AP US History

Operation Desert Storm:

• quickly drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait.
  
• ousted Saddam Hussein from power.
  
• was another military defeat for the United States.
  
• was criticized by the United Nations.

Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in October 2001:

• against Afghanistan, because they were harboring Osama bin Laden.
  
• against Saudi Arabia, because they were harboring Osama bin Laden.
  
• against Afghanistan, because the United States did not approve of the Taliban’s treatment of women.
• against Afghanistan, because the Afghan government had ordered the terrorist attacks of September 11.
  

The USA Patriot Act:

• overhauled airport security measures.
  
• expanded the rights of law enforcement agencies to conduct secret searches and detain suspect aliens.
  
• required every American to swear a loyalty oath.
  
• ceased all Islamic immigration into the United States.
  

Ronald Reagan’s economic policy focused on:

• tax cuts.
  
• high tariffs.
  
• government spending on welfare.
  
• empowering unions.
  

Under the policy of Vietnamization, the U.S. military:

• ceased bombings in Vietnam.
• brought an end to antiwar protest.
  
• attempted to shift the burden of fighting to South Vietnamese soldiers.
  
• brought an immediate end to the war.
  

The Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision:

• created a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
  
• was the least controversial piece of the rights revolution.
  
• legalized birth control.
  
• declared school prayer was unconstitutional.
  

The flapper:

• epitomized the change in standards of sexual behavior.
• represented a new political movement.
  
• disapproved of smoking.
  
• demanded a return to earlier standards of behavior.
  

In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:

• were all out of reach of most consumers.
• helped create and spread a new celebrity culture.
  
• were not yet available.
• appealed only to women.
  

During WWII, Americans:

• experienced the rationing of scarce consumer goods such as gasoline.
  
• experienced extreme deprivation
• still suffered from high unemployment.
• were told that the end of war might bring a return of the Great Depression.
  

According to the policy of containment, as laid out by George Kennan, the:

• Soviets could have a free hand in international affairs.
• United States should invade the Soviet Union.
  
• United States was committed to preventing the spread of communism.
  
• United States accepted the right of communism to exist anywhere.