U.S. History STAAR Exit Ticket 20: Postwar America

Which legislation provided benefits to servicemen and women, including access to education and housing loans?

• The Fair Deal

• The New Deal

• The Patriot Act

• The GI Bill of Rights

What was a key goal of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society initiatives?

• To promote space exploration

• To reduce military spending

• To deregulate the banking industry

• To address social and economic inequalities

Which program was not part of the Great Society initiatives?

• The New Deal

• Medicaid

• Medicare

• The War on Poverty

Which of the following was the primary reason for the trends in public confidence from 1973 to 1976?

• The normalization of relations with China

• The explosion aboard Apollo 13

• The Watergate scandal

• The nuclear-power accident at Three Mile Island

What was the reaction of many Americans to the Watergate scandal?

• Confidence in the presidential selection process

• Support for the containment of communism

• Discontent over the antiwar and civil rights protests

• Cynicism about government and elected politicians

Which word means, "easing/lessening of tension?"

• Inflation
• Detente
• Stagflation
• Constipation 

Which option completes this diagram?

• Richard Nixon's involvement in Watergate

• The proposed ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

• President Jimmy Carter's negotiation of the Camp David Accords

• The introduction of the Marshall Plan as official foreign policy