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AP US History
1. The evidence in the Watergate case, based on
testimony and on the White House tapes,
included that Nixon
A. Was innocent of any wrong doing
B. Was involved in the case but was not proven
guilty of any crime
C. Was guilty of some minor crimes but was not
proven guilty
D. Was guilty of a major crime: obstructing justice
by covering up evidences of the crimes of the
others
2. “Reaganomics”, or “supply-side”
economics, operated from the
assumption that the woes of the
American economy were largely the
result of
A. Interest rests
B. Foreign causes
C. Excessive taxation
D. Inadequate government spending
3. During the Gulf War, the United States and
its allies fought the forces of
A. Iraq
B. Iran
C. Saudi Arabia
D. Kuwait
4. Effects of the events on September 11,
2001, include
A. All of the below
B. The deaths of about 300 Americans
C. The recognition the anti-American
terrorism was possible within the US
D. The illustrations of how far militants would
go in the name of “jihad”
5. Bill Clinton became the first two-term
Democratic president since
A. Woodrow Wilson
B. Franklin Roosevelt
C. Jimmy Carter
D. Dwight E. Eisenhower
6. In the presidential election of 2000, the
vote count in Florida was ultimately
decided by
A. A new round of voting by the citizens
B. A handshake deal that was struck down
between the supporters of Gore and Bush
C.
a vote by the members of the Florida
state legislature
D. The US Supreme Court in a very close
decision
7. In the 1990s, a virtual monopoly on
computer-operating systems was achieved
by
A. Apple
B.
Compaq
C. Microsoft
D. Pentium
8. President Johnson’s Great Society programs
A.
B.
C.
D.
included all of the following EXCEPT
A federal aid to poor elementary and high
school districts
Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to
guarantee equality for women
Federal health insurance for the elderly and
medical care for the poor and disabled
Federal funding for self- help programs for the
poor
9. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
A. Expressed the power feeling of the
majority of Americans
B. Authorized the president to take all
necessary steps to defend US forces and
interests in Vietnam
C. Approved the overthrow of the Diem
government in Vietnam
D. Authorized the use of up to 500,000 US
troops in Vietnam
10. The Tet Offensive resulted in all of the
following EXCEPT
A. The military defeat of US forces in South
Vietnam
B. Significant military losses by the Vietcong
C. Reduced public support for Johnson’s
conduct of the war
D. US diplomats advising Johnson against
further escalation of the war
11. “Freedom Riders” in the early 1960s
aimed at
A. The integration of the public schools
B. The desegregation of bus stations
C. An end to discrimination in
employment
D. The promotion of voting rights for all
12. “Affirmation action” is best described as
the legal requirement that
A. Employers be forced to obey federal and
state laws that protect the civil rights of
all
B. Employers take positive measures to
recruit minorities to compensate for past
injuries
C. Employers establish racial quotas for their
workforce
D. Employers hire workers who belong
Community Action organizations
13.The massive racial unrest and rioting that
erupted in more than sixty American cities
in 1968 occurred as a result of the
assassination of
A. Malcolm X
B. John F. Kennedy
C. Martin Luther King, Jr.
D. Medgar Evers
14. In her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty
Friedan argued for the idea that
A. Women who lived the “ideal life” of the
suburban housewife were often not
fulfilled individuals
B. Women who banded together could
overcome a male-dominated society
C. The happiest women were those who led
fulfilled lives in purely domestic roles
D. The women’s political movement was
unnecessary
15. President Bush assembled a coalition of
nations in 1990 to take military action in
the Middle East to
A. Replace Saddam Hussein as the dictator
of Iraq
B. Block Arab nations from attacking Israel
C. Force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
D. Assist Kurds and Shiites opposed to
Saddam Hussein’s rule in Iraq
16. Until 1998, the only two presidents of the
United States to be subjected to
impeachment proceedings by the House
of Representatives were
A. Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding
B. Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding
C. Warren G. Harding and Richard Nixon
D. Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon
17. President John F Kennedy’s commitment
to space exploration was realized in 1969
when
A. American astronauts walked on the moon
and returned to earth
B. The United States placed a space platform
into orbit around the earth
C. American astronauts circled Mars and
returned to earth
D. A space ship orbited the earth, landed,
and was used for later flights
18. The occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and of the
village Wounded Knee in 1973 symbolized the
A.
Desperation of illegal immigrants who resist
deportation
B.
Growing militancy of Native American Indians
resentful of treaty violations by the federal
government
C.
Power of religious cults ruled by charismatic
leaders
D. Growth of the survivalist movement of rightwing extremist distrustful of the federal
government
19. The term “McCarthyism” derives from
events in the early 1950s involving
A. Labor union strikes and unrest
B. Charges of corruption against government
officials
C. The influence of interest groups in
determining government policy
D. Unsupported charges of treason and
subversive activity
20.Which action during the late 1950s and
early 1960s is most consistent with the
teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
A. Black separatists call for a new nation
populated only by African Americans
B. African Americans denied the right to
vote refuse to serve on juries
C. African Americans continue to sit at
segregated lunch counters after being
refused service
D. People being arrested for violating
segregation laws strike out at the police
21. The United States initiated the Marshall
Plan in 1948 to
A. Weaken the control of eastern Europe by
the Soviet Union
B. Rebuild the war-damaged economies of
Western Europe
C. Overcome the blockade of Berlin by the
Soviet Union
D. Establish a mutual defense alliance in
Western Europe
22. Which entertainment media became
popular only after World War II?
A. TV
B. Motion Pictures
C. Radio
D. Phonograph Records
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Cold War
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Winston Churchill, Iron Curtain speech
UN: Security Council, General Assembly,
Secretary- General
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Israel created, 1948
Berlin Blockade
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Cold War Cont.
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Warsaw Pact
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Central Treat Organization (CENTO)
Australia, New Zealand, U.S (ANZUS)
Korean War, Limited war
Truman-McArthur controversy
Dien Bien Phu
Cold war Cont.
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Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
John Foster Dulles “Massive Retaliation”
Eisenhower Doctrine
U-2 Incident
Castro’s revolution
Bays of Pigs
Alliance for Progress
Cuban Missile Crisis
ICBM
Domestic, 1940s and
1950s
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G.I. Bill of Rights, 1944
Baby boom
Taft- Hartley Act
Dixiecrats, J. Strom Thurmond
Fair Deal
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
McCarthyism, Senator Joseph McCarthy
Alger Hiss
Domestic, 1940s and
1950s
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Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
Twenty-second Amendment
Interstate Highway Act
Alaska, Hawaii
Spuntnik
National Defense Education Act (NDEA act)
Military-industrial complex
Black History
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A Phillip Randolph
Gunna Mydrial, An American Dilemma
To Secure These Rights
Brown v. Bd. of education of Topeka
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks, Montgomery bus boycott
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Little Rock, Ark. Crisis
Civil Right Act, 1957 and 1960
Literary tests, grandfather clause, poll taxes, white
primaries
Blacks
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Montgomery bus boycott
Southern Christian Leadership conference
National Association for the Advancement of
colored People (NAACP)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)
Sit-ins, Freedom rides
“I have a dream” speech
Medgar Evans
Blacks
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Adam Clayton Powell
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Black Panthers
Black Muslims
Block Power
24th Amendment
Watts, Detroit Race Riots
Kerner Commission on civil Disorders
Vietnam
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Gulf of Tonkin, North Vietnam, South Vietnam,
Thailand, Laos, Cambodia
Ho chi Minh
Viet Cong
Dien Bien Phu
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 1964
Demilitarized zone (DMZ)
Domino Theory
Tet Offensive
Kent State incident, Jackson State incident
Vietnam
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Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers
My Lai, Lt. Calley
Senator Fullbright
Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
Vietnamization
Paris Accords, 1973
1960s
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Miranda Decision,
Escobedo decision
Rachel Carson, Silent
Spring
New Frontier
Kennedy and the steel
price rollback
Peace Corps, VISTA
Berlin Wall
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Lee Harvey Oswald,
Warren Commission
Salvador Allendo
Panama Canal Treaties
Students for a
Democratic society
(SDS)
Charles Reich, The
Greening of America
Election of 1964: LBJ,
Goldwater
1960s
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Great Society
War on Poverty
Medicare
Robert Kennedy
Moon race, Neil
Armstrong
The Feminine
Mystique, Betty
Friedan
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National
Organization for
women (NOW)
Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA)
Ralph Nader,
Unsafe at Any
Speed
1970s
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Watergate
White house
“plumbers”
Watergate Tapes
Impeachment
proceedings
SALT 1 Agreement
Détente
China visit, 1972
Recognition of China
Henry Kissinger,
“shuttle diplomacy”
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26th amendment
Chicanos
Cesar Chavez
China visit, 1972
Recognition of China
Henry Kissinger,
“shuttle diplomacy”
26th amendment
Chicanos
Cesar Chavez
1970s
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American Indian
Movement (AIM),
wounded Knee
Arab Oil Embargo
Organization of
Petroleum
Exporting Countries
(OPEC)
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Alaska Pipeline
Gerald Ford
Nixon Pardon
Jimmy Carter
Panama Canal
Treaty
Camp David
Accords
1980s and 1990s
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Olympic boycott, 1980
Reganomics
Supply side economics
Sandra Day O’Connor
Three Mile Island
“Star Wars”, SDI,
Strategic Defense
Initiative
Geraldine Ferraro
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AIDS (acquired
immune deficiency
syndrome)
“Moral Majority”
Rev. Jerry Falwell
Agent Orange
Challenge disaster
1980s and 1990s
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Marcos, Philippines,
Corazon Aquino
Gorbachev, glasnost,
perestroika
Col. Qaddafi, Libya
Rev. Jesse Jackson,
Rainbow Coalition
Tiananmen Square,
Beijing
Saddam Hussein, Iraq
invade Kuwait
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UN Security Council
Resolution 661 (Trade
embargo on Iraq)
Desert sheild, Gen.
Colin Powell
UN Security Council
Resolution 678
(authorizes use of
force, Iraq must
withdraw from Kuwait
by Jan. 15, 1991
1980s and 1990s
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Iran-Contra Affair,
Irangate
Panama, Gan. Noriega,
Drug-trafficking
indictment, Conviction
Gulf War, Operation
Desert Storm, Gen.
Schwarzkopf
SCUD missiles, Patriot
missiles
MTV
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Somalia
Whitewater
Clinton’s Health Plan
Oklahoma city
Bombing, 1995
Million Man March on
Washington D.C.,
1995, Louis Farrakhan
911