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100
This was an original purpose of affirmative action.
to favor women and minorities who were struggling with discrimination
100
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed attempt to...
remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba
100
This was one of President Lyndon B. Johnson's major domestic policy achievements.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
100
President Kennedy approved the Bay of Pigs Invasion because
US Military leaders believed that Communism in Cuba represented a larger threat to Latin America.
100
This is what the Camp David Accords attempted to do.
establish peace in the Middle East.
200
This is what literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were used for.
to deny African Americans the right to vote.
200
The domino theory maintained that...
if one nation fell to communism, then other nations would also fall.
200
Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society showed that the federal government should.....
meet the need of the people.
200
The chief reason the U.S. supported Ngo Din Diem was
because he was strongly anti-communist
200
This is why Richard Nixon was able to be elected president in 1968.
support from the "silent majority"
300
This is what the Supreme Court decided in the case of "Brown v. Board of Education"
separate but equal facilities are unconstitutional
300
The US policy of detente is based on...
the belief that ideological differences need not prevent peaceful economic and cultural interactions among countries.
300
This is what the black Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s stimulated.
growth of other reform movements
300
During the period of detente, the US and the Soviet Union agreed to...
sign a treaty banning nuclear tests.
300
Both the Watergate scandal and Iran-Contra affair led to this.
the public's distrust in elected officials.
400
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was important because...
it effectively ended segregation in all public spaces and banned discrimination
400
The U.S. policy towards Arab nations in the Middle East was due to
the growing dependence on petroleum
400
The Environmental Protection Agency was formed to....
enforce laws passed by Congress against unregulated pollution.
400
A major reason for ending the Cold War is...
the Soviet Union was seriously weakened by by internal conflict and economic difficulties
400
This was a direct result of the Persian Gulf War.
The US liberated Kuwait from Iraqi control
500
The women's rights movement was inspired by...
the struggle of the African Americans in their fight for social equality.
500
After the Vietnam War, the U.S. was reluctant to...
commit U.S. troops for extended military action abroad.
500
The supply side economics of Reagan and Bush favored....
providing incentives to stimulate business growth.
500
This factor had the greatest impact on the United States' withdrawal from the Vietnam War.
The power of the press
500
What has widespread use of computers led to?
national concern of guarding the right to privacy