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In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the dangers of

"the military-industrial complex."

In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas required

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Between 1945-1959, the United States policy in the Middle East saw the

CIA engineer a coup that brought the Shah of Iran to power.

In the 1960s, the United Farm Workers was founded and led by ________.

Cesar Chavez

In the early 1970s, the CIA played a major role in destabilizing a leftist government in

Chile.

In the late 1980s, challenges to communist rule were the least successful in

China.

Both Medicare and Medicaid were enacted during the Kennedy administration.

False.

The number of women working outside the home declined between 1945 and 1960.

False.

Until the early 1950s, the country the United States assisted in trying to control Vietnam was

France.

In 1960 John Kennedy called his domestic reform agenda the New ________.

Frontier.

The South Vietnam government in Saigon finally collapsed during the presidency of

Gerald Ford.

In 1954, the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to help overthrow the government of

Guatemala.

The Warren Commission investigation of the assassination of President John Kennedy concluded

Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of Kennedy.

In 1965, the first major race riot in the United States since World War II took place in

Los Angeles.

In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because

MacArthur publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea.

In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in

Poland.

The first female Supreme Court justice was ________.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Joseph McCarthy burst to national prominence by charging that there were known communists in the

State Department.

Economic growth was at its peak in the early 1950s when military spending was at its highest.

True.

In the 1960s, the percentage of Americans living in poverty was nearly cut in half.

True.

Rising prosperity in the 1950s was accompanied with restlessness among American youth.

True.

The Supreme Court set no specific timetable for the desegregation of schools.

True.

The 1962 Cuban missile crisis saw the

United States order a naval and air blockade of Cuba.

In the early 1960s, the Free Speech Movement came into being at the ________ to help secure the political rights of students.

University of California at Berkeley

The most significant and costly initiative of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved

a federal highway system.

President Richard Nixon's proposed Family Assistance Plan included

a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.

The "supply-side" economic theory embraced by President Ronald Reagan called for

a reduction of personal and corporate taxes.

In 1988, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signaled his desire to change past policies by

agreeing to a significant nuclear arms reduction treaty.

In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by

airlifting supplies to West Berlin.

The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was in response to

alleged attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on American destroyers.

In 1970, "Earth Day" was

an example of the popularization of environmentalism.

In 1947, the Truman administration responded to Republican attacks that it was weak on communism by

beginning an investigation into the loyalty of federal employees.

In 1950, the Truman administration responded to the onset of fighting in Korea by

calling on the United Nations to intervene.

In the early 1960s, the primary membership of SNCC was

college students

Great Society reforms

contributed to the greatest reduction in poverty in American history.

The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur was

criticism of President Truman.

In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.

The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful.

The Eisenhower administration responded to Fidel Castro's coming to power in Cuba by

ending diplomatic relations.

As president, Jimmy Carter gave much of his attention to

energy and the economy.

During the 1950s, the United States government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was

for the long-range delivery of weapons.

In 1961, the "freedom rides" sponsored by CORE attempted to

force the desegregation of bus stations.

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944

gave housing and education subsidies to veterans.

During the 1950s, television networks

generally sought to convey an idealized image of America.

The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s was encouraged by the Soviet policy of

glasnost and perestroika.

The intent of President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy was to

have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter appealed to voters by emphasizing

his personal honesty his lack of experience in federal government. his religious piety. both his personal honesty and his religious piety.

As president, Jimmy Carter called for a foreign policy that stressed the importance of

human rights.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon responded to mounting economic problems by

imposing a freeze on all wages and prices.

In 1979, the United States responded to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan by

imposing economic sanctions on the Soviet Union.

The Environmental Protection Agency was created

in 1970 by Richard Nixon.

After the Gulf War, President George Bush's high popularity quickly faded because of his

inability to contain a worsening recession.

The Johnson administration's Office of Economic Opportunity

included a controversial community action program.

In the 1980s, record national budget deficits resulted from

increased military spending. increased entitlement spending on programs such as Social Security. increased health care costs. large tax cuts.

The Gulf War of 1991 had its origins in an Iraqi decision to

invade Kuwait.

The Reagan Doctrine of opposing communism

led the United States to intervene in several Latin American nations.

By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had

little popular support.

During the 1950s, the general economic conditions of the United States included

low employment.

In February 1960, the first "sit-in" demonstration protesting segregation was held at a

lunch counter.

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956

marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest.

In 1950, the immediate cause of the Korean War was the

military invasion by North Korea into South Korea.

In 1972, the Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the

offices of the Democratic National Committee.

Throughout the late 1960s,

opposition in the United States to the Vietnam War intensified.

In 1954, the American scientist Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for the prevention of

polio.

Only weeks after taking office, President Lyndon Johnson declared a "war" on

poverty.

In the 1960s, the youth counterculture

presented a fundamental challenge to American middle-class society.

Students for a Democratic Society was formed

primarily by white college students.

The Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

required authorities to inform a criminal suspect of his or her legal rights.

In 1974, Richard Nixon left the presidency after he

resigned.

"Stagflation" refers to

rising prices and a weak economy.

In the civil rights movement, the spirit of "massive resistance" is associated with

southern whites.

The assassin of Robert Kennedy had been angered by Kennedy's

statements in favor of Israel.

As president, Ronald Reagan

succeeded in making his personality a central feature of his presidency.

The election of 1952 saw

television play a significant role in the campaign.

The National Security Act of 1947 created

the National Security Council the Central Intelligence Agency the Department of Defense

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter supported treaties in which the United States gave up control of

the Panama Canal.

In the early 1980s, the country President Ronald Reagan described as an "evil empire" was

the Soviet Union.

In 1961, President John Kennedy believed the major struggle against communism in the future would be waged in

the Third World.

In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia saw

the Truman administration encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan.

The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated

the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world.

In 1979, Iranians who took American hostages demanded, in return for their release,

the United States' return of the shah of Iran.

Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.

In 1992, Bill Clinton's presidential campaign focused on

the condition of the economy.

In 1948, the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to

the creation of a unified West Germany.

President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for

the creation of national health insurance.

In April 1970, the antiwar movement was recharged by

the invasion by the United States of Cambodia.

The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose called for

the preservation of Indian heritage.

In 1974, former President Richard Nixon was pardoned by

the president.

President Gerald Ford's foreign policy actions included

the signing of an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union.

Under the terms of the 1954 Geneva Conference accords, Vietnam was

to hold elections in 1956.

In 1954, under John Foster Dulles's concept of "massive retaliation," the United States would

use nuclear weapons against communist aggression.

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 primarily focused on the issue of

voting rights.

Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech

was given during the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history to that point.

Between 1947-1950, Marshall Plan aid

was offered to the Soviet Union.

The Equal Pay Act

was passed by Congress in 1963.

After World War II, in Korea, the government of Syngman Rhee

was pro-Western.

In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson's Medicare program

was similar in design to the Social Security system.

In 1963, the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem

was supported by the Kennedy administration.

In 1983, the Reagan administration responded to a terrorist bombing in Beirut of American marine barracks by

withdrawing the remaining marines.


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