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The Great Depression and World War II affected American identity by
broadening the definition of Americanism to include almost everybody
President Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 and 1949 by
airlifting more than two million tons of goods to West Berliners
During the anti-Communist scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s,
federal employees were investigated, people were blacklisted, and homosexuals were harassed
In 1953, the United States used the CIA to overthrow the Iranian national government in order to
protect American oil interests in the region
In 1949, the United States agreed to join Canada and Western European countries in a collective security alliance called the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
By 1947, the intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States was being called
the cold war
The event that triggered U.S. military action in Korea in 1950 was
the invasion of South Korea by troops from Communist North Korea
George Kennan thought the application of containment should
involve politics and culture
The United States responded to the fall of the Nationalist government in China by
sending aid to the Nationalists in Taiwan
All of the following were benefits of the Cold War EXCEPT
respect for differing opinions increased
Among the most serious domestic problems facing the United States after World War II were __________. inflation and labor relations
The passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over Truman's veto in 1947
was a blow to labor
The founding of the American GI Forum in 1948 and subsequent efforts by Mexican Americans to challenge their segregation in public schools demonstrated the _
growing mobilization of Mexican Americans in the Southwest
Immediately after World War II, women were expected to
leave jobs in the manufacturing sector
As the first Republican to serve as president after the New Deal, Dwight D. Eisenhower can be credited with __________. leaving the size and functions of the federal government intact
Between 1940 and 1960, the output of farms in the United States increased, and the number of farmworkers
decreased by nearly one-third
Many Americans moved to the Sun Belt in the 1950s because _______
the advent of air-conditioning made it possible to live and work in the region more comfortably
In the book, The Feminine Mystique, author Betty Friedan put forward the idea that
women should have more choices
The most important changes in civil rights in the 1950s were instigated by
ordinary African Americans
Developments of the 1950s set the stage for
black and women's protest movements in the 1960s and 1970s
President Kennedy believed that to eradicate poverty and solve most social problems, the United States needed to
grow the economy
In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality organized Freedom Rides to
integrate interstate transportation in the South
The March on Washington in August 1963 was important because it
gave the civil rights movement great respectability
President Lyndon Baines Johnson came to the White House
with enormous skill in persuading and threatening legislators
The most important factor in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was
growing public support for civil rights
The Medicare program provided
universal hospital insurance for the elderly
More people in the black civil rights movement became radicalized when
the realities of economic disparity became more apparent
By 1966, the principles espoused by Malcolm X had given rise to the
black power movement
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, while
supporting a municipal garbage workers' strike in Memphis
The civil rights movement of the 1960s can be considered the most important movement in the twentieth century because it
addressed questions of power, inequality, and mistreatment
The significance of the Port Huron Statement lay mainly in its
tone of urgent moral passion
Drawing on the example of the Beats of the 1950s, the counterculture of the 1960s
focused on personal rather than political change
An important goal of the American Indian Movement was
the establishment of "survival schools" to teach Indian history and values
Vine Deloria and his book, Custer Died for Your Sins, were important because they
articulated an Indian perspective on pressing issues
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta are best known for their efforts to
improve the conditions of migrant farmworkers in California
All of the following were results of Latino protests in the 1960s and 1970s EXCEPT
sharp reduction in poverty
One factor underlying the new wave of feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s was the __________. escalating number of women in the workplace
In the video "Times Are A-Changin'," the story of Charlene McAden and Sherrie McAden Tarpley illustrates
the importance of birth control in women's lives
Women of color were critical of white women's organizations because those organizations
seemed indifferent to the poverty disproportionately faced by minority women
The Peace Corps was launched by the Kennedy administration in 1961 to
work directly with the people in third world countries
The thirteen-day Cuban missile crisis of 1962
brought the world's two superpowers perilously close to nuclear war
All of the following are lessons that can be derived from the Cuban Missile Crisis EXCEPT
nuclear weapons are inefficient in regional conflicts
The decision by the United States to support the cancellation of free elections in Vietnam in 1956
violated one of America's democratic principles
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was important because it
provided congressional authorization for escalation of forces in Vietnam
The initiation of Operation Rolling Thunder in February 1965 was one sign that
the war in Vietnam had become America's war
One of the practical reasons for protesting the Vietnam War was the belief that
the war could not be won
The Tet Offensive marked a significant turning point in the Vietnam War because it
caused more people to question if the war could be won
"Peace with honor" in Vietnam
meant a truce that ended the direct involvement of the United States in the war
All of the following are lessons drawn from the Vietnam War EXCEPT
disseminate optimistic reports even when losing the conflict
After World War II, liberalism became
more concerned with social justice
The turmoil surrounding the 1968 Democrat Party convention in Chicago
reflected the discord within the party and the nation
The presidential candidacy of George C. Wallace in 1968 appealed to
Americans who were outraged by assaults on traditional values by students and others
The U.S. president who created the Environmental Protective Agency was
Richard M. Nixon
During the Nixon administration, the number of government assistance programs
actually grew
President Nixon saw Chief Justice Earl Warren's resignation in 1969 as an opportunity to put a
more conservative justice on the Court
During the investigation of the Watergate Affair, one of the major constitutional questions was whether
the president is subject to the judicial process
The House Judiciary Committee voted to charge President Nixon with all of the following as grounds for impeachment EXCEPT
tax evasion
A key factor in the disintegration of the liberal coalition was its
support for civil rights
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