Final US History Study Guide

The primary purpose for the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was to

• To guarantee stock purchases

• establish relief agencies for the needy

• stabilize financial institutions of the United States by protecting bank deposits

• oversee a system of pensions for the elderly

A lasting result of the New Deal in the United States has been the

• •assumption by the Federal Government of greater responsibility for the nation’s well-being

• •joint effort of business and labor to strengthen the Presidency

• •reduction of the national debt

• •control of stock prices by the Federal Government

The Camp David summit, hosted by President Carter, was a meeting between the leaders of Israel and

• •Libya

• •Iraq

• •Iran

• Egypt

The growth of McCarthyism in the early 1950s was based on

• •outrage over government corruption

• •a public fear concerning the spread of communism in the United States

• dissatisfaction over the results of World War II

• • hardline military officers who supported attacking the Soviet Union

The Watergate scandal grew out of the efforts of Nixon's confidants to

• •control all new appointments for the Supreme Court

• tighten the security against leaks to reporters on the Washington Post

• • arrest the growing influence and power of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

• •sure the re-election of Nixon in 1972

The main reason FDR attempted to increase the number of Justices on the US Supreme Court was to

• • force the Court to hear cases involving minorities and women

• •speed up the Court’s review of cases

• •make the Court more supportive of New Deal programs

• •Increase the amount of cases the court could hear

Upon becoming president Gerald Ford announced, "our long national nightmare is over" He was referring to

• •Serious economic down turn

• •Watergate

• •Series of urban riots

• •Costly oil embargo

Revealed to Americans that the government had been misleading them about the Vietnam War for years

• My Lai Massacre Report

• •Vietnam Report

• •Pentagon Papers

• •The Vietcong Papers

What organization was often the target of mass demonstrations, a few of them violent, against globalization?

• •World Trade Organization

• •NAFTA

• •NATO

• •European Union

In the early stages of the AIDS epidemic, which of the following groups showed the greatest number of incidents?

• •Homosexual men

• Heterosexual women

• •Homosexual women

• •Heterosexual men