Abeka 11th Grade US History Test 11

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Lyndon B. Johnson liberal government program

Great society

Protest tactic promoted by Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolent resistance

What did the Soviet union form in 1955 in response to NATO?

Warsaw pact

When did president Johnson first send US Marines to Vietnam?

1965

When do the United States signed a cease-fire agreement with north Vietnam?

1973

What amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 ?

26th

To what situation was the fair housing act of 1968 a direct response?

A riot in a Los Angeles ghetto

Why did oil prices in the United States bike in the 1970s?

An embargo on oil by OPEC

Arizona senator who lost to Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential election

Barry Goldwater

During the Kennedy administration, the communist government of East Germany created what to hinder western influence in Berlin?

Berlin wall

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini decided to release the American hostages in Iran only after who was out of office?

Jimmy Carter

Albert Bruce Sabine and who introduced the polio vaccine and 1950s and 1960s?

Jonas Salk

Who was criticized for is excessive antagonism in investigating communist infiltration of United States?

Joseph McCarthy

Which American space probe was sent toward Venus?

Mariner 2

What was president Nixon accused of as part of the Watergate scandal?

Orchestrating it cover up and obstructing an investigation

Which president helped open trade relations with Commonish China by visiting there?

Richard Nixon

Leader of the Iranian revolution

Ruholla Khomeini

Not ratified by the Senate after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Salt II

Campaign promoted by Gerald Ford to stop inflation

Whip inflation now

What former communist party member gave testimony influential and convicting Alger Hiss?

Whittaker Chambers

Who commanded the US forces in south Vietnam?

William Westmoreland

Which statement accurately describes the end of the great depression?

The tight what time economy encouraged Americans to save more, creating a post war boom when they could again spend freely

Which of the following statement accurately describes Jimmy Carter's foreign-policy?

United States will not support authoritarian regimes even if they oppose communism

The Tet Offensive was a military ___for the United States

Victory

His journalism earned him the title of the most trusted man in America

Walter Cronkite

Foreign aid program proposed by Harry S Truman

Point four program

Author of Simon Spring and Pioneer in the environmentalist movement

Rachel Carson

The first president to resign from office was who?

Richard Nixon

Because the organization locked major regional powers like Japan in Indonesia, what proved to be in effective

SEATO

In 1967, Israel prevented an invasion by several Middle Eastern nations in the what?

Six day war

Vice president who resigned after he admitted to taking bribes and evading his income taxes

Spiro Agnew

Which statement accurately describes John F Kennedy's policy toward communist Cuba prior to the Cuban missile crisis?

The United States would attempt to isolate the Castro regime and eight Cuban attempts to overthrow it

Why was the Belgian Congo particularly susceptible to communism?

Belgium had never prepared the Belgian Congo for Independence or democracy as a British empire had done with most of her colonies

What event prevent the United Nations forces from driving communism from Korea?

Chinese intervention

What was the focus of the civil rights movement during the Eisenhower administration?

Desegregation

Foreign-policy promoted by Henry a Kissinger

Detente

What was the name of Manassas to me on space mission in the 1960s?

Gemini

What treated attempted to temporarily divide Vietnam and to provide for Democratic election in 1956?

Geneva accords

What democrat lost the 1972 election in a landslide to richArd Nixon?

George McGovern

What general try to create a coalition government China?

George catlett Marshall

First president of the AFL-CIO

George meany

Who was the only president to have never been elected to national office?

Gerald Ford

Who called his Welfare plan the Fair deal?

Harry S Truman

How did president Truman respond to General MacArthur's request for permission to Palm Chinese spaces and supply lines to North Korea?

He removed MacArthur

What did President Eisenhower envision for the United States after seeing a similar system in Germany during World War II?

Interstate Highway

Largest domestic building program in the US history

Interstate highway system

First black American baseball player to play for major league team?

Jackie Robinson

First black American to enroll at the University of Mississippi

James Meredith

In addition to Cambodia, what other south east Asian country also fell to communism after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam

Laos

Completed during the 1950s, what bridge was the longest suspension bridge at that time?

Mackinac straits bridge

what American atheist successfully complained for the removal of teacher lead prayer in public school?

Madelyn Murray O'Hare

What prominent black separate does leader criticize Martin Luther King Jr.'s tactics of campaigning for civil rights?

Malcolm X

Essay: describe the communist take over China after World War II. Name the leaders of both sides and detail the American role in the Chinese Civil War

Mao Zedong was the leader of the communist and chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of the nationalist United States attempted to create a coalition between Mao and Chiang but Chiang refused

What industry did the government heavily regulate after the 3 mile island incident?

Nuclear power


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