Question 1

In 1965,the first major race riot in the United States since World War II took place in

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A)  Detroit.
B)  Chicago.
C)  Los Angeles.
D)  Cleveland.
E)  Memphis.F) A) and C)
G) B) and C)

Question 2

Prior to becoming president,John Kennedy had little record as a crusader for civil rights.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In 1968,Richard Nixon won a strong mandate to lead the country.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The 1961 Vienna summit between the United States and the Soviet Union

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A)  was canceled in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs.
B)  saw Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev make a veiled threat of war.
C)  saw President John Kennedy agree not to invade Cuba.
D)  saw President Kennedy criticize the construction of the Berlin Wall.
E)  saw both the United States and the Soviet Union sign a nuclear test ban treaty.F) D) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 5

In 1961,President Lyndon Johnson's first major foreign policy test came during a crisis in

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A)  Singapore.
B)  the Middle East.
C)  the Dominican Republic.
D)  Brazil.
E)  Laos.F) C) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 6

Senator Eugene McCarthy won the 1968 New Hampshire primary.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

At the beginning of 1964,the Lyndon Johnson administration

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A)  sent the first American military advisers to South Vietnam.
B)  sent the first American combat troops to South Vietnam.
C)  inherited a substantial American commitment to maintain South Vietnam.
D)  believed all of Vietnam should be restored to French control.
E)  began removing military advisers from South Vietnam.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress was designed to be a complement to NATO by improving the military security of the Caribbean.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

In 1968,the most visible sign of a conservative backlash was the third-party presidential campaign of ________.

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Question 10

In 1961,President John Kennedy believed the major struggle against communism in the future would be waged in

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A)  the Baltic.
B)  western Europe.
C)  China.
D)  eastern Europe.
E)  the Third World.F) All of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 11

The construction of the ________ in 1961 heightened East-West tension.

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Question 12

The first major race riot of the post-World War II period took place outside the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The centerpiece of President Johnson's "war on poverty" was the Office of ________.

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Economic O...

Question 14

Martin Luther King confined his civil rights campaigns to the South.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

In 1963,the overthrow of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem

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A)  resulted in Diem's imprisonment and eventual exile.
B)  was carried out by Soviet KGB operatives.
C)  brought short-term political stability to South Vietnam.
D)  was carried out by the National Liberation Front.
E)  was supported by the Kennedy administration.F) A) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 16

Describe the various arguments made in the historical assessment for American's entry into Vietnam.Which one would you subscribe to,and why?

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The historical assessment of America's e...

Question 17

President Lyndon Johnson compiled the most impressive legislative record of any American president since President ________.

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Question 18

In 1960,John Kennedy called his domestic reform agenda the New ________.

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Question 19

Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was part of a civil rights march on Washington to celebrate the passage of major civil rights legislation by Congress.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

In the 1968 presidential campaign,Richard Nixon called for

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A)  an end to the Cold War with the Soviet Union.
B)  an immediate withdrawal of American military forces in Vietnam.
C)  a new commitment to effective social reform.
D)  stability and national law and order.
E)  diplomatic recognition of China.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

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The construction of the ________ in 1961 heightened East-West tension.

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