They thought we had to fight in Vietnam in order to stop the spread of Communism

Accepted Answer

hawks

Question 39

What is McCarthyism?

Accepted Answer

reckless, destructive accusations of Communism

Question 40

What is the difference between the truth and what the government was telling Americans?

Accepted Answer

credibility gap

Question 41

Under Eisenhower, what was the strategy to own nuclear weapons as a deterrent to war?

Accepted Answer

Brinkmanship

Question 42

Which is FALSE about the 1965 march from Selma?

Accepted Answer

It happened during the presidency of John F. Kennedy.

Question 43

What was the focus of the Freedom Riders' protest?

Accepted Answer

segregated bus stations

Question 44

What did the Pentagon Papers reveal to Americans?

Accepted Answer

the government had been lying about the Vietnam War

Question 45

WWII meeting in which Stalin falsely promised that Eastern Europeans could choose their gov'ts

Accepted Answer

Yalta Conference

Question 46

Which was NOT a change that took place in postwar America?

Accepted Answer

urbanization

Question 47

Where did Eisenhower send soldiers to protect students going to a previously all-white school?

Accepted Answer

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 48

What happened during Freedom Summer?

Accepted Answer

Volunteers tried to register Mississippi blacks to vote

Question 49

Huey Newton and Bobby Seale were leaders of the...

Accepted Answer

Black Panthers

Question 50

Which is FALSE about the War on Poverty?

Accepted Answer

It included the CCC, WPA, and Social Security.

Quarter 3 EOC Review: Postwar America, Early Cold War, and the 1960s

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Quarter 3 EOC Review: Postwar America, Early Cold War, and the 1960s

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