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APUSH FINAL REVIEW 1877- Nixon
APUSH FINAL REVIEW 1877- Nixon
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1
JFK surrounded himself with the best and the brightest, including all EXCEPT:
Robert Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Robert McNamara
Thurgood Marshall
2
The resignation of Richard Nixon came as the result of the investigation into the…
Assassination of Malcolm X
Kent State Massacre
Vietnam War
Watergate Scandal
3
Wilson didn't confront any causes of World War I EXCEPT he didn't approve of:
nationalism
militarism
alliance systems
imperialism
4
Theodore Roosevelt won the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiations between what 2 countries?
France and Germany
Japan and China
Russia and Britain
Japan and Russia
5
Which of the following issues did NOT occur during the Kennedy Administration:
Cuban Missile Crisis
serious Civil Rights conflicts
serious labor strikes
Berlin Crisis (construction of wall)
6
The primary feature of American government during the McKinley years signaled development of:
powerful standing armies
powerful centralized government
useful navies for imperial motives
rapid settlement of western US into statehood
7
Which of the following was a positive of Lyndon B. Johnson's administration?
War on Poverty
Student Revolts
Black power v. white backlash
Vietnam War
8
Which two crises enabled FDR to bring the US into the modern world of 1945?
Supreme Court Crisis and Dust Bowl
Rise of Fascism and Collapse of Labor Unions
Suppression of Civil liberties and armed forces
WWII and Great Depression
9
Which of the following WWII figures became the architect of Truman's foreign policy?
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
Gen. George S. Patton
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gen. George Marshall
10
Wilson’s avowed intentions in going to the Versailles Peace Conference was to…
achieve the provisions of the Fourteen Points
punish the Germans and Austrians
create the United Nations
make the world safe for democracy
11
Hoover's presidential theme was
The Square Deal
Rugged Individualism
The Open Door Policy
Manifest Destiny
12
Who was the first American President to draw attention to the need for national conservation?
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
13
Men who made a major impact upon foreign affairs in the Gilded Age included ALL EXCEPT:
Henry Cabot Lodge
William H. Seward
James G. Blaine
Samuel Gompers
14
Which of the following would Theodore Roosevelt reject as unacceptable?
industrialism
imperialism
nationalism
fanaticism
15
Who became a powerful Secretary of State under Garfield (similar to Seward under Lincoln)?
Grover Cleveland
James G. Blaine
Rutherford B. Hayes
Roscoe Conkling
16
During his administration, Hayes was able to gain recognition as reformer & fighter against
abusive opponents to essential appropriation bills
farm subsidies by Congressmen from the Midwest
radical reconstruction
Indian massacres in the West
17
The fascinating term that came to characterize Nixon foreign policy was:
Open Door Policy
Peace without victory policy
Good Neighbor Policy
Detente
18
Which of the following did Taft NOT deal with as president?
inter-government agency fights
tariffs
impeachment crisis
trust-busting
19
Which member of Lincoln’s Cabinet was retained by Grant to run foreign policy of the US?
Salmon P. Chase
Francis Blair
William Jennings Bryan
William H. Seward
20
Which of the following were written and applied during Hoover's presidency?
Ostend Manifesto and Teller Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary and Dollar Diplomacy
Olney Doctrine and Platt Amendment
Clark Memorandum and Good Neighbor Policy
21
Which of the following items was NOT an action of President Theodore Roosevelt?
Construction of the Panama Canal
Pure Food and Drug Act
Roosevelt Corollary
veto Veteran's Pension Bill
22
During the Second World War civil liberties in the US were most conspicuously violated by the
jailing German and Japanese pacifists
crack-down of Jewish American press
persecution of pro-Hitler German Americans
relocation of Japanese Americans
23
What 19th century political concept did both Nixon and Kissinger share?
realpolitick
national socialism
gradual release of imperialistic motives
detente
24
Which of the following was NOT a long-range cause of the Great Depression?
overspeculation of the stock market
over extension and spending of credit
overproduction by farmers
Overregulation of the SEC
25
The two main crises during Kennedy's administration were
Cuban Missile Crisis and end of WWII
Vietnam and Civil Rights
collapse of stock market and social violence at home
development of drug culture and corporate greed
26
Which president was also a judicial scholar and served on the Supreme Court?
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Chester Arthur
Millard Fillmore
27
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Herbert Hoover?
He worked quickly to remedy the Great Depression
He was orphaned at a young age
He developed the "Good Neighbor Policy"
He was a successful mining engineer turned politician
28
FDR made historical decisions, but one of the first decisions involving women was
Allowing Margaret Chase to become a US senator
Using his wife as a goodwill ambassador
Appointing Frances Perkins as a member of his Cabinet
Choosing a woman as Vice President
29
The single greatest tragedy of Kennedy’s “Camelot”
appalling pverty
assassination
sexual revolution
sky-rocketing crime rates
30
What did Taft call the supporters of T. Roosevelt when he returned to oppose Taft in 1912?
feeble miscreants
naked thieves
intellectual snobs
emotional and neurotic
31
Which of the following were NOT long range causes of warfare in the early 20th century?
manifest destiny and neutrality
imperialism and racism
militarism and alliance building
propaganda and yellow journalism
32
Wilson "pushed society's envelope" when he appointed ______________ to the Supreme Court.
Owen Roberts
William Howard Taft
Louis D. Brandeis
Robert Jackson
33
Wilson by any standard of judgment was a(n)_____ President in 1912 in the first term of office.
plurality
minority
super-majority
majority
34
Truman's decisions involving war in the modern world on a level never before known are:
invasion of the Philippines and French Indochina
Atomic Bombs and Korea police action of 1950
Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge
Firebombing of Tokyo and Iwo Jima
35
Which individual was the policy mastermind of the Nixon administration?
Robert Finch
Robert McNamara
George McGovern
Henry Kissinger
36
Truman's removal of Gen. MacArthur during the Korean war exemplifies Constitutional power of
checks and balances
civilian control of the military
separation of powers
federal supremacy
37
Which Supreme Court case mandated racial integration?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dennis v. US
Muller v. Oregon
Brown v. Board
38
President Coolidge presided over a nation that was affected by all of the following EXCEPT
a blistering depression and war
a tremendous boom cycle
an age of fundamentalism and prohibiton
an economic age of affluence and change
39
The battle in which the Americans took the primary role of halting the Central Powers was
Rock of the Marne
Muese-Argonne Forest
Piave
Cantigny
40
William H. Seward was to Abraham Lincoln as _____ was to _____
Alexander Hamilton; George Washington
Henry Clay; John Quincy Adams
James Blaine; Benjamin Harrison
Cordell Hull; Franklin Delano Roosevelt
41
Which of the late 19th century issues did NOT affect the administration of James A. Garfield?
Blaine changed political parties after Garfield's nomination
Garfield was adverse to parading his own virtues
Democrats attempted to paint him as a scandal monger
Indian battles and massacres on the frontier
42
What was the single event that dealt Johnson’s credibility a fatal blow?
Danang Air Strike
Dien Bien Phu attack
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
43
President Eisenhower’s economic and national unification program was manifested in…
building new freeways, parkways, and ribbon highways
rebuilding nation's railroads
careful supervision of the stock market
establishment of transcontinental airlines
44
The writer most representative of the "Lost Generation" is
John Steinbeck
Sinclair Lewis
Langston Hughes
Ernest Hemingway
45
Wilson was fundamentally opposite his two predecessors in that he hated which of the following
dollar diplomacy
insularism
imperialism
pluralism
46
Harding’s “Ohio Gang” included, pair of the following men?
Henry Ford and Charles Hughes
Harry F. Sinclair and William Taft
Calvin Coolidge and John Scopes
Harry Daugherty and Albert Fall
47
Chester Arthur is known for all the following EXCEPT:
He was no renominated for office of President
Signed the Pendleton Act
signed a tariff law noted for doing nothing
Arthur was a major foreign policy expert
48
A common feature of southern agriculture under the Hayes Administration was:
sharecropping
subdividing plantations
government land grants
homsteading
49
The weak and ineffective Presidents of the Gilded Age were complimented by powerful
Powerful Democratic Senators
Secretaries of the Treasury
Secretaries of State
Vice Presidents
50
Which of the following groups needed FDR's help due to natural disasters?
Farmers in the Dust Bowl area
Women across America
Eastern seaboard businessmen
Union workers in cities
51
The economic policy put in place by William Howard Taft was known as
Dollar Diplomacy
Social Darwinism
World Safe for Democracy
Manifest Destiny
52
Which of the following is true of the 1932 Democratic Convention?
FDR supported increased lines of credit
FDR accepts the nomination in person (breaks precedent)
FDR stated, "All we have to fear is fear itself."
The Democratic platform supported Prohibition
53
The similarity in cabinets between FDR and JFK is that they:
business executives of major importance
intellectuals of major universities from the nation
nearly half were minorities and women
were all New Englanders
54
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief cold war problem was…
Sputnik
death of Joseph Stalin
U-2 incident
McCarthyism
55
At the beginning of the 20th century Wilson ascended to the White House with a sense of
pragmatism
realism
idealism
surrealism
56
Which of the following "Deals" did Theodore Roosevelt propose to the American people?
Fair Deal
New Deal
Square Deal
Raw Deal
57
Which 2 events happened early in Nixon's administration and shocked the world?
Paris Peace Accords and Cuban Missile Crisis
Nixon's resignation, and NOW founded
Apollo 11 and Kent State murders
Assassination of MLK and passage of ERA
58
At time of inauguration, Hayes was viewed by the majority of Americans as...
considered a major reformer
a political supporter of radicalism in Reconstruction
being elected by fraud
a New England conservative
59
Benjamin Harrison is most commonly identified with and responsible for which of the following?
"Billion dollar" out of control Congress of 1890
Formation of Standard Oil Trust
Rise of Knights of Labor
Dawes Act
60
Which pair ofAfrican American leaders wrote wholly contrasting views about race inAmerica?
Stokley Carmichael and Thurgood Marshall
MLK Jr. and Malcolm X
James Foreman and Jesse Jackson
Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays
61
Under President Harding the U.S.
sacrificed potential naval superiority
ratified the Treaty of Versailles with reservations
took no notice whatsoever of the League of Nations
became the world's only superpower
62
To whom did Richard Nixon appeal in political quest for the Presidency?
The New Left
The Radical Left
the Conservative Right
The silent majority
63
The day “that will live in infamy!” is which of the following?
April 12, 1945
June 6, 1943
Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929
December 7, 1941
64
FDR's New Deal was comprised of all of the following programs EXCEPT
PWA, Beer and Wine Act, RFC
Emergency Banking Relief, CCC, FERA
AAA, HOLC, WPA
Glass-Steagall Act, NRA, TVA
65
LBJ stunned the nation in March 1968 when he announced:
that he would not run for reelection
that Robert Kennedy was assassinated
that he was resigning immediately
that MLK was assassinated
66
Nuclear weaponry has reached a colossal amount of fear, because of the creation of ALL EXCEPT:
neutron bombs
missiles for delivery
defense mechanisms
hydrogen warheads
67
Grover Cleveland became the first president after 1868 to
break Republican control of the White House
have a major party majority in both Houses of Congress
have been born in the South
take steps to end Reconstruction
68
Which set of New Deal programs was declared "unconstitutional" by the Supreme Court?
TVA and SEC
NRA and AAA
FERA and CCC
WPA and PWA
69
Whichof the following trusts did Wilson“go after” upon his election to the Presidency?
copper
railroad
steel
banking
70
The victory against the Northern Securities Company (1904) was aimed at which industrialist?
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
James J. Hill
Leland Stanford
71
The Cleveland-Blaine campaign of 1884 was aimed primarily at:
lowering tariffs
reviving the Bloody Shirt issue
exposing personal shortcomings of the candidates
reforming civil service
72
Thomas Edison was to the Gilded Age as _____ was to _____
Wilbur Wright; Progressive Era
Al Jolson; Sports Era
Herbert Hoover; Great Depression
Henry Ford; Roaring Twenties
73
Which combination of two laws was Grover Cleveland famous for signing?
Gold Standard Act/ Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Interstate Commerce Act/ Dawes Act
Tenure of Office Act/Sherman Tariff Act
Pendleton Act/Pension Appropriation Act
74
Harry S. Truman aided the cause of civil liberty by
denouncing Southern support in the 1949 election
integrating public places
desegregation of the armed forces
integrating public schools
75
A major, early set of naval battles that stopped Japanese aggression & expansionism were
Midway and Coral Sea
Leyte Gulf and Mariana Islands
Midway and Pearl Harbor
Gilbert Islands and Okinawa
76
William J. McKinley was the first Gilded Age President to focus on aggressive…
rejection of insularism
development of the rise of populism
development of imperialism in foreign policy matters
approval of organized labor's anti-immigrant stance
77
The chief cause for the entry of the United States into World War I, was Germany’s
invasion of Belgium
campaign of sabotage in the United States
air attack on the Atlantic Coast
resumption of submarine warfare
78
The area of the world where the Cold War was most acutely focused was:
Japan
Germany
Philippines
Argentina
79
TheWashingtonNaval Conference of 1921-22
actually achieved no arms reductions
protected Australia from invasion
improved the tense atmosphere in the Pacific
left the Philippines in a stronger position
80
What presidential action of FDR did NOT move this nation toward World War II?
Einstein letter of August 2, 1939
pre-1940 Japanese Relocation movement
defacto isolation and neutrality during the 1930s
Lend-Lease Act