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History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First Secretary General of the United Nations | Trygve Lie |
| Proposed a world agency with control over atomic energy | Bernard Baruch |
| Under Secretary of state who believed the Russian communists intended to take over the world and must be contained | Dean Acheson |
| Developed a plan providing billions in aid to Western Europe | George Marshall |
| "Mr. Republican" in the 80thCongress who wanted to limit U.S. commitments abroad | Robert Taft |
| First commander of NATO | Dwight Eisenhower |
| "Dixiecrat" candidate for President in 1948 | Strom Thurmond |
| Viewed by pollsters and papers as the most likely man to be elected President in 1948 | Thomas Dewey |
| Led Communist takeover of mainland China | Mao Zedong |
| Government official accused of providing classified documents to the Soviets | Alger Hiss |
| Both the Marshall Plan and the Point Four program | aimed at fighting communism by promoting economic growth |
| A major reason Truman fired MacArthur was | His speaking out against Truman's policy of a limited war |
| Truman called the 80th Congress a "Do-Nothing Congress" because | it refused to support his "Fair Deal" with legislation |
| The United States economy faced all of the following problems after WWII except | a severe depression |
| The Taft-Hartley Act | Outlawed the closed shop |
| The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 put control of "fissionable materials" in the hands of | a federal agency |
| According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, who follows the Vice-President in line for the Presidency | Speaker of the House |
| The Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 190s resulted in all of the following except | banning of the Communist party in the US |
| "Demobilization" refers to the | process of bringing American Soldiers home after WWII |
| The Truman Doctrine stated that it would be the policy of the United States to | support free people who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities |
| Which of the following was not a goal of the Fair Deal? | passing the Taft- Hartley Act |
| The 38th parallel divided | North and South Korea |
| Which event started the Korean war? | North Korea attacked South Korea |
| Which of the following events did not play a role in the rise of Senator McCarthy? | the Atomic Energy Act |
| The Economic plan started in 1948 to help European nations recover from the effects of WWII was called the | Marshall Plan |
| The policy of containment was designed to | stop the spread of Communism |
| According to Churchill, and "iron curtain" separated | nations of Eastern Europe and Western Europe |
| Marshall Tito was a Communist leader in | Yugoslavia |
| In 1949 the United States, Canada, and ten Western European countries formed an alliance that became known as | NATO |
| The 22nd Amendment | limited any President after Harry Truman to 2 terms |
| The act that set up the CIA and placed military leadership in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the | National Security Act |
| I claimed that the State Department was infested with Communist Agents. I am | Joseph McCarthy |
| When ___ replaced Stalin as the Soviet leader in 1953, he called for "peaceful coexistence" with the US | Nikita Khrushchev |
| In 1957 President Eisenhower sent paratroopers to _____ to enforce school integration | Little Rock, Ark. |
| To keep a campaign promise, Eisenhower went to ____ soon after his inauguration to seek a way to end the war there | Korea |
| The Democratic presidential candidate defeated by Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 was ____. | Adlai Stevenson |
| Secretary of State _______ threatened "massive retaliation" against the USSR and talked about freeing all the "captive peoples" still under Soviet Rule. | John Foster Dulles |
| IN 1959 ____ took over as Cuba's leader in what became a Communist Revolution | Fidel Castro |
| When _____ refused to give up her bus seat, a new era in civil rights was launched in the South. | Rosa Parks |
| The Eisenhower Doctrine aimed at helping any country in ___ to resist Communist aggression. | the Middle East |
| The Supreme Court decision in _____ struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine set forth by an earlier decision of the court | Brown v. Board of Education |
| As President, Eisenhower sent American forces to all of the following places except | Lebanon |
| In regard to Vietnam in the 1950s, the US | sent millions of dollars to aid France |
| The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 aimed at helping African Americans | acquire full voting rights |
| As a result of the 1954 Geneva Conference, Vietnam | was divided into a northern Communist section and a southern free section |
| Operation Paperclip succeeded in | bringing German rocket engineers to the US |
| The Suez Crisis in 1957 was finally settled by | the Soviet Union and the United states acting through the UN |
| As a result of the Soviet launching of Sputnik, the federal government | 1. passed the National Defense Education Act to produce more scientists and science teachers 2.created NASA to coordinate US space efforts |
| Upon taking office, Eisenhower's goal as a President included | 1. reducing the size of the government 2. encouraging private business interests. |
| In his farewell address, Eisenhower warned of dangers posed by the | military industrial complex |
| Quemoy and Matsu were | the names of two islands controlled by the Nationalist Chinese |
| Which one of the following ideas is not associated with Eisenhowers foreign policy? | flexible response |
| During the Eisenhower years, the major farm issue in the US was | overproduction |
| He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1953-1969. Under his leadership, the court reached a landmark decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. He was | Earl Warren |
| As a result of the U-2 incident, | Eisenhower did not visit the Soviet Union |
| "parity" is best defined as | The relation of farm prices to nonfarm prices during the period from 1910 to 1914 |
| Which of the following events helped cause McCarthy's fall from power? | the Army-McCarthy hearings |
| Which one of the following tactics did Martin Luther King Jr. urge his followers to practice? | nonviolent demonstration |
| What name was given to John Foster Dulles' strategy for fighting Communism? | brinkmanship |
| On Sept 8, 1954, the US, Australia, GB, france, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand formed an alliance that became known as | SEATO |
| He was a Vietnamese Communist who led the Viet Minh troops to victory. He was | Ho Chi Minh |
| During Pres Eisenhower's first term, | the Korean War ended |
| In Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that | racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional |
| Over 100 southern members of Congress signed the "Southern Manifesto" in reaction to | the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Educ |
| The lawyer who became the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court was | Thurgood Marshall |
| Republican presidential candidate defeated by JFK in 1960 | Richard Nixon |
| Cabinet post the JFK gave to his brother Robert | Attorney General |
| Nation in which Great Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union established a coalition gov in 1962 | Laos |
| Site of an unsuccessful attempt, backed by the US, to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro | Bay of Pigs |
| The Soviets built a wall in 1961 to prevent escapes from here | East Berlin |
| Kennedy's "Marshall Plan" for Latin America | Alliance for Progress |
| Program for sending American volunteers overseas to help people in underdeveloped nations | Peace Corps |
| Missiles developed in the 1960s and housed in underground concrete silos | Minutemen |
| This nation called the Soviet Union a "paper tiger" after its backdown in the Cuban missile crisis | China |
| Ratification of the 24th Amendment banned this method of preventing African Americans from voting | poll tax |
| In 1963 when JFK said, "I am a Berliner," he was referring to | his pledge that the U.S. would not allow free people to be strangled |
| Kennedy lived to witness which of the following events | US superiority over the Soviets in nuclear weapons |
| JFK's new frontier program received most of Congressional support in the area of | urban renewal |
| The test-ban treaty of 1963 | permitted underground nuclear testing |
| In dealing withe the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy ordered | a naval blockade on all military equipment being shipped to cuba |
| The biggest question mark in Kennedy's chances for election in 1960 was | his religion |
| Kennedy put his policy of flexible response into practice by | 1. ordering a naval "quarantine" around Cuba 2.supporting progressive governments in the new nations of Africa |
| "freedom riders" were successful in | integrating interstate bus terminals |
| In 1979 a House Committee on the assassination concluded that | more than one gunman fired at kennedy in Dallas |
| Kennedy tried to control inflation by | proposing wage-price guideposts |
| Kennedy's response to the civil war in Vietnam was to | send in advisers to train the South Vietnamese army |
| The 1963 March on Washington DC was organized to | pressure Congress into passing a civil rights bill |
| Which of the following was not a feature of the 1960 election? | Nixon challenged the results of the voting |
| The Bay of Pigs invasion was defeated mainly because | there was no popular uprising against Castro |
| Under Kennedy, the US adopted the policy of deterring a Soviet nuclear attack with the threat of | mutual assured destruction |
| Kennedy's "grand design" was a plan for | joining the European Common Market in lowering tariffs |
| Which of the following events occurred after the Cuban missile crisis? | The soviets signed a test ban treaty |
| Kennedy appointed as his Sec of State | Dean Rusk |
| Kennedy's policy of meeting Soviet aggression without necessarily threatening nuclear attack was called | flexible response |
| The leader of South Vietnam who was overthrown in 1963 was | Ngo Dinh Diem |
| Kennedy's leading opponent in NATO was | Charles De Gaulle |
| Michael Harrington's book The Other America spoke about | poverty in America |
| The drive to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama was led by | MLK Jr. |
| Kennedy's Assassination was investigated by | Warren Commission |
| A domestic Peace Corps created to help the poor in America | VISTA |
| Wrote Silent Spring, which made Americans aware of the danger of pesticides to the environment | Rachel Carson |
| Black Muslim leader who called for a separate black nation | Malcolm X |
| Commanded American forces in Vietnam | William Westmoreland |
| Led civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery,Alabama in 1965 | MLK Jr |
| As secretary of Housing and urban development, he was the first African American in the Cabinet | Robert Weaver |
| Wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, which made Americans aware of safety hazards of automobiles | Ralph Nader |
| A study of the US role in Vietnam after WWII | Pentagon Papers |
| Program of medical insurance for the elderly financed by an increase in the Social Security payroll tax | Medicare |
| Laws were passed during Lyndon Johnson's administration to aid the | 1.poor 2. African Americans 3. Elderly |
| The major reason the US intervened in the Dominican Republic in 1965 was | to prevent the establishment of a Communist government there |
| All of the following describe Johnson except that he was a | reluctant civil rights advocate |
| All of the following took place during Johnson's administration except | the balancing of the federal budget |
| To help pay for the ever-higher cost of the Vietnam war, LBJ asked Congress to impose a | surcharge on income taxes |
| During the Johnson years, Congress passed laws reducing all of the following kinds of pollution except | radiation from atomic energy plants |
| Race Riots of the 1960s were a result of | 1.the assassination of African American leaders 2.the disillusionment that African Americans felt at the slowness of improvement |
| After the passage of the Voting rights Act of 1965, | African Americans took advantage of the opportunity to register |
| LBJ did not run fro reelection in 1968 because of his | health |
| Which of the following government dept was created during the Johnson years? | Housing and development |
| The incident that prompted Congress to pass the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was | an attack by North Vietnamese gunboats on two US destroyers |
| In 1964 Barry Goldwater campaigned on a program that was essentially | a plan to end the war in Vietnam through negotiations with NLF |
| The War on Poverty included all of the following except | the Peace Corps |
| In 1965 MLK began his drive to register southern African American voters at | Selma, Ala. |
| Nixon's vice pres who resigned after pleading "non contest" to income-tax evasion | Spiro Agnew |
| Site of 1968 Democratic convention that was marked by violence and protest | Chicago |
| Armstrong, Aldrin, and he were on the first successful fight that landed on the moon | Michael Collins |
| American Independent party candidate for President in 1968 and former governor of Ala. | George Wallace |
| Site of Vietnam peace talks | Paris |
| After victory in the California primary, he was killed by Sirhan | RFK |
| Nixon named him as Chief justice when Earl Warren retired | Warren Burger |
| FBI head who would not approve Nixon's plans for spying on enemies | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Nixon's attorney General who approved a plan to "bug" Watergate | John Mitchell |
| First special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal- he insisted Nixon turn over the tapes | Archibald Cox |
| The Supreme Court in the 1960s made decisions that favored all of the following except | capital punishment |
| Much of the violence at the 1968 Democratic Convention was related to | the continuing war in Vietnam |
| The 1973 Vietnam cease-fire | 1.required the return of American p.o.h 2. was a "one-sided" withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam |
| The Supreme Court decisions in Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona dealt with | rights of the accused |
| Public and congressional distrust of Pres Nixon grew because he | 1.used gov agencies to harass his political enemies 2. refused to release the Watergate tapes |
| As a result of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Democrats | were left badly divided and trailing Nixon at the polls |
| Which of the following must happen before a President may removed from office? | impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate |
| During the Watergate Crisis, Nixon | resigned before impeachment by the House |
| President Nixon's economic policies included all of the following except a | return the the Gold standard |
| Richard Nixon's visit to Russia in 1972 was a good example of the policy of | detente |
| One of the clearest examples of the policy of detente between the Soviet Union and the US was | the SALT agreement |
| Under Nixon's policy of detente, the US | sought to ease tensions between Communist nations and the US |
| A special secret White House unit that was formed to stop the unauthorized release of government information to the public and the press was known as the | "Plumbers" |
| Which of the following was Nixon's second appointee as Special Prosecutor in the Watergate Affair | Leon Jaworski |
| Which of the following amendments extended the vote to people 18 to 21 years old? | 26th amendment |
| Boom area in California that produces computer chips | Silicon Valley |
| The condition which arises when the US is purchasing more from other nations than they are buying from us | trade deficit |
| A former gov of NY and multimillionaire whom Ford chose as VP | Nelson Rockefeller |
| Reagan's Sec of Defense who advocated huge increases in federal defense spending | Caspar Weinberger |
| The nickname of Sec of State Kissinger's methods of reaching agreements with other countries | shuttle diplomacy |
| Agency created in 197- to bring together gov programs dealing with pollution and other ecological problems | EPA |
| Poorer nations that were adversely affected by the oil crisis | developing countries |
| A Middle East organization that used terrorism to try and abolish Israel and establish a homeland | PLO |
| The group of nations that is organized to control oil output and prices | OPEC |
| He was the first leader of an Arab country to visit the state of Israel | Anwar Sadat |
| As pres, carter accomplished all of the following except | reform of the electoral collage |
| In the late 1970s the US | used over 30 percent of the worlds energy |
| Carter's major weakness as Pres was that | he was unable to get along well with Congress |
| All of the following occurred during Kissinger's terms as Sec of State except | Panama canal treaties approved by the Senate |
| All of the following took place after the US withdrawal from Southeast Asia except | free elections in Vietnam |
| Both the freedom of information Act and the Privacy act | opened up gov files to citizens |
| the accident at 3 mile island raised concern about | the safety of nuclear reactors |
| Pres Carter negotiated the SALT II Agreements with the Soviets in order to | limit the number of strategic weapons |
| The Arab Oil embargo of 1973-74 was triggered by | US aid to Israel during the Yom Kippur War |
| Gerald Ford tried to control inflation by | increasing gov spending |
| Political Action Committees were formed by | special interest groups to get candidates elected |
| The federal reserve system controls all of the following except | money spent on national defense |
| In the early 1980s, what area of technological development had the greatest impact on the daily lives of Americans | computers |
| Which is a true statement about Pres Reagans defense policy? | He recommended a large increase in defense spending |
| Pres Ford's clemency program was directed at | Vietnam era draft evaders and deserters |
| Which of the following executive departments was created under pres carter | dept of energy |
| The term "Pathet Lao" | Communist backed group that took over Laos |
| The Panama Canal treaties | transferred control of the Canal the Panama |
| Which of the following came to power after the 1979 revolution in Iran | Khomeini |
| In the 1970s all of the following American backed leaders fell from power except | Begin |
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