HIST1302 United States History II exam 3 2021

Question 1The anti-war movement:

Question 2The Gulf of Tonkin resolution:

Question 3The 2005 natural disaster, devastating much of the South, particularly New Orleans, was

Question 4Why was the Iraq War compared to Vietnam?

Question 5After the fall of Baghdad, people around the world began to compare the Iraq War with

Question 6Globalization:

Question 7The Civil Rights Act:

Question 8In April 2003, the president prohibited the use of torture except where special permission had been granted. The Defense Department reacted by

Question 9Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John F. Kennedy:

Question 10During the 1950s, Americans:

Question 11Which long-held U.S. territory was granted independence in 1946?

Question 12Barry Goldwater’s conservative movement:

Question 13This first female attorney general, __________, was appointed by President Clinton.

Question 14When they were arrested, the burglars at the Watergate apartment complex were breaking into:

Question 15How did the women’s liberation movement inspire a major expansion of the idea of freedom?

Question 16In 1976, Jimmy Carter won the presidential race in part because he:

Question 17Who was the leader of Al Qaeda in 2001?

Question 18During Freedom Summer:

Question 19In 1957, the Eisenhower Doctrine

Question 20Why did the African-American civil rights protesters that marched in June 1963 in more than 186 cities NOT try more deliberately to avoid arrest?

Question 21In the years immediately following the September 11 attacks, the U.S. defense budget

Question 22America’s image abroad during the Cold War:

Question 23Which of the following best explains George H. W. Bush’s loss in the 1992 presidential election?

Question 24Which statement best describes how the white South reacted to the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

Question 25Anita Hill:

Question 26The problem of inequality in America after 2010:

Question 27Determined to overturn the Vietnam syndrome, President Reagan:

Question 28How did 1950s consumerism differ from previous eras?

Question 29In President Obama's first three months, he announced all of the following plans except

Question 30During the Great Recession, the mortgage crisis affected _________ the most.

Question 31The policy of “containment” can best be described as:

Question 32What setback did the Bush administration suffer in its war on terror in 2008?

Question 33In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter pursued all of the following policies EXCEPT:

Question 34Health care reform during Clinton’s first term:

Question 35The “Iron Curtain”:

Question 36The handling of the Iranian hostage crisis:

Question 37Between 1950 and 1970, suburbanization:

Question 38By 1968, the number of U.S. troops in Vietnam:

Question 39How did revelations about the U.S. military prison in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, change the position of the United States in the world?

Question 40In January 2005, at his second inaugural address, Bush outlined a new American goal:

Question 41All of the following statements about President Obama’s inaugural address are true EXCEPT:

Question 42The Montgomery Bus Boycott:

Question 43The Hurricane Katrina disaster highlighted which of the following to Americans in 2005?

Question 44During what years did the Berlin Wall, the most prominent symbol of the Cold War, divide East and West Berlin?

Question 45The 1964 voter registration drive in Mississippi, in which hundreds of white college students from the North participated, was known as

Question 46After World War II, most working women:

Question 47During the 1950s:

Question 48In 1949, Mao Zedong:

Question 49The baby boom lasted until

Question 50"Stagflation" refers to