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The first confrontation of the Cold War took place in |
the Middle East, when Soviet troops occupied northern Iran seeking access to oil fields |
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The Truman Doctrine |
committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere |
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How did Soviets defend the installation of communist governments in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria? |
They claimed that this type of domination was no different than the U.S. influence in Latin America |
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Japan's constitution, which Americans had written, provided for he first time in Japanese history |
Women's suffrage |
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In 1948, the Soviets began the Berlin Blockade |
in anticipation of the creation of West Germany |
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How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin? |
Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via an airlift |
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Which statement is TRUE about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? |
All the members pledged mutual defense against any future Soviet attack |
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In 1948, Mao Zedong |
led a successful communist revolution in China |
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NSC-68 |
Called for a global crusade by the U.S. against communism |
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Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for? |
a permanent military buildup and a global application of containment |
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Which statement about the Korean conflict is False? |
Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did |
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As part of the nation's cultural cold war, national security agencies |
encouraged Hollywood to produce anticommunist movies |
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The principle of human rights - The idea of basic rights belonging to all persons because they are human- was introduced into international relations |
in the revolutionary period of the late eighteenth century |
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The Taft-Hartley Act |
outlawed the closed shop |
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Which piece of American legislation stated that union leaders had to swear on oath that they were not communists? |
Taft-Hartley Act |
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Which civil rights measure was enacted during Truman's administration? |
Desegregation of the armed forces |
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The Dixiecrats |
opposed desegregation in the South |
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
were executed after a questionable trial |
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Why did local anticommunist groups force public libraries to remove "Robin Hood" from their shelves? |
Robin Hood's taking from the rich and giving to the poor smacked of communism |
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The McCarran-Walter Act |
authorized the deportation of communists including naturalized citizens |
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Operation Wetback |
deported illegal aliens found in Mexican-American neighborhoods |
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Organized labor emerged as |
a major supporter of the foreign policy of the Cold War |
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How did the 1959 American National Exhibition showcase freedom in the United States? |
through a display of consumer goods |
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Between 1946 and 1960, the American gross national product |
more than doubled and wages increased |
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The center of gravity of American farming after World War II shifted to |
California |
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After World War II, the automobile |
altered the American landscape |
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Which statement about industry is FALSE? |
The West did not benefit from the industries that sprang up from the Cold War |
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After World War II, most working women |
were concentrated in low-paying, non-union jobs |
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During the 1950's, Americans |
on average married younger and had more children than previous generations |
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During the postwar suburban boom, African-Americans |
were often unable to receive financing for housing |
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In 1948 the United States Supreme Court |
declared that discriminatory provisions in home sales contracts unenforceable |
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Which statement best describes how the white South reacted to the Brown V Board of Education decision? |
Some states closed the public schools, rather than integrate, and offered white children the choice to opt out of integrated schools
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After World War II, sub-urbanization |
hardened racial divisions in American life |
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To libertarian conservatives, freedom meant |
individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism |
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Libertarians and new conservatives disagreed whether they wanted to create |
the "free man" or the "good man" |
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New conservatives trusted government to |
regulate personal behavior |
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In Brown V. Board of Education, what was Thurgood Marshall's main argument before the Supreme Court? |
that segregation did lifelong damage because it stigmatized one group of citizens as being unfit to associate with others |
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The new conservatives |
emphasized tradition, community, and moral commitment |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed which kind of individuals to his cabinet? |
wealthy businessmen to run the government like an efficient business |
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Modern Republicanism included |
the expansion of core New Deal programs |
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Which statement best describes the thesis of David Riesman's book The Lonely Crowd? |
Americans were conformists and lacked the inner resources to lead truly independent lives |
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation |
declared that any soviet attack would be countered by a nuclear attack
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What was the term used to describe developing countries that refused to align with either of the two Cold War powers? |
"Third World Countries" |
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President Eisenhower used the CIA to overthrow which Middle Eastern government in the early 1950's, in large part because this government attempted to nationalize British-owned oil fields? |
Iran |
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After Vietnam was divided at a peace conference in Geneva |
The United States supported the anticommunist leader Ngo Dinh Diem |
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Why did Eisenhower intervene in Vietnam? |
to prevent Vietnam from becoming a communist nation |
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All of the following are examples of the 1950's cultural dissent EXCEPT |
HUAC |
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Which Supreme Court decision did Brown overturn? |
Plessy V Ferguson |
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Who argued the case Brown V Board of Education before the Supreme Court? |
Thurgood Marshall |
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As a result of the Montgomery boycott in 1955-1956 |
the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public transportation was illegal |
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The Southern Manifesto |
repudiated the Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education |
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The 1960 presidential debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon |
highlighted the impact of television on political campaigns |
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In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned Americans about |
the military-industrial complex |
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Martin Luther King Jr. was |
inspired by the teachings of Gandhi |
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The Freedom Rides |
were launched by CORE to desegregate interstate bus travel |
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The sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960 |
reflected mounting frustration at the slow pace of racial change |
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Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" declared that |
the white moderate had to put aside his fear of disorder and commit to racial justice |
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To combat communism, one of John Kennedy's first acts was to |
establish the Peace Corps |
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Like his predecessors in the White House, John F. Kennedy |
viewed the entire world through the lens of the Cold War |
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Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John Kennedy |
was reluctant to address the movement's demands until 1963 |
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What event forced John F. Kennedy to take meaningful action in support of the civil rights movement? |
King's demonstrations in Birmingham |
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The 1964 Civil Rights Acts did not |
ban discriminatory laws that prevented suffrage |
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Republican Barry Goldwater viewed _____ as a threat to freedom |
the New Deal welfare state |
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Barry Goldwater's 194 campaign emphasized |
a reduction in governmental regulations |
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The 1965 Voting Rights Act |
empowered federal officials to oversee voter registration |
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Johnson's War on Poverty included all of the following programs and initiatives EXCEPT |
a jobs program for unemployed Americans |
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The Kerner Report |
blamed the urban riots on segregation and poverty |
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Malcolm X |
insisted that blacks have economic and political autonomy |
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The New Left |
drew heavily from the youth of the middle class |
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The Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
authorized the president to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack" in Vietnam |
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In 1968, the number of US troops in Vietnam |
exceeded half a million as the war became more brutal |
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The antiwar movement |
challenged the foundations of Cold War Thinking |
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The counterculture of the 1960's can best be described as |
a rejection of mainstream values
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Why did the Second Vatican Council of 1962 to 1965 have such a big impact? |
the Council marked the beginning of reform and social justice activism in the Catholic church |
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In the Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan |
focused on the discontents of middle-class women |
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Radical feminists |
argued that freedom applied to the most intimate realms of life |
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After the Stonewall riot |
a militant gay liberation movement was born |
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The American Indian Movement |
demanded greater tribal self-government |
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring inspired the |
environmental movement |
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In 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that |
state laws prohibiting interracial marriage was unconstitutional |
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In 1966, the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda V. Arizona that |
those in police custody had certain rights |
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Which event marked the turning point in the Vietnam conflict, forcing Lyndon Johnson to change course and pull out of the upcoming presidential race? |
the Tet Offensive |
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On April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was assasinated |
while in Memphis, supporting a garbage workers' strike |
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The legacies of the 1960's include |
a transformation in the status of women |