American History Exam 3

containment

Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherent approach for America in the Cold War by advising a policy of

Greece and Turkey

The immediate crisis that prompted the announcement of the Truman Doctrine was related to the threat of a communist takeover in

support those who were resisting subjugation by communists

Under the Truman Doctrine, the United States pledged to

substantial financial assistance to rebuild Western Europe

President Truman's Marshall Plan called for

a naval quarantine of that island

When the Soviet Union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba, President Kennedy ordered 

 

Segregated schools violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

What was the major social reason why the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional in the case of Brown v. Board of Education?

 

as a serious blow to the labor movement

How can the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 best be described?

 

sent federal troops to Little Rock to protect the Little Rock Nine

When Arkansas governor Orval Faubus resisted the Supreme Court-mandated integration of public schools in Little Rock, President Eisenhower __________.

 

a set of domestic reforms proposed by President Truman

What was the Fair Deal?

 

planned suburban communities

What were Levittowns?

 

Vietnamese communists

The Vietminh were __________.

 

gave President Johnson the power to wage undeclared war in Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution __________.

 

a North Vietnamese and Vietcong assault on over 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam

The Tet Offensive was __________.

 

Most Americans disliked both the war and the peace movement.

Based on public opinion polls taken between 1965 and 1973, how did most Americans feel about the war in Vietnam and the peace movement at home?

 

They saw this action as a form of free speech against the war.

Why did many male American antiwar protestors choose to burn their draft cards during the Vietnam War?

 

banning literacy tests and poll taxes

The purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to guarantee voting rights by __________.

 

black separatism and militancy

As a Nation of Islam spokesperson, Malcolm X advocated __________.

 

New Frontier

John F. Kennedy’s legislative program, which emphasized a liberal agenda and included raising the minimum wage, providing health care for the elderly, and increasing government spending to stimulate the economy was known as the __________.

 

It created two new cabinet positions, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Transportation

How did Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program impact the executive level of government?

 

It marked the deterioration of the hippie counterculture.

What was ironic about the 1967 “Summer of Love”?

 

Returning veterans entered a job market already dealing with massive layoffs.

How did the end of the Vietnam War contribute to the nation’s economic woes?

 

states could not criminalize abortions in the first three months of pregnancy

In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that __________.

 

funneled funds from arms sales made to Iran to the anti-Communists in Nicaragua

In the Iran-Contra affair, National Security Council Director John Poindexter and Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North __________.

 

foreign nations could wreak havoc on the U.S. economy

The 1973 Arab embargo on oil that led to gas shortages throughout the United States served as a reminder that __________.

 

use armed forces to prevent outside countries from intruding in the Persian Gulf

The Carter Doctrine declared that the United States would __________.