History spring semester finale
The passage of which law ended poll taxes?
24th amendment
Red Scare
A period of general fear of communists, evidence of Soviets are discovered in America and US nuclear secrets are stolen
The USA PATRIOT Act is an antiterrorist bill that allows the government to
Add more surveillance and intelligence to prevent future terrorist attacks
One of the more controversial acts passed during the Obama presidency, Healthcare was meant to be more accessible to everyone, especially the lower class in an act known as Obamacare, actually named...
Affordable care act
The September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center were conducted by...
Al-Qaeda
Ngo Dinh Diem
American ally in South Vietnam from 1954 to 1963; his repressive regime caused the Communist Viet Cong to thrive in the South and required increasing American military aid to stop a Communist takeover. he was killed in a coup in 1963.
Why did the United States attack Afghanistan and defeat its Taliban government?
Because of the 9/11 attack
What troops landed at the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Castro takes cuba
What is perhaps the main reason Bill Clinton won the 1992 election over George HW Bush?
Clinton was able to capitalize on public dissatisfaction with how the economy was at the time and how Bush handled domestic issues
President Clinton dealt with the fallout of America's first major school shooting at ...
Columbia High School
A UN resolution set a deadline for Iraq to take several actions including...
Cooperation with weapon inspectors
An economic recession was sparked in 2007 when many people with low incomes or poor credit began _____________________ and housing prices began to fall.
Defaulting on their mortgages
The Iron Curtain divided what?
Divided Europe into Western and Eastern bloc, Soviets ruled the West, and democracy rules the East.
Which US President ordered US troops to escort African American students in Little Rock, AR
Dwight D Eisenhower
Nixon argued that recordings of White House conversations should stay confidential to protect national security, a principle known as...
Executive Privilege
As cable television spread across the country in the late 1970s and 1980s, many of the new networks that appeared specialized in one type of broadcasting or
Focused on specific audiences
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed to divide Germany into four zones controlled by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and...
France
Which of the following nations was NOT represented amongst the Big 3?
Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United states.
In one of the first tests of the Obama administration, a massive oil spill in 2010 caused major environmental damage in...
Gulf of Mexico
George HW Bush sent troops to attack and arrest the Panama Dictator because...
He wanted their dictator out of control because he was racketeering and drug trafficking
Which of the following was a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 in the 1990s?
Increase in non-european immigrants
What prompted US intervention in the Persian Gulf War?
Iraq invaded Kuwait
The "axis of evil" as declared by George W Bush, was comprised of...
Iraq, Iran, and North Korea
Why was the Battle of Stalingrad important in World War II?
It stopped the German advance into the Soviet Union and marked the turning of the tide of war in favor of the Allies.
The military draft in the Vietnam War was very unpopular because...
It was very unpopular because many Americans were against the war in Vietnam as they saw it was not our fight and we should not be drafting American citizens to fight in a fight that is not ours
The Axis Powers would end up including Germany, Japan and .
Italy
The Peace Corps was focused on helping poor Latin American countries because...
JFK wanted to put educators, health workers and technicians in third world countries.
was a carefully planned night of violence against Jews in Germany and Austria that was staged by the Nazis to seem like a spontaneous outpouring of popular anger.
Kristallnacht
The No Child Left Behind Act rewarded public schools with government money grants for...
Meeting some educational standards and improving performance.
The Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961 because...
Moscow wanted the division of Berlin to be permanent, JFK bulked up the military and in response the USSR built the wall almost overnight.
Which organization was responsible for the success of the Brown v Board case?
NAACP
What exactly happened at Kent State?
National guardsmen fired on protesters
One of the new political parties to rise during the political and economic chaos in Germany after World War I was the National Socialist German Workers' Party, also known as the...
Nazi
D-Day, the allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe happened on the beaches of...
Normandy, France
The worst act of domestic terrorism in US history happened in ____________________ during the Clinton Presidency in 1995.
Oklahoma city
The significant moment of the march at Selma was...
On the first day of the march peaceful protesters were brutally attacked by state troopers and this became known as bloody sunday.
During the Obama presidency, US troops in a covert operation, tracked down and eliminated ______________________ in a hidden compound in Pakistan.
Osama Bin Laden
The biggest reason Jimmy Carter won the election of 1976 was because he was a...
Peanut Farmer with no political ties to washington, he seemed to be uncorrupt unlike the previous president
Causes of Stagflation include all the following ...
Persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country's economy
The "Me" generation of the 80s focused on their...
Personal rights
Truman Doctrine
President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
The Department of Homeland Security was created to coordinate efforts to
Protect the united states from terrorist attacks
In 1973 a big change in abortion laws and the right to privacy came with
Roe V. Wade and Planned Parenthood V. Casey
In a scandal that tainted President Reagan's second term in office, money from the secret sale of weapons to Iran was given to the...
Taliban
The tax cut President Reagan won from Congress would increase the budget deficit, so Reagan proposed ____________________ to keep the deficit under control.
Tax Cuts and strengthening military
What movement was sparked in Berkeley, California, when the University of California decided to restrict students' rights to distribute literature and to recruit volunteers for political causes on campus?
The Berkeley free speech movement is a movement of college students challenging the campus regulations on their free speech.
Why didn't the ERA become law?
The ERA was not ratified to the Constitution because the deadline passed without having the necessary support from three-fourths of states. Congress does not have the authority to change a resolution that proposes a constitutional amendment after it is submitted to the states or after the deadline is reached.
The Grape Boycott organized by the UFW significantly benefited which group the most?
The Mexican- American Laborers
In 1966 Betty Friedan and others founded ____________________, a new organization that reflected the diverse goals of the modern feminist movement.
The National Organization For Women
How did Navajo soldiers help the Allies regain islands in the Pacific during the war?
The Navajo Code Talkers participated in all assaults the U.S. Marines led in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945, including Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Peleliu and Iwo Jima. The Code Talkers conveyed messages by telephone and radio in their native language, a code that was never broken by the Japanese notes ww2
Jimmy Carter signed a treaty giving away the US possession of ...
The Panama Canal
Two major causes of the rise of dictatorships after World War I were
The Treaty of Versailles and economic depression.
Which event finally brought the United States into World War II?
The attack on Pearl Harbour
The last, desperate German offensive of the war became known as
The battle of the Bulge
What had its roots in a computer networking system established by an agency of the U.S. Defense Department?
The computer networking system by an agency of the U.S defense department
The Watergate Scandal was centered around a break-in at...
The democratic headquarters
What happened at Love Canal?
The electrochemical Company also known as OXY dumped over 21,000 tons of chemicals in the love canal.
Credibility gap in Vietnam
The gap was between what the Johnson administration reported and what was really happening.
The United States would be the first nation to...
The moon
The Nazis' "final solution" referred to their plans to
The term "Final Solution" was a euphemism used by the Nazis to refer to their plan for the annihilation of the Jewish people.
Freedom Riders rode their buses...
These were civil rights activists that would participate in freedom rides through the south to protest segregated buses.
The Iran Hostage Crisis happened in the last year of Carter's presidency when...
They stormed the embassy in Tehran, the hostages were released the day Carter left office
What weapon was used by the US to clear away the jungle so enemy troops could not hide?
They used napalm to burn down the vegetation.
How many atomic bombs were dropped by the US on Japan?
Two atomic bombs were dropped
In the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev promised to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba if Kennedy promised to not invade Cuba and...
US missiles from Turkey
In its 1978 University of California Regents v. Bakke decision, the Supreme Court ruled that
Universities racial quotas were unconstitutional
The recession that began in 1990 was caused in part by the end of the Cold War, because the United States
Was reducing its armed forces and canceling orders for military equipment
Native Americans had an armed standoff with the FBI at which site?
Wounded Knee
Which of the following was one purpose of President Nixon's trip to China?
a bridge for diplomatic bonds between the U.S and China
The Court Case Miranda vs Arizona ruled that...
an arrested individual is entitled to rights against self-incrimination and to an attorney under the 5th and 6th Amendments of the United States Constitution.
Mobilizing the American economy for World War II created almost 19 million new jobs and
an end to the Great Depression
At first, Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands, a policy known as
appeasement
Mussolini, dictator of Italy, exploited the public's fears by portraying fascism as a bulwark against...
communists
Among the major causes of the Cold War were arguments between the US and USSR over reparations and...
economic policy in Germany.
The 14th amendment guarantees what?
equal protection under the law, citizenship to all persons "born or naturalized in the United States," including formerly enslaved people
The purpose of the Nuremberg Trials was to...
for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice. The Nazi War Criminals killed 6 million European Jews and 4 to 6 million non-jews. The point of the trials was for the Nazi's to be tried for their crimes not immediately executed.
The process by which the world is becoming increasingly interconnected is called
globalization
With the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Congress, in effect...
handed its power to the president
Americans were shocked in 1953 when the Soviet Union tested the first
hydrogen bomb
The collapse of the Soviet Union's economy that began in the late 1980s was caused by...
inefficient central planning and huge expenditures in the arms race
As Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak were creating their computer company, 19-year-old Harvard dropout Bill Gates co-founded _____________ to design PC software
microsoft
Gerald Ford's first action as President was to ______________ former President Richard Nixon.
pardon
During the 1960 election campaign, television aired its first
presidential debate
President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur in 1951 when MacArthur...
publicly criticized the president's policy of limited war
Students in Greensborough, NC successfully integrated many businesses by...
sit-ins
Although liberals tend to favor government intervention in the economy, they are generally suspicious of the government to regulate
social behavior
In the 1970s, OPEC placed an oil embargo on countries that ______________________, including the United States.
supported Isreal
The secret American program to build an atomic bomb was called...
the Manhattan project
Many of the Jewish refugees aboard the SS St. Louis...
the St. Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution. The refugees first tried to disembark in Cuba but were denied permission to land.
Who became a major symbol of the Black Power movement sweeping through the country in the 1960s?
the black panthers
Medicare ensured whom
the elderly
The court ruled in Korematsu vs US that...
the evacuation order violated by Korematsu was valid, and it was not necessary to address the constitutional racial discrimination issues in this case.
Which of the following was NOT one of FDR's Four Freedoms?
the freedom of speech, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear
Which nation was involved in Vietnam shortly before the United States?
the french
The 2000 presidential election was determined by the contested results of
vote count in Florida
