US History 27-30 Quiz

Phyllis Schlafly was a leader in the

campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment.

In the Birmingham campaign in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from

changing southern white attitudes to confrontation and civil disobedience.

Causes of the economic malaise of the 1970s included

competition in international markets.

Reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Empire included all of the following, except

demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

Nixon's freeze of wages and prices in 1971

did little to reinvigorate the economy.

In 1987, Reagan signed a treaty with Mikhail Gorbachev

eliminating intermediate-range nuclear weapons.

The Stonewall riots sparked a movement for

gay rights.

Jimmy Carter's 1976 victory can be attributed to

his strong support among southern African Americans.

By 1971, the New Left had declined as a political movement because

it had abandoned its democratic and pacifist principles.

In 1968, Nixon's "southern strategy" involved

promising to proceed slowly when enforcing civil rights laws.

During the Watergate crisis Nixon was not accused of

stealing funds from his reelection campaign.

Demographic forces favorable to Reagan and conservatism included growth in the

sunbelt population.

The greatest protests against Nixon's Vietnam policy came after

the Cambodian incursion.

The freedom rides were organized by

the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

In 1968, the correct order of events was

the Tet offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Democratic convention in Chicago.

The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) were all part of

the War on Poverty.

Which of these was an important manifestation of the counterculture?

the Woodstock music festival in 1969

The free-speech movement attacked

the modern university.

President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come" after

the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Reagan won the election of 1980 because of all of the following except

the resurgence of Great Society liberalism.

In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled on

the rights of a person accused of a crime.

President Johnson decided to escalate the war in Vietnam

to contain communism in the Far East.

Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a sit-in to demand service at a "whites-only" lunch counter.

1960

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the birth control pill.

1960

Bay of Pigs fiasco takes place; the Soviets erect the Berlin Wall.

1961

Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique is published.

1963

Congress passes the Civil Rights Act.

1964

Riots break out in the African American community of Watts, California; Malcolm X is assassinated by a rival group of black Muslims.

1965

Ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment gives eighteen year-olds the right to vote in all elections.

1971

The Watergate scandal unfolds.

1972-1974

Congress passes the War Powers Act.

1973

The Watergate was

An office building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 election, and a massive cover-up of break-in whereby it became clear that President Nixon was lying to the American people.

Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.

April 1968

Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.

April 1975

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is held.

August 1963

Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution.

August 1964

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" said

Barry Goldwater.

In fighting Iraq in Desert Storm, the Bush administration

Built an alliance of over thirty countries, fought a relatively short campaign of just six weeks, and failed to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

By 1966, participants in the black power movement demanded voting rights and declared they would burn the cities until that was accomplished.

False

In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," police commissioner "Bull" Connor criticized the civil rights protesters.

False

In the 1988 election, George H. W. Bush defeated Jimmy Carter.

False

In the 1992 election, Bill Clinton won with about 50 percent of the vote.

False

John F. Kennedy constantly worked hard to achieve full civil rights for African Americans.

False

Operation Desert Storm involved sending U.S. troops into Romania to support democratic, anti-Communist forces.

False

President Gerald Ford's full pardon of Nixon was a popular act that ended the nightmare of Watergate.

False

President Nixon vetoed both the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

False

Richard J. Daley urged people to "tune in, turn on, drop out."

False

Ronald Reagan led the crusade to find a cure for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS.)

False

The 1968 Republican convention in Chicago was the scene of tumultuous riots.

False

The American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee in 1973 to show its support for the desegregation of schools.

False

The Carter administration supported a fundamentalist Muslim leader in Iran against the westernized shah of Persia.

False

The Iran-Contra affair involved using Sandinistas to fight Saddam Hussein.

False

The Nixon administration's most innovative domestic proposal was the use of busing for school integration.

False

Two years after the Vietnam War ended, South Vietnam took control of the North.

False

As a result of the Immigration Act of 1965, the majority of future immigrants were

Hispanics and Asians.

The Viet Cong stage the Tet offensive.

January 1968

In Paris, the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong agree to restore peace in Vietnam.

January 1973

Robert Kennedy is assassinated.

June 1968

U.S. planes begin a fourteen-month-long bombing campaign aimed at Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.

March 1969

Kennedy called his political program the

New Frontier.

John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

November 1963

The Cuban missile crisis occurs.

October 1962

The George H. W. Bush administration sent American troops into

Panama.

The Port Huron Statement

Reflected the ideals of the New Left, was drafted by Tom Hayden, and was influenced by African American activists in the South.

In 1968, the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was

Richard Nixon.

Nixon sought to lessen criticism of the Vietnam War by

Slowly reducing the number of American troops there, creating a lottery to determine who would be drafted, and using more air strikes rather than ground warfare.

By December 1991,

The Soviet Union was no longer in existence, The United States was the only dominant military power in the world, and Saddam Hussein still controlled Iraq.

At Kent State University in Ohio, and Jackson State in Mississippi, students were killed by members of the National Guard who were present to quell anti-war protests.

True

Betty Friedan was a leading feminist who helped to launch the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.

True

Détente was an easing of tensions between the United States and the Communist powers initiated by Richard Nixon.

True

In 1968, George C. Wallace, a defender of segregation, received over 13 percent of the popular vote for president as the nominee of the American Independent party.

True

In 1990, with the collapse of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe, Germany was reunited as one country for the first time since World War II.

True

In the 1960 presidential election, Richard M. Nixon carried more states than Kennedy did.

True

Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, a movement of the religious right.

True

Jimmy Carter created the departments of Energy and Education.

True

Jimmy Carter succeeded in negotiating a treaty to return the Panama Canal to Panama.

True

Kuwait was invaded by Iraq when it raised its price for oil in opposition to the policy of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

True

Malcolm X was a leader in the Black Muslim movement.

True

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

True

Nixon's vice-president, Spiro Agnew, had resigned before the Watergate scandal was concluded because it was discovered that he had been accepting bribes from contractors.

True

Of all the minorities in the 1960s, the plight of the Native Americans was desperate.

True

President Kennedy's program to help Latin America was called the Alliance for Progress.

True

President Lyndon B. Johnson was truly committed to civil rights.

True

Reagan argued that cutting taxes and domestic federal spending would increase government revenues.

True

Reagan was unsuccessful at curbing the federal deficit, and it nearly tripled during his eight years in office.

True

Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female justice on the Supreme Court.

True

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.

True

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used its oil reserves as a political and economic weapon after the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

True

The Port Huron Statement launched Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which adopted the term "New Left" for their efforts at grassroots democracy.

True

The Tet offensive had a great effect on U.S. public opinion as opposition to the Vietnam War grew.

True

The Tonkin Gulf resolution sanctioned America's escalation of the Vietnam conflict.

True

The War Powers Act requires a president to withdraw troops sent abroad after sixty days, unless Congress specifically authorizes a longer stay.

True

Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act dealt with affirmative action for women.

True

The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the

Vienna Summit.

The march from Selma to Montgomery emphasized

Voting Rights.

Michael Harrington's The Other America influenced the

War on Poverty.

In the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy ordered

a quarantine of Cuba.

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that

abortion within the first three months of pregnancy was a constitutionally protected right.

Crucial ingredients of Reaganomics did not involve

balancing the budget.

Carter's most significant accomplishment in foreign policy was

brokering a treaty between Israel and Egypt.