Question 1

Won due to Democratic National Convention drama

Accepted Answer

Nixon

Answer

Carter

Answer

LBJ

Answer

JFK

Question 2

Signed SALT with Soviet Union

Accepted Answer

Nixon

Answer

Carter

Answer

Reagan

Answer

Ford

Question 3

SALT is

Accepted Answer

agreement to minimize militarism

Answer

led to Nixon's trip to China

Answer

Other name for the Demilitarized Zone

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treaty that ended Vietnam War

Question 4

First President to visit China

Accepted Answer

Nixon

Answer

Ford

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LBJ

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JFK

Question 5

Increased Anti-War movement

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Invasion of Cambodia

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Gulf of Tonkin incident

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Kent State

Answer

War Powers Act

Question 6

Lead of China

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Mao Tse-Tung

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Stalin

Answer

Chiang Kai Shek

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Ho Chi Minh

Question 7

Congress response to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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War Powers Act

Answer

Impeachment

Answer

Invasion of Cambodia

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none of these

Question 8

VP who had to resign

Accepted Answer

Spiro Agnew

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Dan Quayle

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Cheney

Answer

George H. W. Bush

Question 9

Replaced Nixon

Accepted Answer

Ford

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LBJ

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Reagan

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JFK

Question 10

Watergate

Accepted Answer

all of these

Answer

made Americans cynical about government

Answer

resulted in Nixon's resignation

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Nixon would have been impeached and removed from office

Question 11

President when Saigon (South Vietnam) fell to Communism

Accepted Answer

Ford

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Reagan

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Carter

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Nixon

Question 12

Contributed to Ford losing the 1976 election

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inflation

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trickle-down economics

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"No New Taxes!"

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the Iranian Hostage Crisis

Question 13

Carter's biggest success

Accepted Answer

Camp David Accords

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NAFTA

Answer

Iranian Hostage Situation

Answer

Iran-Contra Affair

Question 14

Contributed to Carter serving only one term

Accepted Answer

Iranian Hostage Crisis

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the Camp David Accords

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he ended the gold standard

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his use of deficit spending

Question 15

Beginning of the environmental movement

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Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring"

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none of these

Answer

the creation of the EPA

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Earth Day in 1970

Question 16

Nixon's major contribution to the environmental movement

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EPA

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Clean Air Act

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Clean Water Act

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Earth Day

Question 17

Part of the women's rights movement

Accepted Answer

all of these

Answer

"Feminine Mystique"

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NOW

Answer

Equal Rights Amendment

Question 18

Decision that NOW would have been most pleased about

Accepted Answer

Roe v. Wade

Answer

Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer

Mapp v. Ohio

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Brown v. BOE

Question 19

Ford was criticized for

Accepted Answer

pardoning Nixon

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replacing Agnew

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none of these

Answer

using trickle-down economics

Question 20

Only president who served as prez and VP without being elected by the public to either position

Accepted Answer

Ford

Answer

RFK

Answer

Nixon

Answer

JFK

Question 21

Reagan's defense plan

Accepted Answer

SDI

Answer

NATO

Answer

SALT

Answer

NAFTA

Question 22

One of Reagan's strategies against the Soviet Union

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arms race

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reversing perestroika

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signing SALT

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"Star Wars"

Question 23

Political openness refers to

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glastnost

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Five Year Plan

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perestroika

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Iran-Contra affair

Question 24

Gorbachev's economic policy moving towards capitalism

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perestroika

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New Economic Policy

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bolshevik

Answer

glastnost

Question 25

President credited with ending the Cold War

Accepted Answer

Reagan

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Bush #1

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Carter

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Nixon

Question 26

The Berlin Wall fell in

Accepted Answer

1989

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1991

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1987

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1990

Question 27

George H.W. Bush's broken promise

Accepted Answer

no new taxes

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no new terror attacks

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no new foreign war

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no US involvement in foreign politics

Question 28

Cause of the First Gulf War

Accepted Answer

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait

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9/11

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Iranian invasion of Iraq

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weapons of mass desctruction

Question 29

Economic plan of Reagan

Accepted Answer

lower taxes, less regulation, high military spending

Answer

lower taxes, more regulation

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none of these

Answer

stagflation

Question 30

Successfully balanced the federal budget and had surplus several time

Accepted Answer

Clinton

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Reagan

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Carter

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Bush #2

Question 31

Second president ever impeached

Accepted Answer

Clinton

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Nixon

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Johnson

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Reagan

Question 32

One of the closest elec20tions in US history

Accepted Answer

2000

Answer

2016

Answer

2008

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1992

Question 33

Won the popular vote but not the electoral college

Accepted Answer

Al Gore, 2000

Answer

Ford, 1976

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Clinton, 1992

Answer

Nixon, 1968

Question 34

Carried out 9/11

Accepted Answer

Al Qaeda

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ISIS

Answer

Hamas

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Hezbollah

Question 35

Congress's response to 9/11

Accepted Answer

the PATRIOT Act

Answer

the War Powers Act

Answer

the invasion of Iraq

Answer

the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 36

The War of Terror

Accepted Answer

began in Afghanistan, then moved to Iraq

Answer

took place only in Iran

Answer

Began in Afghanistan and came close to expanding into Pakistan

Answer

began in Iraq

Question 37

Longest war in US History

Accepted Answer

War on Terror

Answer

Persian Gulf War

Answer

Korea

Answer

Vietnam

Question 38

Contributed to 2008 financial crisis and recession

Accepted Answer

all of these

Answer

housing price bubble and high foreclosures

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unethical practices by banks

Answer

debt from the war on terror

Question 39

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was similar to

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Answer

PATRIOT Act

Answer

Camp David Accords

Answer

War Powers Act

Question 40

The US elected the first black president in

Accepted Answer

2008

Answer

2012

Answer

1992

Answer

2016

Question 41

Major accomplishment of the War on Terror

Accepted Answer

capture of Osama bin Laden

Answer

ending ISIS

Answer

banning torture

Answer

imprisonment of Saddam Hussein

Question 42

"You have the right to remain silent"

Accepted Answer

Miranda v. Arizona

Answer

Roe v. Wade

Answer

Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer

Mapp v. Ohio

Question 43

"Evidence obtained illegally cannot be used in court"

Accepted Answer

Mapp v. Ohio

Answer

Roe v. Wade

Answer

Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 44

"If the defendant can't afford a lawyer, the justice system will provide one"

Accepted Answer

Gideon v. Wainwright

Answer

Miranda v. Arizona

Answer

Roe v. Wade

Answer

Sanford v. Scott

Question 45

Refers to an era of expanded protection for minorities, women, and the accused by the Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

The Warren Court

Answer

the Great Society

Answer

Equal Rights Amendment

Answer

Civil Rights Act

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