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Civil Rights
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The main reason the United Nations sent troops to Korea was to
To prevent North Korea from conquering the people of South Korea
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The primary purpose of the War Powers Act (1973) is to
what is limit Presidential power to send troops into combat
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The conflict between Israel and the Arab nations since 1948 was often considered part of the Cold War primarily because
What is the United States supported Israel and the Soviet Union supported several Arab nations
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Which situation was a result of the Vietnam War?
The United States questioned its role as a police officer of the world.
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The major goal of the civil rights movement of the 1960s was to
What is end segregation based on race
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A common purpose of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan was to
To carry out the United States' policy of preventing the spread of communism
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Which event led directly to the end of the Cold War?
What is breakup of the Soviet Union
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Which development led to the other three?
What is The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite.
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The program that promotes preference in hiring for African Americans and other minorities to correct past injustices is known as
What is affirmative action
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"Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." -Brown v. Board of Education The effect of this Supreme Court ruling was to
What is require the integration of public schools
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"Many foreign peoples, in Europe at least, are... frightened by experiences of the past and are less interested in... freedom than in security. They are seeking guidance rather than responsibilities. We should be better able than the Russians to give them this. And unless we do, the Russians certainly will." This advice to President Harry Truman helped influence Truman's decisions to
develop the Marshall Plan
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o "Batista Driven from Power" o "Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails" o U-2 Planes Reveal Soviet Missiles" These headlines refer to the relationship between the United States and
What is Cuba
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The primary purpose of President Richard Nixon's policy of detente was to
What is ease tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union
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In 1965, Congress established Medicare to
What is provide health care to the elderly
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After the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, African Americans continued to experience political and economic oppression mainly because
What is Southern legislatures enacted Jim Crow laws
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From Stetin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Beyond that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I might call the Soviet Sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence, but to very high, and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow." -Winston Churchill What is the main idea of this quotation?
The Soviet Union has expanded its influence throughout Eastern Europe
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The Peace Corps was established by President John F. Kennedy in an effort to provide
support to developing nations of the world
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Which development is most closely associated with the belief in the domino theory?
What is military involvement in Vietnam
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The ratification of the 26th amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18, was a result of the
What is participation of the United States in the Vietnam War
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed in an effort to correct
What is racial and gender discrimination
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o "Warsaw Pact Tanks Invade Budapest" o "Wall Divides Berlin" o "Liberal Czechoslovak Government Replaced" These historical newspaper headlines were related to
attempts by the Soviet Union to strengthen communist control
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"...Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet and hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Which conclusion is best supported by this quotation from the Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy in 1961?
President Kennedy was encouraging a very strong presence in foreign policy in the post-World War II period.
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LBJ's The Great Society is most similar to which other Presidential program?
What is Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
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Which action designed to oppose a political or business policy is closest to the approach used by MLK?
What is a war protester accepting a jail term rather than registering for the draft
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In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that
What is racial segregation was constitutional