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Per. 8 Quiz Rev.

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the name the President Kennedy gave for his political platform?

a)

Great Society

b)

New Deal

c)

Fair Deal

d)

New Frontier

2.

The Peace Corps, created by President Kennedy, intended to

a)

increase peace-keeping military operations within the United States

b)

use American volunteers to help underprivileged peoples and areas of the world while also establishing a friendly image of the US

c)

create nationwide organizations to address poverty issues within the country

d)

fund the space program

3.
What preschool program was created in the "Great Society" that gave disadvantaged students an early childhood education, health, and nutrition.
a)
Head Start
b)
Job Corps
c)
Kindergarten
d)
Medicare
4.
Names of the Great Society Programs that provide health insurance to the elderly and covers low income people with medical needs?
a)
HUD and CPB
b)
VISTA and Job Corps
c)
NEA and SeniorCare
d)
Medicare and Medicaid
5.
Part of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society was to 
a)
end poverty in America and provide Education to all
b)
prevent the mistreatment of migrant workers
c)
require migrant workers to work for multiple farmers
d)
prevent the desegregation of schools in America
6.
The House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
a)
Protested racial segregation in the armed forces.
b)
Investigated disloyalty and harmful foreign influences in the United States. 
c)
Investigated U.S. involvement in the Korean War and its lack of progress towards victory.
d)
Tried to deport all foreigners or Un-American peo
7.

The couple that was executed for spying and allegedly passing nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union were the...

a)

Hiss’s

b)

Greenglass’s

c)

Rosenberg’s

d)

Chamber’s

8.
McCarthyism was what?
a)
a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
b)
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
c)
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
d)
The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
9.
What caused McCarthyism?
a)
President Truman making atomic bombs.
b)
Japanese spies.
c)
Bombing China.
d)
Increased fear of communism.
10.

Mutual Defense alliance between Russia and eight communist nations for protection against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

a)

Warsaw Pact

b)

Flexible Response

c)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

d)

Containment

11.

Policy developed by George Kennan stating the U.S should resist Soviet efforts to expand its power.

a)

Containment

b)

Flexible Response

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

Iron Curtain

12.

What was the GI Bill?

a)

Helped Veterans afford houses

b)

Helped people named Bill buy a house

c)

Discrimination bill against African Americans

13.

Which of the following most accurately describes planned postwar communities like Levittown?

a)

simple, low-cost housing for the working poor in cities

b)

large country homes designed to attract buyers

c)

small suburban homes that middle class families could afford

d)

custom-designed homes built to meet the needs of individual buyers

14.

Examine the cartoon. What aspect of American society in the 1950s was the cartoonist making?

a)

high culture

b)

stay-at-home moms

c)

suburban conformity

d)

planned obsolescence

15.

Suburbia as the "American Dream" represented

a)

conformity.

b)

stability.

c)

happiness.

d)

All of the above

16.

Program that provided a wide range of financial benefits to World War 2 Veterans, many former soldiers bought homes and attended college through the program.

a)

Red Scare

b)

Beatnicks

c)

GI Bill

d)

Suburbs

17.
One of the main effects of the passage of the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 was the expansion of
a)
ridership on long-distance passenger trains
b)
 immigrant populations
c)
communities in the suburbs
d)
the airline industry
18.

Who Ordered for the African-Americans of the Little Rock Nine to be protected?

a)

I wasn't paying attention

b)

George Washington

c)

Orval Faubus

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

19.

What Supreme Court ruling said that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Dred Scott v. Sandford

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

20.

What did Truman do in 1948 that was an advancement to civil rights, but an upset to the southern delegation of the Democratic Party?

a)

Issued an executive order desegregating public schools

b)

Issued an executive order ending Social Security

c)

Issued an executive order desegregating the military

d)

Outlawed discrimination against the Communist Party

21.

Outlawed racial discrimination in the workplace and in public places, including schools.

a)

13th Amendment

b)

Jim Crow Laws

c)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1964

22.
He was the communist leader of North Vietnam
a)
Diem
b)
Johnson
c)
Ho Chi Minh
d)
Castro
23.
Shifting the burden of actual combat from American troops to S. Vietnamese forces.
a)
Vietminization
b)
Vietcong
c)
Internationalism
d)
Linkage
24.

John F. Kennedy

a)

sent warships to bomb North Vietnam.

b)

decreased the war equipment being sent to South Vietnam.

c)

increased the number of military advisers in South Vietnam.

d)

sent soldiers to fight in North Vietnam.

25.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail was

a)

a secret path which was used by the Viet Cong in Saigon.

b)

a supply line for the Vietcong which ran through neutral countries.

c)

the route that the Americans took when they left South Vietnam.

d)

a supply line used by South Vietnam.

26.

The United States experience in the Vietnam War supports the idea that the outcome of a war

a)

is determined mainly be technological superiority.

b)

is dependent on using the greatest number of soldiers.

c)

is assured to countries dedicated to democratic ideals.

d)

can be strongly affected by public opinion.

27.

Which American president escalated the Vietnam War and did not run for re-election as a result of anti-war activities in the United States?

a)

Kennedy

b)

Nixon

c)

Truman

d)

Johnson

28.

In the ____________________, United States soldiers killed at least 450 women, children, and elderly men, shocking the American public.

a)

My Lai Massacre

b)

Attack on Sai Pan

c)

Tet Offensive

d)

Attack on Khe Sanh

29.

President of the Republic of Vietnam, had US support, eventually would be overthrown

a)

Ngo Dinh Diem

b)

Viet Cong

c)

Democratic Republic of Vietnam

d)

Ho Chi Minh

30.

Gave the President expansive war powers

a)

Operation Rolling Thunder

b)

Domino Theory

c)

Tet Offensive

d)

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

31.

Ho Chi Minh believed the US would support the Vietnamese independence movement against the French. He was wrong. Why?

a)

The US valued stopping the spread of communism more than defending democracy, if that democracy meant communism

b)

The French had been long-term allies since the American Revolution with the Americans

c)

Richard Nixon did not have a good relationship with Ho Chi Minh at the time

d)

The US cared more about democracy and representative forms of government rather than stopping communism

32.

The period after World War II saw decolonization throughout the world. What was decolonization?

a)

Colonial powers gaining more control of their colonies

b)

Europeans seeing an increased influence in the world

c)

Colonized peoples overthrowing their colonial rulers

33.

The Great Society was a movement that epitomized all of the following EXCEPT

a)

liberalism

b)

progressivism

c)

neoconservatism

d)

increased government

34.
What group of Morehouse College students organized sit-ins to protest the segregation of Atlanta’s diners?
a)
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
b)
NAACP
c)
SCLC
35.

American energy consumption from 1945-1975

a)

decreased tremendously

b)

remained the same

c)

increased slightly

d)

tripled

36.
Clean Water Act 1972
a)
established the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior. 
b)
U.S. federal law that regulates the discharge of pollutants into the nation's surface waters, including lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and coastal areas. Passed in 1972 and amended in 1977 and 1987, the Clean Water Actwas originally 
c)
legislation that grants public access to documents or other data in the possession of a government agency or public authority, unless the information falls into a category that is specifically excluded from the terms of the legislation.
37.
This is the federal organization that ensures that all Americans are protected against specific hazards to the environment and human health where they learn, work and live.
a)
Department of Energy
b)
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
c)
Environmental Protection Agency
d)
Energy Policy Act
38.

The goal of the Chicano movement was to have _________.

a)

equal education

b)

better working pay

c)

voting rights

d)

all of these

39.
During World War Two 16 million young Americans went abroad to fight in the two theaters of war.  This "invitation" was given to Mexican nationals to come help fill the labor shortage in America during the war.  
a)
Bracero Program
b)
Mexican Repatriation Act
c)
Repartimiento System
d)
Encomienda System
40.

Which event is NOT a highly publicized protest/demonstration that AIM was involved in?

a)

Occupation of Alcatraz Island

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

The takeover of a site at Wounded Knee

d)

The March on Washington

41.

A proposed and failed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have prohibited any government discrimination on the basis of Sex.

a)

Feminism

b)

Civil Rights Movement

c)

AIM

d)

Equal Rights Amendment

42.

An Organization founded in 1966 to pursue feminist goals, such as better childcare facilities, improved educational opportunities, and an end to job discrimination.

a)

AIM

b)

Counterculture

c)

National Organization for Women

d)

Feminism

43.

A free music festival that attracted more that 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969.

a)

Counterculture

b)

Hippie Parade

c)

Woodstock

d)

La Raza Concerto

44.

She wrote a book entitled, "The Feminine Mystique", which addressed the "problem that has no name"

a)

Jimi Hendrix

b)

Phyllis Schlafly

c)

Janis Joplin

d)

Betty Friedan

45.

She was journalist, political activist, and ardent supporter of the women's liberation movement.

a)

Betty Friedan

b)

Phyllis Schlafly

c)

Gloria Steinem

d)

Janis Joplin

46.

Schlafly and the anti-feminist movement of the 70s and 80s claimed that feminism and the ERA would

a)

disrupt Containment efforts

b)

prevent the growth of American culturalism

c)

disintegrate the traditional American family

d)

damage the Civil Rights Movement

47.
Policy of relaxing tensions between US and Soviet Union by limiting strategic missile systems 
a)
Deterrent 
b)
Watergate 
c)
Detente
d)
Arms Race
48.
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, designed to control oil distribution around the world 
a)
WTO
b)
GATT
c)
OPEC
d)
NRA
49.
A peace negotiated by Pres. Jimmy Carter between historic Middle Eastern enemies, Egypt and Israel 
a)
Camp David Accords
b)
Iran Hostage Crisis
c)
Contract With America
d)
Watergate
50.

Why did conservatives criticize the Great Society?

a)

It didn't spend enough on education

b)

They wanted to spend the money on the Vietnam War

c)

They believed it gave too much power to the federal government

d)

They insisted that Richard Nixon was the true president and that Johnson was illegitimate

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