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| show | Trygve Lie
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| Proposed a world agency with control over atomic energy | show 🗑
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| Under Secretary of state who believed the Russian communists intended to take over the world and must be contained | show 🗑
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| Developed a plan providing billions in aid to Western Europe | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Taft
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| show | Dwight Eisenhower
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| "Dixiecrat" candidate for President in 1948 | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Dewey
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| Led Communist takeover of mainland China | show 🗑
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| show | Alger Hiss
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| show | aimed at fighting communism by promoting economic growth
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| show | His speaking out against Truman's policy of a limited war
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| Truman called the 80th Congress a "Do-Nothing Congress" because | show 🗑
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| The United States economy faced all of the following problems after WWII except | show 🗑
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| The Taft-Hartley Act | show 🗑
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| show | a federal agency
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| According to the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, who follows the Vice-President in line for the Presidency | show 🗑
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| The Red Scare of the late 1940s and early 190s resulted in all of the following except | show 🗑
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| show | process of bringing American Soldiers home after WWII
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| show | support free people who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities
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| Which of the following was not a goal of the Fair Deal? | show 🗑
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| show | North and South Korea
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| show | North Korea attacked South Korea
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| show | the Atomic Energy Act
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| show | Marshall Plan
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| show | stop the spread of Communism
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| show | nations of Eastern Europe and Western Europe
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| show | Yugoslavia
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| show | NATO
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| The 22nd Amendment | show 🗑
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| The act that set up the CIA and placed military leadership in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph McCarthy
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| show | Nikita Khrushchev
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| In 1957 President Eisenhower sent paratroopers to _____ to enforce school integration | show 🗑
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| To keep a campaign promise, Eisenhower went to ____ soon after his inauguration to seek a way to end the war there | show 🗑
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| The Democratic presidential candidate defeated by Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 was ____. | show 🗑
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| Secretary of State _______ threatened "massive retaliation" against the USSR and talked about freeing all the "captive peoples" still under Soviet Rule. | show 🗑
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| IN 1959 ____ took over as Cuba's leader in what became a Communist Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | Rosa Parks
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| show | the Middle East
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| The Supreme Court decision in _____ struck down the "separate but equal" doctrine set forth by an earlier decision of the court | show 🗑
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| show | Lebanon
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| show | sent millions of dollars to aid France
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| show | acquire full voting rights
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| As a result of the 1954 Geneva Conference, Vietnam | show 🗑
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| show | bringing German rocket engineers to the US
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| show | the Soviet Union and the United states acting through the UN
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| show | 1. passed the National Defense Education Act to produce more scientists and science teachers
2.created NASA to coordinate US space efforts
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| Upon taking office, Eisenhower's goal as a President included | show 🗑
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| In his farewell address, Eisenhower warned of dangers posed by the | show 🗑
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| show | the names of two islands controlled by the Nationalist Chinese
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| Which one of the following ideas is not associated with Eisenhowers foreign policy? | show 🗑
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| During the Eisenhower years, the major farm issue in the US was | show 🗑
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| show | Earl Warren
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| As a result of the U-2 incident, | show 🗑
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| "parity" is best defined as | show 🗑
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| Which of the following events helped cause McCarthy's fall from power? | show 🗑
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| Which one of the following tactics did Martin Luther King Jr. urge his followers to practice? | show 🗑
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| show | brinkmanship
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| On Sept 8, 1954, the US, Australia, GB, france, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Thailand formed an alliance that became known as | show 🗑
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| show | Ho Chi Minh
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| show | the Korean War ended
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| In Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that | show 🗑
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| Over 100 southern members of Congress signed the "Southern Manifesto" in reaction to | show 🗑
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| The lawyer who became the first African American to sit on the Supreme Court was | show 🗑
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| Republican presidential candidate defeated by JFK in 1960 | show 🗑
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| show | Attorney General
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| Nation in which Great Britain, the US, and the Soviet Union established a coalition gov in 1962 | show 🗑
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| show | Bay of Pigs
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| show | East Berlin
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| show | Alliance for Progress
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| show | Peace Corps
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| show | Minutemen
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| This nation called the Soviet Union a "paper tiger" after its backdown in the Cuban missile crisis | show 🗑
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| show | poll tax
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| show | his pledge that the U.S. would not allow free people to be strangled
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| Kennedy lived to witness which of the following events | show 🗑
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| JFK's new frontier program received most of Congressional support in the area of | show 🗑
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| The test-ban treaty of 1963 | show 🗑
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| In dealing withe the Cuban missile crisis, Kennedy ordered | show 🗑
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| The biggest question mark in Kennedy's chances for election in 1960 was | show 🗑
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| show | 1. ordering a naval "quarantine" around Cuba
2.supporting progressive governments in the new nations of Africa
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| show | integrating interstate bus terminals
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| In 1979 a House Committee on the assassination concluded that | show 🗑
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| Kennedy tried to control inflation by | show 🗑
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| show | send in advisers to train the South Vietnamese army
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| show | pressure Congress into passing a civil rights bill
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| show | Nixon challenged the results of the voting
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| The Bay of Pigs invasion was defeated mainly because | show 🗑
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| show | mutual assured destruction
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| Kennedy's "grand design" was a plan for | show 🗑
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| Which of the following events occurred after the Cuban missile crisis? | show 🗑
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| Kennedy appointed as his Sec of State | show 🗑
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| Kennedy's policy of meeting Soviet aggression without necessarily threatening nuclear attack was called | show 🗑
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| show | Ngo Dinh Diem
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| Kennedy's leading opponent in NATO was | show 🗑
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| show | poverty in America
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| The drive to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama was led by | show 🗑
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| show | Warren Commission
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| A domestic Peace Corps created to help the poor in America | show 🗑
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| show | Rachel Carson
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| Black Muslim leader who called for a separate black nation | show 🗑
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| show | William Westmoreland
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| show | MLK Jr
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| show | Robert Weaver
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| Wrote Unsafe at Any Speed, which made Americans aware of safety hazards of automobiles | show 🗑
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| show | Pentagon Papers
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| show | Medicare
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| show | 1.poor
2. African Americans
3. Elderly
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| The major reason the US intervened in the Dominican Republic in 1965 was | show 🗑
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| All of the following describe Johnson except that he was a | show 🗑
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| show | the balancing of the federal budget
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| show | surcharge on income taxes
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| show | radiation from atomic energy plants
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| show | 1.the assassination of African American leaders
2.the disillusionment that African Americans felt at the slowness of improvement
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| After the passage of the Voting rights Act of 1965, | show 🗑
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| LBJ did not run fro reelection in 1968 because of his | show 🗑
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| show | Housing and development
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| show | an attack by North Vietnamese gunboats on two US destroyers
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| show | a plan to end the war in Vietnam through negotiations with NLF
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| The War on Poverty included all of the following except | show 🗑
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| In 1965 MLK began his drive to register southern African American voters at | show 🗑
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| Nixon's vice pres who resigned after pleading "non contest" to income-tax evasion | show 🗑
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| Site of 1968 Democratic convention that was marked by violence and protest | show 🗑
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| Armstrong, Aldrin, and he were on the first successful fight that landed on the moon | show 🗑
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| show | George Wallace
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| Site of Vietnam peace talks | show 🗑
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| show | RFK
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| Nixon named him as Chief justice when Earl Warren retired | show 🗑
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| show | J. Edgar Hoover
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| show | John Mitchell
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| First special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal- he insisted Nixon turn over the tapes | show 🗑
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| The Supreme Court in the 1960s made decisions that favored all of the following except | show 🗑
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| Much of the violence at the 1968 Democratic Convention was related to | show 🗑
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| The 1973 Vietnam cease-fire | show 🗑
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| The Supreme Court decisions in Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona dealt with | show 🗑
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| show | 1.used gov agencies to harass his political enemies
2. refused to release the Watergate tapes
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| show | were left badly divided and trailing Nixon at the polls
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| Which of the following must happen before a President may removed from office? | show 🗑
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| show | resigned before impeachment by the House
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| President Nixon's economic policies included all of the following except a | show 🗑
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| show | detente
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| One of the clearest examples of the policy of detente between the Soviet Union and the US was | show 🗑
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| Under Nixon's policy of detente, the US | show 🗑
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| show | "Plumbers"
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| show | Leon Jaworski
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| show | 26th amendment
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| Boom area in California that produces computer chips | show 🗑
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| The condition which arises when the US is purchasing more from other nations than they are buying from us | show 🗑
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| A former gov of NY and multimillionaire whom Ford chose as VP | show 🗑
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| Reagan's Sec of Defense who advocated huge increases in federal defense spending | show 🗑
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| The nickname of Sec of State Kissinger's methods of reaching agreements with other countries | show 🗑
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| show | EPA
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| Poorer nations that were adversely affected by the oil crisis | show 🗑
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| show | PLO
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| The group of nations that is organized to control oil output and prices | show 🗑
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| He was the first leader of an Arab country to visit the state of Israel | show 🗑
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| As pres, carter accomplished all of the following except | show 🗑
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| In the late 1970s the US | show 🗑
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| show | he was unable to get along well with Congress
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| show | Panama canal treaties approved by the Senate
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| show | free elections in Vietnam
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| Both the freedom of information Act and the Privacy act | show 🗑
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| show | the safety of nuclear reactors
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| Pres Carter negotiated the SALT II Agreements with the Soviets in order to | show 🗑
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| The Arab Oil embargo of 1973-74 was triggered by | show 🗑
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| show | increasing gov spending
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| show | special interest groups to get candidates elected
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| The federal reserve system controls all of the following except | show 🗑
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| show | computers
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| Which is a true statement about Pres Reagans defense policy? | show 🗑
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| Pres Ford's clemency program was directed at | show 🗑
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| Which of the following executive departments was created under pres carter | show 🗑
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| show | Communist backed group that took over Laos
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| show | transferred control of the Canal the Panama
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| Which of the following came to power after the 1979 revolution in Iran | show 🗑
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| show | Begin
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