The purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to

Aid countries that were targets of communist expansion

Which statement is true about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

They were accused of espionage and electrocuted

"Jim Crow" Laws were laws that

Established segregated facilities

What did Dr. King advocate in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail?"

Immediate action in the struggle for civil rights

Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies during WWII?

Hitler violated the nonaggression pact

What was the immediate effect of Nixon's announcement to invade Cambodia?

Student protests at universities like Kent State

What was Truman's stated aims in dropping atomic bombs on Japan during WWII?

To end the war quickly and save lives

The Domino Theory states that

If one nation falls to communism, nearby countries will fall

FDR's victory in the 1932 election demonstrated that

People did not like Hoover's response to the Depression

What was the law under Executive Order 9066?

Japanese-Americans on the west coast were interned

Which of the following is considered an effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1968?

It outlawed restrictive covenants

Why did FDR ask Congress to increase the number of Supreme Court justices?

The court declared many New Deal programs unconstitutional

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1
Which of the following units was vital on the Pacific Front because of code encryption?
The Tuskegee Airmen
The WAAC's
The Navajo Code Talkers
The 442nd Combat Unit
2
Which of the following provides a reason for U.S. involvement in the Korean War?
Flexible Response
Containment
The Domino Theory
Brinkmanship
3
The purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to
Provide self-determination in Poland
Aid in the recovery of war torn Europe
Create a collective security alliance, NATO
Aid countries that were targets of communist expansion
4
Which of the following amendments guarantees equal protection under the law?
14th
19th
13th
15th
5
Which court case called into question affirmative action policies in college admissions?
Plessy v. Ferguson
UC Regents v. Bakke
Miranda v. Arizona
Roe v. Wade
6
Which statement is true about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
They were convicted of espionage and then pardoned
They were accused of giving atomic secrets to Germany
They were accused of espionage and electrocuted
They confessed to spying for the Soviet Union
7
"Jim Crow" Laws were laws that
Registered African Americans to vote in the South
Sent Native Americans to reservations
Prohibited African Americans from voting
Established segregated facilities
8
Law that allowed America to supply Allied countries with weapons without payment
The Neutrality Acts
Cash-and-carry
The Lend-Lease Act
The Wagner Act
9
Proposed law to create gender equality
Equal Rights Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
10
Which of the following served as a deterrent to African Americans voting in the South?
Poll Taxes
The KKK
Literacy Tests
All of the above
11
Discrepancy between presidential coverage and media coverage in Vietnam
Credibility Gap
Doves
Tet Offensive
Hawks
12
Founder and leader in the SCLC
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
Stokely Carmichael
Martin Luther King Jr.
13
What did Dr. King advocate in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail?"
Military exemption for African Americans in Vietnam
Civil disobedience as a means to achieving civil rights
Militancy in the movement for civil rights
Immediate action in the struggle for civil rights
14
Why did the Soviet Union join the Allies during WWII?
Hitler violated the nonaggression pact
Soviet fleets were bombed by the Japanese
The Soviet Union was an original member of the Allies
Hitler invaded Poland
15
Process of training the South Vietnamese Army to take over the war so America could withdraw
The Tet Offensive
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Vietnamization
Search and Destroy Missions
16
American president responsible for the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Eisenhower
LBJ
FDR
JFK
17
Proposed using "any means necessary" in the struggle for civil rights
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Rosa Parks
18
Which event led LBJ to escalating the war in Vietnam?
The Gulf of Tonkin incident
The Kent State protests
The Tet Offensive
The Mai Lai Massacre
19
Which of the following events turned a majority of public opinion against Vietnam?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Mai Lai Massacre
The Tet Offensive
The invasion of Cambodia
20
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did all of the following EXCEPT
Outlawed loitering outside polling places
Outlawed segregation
Outlawed poll taxes
Outlawed literacy tests
21
What was the immediate effect of Nixon's announcement to invade Cambodia?
Violence at the Democratic National Convention
The invasion of South Vietnam
Student protests at universities like Kent State
The withdrawal of American soldiers from Vietnam
22
Identify the legislation that proposed equal rights for women.
The 24th Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Equal Rights Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1968
23
The SEC and FDIC are part of which New Deal program
The NIRA
The Wagner Act
The Glass-Steagall Banking Act
The Social Security Act
24
Which of the following movements resulted in the desegregation of lunch counters?
Freedom Rides
Freedom Summer
The Sit-In Movement
The Selma Campaign
25
What was Truman's stated aims in dropping atomic bombs on Japan during WWII?
To punish Japan for Pearl Harbor
To intimidate the Soviet Union
To test the effectiveness of America's nuclear technology
To end the war quickly and save lives
26
Which battle was considered the turning point on the Pacific Front?
Guadalcanal
Midway
Iwo Jima and Okinawa
The Philippines
27
The Domino Theory states that
The U.S. must be willing to go to the edge of war
Communism must be contained
If one nation falls to communism, nearby countries will fall
The U.S. should engage all non-nuclear military
28
Which of the following Cold War policies represents a willingness to go to the edge of war?
Brinkmanship
Containment
Detente
The Domino Theory
29
Weekly radio addresses delivered by FDR
Pump Priming
Court Packing
Deficit Spending
Fireside chats
30
Law that prohibits poll taxes as a requirement to vote
24th Amendment
19th Amendment
Restrictive covenants
Civil Rights Act of 1968
31
Law passed by Congress in the late 1940's, despite a presidential veto (during red scare).
The Loyalty Review Board
McCarthyism
McCarran Act
HUAC
32
FDR's victory in the 1932 election demonstrated that
FDR's court packing scheme was a success
People did not like Hoover's response to the Depression
Americans agreed with the philosophy of rugged individualism
People liked and accepted the New Deal
33
Author of the Femine Mystique who believed that housewives were having an identity crisis
Phyllis Schlafly
Gloria Steinem
Betty Friedan
Lucille Ball
34
American president who reassured the people of Berlin after construction of the Berlin Wall
JFK
LBJ
Truman
Nixon
35
Which of the following provided exemption to white voters from poll taxes and literacy tests?
The Equal Rights Amendment
The 14th Amendment
Affirmative Action
The Grandfather Clause
36
During WWII, immigration from Mexico increased as demand for agricultural workers led to
Urban Renewal
The White Flight
The Bracero Program
The Termination Policy
37
Which of the following civil rights organization emerged due to discontent with nonviolence?
The SNCC
AIM
The Black Panthers
The SCLC
38
What occurred after Stalin placed a blockade around Berlin following Germany's reunification?
Construction of the Berlin Wall
The Marshall Plan
The Iron Curtain
The Berlin Airlift
39
Which of the following units was an elite African American air command?
The 442nd Combat Unit
The Tuskegee Airmen
The WAAC's
The Navajo Code Talkers
40
What was the law under Executive Order 9066?
All of the above
Japanese-Americans on the west coast were interned
Immigrants from any Axis country were interned
German-Americans were interned
41
Which of the following organizations promoted equal rights for women?
The Black Panthers
NOW
SNCC
UFWOC
42
First American president to follow a policy of containment
JFK
Nixon
Truman
LBJ
43
What was the immediate effect of the bombing on the Sixteenth Baptist Church in Birmingham?
Race riots and more deaths
Nonviolent protest
Civil disobedience
The 1963 March on Washington
44
New Deal program that sent unemployed women to camps
FERA
AAA
WPA
CCC
45
Huey Long's "Share the Weath" advocated a home and income to
Stock market investors
Every American
Farmers
Socialists and communists
46
Which of the following is considered an effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1968?
It outlawed restrictive covenants
It outlawed poll taxes
It outlawed the KKK
It outlawed segregation
47
What proposes that a nuclear first strike is futile because the enemy can retaliate in kind?
Flexible Response
Containment
MAD
Brinkmanship
48
How did the U.S. government seek to regulate the economy during WWII?
All of the above
By asking Americans to ration goods needed for the war
By issuing war bonds to finance the war
By outlawing strikes so that production would not stop
49
The refusal to obey a law that one considers morally wrong is known as
Civil Disobedience
Nullification
De jure segregation
De facto segregation
50
Law that eliminated housing discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Restrictive covenants
19th Amendment
24th Amendment
51
Why did FDR ask Congress to increase the number of Supreme Court justices?
The court declared many New Deal programs unconstitutional
Several justices had died and needed to be replaced
The court was overworked and needed assistance
More experienced justices were needed
52
Which of the following amendments outlawed slavery?
14th
19th
24th
13th
53
What did the Montgomery Bus Boycott demonstrate?
Nonviolent protest did not work
African Americans could withhold money to gain rights
Violence was needed to achieve civil rights
Political support was needed to achieve rights
54
Law that ordered the immediate integration of schools and outlawed all forms of segregation
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Equal Rights Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
55
New Deal program that employed young men in environmental jobs
NRA
WPA
CCC
FERA
56
Senator Jospeh McCarthy was known for-
Advocating brinkmanship during the Cold War
Recommending that America intervene in Vietnam
Leading "witch-hunts" to expose communists
Recommending that America intervene in Korea
57
Which of the following provides an example of appeasement?
Island-Hopping
The Nonaggression Pact
The invasion of Poland
The Munich Pact
58
Which of the following describes the population explosion following WWII?
Suburbanization
Immigration Act of 1965
The Baby Boom
The Great Society
59
What impact did Sputnik have on America?
Increased spending on history and english education
Increased spending in the arts
Increased spending on all educational programs
Increased spending on math and science education
60
American president that proposed a "Great Society" to address domestic poverty
FDR
LBJ
JFK
Eisenhower
61
Which of the following organization promoted equal rights for agricultural workers?
NOW
SCLC
AIM
UFWOC
62
What was the name of the project to develop a nuclear bomb?
Appeasement
The Munich Pact
Operation Overlord
The Manhattan Project
63
Which of the following amendment granted suffrage to all women?
14th
19th
24th
15th
64
Why was the AAA enacted during the Depression?
To stop agricultural overproduction to stabilize prices
Food prices were too high
Farmland was needed for residential development
To eliminate farmland for industrial expansion
65
President that escalated the war in Vietnam by bombing Cambodia and Laos
Nixon
JFK
Truman
LBJ
66
Which constitutional amendment was cited in Brown v. the Board of Education?
13th
14th
15th
24th
67
Which of the following court cases ruled that suspects must be read their rights by the police?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Roe v. Wade
Miranda v. Arizona
UC Regents v. Bakke
68
Many Republicans criticized the New Deal for
Going too far in its attempts to regulate the economy
Not doing enough to reform the economy
Failing to address the high unemployment rate
Trying to put an end to the unequal distribution of wealth
69
What conclusion did the Warren Commission reach about Kennedy's assassination?
Oswald had not acted alone
The Cubans assassinated the president
Oswald had acted alone
There was a CIA conspiracy
70
New Deal program that provided "old age" insurance (retirement)
Social Security
PWA
TVA
CWA
71
The attack of suicidal ______ was detrimental to the U.S. Navy
Atomic Bombs
Kamikazes
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
72
Which of the following amendments outlawed poll taxes as a requirement to vote?
24th
19th
15th
14th
73
America's longest serving president
Eisenhower
FDR
JFK
LBJ
74
LBJ's Great Society programs were primarily aimed at
Reducing environmental pollution
Combating communism abroad
Combating domestic poverty
Combating third world poverty
75
Which of the following amendments granted all men suffrage?
15th
13th
19th
14th
76
New Deal program that provided government construction jobs to "pump prime" the economy
CWA
PWA
TVA
Social Security
77
Why were peace talks between Eisenhower and Khrushchev derailed?
The U-2 Incident
The Berlin Airlift
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Cuban Missile Crisis
78
Which of the following court cases upheld a woman's right to have an abortion?
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. the Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Korematsu v. the United States
79
Protective villages that President Diem moved peasants into to protect them from the Vietcong
Vietminh
Hamlets
The Ho Chi Minh Trail
Search and Destroy missions
80
Identify the court case that legalized segregation as long as the facilities were "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
Roe v. Wade
Miranda v. Arizona
Brown v. the Board of Education
81
Law that eliminated poll taxes and literacy tests
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Rights Amendment
82
Advocated "Black Power"
Stokely Carmichael
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
83
Which of the following years is generally considered the worst of the Depression?
1929
1931
1930
1932
84
To express their discontent with mainstream America, a counterculture emerged in the 1950's
The Populists
The Beatniks
The Hollywood Ten
The Hippies
85
All of the following are considered causes of the Depression EXCEPT
Rugged Individualism
Agricultural Overproduction
An unequal distribution of wealth
The Stock Market Crash
86
The Bonus Army that marched on Washington DC demanded
Reinstatement of lost savings from banks
An early bonus pay for WWI veterans
Public works projects for the unemployed
An increase in military jobs for the unemployed
87
Which event had the biggest impact on America's decision to enter the war?
The Holocaust
The failure of appeasement
Germany's invasion of Poland
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
88
New Deal program that provided affordable electricity to seven states
Social Security
TVA
CWA
PWA
89
Which event represents the closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear war?
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Berlin Airlift
The Korean War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
90
Which of the following events highlighted racial tension in America following WWII?
The Longoria Incident
Executive Order 9066
The U-2 Incident
Truman's Fair Deal
91
Which decision upheld segregation as long as the facilities were "separate but equal?"
Brown v. the Board of Education
UC Regents v. Bakke
Plessy v. Ferguson
Dred Scott v. Sanford
92
Which of the following list of nations was part of the Warsaw Pact?
Hungary, Poland, and USSR
China, North Korean, and North Vietnam
The U.S., Canada, and Spain
Germany, France, and Britain
93
Program of assistance to war torn Western Europe following WWII
Creation of the UN
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
Containment
94
General fired by Truman during Korean War for advocating use of nuclear weapons.
General Eisenhower
General Patton
General MacArthur
General Rommel
95
How did Stalin propose reducing Germany's power at the Yalta Conference?
Germany was divided into four zones post-WWII
Germany had to give up all colonies
Germany had to pay war reparations
Germany had to reduce her military
96
Which of the following organizations promoted equal rights for Native Americans?
SCLC
NOW
UFWOC
AIM

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