Abeka 11th Grade US History Test 11
Lyndon B. Johnson liberal government program
Great society
Protest tactic promoted by Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonviolent resistance
What did the Soviet union form in 1955 in response to NATO?
Warsaw pact
When did president Johnson first send US Marines to Vietnam?
1965
When do the United States signed a cease-fire agreement with north Vietnam?
1973
What amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 ?
26th
To what situation was the fair housing act of 1968 a direct response?
A riot in a Los Angeles ghetto
Why did oil prices in the United States bike in the 1970s?
An embargo on oil by OPEC
Arizona senator who lost to Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election
Barry Goldwater
During the Kennedy administration, the communist government of East Germany created what to hinder western influence in Berlin?
Berlin wall
Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini decided to release the American hostages in Iran only after who was out of office?
Jimmy Carter
Albert Bruce Sabine and who introduced the polio vaccine and 1950s and 1960s?
Jonas Salk
Who was criticized for is excessive antagonism in investigating communist infiltration of United States?
Joseph McCarthy
Which American space probe was sent toward Venus?
Mariner 2
What was president Nixon accused of as part of the Watergate scandal?
Orchestrating it cover up and obstructing an investigation
Which president helped open trade relations with Commonish China by visiting there?
Richard Nixon
Leader of the Iranian revolution
Ruholla Khomeini
Not ratified by the Senate after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Salt II
Campaign promoted by Gerald Ford to stop inflation
Whip inflation now
What former communist party member gave testimony influential and convicting Alger Hiss?
Whittaker Chambers
Who commanded the US forces in south Vietnam?
William Westmoreland
Which statement accurately describes the end of the great depression?
The tight what time economy encouraged Americans to save more, creating a post war boom when they could again spend freely
Which of the following statement accurately describes Jimmy Carter's foreign-policy?
United States will not support authoritarian regimes even if they oppose communism
The Tet Offensive was a military ___for the United States
Victory
His journalism earned him the title of the most trusted man in America
Walter Cronkite
Foreign aid program proposed by Harry S Truman
Point four program
Author of Simon Spring and Pioneer in the environmentalist movement
Rachel Carson
The first president to resign from office was who?
Richard Nixon
Because the organization locked major regional powers like Japan in Indonesia, what proved to be in effective
SEATO
In 1967, Israel prevented an invasion by several Middle Eastern nations in the what?
Six day war
Vice president who resigned after he admitted to taking bribes and evading his income taxes
Spiro Agnew
Which statement accurately describes John F Kennedy's policy toward communist Cuba prior to the Cuban missile crisis?
The United States would attempt to isolate the Castro regime and eight Cuban attempts to overthrow it
Why was the Belgian Congo particularly susceptible to communism?
Belgium had never prepared the Belgian Congo for Independence or democracy as a British empire had done with most of her colonies
What event prevent the United Nations forces from driving communism from Korea?
Chinese intervention
What was the focus of the civil rights movement during the Eisenhower administration?
Desegregation
Foreign-policy promoted by Henry a Kissinger
Detente
What was the name of Manassas to me on space mission in the 1960s?
Gemini
What treated attempted to temporarily divide Vietnam and to provide for Democratic election in 1956?
Geneva accords
What democrat lost the 1972 election in a landslide to richArd Nixon?
George McGovern
What general try to create a coalition government China?
George catlett Marshall
First president of the AFL-CIO
George meany
Who was the only president to have never been elected to national office?
Gerald Ford
Who called his Welfare plan the Fair deal?
Harry S Truman
How did president Truman respond to General MacArthur's request for permission to Palm Chinese spaces and supply lines to North Korea?
He removed MacArthur
What did President Eisenhower envision for the United States after seeing a similar system in Germany during World War II?
Interstate Highway
Largest domestic building program in the US history
Interstate highway system
First black American baseball player to play for major league team?
Jackie Robinson
First black American to enroll at the University of Mississippi
James Meredith
In addition to Cambodia, what other south east Asian country also fell to communism after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam
Laos
Completed during the 1950s, what bridge was the longest suspension bridge at that time?
Mackinac straits bridge
what American atheist successfully complained for the removal of teacher lead prayer in public school?
Madelyn Murray O'Hare
What prominent black separate does leader criticize Martin Luther King Jr.'s tactics of campaigning for civil rights?
Malcolm X
Essay: describe the communist take over China after World War II. Name the leaders of both sides and detail the American role in the Chinese Civil War
Mao Zedong was the leader of the communist and chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of the nationalist United States attempted to create a coalition between Mao and Chiang but Chiang refused
What industry did the government heavily regulate after the 3 mile island incident?
Nuclear power
