US History Unit 9 EOC Review

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The 1960 presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy illustrated the

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power of television’s influence in American politics.

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In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy earned national attention by

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falsely accusing many people of being communists.

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The Marshall Plan benefited the United States as well as western Europe because

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European economic recovery meant that the sale of U.S. goods to European countries would increase.

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"Urban sprawl" was accidentally created in post-World War II America thanks MAINLY to which of these?
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end of the Cold War,
greater shopping opportunities,
more fuel-efficient automobiles,
expansion of the highway system

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expansion of the highway system

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In the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive of 1968 showed that

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the Vietcong could strike any major city in South Vietnam.

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After the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957, the United States responded by

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increasing funding to its own space program.

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The drastic increase in American troop strength in Vietnam in 1964 was caused directly by

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the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

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All of these were effects of Congress's 1965 Voting Rights Act EXCEPT: an increase in African American voters, an outlawing of literacy tests for voting, Federal oversight of elections in the South, greater support for Kennedy's domestic plans.

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greater support for Kennedy's domestic plans.

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The truce agreement that stopped the fighting in the Korean War in 1953

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left North Korea and South Korea divided at the 38th parallel.

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Why did the United States play a MAJOR role in rebuilding Japan after World War II?

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to turn an enemy into an ally and to create a more democratic Japan