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Q: From the U.S. perspective, the Cold War was precipitated by

Stalin\'s refusal to allow self-determination for the countries of Eastern Europe.

Q: Which of the following occurred at the Potsdam Conference in 1945?

Inexperienced in world affairs, Truman used \"tough\" methods with the Soviets.

Q: What was President Truman\'s response to the invasion of South Korea in 1950?

He asked the UN Security Council to authorize a \"police action

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Which of the following established the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe?

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Yalta Agreement

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From the U.S. perspective, the Cold War was precipitated by

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Stalin's refusal to allow self-determination for the countries of Eastern Europe.

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Which of the following occurred at the Potsdam Conference in 1945?

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Inexperienced in world affairs, Truman used "tough" methods with the Soviets.

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When the United Nations first convened on April 25, 1945, it consisted of

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the General Assembly and Security Council

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The creator of containment, who enumerated his fears in the Long Telegram in 1946, was

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George Kennan

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What accounted for the decline of Britain's influence and power in the years immediately following World War II?

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It had tremendous budget deficits and a collapsing domestic economy

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The Truman Doctrine was implemented in response to communist threats in

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Greece and Turkey

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To forestall economic difficulties, which could foster the rise of communism throughout Europe, the United States gave nearly $13 billion to a European recovery program called the

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Marshall Plan

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During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the United States and the USSR came closest to war over

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the Soviet blockade of West Berlin

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Which of the following describes the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949?

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It was the first American peacetime military alliance since 1783

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The National Security Council's report known as NSC-68 proposed that

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the United States must significantly increase its defense spending

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Which of the following Axis nations did the United States help rebuild economically after World War II to make it a bulwark against communism during the Cold War?

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Japan

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Which of the following occurred after the Chinese Communists defeated the Nationalists in 1949?

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Conservative critics accused the State Department of losing China

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What was President Truman's response to the invasion of South Korea in 1950?

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He asked the UN Security Council to authorize a "police action

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President Truman relieved General MacArthur of his Korean command because MacArthur

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ordered his troops to cross the 38th parallel and proceed to the Chinese border

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What was the outcome of the Korean War?

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The United States radically reduced its involvement in Asian affairs

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Which of the following was a long-term consequence of the Korean War?

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It established a precedent of avoiding atomic weapons in future Cold War conflicts

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In the Munich Analogy, Americans justified containment by applying the lessons learned from

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appeasing Hitler

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Harry Truman's historical reputation is based on his work as a(n)

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Cold Warrior

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Which of the following occurred as a reaction to the massive wave of strikes that shook the United States in 1946?

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Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto

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What event led southern Democrats to bolt from the Democratic Party in 1948?

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Hubert Humphrey put a strong civil rights agenda on the party's platform

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Which of the following policies would the Dixiecrats have opposed?

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Desegregating the armed forces

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Which of the following statements characterizes the presidential election of 1948?

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The left and right wing of the Democratic Party split off and nominated separate candidates

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Truman's domestic program during his second term in office was known as the

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Fair Deal

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Why did the American Medical Association oppose Truman's proposal for national health insurance in 1949?

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They denounced it as socialized medicine.

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Which of the following parts of Truman's domestic agenda actually earned congressional approval in 1949?

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An extension of the Social Security program

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Which of the following describes life in the United States during the Cold War?

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Tension over communism abroad fostered a period of domestic repression and fear at home

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In 1947, the Truman administration reacted to the growing anticommunist fervor in the country by

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issuing an executive order to investigate all federal employees' loyalty

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In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

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targeted the film industry as part of its larger anticommunist agenda

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Which of the following issues was directly associated with McCarthyism?

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Allegations of communism

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Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigation committee lost all credibility when it attacked

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the U.S. Army

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Which of the following statements describes modern Republicanism?

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The philosophy emphasized moderating rather than dismantling the New Deal state

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Who was the leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party in the 1950s?

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Nelson Rockefeller

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What was the distinguishing characteristic of President Eisenhower's "New Look" in foreign policy in the 1950s?

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Increased hydrogen bomb production and long-range bombing strength

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What factor served as the basis for the United States' determination of whether it would support or oppose a country and its government during the 1950s?

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The country's stance on communism

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During the Eisenhower administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) helped overthrow the government of

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Iran

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Why did the United States refuse to support Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam, during the late 1950s?

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He was a communist

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Which provision of the Geneva Accords was never realized?

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Free elections for a united Vietnam in 1956

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Which of the following statements characterizes the events surrounding the Suez crisis?

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Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and later built the Aswan Dam with Soviet assistance.

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President Eisenhower authorized CIA agents to undermine Mohammad Mossadegh's political power to

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protect Western oil interests

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The Eisenhower Doctrine was issued in response to difficulties in

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the Middle East

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Which of the following statements describes the presidential election of 1960?

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Kennedy won by a very slim margin of just a few thousand votes

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Which of the following events was a major foreign policy blunder during the Kennedy administration?

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Bay of Pigs

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Which of the following occurred during the Cuban missile crisis?

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The United States and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than at any other time

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Which 1962 event prompted a slight thaw in U.S.-Soviet relations?

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The Cuban missile crisis

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In 1962, John F. Kennedy secured funding for a nonmilitary initiative to advance the Cold War agenda known as

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the Peace Corps

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Early opposition to Ngo Dinh Diem in South Vietnam came in part from

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South Vietnamese Buddhists

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John F. Kennedy's policy toward South Vietnam included

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increasing the number of American troops on the ground to 16,000 by 1963

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The opponents of Diem's regime in South Vietnam created a new revolutionary movement in 1961 that was known as the

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Vietcong

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Buddhists in Vietnam expressed their discontent with the Diem authoritarian regime in May 1963 by

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staging dramatic demonstrations, including self-immolations

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Which of the following Cold War-era policies is most closely associated with the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

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The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which placed restrictions on organized labor that made it more difficult for unions to organize workers

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The development discussed in the excerpt differed most from the Red Scare of the 1920s in which of the following respects?

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Justifiability and legitimacy

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Which of the following describes the famous kitchen debate of 1959?

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It settled no greater political purpose, but it revealed the commercialism of the postwar American dream

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Which of the following statements describes post-World War II America?

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Americans enjoyed the highest standard of living.

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Which of the following statements is true about the post-World War II U.S. economy?

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American prosperity was beyond the reach of many poor and nonwhite Americans

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The term Pax Americana refers to

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American domination of the global economy after World War II

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Which of the following elements was part of the Bretton Woods system?

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A limiting of American capital

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Which of the following phenomena served as an engine of postwar economic growth?

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Spending on national security

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When Eisenhower said, "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought," he was referring to the

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military-industrial complex

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During the 1950s, military spending amounted to what percentage of U.S. gross national product?

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10 percent

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The space race began after

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Americans learned that the Soviet Union had launched the first space satellite

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Which of the following was the predominant tendency in business during the twenty years following World War II?

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The consolidation of economic power into big corporate firms

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Which of the following job categories grew explosively in the United States in the 1950s and came to symbolize the era?

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White-collar managers

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David Reisman's The Lonely Crowd and William Whyte's The Organization Man recognized the dilemma of

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the managerial class

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The Affluent Society (1958) was one of the most influential books about the U.S. economy in the twentieth century because it

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argued that the poor had been neglected by economists and politicians

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Michael Harrington's 1962 book The Other America exposed

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poverty in America

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Which of the following economic statistics represented the U.S. economy in the post-World War II period?

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Between 1947 and 1975, the productivity of America's workers more than doubled

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Which of the following describes the economic changes taking place in the United States during the 1950s?

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Consumption came to be seen as a social responsibility

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The GI Bill (1944) stimulated the American economy by

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subsidizing higher education and financing millions of mortgages

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The broadly based postwar labor-management accord brought

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a general acceptance of collective bargaining

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Which of the following phenomena served as a major engine for consumption in the United States during the 1950s?

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The baby boom

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Which of the following statements describes television in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s?

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It transformed American culture as much as the automobile had in the 1920s

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Which of the following was a popular television program of the 1950s that depicted American working-class lives?

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The Honeymooners

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The ideal family, as presented in the media of the 1950s, with a stay-at-home mom and a father as the breadwinner, was

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not representative of diverse American culture

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Which of the following describes Alan Freed, who made his mark on American culture in the 1950s?

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His Cleveland radio show introduced white America to black music

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Record sales boomed in the United States during the 1950s because of

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the emergence of rock 'n' roll as a popular new musical genre

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Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Charlie Parker were all associated with

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cultural rebellion

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The Beat generation of the 1950s rejected

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political activism

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The great resurgence of evangelical religion in 1950s America was most evident in the dramatic rise in popularity of

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Billy Graham

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In the 1950s, evangelist Norman Vincent Peale preached

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the therapeutic use of religion

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Between 1940 and 1960, church membership in the United States

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rose to 70 percent

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Which of the following statements characterizes the pressure felt by middle-class American women during the 1950s?

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Cultural messages indicated that domesticity should be women's highest priority

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Which of the following was an impetus for the post-World War II baby boom?

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The declining average age of marriage for women and men

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Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin are both associated with

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the polio vaccine

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Which of the following statements describes women and their relationship to work and family life in the postwar decades?

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Most "women's jobs" were in teaching, nursing, or the service sector

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How did middle-class wives and mothers seek to justify their work outside the home in the 1950s?

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They explained their work in family-oriented terms and maintained their domestic responsibilities

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Which of the following exemplified the sexual conservatism that characterized the period from 1945 to the mid-1960s?

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College women had curfews and needed permission to entertain male visitors

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Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?

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Hugh Hefner—founder of Playboy magazine

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The Daughters of Bilitis was a women's organization founded in 1955 that sought

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greater visibility for and acceptance of lesbians in the United States

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How did homophile activists challenge the prejudicial attitudes of most Americans toward gay men and lesbians in the 1950s?

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They avoided gay bars and nightclubs and dressed in modest, conservative clothing

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Which of the following statements characterizes the innovations in housing construction pioneered by William Levitt after World War II?

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His company pioneered the application of mass-production techniques to home construction

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Which of the following became a symbol of the postwar housing boom in the United States?

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Levittown

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Which of the following characterizes many of the newly built suburban communities in the 1950s?

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They were generally homogeneous in their population

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The term restrictive covenants refers to

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prohibitions on black residents in some communities

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An unexpected result of building the interstate highway system was that it

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precipitated the decay of American urban areas

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Which of the following factors spurred congressional approval of the Interstate Highway Act?

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The Cold War

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Which of the following factors precipitated the urban crisis of the 1950s and 1960s?

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The flight of white urban residents to the suburbs

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Which of the following describes the urban renewal projects that took place in U.S. cities in the 1950s?

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Urban renewal efforts coincided with an increase in cities' black, Latino, and Native American populations

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Immigration policy in the 1950s led to

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the legal resumption of Asian immigration

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Which of the following statements accurately characterizes U.S. immigration laws between World War II and the mid-1960s?

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In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act ended the exclusion of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia

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In the 1950s, most Puerto Rican immigrants settled in

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New York City

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Beginning in the 1960s, the influx of Cuban refugees rapidly changed the character of

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Miami

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The idea in the excerpt serves as evidence of which of the following developments occurring in the United States at that time?

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The emergence and growth of the suburbs

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The ideas in the excerpt were an important consequence of which of the following developments?

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The GI Bill

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How did the black-led civil rights movement redefine the meaning of liberalism?

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Blacks demanded state protection from discrimination for individuals

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In 1950, African Americans accounted for what percentage of the U.S. population?

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10 percent

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The practice of racial segregation in the American South in the twentieth century was commonly known as

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Jim Crow

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Black neighborhoods in the downtown areas of northern cities were known as

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ghettos

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Which of the following characterizes racial segregation in the United States during the 1950s?

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African Americans were frequent targets of police harassment in many northern cities

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Which of the following statements describes the state of racial segregation in the United States at the dawn of the postwar civil rights movement?

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It was a nationwide proble

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Which group of African Americans played a critical role in prompting the emergence of a national civil rights movement after World War II?

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The black middle class

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The Federal Housing Authority and American banks excluded African American home buyers from white suburbs through a process known

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redlining

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In 1941, President Roosevelt issued an executive order banning racial discrimination in defense industries primarily because

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he wanted to avoid a black protest march in Washington, D.C.

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What was the name of black activists' strategy for defeating American racism during World War II?

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Double V Campaign

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In June 1943, thirty-four people died during a major race riot in

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Detroit

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The philosophy of nonviolent direct action was first espoused by

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Which of the following actions did President Truman take in support of African American civil rights?

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He appointed a presidential commission on civil rights

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Furious with the national Democratic Party's endorsement of civil rights goals in its 1948 platform, southern Democrats set up a new party called the

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States' Rights Democratic Party

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What effect did the Cold War have on the civil rights movement?

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It both constrained and led to support for reforms

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Which of the following statements describes the status of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans in the Southwest in the 1940s?

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Discrimination against people of Mexican descent had much in common with that of African Americans in the South

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Who became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court in the late 1960s?

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Thurgood Marshall

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In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled against segregated schools on the grounds that

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they denied black children "equal protection of the laws."

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What was the Southern Manifesto, issued in 1956?

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A statement by 101 congressmen denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown decision as "a clear abuse of judicial power"

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Which of the following statements characterizes President Eisenhower's view of segregation and civil rights in the 1950s?

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Eisenhower thought the Brown decision was a mistake but reluctantly enforced it because it was the law of the land

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President Dwight Eisenhower promoted civil rights by

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sending federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas

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Which of the following describes the 1955 murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi?

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Unlike most murders of black men in the South, Till's gained national attention

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Which of the following events was an outcome of Rosa Parks's 1955 arrest?

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The Montgomery bus boycott

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Who pioneered the sit-in method of civil rights protest that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960?

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Black college students

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Which of the following accurately describes the philosophy of participatory democracy, passed on by Ella Baker to an influential group of young SNCC activists?

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Encouraging ordinary people to stand up for their rights rather than relying on charismatic leaders

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Which pair is properly matched?

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CORE—organized freedom rides

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How did the Kennedy administration respond to the Freedom Rides in 1961?

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After hesitating, Kennedy gave support to the freedom riders by sending federal marshals to protect them

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Who was Eugene "Bull" Connor, who made national news in 1963?

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Birmingham's commissioner of public safety

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In his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Martin Luther King Jr.

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appealed to Christian and democratic beliefs, and argued that Americans had to make a moral choice about segregation

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President Kennedy decided to ask for civil rights legislation after the

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demonstrations in Birmingham

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Why was the 1963 March on Washington significant in the history of the civil rights movement?

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Conflicts between moderate and militant activists signaled an emerging rift in the larger civil rights movement

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Which of the following pairs is properly combined?

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Twenty-Fourth Amendment—outlawed the poll tax

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed

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discrimination in many areas of American society

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Which of the following civil rights supporters lived beyond the 1960s?

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Stokely Carmichael

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In March 1965, the effort to pass the Voting Rights Act gained impetus after the

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attack of civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers

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Which of the following statements describes the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

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It outlawed discriminatory voter registration measures and was highly effective in the South

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What was a political consequence of the national Democratic Party's embrace of civil rights in the 1960s?

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Many southern whites left the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party in the 1970s and 1980s

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In the 1960s, black nationalism gained adherents because of

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the movement's advocacy of militant protest rather than nonviolence

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Which of the following describes the Nation of Islam in the early 1960s?

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The group had a strong emphasis on personal self-improvement.

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Malcolm X and the Black Muslims pursued a philosophy that differed dramatically from that of

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Martin Luther King Jr

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In 1966, the slogan "black power" was first used by

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Stokely Carmichael

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Under the banner of black power, African American activists worked for

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black access to the traditionally white fields of firefighting, police work, and construction

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Which of the following statements describes the achievements of the 1972 National Black Political Convention?

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It issued a political agenda calling for national health insurance and elimination of the death penalty

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The Kerner Commission Report, released in 1968, analyzed

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the context and causes of racial violence in American cities in the 1960s

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The Young Lords Organization fought primarily for the civil rights of

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Puerto Ricans

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Who was the lesser-known cofounder of the United Farm Workers, who was a brilliant organizer?

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Dolores Huerta

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Which of the following statements characterizes the emergence of César Chavez as a national figure during the 1960s?

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He and the United Farm Workers union won national attention by organizing a grape pickers' strike in 1965

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What major change occurred in Mexican American activism during the 1960s?

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In 1969, a large group of Mexican American students met in Denver to hammer out a national Chicano agenda

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Two hundred Sioux, organized by AIM to dramatize their cause, engaged in several gun battles with the FBI for over two months in 1973 at

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Wounded Knee

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Which of the following developments was an outgrowth of the rights revolution of the 1960s and 1970s?

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A widening belief in the federal government's responsibilities

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Which of the following developments best exemplified the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

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Nonviolent protests such as the Greensboro sit-ins

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The ideas described in the excerpt emerged most directly out of which of the following historical antecedents?

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The experience of minorities during World War II

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The ideas described in the excerpt differ most from those espoused by the Supreme Court in this period with respect to the

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tactics for achieving social change.

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Which of the following contributed to the powerful mystique that followed the presidency of John F. Kennedy?

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Kennedy's 1963 assassination

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Which of the following statements characterizes President Lyndon Johnson?

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In many ways, especially his personal history and political style, Lyndon Johnson was John F. Kennedy's opposite.

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Which of the following describes Johnson's War on Poverty?

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The program was Johnson's highest political priority, even more than civil rights advances

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Which of the following War on Poverty programs provided free nursery schools to prepare disadvantaged preschoolers for kindergarten?

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Head Start

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Johnson's Great Society program had a great deal in common with the

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New Deal

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Which element of Barry Goldwater's campaign platform did American voters find particularly alienating in the election of 1964?

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His approach to foreign policy

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Which of the following describes the 1964 U.S. presidential election?

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Johnson's landslide victory gave him a mandate to fulfill his political program

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Which of the following was a goal of President Johnson's environmental reforms?

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Improving the nation's air and water

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Which of the following was an achievement of the Johnson administration?

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The National Endowment for the Humanities

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Which of the following is paired correctly?

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Elementary and Secondary Education Act— federal funds for teacher training

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The Immigration Act of 1965

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replaced the national quotas system of the 1920s with nondiscriminatory numerical limits

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Which of the following was a lasting outcome of Johnson's Great Society programs?

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Improving access to health care for the poor and elderly Americans

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Which group of American women had continued to organize around feminist issues in the 1950s?

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Trade union women

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The 1963 report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women

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documented discrimination against women in the workplace and in education

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Which of the following was the purpose of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

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To authorize the president to take any action necessary to prevent further aggression in Vietnam

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At the height of the Vietnam War, the United States stationed approximately how many troops in Vietnam?

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500,000

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What was the outcome of Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965?

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It intensified North Vietnamese nationalism and hardened their will to fight

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Which of the following statements characterizes the economic consequences of the Vietnam War?

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By 1968, the U.S. economy was entering a severe inflationary spiral that would last more than a decade

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The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley began in response to

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the university ban on political activities by students on university property

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Which of the following describes the group known as the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)?

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It was the largest student group in the nation in the 1960s

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Young adults' revolt against authority and middle-class respectability in the 1960s was exemplified by

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the counterculture

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Which of the following describes the death rate of American soldiers in Vietnam by 1968?

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The American death rate had reached several hundred per week

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Which of the following is true of Lyndon Johnson's administration?

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The Vietnam War undermined his commitment to the War on Poverty and his presidency

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Which of the following characterizes the 1968 Tet offensive?

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Many Americans changed their opinions of the war after the Tet offensive

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Which of the following is true about the Vietnam War?

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By the late 1960s, many Americans believed it was unwinnable

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President Johnson shocked the American public on March 31, 1968, by announcing that

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he had significantly increased the bombing of North Vietnam

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In 1968, the liberal who presented the Democratic Party's best chance for reunification was

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Which of the following caused the death of Johnson's War on Poverty?

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The Vietnam War

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Which of the following describes the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention?

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It took place in Chicago alongside major antiwar protests

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The presidential candidate most explicitly identified with the issue of segregation in 1968 was

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George Wallace

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In his third-party presidential campaign in 1968, George Wallace

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defined several hot-button issues that Republicans would exploit in future elections

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Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign for the presidency emphasized

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a claim to represent the "quiet voice" of "forgotten Americans

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What was the outcome of the 1968 presidential election?

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Richard Nixon won the presidency by a narrow margin of the popular vote

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The women's liberation movement emerged out of

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the New Left

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Women's liberation activists modeled their ideas, goals, and tactics after the

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Black Power movement

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Which of the following describes Title IX?

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The legislation benefited women athletes

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Which of the following correctly links a law or a court decision to the benefit that it accorded women?

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Equal Credit Opportunity Act (1974)—significantly increased women's access to credit

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The 1969 Stonewall riot in New York City was a spontaneous protest led by

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gay people

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In the 1968 election and during the Nixon administration, the expression "silent majority" was used to refer to

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Americans who were hardworking and avoided protest activities

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From 1969 to 1972, Richard Nixon's strategy to end the Vietnam War was to

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reduce American troop involvement and turn over most of the ground fighting to the South Vietnamese army

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The four college students killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University been protesting

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expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia

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My Lai became a national issue in the United States in 1969 and was

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the site of the massacre of nearly 500 villagers by American soldiers

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Two of Nixon's greatest foreign policy successes were

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SALT I and restoring relations with Communist China

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Which justice led the U.S. Supreme Court as it shifted toward advocacy of civil rights and civil liberties after 1954?

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Earl Warren

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Which of the following describes the Christmas bombings of 1972?

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The attacks were the most intense of the Vietnam War

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By the 1970s, schools in northern cities were more racially segregated than schools in the South because of

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suburbanization

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What was the outcome of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973 and 1974?

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Vietnam became communist but remained an independent nation

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The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case triggered a judicial revolution in which the Court began to focus on suits related to

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civil liberties

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In 1972, the Democratic nominee for the presidency was

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George McGovern

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Richard Nixon's landslide victory in the election of 1972 signaled

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a major political realignment in the United States

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