USH EOC Review Cold War/1960s

Who of the following is considered a baby boomer? 

• Soldier who fought in WW2
• Person born before WW2
• Person born right after WW2
• Person whose father worked in the defense industry 

"McCarthyism" was a term that came to signify:

• A paranoid fear of communism 
• An irrational fear of nuclear war 
• Concerns about economic growth 
• The growth of the defense industry 

Which of the following action would have been illegal following the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education? 

• A white principal turning away an African American student because there is a separate school in town for black children 
• Forcing elderly African American women to give up their seat on a public bus 
• He effectively argued against segregation in Brown v. Board of Education 
• He advocated nonviolence as he led the civil rights movement 

Which of the following points would presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon all have agreed on regarding Vietnam? 

• Vietnam is such a small country that the United States cannot afford to become involved there when it should be worrying about the Soviet Union. 
• The United States must escalate the US military presence in Vietnam
• Communism is a threat to South Vietnam 
• To bring US troops home, the war must expand into Cambodia and Laos 

Congress passed the War Powers Act of 1973 to make sure that the president could no longer deploy military troops without the knowledge and approval of Congress. Which legislative act was meant to reverse it? 

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 
• The Geneva Accords 
• The Paris Accords 
• The 26th Amendment 

Which of the following is a list of terms related to why US public support for the war began to dwindle? 

• Geneva Accords, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 17th parallel 
• Paris Peace Accords, military advisors, fall of Saigon  
• Johnson's reelection, fall of Saigon, Operation Rolling Thunder 
• Pentagon Papers, My Lai, Tet Offensive 

Johnson wanted to forge a Great Society that had no:

• Racial diversity 
• International conflicts 
• Domestic poverty 
• Foreign policy 

President Nixon's policy of engaging in diplomacy with communist superpowers was known as:  

• Detente 
• Solidarity 
• Reunification 
• SDI

Which US president called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"?

• Richard Nixon 
• Jimmy Carter 
• Gerald Ford 
• Ronald Reagan 

Which of the following served to strike down de jure segregation in public education? 

• The 1961 freedom rides 
• The US Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 
• Johnson's "Great Society" and his "War on Poverty"
• The persistence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.