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APUSH Unit 9: 1945-1973
APUSH Unit 9: 1945-1973
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What volunteer program was created by this president to provide assistance to poor nations?
NASA
Alliance for Progress
Peace Corps
Great Society
2
What congressional law established the Department of Defense and this agency?
Smith-Mundt Act
National Security Act
Internal Security Act
Immigration & Nationality Act
3
U.S. response to this in 1957
SDI or Star Wars
cut in defense spending
Space Shuttle Program
improvements in math & science in schools
4
What interracial group rode these in the deep South to protest segregation?
Freedom Summer
Freedom Riders
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Nation of Islam
5
What incident hurt relations between the U.S. & U.S.S.R. during the Eisenhower administration?
U-2 Incident
Kitchen Debate
Berlin Blockade
Bay of Pigs
6
What congressional law was meant to outlaw this?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Voting Rights Act of 1965
24th Amendment
7
Who allegedly shot JFK in Dallas on November 22, 1963?
John Foster Dulles
Benjamin Spock
Lee Harvey Oswald
John Hinkley
8
What 1-year successful non-violent mass-protest was sparked by this woman's personal protest?
Birmingham Campaign
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Selma March
Children's Crusade
9
In what southern city did four college students attempt to this, pictured here?
Birmingham, AL
Albany, GA
Greensboro, NC
Montgomery, AL
10
What Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?
Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenberg
Brown v. Board of Education
Sweatt v. Painter
Hernandez v. Texas
11
This Congressional law provided loans for land or money for college
G.I. Bill of Rights
National Security Act
Fair Employment Act
Civil Rights Act of 1957
12
What presidential election saw a split in this political party?
1950
1952
1948
1954
13
The Vietnam & Korean Wars represent what foreign policy?
rollback
Peace through Strength
detente
containment
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What congressional action gave Pres. Johnson war powers to use military force here?
War Powers Act
Vietnamization
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Tet Offensive
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What was the impact of his assassination by James Earl Ray?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
26th Amendment
election of Richard Nixon
1968 Race Riots
16
What was Truman's response to this?
bombed U.S.S.R.
attacked with tanks
airlifted supplies
left Berlin
17
At what political rally was this famous speech given?
Million Man March
March on Washington
Albany Campaign
Selma March
18
What Soviet spies stole info that helped the U.S.S.R. build their first atomic bomb?
Thomas & Elizabeth Dewey
Jimmy & Rosie Hoffa
Ethel & Julius Rosenberg
William & Jane Levitt
19
Who was the first African-American in Major League Baseball?
Hank Thompson
Larry Doby
Ernie Banks
Jackie Robinson
20
How did JFK respond to this crisis involving nuclear missiles found on this island?
bomb the Soviet Union
blockade
invasion
he did nothing
21
What was Executive Order 9981?
Desegregation of the armed forces
Loyalty Oaths
Desegregation of public schools
Japanese Internment
22
What attacks by the Vietcong & N. Vietnam caused the American public to question the war?
Tet Offensive
Operation Rolling Thunder
Battle of Khe Sanh
Battle of Saigon
23
What Wisconsin Senator accused Democrats in the State Department of being communists?
John Foster Dulles
Orval Faubus
Earl Warren
Joseph McCarthy
24
Name the war
Korean War
Sino-Japanese War
Vietnam War
French-Indochina War
25
Presidential candidate in 1968, assassinated by an Arab nationalist for his support for Israel
Eugene McCarthy
George Wallace
Robert Kennedy
George McGovern
26
Speech given by Winston Churchill warning of the spreading of communism & a divided Europe
Checkers
We Shall Overcome
Iron Curtain
Four Freedoms
27
What was his war on poverty and racial injustice?
Great Society
New Frontier
Modern Republicanism
New Deal
28
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam & trained S. Vietnamese soldiers to take over the war
Paris Peace Accords
Vietnamization
Detente
SALT I
29
Anti-war protestors & police clashed in what city during the 1968 Democratic Nat'l Convention?
Detroit
Baltimore
Birmingham
Chicago
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What congressional law was passed as a result of this march?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1991
31
Which Cold War president warned the American people about the Military-Industrial Complex?
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
Dwight D. Eisenhower
32
What 1954 peace agreement divided this country along the 17th parallel?
Geneva Accords
Helsinki Accords
Paris Peace Accords
Camp David Accords
33
Who achieved JFK's mission when he step foot on this?
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Shepard
John Glenn
34
Which Cold War president was known for escalating U.S. involvement in this conflict?
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
John Kennedy
35
What conflict stemmed from resentment over racial discrimination & segregation?
Zoot Suit Riots
1968 Democratic National Convention
1965 Watts Riots
Haight-Ashbury Riots
36
Mass murder of 504 men, women, & children in S. Vietnam conducted by the U.S. Army
My Lai Massacre
Tet Offensive
Tam Quan
Khe Sanh
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Slave-labor law; stopped closed shop, created right to work laws, & outlawed secondary boycotts
National Security Act
Employment Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
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$400 million in aid to these countries in stopping communist revolutions
Truman Doctrine
Reagan Doctrine
Nixon Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
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What civil rights separatist was shot when he split from this organization?
Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Jackson
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
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Who promised "Peace with honor" & was elected president in 1968, thanks to the Silent Majority?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
George Wallace
Robert Kennedy
41
What landmark case ruled that they must inform suspects of their rights before questioning?
Miranda v. Arizona
Gideon v. Wainright
Escobedo v. Illinois
Mapp v. Ohio
42
McCarthy was removed from the Senate when he attacked what branch without evidence?
Air Force
Army
Marines
Navy
43
The Big Three planned out this new international organization aimed at preventing WW3
League of Nations
OPEC
United Nations
International Federation of Nations
44
What Cold War president decided not to run for a 2nd term b/c of eroding support for this war?
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Lyndon B. Johnson
45
What congressional law created this, which actually was created for military purposes?
National Transportation Act
Interstate Highway Act
National Defense Education Act
Civil Rights Act of 1957
46
What failed CIA plot to overthrow this dictator involved Cuban exiles?
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Berlin Airlift
Guantanamo Bay Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
47
Who devised a "plan" to re-build post-WW2 Europe to prevent the spread of this?
George Marshall
John Foster Dulles
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
48
What was Gov. Orval Faubus trying to prevent, but was overruled by President Eisenhower?
segregation of Arkansas Public Schools
integration of hotels & restaurants
integration of Little Rock Central HS
Busing of white kids to black schools
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This alliance provided collective security against Soviet attacks
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
NATO