The Los Alamos Community was an example of a
a. Japanese American internment camp.
b. unique group of scientists doing war research.
c. new training base built in the West.
d. scene of zoot-suit rioting.
Answer: B
The Truman Doctrine was first applied to
a. North and South Korea. 
b. East and West Germany.
c. Turkey and Greece.
d. Yugoslavia and Albania.
Answer: C 
The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) was a bipartisan effort led by Eisenhower in response to the Soviet
a. development of the hydrogen bomb.
b. launching the Sputnik satellite.
c. announcement of a manned space program,
d. U-2 spy flights.
Answer: B
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was organized under the auspices of the
a. MIA. 
b. NAACP.
c. WPC.
d. Holt Street Baptist Church.
Answer: A
The great increase in war protests nationwide with the tragedies at Kent State and Jackson State came about from this policy decision:
a. Operation Rolling Thunder 
b. the invasion of Laos
c. the Tet Offensive
d. the bombing of Cambodia
Answer: D
After the fall of France in 1940, the burden of the war against Germany rapidly fell on
a. Great Britain. 
b. China.
c. the Soviet Union.
d. Italy.
Answer: C
The Soviet Union responded to NATO by creating the
a. Security Council. 
b. Berlin airlift.
c. Warsaw Pact.
d. GATT.
Answer: C
The Bay of Pigs plan rested on the false assumption that
a. Castro's army was disloyal.
b. Cuban exiles were militarily superior.
c. the Cubans did not have stockpiles of weapons.
d. a U.S.-led invasion would trigger a popular uprisings.
Answer: D
Which one of the following was NOT a step President Truman took that shifted most black voters to the Democratic Party?
a. A presidential committee on Civil Rights that made ambitious recommendations.
b. Truman publicly endorsed the report To Secure These Rights.
c. He desegregated the armed forces by executive order.
d. He met with Thurgood Marshall and praised the NAACP.
Answer: D
Part of Johnson's motivation in being involved in Vietnam is that he did not want Vietnam to be to him as this was to Truman:
a. China and Korea 
b. Eastern Europe
c. Greece and Turkey
d. Philippines
Answer: A
At the Potsdam meeting, Truman learned that
a. Roosevelt had died.
b. Stalin intended to dominate Eastern Europe after the war.
c. the British wanted Germany to pay reparations.
d. the United States had successfully tested an atomic bomb.
Answer: D
Truman gained support from organized labor after he vetoed the
a. Wagner Act. 
b. Taft-Hartley Act.
c. Employment Act.
d. Council of Economic Advisors.
Answer: B
Which one of the following was NOT part of the significance of rock 'n' roll?
a. It was an expression of common identity for American youth.
b. It helped encourage a teen community.
c. It demonstrated the new buying power of American teens.
d. It accelerated a separation of white and black music.
Answer: D
The victory in Brown v. Board of Education was limited by this second ruling:
a. accepting the idea of "interposition" as a legal argument.
b. giving responsibility for implementation to local school boards.
c. monitoring would be decided by the local community.
d. schools would have a ten year time plan to implement.
Answer: B
"Ping-pong diplomacy" symbolized the dramatic changes Nixon made in U.S. policy toward
a. North Vietnam. 
b. the Soviet Union.
c. the People's Republic of China.
d. the Middle East crisis.
Answer: C
Which one of the following was NOT seized by Hitler between 1938 and 1939?
a. Belgium 
b. Czechoslovakia
c. Austria
d. Poland
Answer: A
Public education in the 1950s was intended to foster
a. noir sensibilities. 
b. anticommunist beliefs.
c. evangelical Christianity.
d. liberalism.
Answer: B
Television shows like "Father Knows Best" and "Leave It to Beaver" were
a. about working-class families struggling with the dilemmas of a consumer society.
b. about the real problems of postwar families who had survived the Depression.
c. urban ethnic shows based on old radio programs.
d. idealized, affluent, suburban, WASP, middle-class programs.
Answer: D
Greensboro, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia; were the sites of
a. freedom rides to desegregate buses.
b. mass signings of a Southern manifesto to defeat segregation.
c. sit-ins at lunch counters and restaurants to protest discrimination.
d. voter registration drives to increase the number of black voters.
Answer: C
The aim of the Watergate break-in was to
a. smear Daniel Elslsberg. 
b. stop White House leaks.
c. solicit illegal campaign contributions.
d. bug the Democratic national headquarters.
Answer: D
Roosevelt issued an executive order removing Japanese American from the Pacific coast states in
a. 1937. 
b. 1940.
c. 1942.
d. 1944.
Answer: C
The Korean War began when
a. North Korea launched a military attack on South Korea.
b. Communist China invaded Korea to keep the Nationalist Chinese out.
c. the Soviet Union joined its North Korean ally in invasion.
d. South Korea attempted to unify both occupation zones of Korea.
Answer: A
Eisenhower's Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, called for a "new look" in American foreign policy which repudiated
a. heavy-handed intervention in foreign nations.
b. massive retaliation and atomic diplomacy.
c. "spywars" and covert actions.
d. the idea of containment.
Answer: D
Which one of the following did NOT arouse national indignation?
a. Birmingham campaign 
b. Selma campaign
c. March on Washington
d. Albany Movement
Answer: D
Which one of the following gives the CORRECT order of these events?
(1) the Tet offensive.
(2) invasion of Cambodia
(3) Nixon FIRST elected
(4) Kent State and Jackson state killings
a. 1,4,2,3 
b. 3,4,2,1
c. 2,3,1,4
d. 1,3,4,2
Answer: D
The United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, France and Nationalist China were all
a. members of NATO.
b. permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
c. on the International Court of Justice.
d. members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Answer: B
Eisenhower used the domino theory to justify America's
a. military-industrial trial complex.
b. containment policy in Asia.
c. refusal to help seize the Suez Canal.
d. covert CIA activity in Iran.
Answer: B
The U.S. program of economic aid to Europe was the
a. Marshall Plan. 
b. Warsaw Pact.
c. Truman Doctrine.
d. NATO.
Answer: A
Eisenhower sent troops to integrate Central High School in
a. Selma, Alabama. 
b. Atlanta, Georgia.
c. Little Rock, Arkansas.
d. Oxford, Mississippi.
Answer: C
Which one of the following gives the CORRECT chronological order of 
these events?
(1) formation of NATO             (3) Berlin Crisis
(2) the Truman Doctrine           (4) Korean War
a. 3,2,4,1 
b. 2,4,3,1
c. 2,3,1,4
d. 4,3,1,2
Answer: C
When Khrushchev pledged to withdraw missiles from Cuba, Kennedy agreed to
a. withdraw missiles from Turkey.
b. set up a hotline for instant communication between them.
c. sign a limited nuclear test ban agreement.
d. respect Cuban sovereignty and not invade the island.
Answer: D
In 1949 these two events increased the Cold War anxiety of the United States:
a. China becomes communist/the Soviet Union explodes an atomic bomb.
b. The Soviet Union and China ally/the Korean War begins.
c. HUAC hearings are held in Hollywood/the Soviets blockade Berlin.
d. The Marshall Plan/Truman Doctrine are enacted.
Answer: A
The Korean armistice line was near
a. the 38th parallel. 
b. the Yalu River.
c. Inchon.
d. Pyongyang.
Answer: A