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1. In the late 1940s, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) focused an investigation into communism's influence on what area of American life?

entertainment and broadcasting

travel and tourism

immigration and naturalization

finance and investment

Answer 1

2. The following statement comes from Congressional Act passed during the Kennedy Administration:

No employer ... shall discriminate ... between employees on the basis of sex by paying wages to employees ... at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employees of the opposite sex in such establishment for equal work on jobs[,]requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions.

Source: http://finduslaw.com/equal-pay-act-1963-epa-29-us-code-chapter-8-206d

What group was largely responsible for getting this law passed?

National Organization for Women

U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau

National Women's Party

Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

3. Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was influenced by which of these events?

the Freedom Summer

the March on Washington

the Montgomery Bus Boycott

the Selma Voting Rights Campaign

4.Which of these groups was involved in the legal challenges to segregation that resulted in the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?

Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

5.Which of these resulted from the success of McCarthyism?

increased spending on the military

the resignation of President Truman

the blacklisting of suspected communists

decreases in immigration quotas for Eastern Europe

6.How did the United States react to the Soviet Union's acquisition of atomic weapons?

by placing nuclear missiles in Central Europe and Turkey

by expanding its programs to research and build better atomic weapons

by placing nuclear weapons on submarines patrolling near Soviet territory

by announcing economic sanctions against the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

7.
The quote below was written in 1945:

"The bombs in question ... which massacred old people, women and children, destroying and burning down Shinto and Buddhist temples...constitutes a new crime against humanity and civilization."

What was the cause of the beliefs expressed in the quote?

Soviet Union declared war on Japan

atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

unconditional surrender of Japan

unconditional surrender of Germany

8. The excerpt below is from a 1983 speech by President Ronald Reagan:

So, I urge you to speak out against those who would place the United States in a position of military and moral inferiority ... So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.

Source: http://www.nationalcenter.org/ReaganEvilEmpire1983.html

Based on this excerpt, which of the following conclusions can be drawn about President Reagan's foreign policy?

He wanted to rid communist countries of their nuclear weapons while continuing to build up the United States' military power.

He called for religious leaders to travel to foreign countries to help spread a message of peace and nonviolence to communist countries.

He believed the United States should improve its weapons system to prove itself a threat to communist countries like the Soviet Union.

He argued that government leaders should support his efforts to rid all the world's countries of nuclear weapons.

9.Three Western powers—the United States, France, and the United Kingdom—were original members of SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Why would those powers have joined a mutual defense organization in Southeast Asia?

All three nations were asked to become members by weaker Asian nations.

All three nations wanted to contain the spread of communism in the region.

All three nations had established colonies in the region.

All three nations wanted land and ports for military bases in the region.

10.The treatment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II is similar to which of the following?

the experiences of Hispanic Americans in wartime industries during World War I

Irish Americans' experiences living on the home front during World War I

the experiences of German Americans during World War I

African Americans' experiences on the battlefield during World War I

11. What was one of the main goals of the March on Washington on August 28, 1963?

a federal law ending segregation in the U.S. military

a federal employment program for all workers, regardless of race

an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

an armed force in the Southern states to enforce integration laws

12. In 1992, presidential candidate H. Ross Perot said that signing the NAFTA agreement would produce a "giant sucking sound" in the United States. What was he referring to?

loss of American jobs

increase in American exports

decrease in American imports

loss of illegal immigrants

13.the rise of feminism in the 1960s was connected with which of the following events?

election of Richard Nixon

rise in women's average wages

failures of the Civil Rights movement

influence of the counterculture movement

14.The quote below is from U.S. President George W. Bush in 2001:

"We shall make no distinction between those who committed these acts and those who harbor them."

Source: http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=44910

Based on this quote, which of the following conclusions can be drawn about U.S. foreign policy after the attacks of September 11, 2001?

The United States would ban immigration to the country until the perpetrators of the acts were in custody.

The United States would seek out and punish only those individuals responsible for the terrorist attacks.

The United States would pursue both individual terrorists and countries that turned a blind eye to terrorist activities.

The United States would label all foreign countries as an enemy and wage war against all foreign influences.