final exam history de 202

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The Tet offense of 1968 was

both a tactical defeat for the communists and a political defeat for the United States

For America, the what was a great failure of foreign intelligence, a great tactical military success, and a great political defeat?

Tet offensive

Which of the following “traumas” occurred in 1968?

the assassination of Robert Kennedy and MArtin Luther King Jr.

The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed

that the US would expect its allies to share the burden of preserving world peace and order

Who was NOT a presidential candidate in the election of November 1968?

Lyndon Johnson

President Nixon refused to turn over secretly recorded Oval Office conversations to the special prosecutor

claiming executive privilege and matters of national security.

Who in the 1950s did not support helping native americans to end their confinement on reservations and move into the urban mainstream?

full blood native americans seeking to preserve tribal culture

the term Vietnamization refers to the policy of

shifting the burden of actual contact to the south Vietnamese

agent orange was used in vietnam to

defoliate the jungle

what did johnson refer to when he said he felt like a catfish who had just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it

the vietnam war

Why did Robert McNamara insist on gradual escalation in the Vietnam War?

he was applying lessons from the history of the vietnam war

what supreme court decision struck down 46 state laws that restricted a womans access to abortion?

roe v wade

the Nixon Kissinger team

shared a global vision of US foreign policy and tended to pursue their ends secretly

what is the word that describes americas new relationship with the Soviet Union

detente (accent over first e)

what taught the kennedy administration about how to conduct the vietnam war

the US massive use of force in korea had triggered chinas entry into the war

what did curtis lemay refer to when he sad that we are swatting flies when we should be going after the whole manure pile

the restricted air strikes against north Vietnam in retaliation for a mortar attack at pleiku

what tactic did nixon use to battle democratic programs that he opposed

impoundment

what was a defining moment of the nascent gay rights movement?

stonewall inn raid

what were the national leaders divided into concerning the involvement in the vietnam war?

doves and hawks

nixon is best described as a

pragmatist

jimmy carter brought everything except what to the oval office

set of priorities

why was gorbachev eager to denuclearize the cold war in 1986

the disaster in chernobyl

the candidate who had been governor of california was

ronald reagan, who won

which group voiced criticism of television programming

evangilicals

the reagan administration took a hard line against an illegal strike by

the air traffic controllers union

bush benefited from all of the following except

support from remnants of the old left in washington

which previous presidents did carter inherit a large federal budget deficit

nixon AND ford

what best explains clintons victory in 1992

middle of the road voters turned to clinton

proposition 13 cut what by 57 percent

property taxes

who established a council on competitiveness

dan quayle

an agree at a 1987 summit in moscow

provided for destruction of certin nuclear missiles

which of the following is not an effect resulting from the boom of computer use in business offices and fatcory floors

increased demand for low skilled workers

which of the following accurately states an initiative in one of the three areas? (reagan administration foreignpolicy)

soviet union: both a shapr military build up and a new arms control treaty

the conservative revival

affected catholics as well as protestants

a plume of radioactive steam spewed from an overheated nuclear reactor where in Pennsylvania

Three Mile Island

how was irangate different from watergate

all answers correct

why did robert mcflane john poindexter and their aides assume they had the power to act on their own?

a secret intelligence finding signed by the president

the revenue enhancements of the tax equity and fiscal responsibility act of 1982

included a 98 billion tax increase