HIS 109 Exam 3

Five Power Act

A product of the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921, the ___________________ placed limitations on naval armaments and was signed by Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States in 1922.

Nikita Khrushchev

Aggressive Soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting nuclear missiles in Cuba cost him his job.

John F. Kennedy

Assassinated in 1963, this charismatic President whose brief administration experienced domestic stalemate and foreign confrontations with communism

Robert McNamara

Cabinet officer who promoted "flexible response" but came to doubt the wisdom of the Vietnam War he had presided over.

Malcolm X

Charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted separatism in the early 1960s.

Barry Goldwater

Conservative Republican whose crushing defeat in the presidential election of 1964 opened the way for the liberal Great Society programs.

Alfred Kinsey

Controversial Indiana University "sexologist" who documented Americans' changing sexual morals and behavior.

True

During the 1920's and the 1930's, the vast majority of Americans strongly favored pursuing an isolationist foreign policy.

Mario Savio

Early student activist and leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California!

Lyndon B. Johnson

Elected to office of the President in 1964, this brilliant legislative operator's domestic achievements in social welfare and civil rights fell under the shadow of the war in Vietnam.

James Meredith

First black student admitted to the University of Mississippi, shot during a civil rights march in 1966.

Richard M. Nixon

Former vice president who staged a remarkable political comeback to win the Presidential election of 1968.

All of these are correct.

In 1938, the Anschluss:

Eugene J. McCarthy

Minnesota senator whose antiwar "Children Crusade" helped force Johnson to alter his Vietnam policies.

Robert F. Kennedy

New York senator whose antiwar campaign for the presidency was ended in 1968 when he was assassinated in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan, a Jordanian nationalist.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolent black civil rights leader whose advocacy of peaceful change came under attack from black militants after 1965.

Neville Chamberlain in Great Britain

One of the global crises to emerge in the inter-war decades was the rise of the totalitarian regimes. Which of the following was NOT a totalitarian regime?

Provides a historical example of the wisdom and value of utilizing a policy of appeasement when dealing with dictators.

Regarding the Munich Conference and resulting Munich Pact of 1938, which of the following statements is FALSE?

attack Germany first to defeat Hitler while using just enough strength to hold off Japan.

The fundamental American strategic decision of World War II was to:

Kellogg-Briand Pact

The signatories of this well-intentioned, but wildly naive international agreement signed in 1928, vowed not to use war to resolve disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or whatever their origin.

George C. Wallace

Third-party candidate whose conservative, hawkish 1968 presidential campaign won 9 million votes and carried five states.

Hubert Humphrey

Vice-President whose loyalty to Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam policies sent him down to defeat in the 1968 presidential election.

Upon coming to power in 1933, Hitler called his new government the "Weimar Republic."

Which of the following statements about the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany is FALSE?