Midterm History Test
The the Persian Gulf War, the United States
1) helped free Kuwait from Iraqi control 2) was one of 28 nations allied for Operation Desert Storm 3)called for a cease-fire after just six weeks of fighting
The baby boom
1.) peaked in 1957 2.) was a large part of a 30% growth in American populations between 1945 and 1960 3.) paralleled a similar boom in consumer demand
America's economic prosperity in the 1950s was fueled by
1.)increased public funding of schools, housing, veterans' benefits, welfare, and interstate highways 2.)massive military spending inspired by the Cold War 3.) the "baby boom" and the rapid expansion of the suburbs
Which of the following was the most significant foreign policy accomplishment of President Jimmy Carter?
Camp David Accords
The "silent majority" referred to
Conservative working and middle class citizens
The most serious conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Kennedy administration occurred over
Cuba
The Twenty-sixth Amendment
Gave 18 year olds the right to vote
Under the Truman Doctrine, Congress initially approved economic aid to
Greece and Turkey
The mood of the "Beat Generation" is best reflected in which of the following?
Jack Kerouac's One the Road
Which of the following was NOT a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council?
Japan
The author of "letter from Birmingham City Jail" was
Martin Luther King Jr.
The name of Rosa Parks is usually identified with the
Montgomery bus boycott
Anti-feminism achieved greatest victory by
Successfully blocking ratification for the Equal Rights Amendment
The essential element of the policy of containment was
a commitment to holding communism within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
The book, Silent Spring
argued that the use of DDT was dangerous to the entire food chain
The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to
assure the re-election of Nixon in 1972
Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur
because MacArthur openly criticized the president for not wanting to fight communist China.
President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy sought to
build up South Vietnamese forces to fight for themselves and replace American troops
In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court
cited sociological and psychological finding in support of its decision
The descriptive term that would best describe the culture of the 1950s is
conformity
During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States
continued to support Chiang Kai-shek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost
Which of the following events occurred second in chronological order? a.) the abandonment of American Embassy in Saigon b.) the French defeat of by Vietnamese c.) the Tet Offensive d.) the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese leader
d.) the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese leader
Critics of McCarthyism in the 1950s stressed the idea that...
fears of subversion can lead to the erosion of constitutional liberties
Ronald Reagan
had at one time supported FDR's New Deal
When President Carter sent American commandos to rescue the American hostages in Iran
helicopter failures forced the mission's abortion
The Stonewall riots helped forge a new sense of solidarity among
homosexuals
Automobile production in the postwar years
increased
Concerning Vietnam, President Kennedy
increased the number of American "advisers" there.
all are true about tv in the 1950s except...
it relied heavily on programming that included the variety show and violent dramas
Which statement concerning African-Americans' movement for civil rights in the 1960s is accurate?
it stimulated the growth of other reform movements
The Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in 1957 immediately led to
massive federal aid to American higher education focusing on math and science programs.
In the campaign of 1980, Reagan promised to cut all the following EXCEPT
military spending
Which of the following made the Ford administration different from any other in the history of the United States
neither the president nor the vice president had been elected to the office they filled
The author of The Feminine Mystique
protested against the blissful domesticity of American women after World War II
The Bay of Pigs incident
resulted in the capture of 1,200 men
The Pentagon Papers...
revealed that Congress and the american people had not been told the full story of the Tonkin Gulf War
The SALT agreement
set limits on certain nulcear weapons
The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because
the USSR boycotted the session of the Security Council at which the decision was made
President Carter said American foreign policy should be based on
the defense of human rights
All of the following contributed to a "sexual revolution" during the 1960s EXCEPT
the elimination of all state laws infringing on a woman's right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy
The strength of the 1950s economy was due to
the growth of business and economic opportunities
Home ownership in Levittown in the 1950s was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT
the migration of African-Americans from the ghettos to the suburbs
The United States entered the Korean War
without declaration of war by Congress
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
A. were executed for supposedly giving the Russians the secret to the atomic bomb.
Concerning homosexuals in the military, President Clinton?
Adopted a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy
As his vice presidential running mate, Bill Clinton chose
Al Gore
Bill Clinton was born and raised in
Arkansas
Fourteen months after making the pledge of "no new taxes," President Bush angered many
Republicans by promoting a tax increase bill
Each of the following presidents were impeached from office EXCEPT
Richard Nixon
Who said "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem?
Ronald Reagan