The Central Intelligence Agency __________. A) was the first government agency devoted to intelligence and spying B) had its roots in the wartime Office of Strategic Services C) was created by Congress over Truman’s veto D) remained a small and insignificant agency during the Cold War ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
As a result of Truman’s Loyalty Program, about how many federal employees were fired for suspicions of subversion? A) 500 B) 5,000 C) 10,000 D) 50,000 ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these words best describes Truman’s approach to the Soviets in the first years after the war? A) apathetic B) hostile C) cordial D) conciliatory ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these would have been most likely to get a Federal Housing Administration loan in the post‒World War II era? A) a homebuyer in a white suburb B) a suburban duplex buyer C) an inner-city apartment buyer D) a buyer of an old house requiring repairs ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Under President Kennedy, advisory functions and details of running the executive branch __________. A) were micromanaged by the president B) shifted from the cabinet to the White House staff C) were ignored, weakening the presidency D) were left to cabinet offices ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Cuban missile crisis led to a symbolic cooling of Cold War tensions with the signing of __________. A) the Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty B) the Geneva Accords for Vietnam C) a U.S.-Cuba free trade agreement D) Castro’s pledge not to invade the United States ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
How would you characterize Kennedy’s approach to Vietnam? What challenges did he help create for his successors? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: the Cold War lens; covert action; connection of United States to an unpopular dictator; escalation
Date: September 9th, 2020
African American SNCC members became disillusioned with the Democratic Party when Johnson __________. A) refused to sign the Civil Rights Act B) opposed seating Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegates at the 1964 Democratic Convention C) refused to attend King’s Nobel Prize ceremony D) chose a segregationist vice-presidential candidate in 1964 ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Greensboro, North Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, were early sites of this particular strategy of the civil rights movement. A) freedom rides to test the Morgan v. Virginia ruling in interstate buses B) sit-ins at lunch counters and restaurants to protest discrimination C) violent occupation of segregated establishments D) voter registration drives to increase […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Bill of Rights guaranteed that the power of ________ could not infringe upon the rights of ________. A) the President; Congress B) the states; the national government C) Congress; the federal judiciary D) the national government; individuals ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
