AMH2020 final

The invasion of Cambodia led to a nationwide student strike. The result was the death of four college students at

a) University of California

b) Kent State University

c) Columbia University

d) Florida State University

Kent State University

President Nixon shocked the world when he visited this Communist country, and formally recognized it:

a) Vietnam

b) Soviet Union

c) Cuba

d) Peoples Republic of China

Peoples Republic of China

The invasion of Cambodia led to a nationwide student strike. The result was the death of four college students at

a) University of California

b) Kent State University

c) Columbia University

d) Florida State University

Kent State University

President Nixon shocked the world when he visited this Communist country, and formally recognized it:

a) Vietnam

b) Soviet Union

c) Cuba

d) Peoples Republic of China

Peoples Republic of China

Which administration’s efforts to mislead the American people were revealed by the publication of the Pentagon papers?

a) Dwight D. Eisenhower

b) John F. Kennedy

c) Lyndon B. Johnson

d) Richard M. Nixon

Lyndon B. Johnson

With what nation did the United States sign that SALT I treaty?

a) The Soviet Union

b) Iran

c) Afghanistan

d) Peoples Republic of China

The Soviet Union

Stagflation included all of the following EXCEPT?

a) low economic growth

b) high employment

c) low gas prices

low gas prices

Nixon’s southern strategy involved winning southern support by:

a) capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs

b) increasing federal support of the South’s economy

c) stepping up the military support for Vietnam

Capitalizing on their skepticism of federal social welfare programs

Nixon was forced to resign due to

a) his enemies list he complied

b) the Pentagon Papers being revealed

c) the Watergate break in and cover up

the Watergate break in and cover up.

The twenty sixth amendment?

a) established a maximum of two terms for president

b) abolished the poll tax

c) reduced the voting age to 18

Reduced the voting age to 18

he became the only person to become president of the United States without being elected

a) Barack Obama

b) Gerald Ford

c) Bill Clinton

Gerald ford

Jimmy carter won the election of 1976 because he:

was viewed as an alternative to Washington insiders

Millions of young people in the second half of the 1960s expressed their alienation from American society by sampling drugs or chasing the rainbow of a youth culture; this is referred to as

The counterculture

Which is NOT part of the American Indian Movement?

It supported the Dawes Severalty Act

BY 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:

The example of the civil rights movement

The highpoint of the counterculture era

was the three day musical festival at Woodstock

Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique:

explained the unhappiness of so many middle class women

The terms Hispanic and Latino are used to?

to describe the Spanish speaking citizens of the United states

The leader of the brown power movement was:

Cesar Chavez

In 1964, students at the university of California at Berkeley:

Protested for freedom of political expression.

This leftist group_________ used terrorism and violence instead of peaceful protests:

Weather Underground

The American Psychiatric Association removed _______ from its list of mental disorders in 1973.

Homosexuality

All of the following were members of the Black Separatists EXPECT?

Martin Luther King Jr.

THe passage of the Civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965 was made possible primarily by the efforts of:

Republican Senator Evert Dirksen

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President Johnson the power to:

Wage undeclared war in Vietnam

The passage of the Great Society programs as made possible primarily by:

the large majorities democrats gained in Congress in the 1964 elections.

In the election of 1964, Johnson defeated ________ in a landslide

Barry Goldwater

In 1964 President Johnson declared war on:

Poverty

The first time US ground troops fought NVA and the Viet Cong in a major engagement was at the Battle of:

La Drang Valley

NOrth Vietnam was able to resupply NVA and Viet Cong through:

The Ho Chi Minh Trail

All the following happened in 1968 EXCEPT

invasion of Cambodia

Which of the following is NOT true of the Tet offensive?

The Viet Cong captured the US embassy in Saigon

In his Letter from Birmingham City Jail, Martin Luther King Jr:

Declared that he was rethinking his philosophy of non-violent protest

The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been

his brother robert Kennedy

Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate

University of Mississippi

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the “I have a Dream” speech:

At the march on Washington in 1963

In the Kennedy-Nixon debates, Richard M. Nixon was hurt MOST by:

A lack of experience with television

In Miranda v Arizona the Supreme court ruled:

That a person on being arrested need to be notified of their constitutional rights

In Gideon v Wainwright the supreme court ruled;

That a defendant is required a lawyer regardless of the ability to pay

Kennedy faced the following in foreign affairs EXCEPT:

The shooting down of a U2 spy plane over the soviet union.

Kennedy created _____ as a means of helping disadvantaged countries

The peace corp

The Warren Commission concluded:

Oswald acted alone in the assassination

Eisenhower chose as his running mate in the election of 1952:

Richard M. Nixon

The servicemen’s adjustment act of 1944 contained the following EXCEPT:

It was one of the federal government’s least successful public assistance

The Eisenhower administration used “new deal style” government spending in modernizing:

The national highway system

An innovative housing project for veterans developed on suburban long island, New York, which boomed to more than 17,000 homes between 1947 and 1951

Levittown

The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:

Cold war-related military spending

Religion’s growing appeal in the 1950’s was due to

the desire to combat godless communism

Jonas Salk would come up with a vaccine to defeat:

Polio

In the 1950’s _____ were nonconformists and cared little for material goods

the Beats

All the following is associated with the 1950’s EXCEPT

Counterculture

Which amendment ratified in 1951, limited the president to 2 terms and not more than 10 years in the office?

22

As the 1948 election approaced

Truman seemed to be in deep political trouble

Who was NOT a candidate for president in the election of 1948

Eisenhower

When truman’s proposed his fair deal

it was thwarted by a conservative coalition in congress

The soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to:

Ordered the development of a hydrogen bomb

In the period 1946-1954, fears of communism were fueled by the following EXCEPT:

Soviet installation of nuclear weapons in cuba

General Douglas MacArthur planned and executed this amphibious invasion of Korea, that kept South Korea from being defeated by the North

Inchon

One of HUAC’s FIRST targets was to investigate alleged communism:

Hollywood

Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur:

For insubordination

McCarthy’s accusations reached absurdity when he claimed communist agent’s included

Secretary of state George C. Marshall

The last Americans to be convicted of treason and executed were:

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

He used the term “iron curtain: to describe the differences between the Soviet controlled portions of Eastern Europe and the more American and British influenced portions of western Europe

Winston Churchill

George Kennan’s Long Telegram said the United States

should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies

The soviet pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe at Yalta were

proved to be meaningless

The Truman doctrine resulted in

The communist failure in taking over Greece and Turkey

The national security act of 1947 created all the following EXCEPT

The Federal Bureau of investigation

A massive economic recovery aid to Europe was the brainchild of

Secretary of State George Marshall

When the Soviets blockaded West berlin in 1948, Truman’s responded:

By launching a massive airlift of supplies into west berlin

Regarding Israel’s founding in 1948:

The united states became the first country to recognize the Jewish state.

Which country was NOT an original member of the North Atlantic treaty organization

poland

Truman by executive order owuld

Integrate the armed forces

The most notorious concentration camp that was liberated by the Soviets

Auschwitz

General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled his vow “I shall return” when the US invaded the

Philippines

This battle in the pacific was made famous for the US marines planting the American flag on top of Mount Saribachi

Iwo Jima

Which international body was formed in the last year of ww2

United Nations

_______ was the plan to invade the Japanese main islands

Operation Downfall

The Manhattan Project was headed up by the Scientist

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The first Japanese city that was devastated by the atomic bomb

Hiroshima

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met at ______ was to plan the invasion of France and the Russian offensive across Eastern Europe?

Tehran

Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to the following at the Casablanca Conference ЕХСЕРТ

An immediate Launching of a cross channel invasion into france

IN the invasion of Sicily, he would emerge as a brilliant strategist for first taking Palermo first and the beating Montgomery to Messina

George S. Patton

He was named the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe?

Eisenhower

Operation Overlord was the code name for the invasion of

France

The Strategy to defeat the Japanese

Island Hopping

In the Battle of Leyte gulf, the Japanese introduced for the first time this weapon of terror?

Kamikaze

The workhorse for the US 8th Army Air Corp

The B-17 Flying Fortress

The 101st Airborne Division was surrounded during the Battle of the Bulge at

Bastogne

Who was the commander of the 101st airborne division who refused to surrender to the Germans by saying, ”nuts”

General MxAuliffe

Operation Drumbeat was the code name for

German U boats attacking the Atlantic coastline of the Untied states

The US government developed the image of _________ to encourage women to take war production jobs

Rosie the Riveter

FDR’s Insurance of Executive Order 8802

That banned racial discrimination in employment for defense industries

Who convinced FDR to allow American industry to make a profit without all the constraints

David Nelson

This former Notre Dame football player survived the Bataan Death March

Motts Tonelli

he turning point of the war in the North Africa

Battle of El Alamein

The turning point of the war in the Europe

Battle of Stalingrad

All of the following is true of the Battle of Coral sea EXCEPT?

US inflicted heavy losses to the Japanese Imperial navy

The turning point of the war in the Pacific

Battle of Midway

Neville Chamberlain was replaced as prime minister by

winston churchill

In which battle were over 300,000 men recued off the beaches?

The battle of Dunkirk

Churchill would attribute the victory in the Battle of Britain , when he said, “never in the field of human conflict was so much owed, by so many, to so few.” to

The Royal air force

The “garden Hose” speech by FDR is in reference to?

Lend-lease