APUSH Period 8 (1945-1993)

Question 1

Which of the following DID NOT occur during the Truman administration?

Accepted Answer

U-2 Incident

Question 2

What is the historical context of this photo?

Accepted Answer

Vietnam War and Counterculture

Question 3

Which of the following gave Johnson near unlimited powers in the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 4

Which North Vietnamese offensive turned public opinion and ruined Johnson's reelection chances?

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 5

Which group was in charge of looking for Communist influence in American life?

Accepted Answer

House Unamerican Activities Committee

Question 6

How did Eisenhower react to the Suez Crisis?

Accepted Answer

Ordered the UN to return the canal to Egypt

Question 7

Which of the following figures WAS NOT assasinated in the 1960s?

Accepted Answer

Edward Kennedy

Question 8

Reagan was the first President to serve two full terms since...?

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 9

Who was President during the fall of the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

George H. W. Bush

Question 10

Wisconsin Senator who was a key figure in the Second Red Scare

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 11

What was the name of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy?

Accepted Answer

Trickle-Down Economics

Question 12

What was Vietnamization?

Accepted Answer

Slow withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam

Question 13

Policy that asserted the spread of communism should be restricted to the Soviet Union

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 14

Which of the countries DID NOT see CIA interference in their governments?

Accepted Answer

Ireland

Question 15

What was Reagan’s “Star Wars” Program?

Accepted Answer

An array of defense mechanisms, Protection against Soviet nuclear attacks

Question 16

Which of the following was not overturned during the Cold War Era?

Accepted Answer

20th Amendment

Question 17

Which of these WAS NOT a result of the Space Race?

Accepted Answer

Creation of ANAS and education funding

Question 18

Which of these DID NOT lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

U-2 Incident

Question 19

Which of the following did not occur during the Johson administration?

Accepted Answer

First female Supreme Court Justice

Question 20

One of the Carter administration’s major accomplishments was...?

Accepted Answer

Camp David Accords

Question 21

Which of thsese was an accomplishment of the Kennedy administration?

Accepted Answer

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Alliance for Progress

Question 22

Which of the following WAS NOT a reason for the Soviet Union dissolving?

Accepted Answer

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 23

What was the name of John F. Kennedy's foreign policy?

Accepted Answer

Flexible Response

Question 24

What did the Soviets construct to keep people inside their zone of the German capital?

Accepted Answer

Berlin Wall

Question 25

What was Jimmy Carter's approach to foreign policy?

Accepted Answer

Human rights first

Question 26

Event that effectively destroyed Jimmy Carter’s re-election chances

Accepted Answer

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Question 27

Richard Nixon was forced to resign after this scandal

Accepted Answer

Watergate Scandal

Question 28

What was the Nixon Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

Allied nations would be in charge of their own security

Question 29

Who did Johnson defeat in his 1964 reelection campaign?

Accepted Answer

Barry Goldwater

Question 30

Executive Order that desegregated the military

Accepted Answer

Executive Order 9981

Question 31

What was the policy of brinkmanship?

Accepted Answer

Always remaining on the verge of war

Question 32

Soviet leader who attempted to emplacement democratic and capitalist reforms

Accepted Answer

Mikhail Gorbachev

APUSH Period 8 (1945-1993)

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APUSH Period 8 (1945-1993)

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