Period 8 APUSH 2017

Question 1

How did "silent spring" shape the environmental movement?

Accepted Answer

It empowered activists to launch a movement

Question 2

Which president was known as a "civil rights president," doing more than anyone since Lincoln?

Accepted Answer

LBJ

Question 3

Which of the following is a true statement about the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

People enjoyed increased prosperity

Question 4

Which amendment abolished the poll tax?

Accepted Answer

24th

Question 5

How did the US respond to the Soviet blockade of Berlin?

Accepted Answer

The US organized an airlift of supplies to West Berlin

Question 6

Which group BEST represented the counterculture of the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

Hippies

Question 7

The launching of Sputnik signaled the beginning of what?

Accepted Answer

American fear that the Soviets were technologically superior

Question 8

The Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, and Korean War are all examples of what?

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 9

Which Latino veteran established the GI Bill Forum to help Hispanic veterans?

Accepted Answer

Hector P. Garcia

Question 10

The US committed to a policy of mutual defense when they --

Accepted Answer

Joined NATO

Question 11

Why was the end of the Korean War a stalemate?

Accepted Answer

The North and South were still divided

Question 12

The Kent state shootings happened during what event?

Accepted Answer

A protest of the Vietnam War

Question 13

Which Cold War event signifies the closest the US and USSR actually came to the brink or war?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 14

Which of the following media sources helped create public disgust for the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Television

Question 15

Which is an outcome of the war in Korea?

Accepted Answer

South Korea remained non-communist

Question 16

How did US families respond to the threat of a nuclear war between the US and USSR?

Accepted Answer

Built bomb shelters and practiced duck and cover drills

Question 17

Which piece of legislation restricted the president's ability to send troops without approval?

Accepted Answer

War Powers Act

Question 18

Senator Joseph McCarthy lost his public support as a result of what event?

Accepted Answer

Televised hearings

Question 19

Which term is most associated with Martin Luther King Jr?

Accepted Answer

Civil Disobedience

Question 20

Which of the following is a cause of the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

North Korea invaded South Korea

Question 21

At which event did US soldiers slaughter Vietnamese citizens and then try and cover it up?

Accepted Answer

My Lai Massacre

Question 22

A large increase in the # of births inproportion to the size of the population is called --

Accepted Answer

Baby Boom

Question 23

Which of the following most influenced US withdrawal from the war in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Public Opinion & TV coverage

Question 24

What significant event of the 'Space Race' occurred in 1969?

Accepted Answer

We put the first man on the moon

Question 25

What is the theory that if one nation in southeast Asia falls to communism, they all will?

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 26

Which of the following is a name given to the dividing line between South and North Korea?

Accepted Answer

Both DMZ & 38th parallel

Question 27

Which of the following involved the U.S. giving money to war torn nations trying to rebuild?

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 28

What gave the US presidents expanded powers to send troops without a declaration of war?

Accepted Answer

Gulf Tonkin Resolution

Question 29

How did the US react to the launching of Sputnik in 1957?

Accepted Answer

Increased federal spending on math and science education

Question 30

Which president passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

Accepted Answer

Johnson

Question 31

Place these Cold War presidents in chronological order

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon

Question 32

Who wrote the novel speaking out against the stereotypical roles of housewife for women?

Accepted Answer

Betty Friedan

Question 33

How did Americans show their disapproval of US involvement in the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

They held anti-war protests

Question 34

The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were attempts by the U.S. to deal with what?

Accepted Answer

The spread of communism

Question 35

Which court case established separate but equal?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v Ferguson

Question 36

Which piece of legislation pledged to financially help countries trying to resist communism?

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 37

In which event did MLK Jr. first emerge as a civil rights leader?

Accepted Answer

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 38

What was the number one focus of the US after world war 2?

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 39

A major result of US foreign policy after WW2?

Accepted Answer

Became a superpower with a monopoly on atomic weapons

Question 40

Which of the following statements best describes Earl Warren's court decisions?

Accepted Answer

Expanded rights for individuals and criminals

Question 41

How did the status of women change after WW2?

Accepted Answer

Women returned to the homes

Question 42

How did Cesar Chavez contribute to the Mexican American civil rights movement?

Accepted Answer

He fought for the rights of exploited laborers

Question 43

The belief that if one country in Southeast Asia fell to communism they all would

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 44

Why was General MacArthur removed from Korea?

Accepted Answer

He wanted to expand the fight into China

Question 45

Increased automobile production and highway construction led to --

Accepted Answer

Increased migration from urban areas to suburbs

Question 46

Which amendment changed the voting age to 18?

Accepted Answer

26th

Question 47

Which group was formed by Betty Friedan to fight gender discrimination?

Accepted Answer

NOW

Question 48

Which was a primary cause of the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

A competition for political influence throughout the world

Question 49

What was the name of Johnson's plan to end poverty in America?

Accepted Answer

Great Society

Question 50

Which of the following was used in the south to practice and encourage segregation?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 51

Which group's contributions during WW2 resulted in the end of military segregation?

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 52

Which program insures the elderly

Accepted Answer

Medicare

Question 53

Which court case ended segregation in schools, and reversed the Plessy v Ferguson decision?

Accepted Answer

Brown v Board of Edu

Question 54

Which international organization was created immediately after WW2 to promote peace?

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 55

Why did Kennedy go forward with the 'Bay of Pigs' plan?

Accepted Answer

The US feared a relationship between Cuba and the Soviets

Question 56

How are the Red scare of the 1920s and McCarthyism in the 1950s similar?

Accepted Answer

Civil liberties of Americans were threatened

Question 57

Today McCarthyism is used to describe the practice of what?

Accepted Answer

Accusing people of subversive activities without evidence

Question 58

Which court case requires that your rights be read to you if you're arrested?

Accepted Answer

Miranda v Arizona

Question 59

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 60

Who was the governor that tried to stop segregation in Arkansas?

Accepted Answer

Orval Faubus

Question 61

What was the name of the jellied gasoline used during the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Napalm

Question 62

Which program was an attempt to promote democracy, and not communism, in developing nations?

Accepted Answer

Peace Corps

Question 63

Public distrust of the government was a direct result of what event?

Accepted Answer

Vietnam War

Question 64

Who helped Cesar Chavez organize the boycott of grapes and the UFW?

Accepted Answer

Dolores Huerta

Period 8 APUSH 2017

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Period 8 APUSH 2017

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