HISTORY Exam Flashcards
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Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
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major civil rights legislation
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The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:
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the sit-in
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In his letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr.:
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declared his willingness to break unjust laws
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In 1961, Khrushchev escalated tensions over Berlin by:
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erecting the berlin wall
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The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:
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The reduction in weapons programs by the USSR
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The youths of the counterculture:
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originated when Tom Hayden and Al Haber formed Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1960
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The riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago:
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were supported by a majority of the public
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The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:
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failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment
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By 2012, Hispanics:
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had become the country's largest minority
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The figure who most influenced Nixon's foreign policy was:
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Henry Kissinger
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Carter's management of the economy resulted in:
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unacceptably high rates of inflation
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A crisis in Iran involved all of the following EXCEPT:
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the takeover of Iran's government by hard-line Communists
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A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was:
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population growth in the South and the West
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Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as:
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an evil empire
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The crucial development in the Soviet Union in August 1991 was
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a failed Communist coup
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The United States entered the 1990s:
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as the world's only remaining superpower
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The politician who led the Republican takeover of Congress in the mid-1990s was:
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Newt Gingrich
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All of the following were features of the economy during the Clinton years EXCEPT:
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surging stock prices
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In 1999, NATO air strikes helped stop "ethnic cleansing" in:
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Kosovo
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The Bush Doctrine emphasized:
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preemptive military action against terrorists and terrorist regimes
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From the beginning of his presidency, Kennedy vigorously supported black civil rights.
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false
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Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was called the Great Society.
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true
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By the early 1970s, the public mood was shifting toward conservatism.
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true
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Nixon and his White House aides tried to cover up the Watergate break-in.
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true
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The Camp David Accords were agreements between Iran and Iraq.
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false
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As he had predicted, Reagan's tax cuts helped reduce the federal deficit.
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false
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The Iran-Contra affair involved the illegal sales of arms to the Contra rebels in Iran.
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false
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By 2000, for the first time in the nation's history the majority of immigrants came not from Europe but from other parts of the world.
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true
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George W. Bush won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election.
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false
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In 2008, Barack Obama ran an impressive Internet-based campaign.
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true
