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- 1. Multiple Choice
The court case that ended segregation in public schools
Brown v. Board
Plessy v. Ferguson
Miranda v. Arizona
Engel v. Vitale
Tinker v. DesMoines
- 2. Multiple Choice
LBJ's plan for increased domestic spending on anti-poverty & anti-racism programs
New Deal
New Frontier
Great Society
Welfare for All
Southern Strategy
- 3. Multiple Choice
Truman wanted to intervene in ________ to avoid what happened in China in 1949.
Vietnam
Korea
Greece
Turkey
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following did NOT grow during the 1950s?
Middle Class
Opposition to the Vietnam War
Suburbs
Nuclear Arsenal
Counterculture
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the rise of conservatism before 1980?
Backlash against the counterculture
Backlash against the Civil Rights Movement
Backlash against the Rights Revolution
Backlash against the hawks of the Vietnam era
- 6. Multiple Choice
The overall strategy of the US during the Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which mid-20th-century phenomenon helps to explain Vietnam?
Civil Rights Movement
Decolonization
Space Race
Liberalism
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT true of McCarthyism?
It was a search for Communist infiltrators in the State Department
It mirrored the First Red Scare of the 1920s.
It resulted in the downfall of its namesake Senator.
It prolonged the simultaneous war in Korea.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What organization was formed to pursue world peace in 1945?
United Nations
NATO
Warsaw Pact
League of Nations
- 10. Multiple Choice
What effect did the Pentagon Papers have on society?
It increased the Credibility Gap
It exposed government corruption
It increased the pressure on Nixon to resign
It created the public know about government plans
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following lead to Carter's downfall as a president?
Stagflation
Watergate
Iran-Contra
Bay of Pigs
- 12. Multiple Choice
Nixon's policy of relaxing tensions with the USSR
Detenté
Containment
Domino Theory
Brinksmanship
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT associated with the extension of the civil rights movement?
Silent Majority
Stonewall Riots
AIM
Cesar Chavez
- 14. Multiple Choice
Racism hurt the US during the Cold War because...
the US needed African allies against the USSR
the Soviets resented our racism towards them
the US needed African American votes to pass bills
astronauts refused to fly with Blacks
- 15. Multiple Choice
The Civil Rights process of registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964.
Freedom Summer
Freedom Rides
Sit-Ins
March on Selma
- 16. Multiple Choice
This Civil Rights Legislation outlawed Housing Segregation
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Civil Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1967
- 17. Multiple Choice
The controversial event that led to the US directly intervening in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
Operation Rolling Thunder
My Lai Massacre
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