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In 1975, the Vietnam War ended


A) when the Soviet Union attacked North Vietnam.
B) with the government of North Vietnam as the sole ruler of the country.
C) with the Paris peace agreement.
D) with the United States as a winner.
E) right after the invasion of Cambodia.

F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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Affirmative action was


A) found unconstitutional during the Nixon administration.
B) mandated by law only for construction workers.
C) implemented only in Philadelphia.
D) never a priority during the Nixon administration.
E) first pursued and then abandoned by the Nixon administration.

F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

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Two decades after the Vietnam War ended, which former secretary of defense regretted that the United States had entered the conflict?


A) Lyndon Johnson
B) Richard Nixon
C) Robert McNamara
D) Dean Rusk
E) Eugene McCarthy

F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

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What contradiction did the Reagan presidency reveal about modern conservatism?


A) Reagan's policies enriched investors and CEOs but eviscerated the economies and communities of the industrial heartland.
B) Conservatives promised to destroy labor unions, only to depend on their political support in elections.
C) Republicans brought more women into public office than any other party, but actively legislated for men's rights.
D) Conservatives cut spending dramatically, only to complain about a lack of public services.
E) The Republican Party was driven by young conservatives but ruled by the oldest president on record.

F) D) and E)
G) A) and B)

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What were the results of the U.S. invasion of neutral Cambodia in 1970?


A) The Viet Cong lost access to its Ho Chi Minh Trail.
B) South Vietnam gained increasing influence over a weak neighbor.
C) The invasion destabilized the nation and ushered in a murderous regime.
D) The impressive military action convinced communist China to approach the United States.
E) The invasion toppled Cambodia's communist government.

F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -My Lai Massacre

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -ERA

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What did the environmentalist Barry Commoner offer as a solution to the environmental crisis?


A) Boycott any energy that was produced from a nuclear facility.
B) The government needed to be less involved in environmental issues, allowing the private sector to handle cleanups.
C) Americans should eat more meat (especially beef, because it was healthier than pork) .
D) Americans needed to move toward a lifestyle that was in harmony with the ecosphere.
E) Wind power should be the only energy source.

F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

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What did Nixon's New Federalism do?


A) It abolished international trade.
B) It provided itemized budgets to states so that no federal money would be misspent.
C) It offered federal "block grants" to states to spend as they saw fit.
D) It attempted to reorganize the national banking system.
E) It put more checkpoints into place to ensure that the right people were benefiting from welfare.

F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Bowers v. Hardwick


A) upheld the constitutionality of state laws outlawing homosexual acts.
B) took the United States off the gold standard.
C) ruled affirmative action was constitutional in university decisions regarding enrollment.
D) stated that a criminal had the right to a state-appointed lawyer.
E) upheld the practices of racial housing segregation.

F) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

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Offer a critique as to how America's golden age had come to such an abrupt end by the end of the 1970s, after peaking only a decade and a half earlier in the mid-1950s. What were the causes of its decline? What were the consequences for American organized labor and American consumers?

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After Nixon left office, the Senate held hearings that revealed the FBI had spied on millions of Americans and had tried to disrupt the civil rights movement.

A) True
B) False

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dΓ©tente
supply-side economics
Philadelphia Plan
Pentagon Papers
savings and loan crisis
Church Committee
Iran-Contra scandal
yuppies
Three Mile Island
stagflation
Camp David Accords
Proposition 13
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arms for hostages
peace between Egypt and Israel
presidential involvement in Vietnam
slow economic growth and high inflation
easing of Cold War tensions
investigated the FBI and CIA
affirmative action
nuclear power plant accident
ban on raising property taxes
young, successful urban professionals
trickle-down economics
caused by deregulation

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Pentagon Papers
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Church Committee
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yuppies
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Proposition 13

When Ford took office in 1974, what occurred for the first time in U.S. history?


A) Ford refused to pardon the former president.
B) The former president had been impeached and thrown out of office.
C) Both the president and vice president took office without being voted in.
D) An American president was censured by Congress.
E) The president held a live press conference.

F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -stagflation

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As a Washington insider who had served three terms in the Senate, Jimmy Carter was well educated in domestic and foreign policies before becoming president.

A) True
B) False

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Analyze the success of Reagan's administration in both domestic and foreign policy. Explain why he left office popular with the public, despite leaving behind an enormous national debt.

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The "Second Gilded Age"


A) could describe the 1980s, a decade where making deals was more profitable for companies than making products.
B) was a Mondale-Ferraro 1984 campaign slogan slamming Reagan's coddling of the rich.
C) could describe the 1980s, a decade where organized labor made substantial gains as it had in the 1890s.
D) was the title of a 1980s documentary about "yuppies" who sold out to the financial establishment.
E) ended with a federal budget surplus.

F) B) and C)
G) None of the above

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Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two. -Pentagon Papers

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Richard Nixon's New Federalism


A) offered state-grants that could be used however each state government chose.
B) created much discomfort in Congress.
C) closed a few state agencies and declared that no new agencies could be created.
D) demanded full national control of all federal money sent to the states.
E) was clearly moved by a liberal agenda.

F) C) and D)
G) A) and D)

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