His 106 Practice Quizes
In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the dangers of
"the military-industrial complex."
In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas required
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Between 1945-1959, the United States policy in the Middle East saw the
CIA engineer a coup that brought the Shah of Iran to power.
In the 1960s, the United Farm Workers was founded and led by ________.
Cesar Chavez
In the early 1970s, the CIA played a major role in destabilizing a leftist government in
Chile.
In the late 1980s, challenges to communist rule were the least successful in
China.
Both Medicare and Medicaid were enacted during the Kennedy administration.
False.
The number of women working outside the home declined between 1945 and 1960.
False.
Until the early 1950s, the country the United States assisted in trying to control Vietnam was
France.
In 1960 John Kennedy called his domestic reform agenda the New ________.
Frontier.
The South Vietnam government in Saigon finally collapsed during the presidency of
Gerald Ford.
In 1954, the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to help overthrow the government of
Guatemala.
The Warren Commission investigation of the assassination of President John Kennedy concluded
Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of Kennedy.
In 1965, the first major race riot in the United States since World War II took place in
Los Angeles.
In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because
MacArthur publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea.
In 1945, President Harry Truman conceded to communist authority in
Poland.
The first female Supreme Court justice was ________.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Joseph McCarthy burst to national prominence by charging that there were known communists in the
State Department.
Economic growth was at its peak in the early 1950s when military spending was at its highest.
True.
In the 1960s, the percentage of Americans living in poverty was nearly cut in half.
True.
Rising prosperity in the 1950s was accompanied with restlessness among American youth.
True.
The Supreme Court set no specific timetable for the desegregation of schools.
True.
The 1962 Cuban missile crisis saw the
United States order a naval and air blockade of Cuba.
In the early 1960s, the Free Speech Movement came into being at the ________ to help secure the political rights of students.
University of California at Berkeley
The most significant and costly initiative of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved
a federal highway system.
President Richard Nixon's proposed Family Assistance Plan included
a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.
The "supply-side" economic theory embraced by President Ronald Reagan called for
a reduction of personal and corporate taxes.
In 1988, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signaled his desire to change past policies by
agreeing to a significant nuclear arms reduction treaty.
In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by
airlifting supplies to West Berlin.
The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was in response to
alleged attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on American destroyers.
In 1970, "Earth Day" was
an example of the popularization of environmentalism.
In 1947, the Truman administration responded to Republican attacks that it was weak on communism by
beginning an investigation into the loyalty of federal employees.
In 1950, the Truman administration responded to the onset of fighting in Korea by
calling on the United Nations to intervene.
In the early 1960s, the primary membership of SNCC was
college students
Great Society reforms
contributed to the greatest reduction in poverty in American history.
The initial response by the American public to the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur was
criticism of President Truman.
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful.
The Eisenhower administration responded to Fidel Castro's coming to power in Cuba by
ending diplomatic relations.
As president, Jimmy Carter gave much of his attention to
energy and the economy.
During the 1950s, the United States government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was
for the long-range delivery of weapons.
In 1961, the "freedom rides" sponsored by CORE attempted to
force the desegregation of bus stations.
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
gave housing and education subsidies to veterans.
During the 1950s, television networks
generally sought to convey an idealized image of America.
The weakening of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s was encouraged by the Soviet policy of
glasnost and perestroika.
The intent of President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy was to
have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.
In 1976, Jimmy Carter appealed to voters by emphasizing
his personal honesty his lack of experience in federal government. his religious piety. both his personal honesty and his religious piety.
As president, Jimmy Carter called for a foreign policy that stressed the importance of
human rights.
In 1971, President Richard Nixon responded to mounting economic problems by
imposing a freeze on all wages and prices.
In 1979, the United States responded to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan by
imposing economic sanctions on the Soviet Union.
The Environmental Protection Agency was created
in 1970 by Richard Nixon.
After the Gulf War, President George Bush's high popularity quickly faded because of his
inability to contain a worsening recession.
The Johnson administration's Office of Economic Opportunity
included a controversial community action program.
In the 1980s, record national budget deficits resulted from
increased military spending. increased entitlement spending on programs such as Social Security. increased health care costs. large tax cuts.
The Gulf War of 1991 had its origins in an Iraqi decision to
invade Kuwait.
The Reagan Doctrine of opposing communism
led the United States to intervene in several Latin American nations.
By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had
little popular support.
During the 1950s, the general economic conditions of the United States included
low employment.
In February 1960, the first "sit-in" demonstration protesting segregation was held at a
lunch counter.
The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956
marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest.
In 1950, the immediate cause of the Korean War was the
military invasion by North Korea into South Korea.
In 1972, the Watergate scandal began with a break-in at the
offices of the Democratic National Committee.
Throughout the late 1960s,
opposition in the United States to the Vietnam War intensified.
In 1954, the American scientist Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for the prevention of
polio.
Only weeks after taking office, President Lyndon Johnson declared a "war" on
poverty.
In the 1960s, the youth counterculture
presented a fundamental challenge to American middle-class society.
Students for a Democratic Society was formed
primarily by white college students.
The Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
required authorities to inform a criminal suspect of his or her legal rights.
In 1974, Richard Nixon left the presidency after he
resigned.
"Stagflation" refers to
rising prices and a weak economy.
In the civil rights movement, the spirit of "massive resistance" is associated with
southern whites.
The assassin of Robert Kennedy had been angered by Kennedy's
statements in favor of Israel.
As president, Ronald Reagan
succeeded in making his personality a central feature of his presidency.
The election of 1952 saw
television play a significant role in the campaign.
The National Security Act of 1947 created
the National Security Council the Central Intelligence Agency the Department of Defense
In 1977, President Jimmy Carter supported treaties in which the United States gave up control of
the Panama Canal.
In the early 1980s, the country President Ronald Reagan described as an "evil empire" was
the Soviet Union.
In 1961, President John Kennedy believed the major struggle against communism in the future would be waged in
the Third World.
In the years immediately following World War II, the United States policy toward Asia saw
the Truman administration encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan.
The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated
the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world.
In 1979, Iranians who took American hostages demanded, in return for their release,
the United States' return of the shah of Iran.
Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was
the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.
In 1992, Bill Clinton's presidential campaign focused on
the condition of the economy.
In 1948, the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to
the creation of a unified West Germany.
President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for
the creation of national health insurance.
In April 1970, the antiwar movement was recharged by
the invasion by the United States of Cambodia.
The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose called for
the preservation of Indian heritage.
In 1974, former President Richard Nixon was pardoned by
the president.
President Gerald Ford's foreign policy actions included
the signing of an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union.
Under the terms of the 1954 Geneva Conference accords, Vietnam was
to hold elections in 1956.
In 1954, under John Foster Dulles's concept of "massive retaliation," the United States would
use nuclear weapons against communist aggression.
The Civil Rights Act of 1965 primarily focused on the issue of
voting rights.
Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech
was given during the largest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history to that point.
Between 1947-1950, Marshall Plan aid
was offered to the Soviet Union.
The Equal Pay Act
was passed by Congress in 1963.
After World War II, in Korea, the government of Syngman Rhee
was pro-Western.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson's Medicare program
was similar in design to the Social Security system.
In 1963, the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem
was supported by the Kennedy administration.
In 1983, the Reagan administration responded to a terrorist bombing in Beirut of American marine barracks by
withdrawing the remaining marines.