Question 1

After the 1972 election,President Richard Nixon,to prompt a peace settlement with North Vietnam,

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A)   evacuated the American embassy in Saigon.
B)   broke off diplomatic negotiations with North Vietnam.
C)   withdrew American forces as North Vietnamese troops left from the South.
D)   allowed the opening of North Vietnamese harbors.
E)   ordered an increase in the aerial bombing of North Vietnam.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 2

In the 1970s,the Nixon administration believed the world's most volatile region to be

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A)   China.
B)   the Middle East.
C)   Eastern Europe.
D)   the so-called Third World.
E)   sub-Saharan Africa.F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 3

The Environmental Protection Agency was created in ________ when ________ signed the National Environmental Protection Act into law.

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A)  1974; Gerald Ford
B)  1963; John F.Kennedy
C)  1970; Richard Nixon
D)  1977; Jimmy Carter
E)  1966; Lyndon JohnsonF) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 4

The so-called Pentagon Papers

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A)   revealed the government had misled the public regarding the progress of the war.
B)   indicated President Nixon had used the IRS to harass leaders of the antiwar movement.
C)   revealed that the government had tried to cover up American involvement in the My Lai massacre.
D)   showed that American operatives in Vietnam had carried out political assassinations.
E)   were suppressed by the Nixon administration until after the Vietnam War.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 5

President Richard Nixon's proposed Family Assistance Plan included

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A)   a maximum six-year participation in the federal welfare system.
B)   free medical care to all Americans over the age of seventy.
C)   federal support for parental leave following the birth of a child.
D)   a program to replace Social Security with private retirement vouchers.
E)   a guaranteed annual income for all Americans.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 6

Shortly after the last Americans had left South Vietnam,Cambodia came under the control of a brutal and repressive government.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

In 1971,President Richard Nixon responded to mounting economic problems by

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A)   expanding the money supply.
B)   sharply reducing the rate of inflation.
C)   imposing a ninety-day freeze on all wages and prices.
D)   lowering corporate taxes to spur investment.
E)   lowering interest rates to spur consumption.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 8

In the 1960s,the youth counterculture

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A)   attempted to differentiate itself from the stereotype of the "hippie."
B)   sought to overthrow the U.S. government through an armed revolution.
C)   was really little more than a change in clothing styles.
D)   rejected the complaints of the "beats" of the 1950s.
E)   was openly scornful of the values and conventions of American middle-class society.F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 9

Explain which rights movement enjoyed the greatest success and which faced the greatest obstacles.

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Question 10

Sandra Day O'Connor,the first female Supreme Court justice,was named to the court by

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A)   George W. Bush.
B)   Jimmy Carter.
C)   George H. W. Bush.
D)   Bill Clinton.
E)   Ronald Reagan.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 11

In 1972,Henry Kissinger announced that "peace is at hand"

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A)   after the United States threatened to use nuclear weapons against North Vietnam.
B)   right before American troops embarked on the Easter offensive.
C)   right before the American presidential election.
D)   after a failed North Vietnamese offensive.
E)   before the final American ground troops were pulled out of Vietnam.F) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 12

The 1969 Woodstock music festival was

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A)   formed to help heal the cultural divisions within American society.
B)   designed to make amends for the events of Altamont four months earlier.
C)   organized as a rally in protest to the Vietnam War.
D)   a powerful symbol of the ideals of the counterculture philosophy.
E)   held to establish cooperatives based on the principles of communal living.F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

Betty Friedan's book,The Feminine Mystique,concerned the difficulties facing poor and working-class women.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Betty Friedan's 1963 book,The Feminine Mystique,

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A)   detailed the many problems confronting single mothers.
B)   described why women had found success and satisfaction in postwar America.
C)   gave a voice to a reemerging women's rights movement.
D)   argued against women placing children before their careers.
E)   encouraged women to remain single in order to maintain their independence.F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 15

The AIDS epidemic weakened the gay rights movement in the early 1980s.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

In the 1950s,the federal "termination" policy as applied to Native Americans sought to

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A)   withdraw all official recognition of the tribes as legal entities.
B)   keep American Indians largely confined to rural areas.
C)   enforce the tribal reservation system.
D)   restore tribal autonomy.
E)   break up militant tribes.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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