AP US History Unit 8

As a result of the Korean War, the

American public believed there was something wrong with the United States

All of the following statements regarding Latinos in the US are true EXCEPT that

Cuban immigrants in the 1980s were more well to do than their counterparts in the 1960s

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

Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of Kennedy

In the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the

United States ordered a naval and air blockade of Cuba

President Richard Nixon believed US foreign policy should work toward

a balance of power among several major nations

All of the following were factors in rising poverty rates in inner cities in the 1950s, EXCEPT

a growth of unskilled industrial jobs in these areas

All the following statements regarding the "occupation zones" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that

all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control

The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was in response to

alleged attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on American destroyers

The key evidence in the determination or President Richard Nixons guilt or innocence in the Watergate scandal was

audio tape recordings made of most conversations in the Oval Office

In the 1960s, the philosophy of "black power"

called for an increased awareness of racial differences

Great Society reforms

contributed to the greatest reduction in poverty in American history

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

Betty Friedans 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique

gave a voice to a reemerging women's rights movement

The 1969 "Stonewall Riot" is associated with the civil rights movement for

homosexuals

In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,

it was agreed the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War

The primary goal of the American Apollo program was to

land men on the moon

All of the following statements regarding the 1968 Tet offensive are true EXCEPT that it

led to the fall of Saigon to the communists

The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956

marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest

The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the

military invasion by North Korea into South Korea

In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote a bestselling Baby and Child Care contended that

mothers should stay at home with their children

Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement by focusing on problems concerning

pesticides

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

polio

In the 1960s, the youth counterculture

presented a fundamental challenge to American middle class society

The McCarran Internal Security Act

required communist organizations to register with the government

The 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, involved all of the following EXCEPT the

resignation of Governor George Wallace

In Engel v. Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court

ruled prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.

Between 1945-1959, US policy in the Middle East saw

the CIA engineer a coup that brought the shah of Iran to power

All of the following actions were initiated by President John Kennedy EXCEPT

the CIA plan to overthrow Fidel Castro

In the years immediately following WW2, the US policy toward Asia led

the Truman administration to encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan

In April 1970, the antiwar movement was recharged by

the US invasion of Cambodia

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

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

President Harry Trumans Fair Deal called for

the creation of national health insurance

All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT that

the federal government regulated the content of both commercials and programs

In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was

the movie industry

The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose called for

the preservation of Indian heritage

Under John Foster Dulles's policy of "massive retaliation," announced in 1954, the US would

use nuclear weapons against communist aggression

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

voting rights

In 1968, anti-war protesters at the Democratic convention in Chicago

were attacked by police in a bloody riot