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How did racism influence the growth of the modern Republican Party?

Democrats took the lead in passing civil rights legislation, pushing many white Americans toward the Republican Party

How did Ronald Reagan win over the Religious Right?

Denouncing abortion and advocating prayer in schools

Who first advocated the policy of containment?

George Kennan

What did Lyndon Johnson call his domestic program?

Great society

Why was Douglas MacArthur removed from command?

He was publicly insubordinate to the Commander in Chief

What was the primary guiding principle of Carter's foreign policy during his early years in office?

Human rights

Which of the following did NOT result from American commitments to free trade?

Increased dominance of American exports

All of the following aspects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 are true EXCEPT:

Increased federal revenues

Which of the following took place in the 1990s, representing a new trend in immigration?

Increased immigration to the American South

The Great Recession began when

Increasingly risky mortgages were bundled & sold as investments

Britain and France declared war on Germany after which invasion?

Invasion of Poland

Which of the following instigated the First Gulf War, also known as Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm?

Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

Neoconservative ideology included which of the following?

It believed Johnson's Great Society perpetuated poverty & racial segregation

Who coined the term "affluent society?"

John Kenneth Galbraith

All of the following distinguish millennials from earlier generations EXCEPT

Less likely to have traveled

The prototypical suburban neighborhood was _____.

Levittown

Which of the following best describes global economic trends in the early 1990s?

Liberalized economic laws and rising international investment

Joseph McCarthy first achieved national prominence in February 1950 by waving a piece of paper that he claimed included 205 communists currently working in what capacity?

Members of the department of state

In the mid-1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) experienced a transformation. This transformation included all of the following EXCEPT

Merging with the Black Panther Party

Which leader of the Soviet Union advocated the projects of glasnost and perestroika?

Mikhail Gorbachev

What is the name of the University of Chicago economist who helped to develop the intellectual position of libertarian economics

Milton Friedman

How did American liberals change their views of poverty during the 1960s?

More and more saw poverty from the failure of individuals to take full advantage of the American system

The sexual revolution resulted in which of the following?

More assertiveness on the part of gay rights advocates

In 2012, nearly _______ of all Americans were immigrants or the sons or daughters of immigrants.

One fourth

How did the United States respond to the independence movement in Vietnam?

Opposed Vietnamese independence and supported French attempts to retain its colonial control

Before turning to military expansionism, Japanese leaders were also considering which of the following strategies?

Pan-Asian Anti-Colonialism

Who was the leader of the movement to stop the Equal Rights Amendment?

Phyllis Schlafly

According to economists at JP Morgan Chase, what was the greatest factor in the unprecedented profit margins of the early 2000s?

Reductions in wages and benefits

Results of the crack-up of American "mass" culture included

Smaller, segmented subcultures

American minority groups in the 1960s

Sought political and economic power

Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin?

Soviet Union

Which of the following best characterized German military tactics?

Speed and maneuverability

What was the top tax rate during World War II?

94%

What was the message of NSC-68?

A call for a tripling of the annual defense budget for the purpose of stopping communism

How did federal housing programs discriminate against Americans of color?

All of these

Obamacare provided which of the following?

All of these

President Nixon's "Vietnamization" included

All of these

Robert Bork was denied an appointment to the Supreme Court because

All of these

The anti-war movement was spurred on by

All of these

The decline of labor in Detroit was due to

All of these

The origins of the Vietnam War lay in _____.

All of these

What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?

All of these

What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?

All of these

What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?

All of these

Which of the following are hallmarks of Donald Trump's immigration policy?

All of these

Which of the following enabled the rising purchase of consumer goods?

All of these

Why did President Clinton fail to secure universal healthcare?

All of these

Why was Emmett Till murdered?

Allegedly whistling at a white woman

What was the name of the 1950s counterculture that rejected the values of conformity and domesticity?

Beats

When was the Atlantic Charter issued?

Before the United States entered World War II

The 1968 Democratic National Convention included massive protests and violent reprisals by police. Where did this convention meet?

Chicago

The cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was which program?

Community action

Between 1948 and 1955 close to ____ of the nation's households purchased a television set.

Two-thirds

What happened at My Lai?

U.S. troops massacred hundreds of civilians

George H. W. Bush defeated Michael Dukakis by doing all of the following EXCEPT

Updating New Deal programs for a new era

The presidential election of 1984 convinced the Democratic Party that its future lied with what group?

Upwardly mobile professionals and suburbanites

How did Jimmy Carter respond to the economic crises of the late 1970s?

Using approaches championed by conservatives including deregulation, spending cuts, and tax cuts

Causes of the crisis of 1968 included

Vietnam War

All of the following are true about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the ensuing resolution EXCEPT

Served as justification for the assassination of Ngo Diem

President Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 partially in response to what event in Selma, Alabama?

"Bloody Sunday," the beating of peaceful marchers by police officers

Approximately how many civilians were killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

180,000

The Dow Jones Industrial Average-which stood at 950 in 1981-reached _______ by the end of Reagan's second term.

2,239

Approximately how many women served in the military during WWII?

350,000

Of the over 110,000 Japanese-descended Americans who were detained in internment camps, approximately how many were American citizens?

70,000

A thirty-seven year old white engineer, Bernard Goetz, shot and seriously wounded four black teenagers on a subway car because he suspected the young men-armed with screwdrivers- planned to rob him. What percentage of white New Yorkers sympathized with Goetz?

90%

Who first challenged segregation on buses?

Sarah Keys

The sexual revolution was characterized by

A de-coupling of sex from marriage & procreation

Occupy Wall St. & the Tea Party represented

A divide over responsibility for the 2007 crash and the role of government

What was the "Nixon Doctrine?"

A military policy of détente

All of the following led to the economic development of the Sun Belt EXCEPT

A resurgence in southern agriculture

All of the following occurred during the Clinton administration EXCEPT

Allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the military

What was the first military action taken by the United States against international communism?

American soldiers fought against the Red Army during the Russian civil war

How did the first freedom ride end?

Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped

The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when __________

Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) mimicked policy proposals buy all of the following politicians EXCEPT

Bill Clinton

The Kerner Commission explained urban riots as the result of which of the following?

Black frustration with the hopelessness of urban poverty

Which of the following phrases best describes "Reagan Democrats?"

Blue-collar voters who lost faith in the liberal creed

President Clinton presided over an economy

Boosted by the computer boom

Congressional opposition from which faction plagued Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration?

Both

Which of the following right wing think tanks were created in the first decade following WWII?

Both of these

How did President Eisenhower attempt to prevent a Soviet Attack on the United States?

By promising "massive retaliation" and appealing to the logic of "mutually-assured destruction"

What was the primary political issue that Carter used in his presidential campaign?

Carter's campaign focused less on issues than on his background as a hardworking, honest, Southern Baptist

The most well-known figure of the Chicano movement was _____.

Cesar Chavez

The Religious Right built a powerful coalition that united conservative evangelicals with what other influential voting group?

Conservative Catholics

Which group first promoted the idea that drug use could remedy feelings of alienation?

Counterculture activists

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?

Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination

The churches most common in suburban America tended most frequently celebrated which of the following cultural values?

Economic Individualism

The National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) differed from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) because the NIYC

Employed direct action tactics and more combative rhetoric

What was the subject of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?

Environmental dangers of pesticides

The "Reagan Revolution" is characterized as

Evangelicals as Republicans

Which of the following industries experienced the most economic growth under Reagan?

Financial Services

What was the relationship between the federal government and economic growth in the aftermath of World War II?

Federal spending created more economic growth

Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique focused on what primary issue?

Feelings of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife

Which of the following best describes the marketing techniques of early television executives?

Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience

Who was the civil rights leader that emerged from the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Which of the following best describes the ruling of Citizens United v. FEC?

No limits could be placed on political spending by corporations, unions, and nonprofits

What initially sparked the 1973 energy crisis?

OPEC's embargo of oil exports to the United States in retaliation for American intervention in the Middle East

Advertisers in the 1960s innovated by beginning to emphasize which of the following traits as a means of selling products?

Rebellion and individuality

What was the intention of the War Powers Resolution?

Reduce the president's ability to wage war without congressional consent

Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion hinged on what legal idea?

Right of privacy

What became the most popular form of music in the 1950s?

Rock-n-roll

What was the primary rationale used to justify the Iraq War?

Saddam Hussein's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction

Who organized the first sit-ins?

Students

Which of the following nations were not a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

Sweden

"Trickle down" economics argued that

Tax breaks for corporations would result in new jobs & higher wages

The "credibility gap" was aggravated by

Tet offensive

Why did the United States fail to help more of the decolonization independence movements during the 1940s - 1970s?

The Cold War alliance with Western Europe led the United States to support many colonial powers

The Albany Movement, centered in Albany, Georgia, drew on Christian commitments to social justice and united all of the following Civil Rights groups EXCEPT

The Southern Baptist Convention

The 2000 presidential election was decided when

The Supreme Court ruled that the automatic recount had to cease immediately

Which of the following best describes the "Reagan Doctrine?"

The United States committed to supplying aid to anti-communist forces everywhere in the world

How did the United States respond to Japanese aggression in the Pacific?

The United States denounced Japanese aggression, but took no action

Which of the following best describes the so-called Bush Doctrine?

The United States should act unilaterally and preemptively to fight terrorism

What was the relationship between the war in Vietnam and spending on domestic programs?

The cost of waging the war in Vietnam undercut domestic poverty spending.

The wave of politicians, called New Democrats, advocated all of the following EXCEPT

The end of mass incarceration

Which of the following statements regarding the Iran Contra Affair are true?

The goal was the raise money to support the anti-Sandinista government in Nicaragua

Why was the federal government slow to respond to the AIDS crisis?

The issue disproportionately affected gay Americans, a marginalized group

How did Reagan's first budget immediately impact the national debt?

The national debt increased dramatically

What prompted President Roosevelt to pass Executive Order 8802?

The planned march on Washington led by A. Philip Randolph

Why were the Foundation for Economic Education and the Mount Perilin Society formed?

To challenge the Keynesian economics model of government fiscal and monetary regulation

Why did Dwight Eisenhower decide to run for president in 1952?

To keep the Republican Party from becoming too economically conservative and destroying itself


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