US History 27-30 Quiz
Phyllis Schlafly was a leader in the
campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment.
In the Birmingham campaign in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from
changing southern white attitudes to confrontation and civil disobedience.
Causes of the economic malaise of the 1970s included
competition in international markets.
Reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Empire included all of the following, except
demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
Nixon's freeze of wages and prices in 1971
did little to reinvigorate the economy.
In 1987, Reagan signed a treaty with Mikhail Gorbachev
eliminating intermediate-range nuclear weapons.
The Stonewall riots sparked a movement for
gay rights.
Jimmy Carter's 1976 victory can be attributed to
his strong support among southern African Americans.
By 1971, the New Left had declined as a political movement because
it had abandoned its democratic and pacifist principles.
In 1968, Nixon's "southern strategy" involved
promising to proceed slowly when enforcing civil rights laws.
During the Watergate crisis Nixon was not accused of
stealing funds from his reelection campaign.
Demographic forces favorable to Reagan and conservatism included growth in the
sunbelt population.
The greatest protests against Nixon's Vietnam policy came after
the Cambodian incursion.
The freedom rides were organized by
the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
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.
The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) were all part of
the War on Poverty.
Which of these was an important manifestation of the counterculture?
the Woodstock music festival in 1969
The free-speech movement attacked
the modern university.
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.
Reagan won the election of 1980 because of all of the following except
the resurgence of Great Society liberalism.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled on
the rights of a person accused of a crime.
President Johnson decided to escalate the war in Vietnam
to contain communism in the Far East.
Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a sit-in to demand service at a "whites-only" lunch counter.
1960
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the birth control pill.
1960
Bay of Pigs fiasco takes place; the Soviets erect the Berlin Wall.
1961
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique is published.
1963
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act.
1964
Riots break out in the African American community of Watts, California; Malcolm X is assassinated by a rival group of black Muslims.
1965
Ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment gives eighteen year-olds the right to vote in all elections.
1971
The Watergate scandal unfolds.
1972-1974
Congress passes the War Powers Act.
1973
The Watergate was
An office building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 election, and a massive cover-up of break-in whereby it became clear that President Nixon was lying to the American people.
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
April 1968
Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.
April 1975
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is held.
August 1963
Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution.
August 1964
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" said
Barry Goldwater.
In fighting Iraq in Desert Storm, the Bush administration
Built an alliance of over thirty countries, fought a relatively short campaign of just six weeks, and failed to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
By 1966, participants in the black power movement demanded voting rights and declared they would burn the cities until that was accomplished.
False
In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," police commissioner "Bull" Connor criticized the civil rights protesters.
False
In the 1988 election, George H. W. Bush defeated Jimmy Carter.
False
In the 1992 election, Bill Clinton won with about 50 percent of the vote.
False
John F. Kennedy constantly worked hard to achieve full civil rights for African Americans.
False
Operation Desert Storm involved sending U.S. troops into Romania to support democratic, anti-Communist forces.
False
President Gerald Ford's full pardon of Nixon was a popular act that ended the nightmare of Watergate.
False
President Nixon vetoed both the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
False
Richard J. Daley urged people to "tune in, turn on, drop out."
False
Ronald Reagan led the crusade to find a cure for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS.)
False
The 1968 Republican convention in Chicago was the scene of tumultuous riots.
False
The American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee in 1973 to show its support for the desegregation of schools.
False
The Carter administration supported a fundamentalist Muslim leader in Iran against the westernized shah of Persia.
False
The Iran-Contra affair involved using Sandinistas to fight Saddam Hussein.
False
The Nixon administration's most innovative domestic proposal was the use of busing for school integration.
False
Two years after the Vietnam War ended, South Vietnam took control of the North.
False
As a result of the Immigration Act of 1965, the majority of future immigrants were
Hispanics and Asians.
The Viet Cong stage the Tet offensive.
January 1968
In Paris, the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong agree to restore peace in Vietnam.
January 1973
Robert Kennedy is assassinated.
June 1968
U.S. planes begin a fourteen-month-long bombing campaign aimed at Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
March 1969
Kennedy called his political program the
New Frontier.
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
November 1963
The Cuban missile crisis occurs.
October 1962
The George H. W. Bush administration sent American troops into
Panama.
The Port Huron Statement
Reflected the ideals of the New Left, was drafted by Tom Hayden, and was influenced by African American activists in the South.
In 1968, the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was
Richard Nixon.
Nixon sought to lessen criticism of the Vietnam War by
Slowly reducing the number of American troops there, creating a lottery to determine who would be drafted, and using more air strikes rather than ground warfare.
By December 1991,
The Soviet Union was no longer in existence, The United States was the only dominant military power in the world, and Saddam Hussein still controlled Iraq.
At Kent State University in Ohio, and Jackson State in Mississippi, students were killed by members of the National Guard who were present to quell anti-war protests.
True
Betty Friedan was a leading feminist who helped to launch the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.
True
Détente was an easing of tensions between the United States and the Communist powers initiated by Richard Nixon.
True
In 1968, George C. Wallace, a defender of segregation, received over 13 percent of the popular vote for president as the nominee of the American Independent party.
True
In 1990, with the collapse of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe, Germany was reunited as one country for the first time since World War II.
True
In the 1960 presidential election, Richard M. Nixon carried more states than Kennedy did.
True
Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, a movement of the religious right.
True
Jimmy Carter created the departments of Energy and Education.
True
Jimmy Carter succeeded in negotiating a treaty to return the Panama Canal to Panama.
True
Kuwait was invaded by Iraq when it raised its price for oil in opposition to the policy of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
True
Malcolm X was a leader in the Black Muslim movement.
True
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
True
Nixon's vice-president, Spiro Agnew, had resigned before the Watergate scandal was concluded because it was discovered that he had been accepting bribes from contractors.
True
Of all the minorities in the 1960s, the plight of the Native Americans was desperate.
True
President Kennedy's program to help Latin America was called the Alliance for Progress.
True
President Lyndon B. Johnson was truly committed to civil rights.
True
Reagan argued that cutting taxes and domestic federal spending would increase government revenues.
True
Reagan was unsuccessful at curbing the federal deficit, and it nearly tripled during his eight years in office.
True
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
True
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.
True
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used its oil reserves as a political and economic weapon after the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
True
The Port Huron Statement launched Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which adopted the term "New Left" for their efforts at grassroots democracy.
True
The Tet offensive had a great effect on U.S. public opinion as opposition to the Vietnam War grew.
True
The Tonkin Gulf resolution sanctioned America's escalation of the Vietnam conflict.
True
The War Powers Act requires a president to withdraw troops sent abroad after sixty days, unless Congress specifically authorizes a longer stay.
True
Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act dealt with affirmative action for women.
True
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the
Vienna Summit.
The march from Selma to Montgomery emphasized
Voting Rights.
Michael Harrington's The Other America influenced the
War on Poverty.
In the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy ordered
a quarantine of Cuba.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that
abortion within the first three months of pregnancy was a constitutionally protected right.
Crucial ingredients of Reaganomics did not involve
balancing the budget.
Carter's most significant accomplishment in foreign policy was
brokering a treaty between Israel and Egypt.