AP US History Unit 8 Flashcards

9619853056	In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference,	it was agreed the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War	0
9619853057	All the following statements regarding the "occupation zones" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that	all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control	1
9619853058	In the years immediately following WW2, the US policy toward Asia led	the Truman administration to encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan	2
9619853059	In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization	declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.	3
9619853060	The 1950 National Security Council report known as NSC-68 stated	the United States must resist communism anywhere it developed in the world	4
9619853061	President Harry Trumans Fair Deal called for	the creation of national health insurance	5
9619853062	The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the	military invasion by North Korea into South Korea	6
9619853063	As a result of the Korean War, the	American public believed there was something wrong with the United States	7
9619853064	In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was	the movie industry	8
9619853065	The McCarran Internal Security Act	required communist organizations to register with the government	9
9619853066	In 1954, the American scientist Jonas Salk developed a vaccine for the prevention of	polio	10
9619853067	The primary goal of the American Apollo program was to	land men on the moon	11
9619853068	In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock wrote a bestselling Baby and Child Care contended that	mothers should stay at home with their children	12
9619853069	All of the following statements regarding early television are true EXCEPT that	the federal government regulated the content of both commercials and programs	13
9619853070	All of the following were factors in rising poverty rates in inner cities in the 1950s, EXCEPT	a growth of unskilled industrial jobs in these areas	14
9619853071	The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)	declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful	15
9619853072	The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956	marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest	16
9619853073	Under John Foster Dulles's policy of "massive retaliation," announced in 1954, the US would	use nuclear weapons against communist aggression	17
9619853074	Between 1945-1959, US policy in the Middle East saw	the CIA engineer a coup that brought the shah of Iran to power	18
9619853075	The Eisenhower administration responded to Fidel Castro's coming to power in Cuba by	ending diplomatic relations	19
9619853076	The Warren Commission investigation of the assassination of President John Kennedy concluded	Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of Kennedy	20
9619853077	Great Society reforms	contributed to the greatest reduction in poverty in American history	21
9619853078	The 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, involved all of the following EXCEPT the	resignation of Governor George Wallace	22
9619853079	The Civil Rights Act of 1965 primarily focused on the issue of	voting rights	23
9619853080	In the 1960s, the philosophy of "black power"	called for an increased awareness of racial differences	24
9619853081	All of the following actions were initiated by President John Kennedy EXCEPT	the CIA plan to overthrow Fidel Castro	25
9619853082	In the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the	United States ordered a naval and air blockade of Cuba	26
9619853083	The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was in response to	alleged attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on American destroyers	27
9619853084	All of the following statements regarding the 1968 Tet offensive are true EXCEPT that it	led to the fall of Saigon to the communists	28
9619853085	In 1968, anti-war protesters at the Democratic convention in Chicago	were attacked by police in a bloody riot	29
9619853086	In the 1960s, the youth counterculture	presented a fundamental challenge to American middle class society	30
9619853087	The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose called for	the preservation of Indian heritage	31
9619853088	All of the following statements regarding Latinos in the US are true EXCEPT that	Cuban immigrants in the 1980s were more well to do than their counterparts in the 1960s	32
9619853089	The 1969 "Stonewall Riot" is associated with the civil rights movement for	homosexuals	33
9619853090	Betty Friedans 1963 book, The Feminine Mystique	gave a voice to a reemerging women's rights movement	34
9619853091	Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring helped launch the modern environmental movement by focusing on problems concerning	pesticides	35
9619853092	In April 1970, the antiwar movement was recharged by	the US invasion of Cambodia	36
9619853093	President Richard Nixon believed US foreign policy should work toward	a balance of power among several major nations	37
9619853094	In Engel v. Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court	ruled prayers in public schools were unconstitutional.	38
9619853095	The key evidence in the determination or President Richard Nixons guilt or innocence in the Watergate scandal was	audio tape recordings made of most conversations in the Oval Office	39