History Test 3

When and where was President John F. Kennedy assassinated?

Dallas, 1963

_______ was President Nixon's policy of cooperation and peaceful coexistence with the Soviets

Détente

The _________ eliminated the national origins quota system for immigration established by law in 1921 and 1924. It led to radical change in the origins of immigrants to the United States, with Asians and Latin Americans outnumbering European

Immigration Act of 1965

What event forced John F. Kennedy to take meaningful action in support of the civil rights movement?

King's demonstrations in Birmingham

_________ was founded in 1966 by writer Betty Friedan and other feminists in order to push for abortion rights, nondiscrimination in the workplace, and other forms of equality for women. Modeled on civil rights groups, this organization was the model of middle-class liberal feminism in the 1960s

National Organization for Women (NOW)

_______ is the popular name for President Ronald Reagan's philosophy of supply side economics, which combined tax cuts with an unregulated marketplace

Reaganomics

The New Left

advocated for peace, democratic participation, civil rights, and economic equality

Freedom Riders were:

attacked by local whites who were opposed to integration

All of the following are examples of President Kennedy's Cold War-related policies EXCEPT: -banning tourism to Canada -authorizing the "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba -propping up a pro-American government in South Vietnam -founding the space program and the Peace Corps

banning tourism to Canada

In terms of the Cold War, Reagan

began his presidency by escalating tensions with the Soviets, but then eased those tensions in his second term

The 1965 Voting Rights Act

empowered federal officials to oversee voter registration

Stagflation was due primarily to a decline in American importation of foreign products such as steel

false

The ERA passed in the early 1980s

false

The Watergate scandal was a key issue in Nixon's reelection campaign in 1972

false

The 1960 presidential debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon

highlighted the impact of television on political campaigns

Expanded freedoms for women in the 1970s can be seen through

the Equal Credit Opportunity act, a higher divorce rate and lower birth rate and Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in higher education

Black Power emerged as a response to

the civil rights movement's failure to have significant impact on the economic problems of black ghettos, white civil rights workers' attempts to determine the civil rights movement's strategy, and the frustrations over the federal government's failure to stop violence against civil rights workers

What was the "silent majority"?

the name given to those voters who supported Nixon as an alternative to the upheaval and often violent protests of the late 1960s

In order to protect U.S. interests, the Carter Doctrine declared that the United States would

use military force to protect American interests, particularly in the Persian Gulf

The sit-in at Greensboro, NC, in 1960

was organized primarily by young people and college students

What was the Tet Offensive?

a series of well-orchestrated uprisings in South Vietnam in 1968 that took the US military by surprise