Final Flashcards
(140 cards)
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Which of the following was NOT a problem faced by the U.S. government when it was time to demobilize American troops?
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A group of servicemen petitioned the government to remain in their posts to keep a watch on Germany and Japan to prevent retaliation
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Truman referred to his program of economic and social reform as the
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Fair Deal
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Which of the following pieces of Truman’s domestic agenda was rejected by Congress?
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National healthcare
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What was the U.S. policy of trying to limit the expansion of Soviet influence abroad known as?
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Containment
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Which of the following best describes the Truman Doctrine?
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An attempt by the United States to support countries trying to withstand Communist takeover with financial assistance and weaponry
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The Truman administration tried to help Europe recover from the devastation of World War II with the
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Marshall Plan
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What was one of the reasons why Americans began to doubt the containment of Communism?
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The Soviet Union exploded their first atomic bomb
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What is NOT true about the conflict between North and South Korea?
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The Soviet Union remained neutral
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Which of the following was NOT a group targeted by Joseph McCarthy’s Senate Committee?
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Republican congressmen
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What was the outcome of Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for American communists?
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He was condemned for his actions and his political career dwindled
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The disc jockey who popularized rock and roll was
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Alan Freed
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What was the Journey of Reconciliation?
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A bus trip taken by African American and white men through states of the Upper South to test their enforcement of desegregation on buses
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The Arkansas governor who tried to prevent the integration of Little Rock High School was
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Orval Faubus
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What of the following was NOT a reaction to desegregation in the South?
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Full presidential and congressional support for desegregation
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What were the circumstances surrounding the beating and murder of Emmett Till in 1955?
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He spoke to a white woman in a store in a way she felt was rude
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The United States Senator who led the non-interventionists in Congress and called for neutrality legislation in the 1930s was
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Gerald P. Nye
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Which of the following was NOT a function of the Neutrality Acts passed during the 1930s?
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Forbidding Americans to voluntarily join the war efforts
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Which of the following is NOT true about relations between the United States and Japan in the years prior to 1942?
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The United States recognized Japan’s rights over certain parts of China
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Which of the following led to the United States entering World War II in December 1941?
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Japanese aircraft attacked a U.S. Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii
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During World War II, unionized workers agreed to
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keep production going by not striking
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Which of the following does NOT represent contributions that American civilians on the home front made to the war effort?
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Giving part of their salaries to help fund military efforts
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Which of the following was a common challenge faced by women during WWII?
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A lack of adequate childcare facilities
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Which of the following was NOT a way in which the movie industry promoted the war effort during WWII?
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Movie dramas were replaced by documentaries on the war effort
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The program to recruit Mexican agricultural workers during World War II was the
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bracero
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Which nationality was NOT interned in the US during the war?
Russian
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Which country did Stalin press Roosevelt and Churchill to invade?
France
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What was NOT a result of the major WWII summit meetings?
The restoration of democracy in Germany
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Which of the following islands had to be captured in order to provide a staging area for U.S. bombing raids against Japan?
Iwo Jima
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Which of these films, released in 1927, was the first successful talking motion picture?
The Jazz Singer
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Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Charles Lindbergh
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The popularization of ________ expanded the communications and sports industries
radios
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What is the definition of Nativism?
The rejection of outside influences in favor of local or native customs
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Which of the following is an anarchist belief that, ultimately, biased the jury against Sacco and Vanzetti when they were accused of robbery and murder in 1920?
The destruction of capitalistic society through violence
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The Scopes Monkey Trial revolved around a law that banned teaching about ________ in public schools.
evolution
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Who was both a professional baseball player and an influential evangelist during the 1920s?
Billy Sunday
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Which of the following does NOT reflect the youth culture that emerged in the post-WWI era?
A decline in attendance at movies and dance clubs
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The popularization of which psychologist’s ideas encouraged the new morality of the 1920s?
Sigmund Freud
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Which amendment did Alice Paul draft and promote?
Equal Rights Amendment
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Which novel of the era satirized the conformity of the American middle class?
Babbitt
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Who was the Republican presidential nominee for the 1920 election?
Warren Harding
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In 1929, Albert Fall was convicted of bribery while holding the position of ________.
Secretary of the Interior
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Coolidge’s presidency was characterized by________.
silence and inactivity
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Which of the following was NOT a key issue that allowed Calvin Coolidge, and then Herbert Hoover, to defeat the Democratic Party?
Social welfare
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Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor to the American stock market crash of 1929?
Bad federal investments in the U.S. global territories
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Choose Two: During the 1920s and 1930s, what two industries had the biggest impact on the country’s economic future in terms of investment, potential growth, and employment?
Automobile and Construction
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Which of the following is NOT an example of local, city, and state efforts to combat the Great Depression?
Importation of excess food from overseas
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What did NOT characterize Hoover’s response to the first months of the Great Depression?
A funneling of large sums of government funds through non-secular aid organizations
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Which of the following had the greatest negative impact on the public perception of the Hoover presidency?
The Bonus Expeditionary Force
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Which of the following is NOT a challenge that everyday Americans faced during the Great Depression?
Epidemic diseases
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Which of the following hardships did African Americans NOT typically encounter during the Great Depression?
mass deportations similar to those affecting Mexican nationals
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Which of the following was NOT a key condition that led to the Dust Bowl?
Decreasing demand for farm produce
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Which assessment of Herbert Hoover’s presidency is most accurate?
Hoover did not cause the stock market crash but responded inadequately to it
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Which of the following phrases best characterizes Herbert Hoover’s foreign policy agenda?
Mutual respect in terms of not interfering unnecessarily in others’ affairs
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Which of the following best describes Roosevelt’s attempts to push his political agenda in the interregnum period after his election victory?
Roosevelt kept silent in the four months between election and inauguration
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Which of the following was NOT part of Roosevelt’s strategy to reform the banks within his first 100 days in office?
Give commercial banks tax incentives to encourage their investment banking
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What type of help did the Civil Works Administration (CWA) provide?
Work building bridges and repairing roads
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Which of the following was NOT a policy undertaken by the National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA)?
Agreement among industries to reinvest profits into their firms
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Which of the following is NOT true about the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
It builds new roads and railroad hubs
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Which of the following is NOT a consequence of Roosevelt’s first wave of New Deal policies?
Americans re-invested in the stock market
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Which group of mainly conservative Democrats claimed Roosevelt’s New Deal programs were fascist and a threat to democracy?
American Liberty League
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Which groups were excluded from receiving pension funds as outlined in Roosevelt’s Social Security Act?
Farmers
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After being reelected in 1936, how did Roosevelt attempt to transform the Supreme Court to better serve his agenda?
He attempted to expand the Supreme Court from nine to fifteen judges
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Which of the following statements accurately describes Mary McLeod Bethune?
She was a key figure in the National Youth Administration (NYA)
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Which of the following does NOT represent an effort made by President Roosevelt to ensure more opportunities to African Americans in hiring practices for relief agencies?
Restructuring the Civilian Conservation Corps to be an exclusively African American program
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Which New Deal agency was the first to hire women openly?
The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Which of these aspects of John F. Kennedy did NOT help his campaigns for election?
His religious beliefs
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Which nation was the first to successfully send a human to orbit the earth?
Soviet Union
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Kennedy described his sealing off of Cuba to prevent Soviet shipments of weapons or supplies as ________.
a quarantine
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Which of the following is NOT true about Cuba during Kennedy’s presidency?
The US invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and destroyed the Soviet missiles
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Kennedy proposed a constitutional amendment that would ________.
outlaw poll taxes
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Who was arrested for the murder of President John F. Kennedy?
Lee Harvey Oswald
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What did President Lyndon Johnson identify as the primary cause of poverty and social problems?
Poor education
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Johnson’s Medicaid program targeted ________.
the poor
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Many Americans began to doubt that the war in Vietnam could be won following the ________.
Tet Offensive
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The non-violent form of protest used by students in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 that launched a new dimension to the larger civil rights movement was the ________.
sit-in
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What was the purpose of the 1961 “freedom rides”?
To challenge segregation on southern buses by having African American and white activists defy the seating order dictated by Jim Crow laws
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The goal of the Mississippi Summer Project (otherwise known as “Freedom Summer”) of 1964 was to ___________.
register African Americans to vote
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The African American group, founded in Oakland, which advocated the use of violence and espoused a Marxist ideology was the ________.
Black Panthers
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What practice did the Mendez v. Westminster (1947) case declare unconstitutional?
Segregating children of Hispanic descent in schools
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Who founded the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado in 1965?
Rodolfo Gonzales
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Which of the following was a prominent New Left organization of the early 1960s?
Students for a Democratic Society
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Which of the following was NOT a goal of the movements within the New Left?
Support for the war in Vietnam
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Which of the following was NOT a founding goal of the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
To de-criminalize the use of birth control
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Which of the following was NOT associated with the 1960s counterculture?
A promotion of middle-class values
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Although it grew to draw members from across the nation, the American Indian Movement (AIM) began in ___________.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Which of the following is NOT a factor that led to a shift in federal Indian policy?
The election of numerous American Indians to Congress
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What 1969 event is identified as a key precursor of the U.S. gay rights movement?
Police attempts to arrest the customers of a gay New York bar that led to two nights of riots
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_________ was California’s first openly gay man elected to public office, whose term was cut short when he was assassinated.
Harvey Milk
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The Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade established that ________.
abortions during the first three months of pregnancy were legal
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Why was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) not passed in the 1970s?
It failed to be ratified by enough states
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When Nixon used the term “the silent majority” he was referring to blue-collar workers who ________.
felt their views were ignored in the political process
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Which of the following was NOT a factor behind Nixon’s election in 1968?
Nixon’s support of the New Deal
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The “Chicago Seven” was a reference to ___________.
Leaders of protest camp outside the Convention, who were charged with inciting a riot
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Because of the American backing of ________ during the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) imposed an embargo on oil shipments to the United States from October 1973 to March 1974 driving gasoline prices to record highs.
Israel
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President Nixon took a bold diplomatic step in early 1972 when he ________.
met with Chinese leaders in Beijing
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Who was the U.S.’s co-signatory on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) to limit the deployment of antiballistic missile systems?
The Soviet Union
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The demonstrations at Kent State University in May 1970 were held to protest what event?
The invasion of Cambodia by U.S. forces
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Recognizing that ongoing protests and campus violence reflected a change in public opinion about the war, in 1971 Nixon ________.
repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Which of the following contributed to the Democrats’ loss in the 1972 election?
The party’s handling of revelations about their vice-presidential candidate
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President Nixon was forced to resign in 1974 following ___________.
The release of audio tapes from the Oval Office
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What did President Ford label the nation’s most dangerous public enemy?
Inflation
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The agreement Gerald Ford signed with the leader of the Soviet Union that ended the territorial issues remaining from World War II was ________.
the Helsinki Accords
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During the 1976 election campaign, Jimmy Carter famously promised that ________.
he would never lie
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Carter deregulated several major American industries in an effort to ensure that companies would________.
become more competitive
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Before becoming a conservative Republican, Ronald Reagan was ________.
a liberal Democrat
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Which of the following is NOT a factor that led to Ronald Reagan’s election in 1981?
The highest voter turnout in US history
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The belief that cutting taxes for the rich will eventually result in economic benefits for the poor is commonly referred to as ________.
trickle-down economics
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What does the label “yuppie” stand for?
Young urban professionals
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What was the role of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) established in 1985?
To institute a voluntary rating system within the recording industry to identify music with sexual or violent content
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How did the Religious Right respond to the AIDS epidemic?
They claimed AIDS was divine retribution for an immoral lifestyle
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What differentiated ACT UP from other organizations like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis?
ACT UP was more militant, seeking to shame the government into action
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The group the Reagan administration encouraged and supported in its fight against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua was known as the ________.
Contras
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Which country did Iraq invade in 1980 that triggered an eight-year war?
Iran
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What event did NOT contribute to the end of the Cold War?
Closer ties between the Soviet Union and China
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How can one best describe the foreign policy approach of George H.W. Bush during the Cold War?
He sought to ease tensions with the Soviet Union by non-interference in the Eastern Bloc
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______________ was a dictator and drug smuggler deposed from power in Panama by the United States, a move condemned by the UN as a power play to maintain control of the Canal Zone.
Manuel Noriega
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Which country did Iraq invade in 1990, prompting the Bush administration to forge an unprecedented international coalition?
Kuwait
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What issue during the administration of George H.W. Bush was deemed a “high tech lynching”?
The confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas who was accused of sexual harassment
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Bill Clinton helped create a large free market among Canada, the United States, and Mexico with ratification of the ________ treaty.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
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Which of the following was part of the Clinton administration’s plans for fixing the economy?
Keeping interest rates low
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The Clinton administration became the first to launch _____________.
An Official White House website
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Which of the following is NOT an example of a social policy or practice promoted by President Clinton?
The promotion of racial and gender quotas in employment
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Who were the Branch Davidians?
A militant, doomsday religious sect
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Who was executed for his part in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995?
Timothy McVeigh
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Which of the following was NOT a controversy involving the Clintons?
Watergate break-in
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Besides Clinton, who were the other TWO presidents who faced impeachment proceedings?
Richard Nixon and Andrew Jackson
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Who was the independent counsel whose investigations led up to the attempt to impeach President Clinton?
Kenneth Starr
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Which was the key state in the 2000 election where the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a recount of votes?
Florida
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Which of the following was NOT true of the immediate aftermath of attacks of September 11, 2001?
The international community, including the Taliban, condemned the attack
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The prison operated by the U.S. military for the detention and interrogation of terrorist suspects and “enemy combatants” is located at ________.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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Unwarranted wiretapping in the United States was conducted by the ________.
National Security Agency (NSA)
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Which group saw their tax rates cut the most in 2001 under the Bush Administration?
The high-income tax bracket
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Which of the following was NOT a measure passed by President Bush in order to close the education gap?
Raising the salaries of teachers and educators
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Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor to President Bush’s plummeting popularity over his second term?
His administration’s proposed amnesty for illegal immigrants
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Which investment banking firm went bankrupt in 2008, signaling the beginning of a major economic crisis?
Lehman Brothers
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What regulatory change led to lenders taking on much more risky loans?
The ability to securitize and sell on the loans
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The first state to allow same-sex marriage was ________.
Massachusetts
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Of the following, what is NOT one of the issues Obama focused on within his presidency?
Extending the war on terror
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Which of the following is considered to have particularly damaged Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential election campaign?
His comments about low-income groups
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional in ________.
2013
