history

Germany and Russia agree to divide which country amongst themselves in their secret protocols? Selected Answer:

Poland

Which of the following was not an issue Walter Mondale raised in the 1984 Presidential Election?

Reagan's wife

An investigation into the Iran-Contra Affair found that

Reagan, while disengaged from managing his staff, did not know about its illegal actions.

Ronald Reagan appointed the first female Supreme Court Justice. What was her name?

Sandra Day O'Connor

The FDIC originally insured bank deposits up to which amount of money? Selected Answer:

Selected Answer: $5,000

Fascist ideologies taken from the extreme left of the political spectrum include all of the following except:

Selected Answer: Capitalism

1 out of 1 points What policy was meant to end U.S. involvement in the war and expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces?

Selected Answer: Vietnamization

What intelligence breakthrough allowed the Allies to anticipate the Japanese attack at Midway? Selected Answer:

Solving of the Japanese fleet codes

The National Defense Education Act of 1958 was in response to what event? Selected Answer:

Soviet Union sending Sputnik into orbit

Which New Deal program was controversial for providing and selling electricity?

TVA

Reaganomics called for what?

Tax cuts across all economic classes with the idea that the wealthy would invest more

What was the common name for the governmental program that handed out money to people (that many considered shameful) during the Great Depression?

The Dole

What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis? Selected Answer:

The Soviets building missile bases in Cuba

What event turned the majority of the American people against the Vietnam War? Selected Answer:

The Tet Offensive

What were the ultimate driving factors for Reagan's political opinions?

The ideas of America and the goodness of its people

All of the following happened because of Reagan's economic policies except:

The savings rate went up

What was Nancy Reagan's slogan during the War on Drugs?

"Just Say No!"

What did Bert the Turtle remind us to do when we see the flash? Selected Answer

: Duck and cover!

How did Eisenhower facilitate Joseph McCarthy's loss of popularity with the American public? Selected Answer:

Allowed McCarthy to broadcast his Army Hearings on television

What did the ABM Treaty attempt to limit? Selected Answer:

Anti-ballistic missile complexes

Jimmy Carter did all of the following to reduce energy usage during the Energy Crisis except: Selected Answer:

Asked Americans to not use hot water in the shower

What wall was Reagan referencing when he stated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"?

Berlin Wall

Which court case ended segregation in public schools? Selected Answer:

Brown v. Board of Education

Nixon was able to flip which one time Soviet ally to be an American ally with a weeklong visit in 1972? Selected Answer:

China

George Kennan was the architect of which successful American foreign policy? Selected Answer:

Containment Policy

The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937 was also known as what?

Court Packing Scheme

What new street drug appeared in the 1980s that swept across the nation?

Crack

The Emergency Banking Act did all of the following except:

Created the FDIC

1 out of 1 points What was the term for the "thawing out" of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s?

Détente

The "Reagan Revolution" consisted of all of the following policies except:

Eliminating Social Security and Medicare

What are Ethel and Julius Rosenberg famous for? Selected Answer:

Given information of the atomic bomb

What event escalated the war in Vietnam under LBJ? Selected Answer:

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

1 out of 1 points The main purpose of the Federal Emergency Relief Act was to do what?

Hand out money to the unemployed

Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam? Selected Answer:

Ho Chi Minh

Which House Committee held hearings and called witnesses to speak about communist influence in America?

House Un-American Activities Committee

What did Winston Churchill call the division between capitalist Western Europe and communist controlled Eastern Europe? Selected Answer:

Iron Curtain

The Agricultural Adjustment Act is considered a massive failure for all of the following reasons except: Selected Answer:

It was ruled unconstitutional Double taxed"

Which president is to blame for the botched Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba? Selected Answer:

JFK

Why was the meeting between Eisenhower and Khrushchev cancelled at a summit of world leaders in Paris in 1960? Selected Answer:

Khrushchev captured an American spy plane over Russia

All of the following were part of JFK's domestic policy except: Selected Answer:

Lower the minimum wage

Truman instituted which program that investigated the backgrounds of federal employees to ensure the employees were not communist? Selected Answer:

Loyalty Check

Which territory did Japan take in 1931 that violated the Open Door Policy? Selected Answer:

Manchuria

Which agency, created by Nixon, provides warnings on dangerous weather, charts the skies and oceans, guides the use and protection of ocean and coastal resources? Selected Answer:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

How many full-fledged engagements did the United States lose in Vietnam? Selected Answer:

None of them

The Social Security Act of 1935 created a system of what?

Old age payments

Which general was in charge of the US war effort in Vietnam? Selected Answer:

William Westmoreland

Which of the following was not a name of a beach in the Normandy Invasion? Selected Answer:

Zeus

The economic situation where the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high is called ________. Selected Answer:

stagflation

The United States boycotted the 1980 Olympics in response to _________. Selected Answer:

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The Second New Deal work relief program that gave Americans jobs for the purpose of creating buildings, sidewalks, and other public goods was called what? Selected Answer:

WPA

What were the results of the Containment Policy?

It worked in Europe, but not Asia

Which act separated commercial banks from investment banks in an effort to decrease the possibility of people losing their savings in a market crash? Selected Answer:

"as the Glass-Steagall Act (GSA). "