HIST 1302 - Exam 4 (Ch. 31-34)

In 1966 the rallying cry of the civil rights movement became

"Black power"

As George H. W. Bush prepared for the 1992 election, his greatest weakness became:

A major downturn in the economy

At Columbia University in 1968:

A student strike shut down the campus

The Strategic Defense Initiative involved

An anti-missile defense system

For the first Bush administration, the major problem in the early 1990s was

An economic recession

The United States entered the 1990s:

As the world's only remaining superpower

The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the

Bay of Pigs invasion

The hippie movement ultimately:

Began to wane as counter-culture had become counter-productive

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:

Challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy"

In the Birmingham campaign in 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from

Changing southern white attitudes to obtaining federal enforcement and new laws

As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:

Cutting taxes

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique:

Explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women

The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

Failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment

In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. had the support of troops from

Great Britain, Australia, and Poland

Richard Nixon:

Had a reputation for hard-line anti-communism and rough campaign tactics

By 1971, the New Left:

Had split into factions and largely self-destructed

The leader of the Moral Majority was:

Jerry Falwell

The bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was an example of

Militia hatred of the federal government

In the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:

Promised to get the country "moving again"

Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be:

Southern Baptists

To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:

Sunny

One major inspiration for Reagan's economic approach was:

The Republican tax-reduction program of 1920's

President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come" after

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Carter's management of the economy resulted in:

Unacceptably high rates of inflation

The result of the 1960 election:

Was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states

In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley:

Was the sight of a free-speech movement (FSM)

The youths of the counterculture:

Were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950's

A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was:

population growth in the South and the West

Reagan's experience as an actor:

was invaluable in a television age

At the Altamont concert in 1969:

Hell's Angels killed a man in front of the stage

The anti-feminist women led by Phyllis Schlafly:

Helped keep the equal-rights amendment from being ratified

John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:

His Health

The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:

His brother, Robert

Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:

His elegant and inspiring rhetoric

Young men were able to avoid service in Vietnam by all of the following methods EXCEPT:

Joining VISTA or the Peace Corps

Student civil rights activists in the South would likely experience all of the following EXCEPT:

Kennedy's public encouragement

In the impeachment proceeding, Bill Clinton was charged with

Lying under oath to a grand jury

Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:

Made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964

President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:

Men with new ideas and fresh thinking

In their role at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Yippies could best be described as:

Pranksters

In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:

Required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights

In 1968 the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was

Richard Nixon

The religious right fervently supported Reagan because he:

Supported its conservative social values

In 1968 the correct order of events was:

The Tet Offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. , and the Democratic convention in Chicago

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:

The University of Mississippi

The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and VISTA were all part of

The War on Poverty

By 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:

The example of the civil rights movement

Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:

The passage of a large tax cut

The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:

The sit-in

Early in Reagan's presidency, all of the following were increasing EXCEPT:

Tax revenues