APUSH 55 Questions
Eisenhower's concern in 1961 is borne out by which fact about the US defense spending in the 21st century?
40% of the world's total is spent by the US, more than the next 15 countries combined
Title XI is characterized by which of the following achievements?
An increase in participation by both men's and women's athletic teams
The Supreme Court of California used the same rationale to declare the school finance system unconstitutional as US Supreme Court had used to declare segregation illegal in which decision?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
This poem became a major part of what Mexican American movement of the late 1960s?
Chicano
The ideas and sentiments expressed in this song indicate that which movement that had great impetus from its primarily 1950s origin still had a long way to go to accomplish its goals?
Civil Rights
Title IX was inspired by which earlier federal law barred discrimination on the basis of race?
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Along with some provisions of the California Constitution the court ruled the California system of providing school funding also violated which part of the U.S. Constitution?
Equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment
The failure of the endeavor in Halberstam's book brought about a halt to which domestic program that Lyndon Johnson had championed?
Great Society
This joint resolution of Congress in the passage above is commonly called the
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This song was directed against all of the following groups in American culture except
Hard Hats
The song extolls the virtues of which of the following?
Illegal alcohol
This resolution was used as the justification by the US for a war that is similar to a resolution passed for which subsequent war in which no declaration of war was passed either?
Iraq War
Which two American wars in the 21st century could be interpreted has fulfilling the prediction that Steel made when he stated he would not take any bets of there being no more Vietnams?
Iraq and Afghanistan
This JFK program was intended to help which region of the world?
Latin America
In some respects this US assistance could be considered a continuation of which earlier program of economic aid in a different region?
Marshall Plan
What program did Kennedy start to carry out the statement, "ask what you can do for your country?"
Peace Corps
Along with the executive branch of the government, the institution that supported the change in interpretation of affirmative action is the
Supreme Court
Silent Spring's impact on legislation was similar to which earlier book that brought about the Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Kissinger's comment "honor in distant jungles" was a reference to
Vietnam War
The Nixon Doctrine resulted in turning the ground fighting over to the Vietnamese as the U.S. only involved itself in military training, providing weapons, and economic assistance in a policy and program called
Vietnamization
The part of the Great Society ideal that has been almost a complete failure is which of the following
War on Poverty
From the perspective of the 21st century this song's protest could be directed against
acid rain
The new left differed from the old left of the 1930s by its disavowal of
class struggle maxim
Which current U.S. environmental concern, highlighted by Al Gore's book An Inconvenient Truth, owes its debt to what Rachel Carson accomplished with Silent Spring?
climate changes
The new left of the 1960s were different from the old left of the 1930s because many of the old left of an earlier period had been
communists
The social movement of the 1960s that most resembles the "new left" is the
counterculture
The description of conditions for the US military in Saigon is that it is a
country club
Janis Ian was 13 when she wrote this song that had all of the following elements in it except
criticism of state laws that forbid race mixing
A major point made in the poem is the problems dealing with
cultural identity
This 1962 book inspired which movement that would have a major impact on U.S. government policy?
environmental
The primary reason why the U.S. felt duty bound to produce a permanent arms industry was the
fear of international communism
The type of music that is captured in this protest song in the 1950s & 1960s is
folk
This statement "against the rhetoric of a lifetime" was reference to Nixon
going to China despite a lifetime of speaking out against the Chinese communist regime
A reason why Lyndon Johnson relied so heavily on the advice of the "so-called" "Best and Brightest" political advisors was that
his insecurities about foreign policy compared to his expertise on domestic policy
The theme of this protest song revolved around the issue of
interracial romance
Which of the following lines from Johnson's speech could have influenced the counterculture's mantra of "do your own thing?"
it is a place which honors creation for its own sake
All of the following are true implications of this joint Congressional resolution except
it was later replaced by a Declaration of War by Congress
The phrase Great Society is closely associated with which 1960s ideology?
liberal idealism
What does Steel say has become a reflex action of the United States?
military intervention
The phrase Eisenhower used to describe what the US needed to guard against the influence of the
military-industrial complex
This song during the 1960s was protesting against
nuclear fallout
The Alliance for Progress was a government program launched to change South America
politically, economically, and socially
The "they" being referred to in the song are
politicians in the U.S. & U.S.S.R.
The Nixon Doctrine was issued primarily to
prepare for an exit strategy of what he called "peace with honor" in Vietnam
In the Supreme Court decision of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke the Supreme Court narrowly upheld "affirmative action" created by the Philadelphia Plan by a 5-4 vote on the basis that
race could be one of the factors considered in choosing a diverse student body
Critics of the Philadelphia Plan called it a system of
reverse discrimination
According to the above passage the reason why the financing of public schools is a national disgrace because
rich districts can generate more money from property taxes than poor districts that have higher tax rates, which means children of the poor have less educational opportunities
The metaphorical title of the book is a reference to which environmental change?
song birds could no longer be heard in the springtime
The event preceding Nixon going to China that paved the way was
the exchange of table tennis (ping pong) in the early 1970s
The excerpt is an example of
the false reporting of what was happening that contributed to the credibility gap
Halberstam's description of men in the Best and the Brightest, is similar to
the fatal flaw of hubris that causes the Greek tragic hero to fall
The Port Huran statement was written in part because students were frustrated with
the pace of reform of traditional liberalism
Nixon's attempt to create an impression that the US was undertaking a diminished role was through Vietnamization which was
to turn over the fighting and the conduct of the war to the Vietnamese while the US provided arms and supplies
This song was written to extoll the virtues of
traditional values and lifestyle
According to the interpretation in the passage above "affirmative action"
was changed from a system based on individual ability to one based on race