EOC Review

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EOC Review

• AP US History

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• 1. The evidence in the Watergate case, based on
  testimony and on the White House tapes, included
  that Nixon
• Was innocent of any wrong doing
• Was involved in the case but was not proven
  guilty of any crime
• Was guilty of some minor crimes but was not
  proven guilty
• Was guilty of a major crime obstructing justice
  by covering up evidences of the crimes of the
  others

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• 2. Reaganomics, or supply-side economics,
  operated from the assumption that the woes of the
  American economy were largely the result of
• Interest rests
• Foreign causes
• Excessive taxation
• Inadequate government spending

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• 3. During the Gulf War, the United States and its
  allies fought the forces of
• Iraq
• Iran
• Saudi Arabia
• Kuwait

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• 4. Effects of the events on September 11, 2001,
  include
• All of the below
• The deaths of about 300 Americans
• The recognition the anti-American terrorism was
  possible within the US
• The illustrations of how far militants would go
  in the name of jihad

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• 5. Bill Clinton became the first two-term
  Democratic president since
• Woodrow Wilson
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Jimmy Carter
• Dwight E. Eisenhower

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• 6. In the presidential election of 2000, the vote
  count in Florida was ultimately decided by
• A new round of voting by the citizens
• A handshake deal that was struck down between the
  supporters of Gore and Bush
• a vote by the members of the Florida state
  legislature
• The US Supreme Court in a very close decision

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• 7. In the 1990s, a virtual monopoly on
  computer-operating systems was achieved by
• Apple
• Compaq
• Microsoft
• Pentium

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• 8. President Johnsons Great Society programs
  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

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• 9. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
• Expressed the power feeling of the majority of
  Americans
• Authorized the president to take all necessary
  steps to defend US forces and interests in
  Vietnam
• Approved the overthrow of the Diem government in
  Vietnam
• Authorized the use of up to 500,000 US troops in
  Vietnam

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• 10. The Tet Offensive resulted in all of the
  following EXCEPT
• The military defeat of US forces in South Vietnam
  
• Significant military losses by the Vietcong
• Reduced public support for Johnsons conduct of
  the war
• US diplomats advising Johnson against further
  escalation of the war

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• 11. Freedom Riders in the early 1960s aimed at
• The integration of the public schools
• The desegregation of bus stations
• An end to discrimination in employment
• The promotion of voting rights for all

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• 12. Affirmation action is best described as the
  legal requirement that
• Employers be forced to obey federal and state
  laws that protect the civil rights of all
• Employers take positive measures to recruit
  minorities to compensate for past injuries
• Employers establish racial quotas for their
  workforce
• Employers hire workers who belong Community
  Action organizations

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• 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
• Malcolm X
• John F. Kennedy
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Medgar Evers

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• 14. In her book The Feminine Mystique, Betty
  Friedan argued for the idea that
• Women who lived the ideal life of the suburban
  housewife were often not fulfilled individuals
• Women who banded together could overcome a
  male-dominated society
• The happiest women were those who led fulfilled
  lives in purely domestic roles
• The womens political movement was unnecessary

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• 15. President Bush assembled a coalition of
  nations in 1990 to take military action in the
  Middle East to
• Replace Saddam Hussein as the dictator of Iraq
• Block Arab nations from attacking Israel
• Force Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait
• Assist Kurds and Shiites opposed to Saddam
  Husseins rule in Iraq

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• 16. Until 1998, the only two presidents of the
  United States to be subjected to impeachment
  proceedings by the House of Representatives were
• Ulysses S. Grant and Warren G. Harding
• Andrew Johnson and Warren G. Harding
• Warren G. Harding and Richard Nixon
• Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon

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• 17. President John F Kennedys commitment to
  space exploration was realized in 1969 when
• American astronauts walked on the moon and
  returned to earth
• The United States placed a space platform into
  orbit around the earth
• American astronauts circled Mars and returned to
  earth
• A space ship orbited the earth, landed, and was
  used for later flights

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• 18. The occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and of the
  village Wounded Knee in 1973 symbolized the
• Desperation of illegal immigrants who resist
  deportation
• Growing militancy of Native American Indians
  resentful of treaty violations by the federal
  government
• Power of religious cults ruled by charismatic
  leaders
• Growth of the survivalist movement of right-wing
  extremist distrustful of the federal government

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• 19. The term McCarthyism derives from events in
  the early 1950s involving
• Labor union strikes and unrest
• Charges of corruption against government
  officials
• The influence of interest groups in determining
  government policy
• Unsupported charges of treason and subversive
  activity

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• 20.Which action during the late 1950s and early
  1960s is most consistent with the teachings of
  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
• Black separatists call for a new nation populated
  only by African Americans
• African Americans denied the right to vote refuse
  to serve on juries
• African Americans continue to sit at segregated
  lunch counters after being refused service
• People being arrested for violating segregation
  laws strike out at the police

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• 21. The United States initiated the Marshall Plan
  in 1948 to
• Weaken the control of eastern Europe by the
  Soviet Union
• Rebuild the war-damaged economies of Western
  Europe
• Overcome the blockade of Berlin by the Soviet
  Union
• Establish a mutual defense alliance in Western
  Europe

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• 22. Which entertainment media became popular only
  after World War II?
• TV
• Motion Pictures
• Radio
• Phonograph Records

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Answer key

• D
• C
• A
• C
• B
• D
• C
• B
• B
• A
• B
• C
• C
• A
• C
• D
• A
• B
• D

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Cold War

• 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)

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Cold War Cont.

• 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

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Cold war Cont.

• Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
• John Foster Dulles Massive Retaliation
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• U-2 Incident
• Castros revolution
• Bays of Pigs
• Alliance for Progress
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• ICBM

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Domestic, 1940s and 1950s

• 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

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Domestic, 1940s and 1950s

• Julius and Ethel Rosenburg
• Twenty-second Amendment
• Interstate Highway Act
• Alaska, Hawaii
• Spuntnik
• National Defense Education Act (NDEA act)
• Military-industrial complex

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Black History

• 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

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Blacks

• 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

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Blacks

• Adam Clayton Powell
• Malcolm X
• Stokely Carmichael
• Black Panthers
• Black Muslims
• Block Power
• 24th Amendment
• Watts, Detroit Race Riots
• Kerner Commission on civil Disorders

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Vietnam

• 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

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Vietnam

• Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers
• My Lai, Lt. Calley
• Senator Fullbright
• Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
• Vietnamization
• Paris Accords, 1973

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1960s

• Miranda Decision, Escobedo decision
• Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
• New Frontier
• Kennedy and the steel price rollback
• Peace Corps, VISTA
• Berlin Wall

• 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

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1960s

• Great Society
• War on Poverty
• Medicare
• Robert Kennedy
• Moon race, Neil Armstrong
• The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan

• National Organization for women (NOW)
• Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
• Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed

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1970s

• Watergate
• White house plumbers
• Watergate Tapes
• Impeachment proceedings
• SALT 1 Agreement
• Détente
• China visit, 1972
• Recognition of China
• Henry Kissinger, shuttle diplomacy

• 26th amendment
• Chicanos
• Cesar Chavez
• China visit, 1972
• Recognition of China
• Henry Kissinger, shuttle diplomacy
• 26th amendment
• Chicanos
• Cesar Chavez

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1970s

• American Indian Movement (AIM), wounded Knee
• Arab Oil Embargo
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
  (OPEC)

• Alaska Pipeline
• Gerald Ford
• Nixon Pardon
• Jimmy Carter
• Panama Canal Treaty
• Camp David Accords

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1980s and 1990s

• Olympic boycott, 1980
• Reganomics
• Supply side economics
• Sandra Day OConnor
• Three Mile Island
• Star Wars, SDI, Strategic Defense Initiative
• Geraldine Ferraro

• AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
• Moral Majority
• Rev. Jerry Falwell
• Agent Orange
• Challenge disaster

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1980s and 1990s

• Marcos, Philippines, Corazon Aquino
• Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika
• Col. Qaddafi, Libya
• Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rainbow Coalition
• Tiananmen Square, Beijing
• Saddam Hussein, Iraq invade Kuwait

• 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

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1980s and 1990s

• Iran-Contra Affair, Irangate
• Panama, Gan. Noriega, Drug-trafficking
  indictment, Conviction
• Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, Gen.
  Schwarzkopf
• SCUD missiles, Patriot missiles
• MTV

• Somalia
• Whitewater
• Clintons Health Plan
• Oklahoma city Bombing, 1995
• Million Man March on Washington D.C., 1995, Louis
  Farrakhan
• 911