Final multiple choice
What was the April 1961 CIA-led invasion of Cuba to topple Fidel Castro that proved to be a total failure when, of the invading force of 1,400, most were captured and more than 100 killed?
Bay of pigs
The student free-speech movement was led by _______ in response to the university of California at Berkeley chancellors ban on campus political demonstrations.
Mario savio
Which of the following contributed to the state of the economy in the United States after World War II?
Massive construction of U.S. highways and airports
The limits of wartime tolerance were tested in 1943 Los Angeles with the
Zoo suit riots
As a result of his________, president carter began to lose the public's confidence.
"Crisis of confidence" speech to the American public
During World War II, more than a half million ______ left the south because of better job opportunities in other parts of the United States, especially the west.
African Americans
What did Executive Order 9066 do?
After hysteria in America after the attack on Pearl Harbor, it allowed for the forced relocation of Japanese Americans on the west coast to internment camps.
What was the result of the Battle of Britain in 1940?
Although German air strikes killed tens of thousands of British civilians, the Royal Air Force used new radar technology to win the battle.
What did Winston Churchill compare the boundary between Soviet-occupier Eastern Europe and Western Europe to?
An iron curtain
Which of the following helped the sexual revolution grow during the 1960s?
Approval of the birth control pill by the FDA
The Anschluss refers to when Germany took over
Austria
A controversial new group of young artists; writers, and poets emerged in the 1950s that rejected traditional middle-class values and materialism. I get were they known as?
Beats
In the case _______, the Supreme Court ruled the concept of "separate but equal" unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of education
When the United Nations forced drew too close to the North Korean northern border, which nation attacked them and forced a retreat?
China
What was the name of the policy proposed by George F. Kennan to combat the growing soviet threat after World War II?
Containment
During Reagan's administration, the ______ department was given a "blank check" to purchase whatever they needed.
Defense
The watergate scandal involved a break-in at the
Democratic national committee headquarters
When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, the United States and forces from more than thirty other nations retaliated with operation
Desert Storm.
President Nixon embraced a policy of _______ with communist nations rather than continued confrontation.
Détente
What was the outcome of the camp David accords?
Egypt officially recognized the existence of Israel.
In 1957, nine African American students attended central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas for the first time. Which of the following statements accurately describes the actions taken by Eisenhower?
Eisenhower reluctantly dispatched federal troops there to maintain law and order; angering many southern politicians.
What finding did the Supreme Court cite in its ruling of brown v. Education of topeka, Kansas?
Even if segregated schools were equal in quality, the very practice of segregating schools caused feelings of inferiority among black students.
Which of the following statements accurately describes the state of gay rights in the 1960s and 1970s?
Every major city came to have a visible gay community, and hundreds of gay organizations were formed.
By the end of the 1970s, the civil rights and sexual revolutions produced resentments that promoted the Democratic coalition.
False
The native Americans who were famously called "code talkers" during World War II were from the Cherokee tribe.
False
Which form of government, the opposite of democracy, involves a dictator who controls all aspects of the nation's life?
Fascism
Which of the following statements is true?
For every American killed in World War II, the Russians lost fifty-nine.
In 1939, Roosevelt had congress modify the neutrality acts to allow
France and England to send their ships to get America goods.
Heading to the Second World War, ______ and _____ embraces fascism.
Germany; Italy
On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Where is Pearl Harbor?
Hawaii
What decision did Roosevelt make in September 1940 that even Eleanor Roosevelt disagreed with?
He called for peacetime conscription.
Why did both Republicans and Democrats recruit Dwight Eisenhower to run for president in 1952?
He had displayed great organizational and diplomatic abilities, especially in World War II.
Which of the following statements about Truman's legacy as president is accurate?
He helped open the way for what Dwight D. Eisenhower would eventually call the military-industrial complex, in part through the creation of new government agencies.
Which of the following was an early success of the Carter administration?
He reduced the White House staff by a third.
Check all that apply. Which was a goal or action of Adolf Hitler's?
He violated the Versailles treaty and perused the German rearmament. He sought to control the entire house European continent. He sent troops to occupy the Rhineland.
Which of the following was deemed one of president carter's limitations?
He was a micromanager.
Which of the following was characteristic of the 1952 democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson?
He was brilliant but came across as too intellectual.
During the 1960s, ______ were characterized by long haired beards on men, no makeup for women, casual sex, and communal living arrangements.
Hippies
The first atomic bomb was dropped on
Hiroshima
Which of the following statements accurately describes you he state of hispanic rights in the 1960s?
Hispanic Americans' service in the military during World War II had helped to instill a clearer sense of American identity and to inspire them to pursue equality, for they still often experienced segregation, discrimination, and limited opportunities
In May 1947, charges that _______ was a "hotbed or communism" led to a congressional investigation.
Hollywood
Eisenhower's nickname was
Ike
In Reagan's second second term, his relationship with soviet premier Mikhala Gorbachev
Improved slightly, but Reagan maintainer his comments about the Soviet Union as an "evil empire".
Why was the attack on Pearl Harbor significant?
It was a surprise attack that immediately caused the United States to enter the war and brought the isolationist movement to an abrupt end.
In Ford's "Whip inflation now" campaign,
Inflation fell but joblessness continued to rise.
Which of the following was an effect of the watergate scandal?
It suggested the lesson that not even a president is above the law, even though Nixon did avoid jail time.
Why was the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty (1987) significant?
It was the first time that United States and soviet leaders agreed to destroy a whole class of weapons systems.
Who was the U.S. senator who made reckless charges and groundless accusations of the extent of communist activity in America durning the early 1950s?
Joseph McCarthy
Who was arrested, tried, and executed for participating in a soviet spy ring in the United States?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
In indochina, the league for independence of Vietnam was led by
Mao tse-tung
Which of the following occurred under the bracero program in 1942?
Mexico agreed to send seasonal farmworkers to the United States on yearlong contracts.
A major breakthrough in the computing industry in the early 1970s was the invention of the _______, which involved an electric circuit printed on a tiny silicon chip.
Microprocessor
Founded in the 1960s, _________ worked to promote the advancement of women in American society.
NOW
According to the textbook, the biggest problem facing George H.W. Bush when he became president was the
National debt
Why did anti-war protests increase across America in the fall of 1969?
Nixon's expansion of the air war
President Reagan planned on beating the Russians in the Cold War by
Overwhelming them both financially and militarily
A major initiative of the Carter administration was the
Panama Canal Treaty
The United States' officials involvement in Vietnam came to an end with the
Paris peace accords
Which of the following were central purposes of president Johnson's great society program?
Providing food for the needy Enhancing the access of poor people to a good education Ending poverty in America
In 1973, the landmark Supreme court case _______ struck down state laws forbidding abortion.
Roe v. Wade
On December 1, 1955 _______, an African American seamstress, refused to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus.
Rosa parks
During the Korean War, who supplied communist North Korea with war material?
Soviet union
President Reagan appointed _________ as the first female justice of the Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O'Connor
President reagan's anti-missile defense system involved laser-equipped
Satellites
As a result of this 1971 Supreme Court case, judges throughout the country ordered the use of busing as a tool to achieve schoolcintegrwtion
Swann v. Charlotte-mecklenburg board of education
The first Supreme Court Case to tackle the separate but equal standard in the twentieth century was
Sweatt v. Painter
For eleven months, _____ provided food and supplies to the people of West Berlin while it was blockaded by soviet forces.
The Berlin airlift
What was the name of the financial and technical assistance package provided to war-ravaged Europe after World War II?
The Marshall plan
Which were part of president Johnson's 1965-1967 "great society"?
The establishment of the equal employment opportunity commission Medicare and Medicaid Funds poured into urban development and education
What nations controlled portions of a divided German after World War II?
The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
To assist Great Britain and their need for supplies, Roosevelt secured an agreement to give Great Britain a number of old U.S. warships in exchange for
The ability to build military bases on British island colonies in the Caribbean
What was the title of the 1963 book by Betty Friedman that took as it's theme the emptiness of consumer culture, and painted the suburban home as a "comfortable concentration camp" for women?
The feminine mystique
What happened as part of the Iran-contra affair?
The selling of arms to Iran in the hope that Iran would help free U.S. hostages held in Lebanon.
What event heightened Cold War tensions in 1949?
The soviets detonated a nuclear bomb.
Which of the following occurred immediately after World War II in the United States?
There was a mild economic recession and then a booming economy.
What was the significance of the "Nixon tapes" in the watergate scandal?
They confirmed Nixon's active role in the cover-up and suggested that certain segments had been erased.
At the 1968 miss America beauty pageant, the media fame to derisively label radial feminists as "bra burners," but no bras were actually burned at the event
True
Cesar Chavez founded the _______, a union for Mexican American migrant farm workers.
United farm workers
Only months after the United States' was withdrawal from Vietnam,
War between north and south Vietnam resumed.
The end of Richard Nixon's presidency came when he
Was the first president to resign from office.
When World War II ended, most female workers, especially those in better-paying industrial imployment
Were laid off.
Which of the following statements accurately describes the state or Native American rights in the 1960s?
With very high unemployment rates, the situation of the native Americans was more desperate than that if any other group in the United States.
Stagflation refers to
stagnant economic growth and high inflation.
In the 1944 case of Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that
the internment of people of Japanese descent was not based on race.
