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Cold War Domestic Policies

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which WWII military hero became the 34th President of the United States and signed the Interstate Highway Act?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

George Patton

d)

Lyndon Johnson

2.

What was the name of the government agency created in 1970 to protect Americans' health and the natural environment by setting and enforcing pollution standards?

a)

Green Peace

b)

Sierra Club

c)

The Nature Conservancy

d)

Environmental Protection Agency

3.

What was the name of the economic extension of the New Deal that was proposed by Harry Truman that called for higher minimum wage, housing and full employment?

a)

Fair Deal

b)

New Frontier

c)

Great Society

d)

New Federalism

4.

Which of the following did the GI Bill help veterans be able to do? (Check all that apply)

a)

buy homes

b)

pay for college

c)

pay for job training

5.

What was the collective name of Lyndon Johnson's domestic policies that included Medicare, Medicaid, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education?

a)

New Frontier

b)

New Federalism

c)

Great Society

d)

Fair Deal

6.

Who was the 33rd President of the United States who made the decisions to drop the atomic bombs on Japan to end WWII, 1st adopted the containment policy and tried to implement his Fair Deal?

a)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Harry Truman

7.

What was the name of the legislation that was signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower and built a series of highways to connect major cities around the U.S.?

a)

Interstate Highway Act

b)

Autobahn Act

c)

Route 66 Act

d)

National Transportation Safety Act

8.

Who was the nightclub owner who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963?

a)

John Hinckley Jr.

b)

Sirhan Sirhan

c)

Jack Ruby

d)

John Wilkes Booth

9.

Who was the 39th President of the United States who created the Department of Energy and the Department of Education?

a)

Jimmy Carter

b)

Rongald Reagan

c)

Gerald Ford

d)

Richard Nixon

10.

Who was the 35th President of the United States, who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, hoped to enact his domestic policies known as the New Frontier, and was assassinated in Dallas, TX in 1963

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Ronald Reagan

11.

Who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan?

a)

SIrhan Sirhan

b)

Lee Harvey Oswald

c)

Jack Ruby

d)

Jack Hinckley Jr

12.

Who was the Wisconsin Senator who claimed to have a list of known communists working in the American government?

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Joseph McCarthy

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Henry Kissinger

13.

Who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX?

a)

Lee Harvey Oswald

b)

John Hinckley Jr.

c)

Jack Ruby

d)

Sirhan Sirhan

14.

Who was the 36th President of the United States who greatly escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War after the Gulf of Tonkin incident and introduced a number of domestic programs known as the Great Society?

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Gerald Ford

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Lyndon Johnson

15.

What was the name of the campaign program introduced by John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election in which he promised to revitalize the stagnant economy and enact reform legislation in education, healthcare, and civil rights?

a)

New Frontier

b)

Great Society

c)

New Federalism

d)

Fair Deal

16.

What economic philosophy was Reaganomics based on?

a)

laissez faire

b)

Marxism

c)

supply side economics

d)

Keynesian economics

17.

Who was the 37th President of the United States who introduced the policy of detente to try to ease Cold War tensions, and later resigned from office after the Watergate Scandal?

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Gerald Ford

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

Ronald Reagan

18.

Who was the 40th President of the United States who drew strong support from the New Right, introduced new economic policies based on supply side economics, survived an assassination attempt, and introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)?

a)

Jimmy Carter

b)

Gerald Ford

c)

George H.W. Bush

d)

Ronald Reagan

19.

What was the fear of communism spreading to the U.S. after WWII known as?

a)

Second Great Awakening

b)

Second Red Scare

c)

Second Blue Wave

d)

Second Green Fright

20.

What was the political scandal from 1972 to 1975 in which President Richard Nixon and members of his staff organized a burglary of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters and then attempted to cover up their illegal activities known as?

a)

XYZ Affair

b)

HUAC

c)

McCarthyism

d)

Watergate