history 1302 final
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was created by the:
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:
Great Society
As a result of the Truman Doctrine:
Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism
Essential to breaking the Watergate case was the testimony before the Ervin committee of White House legal counsel:
John Dean
In South Vietnam in the early 1960s:
Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers
The African American writer who explored the theme of social alienation in Invisible Man was:
Ralph Ellison
The 1991 Persian Gulf War resulted in:
Saddam Hussein remaining in power
The 1948 election is probably best remembered for:
Truman's upset victory
Opposing Iraq in the Gulf War was:
a coalition of over thirty nations
The crucial development in the Soviet Union in August 1991 was:
a failed Communist coup
The Nixon Doctrine implied a foreign policy that was shaped more by:
a need to be selective in its commitments abroad
Economists coined the term stagflation in the early 1970s to describe:
a simultaneously stagnant economy with inflationary prices
Bush's major legislative victory in 2001 came with Congress's passage of:
a tax cut
The legislation passed by Congress at Johnson's urging in 1965 included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Medicare b. funds for urban renewal and public housing c. anti-poverty aid to Appalachia d. government guarantee of full employment e. massive federal aid to education D
Jimmy Carter's victory in the 1976 election was aided by all of the following EXCEPT:
a. his electoral strength in the South b. his non-Washington background in the aftermath of Watergate c. a huge voter turnout d. his promise to be an honest president e. Ford's less-than-impressive presidential record C
The Korean War did all of the following EXCEPT:
a. last into Eisenhower's presidency b. result in more than 2 million total casualties c. bring about major changes in boundaries d. increase fears of domestic Communist subversion e. leave one part of Korea still Communist C
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did all of the following EXCEPT:
a. paralyze the United States in fear and disunity b. kill about 3,000 people c. include the Pentagon as a target d. destroy the twin towers of the World Trade Center e. turn the lower end of Manhattan into a hellish scene A
Early in Reagan's presidency, all of the following were increasing EXCEPT:
a. poverty levels b. defense spending c. budget deficits d. cuts in social programs e. tax revenues E
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
a. support for space exploration b. the creation of the Peace Corps c. the Alliance for Progress d. the passage of a large tax cut e. the Housing Act D
All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:
a. the Central Intelligence Agency b. the Department of Defense c. the National Security Council d. the Department of Homeland Security e. the Joint Chiefs of Staff D
All of the following were arguments in favor of health-care reform EXCEPT:
a. the need to contain soaring medical costs b. the huge number of people without health insurance c. the costs to businesses of insuring their employees d. the idea that health alliances would benefit everyone e. the support of drug companies and the insurance industry for reform E
All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:
a. the primary suspect was Lee Harvey Oswald b. Jack Ruby shot and killed the suspected assassin c. the Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen d. it occurred in Dallas on November 22, 1963 e. so many of the related events were watched on television C
During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:
abolishing Social Security
The conservative mood of the mid-1990s especially manifested itself in a number of court rulings that limited:
affirmative action
The Republican Contract with America:
aimed to reduce big government and limit the welfare state
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947:
allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes
Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as:
an evil empire
One of Johnson's major goals in Vietnam was to:
avoid losing it to communism
The Christian Coalition:
became a major political force in the 1990s
With the end of World War II, Korea:
became divided into northern and southern halves
The Cuban missile crisis:
brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war
Nixon's southern strategy involved winning southern support by:
capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:
challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy"
The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:
cold war-related military spending
Bush's goal as president seemed to be to:
consolidate Reagan's policies and achievements
As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:
cutting taxes
In his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail," Martin Luther King:
declared his willingness to break unjust laws
The Tet offensive of early 1968:
dramatically affected public support for Johnson's war policy
By the mid-1960s, Martin Luther King had decided to:
emphasize the need for economic uplift for the black urban poor
Most Americans personally encountered the war on terror at home by:
enduring more extensive airport security and screening
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:
enlarge the New Deal
The energy crisis of the early 1970s increased support for:
environmentalism
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique:
explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women
All of the following are true of Cesar Chavez EXCEPT that he:
failed to secure collective bargaining rights for farm workers
Truman fired MacArthur:
for insubordination
In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:
generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans
The dramatic growth in American exports in the last years of the twentieth century was mainly indicative of:
globalization
Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" involved:
gradually reducing the number of American troops in Vietnam
The burglars arrested at the Watergate apartment complex:
had connections to the CIA and the Nixon campaign
During the 1950s, novelist John Updike observed:
he and other writers felt estranged "from a government that extolled business and mediocrity"
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:
high rates of inflation
The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:
his brother Robert
The collapse of stock prices that occurred on "Black Monday" (October 19, 1987):
in percentage terms, was the worst in American history
In retrospect, the Cold War was probably:
inevitable
In regard to Vietnam policy, Nixon:
insisted that he would pursue "peace with honor"
In late 1987, the United States and the Soviets signed a treaty to eliminate:
intermediate-range nuclear missiles
The Panamanian government of Manuel Noriega was at odds with the Bush administration because of its:
involvement in the drug trade
A sad legacy of Watergate was:
lasting damage to the image of the presidency
Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:
launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin
The welfare-reform measure passed by Congress in 1996:
limited the amount of time one could receive welfare payments
Dwight Eisenhower considered himself a:
moderate Republican
Revelations of the Iran-Contra affair indicated that Reagan had violated his pledge to never:
negotiate with terrorists
Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:
new construction of mass public transportation
Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he:
pardoned Nixon
In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in:
peacetime alliances
A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was:
population growth in the South and the West
The Bush Doctrine emphasized:
preemptive military action against terrorists and terrorist regimes
The major purpose of the passage of NAFTA was to:
promote freer trade with Canada and Mexico
One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:
racist nature of the enemies of the United States
In 2014, President Obama announced that the United States and Cuba were going to:
restore normal diplomatic relations
By the end of his presidency, Reagan had:
restored American confidence
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago:
resulted in massive rioting in the streets
When Islamic fanatics bombed and killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983, Reagan:
soon pulled out the remaining marines
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:
spend surplus funds in the federal budget
During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush:
stated his opposition to "nation building" overseas
In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:
struck down "separate but equal" in public education
During the 1980s, unions:
suffered steady declines in membership
The "silent majority":
supported politicians like Richard Nixon
Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:
the U.S. Army
The fundamental source of instability in the Balkans in the 1990s was:
the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991
One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:
the desire to combat "godless" communism
What was the major factor in the Republican takeover after the 1994 midterm election?
the health-care bill disaster
Elvis was especially controversial because of his:
the law
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:
the sit-in
The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:
the sunbelt
The DREAM Act of 2012 centered on what issue?
undocumented immigrants
By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:
uniformity
The Tonkin Gulf resolution:
was used by Johnson as a substitute for a declaration of war
The youths of the counterculture:
were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s
By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:
were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress