The Agricultural Adjustment Act

• allowed the federal government to sell farm products to Asia

• was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court

• issued homesteads to needy families

• paid farmers not to grow crops or raise livestock

As governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt

• transformed the states' residents economic and political outlook forever

• was one of the few governors to mobilize his state's limited resources to help the unemployed and poor

• tended to withdraw from the public

• followed a conservative budget policy that made any deficit impossible

Although they remained adversaries, the United States and the Soviet Union shared a common concern regarding

• Nuclear Arms control

• runaway inflation

• the growing political power of Communist China in the United States

• excessive dependence of Arab oil

What did President Bush do after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990?

• He organized a United Nations response.

• He ordered the immediate bombing of Baghdad, the Iraqu capitl.

• He immediately sent economic and military aid to Kuwait

• He immediately enlisted the Soviet Union's support for an invasion of Iraq

Which statement best describes the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?

• It was part of Reagan's broader strategy to weaken the Soviet economy

• It was to be a joint U.S-Soviet venture

• Congress forced the plan on a reluctant President Reagan

• It was actually a plan to defend the earth from extraterrestrial attacks

The Camp David Accords

• were an agreement between the U.S. and Israel to reinforce American commitment to the defense of Israel

• were between Iraq and the U.S., which led to the Iran-Iraq War

• was the first peace treaty between an Arab nation and the Jewish state of Israel

• was Jimmy Carter's notoriously flawed attempt to stave off the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

Operation Rolling Thunder convinced the North Vietnmese

• to reduce their presence in South Vietnam

• to begin seeking an opening for peace talks

• that American military power would eventually overwhelm their army

• to increase support the Viet Cong

SALT I

• was a militant anti-war group that advocated armed resistance against the military industrial complex

• was an arms reduction treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States that had resulted from Nixon's detente strategy

• was the name for a new hallucinogenic drug that spread like wildfire in the counterculture of the 1970s

• was a black power organization that tried to organize the Black Panthers and Black Muslims into a larger nationwide militia

The first "teach-in" protest against the Vietnam War happened in

• Berkeley in 1968

• University of Michigan in 1965

• Kent State University in 1971

• Harvard in 1962

The Nixon Doctrine

• focused on the question of U.S. intervention in Latin America

• required countries threatened by communism to shoulder most of the military burden.

• reoriented American's foreign policy toward Europe

• emphasized a tightening of American defense of Taiwan