HISTORY SINCE 1877 FINAL
The first significant public awareness of computers in the United States came during the
1952 election tabulations.
In 1947, the Truman Doctrine
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At the conclusion of the Yalta Conference in 1945, basic disagreements remained on
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Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included
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In 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment
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As a result of the Korean War, the
American public believed there was something wrong with the United States.
In 1954, the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to help overthrow the government of
Guatemala.
In Early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,
It was agreed that the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War
Of the following, the HUAC investigation of Alger Hiss primarily helped the political career of
Richard Nixon.
The most significant and largest public works project of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved
a federal highway system.
Legislation to prohibit segregation in all public accommodations was proposed
and approved during the Kennedy administration.
According to policies that came to be called the Nixon Doctrine, the United States would
assist in the development of friendly nations.
In 1968, George Wallace ran for president
based on a variety of conservative grievances.
In 1965, Malcolm X
belonged to the Nation of Islam for a time.
The United States was motivated to develop the Marshall Plan in 1947 due to
both a humanitarian concern for the European people, and a desire to create strong European markets for American goods.
President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972
came after Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations.
In the Vietnam War, the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" was
continually moved by the North Vietnamese.
Great Society reforms
contributed to the greatest reduction in poverty in American history.
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful.
In designing the structure of the new United Nations, Planned called for
each nation on the Security Council to have veto power over the others.
Founded in 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM)
focused on militant action.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
gave President Lyndon Johnson wide latitude to escalate the conflict.
The intent of President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy was to
have the South Vietnamese military do more of the fighting.
During Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in government,
he never produced conclusive evidence that any federal employee was a communist.
The primary goal of the American Apollo program was to
land men on the moon.
By 1945, the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek had
little popular support.
The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956
marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest.
The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the
military invasion by North Korea into South Korea.
The Cuban missile crisis ended after President John Kennedy agreed to
not invade Cuba.
Throughout the late 1960s,
opposition in the United States to the Vietnam War intensified.
In 1949, the Truman administration made progress in civil rights by
ordering an end to discrimination in the hiring of government employees.
Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement by focusing on problems concerning
pesticides.
President Lyndon Johnson's Medicare program
provided benefits to all seniors regardless of need.
In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because MacArthur
publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea.
In Miranda v. Arizona (1966), the Supreme Court
required authorities to inform a criminal suspect of his or her legal rights.
The 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, involved all of the following EXCEPT the
resignation of Governor George Wallace.
The so-called Pentagon Papers
revealed the government had misled the public regarding the progress of the war.
In Engel v. Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court
ruled prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.
In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), the Supreme Court
ruled that all felony defendants were entitled to a lawyer, regardless of their ability to pay.
The 1961 Vienna summit between the United States and the Soviet Union
saw Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev make a veiled threat of war.
All the following statements regarding the use of DDT are true EXCEPT that
scientists during WWII knew the pesticide had a long-term toxic effect on humans and animals.
In the civil rights movement, the spirit of "massive resistance" is associated with the actions of
southern whites.
In the 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon called for
stability and national law and order.
Robert Kennedy's assassin had apparently been angered by Kennedy's
statements in favor of Israel.
In 1961, President John Kennedy saw legislative success in
tariff reductions.
In his farewell address to the nation, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the dangers of
the "military-industrial complex."
Between 1945 and 1959, U.S. policy in the Middle East saw
the CIA engineer a coup that brought the shah of Iran to power.
All of the following statements regarding Korea are true EXCEPT that
the United States left Korea in 1946.
The political decline of Senator Joseph McCarthy began when he investigated
the army.
Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was
the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.
President Harry Truman's Fair Deal called for
the creation of national health insurance.
The results of the election of 1952 saw
the end to a long period of Democratic dominance.
During the 1950s, the U.S. government's primary motive for the development of rocket and missile technology was
the long-range delivery of weapons.
In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, required
the presence of federal troops to enforce court orders.
In 1956, scheduled national elections for Vietnam were cancelled because
the pro-Western government in South Vietnam refused to hold them.
The "Saturday night massacre" refers to an event that included
the resignation of two key Nixon administration officials.
In 1964, a dispute broke out at the University of California at Berkeley over
the rights of students to engage in free speech.
Under John Foster Dulles's policy of "massive retaliation," announced in 1954, the United States would
use nuclear weapons against communist aggression.
The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade (1973)
was based on a new legal interpretation of privacy rights.
In 1968, antiwar protesters at the Democratic convention in Chicago
were attacked by police in a bloody riot.
In the 1950s, the federal "termination" policy as applied to Native Americans sought to
withdraw all official recognition of the tribes as legal entities.
