US History STAAR Review

Which of the following is considered a major turning point in the Vietnam War?

• Gulf of Tonkin incident

• Battle of Saigon

• Tet Offensive

• My Lai massacre

The term "muckraker", as used during the progressive age, means

• a journalist who exposed corruption and scandal

• a farmer with a lot of livestock

• a politician that favored imperialist policies

• a business owner of a monopoly

Also known as D-day, this took place on June 6th, 1944

• Doolittle's raid on Tokyo

• Munich Conference

• Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

• Normandy Invasion

The Bay of Pigs invasion was

• a success for President Kennedy

• a failure for President Kennedy

• the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• in response to the failure of the Berlin airlift

Medicare/Medicaid, the War on Poverty, and Head start were all

• a part of Kennedy's "New Frontier" domestic policy

• a part of Johnson's "Great Society" domestic policy

• eliminated during Jimmy Carter's administration

• components of Roosevelt's "New Deal"

After World War I, President Harding promised a _______

• Red Scare

• "Return to Normalcy"

• Prohibition movement

• Detente

What happened on December 7, 1941?

• German Blitzkrieg of Poland

• Japanese massacre of Nanjing

• Surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

• Executive order 9066 signed

The Spanish-American War

• helped Cuba get independence

• gave the Philippines their independence

• awarded the US control of the Panama Canal

• allowed Spain to take control of Florida

This piece of legislation banned discrimination based on race in public

• Civil rights act of 1968

• 24th amendment

• Affirmative Action

• Civil rights act of 1964

True or false: The United States joined the League of Nations after World War I.

• True

• False