APUSH Ch. 35-41
The "boat people" were
A. A second wave of Vietnamese people who sought to escape Vietnam's oppressive communist regime for freedom; A
The first wave of feminism grew out of the ____ movement, and the second wave of feminism grew out of the ____ movement
A. Abolitionist; Civil Rights; A
The new militancy and restlessness among many members of the African American community after 1945 was especially generated by
A. Blacks' increasing awareness during and after the war of the gap between American democratic ideals and racial practices; A
John F. Kennedy's strategy of flexible response
A. Called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis; A
In the 1992 national elections, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton
A. Campaigned as a new Democrat who proposed to move away from his party's traditional liberalism; A
President Carter's malaise speech was notable for
A. Chiding Americans for falling into a moral and spiritual crisis in their quest to acquire material goods; A
For the Soviet Union's new policies of Glasnost (openness) and Perestroika (restructuring) to work, it was essential that the
A. Cold War end; A
The "Tea Party" that emerged in the summer of 2009 was
A. Comprised of people claiming to be angry about expanding government programs, influence and spending; A
With the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A. Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam; A
In response to the collapse of the Soviet Union, President George Bush called for a "new world order" where
A. Democracy would reign supreme and diplomacy would replace weaponry; A
Some advocates of Black Power, recollecting the black nationalist movement of the Marcus Garvey, made the movement the basis for
A. Emphasizing African American distinctiveness and separatism; A
The New Right movement that helped to elect Ronald Reagan was spearheaded by
A. Evangelical Christians; A
President Truman's domestic legislative plan was dubbed the
A. Fair Deal A
The Supreme Court's Miranda and Escobedo decisions came under sharp attack from many conservatives because they
A. Guaranteed the rights of criminal suspects against mistreatment by the police; A
Richard Nixon tried to resist giving his taped conversations to the special prosecutor and the Congress by claiming that
A. He had executive privilege (confidentiality) A
The result of the Persian Gulf War was that
A. Kuwait was liberated but Saddam Hussein stayed in power; A
The most humiliating failure during the Iran hostage crisis came when
A. President Carter's attempted mission to rescue the hostages ended in disaster; A
Which of the following demonstrated the persistent racial divide in America during the 1990s?
A. The contrasting attitudes of whites and African Americans to the not guilty verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder case; B. America's segmented and separate residential patterns with minorities making up majorities within many American cities and whites dominating the suburbs; C. The outbreak of the Los Angeles riots following the acquittal of white police officers who had been videotaped viciously beating a black suspect; D. Massive partisan differences among black and white voters with African Americans and other minorities becoming more consequential parts of the Democratic base and whites gravitating increasingly to the Republicans; E. All of these choices are correct E
Members of the religious right
A. Used prayer meetings as a political organizing tool; B. Were also involved in the anti-abortion or "right-to-life" movement; C. Were an answer to sixties radicalism; D. Were opposed to affirmative action; E All of these choices are correct E
Children of the baby boom
A. became the foundation of the youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s; B. comprised a lucrative market for prepared baby food and other infant products; C. did not have access to the disposable income to spend substantial money on consumer goods such as clothes and music; D. grew into teenagers who spend $20 billion a year on clothes and music; E. All of these choices are correct E
President Nixon's policy of Vietnamization of the war in Vietnam called for
B. A gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese B
When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered
B. A naval quarantine of that island; B
Swedish writer Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma essentially argued that
B. America's racial segregation was a hypocritical contradiction of its democratic ideals B
As a result of U.S. support for Israel in 1973, when Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria
B. Arab nations placed an embargo on oil to America; B
One of the key U.S. government interventions to address the economic fallout of the recession of 2008 was
B. Creating a Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) to give hundreds of millions of dollars to buy toxic assets and inject cash into the nation's biggest banks and corporations; B
In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court
B. Declared that the concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional; B
In general, the effects of the electronic new media in the early twentieth century were
B. Democratizing for ordinary citizens; B
Ronald Reagan's supply side economic advisers assured him that the combination of budgetary discipline and tax reduction would do all of the following except
B. Deplete overall tax revenues for the federal government; B
Ronald Reagan's essential domestic goal as president was to
B. Dismantle the welfare state and shrink the size of the federal government; B
The top-secret Pentagon Papers, leaked and published in 1971
B. Exposed the blunders and deceptions of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in pursuing American involvement in the Vietnam War; B
The Branch Davidians were a(n)
B. Fundamentalist sect assaulted by the federal government; B
One of President Obama's greatest disappointments in domestic policy during his second term has been
B. His failure to persuade Congress to enact comprehensive immigration reform that would provide undocumented immigrants with a pathway to citizenship; B
To President George W. Bush, "the axis of evil" that menaced American security consisted of the nations of
B. Iran, Iraq, and North Korea; B
The first major trouble to afflict President Carter's foreign policy was the
B. Ominous reheating of the Cold War with the Soviet Union; B
The Americans With Disabilities Act
B. Prohibited discrimination against 43 million citizens facing mental or physical challenges; B
As the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu was about to fall to Ho Chi Minh's communist forces in 1954, President Eisenhower
B. Refused to permit any American military involvement; BD
The money used to provide Social Security payments to retirees comes from
B. Social Security taxes paid by current workers; B
The Freedom Riders
B. Sought to end segregation in facilities serving interstate bus passengers; B
Much of the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s rested on the underpinnings of
B. colossal military budgets; B
The NSC-68 document reflected the American belief
B. in the limitless capabilities of the American economy and society to support a giant rearmament program to expand the American military; B
The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), passed by Congress in 1972 and eventually ratified by 35 states, stated the following
C. "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on the basis of sex."; C
President Clinton's primary political legacy was that he
C. Consolidated the Reagan-Bush revolution by encouraging reduced expectations of government; C
The new cabinet-level agency charged with protecting America against foreign terrorist attacks was the
C. Department of Homeland Security; C
In the beginning of the Clinton administration, First Lady Hillary Clinton was heavily criticized for
C. Developing an excessively complex health care plan that was quickly dropped by Congress C
President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the
C. Great Society; C
George W. Bush defeated John Kerry in the election of 2004 especially by claiming that
C. He was a strong leader in the war on terrorism and it would be inadvisable to change presidents in the middle of the war in Iraq C
The guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy was
C. Human Rights; C
The Eisenhower-promoted public works project that was far larger and more expensive than anything in Roosevelt's New Deal was the
C. Interstate highway system; C
The health care reform law passed in March 2010 popularly known as "Obamacare" included the following provisions except it
C. Mandated all Americans to purchase health insurance starting in 2014; C
The most populous group of Latinos in the United States comes from
C. Mexico; C
The Latino immigrant population maintained their language and culture better than most previous immigrant groups because
C. Of their large numbers and geographic concentration; C
American membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization did all of the following for the country except
C. Reduce our defense expenditures, since we would get help from other countries C
The difference between Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action programs and those of Richard Nixon was
C. That Johnson intended to help individuals against discrimination in employment and education, but Nixon conferred employment and educational privileges on specific groups C
When the North Vietnamese launched a full-scale invasion of South Vietnam in 1975
C. The South Vietnamese government quickly collapsed; C
The Bay of Pigs invasion failed when
C. The anti- Castro exiles were defeated by the Cuban military; C
In response to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957
C. The federal government began spending billions of dollars to improve American science, math, and foreign language education through the National Defense Education Act (NDEA); C
The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the
C. Twenty-Fourth Amendment; C
Richard Nixon's policy of détente
C. Ushered in an era of relaxed tensions between the United States and the two leading communist powers, China and the Soviet Union; C
Congressman Gerald Ford had become vice president of the United States when
D Spiro Agnew resigned on corruption charges and Nixon appointed Ford under the Twenty-Fifth Amendment; D
President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur from command of United Nations troops in Korea when
D. MacArthur's open insubordination and criticism of Truman's orders on military policy in Korea prompted his firing by the president; D
One of the greatest consequences of Reagan's expansion of the federal debt was to
D. Make new social spending practically and politically impossible; D
When the Soviet Union denied the United States, Britain, and France access to Berlin in 1948, President Truman responded by
D. Organizing a gigantic airlift of supplies to Berlin; E. Sending an armed convoy to Berlin D
In the cases of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court
D. Permitted states to put some restrictions on abortion, while fundamentally upholding the abortion rights decision of Roe v. Wade; D
The United States joined its allies in the Persian Gulf War in order to
D. Roll back Iraq's invasion of Kuwait; D
President Clinton aroused the hostility of liberals within his own party when he
D. Signed the Welfare Reform Bill; D
The fundamental idea of the containment doctrine, embraced by President Truman, was
D. Soviet communist expansion in regions of the world should be blocked by firm political, economic, military, and diplomatic defense of free peoples and nations by America; D
Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States pledged
D. Support those who were resisting subjugation by communists; D
During the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous "I Have A Dream Speech," in which he proclaimed
D. That his children would one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin; D
Which of the following were not among the key decisions made by Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at the Yalta Conference?
D. The Soviets and Americans would militarily withdraw from Europe after a peace treaty was signed; D
The ____ Amendment ____ the voting age to ____.
D. Twenty-Sixth; lowered; eighteen; D
The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional because they
D. Violated a woman's constitutional right to privacy in her own person; D
The Iran-Contra Affair essentially involved
D. selling arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and using the profits to illegally fund the Nicaraguan Contras; D
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter enjoyed considerable popularity when he won the presidency because
E. His emphasis on honesty contrasted with the corruption of Watergate E
The two articles of impeachment passed by the House of Representatives against President Clinton charged him with
E. Perjury and obstruction of justice E
Which of the following was not among the areas where President Clinton's foreign policy stumbled in the first years of his presidency?
E. Relations with America's European allies in NATO E
The 1973 War Powers Act
E. Required presidential reporting and congressional approval of extended troop commitments E
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except
E. Requiring affirmative action against discrimination E
After the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the chief goal of the black civil rights movement in the South became to
E. Secure the right to vote E
Since 1945, population in the United States has grown most rapidly in the
E. Sunbelt E
To President Reagan, "the focus of evil in the modern world" was
E. The Soviet Union E
The razor-thin 2000 presidential election was finally settled by
E. The Supreme Court's ruling ending a recount of Florida's votes and declaring George W. Bush the winner of Florida's electoral votes and, thus, giving an Electoral College majority to George W. Bush E
The Paris summit conference, scheduled for 1960, collapsed because of the
E. U-2 incident E
President Carter believed that the fundamental problem of the American economy in the late 1970s was.
E. U.S. dependence on foreign oil E
At the time of his death, President John Kennedy's civil rights bill
E. Was still bogged down in Congress E
The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy
E. Was the Tet offensive of 1968 E
Which of these is NOT among the challenges facing America and Americans in the twenty-first century?
E. Women increasingly surpassing men in the workforce E
President Truman's Marshall Plan called for
E. substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe E
