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Unit 4 Exam Pt. 1: Rise of a Global Superpower, 1927-Present
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Chapters 26-32
Questions 1 and 2 below refer to the following excerpt
1. The above statements were most likely made after which major event?
a. The bombing of Pearl Harbor
b. The sinking of the U.S.S. Maine
c. The bombing of the U.S.S. Liberty
d. The Boxer Rebellion
2. Which of the following was the most immediate consequence of the events described in the excerpt above?
a. Trade embargoes with Japan extending up through the 1980s
b. The Battle of Normandy
c. The internment of Japanese-Americans
d. The bombing of Nagasaki
Questions 3-4 below refer to the following passage
3. The passage above is part of President Truman’s argument to Congress in favor of
a. The Serviceman’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
b. Development of the hydrogen bomb
c. The McCarran Internal Security Act
d. An extension of aid to Greece and Turkey
4. The passage above can best be seen as providing a rationale for
a. The policy of containment
b. The principle of “massive retaliation”
c. Participation in the Atlantic Charter
d. Embarking on a “roll back” of communism
Questions 5-6 below refer to the following cartoon
5. Which of the following statements most accurately describes the main point of this cartoon?
a. The need to extinguish the communist threat justified swift and severe government action
b. The freedoms of Americans were at risk because of an overreaction to the perceived threat of
communism after World War II
c. The existence of communists in the United States was a simple problem to solve
d. There was no need to panic I the face of the communist threat
6. Which of the following actions would this cartoonist most likely have criticized?
a. Congressional hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee
b. President Eisenhower’s Farwell Address
c. Vice President Nixon’s “Kitchen Debate” with Soviet Premier Khrushchev
d. Containment of Communism abroad
Questions 7-8 below refer to the following excerpt
7. In which decision did the Supreme Court validate the practice of “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and
whites?
a. Marbury v. Madison
b. Bradwell v. Illinois
c. Plessy v. Ferguson
d. Holden v. Hardy
8. Which of the following best represents an effect of the legal decision described above?
a. Continuing white resistance slowed efforts at desegregation, sparking a series of social conflicts
throughout the South
b. The Supreme Court decision Brown v. the Board of Education led to increased enrollment in colleges and
universities
c. During the 1960s, increasing numbers of high school graduates rejected the notion that a college
education was desirable
d. In the twentieth century, jobs in advanced technical and medical industries generally require
postgraduate degrees
Questions 9-10 below refer to the following advertisement
9. The advertisement most directly reflects which of the following?
a. The growing prosperity and leisure of Americans in the 1950s
b. The materialistic excesses of the rich in the 1950s
c. A push for social conformity in the 1950s
d. The recreational limits imposed by a poor economy in the 1950s
10. In the 1950s the widespread availability of the automobile most directly helped make possible which of the
following?
a. The rise of international corporations
b. The rapid growth of suburbs
c. The prevalence of stay-at-home moms
d. The baby boom generation
Question 11 below refers to the following quotation
11. Kennedy’s speech most directly led to which of the following?
a. The Vietnam War
b. The Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) nuclear strategy
c. The Apollo space program
d. The Great Society social programs
Questions 12-13 below refer to the following quotation
12. Based on this quotation, what can you infer about the efforts of Martin Luther King, Jr., and others in the civil
rights movement of the 1950s?
a. The civil rights movement was not finding success through nonviolent methods
b. Advocates for civil rights were coordinating their efforts to raise awareness of racial segregation across
the country
c. Martin Luther King, Jr., was focused on ending segregation in Birmingham only
d. Martin Luther King, Jr., was willing to compromise his principles and would be a violent agitator if
necessary
13. Martin Luther King, Jr., was in jail in Birmingham, Alabama, because of his belief in protesting injustice through
the use of
a. Targeted assassinations of segregationist public officials
b. Massive letter-writing campaigns denouncing segregation businesses
c. Violent self-defense
d. Nonviolent direct action
Questions 14-16 below refer to the following excerpt
14. All of the following were part of Johnson’s Great Society program EXCEPT
a. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
b. Medicare and Medicaid
c. The establishment of Housing and Urban Development
d. The balanced budget mandate
15. Along with his goals of establishing a Great Society, Johnson was also engaged in which of the following
initiatives?
a. Undermining Communism in Cuba with the Bay of Pigs Invasion
b. Undermining Communism in Vietnam after the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
c. Undermining Communism in Turkey and Greece using economic aid
d. Undermining Communism in the Eastern Block by demanding a removal of the Berlin Wall
16. Johnson’s Great Society most represented an extension of which of the following initiatives?
a. The New Deal
b. The Square Deal
c. The Truman Doctrine
d. The Monroe Doctrine
Questions 17-18 below refer to the following passage
17. The language of this document can be seen as a repudiation of which of the following policies or actions form
the Eisenhower years?
a. “New Look” foreign policy
b. Increases in funding for the United Nations
c. Intervention in the Little Rock, Arkansas, crisis
d. Renewed focus on education
18. The primary intended audience for the Port Huron Statement was
a. African Americans in the South
b. Government officials
c. Middle-class college students
d. Factory workers
Questions 19-20 below refer to the following quotation
19. Which of the following opinions from the 1960s most directly reflects the perspective of George McGovern’s
speech?
a. Americans must maximize their technological edge in Vietnam
b. American bombing in Vietnam is step by step leading to progress in the war
c. American bombing in Vietnam is a failure
d. America must not give in to defeatism about the war in Vietnam
20. The sentiments expressed in the speech above most directly influenced which of the following?
a. The passage of the War Powers Act of 1973
b. The Tet Offensive of 1968
c. The resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974
d. The emergence of youth counterculture
Question 21 below refers to the following quotation
21. President Jimmy Carter’s speech quoted above was primarily a reaction to which of the following events?
a. The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan
b. The Iran hostage crisis
c. A series of embargos enacted by the Middle East-dominated organization known as OPEC
d. Terrorist bombings that targeted United States military personnel
Questions 22 and 23 below refer to the following quotation
22. Which of the following has some of its roots in the conditions discussed by Jimmy Carter in this passage?
a. The War on Terror
b. High unemployment
c. Tensions with China
d. High budget deficits
23. Which of the following best expresses Carter’s approach to Soviet aggression in Afghanistan?
a. Isolationism
b. Appeasement
c. Containment
d. A call for war
Questions 24 and 25 below refer to the following quotation
24. Which of the following issues across eras in United States history is expressed in the quotation?
a. Debates over the powers of the president
b. Debates over participation in elections
c. Debates over federal power over the economy
d. Debates over federal power over international affairs
25. One way in which President Reagan acted on his rhetoric in the passage was to
a. Increase the military budget
b. Work with Congress to cut taxes and government spending
c. Eliminate the Department of Housing and Urban Development
d. Prohibit pay increases for government workers
Base your answer to question 26 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.
…Balanced against this are the facts that Russia, as opposed to the western world in general, is still by far the
weaker party, that Soviet policy is highly flexible, and that Soviet society may well contain deficiencies which
will eventually weaken its own total potential. This would of itself warrant the United States entering with
reasonable confidence upon a policy of firm containment, designed to confront the Russians with unalterable
counter-force at every point where they show signs of encroaching upon the interests of a peaceful and stable
world….
— George Kennan, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,”
Foreign Affairs, July 1947
26. In this passage, George Kennan is suggesting that the United States should
a. abandon Western Europe to Soviet control
b. launch an attack on the Soviet Union
c. pursue policies to limit the spread of Soviet influence
d. admit that the Soviet Union posed no real threat to the United States
Base your answer to question 27 on the graph below and on your knowledge of social studies.
27. Information provided by the graph indicates that the Marshall Plan tried to prevent the spread of
communism in Europe by
a. providing military aid to France and Great Britain
b. restoring economic stability throughout Western Europe
c. encouraging domestic revolutions in Europe
d. making European nations dependent on the United Nations
Base your answer to question 28 on the statement below and on your knowledge of social studies.
. . . But this secret, swift, and extraordinary buildup of Communist missiles—in an area well known to have a
special and historical relationship to the United States and the nations of the Western Hemisphere, in violation
of Soviet assurances, and in defiance of American and hemispheric policy— this sudden, clandestine [secret]
decision to station strategic weapons for the first time outside of Soviet soil—is a deliberately provocative and
unjustified change in the status quo which cannot be accepted by this country, if our courage and our
commitments are ever to be trusted again by either friend or foe. . . .
— President John F. Kennedy, October 22, 1962
28. This statement is most closely associated with the
a. Bay of Pigs invasion
b. Cuban missile crisis
c. United States-Soviet space race
d. nuclear test ban controversy
Base your answer to question 29 on the quotation below and your knowledge of social studies
“The Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all
necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further
aggression.”
– Tonkin Gulf Resolution, August 7, 1964
29. The passage of this resolution led to
a. the building of the Berlin Wall
b. settlement of the Cuban missile crisis
c. increased United States involvement in the Vietnam War
d. the seizure of American hostages by Iran
30. Which event led to the investigations that resulted in the resignation of President Richard Nixon?
a. a decision to escalate the war in Vietnam
b. a presidential decision to freeze wages and prices
c. a break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee
d. an oil embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Base your answer to question 31 on the cartoon below and on your knowledge of social studies.
31. Which United States foreign policy decision most clearly reflects the relationship shown in the cartoon?
a. issuance of the Eisenhower Doctrine
b. quarantine of Cuba
c. support of Israel in the Six Day War
d. negotiation of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
Base your answer to question 32 on the statement below and on your knowledge of social studies.
“… There is one sign the Soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the
cause of freedom and peace. General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this
gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!…”
— President Ronald Reagan, June 12, 1987
32. President Reagan was calling for the end of the
a. nuclear arms race
b. Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
c. division of Berlin, Germany
d. Warsaw Pact
33. According to the supply-side economics principles promoted by President Ronald Reagan, economic
growth would occur when
a. corporate business taxes were reduced
b. business was regulated by antitrust legislation
c. unemployment benefits were increased
d. investment in capital goods was decreased
Base your answer to question 34 on the cartoon and on your knowledge of social studies.
34. What is the main idea of this cartoon about President Bill Clinton?
a. Positive economic conditions helped maintain his high approval ratings.
b. Voter approval of the president declined due to flaws in his character.
c. He did not deserve credit for the economic prosperity of the nation.
d. The American public considered personal character the most important trait of a president in the
1990s.
35. Which development led to the other three?
a. United States invasion of Afghanistan
b. increased security at airports
c. creation of the Department of Homeland Security
d. September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States