History 152 after MT
How did racism influence the growth of the modern Republican Party?
Democrats took the lead in passing civil rights legislation, pushing many white Americans toward the Republican Party
How did Ronald Reagan win over the Religious Right?
Denouncing abortion and advocating prayer in schools
Who first advocated the policy of containment?
George Kennan
What did Lyndon Johnson call his domestic program?
Great society
Why was Douglas MacArthur removed from command?
He was publicly insubordinate to the Commander in Chief
What was the primary guiding principle of Carter's foreign policy during his early years in office?
Human rights
Which of the following did NOT result from American commitments to free trade?
Increased dominance of American exports
All of the following aspects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 are true EXCEPT:
Increased federal revenues
Which of the following took place in the 1990s, representing a new trend in immigration?
Increased immigration to the American South
The Great Recession began when
Increasingly risky mortgages were bundled & sold as investments
Britain and France declared war on Germany after which invasion?
Invasion of Poland
Which of the following instigated the First Gulf War, also known as Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm?
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
Neoconservative ideology included which of the following?
It believed Johnson's Great Society perpetuated poverty & racial segregation
Who coined the term "affluent society?"
John Kenneth Galbraith
All of the following distinguish millennials from earlier generations EXCEPT
Less likely to have traveled
The prototypical suburban neighborhood was _____.
Levittown
Which of the following best describes global economic trends in the early 1990s?
Liberalized economic laws and rising international investment
Joseph McCarthy first achieved national prominence in February 1950 by waving a piece of paper that he claimed included 205 communists currently working in what capacity?
Members of the department of state
In the mid-1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) experienced a transformation. This transformation included all of the following EXCEPT
Merging with the Black Panther Party
Which leader of the Soviet Union advocated the projects of glasnost and perestroika?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What is the name of the University of Chicago economist who helped to develop the intellectual position of libertarian economics
Milton Friedman
How did American liberals change their views of poverty during the 1960s?
More and more saw poverty from the failure of individuals to take full advantage of the American system
The sexual revolution resulted in which of the following?
More assertiveness on the part of gay rights advocates
In 2012, nearly _______ of all Americans were immigrants or the sons or daughters of immigrants.
One fourth
How did the United States respond to the independence movement in Vietnam?
Opposed Vietnamese independence and supported French attempts to retain its colonial control
Before turning to military expansionism, Japanese leaders were also considering which of the following strategies?
Pan-Asian Anti-Colonialism
Who was the leader of the movement to stop the Equal Rights Amendment?
Phyllis Schlafly
According to economists at JP Morgan Chase, what was the greatest factor in the unprecedented profit margins of the early 2000s?
Reductions in wages and benefits
Results of the crack-up of American "mass" culture included
Smaller, segmented subcultures
American minority groups in the 1960s
Sought political and economic power
Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin?
Soviet Union
Which of the following best characterized German military tactics?
Speed and maneuverability
What was the top tax rate during World War II?
94%
What was the message of NSC-68?
A call for a tripling of the annual defense budget for the purpose of stopping communism
How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?
All of these
Obamacare provided which of the following?
All of these
President Nixon's "Vietnamization" included
All of these
Robert Bork was denied an appointment to the Supreme Court because
All of these
The anti-war movement was spurred on by
All of these
The decline of labor in Detroit was due to
All of these
The origins of the Vietnam War lay in _____.
All of these
What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?
All of these
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
All of these
What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?
All of these
Which of the following are hallmarks of Donald Trump's immigration policy?
All of these
Which of the following enabled the rising purchase of consumer goods?
All of these
Why did President Clinton fail to secure universal healthcare?
All of these
Why was Emmett Till murdered?
Allegedly whistling at a white woman
What was the name of the 1950s counterculture that rejected the values of conformity and domesticity?
Beats
When was the Atlantic Charter issued?
Before the United States entered World War II
The 1968 Democratic National Convention included massive protests and violent reprisals by police. Where did this convention meet?
Chicago
The cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was which program?
Community action
Between 1948 and 1955 close to ____ of the nation's households purchased a television set.
Two-thirds
What happened at My Lai?
U.S. troops massacred hundreds of civilians
George H. W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis by doing all of the following EXCEPT
Updating New Deal programs for a new era
The presidential election of 1984 convinced the Democratic Party that its future lied with what group?
Upwardly mobile professionals and suburbanites
How did Jimmy Carter respond to the economic crises of the late 1970s?
Using approaches championed by conservatives including deregulation, spending cuts, and tax cuts
Causes of the crisis of 1968 included
Vietnam War
All of the following are true about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the ensuing resolution EXCEPT
Served as justification for the assassination of Ngo Diem
President Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 partially in response to what event in Selma, Alabama?
"Bloody Sunday," the beating of peaceful marchers by police officers
Approximately how many civilians were killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
180,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average-which stood at 950 in 1981-reached _______ by the end of Reagan's second term.
2,239
Approximately how many women served in the military during WWII?
350,000
Of the over 110,000 Japanese-descended Americans who were detained in internment camps, approximately how many were American citizens?
70,000
A thirty-seven year old white engineer, Bernard Goetz, shot and seriously wounded four black teenagers on a subway car because he suspected the young men-armed with screwdrivers- planned to rob him. What percentage of white New Yorkers sympathized with Goetz?
90%
Who first challenged segregation on buses?
Sarah Keys
The sexual revolution was characterized by
A de-coupling of sex from marriage & procreation
Occupy Wall St. & the Tea Party represented
A divide over responsibility for the 2007 crash and the role of government
What was the "Nixon Doctrine?"
A military policy of détente
All of the following led to the economic development of the Sun Belt EXCEPT
A resurgence in southern agriculture
All of the following occurred during the Clinton administration EXCEPT
Allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the military
What was the first military action taken by the United States against international communism?
American soldiers fought against the Red Army during the Russian civil war
How did the first freedom ride end?
Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped
The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when __________
Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) mimicked policy proposals buy all of the following politicians EXCEPT
Bill Clinton
The Kerner Commission explained urban riots as the result of which of the following?
Black frustration with the hopelessness of urban poverty
Which of the following phrases best describes "Reagan Democrats?"
Blue-collar voters who lost faith in the liberal creed
President Clinton presided over an economy
Boosted by the computer boom
Congressional opposition from which faction plagued Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration?
Both
Which of the following right wing think tanks were created in the first decade following WWII?
Both of these
How did President Eisenhower attempt to prevent a Soviet Attack on the United States?
By promising "massive retaliation" and appealing to the logic of "mutually-assured destruction"
What was the primary political issue that Carter used in his presidential campaign?
Carter's campaign focused less on issues than on his background as a hardworking, honest, Southern Baptist
The most well-known figure of the Chicano movement was _____.
Cesar Chavez
The Religious Right built a powerful coalition that united conservative evangelicals with what other influential voting group?
Conservative Catholics
Which group first promoted the idea that drug use could remedy feelings of alienation?
Counterculture activists
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?
Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination
The churches most common in suburban America tended most frequently celebrated which of the following cultural values?
Economic Individualism
The National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) differed from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) because the NIYC
Employed direct action tactics and more combative rhetoric
What was the subject of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?
Environmental dangers of pesticides
The "Reagan Revolution" is characterized as
Evangelicals as Republicans
Which of the following industries experienced the most economic growth under Reagan?
Financial Services
What was the relationship between the federal government and economic growth in the aftermath of World War II?
Federal spending created more economic growth
Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique focused on what primary issue?
Feelings of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife
Which of the following best describes the marketing techniques of early television executives?
Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience
Who was the civil rights leader that emerged from the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which of the following best describes the ruling of Citizens United v. FEC?
No limits could be placed on political spending by corporations, unions, and nonprofits
What initially sparked the 1973 energy crisis?
OPEC's embargo of oil exports to the United States in retaliation for American intervention in the Middle East
Advertisers in the 1960s innovated by beginning to emphasize which of the following traits as a means of selling products?
Rebellion and individuality
What was the intention of the War Powers Resolution?
Reduce the president's ability to wage war without congressional consent
Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion hinged on what legal idea?
Right of privacy
What became the most popular form of music in the 1950s?
Rock-n-roll
What was the primary rationale used to justify the Iraq War?
Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction
Who organized the first sit-ins?
Students
Which of the following nations were not a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
Sweden
"Trickle down" economics argued that
Tax breaks for corporations would result in new jobs & higher wages
The "credibility gap" was aggravated by
Tet offensive
Why did the United States fail to help more of the decolonization independence movements during the 1940s - 1970s?
The Cold War alliance with Western Europe led the United States to support many colonial powers
The Albany Movement, centered in Albany, Georgia, drew on Christian commitments to social justice and united all of the following Civil Rights groups EXCEPT
The Southern Baptist Convention
The 2000 presidential election was decided when
The Supreme Court ruled that the automatic recount had to cease immediately
Which of the following best describes the "Reagan Doctrine?"
The United States committed to supplying aid to anti-communist forces everywhere in the world
How did the United States respond to Japanese aggression in the Pacific?
The United States denounced Japanese aggression, but took no action
Which of the following best describes the so-called Bush Doctrine?
The United States should act unilaterally and preemptively to fight terrorism
What was the relationship between the war in Vietnam and spending on domestic programs?
The cost of waging the war in Vietnam undercut domestic poverty spending.
The wave of politicians, called New Democrats, advocated all of the following EXCEPT
The end of mass incarceration
Which of the following statements regarding the Iran Contra Affair are true?
The goal was the raise money to support the anti-Sandinista government in Nicaragua
Why was the federal government slow to respond to the AIDS crisis?
The issue disproportionately affected gay Americans, a marginalized group
How did Reagan's first budget immediately impact the national debt?
The national debt increased dramatically
What prompted President Roosevelt to pass Executive Order 8802?
The planned march on Washington led by A. Philip Randolph
Why were the Foundation for Economic Education and the Mount Perilin Society formed?
To challenge the Keynesian economics model of government fiscal and monetary regulation
Why did Dwight Eisenhower decide to run for president in 1952?
To keep the Republican Party from becoming too economically conservative and destroying itself
