Hist 131 Exam Final Exam Part2

At the nationally televised Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, it was revealed that

McCarthy was a bully who browbeat witnesses and made sweeping accusations with no basis in fact.

Which was the organization that crafted the Port Huron Statement, criticized corporations, unions, and the military-industrial complex, and proclaimed "a democracy of individual participation

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

(Q028) What was the title of the 1963 book by Betty Friedan that took as its theme the emptiness of consumer culture, and painted the suburban home as a "comfortable concentration camp" for women?

The Feminine Mystique

(Q053) The Soviets installed procommunist governments in Poland and Romania after World War II.

True

The most significant and largest public works project of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved

a federal highway system.

The States Rights Democratic Party accuses the Democratic and Republican Parties of attempting to create __________________.

a police nation

The "supply-side" economic theory embraced by President Reagan called for

a reduction of personal and corporate taxes

Which statement accurately describes what NSC-68 called for?

a. a permanent military buildup to fight communism

In the 1980s and 1990s, the most divisive cultural issue in the United States was

abortion rights.

In November, 1979, Iranian militants seized 53 US hostages. The immediate provocation for their act was that the Carter administration

allowed the exiled Shah of Iran to enter the United States.

Why did the writers of the Southern Manifesto claim the Brown v. Board decision was unconstitutional?

b. They stated the Constitution did not discuss education.

William Levitt, with the help of the GI Bill, gave many Americans the opportunity to

become homeowners

The "Freedom Summer" campaign in 1964 focused on

black voter registration and participation.

What was To Secure These Rights?

c. an indictment of racial inequality in America issued by the Commission on Civil Rights

Assess the effects of the Marshall Plan.

e. It helped to jump-start the economies of western Europe.

Which of the following happened right after World War II?

e. The United States emerged as the world's greatest power because it had the most powerful air force and navy.

Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John F. Kennedy

e. was reluctant to address the movement's demands until 1963.

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

homosexuals

As president, Jimmy Carter called for a foreign policy that stressed the importance of

human rights.

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

involved the fall of Saigon to the communists.

In the 1970's, the combination of high unemployment and inflation was called

stagflation

The organization demanding greater Indian tribal self-government and the restoration of economic resources guaranteed in treaties, founded in 1968, was called

the American Indian Movement.

What was the organization created by the Kennedy administration to aid the economic and educational progress of developing countries?

the Peace Corps

The Truman Doctrine assumed

the United States would provide aid to any anticommunist regime, even if it was not a democratic one

The charges against which of the following organizations led to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy in 1954?

the army

Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was

the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.

In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment

was strongly opposed by some women. was passed by Congress and submitted to the states for ratification. had been promoted since the 1920s by some feminists. All these answers are correct. seemed almost certain to be ratified.

Ngo Dinh Diem

was the anticommunist leader of South Vietnam.

The Tet Offensive ______________ domestic support for the Johnson Administration.

weakened

The 1995 truck bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City was organized by

. a far-right private militia group.

Jimmy Carter's success in the election of 1976 resulted in large part because

Carter seemed to possess honesty, piety, and an outsider's skepticism of the federal government

What helped Dwight D. Eisenhower win the election of 1952?

He made promises to bring the Korean War to an end.

What helped to launch Martin Luther King Jr. as civil rights leader?

He participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and spoke at protest meetings.