APUSH 55 Questions

Eisenhower's concern in 1961 is borne out by which fact about the US defense spending in the 21st century?

40% of the world's total is spent by the US, more than the next 15 countries combined

Title XI is characterized by which of the following achievements?

An increase in participation by both men's and women's athletic teams

The Supreme Court of California used the same rationale to declare the school finance system unconstitutional as US Supreme Court had used to declare segregation illegal in which decision?

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

This poem became a major part of what Mexican American movement of the late 1960s?

Chicano

The ideas and sentiments expressed in this song indicate that which movement that had great impetus from its primarily 1950s origin still had a long way to go to accomplish its goals?

Civil Rights

Title IX was inspired by which earlier federal law barred discrimination on the basis of race?

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Along with some provisions of the California Constitution the court ruled the California system of providing school funding also violated which part of the U.S. Constitution?

Equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment

The failure of the endeavor in Halberstam's book brought about a halt to which domestic program that Lyndon Johnson had championed?

Great Society

This joint resolution of Congress in the passage above is commonly called the

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

This song was directed against all of the following groups in American culture except

Hard Hats

The song extolls the virtues of which of the following?

Illegal alcohol

This resolution was used as the justification by the US for a war that is similar to a resolution passed for which subsequent war in which no declaration of war was passed either?

Iraq War

Which two American wars in the 21st century could be interpreted has fulfilling the prediction that Steel made when he stated he would not take any bets of there being no more Vietnams?

Iraq and Afghanistan

This JFK program was intended to help which region of the world?

Latin America

In some respects this US assistance could be considered a continuation of which earlier program of economic aid in a different region?

Marshall Plan

What program did Kennedy start to carry out the statement, "ask what you can do for your country?"

Peace Corps

Along with the executive branch of the government, the institution that supported the change in interpretation of affirmative action is the

Supreme Court

Silent Spring's impact on legislation was similar to which earlier book that brought about the Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Act of 1906?

Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

Kissinger's comment "honor in distant jungles" was a reference to

Vietnam War

The Nixon Doctrine resulted in turning the ground fighting over to the Vietnamese as the U.S. only involved itself in military training, providing weapons, and economic assistance in a policy and program called

Vietnamization

The part of the Great Society ideal that has been almost a complete failure is which of the following

War on Poverty

From the perspective of the 21st century this song's protest could be directed against

acid rain

The new left differed from the old left of the 1930s by its disavowal of

class struggle maxim

Which current U.S. environmental concern, highlighted by Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth, owes its debt to what Rachel Carson accomplished with Silent Spring?

climate changes

The new left of the 1960s were different from the old left of the 1930s because many of the old left of an earlier period had been

communists

The social movement of the 1960s that most resembles the "new left" is the

counterculture

The description of conditions for the US military in Saigon is that it is a

country club

Janis Ian was 13 when she wrote this song that had all of the following elements in it except

criticism of state laws that forbid race mixing

A major point made in the poem is the problems dealing with

cultural identity

This 1962 book inspired which movement that would have a major impact on U.S. government policy?

environmental

The primary reason why the U.S. felt duty bound to produce a permanent arms industry was the

fear of international communism

The type of music that is captured in this protest song in the 1950s & 1960s is

folk

This statement "against the rhetoric of a lifetime" was reference to Nixon

going to China despite a lifetime of speaking out against the Chinese communist regime

A reason why Lyndon Johnson relied so heavily on the advice of the "so-called" "Best and Brightest" political advisors was that

his insecurities about foreign policy compared to his expertise on domestic policy

The theme of this protest song revolved around the issue of

interracial romance

Which of the following lines from Johnson's speech could have influenced the counterculture's mantra of "do your own thing?"

it is a place which honors creation for its own sake

All of the following are true implications of this joint Congressional resolution except

it was later replaced by a Declaration of War by Congress

The phrase Great Society is closely associated with which 1960s ideology?

liberal idealism

What does Steel say has become a reflex action of the United States?

military intervention

The phrase Eisenhower used to describe what the US needed to guard against the influence of the

military-industrial complex

This song during the 1960s was protesting against

nuclear fallout

The Alliance for Progress was a government program launched to change South America

politically, economically, and socially

The "they" being referred to in the song are

politicians in the U.S. & U.S.S.R.

The Nixon Doctrine was issued primarily to

prepare for an exit strategy of what he called "peace with honor" in Vietnam

In the Supreme Court decision of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke the Supreme Court narrowly upheld "affirmative action" created by the Philadelphia Plan by a 5-4 vote on the basis that

race could be one of the factors considered in choosing a diverse student body

Critics of the Philadelphia Plan called it a system of

reverse discrimination

According to the above passage the reason why the financing of public schools is a national disgrace because

rich districts can generate more money from property taxes than poor districts that have higher tax rates, which means children of the poor have less educational opportunities

The metaphorical title of the book is a reference to which environmental change?

song birds could no longer be heard in the springtime

The event preceding Nixon going to China that paved the way was

the exchange of table tennis (ping pong) in the early 1970s

The excerpt is an example of

the false reporting of what was happening that contributed to the credibility gap

Halberstam's description of men in the Best and the Brightest, is similar to

the fatal flaw of hubris that causes the Greek tragic hero to fall

The Port Huran statement was written in part because students were frustrated with

the pace of reform of traditional liberalism

Nixon's attempt to create an impression that the US was undertaking a diminished role was through Vietnamization which was

to turn over the fighting and the conduct of the war to the Vietnamese while the US provided arms and supplies

This song was written to extoll the virtues of

traditional values and lifestyle

According to the interpretation in the passage above "affirmative action"

was changed from a system based on individual ability to one based on race