Standard 20 & 21 Test Prep

What does the map on the left represent?

• Countries that joined NATO

• Countries that were aided in the Marshall Plan

• Countries in the Warsaw Pact

• Communist countries in Europe

Sirhan Sirhan is responsible for...

• Shooting MLK, Jr. in Memphis on April 4th, 1968.

• Shooting Robert F. Kennedy while campaigning for the Democratic nomination on June 5th, 1968.

• Shooting John F. Kennedy on November 11th, 1963

• Shooting Ngo Dinh Diem in a coup in Saigon in 1963.

This plan sent aid (13.3 billion) because the US wanted to strengthen Western European economies to prevent communism from spreading.

• The Tonkin Plan

• The Marshall Plan

• The Warsaw Plan

• The NATO Plan

Choose 3 options that describe Jacksonian Democracy

• Increased the amount of voters in the US by removing the land-owning requirement

• Created greater influence of land-owning citizens

• Increased the influence of Congress

• Increased the Influence of the Executive Branch

• Jackson provided jobs to supporters in the spoils system

How did TV influence Americans' opinions of the Vietnam War?

• Most did not care about the war

• They trusted the government more and encouraged more people to volunteer to fight

• They enjoyed the scenes of victory from overseas

• They doubted their government's claims more and many did not support the war.

The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 centered around what controversial issue in westward expansion?

• The removal of Native Americans

• The issue of slavery in new states

• The issue of slavery in new territories

• The issue of abolition

What event led to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• The Bay of Pigs Invasion

• The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

• The Tet Offensive

• The Pusan Perimeter Event

What judicial case ruled that separate educational facilities are "inherently unequal and unconstitutional" based on the 14th amendment's equal protection clause?

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Brown v. BOE

• Woe v. Rade

• Madison v. Marbury

What did Senator Joe McCarthy lead many Americans to believe in the early 1950s?

• That anarchists had infiltrated the government

• That the Soviets would win the Cold War

• That socialists were to blame for the Korean War stalemate.

• The communists had infiltrated everywhere in American life.

What was the aim of the Marshall Plan?

• To stop the spread of communism in Europe

• To defeat and push the Chinese back beyond their border in the Korean War

• To end World War 2 before the Soviets entered Berlin

• To contain the spread of communism in Asia and prevent the Domino Effect