APUSH period 8 multiple choice test

Which of the following represented the largest post-World War II effort to bolster the economies of non-communist nations?

The Marshall Plan

Which of the following was the greatest setback to the U.S. policy of containment?

The rise of Communist China under Mao Zedong

Which pairing below best fits the pattern of [1] Cold War confrontation and [2] Cold War coexistence?

[1] Cuban Missile Crisis, [2] Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty I

In the 1950s and 1960s, which region's nationalist movements presented the greatest challenge to U.S. Cold War goals?

Asia

U.S. anti-Communist allies in Latin America often failed to achieve success during the Cold War because

U.S. backed non-communist regimes often lacked a broad base of local popular support

Which of the following was NOT an element of U.S. policy in the Middle East between 1945 and 1980?

U.S. support for indigenous Arab nationalist movements

Which of the following provoked the greatest fear of internal Communist threats?

The hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

One of the largest, most passionate, and violent antiwar protests took place at Kent State University after

President Nixon announced U.S. military strikes inside of Cambodia

Congressional passage of the 1973 War Powers Act to limit executive authority was in part a response to

Johnson's unchecked escalation in Vietnam using the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Which of the following antiwar movements was most influential in organizing large-scale protests?

Students for a Democratic Society

What NAACP attorney successfully argued the case that overturned school segregation and later became the first African American Supreme Court justice?

Thurgood Marshall

Match the proper branch of the federal government with the effort it led to create greater racial justice after World War II

1 & C, 2 & A, 3 & B, 1 & D

Malcom X, an african american civil rights leader who embraced confrontational tactics against white resistance to desegregation and civil rights, was affiliated with what group?

The Black Muslims

In the 1960s and and 1970s, gender equity was most effectively advanced by

educational gains resulting from passage of Title IX

Who was a prominent feminist in the 1970s?

Gloria Steinem

In the 1960s and 1970s, both the United Farm Workers and the American Indian Movement

demanded social and economic justice and a redress of past injustices

All the following were attempts to address the prevalence and persistence of poverty in the United States EXCEPT

the southern strategy

Which 1960s Supreme Court decision recognized a right to privacy and protected women's access to birth control?

Griswold v. Connecticut

Which pair of items best represents the dichotomy of President Lyndon Johnson's attempts to eliminate poverty while attacking communism abroad?

The Great Society and the policy of escalation

All of the following groups assailed liberals for not doing enough to promote social change EXCEPT

Young Americans for Freedom

Which of the following was most characteristic of the cultural conformity of the 1950s and early 1960s?

Middle-class suburbanization

Which of the following represented the most direct rejection of mainstream 1950s cultural norms?

The Beat movement

What did Nixon call his supporters who favored traditional family values and an end to liberal politics?

The silent majority

The passage of the Immigration Act of 1965

eased restrictions on immigration by ending the previous quota system

Which president oversaw passage of the Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act?

Richard Nixon

Between 1950 and 1980, working women

increased numerically as many social and cultural attitudes changed

Which of the following most engerized the nascent gay rights movement in the late 1960s?

The Stonewall riots against police targeting of gays

Which of the following is NOT a reaction to Watergate and attempts to limit authority of the president?

Presidental term limits

Which of the following represents the zenith of 1960s counterculture?

The Woodstock music festival

Who mobilized the modern environmental movement with the publication of Silent Spring?

Rachel Carson