Midterm History Test

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The the Persian Gulf War, the United States

1) helped free Kuwait from Iraqi control 2) was one of 28 nations allied for Operation Desert Storm 3)called for a cease-fire after just six weeks of fighting

The baby boom

1.) peaked in 1957 2.) was a large part of a 30% growth in American populations between 1945 and 1960 3.) paralleled a similar boom in consumer demand

America's economic prosperity in the 1950s was fueled by

1.)increased public funding of schools, housing, veterans' benefits, welfare, and interstate highways 2.)massive military spending inspired by the Cold War 3.) the "baby boom" and the rapid expansion of the suburbs

Which of the following was the most significant foreign policy accomplishment of President Jimmy Carter?

Camp David Accords

The "silent majority" referred to

Conservative working and middle class citizens

The most serious conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Kennedy administration occurred over

Cuba

The Twenty-sixth Amendment

Gave 18 year olds the right to vote

Under the Truman Doctrine, Congress initially approved economic aid to

Greece and Turkey

The mood of the "Beat Generation" is best reflected in which of the following?

Jack Kerouac's One the Road

Which of the following was NOT a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council?

Japan

The author of "letter from Birmingham City Jail" was

Martin Luther King Jr.

The name of Rosa Parks is usually identified with the

Montgomery bus boycott

Anti-feminism achieved greatest victory by

Successfully blocking ratification for the Equal Rights Amendment

The essential element of the policy of containment was

a commitment to holding communism within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

The book, Silent Spring

argued that the use of DDT was dangerous to the entire food chain

The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to

assure the re-election of Nixon in 1972

Truman removed General Douglas MacArthur

because MacArthur openly criticized the president for not wanting to fight communist China.

President Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy sought to

build up South Vietnamese forces to fight for themselves and replace American troops

In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court

cited sociological and psychological finding in support of its decision

The descriptive term that would best describe the culture of the 1950s is

conformity

During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States

continued to support Chiang Kai-shek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost

Which of the following events occurred second in chronological order? a.) the abandonment of American Embassy in Saigon b.) the French defeat of by Vietnamese c.) the Tet Offensive d.) the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese leader

d.) the assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese leader

Critics of McCarthyism in the 1950s stressed the idea that...

fears of subversion can lead to the erosion of constitutional liberties

Ronald Reagan

had at one time supported FDR's New Deal

When President Carter sent American commandos to rescue the American hostages in Iran

helicopter failures forced the mission's abortion

The Stonewall riots helped forge a new sense of solidarity among

homosexuals

Automobile production in the postwar years

increased

Concerning Vietnam, President Kennedy

increased the number of American "advisers" there.

all are true about tv in the 1950s except...

it relied heavily on programming that included the variety show and violent dramas

Which statement concerning African-Americans' movement for civil rights in the 1960s is accurate?

it stimulated the growth of other reform movements

The Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in 1957 immediately led to

massive federal aid to American higher education focusing on math and science programs.

In the campaign of 1980, Reagan promised to cut all the following EXCEPT

military spending

Which of the following made the Ford administration different from any other in the history of the United States

neither the president nor the vice president had been elected to the office they filled

The author of The Feminine Mystique

protested against the blissful domesticity of American women after World War II

The Bay of Pigs incident

resulted in the capture of 1,200 men

The Pentagon Papers...

revealed that Congress and the american people had not been told the full story of the Tonkin Gulf War

The SALT agreement

set limits on certain nulcear weapons

The United Nations was able to provide military assistance to South Korea in 1950 because

the USSR boycotted the session of the Security Council at which the decision was made

President Carter said American foreign policy should be based on

the defense of human rights

All of the following contributed to a "sexual revolution" during the 1960s EXCEPT

the elimination of all state laws infringing on a woman's right to an abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy

The strength of the 1950s economy was due to

the growth of business and economic opportunities

Home ownership in Levittown in the 1950s was stimulated by all of the following EXCEPT

the migration of African-Americans from the ghettos to the suburbs

The United States entered the Korean War

without declaration of war by Congress

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

A. were executed for supposedly giving the Russians the secret to the atomic bomb.

Concerning homosexuals in the military, President Clinton?

Adopted a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy

As his vice presidential running mate, Bill Clinton chose

Al Gore

Bill Clinton was born and raised in

Arkansas

Fourteen months after making the pledge of "no new taxes," President Bush angered many

Republicans by promoting a tax increase bill

Each of the following presidents were impeached from office EXCEPT

Richard Nixon

Who said "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem?

Ronald Reagan


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