APUSH MC Test Unit 8
In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court upheld marriage couple's right to use contraceptives based on
A "right to privacy"
One reason for the end of the postwar economic boom in the 1970s was
A drastic decline in worker productivity
Lyndon Johnson's insistence on fighting with Vietnam war and fighting the Great Society with a tax increase to pay for them led to
A drastic inflation of prices in the 1970s
President Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" of the war in Vietnam called for
A gradual handover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese
The shaking agreement that brought an end to American fighting in Vietnam in January 1973 represented
A thinly disguised American retreat
Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Arab oil embargo, (B) Iranian hostage crisis, (C) fall of Saigon, (D) invasion of Afghanistan.
A, C, B, D
The "first wave" of feminism grew out of the __________________ movement, and the "second wave" of feminism grew out of the _____________________ movement.
Abolitionist; civil rights
On which of the following issues did nearly all "second wave" feminists agree?
Abortion rights
American Indian activists brought attention to their cause in the 1970s by seizing
Alcatraz Island and Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Voter supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their
All of the above
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to be ratified by the 38 states largely because
An anti feminist backlash led by Phyllis Schlafly stirred sufficient opposition to stop it
As a result of US support for Israel in 1973 when it was attacked by Egypt and Syria
Arab nations placed an embargo on oil to America
Which one of the following is least related to the other three
Bay of Pigs
President Jimmy Carter's most spectacular foreign—policy achievement was the
Camp David agreement between Israel and Egypt
The Nixon administration still reflected a staunch anti-Communist policy when it worked to undermine and overthrow the left is government of
Chile
With the passage of the golf of Tonkin Resolution,
Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam
Latin American nation where Lyndon Johnson send 25,000 American troops to counteract alleged communist influence was
Dominican Republic
By the late 1960s, Black Power advocates in the north focus their attention primarily on
Economic demands
I'm advocates a Black Power made the slogan the basis for
Emphasizing African-American distinctiveness and separatism
Perhaps Richard Nixon's most valuable asset as he began his presidency in 1969 was his
Expertise in foreign affairs
The "spoiler" third-party candidate for president in 1968 was
George Wallace
The opposing major party candidates in the bicentennial presidential campaign of 1976 were
Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the
Great Society
President Nixon's chief foreign—policy adviser was
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy included all the following except
Increased American troops commitments
The 1967 Six—Day War intensified the Arab-Israeli conflict by bringing into constant, direct conflict
Israelis and Palestinians
The Alliance for Progress was intended to improve economic growth and democratic reforms in
Latin America
President Kennedy's alleged assassin was
Lee Harvey Oswald
Before he became vice president and then President of the United States, Lyndon Johnson have exercised great power as
Majority leader of the US Senate
Black leaders in the 1960s included __________________ , an advocate of peaceable resistance; __________________ , who favored black separatism; and ___________________, an advocate of "Black Power."
Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; Stokely Carmichael
The most controversial action of Gerald Ford's presidency was
Pardoning Nixon for any known or unknown crimes he had committed while presidency
The Helsinki accords, signed by Gerald Ford and leaders of thirty-four other nation,
Pledged signatories to guarantee certain basic human rights
The "three P's" that largely explain the cultural upheavals of the 1960s are
Population bulge, protest against Vietnam, and prosperity
Well it seems seen enough, John F. Kennedys doctrine of flexible response contained hidden dangers because it
Potentially lowered the level at which diplomacy would give way to shooting
The most humiliating failure during the Iran hostage crisis came when
President Carter's attempted rescue mission ended in disaster
In response to Congress' attempt to stop him from continuing the bombing of Cambodia, President Nixon
Repeatedly vetoed Congress' bills to halt the attacks
Richard Nixon's Philadelphia Plan
Required construction trade unions to establish timetables and goals for hiring black apprentices
At the time of his death, President John Kennedy's civil rights bill
Seemed to be stalled in Congress
Richard Nixon's "southern strategy" included the policy of
Soft-pedaling civil rights and opposing school busing to achieve racial balance
As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965,
Sources of immigration shipped it to Latin America and Asia
During the Vietnam war, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charger to
Spy on domestic antiwar protesters
Ariel bombardment in Vietnam
Strengthening the communists' will to resist
The difference between Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action programs and those of Richard Nixon was
That Johnson intended to help individuals, but Nixon conferred privileges on groups
All of the following were created during Richard Nixon's presidency except
The Medicare program
All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson's administration except
The Peace Corps
The 1963 March on Washington light by Martin Luther King Jr. , provided the critical support for
The civil rights bill to end segregation
The American armed forces in Vietnam war compose largely of
The least privileged young Americans
The poor economic performance of the 1970s brought an abrupt end to
The liberal dream that affluent American could spend its way to social justice
The first major trouble to afflict President Carter's foreign policy was
The ominous reheating of the Cold War with the Soviet Union
The "oil shocks" of the 1970s brought home to Americans the stunning fact that
Their economy was increasingly dependent on foreign trade and the global economy
The common use a poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the south was outlawed by the
Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The ______________________ Amendment ________________________ the voting age to _________________________ .
Twenty-sixth; lowered; eighteen
Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except
U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo.
President Carter believed that the fundamental problem of the American economy in the late 1970s was
US dependence on foreign oil
President Kennedy ordered hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of federal troops to force the racial integration of
University of Mississippi
Richard Nixon's policy of détente
Ushered in an era of relax tensions between the United States and the two leading communist powers, China and the Soviet Union
The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy
What is the Tet Offensive of 1968
In the final analysis, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs
Won some noteworthy battles in education and healthcare
President Johnson prove to be much more successful than President Kennedy at
Working with Congress
The Watts riot 1965 symbolized
a more militant and confrontational phase of the civil rights movement.
When the Soviet union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, president Kennedy ordered
a naval quarantine of that island
The 1968 democratic party convention witnessed
a violent conflict between police and antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall
As a presidential candidate, South Dakota Senator George McGovern appealed most strongly to the
antiwar movement
George McGovern, the Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1972, alienated the traditional working-class backbone of the Democratic party
by appealing to racial minorities, feminists, and youth
John F. Kennedy's strategy of "flexible response"
called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis.
Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should
continue the war in pursuit of an "honorable peace."
The top-secret "Pentagon Papers," leaked and published in 1971,
exposed the deception that had led the United States into the Vietnam war
The skepticism about authority that emerged in the United States during the 1960s
had deep historical roots in American culture.
Richard Nixon tried to resist giving his taped conversations to the special prosecutor and the Congress by claiming that
he had executive privilege (confidentiality)
James Earl (Jimmy) Carter enjoyed considerable popularity when he won the presidency because
his emphasis on honesty contrasted with the corruptions of Watergate
The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that the United States would
honor its existing defense commitment, but that in the future its allies would have to fight their own wars without large numbers of American troops
The guiding principle of President Carter's foreign policy was
human rights
To control creeping inflation in the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon
imposed a ninety day wage and price freeze
The SALT II Treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States died in the Senate when the Soviets
invaded Afghanistan
At first, John F. Kennedy moved very slowly in the area of racial justice because he
needed the support of southern legislators to pass his economic and social legislation.
When he became attorney general, Robert Kennedy wanted to refocus the attention of the FBI on
organized crime and civil rights.
The list of Nixon illegal administration activities uncovered in the Watergate scandal included all of the following except
paying Supreme Court justices to write favorable opinions
In speech at American University in 1963, President Kennedy recommended the adoption of a policy toward the Soviet union based on
peaceful coexistence
American military forces entered Vietnam in order to
prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from falling to the communists
Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 to
prohibit sex discrimination in any federally funded education program or activity
The most explosive domestic controversy of the 1970s centered around issues of
race
The Supreme Court in the Bakke case held that
racial quotas were unconstitutional but race could be taken into account as one factor in college admissions
The 1962 Trade Expansion Act
reduced American tariffs.
The effect of the Supreme Court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley, which held that integration did not have to take place across school district lines, was to
reinforce the division between poorer, minority inner city schools and nearly all white suburbs
The 1973 War Powers Act
required the president to report to Congress any commitment of American troops
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except
requiring "affirmative action" against discrimination.
The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren outraged religious conservatives in 1962-63 when it
ruled that prayer and Bible reading in public schools violated the First Amendment
After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the chief goal of the black civil rights movement in the South became to
secure the right to vote
John Kennedy began to join hands with the civil rights movement when he
sent federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders.
When it came to welfare programs, Richard Nixon
supported significant expansion in many areas
As a result of Richard Nixon's aerial bombing of neutral Cambodia in 1973
the Cambodian economy was ruined and its politics revolutionized
When the North Vietnamese launched a full scale invasion of South Vietnam in 1975
the South Vietnamese government quickly collapsed.
In 1973 the American public was shocked to learn that
the US Air Force had been secretly bombing Cambodia since 1969
As part of the cease-fire agreement in Vietnam in 1973
the United States withdrew all its troops from Vietnam.
While many of the social movements born in the 1960s declined or disappeared, the one that remained strong and even gathered momentum in the 1970s was
the feminist movement
The people of the United States had provided just about everything for South Vietnam except
the will to win the war
Lyndon Johnson channeled educational aid
to public and parochial schools.
The Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade declared state laws prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional because they
violated a woman's constitutional right to privacy in her own person
As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
white southerners began to court black votes.
The proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) , passed by Congress in 1972 and eventually ratified by 35 states, stated the following:
"Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on the basis of sex."