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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| According to the National Organization for Women's Statement of Purpose, what did equal partnership between men and women require? | A new vision for marriage |
| By the end of the 1950s, what problem was the car causing? | Pollution |
| What helped to launch Martin Luther King Jr. as civil rights | He participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and spoke at protest meetings. |
| How did the struggle against Nazi tyranny discredit racial inequality in the United States? | The contradictions between the principle and practice of freedom in the actual status of African-Americans came to the forefront during the war. |
| Which of the following statements describes a sign that racial relations were changing after World War 2? | In several episodes of his radio show, Superman fought against the Ku Klux Klan. |
| The Marshall Plan | assumed economic prosperity and promoted communisi |
| The war on poverty | concentrated on equipping the poor with skills and rebuilding their spirit and motivation. |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | was the anticommunist leader of South Vietnam. |
| Which of the following accurately depicts one of the uses of anticommunism? | Businesses resisted government regulatory efforts as "socialism." |
| The impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement | Included government actions against black leaders |
| To libertarian conservatives, freedom meant | individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism. |
| The 1963 March on Washington | showed blacks and whites marching together. |
| The Bay of Pigs invasion | was a complete failure. |
| How did the League of United Latin American Citizens regard Mexican-Americans? | Mexican-Americans were white and deserved the same rights that other whites had |
| After the Stonewall riot | a militant gay liberation movement was born. |
| What was one result of the Good Neighbor Policy? | The United States supported dictators in Latin America |
| The new conservatives | believed in tradition and moral commitment. |
| How had the political climate changed in the South during World War II and in the early Cold War years? | The number of African-Americans in the region that were registered to vote increased sevenfold. |
| Which of the following is an example of American influence in the world in 1968? | Other countries borrowed American language and strategy for protests against authority. |
| What did students of the New Left movement think was missing in American liberalism in the 1960's? | the practice of true participatory democracy |
| In the case of Korematsu v. United States (1944), Robert Jackson wrote a dissent arguing that | an order applying only to Japanese descendants was constitutional. |
| What opened Malcolm X up to the possibility of interracial cooperation in the United States? | The interracial harmony he witnessed among Muslims in Saudi Arabia. |
| Which of the following is true of the Yalta conference in 1945? | Stalin agreed to allow free and unfettered elections in postwar Poland. |
| What were the Nuremberg trials? | trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with "crimes against humanity" |
| What did the "Kitchen Debate" between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev focus on? | Meaning of freedom |
| Who were the "Dixiecrats"? | southern Democrats who walked out of the 1948 convention to form the "States' Rights Democratic Party" |
| Most likely why did the U.S. Supreme Court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling Brown v. Board of Education in 1954? | Some justices on the Court feared the outbreak of widespread violence with such a bold ruling. |
| The American Indian Movement | demanded greater tribal self-government. |
| Governor Orval Faubus responded to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School? | with defiance, refusing to comply and allowing violence to break out. |
| What did the defeat of Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater show? | The civil rights movement had redrawn the political map and opened the South to the Republican Party |
| Which statement about the Korean conflict is correct? | The United Nations authorized the use of force to repel the North Koreans. |
| Who was Martin Luther King Jr. addressing in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" | Local clergyman |
| Why did John F. Kennedy consider civil rights a moral crisis for the nation? | He found racial discrimination incompatible with the United States' claim for leadership of the free world. |
| The double-V campaign was | the effort to end discrimination against blacks while fighting fascism. |
| President Roosevelt approached foreign relations with Latin America differently from previous administrations. In which way was his approach different? | He preferred to establish cultural relations. |
| In The Feminine Mystique,Betty Friedan | focused on the discontents of middle-class women. |
| The turmoil of 1968 led to | a backlash calling for law and order. |
| What did the Greensboro sit-in protest? | a lunch counter at Woolworth's that refused to serve blacks |
| Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's policy of massive retaliation | declared that any Soviet attack on an American ally would be countered by a nuclear attack |
| What was the Tet offensive? | uprisings by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese armies in South Vietnamese cities |
| What was the purpose of Freedom Summer? | to provide field experience for new recruits to CORE and SNCC |
| How did World War II change the role of corporations in American life? | Technological innovation and high productivity in the war effort restored the reputation of corporations from its Depression lows. |
| The Gulf of Tonkin resolution | authorized the president to take "all necessary measures to repel armed attack" in Vietnam. |
| The 1943 Texas Caucasian Race-Equal Privileges resolution | allowed Mexicans equal treatment in public accommodations, while still segregating blacks. |
| The Southern Christian Leadership Conference | was a coalition formed by black ministers and civil rights activists. |
| What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings? | They felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment. |
| In 1966. the Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that | those in police custody had certain rights |
| Why did Margaret Chase Smith disagree with Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist agenda? | McCarthy was promoting hate and character assassination. |
| Which of the following describes Operation Wetback? | a program launched by the government with the objective of finding illegal Mexican immigrants and deporting them |
| Black Power emerged as a response to which of the following factors? | the civil rights movement's failure to have any impact on the economic problems of bl ghettos |
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