U.S. History Final

5 Written Questions

1. the authority to act that an elected official receives from the voters who elected him or her.
2. A US policy announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
3. Countries dependent upon and dominated by the Soviet Union. (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland.
4. Nixon's strategy for ending US involvement in war: gradual withdrawal of US troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces.
5. a 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956

5 Matching Questions

1. Search and Destroy Missions
2. Ngo Dinh Diem
3. Rosa Parks
4. Braceros
5. Conservative Coalition

1. a Hired hands, Mexican, allowed into US to harvest crops
2. b a strong anti-Communist, refused to take part in the countrywide election of 1956
3. c Seamstress and an NAACP officer who took a seat in the front row of the colored section of a Montgomery bus. When asked to move, she refused, and her arrest soon spread around.
4. d alliance of right-wing groups opposed to big government, entitlement programs, affirmative action the busing of students to achieve integration, and the suppose moral decline of the US population.
5. e a US military raid on a South Vietnamese village, intended to root out villagers with ties to the Vietcong, but often resulting in the destruction of the village and the displacement of its inhabitants.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. an organization of petroleum exporting countries - an economic association of oil-producing nations that is able to set oil prices.
   1. Vietminh
   2. NATO
   3. HUAC
   4. OPEC
2. president's advisor for national security affairs; Nixon's top negotiator in Vietnam
   1. Hot Line
   2. Ho Chi Minh
   3. Henry Kissinger
   4. New Right
3. a resolution adopted by Congress in 1964, giving the president broad powers to wage war in Vietnam.
   1. Tonkin Gulf Resolution
   2. New Frontier
   3. Stagflation
   4. Conservative Coalition
4. Supreme Court when Warren was chief justice, noted for its activism in areas of civil rights and free speech.
   1. Khmer Rouge
   2. Warsaw Pact
   3. Franchise
   4. Warren Court
5. ran against Johnson (platform to end war).
   1. McCarthyism
   2. Silent Majority
   3. Agent Orange
   4. Eugene McCarthy

5 True/False Questions

1. Black Panthers → Accused of spying for the Soviet Union, lied for passing documents, send to jail. Later, Soviet cables proved his guilt.

   True        False

2. New Federalism → JFK's legislative program, included proposals to provide medical care for the elderly, to rebuild blighted urban areas, o aid education, to bolster the national defense, to increase international aid, and to expand the space program.

   True        False

3. Peace Corps → Communist opposition group in the South, began attacks on Diem government, killing thousands of officials. Later called National Liberation Front (NLF).

   True        False

4. Ho Chi Minh → Condemned by the French to death in 1930 for his rebellious activity. Fled Vietnam that year and throughout the 1930s, he orchestrated Vietname's growing independence movement from exile in the Soviet Union and later from China.

   True        False

5. Entitlement Programs → a government program, such as social security, Medicare, or Medicaid, that guarantees and provides benefits to a specific group.

   True        False