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which of these aggressive acts of political defiance did Hitler commit in Europe in 1936

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Hitler occupied the Rhineland

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Historians re-guard the great depression as probably the greatest factor causing ww2 because

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it led american businesses to reduce investments in germany, which decresed the nations production and its ability to repay ww1 repurations

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Japan's first major action in the Pacific took place when its military invaded

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manchuria in china

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in the munich agreement, the leaders of britain and france

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permitted Hitler to occupy strategic areas of czechoslavakias in the hopes that he would stop there

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hitler's and stalin's nonaggression pact involved which of these countries

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poland

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when fdr came into the presidency, he set out to mend relations with the countries of latin america by using

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the good neighbor policy

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roughly 90% of americans favored isolationism despite the situation in europe for all of the following reasons except

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americans did not want to bear the cost of war, which they feared would only deepen the depression

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from the spring of 1940 until the bombing of pearl harbor on December 7, 1941 president roosevelt and the us government

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organized the development of war materials to assist Great Britain

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which of the following is not true about the holocaust

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the mass killing of european jews remained confined in concentration camps

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which event set the stage of american involvement in the war

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the bombing of london in the battle of britain

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women participated the ww2 effort by

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all of these choices

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in may 1940 winstein churchill

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became britain's prime minister and wrote to FDR

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the double v campaign refers to

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african american efforts to win the war over seas and end discrimmination at home

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in 1940 the us experienced its first

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peacetime draft

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which of the following was not one of roosevelts 4 freedoms

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freedom of assembly

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the lend lease act, passed mainly for the benefit of GB, empowered the president to

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lend weapons and supplies to all nations fighting either the germans or the japanese

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the japanese decided to bomb america's naval fleet at pearl harbor because

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they hoped to handicap the us navy

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how did the war change the landscape at home in the us

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all of these choices

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stalin agreed to the 4 policemen approach to securing the postwar peace because

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he thought it was Roosevelt's way of saying governments friendly yo soviet interests would be installed in eastern Europe

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in june 1942, american forces halted japans advance at the battle of

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midway

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truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on the city of hiroshima and later nagasaki because

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japan did not respond to an allied ultimatum to end the war or face destruction

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in return for an opening of a second front against nazi germany in the west stalin promised at the Tehran conference

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to open a front against japan once germany had been defeated

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the military turning point for the us and the allies against japan in the pacific occured in 1943 with the allied offensive at the battle of

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guadalcanal

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operation overload the official name for the d-day landing in Normandy involved _____ allied soldiers

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1 million

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which of the following statements about ww2 is not correct

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about 1 million american soldiers died and about half that figure came home injured

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which agencys job was to set wages, working conditions, and hours, as well as to try to prevent strikes

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national war labor board

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executive order 8802 established

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anti-discriminatory hiring practices in industries that had government defense contracts

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the task of the war relocation authority was to

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oversee the forced internment of japanese-americans , including american citizens, in various camps in california and the american southwest

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the servicemens readjustment act of 1944 (the GI bill) provided

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all of these choices

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stalin was convinced that soviet security rested upon creating a buffer of friendly neighboring states because

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he wanted to make it impossible for germany to ever invade russia again, as it had previously

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as early as march 1946 chruchill realized that stalin had

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taken control of so much of eastern europe that is was as if an iron curtain had fallen between the east and the west

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which of these organizations was not created under the national seceretay act of 1947

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federal bureau of investigations

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the marshall plan

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provided $13 billion to governments that promised to become or remain democracies

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the warsaw pact was

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a union consisting of stalins soviet union and the eastern european countries that he controlled after ww2

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stalin initiated the blockade of the city of west berlin in order to

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keep western influence and western german currency out of the soviet zone

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truman eventually managed to break the berlin blockade by

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sending massive amounts of food and supplies by regular airlift

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the north atlantic treaty organization stipulated that

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an attack on one or more treaty partners would be considered an attack against them all

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all of the following are true about dwight d easinhower except

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he was opposed to the new deal and fair deal

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why was truman accused of losing china

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china had fallen to communism

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NSC-68 was a classified paper that

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all of these choices

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critics thought NSC-68 was a gross over-reaction by us officials to communism until

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north korea invasion of south korea

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after the chinese entered the korean conflict in support of north korea

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un troops pushed north korea and china back to the original divided line at the 38th parallel

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emmett till was murdered because

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he supposedly whistled at a white woman working in a grocery store

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for what military reason did truman fire macarthur

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insubordination

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all of the following is true about the montgomery bus boycott except

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one local bus service had broken down, it quickly crumbled elsewhere

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after the korean war the us addressed its fears regarding the spreading of communism in all of the following ways except

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testing nuclear missiles via satellite in space

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jackie robinson is famous for

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being the first african american to play major league baseball

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what was the most common reactions of americans to cold war uncertainties

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fear and the rise of conservatism

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intended as an extension of the new deal, trumans fair deal included all of the following except

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federal aid for single mothers

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why were there so many strikes in the year after the war ended

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all of these choices

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between the end of ww2 and 1960 many americans increasingly did all of the fllowing except

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they became more concerned about carrying debt

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all of the following are evidence of a car culture except

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growing numbers of social clubs

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the role that was promoted for women in the 1950s was

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suburban domesticity and child-rearing

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the rapid growth of the suburbs had all of the following results except

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it muted the critics who had complained about conformity

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women who held jobs during the 1950s

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were segregated into female specific occupations, mostly in the service sector

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the main reason that the dixiecrats broke with truman in 1948 and formed their own party was his

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support of civil rights

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all of the following are examples of the second red scare in america except

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new laws regarding the protection of civil liberties

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in the court case brown vs. board of education, the supreme court ruled

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separate education facilities for black and white students were by nature unequal and public schools must desegregate

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when 9 black students attempted to integrate central highschool in arkansas in 1957

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all of these choices

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JFKs greatest disaster as president was

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the bay of pigs invasion of cuba

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all of the following is true about the presidential election of 1960 except

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kennedy defeated nixon with a landslide majority of popular votes

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which of these statements is not true about kennedys nation-buildings plans

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kennedys 2 biggest concerns early in his presidency were cuba and korea

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the free speech movement began on the campus of the university of California, berkeley is significant because

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all of these choices

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what happened to my lai

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american soldiers killed at least 300 innocent civilians in this small village in the spring of 1968

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all of the following is true about JFK except

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he was known in the 1960s for his womanizing

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which southern city was sometimes referred to as the most segregated city in America

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Birmingham Alabama

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at the march on washington in the summer of 1963

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king delivered his I have a dream speech

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the main goal for those who participated is freedom summer was to

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register blacks to vote in the south

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the civil rights act of 1964, advocated for by LBJ in the wake of JFKs assassination

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outlawed discrimination in public facilities and employment based on sex, race, religion, and national origin

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the voting rights act of 1965 was designed to

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all of these choices

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johnson ran for election in 1964 advocating a mandate for change which he dubbed the

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great society

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a report put out by the council of economic advisers in 1964 indicated that more than 22% of americans

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lived in poverty and lacked adequate food and shelter

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which program was not developed through passage of the economic oppurtunity act

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peace corps

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the 24th amendment

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outlawed the poll tax in federal elections which had been used to block blacks from voting

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in his great society program LBJ included all of the following except

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a school voucher system

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thurgood marshall was

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the first black supreme court justice

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the tonkin gulf resolution gave president johnson specific permission to

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do whatever was necessary to take care of the situation in south vietnam

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the black power movement

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promoted black pride and control over the social and religious institutuions in communities

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the chicano movement led by caesar chavez

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called for a national boycott of grapes

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the significance of the tet offensive was that

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many americans began to publicaly state that america could not win the war in vietnam

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in 1967 opposition to the war in vietnam became more mainstream when

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the senator of arkansas and MLK jr openly criticized the war

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the most vocal person to break with the traditional civil rights leaders such as MLK jr. was

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malcolm X

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all of the following is true about the black panther party except

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it drew from the teachings of nonviolent resistance of ghandi

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which of the following is not associated with the new left

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hippies and woodstock

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the revival of the womens movement in the 1960s is often identified with the publication of betty friedan's book

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the feminine mystique

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the growth of america's counterculture showed that many young people besides condeming the vietnam war also

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rejected traditional american politics, social values, and the cut throat world of business

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the 1968 democratic national convention in chicago was marked by

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the chicago police riot against antiwar protesters on the 3rd night of the convention

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the pentagon papers

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showed that the government had lied to the public over major events in the vietnam war to manipuate public opinion

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the cuban missile crisis

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brought the us and soviet union to the brink of nuclear war

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the activism of the 1960s ran into roadblocks in the 70s which included all of the following except

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some civil rights activists believed they had achieved most of their goals and disagreed with other activists over the need for further agitation

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when the last american troops came home from vietnam in 1973

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most americans were relieved that soldiers had been removed from the unwinnable war

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nixons goals in seeking improved relations with china in 1972 was to

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drive a further wedge between china and the soviet union

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nixons agreement to sell excess american wheat to the soviet union

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opened up improved relations with the soviet premier

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nixon is often called an accidental liberal because

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his preoccupation with getting reelected advocated for many liberal goals

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americans reeled from an embargo on oil deliveries to the us from the oil producing countries in the middle east because those countries

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resented the help america had given israel during the 1973 yom kippur war

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which of these was not enacted or created during the nixon years

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pell grants for higher education

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the watergate scandal began with a break in at the

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democratic national committee headquarters

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stagflation is an economic crisis that combines

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runaway high prices and declining jobs

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nixon's VP resigned from office after admitting to

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tax evasion and bribery

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on august 9 1974 nixon made history when he

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resigned as president

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the actions that gerald ford took which cost him widespread public support was

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his pardon of richard nixon

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which of these is not a reason why the watergate scandal was a crucial event in american history and life in the 70s

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it led to the rise of the careers of the men who exposed the scandal

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passed in 1972 title IX is important because

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it required that educational institutions spend equally on female and mens sports

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which of the following did not happen during carter's presidency

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carter signed the SALT II agreement with the soviet union, although it fell apart years later

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carter was unable to carry out any of his plans for expanding american social justice because

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islamic militants took 52 hostages from the american embassy in tehran

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proposition 13

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limited all further increases on property taxes in california to 2% per year

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all of the following is true about young conservatives in the late 50s under the leadership of buckley except

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they advocated aggressive imperial expansion

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the most controversial topic to arise in regard to the desegregation attempts by the federal government was

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children to achieve integrated schools

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which is true of affirmative action

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denied the right of an entity to use exact quotas to achieve the goal of equality

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la kaza had as its main goal

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mexican american politicians in the west and southwest

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during the 70s american indian activists drew attention to their cause by

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occupying the former federal prison on alcatraz for over one year

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the most controversial milestone of the womens movement was

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the supreme court decision in roe vs. wade that legalized abortion

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during the 70s women struggling to achieve equality in the corporate world began to use this term to describe the point beyond which they could not be accepted into a male-dominant world

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glass ceiling

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opponents to the womens rights movement among them phyllis schlafley managed to block passage of the equal rights amendment and other feminist leaps forward by

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all of these choices

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the event that signaled growing awareness of the environment in the 1970s was

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the celebration of the 1st earth day

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the gay liberation movement considers this is the first spark of activism

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the police raid on the stonewall inn

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which of the following does not accurately charaterize the religious revivalism that began to assert itself into americas political arena in the late 70s

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it saw the growing popularity of zen buddhism and new age spiritual beliefs as an assualt on traditional religious values

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the rise of the religious right in the 70s brought

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a public aspect of faith that reflected the growing influence of the south on american culture

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landmark films of the 70s such as the godfather and bonnie and clyde indicated that americans in the 70s

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lived in a period of increasing moral complexity

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