Question #10 Statistics:
| The Los Alamos Community was an example of a |
Offered 47 times
Correct 43 times or 91%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | Japanese American internment camp. | |
| 43 | unique group of scientists doing war research. | |
| 2 | new training base built in the West. | |
| 2 | scene of zoot-suit rioting. | |
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Question #20 Statistics:
| The National Defense Education Act (NDEA) was a bipartisan effort led by Eisenhower in response to the Soviet |
Offered 47 times
Correct 39 times or 82%
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Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 4 | development of the hydrogen bomb. | |
| 39 | launching the Sputnik satellite. | |
| 1 | announcement of a manned space program, | |
| 3 | U-2 spy flights. | |
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Question #30 Statistics:
| The great increase in war protests nationwide with the tragedies at Kent State and Jackson State came about from this policy decision: |
Offered 47 times
Correct 31 times or 65%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | Operation Rolling Thunder | |
| 5 | the invasion of Laos | |
| 9 | the Tet Offensive | |
| 31 | the bombing of Cambodia | |
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Question #40 Statistics:
| After the fall of France in 1940, the burden of the war against Germany rapidly fell on |
Offered 47 times
Correct 37 times or 78%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 10 | Great Britain. | |
| 0 | China. | |
| 37 | the Soviet Union. | |
| 0 | Italy. | |
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Question #50 Statistics:
| The Soviet Union responded to NATO by creating the |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | Security Council. | |
| 0 | Berlin airlift. | |
| 42 | Warsaw Pact. | |
| 3 | GATT. | |
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Question #60 Statistics:
| The Bay of Pigs plan rested on the false assumption that |
Offered 47 times
Correct 40 times or 85%
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Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 4 | Castro's army was disloyal. | |
| 1 | Cuban exiles were militarily superior. | |
| 2 | the Cubans did not have stockpiles of weapons. | |
| 40 | a U.S.-led invasion would trigger a popular uprisings. | |
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Question #70 Statistics:
| Which one of the following was NOT a step President Truman took that shifted most black voters to the Democratic Party? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 32 times or 68%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | A presidential committee on Civil Rights that made ambitious recommendations. | |
| 8 | Truman publicly endorsed the report To Secure These Rights. | |
| 4 | He desegregated the armed forces by executive order. | |
| 32 | He met with Thurgood Marshall and praised the NAACP. | |
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Question #80 Statistics:
| 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: |
Offered 47 times
Correct 43 times or 91%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 43 | China and Korea | |
| 1 | Eastern Europe | |
| 2 | Greece and Turkey | |
| 1 | Philippines | |
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Question #90 Statistics:
| Truman gained support from organized labor after he vetoed the |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | Wagner Act. | |
| 42 | Taft-Hartley Act. | |
| 2 | Employment Act. | |
| 0 | Council of Economic Advisors. | |
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Question #100 Statistics:
| Which one of the following was NOT part of the significance of rock 'n' roll? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 40 times or 85%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | It was an expression of common identity for American youth. | |
| 3 | It helped encourage a teen community. | |
| 4 | It demonstrated the new buying power of American teens. | |
| 40 | It accelerated a separation of white and black music. | |
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Question #110 Statistics:
| The victory in Brown v. Board of Education was limited by this second ruling: |
Offered 47 times
Correct 34 times or 72%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | accepting the idea of 'interposition' as a legal argument. | |
| 34 | giving responsibility for implementation to local school boards. | |
| 4 | monitoring would be decided by the local community. | |
| 6 | schools would have a ten year time plan to implement. | |
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Question #120 Statistics:
| Public education in the 1950s was intended to foster |
Offered 47 times
Correct 45 times or 95%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | noir sensibilities. | |
| 45 | anticommunist beliefs. | |
| 2 | evangelical Christianity. | |
| 0 | liberalism. | |
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Question #130 Statistics:
| Television shows like 'Father Knows Best' and 'Leave It to Beaver' were |
Offered 47 times
Correct 44 times or 93%
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Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | about working-class families struggling with the dilemmas of a consumer society. | |
| 0 | about the real problems of postwar families who had survived the Depression. | |
| 0 | urban ethnic shows based on old radio programs. | |
| 44 | idealized, affluent, suburban, WASP, middle-class programs. | |
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Question #140 Statistics:
| Greensboro, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia; were the sites of |
Offered 47 times
Correct 33 times or 70%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 5 | freedom rides to desegregate buses. | |
| 0 | mass signings of a Southern manifesto to defeat segregation. | |
| 33 | sit-ins at lunch counters and restaurants to protest discrimination. | |
| 9 | voter registration drives to increase the number of black voters. | |
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Question #150 Statistics:
| The aim of the Watergate break-in was to |
Offered 47 times
Correct 45 times or 95%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 1 | smear Daniel Elslsberg. | |
| 1 | stop White House leaks. | |
| 0 | solicit illegal campaign contributions. | |
| 45 | bug the Democratic national headquarters. | |
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Question #170 Statistics:
| The Korean War began when |
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Correct 18 times or 38%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 18 | North Korea launched a military attack on South Korea. | |
| 4 | Communist China invaded Korea to keep the Nationalist Chinese out. | |
| 1 | the Soviet Union joined its North Korean ally in invasion. | |
| 24 | South Korea attempted to unify both occupation zones of Korea. | |
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Question #190 Statistics:
| Which one of the following did NOT arouse national indignation (and showed that enough jails and non-violence could be used to resist demands for Civil Rights) ? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 32 times or 68%
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Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | Birmingham campaign | |
| 2 | Selma campaign | |
| 9 | March on Washington | |
| 32 | Albany Movement | |
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Question #200 Statistics:
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
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Offered 47 times
Correct 27 times or 57%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 10 | 1,4,2,3 | |
| 3 | 3,4,2,1 | |
| 7 | 2,3,1,4 | |
| 27 | 1,3,2,4 | |
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Question #210 Statistics:
| The United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, France and Nationalist China were all |
Offered 47 times
Correct 38 times or 80%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 6 | members of NATO. | |
| 38 | permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. | |
| 0 | on the International Court of Justice. | |
| 3 | members of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. | |
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Question #220 Statistics:
| Eisenhower used the domino theory to justify America's |
Offered 47 times
Correct 36 times or 76%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 6 | military-industrial trial complex. | |
| 36 | containment policy in Asia. | |
| 2 | refusal to help seize the Suez Canal. | |
| 3 | covert CIA activity in Iran. | |
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Question #230 Statistics:
| The U.S. program of economic aid to Europe was the |
Offered 47 times
Correct 31 times or 65%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 31 | Marshall Plan. | |
| 10 | Warsaw Pact. | |
| 5 | Truman Doctrine. | |
| 1 | NATO. | |
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Question #250 Statistics:
Which one of the following gives the CORRECT chronological order of these events?
(1) formation of NATO
(2) the Truman Doctrine
(3) Berlin Crisis
(4) Korean War |
Offered 47 times
Correct 34 times or 72%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | 3,2,4,1 | |
| 8 | 2,4,3,1 | |
| 34 | 2,3,1,4 | |
| 2 | 4,3,1,2 | |
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Question #260 Statistics:
| When Khrushchev pledged to withdraw missiles from Cuba, Kennedy agreed to |
Offered 47 times
Correct 31 times or 65%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 6 | withdraw missiles from Turkey. | |
| 7 | set up a hotline for instant communication between them. | |
| 3 | sign a limited nuclear test ban agreement. | |
| 31 | respect Cuban sovereignty and not invade the island. | |
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Question #270 Statistics:
| In 1949 these two events increased the Cold War anxiety of the United States: |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 42 | China becomes communist/the Soviet Union explodes an atomic bomb. | |
| 4 | The Soviet Union and China ally/the Korean War begins. | |
| 0 | HUAC hearings are held in Hollywood/the Soviets blockade Berlin. | |
| 1 | The Marshall Plan/Truman Doctrine are enacted. | |
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Question #280 Statistics:
| The Korean armistice line was near |
Offered 47 times
Correct 46 times or 97%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 46 | the 38th parallel. | |
| 1 | the Yalu River. | |
| 0 | Inchon. | |
| 0 | Pyongyang. | |
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Question #290 Statistics:
| Employers of female labor during World War II expected that at the war's end |
Offered 47 times
Correct 46 times or 97%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 46 | women would no longer work outside the home. | |
| 0 | women would choose to stay in the work force. | |
| 1 | women would receive the same wages as men doing the same work. | |
| 0 | female workers with seniority would have precedence over returning veterans seeking jobs. | |
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Question #300 Statistics:
| In response to the Soviet Union's cutoff of western access to West Berlin, Truman |
Offered 47 times
Correct 38 times or 80%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | took a position of watchful waiting to avoid provoking a confrontation with the Soviet Union. | |
| 4 | cut of World Bank loans to the Soviet Union. | |
| 38 | implemented a massive airlift to keep the city self-sufficient. | |
| 2 | authorized the construction of a concrete wall between the two Berlins to prevent any future occurrences. | |
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Question #310 Statistics:
| The pronouncement of the Truman Doctrine, administration of the Marshall Plan, and signing of the NATO agreement were all elements in the response to the Soviet Union called |
Offered 47 times
Correct 27 times or 57%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 12 | detente. | |
| 27 | containment. | |
| 5 | brinkmanship. | |
| 3 | flexible response. | |
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Question #320 Statistics:
| When Joseph McCarthy made his Lincoln Day speech to a Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, he claimed |
Offered 47 times
Correct 43 times or 91%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 43 | he had uncovered massive Communist infiltration of the State Department. | |
| 4 | the army itself was soft on Communism. | |
| 0 | his life had been threatened by Communist agents in the United States. | |
| 0 | a military takeover of the federal government was imminent. | |
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Question #330 Statistics:
| The message delivered to postwar women through the popular media was to |
Offered 47 times
Correct 46 times or 97%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | seek a professional career. | |
| 0 | learn to balance career and family. | |
| 46 | stay home to nurture the family. | |
| 1 | fight for equal rights. | |
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Question #340 Statistics:
| Among the effects of the Korean War were all of the following EXCEPT |
Offered 47 times
Correct 30 times or 63%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 6 | enhanced presidential power. | |
| 6 | expansion of the containment policy to the Far East. | |
| 5 | a rapid and permanent military buildup. | |
| 30 | a sense that we (the U.S.) were winning the Cold War. | |
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Question #360 Statistics:
| Rosa Parks' arrest in Montgomery, Alabama happened because she refused to |
Offered 47 times
Correct 46 times or 97%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | pay her fare up front and then go to the back door to reenter the bus. | |
| 0 | ride on a blacks-only bus. | |
| 46 | give up her seat to a white passenger. | |
| 1 | sit in the back of the bus. | |
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Question #370 Statistics:
| In Brown v. Board of Education the NAACP presented the BASIC argument before the Supreme Court that |
Offered 47 times
Correct 31 times or 65%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 9 | black taxpayers were not receiving their proportional share of public-supported facilities. | |
| 31 | separate facilities by definition denied black people their full rights as citizens. | |
| 7 | educational systems were not segregated everywhere in the United States, therefore those segregated schools that existed were discriminatory. | |
| 0 | African Americans were often treated more equitably in European nations than in their own homeland. | |
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Question #380 Statistics:
| The guiding principles of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, when founded in 1960 with the help of Ella Baker, included all of the following EXCEPT |
Offered 47 times
Correct 13 times or 27%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | mass action. | |
| 14 | civil disobedience. | |
| 18 | direct confrontation. | |
| 13 | centralized authority. | |
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Question #390 Statistics:
| One political dilemma that presidential candidate John F. Kennedy faced as he pondered action on civil rights was how to |
Offered 47 times
Correct 35 times or 74%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 9 | avoid inciting violence in the South. | |
| 35 | avoid alienating southern Democrats. | |
| 2 | change people's minds and hearts on the subject of race relations. | |
| 1 | punish unrepentant racist southern leaders. | |
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Question #400 Statistics:
| The Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
Offered 47 times
Correct 39 times or 82%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | had little immediate impact on the number of black voters in the South. | |
| 39 | outlawed the literacy test and other discriminatory tests that kept blacks disfranchised. | |
| 3 | authorized the states to supervise all voter registration. | |
| 2 | required federal observers in voter registration drives in all states. | |
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Question #410 Statistics:
| While affiliated with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X preached the message of |
Offered 47 times
Correct 44 times or 93%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | accommodation to white society. | |
| 3 | full integration into white society. | |
| 44 | black nationalism/separatism. | |
| 0 | creative nonviolence. | |
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Question #420 Statistics:
| The Tonkin Gulf resolution |
Offered 47 times
Correct 36 times or 76%
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Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 36 | gave the president the authority to use military force in Vietnam. | |
| 6 | called on the United Nations to seek a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam war. | |
| 4 | denounced military aggression by the Soviet Union in Vietnam. | |
| 1 | delayed a response to the Tonkin incident until completion of an investigation into its causes. | |
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Question #430 Statistics:
| The Tet Offensive in 1968 had the important effect of |
Offered 47 times
Correct 19 times or 40%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 13 | crippling the North Vietnamese military effort. | |
| 6 | tightening American resolve to pursue the war to total victory. | |
| 9 | demonstrating the capability of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. | |
| 19 | shaking the credibility of those who had predicted a quick victory in Vietnam. | |
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Question #440 Statistics:
| Richard Nixon defined his working, tax-paying, non-protesting constituency in the election of 1968 as |
Offered 47 times
Correct 37 times or 78%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 37 | the silent majority | |
| 4 | the moral majority | |
| 1 | the highbrow majority | |
| 5 | Americans for America | |
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Question #450 Statistics:
| World War II internment camps for Japanese Americans were |
Offered 47 times
Correct 38 times or 80%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 4 | little more than prisons. | |
| 1 | sanctioned by the Supreme Court. | |
| 3 | home to both Issei and Nisei. | |
| 38 | all of the above | |
| 1 | none of the above | |
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Question #460 Statistics:
| President Truman's domestic agenda, attempting to add to the liberal gains of his successor, was labeled the |
Offered 47 times
Correct 29 times or 61%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | Square Deal | |
| 29 | Fair Deal | |
| 13 | New Deal | |
| 2 | New Society | |
| 0 | Dynamic Conservatism | |
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Question #470 Statistics:
| During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States |
Offered 47 times
Correct 33 times or 70%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 33 | continued to support Chiang Kai-shek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost | |
| 3 | supported the communist leader Mao Zedong hoping that a communist China friendly to the United States would help stop Soviet aggression | |
| 7 | supported Ho Chi Minh, a compromise leader | |
| 3 | intervened militarily to put an end to the struggle | |
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Question #480 Statistics:
| In the election of 1948, Southern conservatives, known as Dixiecrats, bolted the Democratic party because |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | they objected to Truman's slow and ineffective domestic policies | |
| 3 | they wanted to nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower to be the Democratic candidate instead of Truman | |
| 0 | they resented Truman's confrontational stand against the Soviet Union | |
| 42 | they disapproved of Truman's proposed civil rights bill and the pro civil rights party platform | |
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Question #490 Statistics:
| During the 1950's, the number of women working outside the home increased, mainly because |
Offered 47 times
Correct 32 times or 68%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 32 | many families needed a second income to maintain their desired standard of living | |
| 12 | feminism became a major force in society | |
| 0 | suburbs provided a poor environment in which to raise a family, so women had no reason to stay at home | |
| 3 | many women found that they received pay equal to that of men who did the same work | |
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Question #500 Statistics:
| Eisenhower's secretary of state, John Foster Dulles |
Offered 47 times
Correct 35 times or 74%
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Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 5 | continued to support the Truman administration's containment policy | |
| 35 | announced a new policy of 'massive retaliation,' threatening the use of nuclear weapons to counter and 'roll back' communist aggression | |
| 1 | did not want the United States to become involved in foreign alliances | |
| 5 | proposed a series of summit meetings between Eisenhower and Soviet leaders to improve relations between the two nations | |
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Question #510 Statistics:
| The United States financed World War II by |
Offered 47 times
Correct 38 times or 80%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | borrowing from Britain | |
| 0 | confiscating factories engaged in defense production | |
| 38 | increasing tax rates and selling war bonds | |
| 1 | increasing tariff rates | |
| 7 | none of the above | |
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Question #520 Statistics:
| What did not occur as a result of McCarthyism? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 32 times or 68%
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Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 4 | teachers take a non-communist oath | |
| 2 | accusations | |
| 1 | people blacklisted from jobs | |
| 8 | censorship of books in schools | |
| 32 | convictions | |
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Question #530 Statistics:
| Which negative event did NOT occur during the Eisenhower Administration? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 23 times or 48%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 12 | Hungarian revolt | |
| 23 | fall of China to Communism | |
| 3 | Sputnik | |
| 3 | McCarthyism | |
| 6 | U-2 incident | |
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Question #540 Statistics:
| Who led the Vietnamese, defeating France's imperialistic rule at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 30 times or 63%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 30 | Ho Chi Minh | |
| 5 | Chiang Kai-Shek | |
| 5 | Mao Tse-Tung | |
| 5 | Kim Il-Sung | |
| 2 | Syngman Rhee | |
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Question #550 Statistics:
| Who presided as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 33 times or 70%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | John Foster Dulles | |
| 7 | Strom Thurmond | |
| 1 | Adlai Stevenson | |
| 33 | Earl Warren | |
| 2 | John Marshall | |
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Question #560 Statistics:
| According to the video, what NAACP lawyer emerged during the Luce Case and Little Rock Arkansas education cases, eventually becoming a Supreme Court Justice? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 43 times or 91%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | Martin Luther King Jr | |
| 43 | Thurgood Marshall | |
| 1 | Earl Warren | |
| 0 | Orval Faubus | |
| 3 | George Wallace | |
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Question #570 Statistics:
| According to the video, one of the most significant accomplishments of the Montgomery boycott was that |
Offered 47 times
Correct 27 times or 57%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 17 | it led to the immediate victory over segregation laws concerning public transportation | |
| 27 | it led to the elevation of Martin Luther King, Jr., to prominence as a civil rights leader | |
| 2 | it created the NAACP | |
| 0 | it caused most Southern whites accepting desegregation with no further resistance | |
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Question #580 Statistics:
| The 1955-1956 black boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, was essentially started by whom and led to what |
Offered 47 times
Correct 32 times or 68%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 7 | Martin Luther King/affirmation by the U.S. Supreme Court of a lower-court decision outlawing segregation on buses | |
| 32 | Rosa Parks/the voluntary (if forced) concession by white leaders in Montgomery to integrate buses | |
| 0 | Earl Warren/the collapse of the civil rights movement when black leaders were unable to deliver on their promises of social change | |
| 1 | Martin Luther King/the collapse of the civil rights movement when black leaders were unable to deliver on their promises of social change | |
| 7 | Rosa Parks/passage of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board case | |
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Question #590 Statistics:
| In the video, who gave a speech in 1952, later called the 'Checkers Speech', which saved his political career, to inform the public of an incident involving $18,000 in illegal campaign funds? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 41 times or 87%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 41 | Richard Nixon | |
| 1 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | |
| 2 | Adlai Stevenson | |
| 3 | Harry S. Truman | |
| 0 | William Westmoreland | |
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Question #600 Statistics:
| The Great Society and the New Frontier are to be associated with |
Offered 47 times
Correct 27 times or 57%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 13 | John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, respectively. | |
| 1 | John Kennedy alone. | |
| 6 | Lyndon Johnson alone. | |
| 27 | Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy, respectively. | |
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Question #610 Statistics:
| The greatest increase in the number of American troops in Vietnam came during the administration of |
Offered 47 times
Correct 33 times or 70%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 7 | Dwight Eisenhower | |
| 3 | John Kennedy | |
| 33 | Lyndon Johnson | |
| 4 | Richard Nixon. | |
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Question #620 Statistics:
| The Tet offensive of 1968 was a |
Offered 47 times
Correct 24 times or 51%
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Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 10 | (A) political defeat for President Johnson. | |
| 6 | (B) military victory for the United States. | |
| 24 | both a and b | |
| 7 | neither a nor b | |
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Question #630 Statistics:
| 'Vietnamization' of the war is to be associated primarily with the presidency of |
Offered 47 times
Correct 26 times or 55%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | Gerald Ford | |
| 14 | Lyndon Johnson | |
| 26 | Richard Nixon | |
| 4 | John Kennedy | |
| 3 | General Westmoreland | |
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Question #640 Statistics:
| Who said, 'I have a dream that someday people will be judged on the content of their character rather than on the color of their skin.'? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 47 times or 100%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | John Kennedy | |
| 0 | Lyndon Johnson | |
| 47 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
| 0 | Malcolm X | |
| 0 | Jesse Jackson | |
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Question #650 Statistics:
| Who said, 'Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country.'? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 1 | Lyndon Johnson | |
| 42 | John Kennedy | |
| 0 | Barry Goldwater | |
| 2 | Richard Nixon | |
| 2 | Robert Kennedy | |
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Question #660 Statistics:
| Which is NOT true of the Bay of Pigs incident? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 23 times or 48%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 6 | The plan was originally President Eisenhower's idea | |
| 0 | The United States' CIA backed invasion was a failure | |
| 1 | Kennedy accepted full responsibility for the event | |
| 23 | After this incident, the Soviets lost all respect for Kennedy and found him vulnerable | |
| 17 | All of the above are true | |
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Question #670 Statistics:
| What was NOT a provision of or associated with the 1954 Geneva Agreements? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 23 times or 48%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 23 | Vietnam was divided into North and South at the 38th Parallel | |
| 5 | The agreement was signed after the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu | |
| 7 | Ho Chi Minh was to lead Communist North Vietnam | |
| 2 | An anti-Communist government was established in South Vietnam | |
| 10 | Free elections were scheduled to be held in 1956. | |
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Question #680 Statistics:
| The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis can best be described with which term. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 37 times or 78%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 6 | containment | |
| 37 | brinksmanship | |
| 1 | New Look | |
| 3 | flexible response | |
| 0 | Monroe Doctrine | |
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Question #690 Statistics:
| When Secretary of State Dean Rusk said, 'We were eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked,' what incident and person was he talking about? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 37 times or 78%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | Bay of Pigs/Fidel Castro | |
| 37 | Cuban Missile Crisis/Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 1 | Berlin Wall/Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 3 | Cuban Missile Crisis/Fidel Castro | |
| 4 | Bay of Pigs/Nikita Khrushchev | |
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Question #700 Statistics:
| The general in command of American forces in Vietnam from 1964-1968, and who later added to the credibility gap when he stated that 'the end of the war was in sight' was |
Offered 47 times
Correct 29 times or 61%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 14 | Douglas MacArthur | |
| 3 | Maxwell Taylor | |
| 0 | Curtis LeMay | |
| 1 | General Luan | |
| 29 | William Westmoreland | |
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Question #710 Statistics:
| 'Operation Rolling Thunder' was the code name for |
Offered 47 times
Correct 38 times or 80%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 7 | the landing of the first combat troops in Vietnam | |
| 38 | American bombing raids on North Vietnam | |
| 1 | the airlift of food to the blockaded city of West Berlin | |
| 1 | the plan to assassinate South Vietnam's president, Ngo Dinh Diem | |
| 0 | the black activist movements in the South, ie. boycotts, sit-ins, voter registration drives | |
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Question #720 Statistics:
| What event did NOT occur in 1968? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 20 times or 42%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 4 | Tet offensive | |
| 4 | Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated | |
| 20 | students killed by national guard at Kent State Univ. | |
| 4 | Robert Kennedy assassinated | |
| 15 | LBJ announced his decision not to run for re-election | |
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Question #730 Statistics:
| To what extent did Lyndon Johnson succeed in bringing about his Great Society, and why? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 35 times or 74%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | All the legislation proved to be no more than gigantic boondoggles because the programs were ill-conceived and under-financed | |
| 35 | Some of Johnson's programs significantly improved the quality of American life, but the major thrust to provide economic opportunity for all was derailed by the war in Vietnam | |
| 4 | Because of the sweeping Johnson programs, poverty was reduced to less than 5 percent of the population for the first time in American history | |
| 6 | Because Congress was generally hostile to most features of Johnson's program, it refused to approve anything more than minimum appropriations, thereby crippling and dooming the programs from the start | |
| 0 | He didn't succeed because he was a Texan and a Democrat | |
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Question #740 Statistics:
| At Kent State University in May 1970, |
Offered 47 times
Correct 43 times or 91%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 2 | campus radicals ambushed National Guard Troop G, wounding eleven and killing four | |
| 2 | Ohio governor James Rhodes ordered the National Guard to shoot down all campus radicals | |
| 43 | National Guard troops panicked and fired at a crowd of students, wounding eleven and killing four | |
| 0 | campus police fired into a women's dormitory, accidentally killing two male students who were in the midst of a panty raid | |
| 0 | Joe Escobar graduated as valedictorian with highest honors | |
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Question #750 Statistics:
| Nixon engineered a dramatic turnaround in American relations with this country in 1972, finally ending 22 years of non-recognition. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 42 | People's Republic of China | |
| 4 | Panama | |
| 0 | Chile | |
| 0 | Kampuchea | |
| 1 | Laos | |
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Question #760 Statistics:
Offered 47 times
Correct 33 times or 70%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 14 | gave the president the power to declare war | |
| 0 | compelled President Nixon to end the secret bombing war in Cambodia | |
| 33 | required the president to report to Congress and get approval for any commitment of American troops | |
| 0 | ended the military draft and created an all-volunteer army | |
| 0 | strengthened the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | |
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Question #770 Statistics:
| According to the video, how did MOST Americans react to the campus convulsions of 1970? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 22 times or 46%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 22 | They, the silent majority, criticized campus protesters for undercutting the nation's foreign policy | |
| 6 | They blamed the Nixon administration for widening the war, and they applauded the goals of the campus demonstrators | |
| 1 | They retreated from traditional American policies and sought new answers in mystic cults, communes, or the ecology movement | |
| 0 | They became increasingly radicalized and in the November election voted for radical or left-wing Democratic candidates | |
| 18 | none of the above | |
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Question #780 Statistics:
| President Nixon's policy of 'New Federalism' was designed to |
Offered 47 times
Correct 29 times or 61%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 7 | revamp the federal government so that there would be no duplication of effort | |
| 29 | shift power from Washington to the states and communities | |
| 5 | bolster the taxing and regulatory powers of the federal government | |
| 0 | move the capital of the United States to a newly constructed metropolis in the heart of the Sunbelt | |
| 6 | repeal gains made in the New Deal and the Great Society | |
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Question #790 Statistics:
| What did the 'White House tapes' reveal? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 47 times or 100%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | that the burglary at Democratic headquarters was simply a third-rate caper, and that no one on the White House staff had been involved | |
| 47 | that President Nixon had ordered a cover-up in the Watergate affair | |
| 0 | that President Nixon had been having an affair with his secretary for three years | |
| 0 | that President Nixon had attempted to halt the 'dirty tricks' of his supporters but had failed | |
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Question #800 Statistics:
 Which country is INCORRECTLY paired with its leader during WWII? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 43 times or 91%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | 10 - Winston Churchill | |
| 0 | 3 - Adolf Hitler | |
| 43 | 8 - Benito Mussolini | |
| 1 | 5 - Josef Stalin | |
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Question #810 Statistics:
 The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939 was between which two countries, and which major allie nation was destroyed by Hitler’s blitzkrieg 1940, partly as a result of the pact? |
Offered 47 times
Correct 39 times or 82%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 4 | Pact 3 & 5; Destroyed 10 | |
| 3 | Pact 3 & 9; Destroyed 5 | |
| 39 | Pact 3 & 5; Destroyed 2 | |
| 1 | Pact 5 & 9; Destroyed 2 | |
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Question #820 Statistics:
 The attack of this country in 1939 marked the official start of WWII in Europe, when Britain and France declared war on Germany. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 27 times or 57%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 5 | 3 | |
| 27 | 4 | |
| 0 | 5 | |
| 8 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | |
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Question #830 Statistics:
 In 1956, Eisenhower and the U.S. stood by as this country’s freedom movement was crushed by the Soviet Red Army. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 29 times or 61%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 1 | 4 | |
| 5 | 11 | |
| 29 | 9 | |
| 0 | 3 | |
| 12 | 7 | |
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Question #840 Statistics:
 The Truman Doctrine was initially drafted as a response to the plight of the "democracies" at risk in these two countries following WWII. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 27 times or 57%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 1 times or 2%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 3 | 6&7 | |
| 5 | 8&10 | |
| 27 | 4&5 | |
| 10 | 2&9 | |
| 1 | 1&2 | |
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Question #850 Statistics:
 The 1947 Berlin Airlift saved the western half of the city as a democratic outpost located entirely within this communist country. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 31 times or 65%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 1 | 11 | |
| 0 | 5 | |
| 2 | 3 | |
| 31 | 7 | |
| 13 | 6 | |
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Question #860 Statistics:
 Syngman Rhee’s country was "saved" for the side of democracy by President Truman’s United Nations’ "police action" and MacArthur’s military leadership in the early 1950’s. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 26 times or 55%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 4 | 5 | |
| 12 | 7 | |
| 5 | 6 | |
| 0 | 4 | |
| 26 | 3 | |
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Question #870 Statistics:
 Communist Mao Zedong established the People’s Republic of China in this country in 1949.
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Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 1 | 2 | |
| 42 | 1 | |
| 1 | 3 | |
| 1 | 7 | |
| 2 | 8 | |
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Question #880 Statistics:
 Ho Chi Minh was the leader of this communist nation following the Geneva Accords of 1954. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 30 times or 63%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 6 | 4 | |
| 3 | 7 | |
| 6 | 6 | |
| 30 | 5 | |
| 2 | 3 | |
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Question #890 Statistics:
 Which was the capital city of the NVA and Ho Chi Minh?
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Offered 47 times
Correct 37 times or 78%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 37 | 2 | |
| 10 | 3 | |
| 0 | 4 | |
| 0 | 5 | |
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Question #900 Statistics:
 What is #6 on the map?
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Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
Partially correct 0 times or 0%
Unanswered 0 times or 0%
| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | The location of the Tet Offensive | |
| 0 | The farthest south that the Vietcong invaded | |
| 42 | The 17th parallel, the line dividing the country from the Geneva Agreements of 1954 | |
| 1 | The location of the borders of Cambodia and Laos | |
| 4 | None of the above | |
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Question #910 Statistics:
 A North Vietnamese attack on an American ship in this location prompted the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution by the U.S. Congress in 1964. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 2 | |
| 1 | 3 | |
| 42 | 4 | |
| 3 | 5 | |
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Question #920 Statistics:
 This city fell to the communists in 1975, just two years after the U.S. pulled its forces out of Vietnam. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 41 times or 87%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 0 | 1 | |
| 5 | 2 | |
| 41 | 3 | |
| 0 | 4 | |
| 1 | 5 | |
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Question #930 Statistics:
| In retrospect, if it had not been for LBJ's involvement in Vietnam, his economic/domestic policy called the Great Society would have continued and he would have probably gone down in history as one of our greatest presidents. |
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Correct 45 times or 95%
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| 45 | True | |
| 2 | False | |
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Question #940 Statistics:
| One significance of NATO was that it was the United States' first military alliance formed during peacetime, stating that an attack on one member would be considered an attack on all, therefore committing all member nations to military action. |
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Correct 43 times or 91%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 43 | True | |
| 4 | False | |
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Question #950 Statistics:
| The tougher policy of roll back and massive retaliation can be described as working much better than the policy of containment. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 35 times or 74%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 12 | True | |
| 35 | False | |
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Question #960 Statistics:
| President Eisenhower was definitely more liberal and Truman definitely more conservative on the issue of civil rights in America. This can be seen by Truman's integration of the armed forces and Eisenhower's timid stance on school integration. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 25 times or 53%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 22 | True | |
| 25 | False | |
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Question #970 Statistics:
| With Sputnik in 1957, the Soviets beat the United States into space, creating a perceived 'missile gap', and the space race began. It also sparked federal governmental support of education in the U.S., especially in the fields of math and science |
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Correct 46 times or 97%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 46 | True | |
| 1 | False | |
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Question #980 Statistics:
| The most serious confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold War era was Stalin's blockade of West Berlin that resulted in the immediate construction of the Berlin Wall. |
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Correct 27 times or 57%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 20 | True | |
| 27 | False | |
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Question #990 Statistics:
| A major 'thaw' in the cold war came when President Richard Nixon carried out his foreign policy of detente with Leonid Brezhnev of this Soviet Union and Mao Tse Tung of Red China. |
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Correct 39 times or 82%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 39 | True | |
| 8 | False | |
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Question #1000 Statistics:
| President Dwight Eisenhower's domestic policy of Modern Republicanism became the foundation of the modern Republican Party or G.O.P. today. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 34 times or 72%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 34 | True | |
| 13 | False | |
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Question #1010 Statistics:
| The rise of suburbia in 1950's had both positive and negative elements. Among the negatives are an increased reliance on automobile transportation and resulting pollution, a decay of resources for the inner-cities, and an economic separation of the wealthy from the poor. |
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Correct 44 times or 93%
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| 44 | True | |
| 3 | False | |
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Question #1020 Statistics:
| Because both Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Richard Nixon in 1972 were elected president in overwhelming landslides, they both believed that they had received a mandate from the people to pursue their domestic and foreign policies. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 42 times or 89%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 42 | True | |
| 5 | False | |
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Question #1030 Statistics:
| The presence of people such as Joseph McCarthy and other Cold Warriors, of committees such as House on Un-American Activities Committee (H.U.A.C.), and of laws such as that as the Federal Employee Loyalty Program of 1947, clearly illustrate that the Red Scare following World War II was real. Large numbers of Communists were discovered, fired, and blacklisted so as not to harm the country. |
Offered 47 times
Correct 29 times or 61%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 18 | True | |
| 29 | False | |
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Question #1040 Statistics:
| The imperial presidency, which has arisen since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, continued to gain power and prestige until its ultimate downfall in 1974. With Nixon's resignation from the presidency amidst the Watergate scandal, each presidency since that time has concluded on a note of corruption and/or disfavor with the American people. |
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Correct 38 times or 80%
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| Frequency | Choice | Percent |
| 38 | True | |
| 9 | False | |
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