8th Grade Final

Operation Restore Hope was launched to

This act put the entire voter registration process under federal control.

Solidarity was a Polish trade union that helped organize strikes.

a policy of openness that promised more freedoms for the Soviet people

MLK and Malcolm X worked together on many civil rights campaigns

Hmong were hill people from Vietnam who helped American soldiers and downed fliers.

Reagan tried to crush the Contras by ordering the CIA to recruit an army against them.

In 1969 members of the Rolling Quads convinced the Berkeley city council to

Family Medical Leave Act gave workers up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave.

This group wanted a renewal of American Indian culture and recognition of rights.

The GI Bill of Rights was created to help veterans and to prevent an economic depression.

Having a variety of options with which to handle international crises

All of the following statements about Woodstock are true EXCEPT

President Reagan supported the Nicaraguan Contras.

Who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

Nixon's and Kissinger's philosophy of foreign policy

Thousands of intellectuals, scholars, artists, and writers were "re-educated" during this

It became a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting after passage of the 

President Kennedy donated his annual salary to charities.

Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, showed how the environment was being poisoned with

The Fists of Righteous Harmony were called boxers because of their religious martial arts

Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak created the first

The method of art that made use of "found" objects.

What were the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act?

leader's ideas of government were national freedom, democratic gov., and people's livelihood.

A group of oil-producing countries who banded together to raise oil prices.

Who was the Reform Party presidential candidate in 1992?

The Carter Doctrine started with

Who commanded troops in the Korean War and opposed President Truman's war strategy?

The nuclear breakdown at Chernobyl led to a call for safer alternative energy resources.

The economy boomed and unemployment dropped in Clinton's 2nd term.

Where is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

The site of a 1970 tragedy in which four students were killed by the National Guard was

The Berlin Airlift attempted to remove people from West Berlin

The people of Ireland and India used similar methods to free themselves from British rule. 

anti-communist party founded by Sun Yat Sen

The War Powers Act allowed the President to send troops anywhere for unlimited time

international organization aimed at establishing world peace

Head of NAACP and believer in nonviolent protest

Kennedy's political agenda was known as the New Deal.

economic plan based on supply-side economics

The US and the USSR came to the brink of nuclear war because of the

The New Right was a group of liberals who wanted a Lyndon Johnson-style government.

Gandhi was famous for his ideas of passive resistance and nonviolent protesst.

All of the following are associated with hippies EXCEPT

Los Angeles riots occurred when white policemen beat Rodney King, and African American motorist

Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the Vietnam War?

Once the Cold War ended

The federal program that provides free health care to the poor is

Which of these was NOT a major principle of the Soviet Union?

Winston Churchill ordered the Berlin Airlift

military alliance among the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and others

Which terrorist event DID NOT occur in the 1990s?

Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

Which Supreme Court case ruling declared segregation illegal in public schools.

Postwar trials set a standard by which nations/individuals could be tried for war crimes.

Became chairman of the Koumintang after the death of Sun Yat Sen

independent trade union in Poland

Roe v Wade dealt with

The Panama Canal Treaties

the partitioned part of Ireland that remains under British control

The War Powers Act

Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in a plane crash in 1963

site of German war crime trials

uprising during which Fists of Righteous Harmony tried to oust "foreign devils" from China

The US and NATO sided with the Serbian in the Kosovo crisis.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi both believed in nonviolence.

caused by Britain's continued import of illegal substances into China.

President Reagan was nicknamed the Great Communicator

The space station used for joint US-Russian ventures was Sky Lab.

Nixon's secret approach to wooing southern conservatives.

Which of the following women was NOT appointed to a high public office by Reagan?

South Africa's apartheid

People's National Party accepted help from Russia after being rejected by western countries

Causes for the Sepoy Rebellion included

Internal reasons Boxer Reb: missionaries exceeding authority, Opium War, spheres of influence

An organization that worked for Irish freedom, but turned to terrorists tactics

The clash of the Soviet Union and the US over missiles in Cuba almost led to nuclear war.

movement that pledged to use nonviolent resistance in its protests.

Which Supreme Court case established the legality of "separate but equal"?

The Middle East peace accord that Clinton helped negotiate was signed by

Betty Friedan's research led her to conclude that

One of the benefits of British rule in india was

The Camp David Accords

The NAACP and the MIA challenged racial segregation of public transportation by

After Clinton's impeachment, the Senate acquitted him of any wrongdoing.

Initially, Malcolm X believed in African American separatism

With which country are the Hmong associated?

Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested for refusing to give a bus seat to a white passenger.

The term Sepoy means spy and refers to Indians in the British Army

All of the following were part of Reaganomics EXCEPT

Who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press?

After Three Mile Island

North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950

Which of the following statements about Carter is FALSE?

Which of these is NOT a major principle of the US

Which Supreme Court case granted the accused the right to a lawyer during police investigations

The Bay of Pigs operation failed largely due  to strong support from Soviet troops.