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The figure who most influenced Nixon's foreign policy was:

Henry Kissinger

In 1999, NATO air strikes helped stop "ethnic cleansing" in:

Kosovo

The politician who led the Republican takeover of Congress in the mid-1990s was:

Newt Gingrich

The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:

The reduction in weapons programs by the USSR

The crucial development in the Soviet Union in August 1991 was

a failed Communist coup

Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as:

an evil empire

The United States entered the 1990s:

as the world's only remaining superpower

In his letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.:

declared his willingness to break unjust laws

In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:

erecting the berlin wall

The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment

As he had predicted, Reagan's tax cuts helped reduce the federal deficit.

false

From the beginning of his presidency, Kennedy vigorously supported black civil rights.

false

George W. Bush won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election.

false

The Camp David Accords were agreements between Iran and Iraq.

false

The Iran-Contra affair involved the illegal sales of arms to the Contra rebels in Iran.

false

By 2012, Hispanics:

had become the country's largest minority

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

major civil rights legislation

The youths of the counterculture:

originated when Tom Hayden and Al Haber formed Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1960

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

population growth in the South and the West

The Bush Doctrine emphasized:

preemptive military action against terrorists and terrorist regimes

All of the following were features of the economy during the Clinton years EXCEPT:

surging stock prices

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

the sit-in

A crisis in Iran involved all of the following EXCEPT:

the takeover of Iran's government by hard-line Communists

By 2000, for the first time in the nation's history the majority of immigrants came not from Europe but from other parts of the world.

true

By the early 1970s, the public mood was shifting toward conservatism.

true

In 2008, Barack Obama ran an impressive Internet-based campaign.

true

Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was called the Great Society.

true

Nixon and his White House aides tried to cover up the Watergate break-in.

true

Carter's management of the economy resulted in:

unacceptably high rates of inflation

The riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago:

were supported by a majority of the public


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