- Which of the following best describes American youths of the 1960s?
Your answer:
Most followed conventional paths and sought a secure place in the system.
They were radicals who were deeply involved in political action and espoused cultural and political revolution.
They generally preferred drugs to beer.
As their numbers dwindled, they developed increasing uncertainty about their own collective identity.
They longed to be back in the days of President Eisenhower, when things were simple and young people had no responsibilities.
- The Gay Liberation movement became more publicly militant in response to
Your answer:
the Saturday Night Massacre.
the police raid on the Stonewall Inn.
the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.
the refusal of the Nixon administration to appoint an openly gay jurist to the Supreme Court.
the torture of a gay youth in Montana.
- At Kent State University in May 1970,
Your answer:
campus radicals ambushed National Guard Troop G, wounding eleven and killing four.
Ohio governor James Rhodes ordered the National Guard to shoot down all campus radicals.
National Guard troops panicked and fired at a crowd of students, wounding eleven and killing four.
a distraught student stood in the window of the library tower and shot professors walking on the main quadrangle below.
campus police fired into a women's dormitory, accidentally killing two male students who were in the midst of a panty raid.
- The changes brought about on American college campuses because of student activism in the 1960s included
Your answer:
elimination of dress codes and curfews.
increased recruitment of minorities.
courses that were more "relevant."
elimination or reduction of course requirements.
all of these
- What did the experiences of late 1960s hippies demonstrate?
Your answer:
Attempting to go against the Establishment leads mainly to drugs, venereal disease, and crime.
Most Americans would have accepted the communal ethic if the news media had portrayed it favorably.
Countercultures in the United States never can succeed or gain much following because of the power of the American ideology of family and sharing.
Groups that try to live a life of sharing closer to nature on rural communes will inevitably turn an urban neighborhood into an overcrowded, over-commercialized slum.
It is easier to agree on peace and freedom and love than on who will cook, wash the dishes, and pay the bills.
- As a result of the Tet offensive,
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American military leaders came to realize that United States forces could never repulse a massive Vietcong offensive, much less regain captured territory.
the nation experienced a resurgence of support for the war effort.
many Americans came to realize that no area of South Vietnam was secure from enemy attack.
Lyndon Johnson trounced Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary.
Barry Goldwater reentered politics to run for the Republican nomination for president.
- Which of the following facts about the 1968 election ndicates that a new conservative majority had supplanted the long-standing New Deal coalition?
Your answer:
Between them, Nixon and Wallace received a majority of the votes of unskilled and semiskilled workers.
Nixon won 43.4 percent of the popular vote.
The great majority of blacks voted for Hubert Humphrey.
Almost all union leaders supported Hubert Humphrey.
all of these.
- The Nixon Doctrine stated that the United States would
Your answer:
help to defend, by military means if necessary, the territorial integrity of any nation threatened by communism.
use force, if necessary, to ensure that Latin American nations elected honest, pro-American governments.
provide financial and moral support to nations facing communist subversion, but such nations would have to defend themselves.
work to support human rights around the globe.
support free trade and capitalism throughout the globe.
- Richard Nixon engineered a dramatic turnaround in American relations with
Your answer:
the People's Republic of China.
Panama.
the Philippines.
Kampuchea.
Vietnam.
- Which of the following statements correctly summarizes Richard Nixon's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China?
Your answer:
He opened up new initiatives with the Soviet Union in an effort to isolate the People's Republic, capitalizing on the Sino-Soviet split.
He listened to his hard-line anticommunist advisers and initiated a new and more hostile era of the Cold War against both powers.
He capitalized on their widening split by playing one power off against the other.
none of these
Choices A and C
- The SALT I agreement
Your answer:
arranged for the Soviet Union's purchase of at least $750 million in American grain over a three-year period.
brought about the end of the OPEC oil embargo.
called for a phased withdrawal of American missiles and troops in Europe, in exchange for a comparable Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
banned all chemical and biological weapons.
limited the antiballistic missiles of the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Why did John Mitchell, E. Howard Hunt, and G. Gordon Liddy arrange the break-in at the Watergate complex?
Your answer:
to find information about Daniel Ellsberg that would discredit him in the eyes of the peace movement
to destroy the Democratic National Committee's files of potential campaign contributors
to wiretap the telephone of the Democratic National Committee
to play a harmless prank on their political rivals
all of these
- George McGovern overwhelmingly lost the 1972 presidential election because
Your answer:
his vice-presidential running mate had received electric-shock therapy for nervous depression.
he endorsed income redistribution and the decriminalization of marijuana.
the Nixon campaign kept information about the Watergate burglary contained.
the perception that he was inept and radical.
all of these
- What did the "White House tapes" reveal?
Your answer:
that the burglary at Democratic headquarters was simply a third-rate caper, and no one on the White House staff had been involved
that President Nixon had ordered a cover-up in the Watergate affair
that President Nixon had been having an affair with his secretary for three years
that President Nixon had attempted to halt the "dirty tricks" of his supporters but had failed
that Nixon had tried to steal the 1960 presidential election
- In the 1960s, the term "counterculture" referred to
Your answer:
a conservative movement among American youth who were nostalgic for the simple habits of the 1950s.
an environmental movement dedicated to countering the polluting effects of American consumer culture.
a youth culture that was radically disaffiliated from the mainstream assumptions of American society.
an urban middle-class reform movement that opposed the growing use of "uppers" and "downers" throughout American society.
choices B and C.