History Paper Questions

History Paper Questions

US History Since 1865

Question 3
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What happened at My Lai?
                
      
This was the point where the Ho-Chi-Minh trail led into Cambodia.
      
American soldiers killed at least 300 innocent civilians in this small village in the spring of 1968.
      
My Lai was the location of the prison for American pilots captured by the North Vietnamese.
      
My Lai suffered the worst Napalm attacks in the history of the war.
                
·       Question 5
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Which program was not developed through passage of the Economic Opportunity Act?
                
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VISTA
      
Peace Corps
      
Work-training programs
      
Head Start
                
·       Question 7
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The Twenty-fourth Amendment
                
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declared complete equality of men and women.
      
outlawed the poll tax in federal elections, which had been used to block blacks from voting.
      
reduced the voting age to 18.
      
abolished prohibition.
                
·       Question 8
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The Cuban Missile Crisis
                
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brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
      
ended the Cold War.
      
was a U.S. attempt to seize control of Cuba from Fidel Castro.
      
caused the U.S. to escalate its testing of nuclear weapons.
                
·       Question 9
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Which of the following is not associated with the New Left?
                
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The Port Huron Statement
      
Efforts to end the war in Vietnam
      
An attack on the hypocrisies of America, including segregation and cold war suppression of basic rights and freedoms
      
Hippies, the Haight-Ashbury and Woodstock
                
·       Question 10
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The Chicano Movement led by Caesar Chavez
                
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led several boycotts against grape growers, but none were successful.
      
pushed for citizenship for undocumented immigrants who had worked in California for years.
      
called for a national boycott of grapes, which resulted in higher wages and better living conditions for workers.
      
took hold during the 1950s but had no real successes until the 1960s.
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·       Question 13
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Which southern city was sometimes referred to as “the most segregated city in America”?
                
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Laurel, Mississippi
      
Little Rock, Arkansas
      
Atlanta, Georgia
      
Birmingham, Alabama
                
·       Question 15
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The Black Power movement
                
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was led by Martin Luther King, Jr.
      
was an offshoot of the SCLC.
      
promoted black pride and black control over the social, educational and religious institutions in their communities.
      
All of these choices.
                
·       Question 17
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Which of these statements is not true about Kennedy’s “nation-building” plans?
                
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Kennedy believed wholeheartedly in the doctrine of containment.
      
The Alliance of Progress provided $25 billion dollars to Latin American countries to strengthen their resistance against communism.
      
Kennedy announced he was willing to wage preemptive strikes to prevent the march of communism.
      
Kennedy’s two biggest concerns early in his presidency were Cuba and Korea.
                
·       Question 19
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All of the following is true about John F. Kennedy, except
                
      
He was born into a very prosperous Boston Irish family.
      
He was a World War II hero.
      
He was a middle-of-the-road congressman and senator.
      
Kennedy was Catholic, at a time when Jews and Catholics were beginning to enter the American mainstream.
                
·       Question 21
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A report put out by the Council of Economic Advisors in 1964 indicated that more than 22 percent of Americans
                
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were homeless.
      
had volunteered for VISTA.
      
lived in poverty and lacked adequate food and shelter.
      
were in need of jobs.
                
·       Question 22
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In 1967, opposition to the war in Vietnam became more mainstream when
                
      
news from the Tet Offensive demonstrated that the war was unwinnable.
      
the release of the secret Pentagon Papers highlighted the many ways in which previous administrations had lied to the American people.
      
Senator William J. Fulbright of Arkansas, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Martin Luther King Jr. openly criticized the war.
      
Johnson himself began to voice doubts about the merit of the war.
                
·       Question 23
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The Pentagon Papers
                
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showed that Nixon had no idea how to handle the war in Vietnam.
      
showed that the government had lied to the public over major events in the Vietnam War to manipulate public opinion.
      
proved that massive numbers of civilians were murdered or abused by U.S. soldiers.
      
uncovered illegal campaign activities by Nixon and his staff.
                
·       Question 24
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The growth of America’s counterculture showed that many young people, besides condemning the Vietnam War, also
                
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simply enjoyed the hippie lifestyle.
      
were eager to rebel against the strict attitudes of their parents.
      
rejected traditional American politics, social values, and the cut-throat world of business.
      
took a stand on immigration issues.
                
·       Question 25
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·       Question 26

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, advocated for by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the wake of John F. Kennedy’s assassination
                
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was the first civil rights act in the nation’s history.
      
outlawed discrimination in public facilities and employment based on race, sex, religion and national origin.
      
was authored and promoted by Martin Luther King, Jr.
      
None of these choices.