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Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the:
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Liberal Republicans
Isolationists
Anti-communists
Southern Republicans
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During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would _________________________ to help to end the Korean War.
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Use atomic weapons
Personally go to Korea
Blockade the China coast and bomb Manchuria
Open negotiations with Mao Zedong
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Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the:
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During the 1952 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Dwight Eisenhower declared that he would _________________________ to help to end the Korean War.
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The record would seem to indicate that President Eisenhower’s strongest commitment during his presidency was to:
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Senator McCarthy first rose to national prominence by
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Senator McCarthy’s anticommunist crusade ended when he:
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Which one of the following is least related to the other three?
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was an outgrowth of the:
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The largest public works project during Eisenhower’s presidency was:
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Dwight D. Eisenhower’s democratic opponent in both 1952 and 1956 was:
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What was the subject of the Landrum-Griffin Act passed by Congress in 1959?
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The leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam since World War I, was:
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In 1956 the United States condemned _____________________ as the aggressors in the Suez Canal crisis.
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During the 1950’s the Central Intelligence Agency engineered pro-American political coups in both:
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The Paris summit conference, scheduled for 1960, collapsed because of the:
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What may well have tipped the electoral scales for John F. Kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was:
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In the 1950’s the work force began to change when:
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Several critics of the new consumerism of the 1950’s charged that he American people:
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When John F. Kennedy assumed office, J. Edgar Hoover had been serving as the head of this government department for around 35 years.
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What position in the John F. Kennedy administration did John Kennedy’s brother Robert hold?
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When he took office in 1961, President Kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy through:
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John F. Kennedy’s strategy of “flexible response”
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American military forces entered Vietnam in order to:
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The Alliance for Progress was intended to improve the level of economic well-being in:
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The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except:
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At first, John F. Kennedy moved very slowly in the area of civil rights because he:
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John Kennedy joined hands with the civil rights movement when he:
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The official government investigation of John F. Kennedy’s assassination was led by:
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President Johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the:
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President Johnson’s Republican opponent for the presidency in 1964 was:
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With the passage of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution,
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All of the following programs were created by Lyndon Johnson’s administration except:
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The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except:
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The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the:
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The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized:
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Black leaders in the 1960’s included _______________, an advocate of peaceable resistance; __________________, who favored black separatism; and ____________________, and advocate of “Black Power”
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The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam policy:
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During the Vietnam War, President Lyndon Johnson ordered the CIA, in clear violation of its charters to
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The third-party candidate for president in 1968 was:
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Why was the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 noteworthy?
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Both major-party presidential candidates in 1968 agreed that the United States should:
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The site of the first major militant protest of behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was:
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Extra credit: What was the name of the leftist terrorist group that the anti-war group SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) morphed into in the late 60’s?