APUSH SBMC Practice

The map above best supports which of the following contentions about the end of the Cold War?

• It created new political and military challenges for the United States and Europe.

• It undermined the process of economic globalization .

• It prompted the United States to embark on a policy of isolationism.

• It promoted widespread public support for enlarging the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

“I want to speak to you firs“I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might. The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose of our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America.”

President Jimmy Carter, televised address to the nation, July 1979

President Jimmy Carter, "Energy and National Goals," Address to the Nation, July 15, 1979. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States.

The passage above was most likely a response to?

• ongoing debates about the protection of civil liberties.

• growing debates over national identity.

• declining public trust in the government.

• continued Cold War fears.

“I want to speak to you first tonight about a subject even more serious than energy or inflation. I want to talk to you right now about a fundamental threat to American democracy. I do not mean our political and civil liberties. They will endure. And I do not refer to the outward strength of America, a nation that is at peace tonight everywhere in the world, with unmatched economic power and military might. The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose of our nation. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America.”

President Jimmy Carter, televised address to the nation, July 1979

President Jimmy Carter, "Energy and National Goals," Address to the Nation, July 15, 1979. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States.

What future political trend would result from America's dissatisfaction with President Jimmy Carter?

• U.S. efforts to redefine its global role in a post-Cold war world.

• Attempts by liberals to use federal power to alleviate social ills.

• The rise of a new political and cultural conservatism.

• New U.S. military and peacekeeping interventions.