APUSH Period 8 - Review

The court case that ended segregation in public schools

• Brown v. Board

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Engel v. Vitale

• Tinker v. DesMoines

LBJ's plan for increased domestic spending on anti-poverty & anti-racism programs

• New Deal

• New Frontier

• Great Society

• Southern Strategy

Truman wanted to intervene in ________ to avoid what happened in China in 1949.

• Vietnam

• Korea

• Greece

• Turkey

Which of the following did NOT grow during the 1950s?

• Middle Class

• Opposition to the Vietnam War

• Suburbs

• Nuclear Arsenal

Which of the following was NOT a factor in the rise of conservatism before 1980?

• Backlash against the counterculture

• Backlash against the Civil Rights Movement

• Backlash against the Rights Revolution

• Backlash against the hawks of the Vietnam era

The overall strategy of the US during the Cold War

• Truman Doctrine

• Containment

• Marshall Plan

• Domino Theory

Which mid-20th-century phenomenon helps to explain Vietnam?

• Civil Rights Movement

• Decolonization

• Space Race

• Liberalism

Which of the following is NOT true of McCarthyism?

• It was a search for Communist infiltrators in the State Department

• It mirrored the First Red Scare of the 1920s.

• It resulted in the downfall of its namesake Senator.

• It prolonged the simultaneous war in Korea.

What organization was formed to pursue world peace in 1945?

• United Nations

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• League of Nations

What effect did the Pentagon Papers have on society?

• It increased the Credibility Gap

• It exposed government corruption

• It increased the pressure on Nixon to resign

• It created the public know about government plans