1. Reagan embraced the idea that through tax incentives the private sector would shift its resources from
tax shelters to productive investment. This theory is referred to as
A. supply-and-demand economics.
B. neofederalism.
C. deficit economics.
D. supply-side economics.
2. Which of the following statements about Truman's Fair Deal is true?
A. It was Truman's response to the Soviet's Sputnik.
B. It was reluctantly passed by Congress.
C. It called for national medical insurance.
D. It repealed the New Deal.
3. Which of the following statements is true regarding the Korean War?
A. Stalin approved the North Korean attack in advance.
B. Both Stalin and Mao expected the American response to the invasion.
C. The Chinese armed and trained the North Korean army.
D. Stalin was outraged by the North Korean attack on South Korea.
4. During Lyndon Johnson's presidency, which of the following legislative or executive measures banned
literacy tests?
A. The establishment of the Office of Economic Opportunity
B. The Medicare Act
C. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
D. The Voting Rights Acts of 1965
5. Which of the following is true of the Truman Doctrine?
A. It established the Marshall Plan.
B. It created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
C. It ended the policy of containment.
D. It amounted to an informal declaration of Cold War.
6. John F. Kennedy replaced Eisenhower's concept of massive retaliation with a _______ response
strategy.
A. focused
B. limited
C. massive
D. flexible
7. Which of the following was the primary cause of the Balkan Wars conducted during the Clinton
administration?
A. The UN peacekeepers' inability to stem ethnic cleansing
B. The rise to power of Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia
C. Muslim activism in Bosnia
D. The breakup of the former state of Yugoslavia
8. Under Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy,
A. Cordell Hull favored continued military interventions in Latin America.
B. the Platt Amendment was rescinded.
C. American commerce with Latin America increased, but only slightly.
D. the collective security among the nations of the Western Hemisphere declined.
9. What incident abroad marked the election day of the 1956 election, thereby enhancing Eisenhower's bid
for a second term?
A. The French defeat in Indochina
B. The resolution of the Suez crisis
C. The crisis in the Formosa Straits
D. An attack on U.S. Marines in Beirut
10. The political purpose of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was to
A. strengthen the Wagner Act.
B. impose regulations on the steel industry.
C. implement NSC-68.
D. roll back the provisions of the Wagner Act.
11. In a free election in 1989, Lech Walesa came to power in
A. Romania.
B. Hungary.
C. Poland.
D. East Germany.
12. To establish the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, Reagan negotiated with
A. Khomeini.
B. Brzezinski.
C. Yeltsin.
D. Gorbachev.
13. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security advisor in the 1970s,
A. believed replacing the Minute Man missles with MX missiles was wasteful.
B. tried to reverse the policy of détente.
C. was against cooperation with China.
D. supported the SALT II treaty.
14. The 1978 Supreme Court decision in Bakke v. Regents of the University of California
A. ruled against the principle of affirmative action.
B. ruled in favor of affirmative action within specified limits.
C. established the "red state-blue state" divide.
D. established the rights of students to appeal college admissions policies.
15. During the McCarthy era, which of the following was (were) executed for allegedly giving atomic
secrets to the Soviet Union?
A. Whittaker Chambers
B. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
C. Klaus hs
D. Alger Hiss
16. Following on the successful activism of Cesar Chavez, Mexican American youths began to refer to
themselves as
A. Mexicans.
B. Los Hombres.
C. Los Barrios.
D. Chicanos.
17. Which of the following statements is true of the Gulf of Tonkin affair?
A. Johnson told Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to let him expand the war.
B. The destroyer Maddox was sunk by North Vietnamese gunboats.
C. Congress was divided and only reluctantly passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
D. Johnson ordered air strikes after the attack.
18. Among instances of corporate malfeasance in the early twenty-first century, the _______ scandal was
the most shocking and economically damaging for employees and shareholders.
A. WorldCom
B. American Tobacco
C. Tyco International
D. Enron
19. At the Yalta Conference of 1945, the military situation favored
A. Eisenhower.
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B. Stalin.
C. Roosevelt.
D. Churchill.
20. Which of the following is true of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka?
A. It established that all citizens should have access to public education.
B. It ruled that segregation should proceed with "all deliberate speed."
C. It declared that segregated schools were inherently separate and unequal.
D. It ruled that desegregation was a state issue, but that segregation was a federal issue.
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