Which of the following describes the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The invasion was an unmitigated disaster.
What happened during the Tet Offensive of January 1968?
The Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces attacked key cities and every major American base in South Vietnam.
Of the more than 7,500 American women who served in the Vietnam War, most served as
nurses.
What did the War Powers Act of 1973 stipulate?
The president had to secure congressional approval for any substantial, long-term deployment of troops abroad.
Who constituted about 80 percent of American troops in Vietnam?
Poor and working-class Americans
Which of the following describes the thirteen-day Cuban missile crisis of 1962?
It brought the world's two superpowers perilously close to nuclear war.
How did the Soviet Union respond to increased U.S. production of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and the American nuclear buildup in Europe?
It stepped up its own ICBM program.
What was the impact of the American movement to stop the Vietnam War?
It brought the war to the center of media attention and severely limited the Johnson administration's options.
By 1990, about what percentage of married women with young children worked outside the home?
60 percent
What was President Reagan's initial strategy to fix the lagging U.S. economy?
Introduce a massive tax cut
Which of the following economic developments characterized Jimmy Carter's presidency?
The president cut federal spending in order to compensate for rising inflation.
Some of the most vigorous support for the growing grassroots conservative movement of the 1970s came from which group?
Middle-class suburban men and women in the Sun Belt
Who founded the Moral Majority in 1979?
Jerry Falwell, to fight left-wing social welfare bills
Following the 1972 election, Americans learned that President Nixon and his associates had been guilty of
harassing “enemies” through illegal means.
What was one of President Carter's major accomplishments in mediating the political crises in the Middle East?
Convincing Egypt to recognize Israel and Israel to gradually withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula
When he took office in 1976, President Carter promised to approach American foreign policy
by applying human rights principles.
How did President Carter respond to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979?
He barred U.S. athletes from participating in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
Ronald Reagan's appointments to the federal court system tended to favor
a strict construction of the Constitution that limits judicial power.
What was the status of the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union at the time President Reagan left office in 1989?
They had reached their highest level of cooperation since World War II.
What did the independent prosecutor charged with investigating the Iran-Contra scandal conclude about President Reagan and Vice President George Bush?
Both had knowingly participated or at least acquiesced in covering up the scandal.
Which of the following describes the agenda of the new conservative movement of the 1970s?
It criticized the government's intrusion into the individual's economic life as a hindrance to prosperity and personal responsibility.
What did the Reagan administration do when Congress blocked its efforts to help opponents of the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua?
It acted secretly and illegally to undermine congressional authority.
What was the result of President Reagan's pledge to reduce federal spending?
Cuts in spending for social welfare programs
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