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1
What began the Space Race between the U.S and Soviet Union?
US landing the first man on the moon
Soviet Union launching Sputnik
Friendship 7
Apollo 17
2
What did the Watergate Scandal ultimately lead to?
Failure of Johnson's Great Society
Richard Nixon’s resignation
Jimmy Carter's impeachment
3
The Doves wanted ____, when the Hawks wanted ____.
peace, war
more power, less power
total war, limited war
war, peace
4
Which was a massacre that occurred when the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of people at a University?
Watergate Scandal
Kent State
5
What was the decision in Bakke vs. California?
A university could not use race as a definite basis for admissions
No segregation in Public Schools
Separate but Equal
6
Which of the following Presidents supported Detente (improving relations) during the Cold War?
Carter
Ford
Truman
Nixon
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What did Beatniks oppose?
Alcohol
American Conformity
Drugs
Clothes
8
Which of the following was Truman’s Cold War Policy:
Brinksmanship
Massive Retaliation
Containment
Flexible Response
9
Which of the following Eisenhower Cold War initiations launched a massive US infrastructure improvement program?
Interstate Highway and Defense Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Eisenhower Doctrine
Massive Retaliation
10
Why was the G.I Bill of rights made?
To pay off student loans
To give money to sick children
To provide veterans with home loans and funding for college
To encourage people to join the military
11
Which of the following Cold War events brought the Soviet Union and the US closer to nuclear war?
Bombing of Hiroshima
The Cuban Missle Crisis
The Suez Crisis
The Berlin Airlift
12
All of the following were Great Society programs EXCEPT:
Head Start
Medicare
Social Security
Medicaid
13
Which of the Cold War events led to an increase in the US involvement in Vietnam?
The Tet Offensive
The U-2 Incident
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
14
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 end?
Discrimination against women
Legal Segregation
Voting discrimination
15
All of the following contributed to the Cold War EXCEPT:
refusal of the U.S to repay loans to the Soviets from WWII
soviet belief that the US would slowly invade germ
refusal of the soviet union to hold free elections in Eastern Europe
the U.S being unwilling to share atomic tech
16
What was the decision in the Supreme Court Case Brown vs. Board of Education?
Giving voting rights to African Americans
Ending segregation in Public Schools
Ending slavery
17
The Marshall Plan attempted to prevent the spread of communism through
providing money to European countries to help them rebuild
spreading westward
finding gold
Japanese Internment
18
The Bay of Pigs, after pushing Cuba closer to the Soviet Union, set the stage for which of the following?
Emerging Communists
The Cuban Missle Crisis
The Vietnam War
Discovery of Soviet Missle Sites
19
Which of the following movements did Betty Friedan’s
The Feminine Mystique
lead to?
Gay Liberation
Feminism
Environmentalism
20
What led to the use of quota systems being forbidden and considered Unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause?
Brown vs. Board of Ed Decision
Bakke vs. California Decision
The New Deal
