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Unit 5 US History LEAP 2025 Cold War Part 2
Unit 5 US History LEAP 2025 Cold War Part 2
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What was the result of the 1968 presidential election?
Richard Nixon won
Robert Kennedy won
Jimmy Carter won
Lyndon B. Johnson won
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This person advocated racial separatism and increased violence to achieve gains in the Civil Rights Movement
James Meredith
Thurgood Marshall
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
3
Who pardoned Nixon and promoted WIN pins to fight inflation?
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
4
This was built around West Berlin ; it's purpose was to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin
Berlin Wall
Berlin Airlift
the Iron Curtain
the Warsaw division
5
This gave the President (LBJ) to take all necessary measures to protect U.S. interests in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Saigon Resolution
Geneva Resolution
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
6
Reaganomics is mainly known for all of the following EXCEPT
De-regulation business
Increased spending on welfare
Cutting taxes
Decreased spending of welfare
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Kennedy's domestic policy was called
The Great Society
The New Frontier
The Fair Deal
Modern Republicanism
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Lyndon B. Johnson was mainly remembered for doing this in Vietnam
Withdrawing troops from Vietnam
Escalating and placing more troops in Vietnam
Bombing and invading Cambodia
the Massascre at My Lai
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Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. was known for
developing the "Black Power" movement
eliminating de jure segregation
violent protests against discrimination
nonviolent protests against segregation
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The Warren Court was mainly focused on
eliminating prayers in schools
making decisions about property rights
protecting individual rights
focusing on the Pro-choice movement
11
This president of South Vietnam was not popular; shown through Buddhist demonstrations on the street in Vietnam
Kim Il Sung
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Sun Yat Sen
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This made segregation illegal in all public facilities and gave the government powers to enforce school desegregation.
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Nixon is most remembered for his connection to this;the breaking in at the Democratic headquarters protecting "plumbers"
Watergate scandal
Teapot dome scandal
Iran-Contra Affair
Credit Mobilier Scandal
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Carter is remembered for this; Iranian militants seized Americans and held them captive for most of his presidency
Iran-Contra Affair
the Persian Gulf War
SALT II treaty
Iran Hostage Crisis
15
This was a CIA scheme where a trained force of Cubans landed in Cuba but failed to start an uprising to remove Castro.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Flexible Response in Cuba
Inchon landing
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The U.S. generally supports
Arab Palestinians
Israelis
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Lyndon B. Johnson's longest lasting and most effective Great Society program was:
Medicaid and Medicare
Higher Education Act
the Immigration Act
Child Nutrition Act
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Nuclear weapons were discovered in Cuba, so JFK put up a naval blockade against the Soviets and conflict was avoided
A Couter Naval blockade
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Flexible Response in Cuba
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These young people were known as "flower children" and protested the Vietnam War; known for Woodstock festival in 1969
Disco generation
the New Left
Counterculture
Beatniks
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Kennedy adopted this policy which increased spending on conventional military forces; limited use of nuclear weapons
Massive Retaliation
Detente
Flexible Response
Mutual Assured Destruction
21
Lyndon B. Johnson's War On Poverty created all of the following EXCEPT
Literacy programs
Head Start
Job Corps
Medicare
22
U.S. relations with the Soviet Union declined when they did this:
Became influential in China
Placed Saddam Hussein in power
Invaded Afghanistan
Boycotted the Olympic games
23
The Cold War ended during this president's term:
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
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This turned public opinion in the U.S. against the war in Vietnam even though it resulted in U.S. victory.
My Lai massacre
Credibility gap
Tet Offensive
Pentagon Papers
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Mikhail Gorbachev developed this which would lead to the breakup of the Soviet Union
Increased control and violence
a complete democracy
Glasnost and Perestroika
Five Year Plans
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Reagan is known for this during his first term; a plan for building a system of lasers to destroy missiles
START I
Strategic Defense Initiative
SALT I
Military Industrial funding
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Nixon was known for this- his deliberate reduction of Cold War tensions
SALT I and II
Detente
Vietnamization
the First Thaw in the Cold War
28
This book by Betty Friedan moved the feminist movement forward and promoted women to strive for a Equal Rights Amendment
"Jane Crow and the Law"
"The Feminine Mystique"
"The Bell Jar"
"The Other America"
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The environmental movement moved forward with the creation of this book by Rachel Carson
"Ring of Bright Water"
"Silent Spring"
"The Other America"
"Unsafe at Any Speed"
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The Burger Court was known for being more conservative than the Warren Court; remembered for this court case
Miranda v. Arizona
Escobedo v. Illinois
Regents of California v. Bakke
Roe v. Wade
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Jimmy Carter was known for this foreign policy:
Detente
Massive Retaliation
Flexible response
Human Rights diplomacy
32
What was most influential in the Election of 1960 between Kennedy and Nixon?
Radio
Conservatism
Religion
Televised debates
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Nixon was remembered for all of the following with his Domestic policy EXCEPT
New Republicanism
Attempting to deal with stagflation
Southern Strategy
New Federalism
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This idea involved selling weapons to Iran and using the funds to aid the Contras in Nicaragua
Iran-Contra Affair
War on Terror
Persian Gulf War
Iran Hostage Crisis
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Nixon campaigned on this, the slow withdrawal of troops from Vietnam while bombing Laos and Cambodia
Escalation
Detente
Vietnamization
Selective Service