USHC Unit 7 Review #2

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What is one reason for the increases in worldwide oil prices since the 1970s? Options: Construction of the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline, Political unrest in the Middle East, Promotion of conservation efforts by United States oil companies, Doubling of tariffs on oil imports by the United States government

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Political unrest in the Middle East

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The Camp David Accords negotiated by President Jimmy Carter were important because they...

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Reduced tensions in the Middle East

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What event instigated the American hostage crisis in Iran?

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The U.S. government’s support of the deposed Shah of Iran during his cancer treatment

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What idea hypothesized that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to communism the rest would fall as well?

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Domino Theory

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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) provided congressional support for...

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Escalating military action in Vietnam

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How did the Tet Offensive in 1968 affect American’s perceptions about the Vietnam War?

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Americans realized the war was not going as well as the government led them to believe

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What effect did the media coverage of the Tet Offensive have on the American public?

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There was a shift in public opinion against the war

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Which best describes the process of Vietnamization? Options: The absorption of Vietnamese culture by U.S. soldiers fighting in the war, The turnover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese, The practice of implementing American political ideology in North Vietnam, The attempts of the North Vietnamese to expand power and influence over all of Southeast Asia

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The turnover of the ground war to the South Vietnamese

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What conclusion can be drawn by comparing the results of the publication of the Pentagon Papers, the coverage of the acts of violence in Birmingham, and the carefully orchestrated March on Washington?

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Media portrayals of controversial events have a large impact on public opinion

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What was the main goal of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s?

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To end segregation and racial injustice