Chapter 24-31

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All of the following contributed to the coming of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

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excessive government regulation

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On Black Thursday, October 24, 1929

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stock prices plunged on the New York Stock Exchange

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Hoover's plan to fight the depression through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation faltered

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when its board of directors showed great timidity at lending funds at its disposal

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The Bonus Army encampment in Washington, DC

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was a public relations disaster for President Hoover

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Roosevelt decided to close all banks in the nation when he took office

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because of the panic by depositors that threatened to ruin the entire banking system

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was aimed at

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lowering the cost of farm machinery

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To stimulate industrial recovery, the New Deal

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suspended antitrust suits against businesses that cooperated with the NRA

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Opponents of the New Deal

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sought to discredit it by labeling it "socialist" and "fascist"

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The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public Works Administration were

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New Deal programs that provided jobs for unemployed individuals

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The Share the Wealth plan that proposed a minimum and maximum income for all Americans was the brainchild of

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Huey Long

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The legislative acts of the Second Hundred Days

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underscored that the government was now assuming more responsibility for the economic welfare of the individual citizen

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Identifying the causes of the individual's difficulties, Depression-era authors like Richard Wright and John Steinbeck

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shifted the blame from the individual to society

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African Americans supported Roosevelt

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because they received benefits under New Deal relief programs

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The most innovative technique devised by organized labor to oppose management in the 1930s was the

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sit-down strike

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One long-lasting effect of New Deal legislation was to

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sharpen the distinction between liberals and conservatives over the role and responsibilities of government

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As part of the Good Neighbor policy, the Roosevelt administration

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veered away from the earlier practice of intervening militarily in Latin American nations

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Passage of neutrality acts in 1935, 1937, and 1939

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mirrored public sentiment in favor of isolationism

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The congressional reaction to the Panay incident made it obvious that Congress

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was unwilling to check Japanese miltarism

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The Lend-Lease Act

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provided Roosevelt with the means to supply Britain, even though the United States was still neutral

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A critical result of the battle for the Atlantic was that

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the United States repealed all of its neutrality laws and thus moved closer to war with Germany

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Tension between the United States and Japan increased when

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Japan joined in an alliance with Germany and Italy

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When President Roosevelt noted that December 7, 1941 was "a day which will live in infamy" he referred to

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the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

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Inflation did NOT become a serious problem during the war because

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the government established price and wage controls throughout the economy

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With the outbreak of the war, the New Deal

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was quickly put aside

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Native Americans during WWII

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on the whole benefited from their wartime experiences

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The Battle of Midway Island was of decisive importance in the war because

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Japan's aircraft carriers and air superiority were thoroughly broken

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Women in the industrial workforce during WWII

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were called upon to work outside the home to help win the war

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Even during the war, tensions between the Allies began to surface over

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Soviet influence and control in Eastern Europe

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The Potsdam Declaration

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warned the Japanese to surrender or else face devastating destruction

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The effects of WWII included

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the end of the Great Depression

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A dramatic warning that the Russians had hostile designs on the West was given in 1946 by

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Winston Churchill in his "iron curtain" speech

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Unlike U.S. foreign policy after WWI, the United States after WWII

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joined the new postwar international organization

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Through the foreign policy known as containment, the United States intended to

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confront all attempts by the Soviet Union to expand its power

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The Truman Doctrine arose in direct response to

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the possibility that Greece would fall to Communist insurgents

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In June 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced his plan to

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provide funds for the economic reconstruction of Europe

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Because of the impending creation of a unified West Germany, the Soviet Union

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blockaded the city of Berlin

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A critic of Truman's Cold War policies in 1950 could cite all of the following as "losses" to the Communists EXCEPT

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Turkey

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Close to defeat, North Korea successfully counterattacked against the forces of the United Nations

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when China suddenly entered the war

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A development after WWII that may have helped to prevent a resumption of the Great Depression was

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a great home-building boom to make up for scarce housing

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Pollsters regarded President Truman as vulnerable in the presidential election of 1948 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

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he had lost he support of black voters

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Southern Democrats formed their own party in the 1948 election

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when the Democratic Party adopted a platform plank in favor of civil rights for minorities

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Hollywood came under scrutiny during the late 1940s because of

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rising fears of Communist influence within the country

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The Alger Hiss case in 1948 convinced many anti-communists that

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New Dealers were prone to be Communists

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As part of the foreign policy originally formulated by George F. Kennan

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the United States established regional alliances in many parts of the world

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Although his popularity plunged because of the war in Korea, President Truman

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could cite the Berlin Airlift as a great achievement in foreign policy

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During the 1950s, government influenced the economy through both military spending and

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funds for sceintific research and technological development

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As suburbs grew and expanded during the 1950s

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inner-city cores deteriorated

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"Togetherness," a term used during the 1950s

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characterized the relationship of the idealized modern American husband and wife

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The Beatnik groups of the 1950s symbolized

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rebellion against prevailing American values

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Popular music in the 1950s

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combined elements of white and black music for the first time

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Dwight D. Eisenhower handily won the presidency in 1952 in part because

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he was a revered WWII hero

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Although he believed in less government and fewer New Deal programs, Eisenhower

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supported spending more federal funds for education

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Orval Faubus dramatized

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southern resistance to efforts to implement the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education

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Eisenhower's New Look in Cold War containment policy emphasized

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more atomic weapons

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Advocating construction of fallout shelters was one way in which the Eisenhower administration

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could demonstrate (to the Russians, for example) that it was serious about brinksmanship

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American policy toward Mohammed Mossadegh demonstrated that

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the United States was prepared to overthrow governments in other nations

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To protect friendly Arab governments, Congress authorized

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the president to send troops abroad if requested by a foreign government

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The policy of brinksmanship achieved success

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none of these

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The Montgomery bus boycott did all of the following EXCEPT

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convince city officials to change the law segregating public buses

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After Egypt's Nasser decided to accept Soviet financing to build the Aswan Dam

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the United States refused to approve of the military action taken by France, Britain, and Israel

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The issues that were raised during the presidential election campaign of 1960 included

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all of these

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The election campaign of 1960

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demonstrated the importance of television in modern politics

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In the area of civil rights, the Kennedy administration

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used federal troops on several occasions to support desegregation

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The closest that the Kennedy administration came to the Eisenhower administration's practice of brinksmanship occurred

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during the Cuban Missile Crisis

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During the Kennedy administration, the Cold War

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reached into space, culminating in the race to land a man on the moon

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Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

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as a consequence of the assassination of President Kennedy

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The 1964 presidential contest can best be characterized as a confrontation between

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conservatives and liberals

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Which of the following was NOT primarily an advocate of equal rights for African Americans?

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NOW

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The Johnson administration's War on Poverty

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contributed to a decline in the number of people living in poverty in the United States

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The Black Power movement advocated

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methods that differed strikingly from those of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" became the clearest articulation of

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an activist philosophy of peaceful civil disobedience

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In the Freedom Summer of 1964, civil rights workers sought to

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register people to vote

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Betty Freidan

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All of these

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The Kerner Commission Report of 1968 blamed most of the racial violence of the era on

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white racism

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Members of the counterculture

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sought to justify the use of drugs

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The United States intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic in the mid-1960s

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to prevent further inroads by communism

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According to the terms of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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Congress gave President Johnson unlimited authority to increase America's military involvement in Vietnam

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The Tet Offensive can be best described as

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undermining support within the United States for the war in Vietnam

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The war in Vietnam differed from WW II because

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a vocal antiwar movement during the Vietnam conflict decisively affected domestic politics

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The combined 57 percent of the vote won by Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the 1968 presidential election indicated that a majority of the electorate

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supported conservative social principles

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Gerald Ford incurred wide disapproval when he

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pardoned Richard Nixon

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According to the New Right, the Warren Supreme Court

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handed down decisions that favored the criminal

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The term Chicano refers to Mexican Americans who

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sought greater rights and recognition for their heritage and rights

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The Nixon administration's policy of Vietnamization

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phased out America's military involvement in Vietnam

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As part of the policy of detente, the United States

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established ties with Communist China

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Richard Nixon's southern strategy was most obvious in his attempt to

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appoint a southerner to the Supreme Court

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The presidential election of 1972 resulted in

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wholesale rejection of the Democrat, George McGovern

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CREEP and the Plumbers were part of the

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Watergate scandal

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In domestic policy, the Nixon administration

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adhered to the principle that the federal government has social responsibilites

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The political events in Crystal City, Texas, in 1963

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encouraged Mexican-American involvement in politics

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American economic problems during the 1970s

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were caused partly by the emergence of strong economies in Germany and several Asian nations

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Although they remained adversaries, the United States and the Soviet Union shared a common problem in

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the rise of Islamic fundamentalism

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The Carter administration's policy in Nicaragua

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reflected the president's desire to make human rights a factor in foreign policy

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In the Middle East, President Carter succeeded in

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brokering the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country

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Ronald Reagan appealed to voters who

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hoped for the restoration of traditional cultural and social values

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The conservative agenda of the Reagan administration included

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less regulation of business

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In the 1980s, the Sunbelt and the Rustbelt reflected

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important economic and population shifts within the United States

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The term "Black Monday" in the 1980s referred specifically to

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a sudden decline in the stock market

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The real weakness of the Reagan administration, even at the beginning of its second term, was the

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growing budget deficit

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In the Gulf War, the United States

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took a decisive stand that was related to its dependence on foreign oil

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The Reagan military budget reserved the highest priority for

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the Strategic Defense Initiative

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In his second term, Reagan's policy toward the Soviet Union

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softened as he responded to overtures from Premier Gorbachev

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The Supreme Court's decision in the Bakke case

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was an example of declining support for affirmative action programs

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New immigrants in the 1980s came primarily from

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Asia, Latin America, and the Carribean

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Events at Three Mile Island

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demonstrated the danger of nuclear power plants in populated areas

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As part of their critique of modern American society, conservatives cited

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the increase in sexual freedom and expression

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The Equal Rights Amendment

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was resisted by conservatives who thought that it would further undermine the family

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The Supreme Court's decision in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey dismayed the Right to Life movement because it

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upheld the right to have an abortion

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Efforts to fight the AIDS epidemic during the 1980s

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became enmeshed in the ongoing controversies over sexual behavior

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The "feminization of poverty" during the 1980s

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occurred in part because of an increase in the number of single mothers

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The nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court proved controversial mainly because he

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was accused of sexual harassment

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Major economic changes in the late twentieth century included

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the shift to informational industries

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In the 1966 election, Bill Clinton

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captured the center of the political spectrum

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The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

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committed the United States even more deeply to free trade

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Liberals and conservatives from the 1970s through the 1990s have disagreed most frequently about

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affirmative action

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To achieve their goals, conservatives deemed that it was exceedingly important to

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change the composition of the federal courts

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Which of the following governments sheltered Osama Bin Laden?

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The Taliban

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President Bush's weakness as he approached the presidential campaign of 1992 was

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a nagging economic recession

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The Dayton Agreement was an attempt to ease conflict in

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southeastern Europe

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In 2001, both Republicans and Democrats contested election results in

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Florida