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US History Spring Final Review
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1
Who agreed to allow for free elections in Poland at the Yalta Conference?
Winston Churchill
Vladamir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
FDR
2
The time period after WWII that is marked by high tension and nuclear threat is known as?
Cold War
Vietnam War
War on Drugs
Korean War
3
What was the series of major Vietcong attacks throughout South Vietnam during 1968 called?
Desert Storm
Vietnamization
Operation Rolling Thunder
Tet Offensive
4
Which supreme court struck down laws that banned abortions?
Marbury vs Madison
Miranda vs Arizona
Roe V Wade
Gideon vs Florida
5
What did the 24th amendment do?
Made poll taxes illegal
Allowed African Americans to Vote
Made poll taxes legal
Lowered the voting age to 18
6
What program was created to help veterans with attending college, job training, and loans?
GI Bill
Veterans Bill
Roosevelt Plan
VetAid
7
Which group of individuals were most likely to protest the Vietnam War?
Women's organizations
WWII Vets
the LGBT community
College Students
8
The 13 billion dollar project to rebuild Western Europe from 1948 to 1951 was known as:
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Ford-Nixon Initiative
Eisenhower Plan
9
Which president reestablished the US relationship with China in 1972?
Nixon
Carter
Johnson
Ford
10
Who is the world's greatest Super Hero?
Mr. Rogers
Mr. Autrey
Will Smith
Mr. Jones
11
President Johnson created the Warren Commission to investigate what event?
JFK Assassination
Kennedy - Monroe affair
Area 51 discovery
Soviet union landing on the moon
12
Winston Churchill called the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe by what name?
Iron Curtain
Steel Curtain
Soviet Curtain
Western Russia
13
What did the 26th amendment do?
Appealed the 18th Amendment
Lowered the Voting Age from 21-18
Provided women's suffrage
Lowered the Drinking age from 21-18
14
The Soviet test of A. Bomb and Communist revolution led to which act?
Smith
Roosevelt
Johnson
Nixon
15
In which country did Operation Desert Storm take place?
Afghanistan
Kuwait
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
16
Who gave the famous "I have a Dream Speech?"
Robert Kennedy
MLK
Jesse Owens
Rosa Parks
17
Who broke the color barrier in baseball in 1947?
Reggie Jackson
Larry Doby
Willie Mays
Jackie Robinson
18
In which city was there a terrorist attack that left 241 US Marines dead in 1983?
Baghdad, Iraq
Beirut, Lebanon
Cape Town, South Africa
Cairo, Egypt
19
Which Wisconsin Senator was made famous for his outrageous accusations about Communists?
Harry Belafonte
Joseph McCarthy
Charlie Wilson
Rory McIlroy
20
Which orginization was created 1945 to help prevent further wars?
NATO
League of Nations
New World Order
United Nations
21
The two decades following WWII are marked by high birthrates, what is this known as?
Generation gap
Baby Boom
Population Boom
Sexual Revolution
22
Which president had two articles of impeachment brought against him in 1998?
Richard Nixon
GW Bush
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
23
What famous event happened in Europe on November 9, 1989?
Chernobyl nuclear plant
fall of the Soviet Union
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Paris terrorist attacks
24
Which 50s president warned of the "military-industrial complex."
John F. Kennedy
Harry Truman
Lyndon Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
25
In October 1962, the US and Soviet Union nearly went to war during which event in Cuba?
Suez Crisis
JFK Assassination
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
26
What was Gerald Ford's most famous act as president?
giving the Canal back to Panama
Taking troops out of South Vietnam
Pardoning Nixon
Sending troops back to South Vietnam
27
What was the name of the flight that first landed on the moon?
Apollo 11
Titan 1
Apollo 13
Apollo 17
28
Who won the popular vote of the 2000 presidential election?
John Kerry
GH Bush
Al Gore
Bill Clinton
29
What did Brown vs Board of Education declare was illegal?
School prayer
Same sex marriage
Desegregating schools
Separate but equal
30
Who won the 1988 Presidential Election, becoming the first sitting VP to do so in a century?
GW Bush
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
GHW Bush
31
Which terrorist group carried out the attacks of September 11, 2001
al Qaeda
ISIS
Taliban
ISOL
32
In 1989 several dozen Americans were taken hostage at the American embassy in which country?
Afghanistan
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
33
Programs that give preferences to minorities and women in hiring and admissions is called?
Equal Opportunity
Equal Action
Equal Rights
Affirmative Action
34
Who was president when the NSC secretly diverted money to support Nicaraguan rebels?
Reagan
Eisenhower
Ford
Nixon
35
In which year did the Soviet Union officially collapse?
1989
1972
1994
1991
36
Johnson wanted to fight poverty, clean the environment and civil rights with what program?
Great Society
Fair Deal
New Frontier
New Deal
37
What event caused Richard Nixon to resign the presidency?
Watergate Scandal
Vietnam War
Monica Lewinsky
Assassination of MLK
38
The United States created NASA in 1957 in response to which act?
Iran - Contra Conflict
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nuclear Bomb Tests
Sputnik Launch
39
Which type of protests did Civil Rights leaders advocate for in the 1960s?
Equal Rights
Equal Opportunity
Violent
Nonviolent
40
Which program was designed to help end the spread of communism across the globe?
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Eisenhower Doctrine
Roosevelt Doctrine
41
Who led the nation into the Digital Age
Mark Zuckerberg
Al Gore
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
42
Which event showed Americans that the nation was becoming increasingly dependent on foreign oil
Arab Oil Embargo
The Suez Crisis
The Gulf War
Desert Storm
43
Which Eastern Asian Conflict did the US enter in 1950, to prevent the spread of communism?
Vietnam War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Bay of Pigs Invasion
44
What were the goals of the New Right, an ultra conservative effort in the 1970s?
Smaller Government, teaching creationism, illegal abortions
Larger Government, weaker military, teaching evolution
Nuclear Disarmament, Gun Control, legalizing abortion
Larger Government, Higher Taxes, Legalizing Abortion
45
What was an example of containment?
Aid to Canada and Mexico -> Korean War -> Berlin Crisis
Aid to Greece and Turkey -> Korean War -> Berlin Crisis
Aid to Greece and Turkey -> Berlin Crisis -> Korean War
Korean War -> Aid to Greece ->Berlin Crisis -> Economic Aid
46
At which University were protestors fired upon by federal troops in 1970?
UCLA
University of Florida
Kent State
UC Berkeley
47
What country were the two bombers of the OKC bombing from?
USA
Afghanistan
Mexico
Iraq
48
Which Republican from California dominated the politics of the 1980s?
Arnold Scwharzaneger
Ronald Reagan
GW Bush
GHW Bush
49
The US feared a communist take-over of South Vietnam because of a fear known as what?
Two China Policy
The Saigon Effect
The Domino Effect
Ho Chi Minh Factor
50
Which disease discovered in 1981, is caused by human immunodeficiency virus?
H1N1
Bird Flu
AIDS
Cancer
51
The theory of giving tax cuts and business incentives from the top-down is known as?
the Reagan Rule
the Stockman Doctrine
Supply-side ecomomics
Reaganomics
52
What is NAFTA an acronym for?
North American Free Trade Agreement
North American Forced Treaty Association
North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement
North American Free Trade Association
53
Which two Civil Rights icons began their career with the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson
Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson
Rosa Parks & Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy
54
Which failed attempt at a coup of the Fidel Castro was an embarrassment for Kennedy?
Vietnam War
Bay of Pigs Invasion
JFK Assassination
Cuban Missile Crisis
55
What was the effect of the Soviet Union detonating an atomic bomb and Chinese the revolution?
A new level of fear of Communism in the US
Nuclear holocaust occurring
A positive relationship between the USSR and the US
The domino theory being put into practice