US History EOCT Review Game #3—Units 13-16
1.
Name the 3 “containment” programs that were created under President Truman in an effort to
stop the spread of communism into Western Europe
2.
Two part question: (a) Give one example that shows that Truman’s containment policy worked;
(b) Give one example of Truman’s containment policy not working
3.
Two part question: (a) What caused the Korean War? (b) How did the Korean War end?
4.
Two part question: (a) Name 1 reason for the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s;
(b) Who was the U.S. Senator who led the Red Scare accusations from 1950 to 1954?
5.
Two part question: (a) During the Vietnam War, what was the legislation passed by Congress that
gave President Lyndon Johnson “authority to defend South Vietnam at any cost”? (b) What was
the “turning point” of the Vietnam War after which many Americans though the war could not be
won?
6.
Two part question: (a) What event in 1957 caused President Eisenhower to create NASA and the
National Defense Education Act? (b) What did Eisenhower call his warning to Americans to avoid
excessive military spending?
7.
Two part question: (a) What was the name of the failed invasion of Cuba under President
Kennedy in 1961? (b) How did the Kennedy administration respond in 1962 when spy planes
discovered Soviet ICBMs in Cuba?
8.
Name 2 changes that took place in America during the 1950s (the “affluent society)
9.
Two part question: (a) What is “Levittown”? (b) What was the law passed by Congress that gave
college tuition and inexpensive government home loans to World War II veterans?
10. Three part question: Explain the impact of TV on each of the following events in U.S. history:
(a) civil rights movement, (b) the 1960 presidential election, (c) the Vietnam War
11. Two part question: (a) What did President Truman do in 1949 to take the lead on the civil rights?
(b) Who was the first African American baseball player to play in the major leagues?
12. Two part question: (a) What was the Supreme Court case in 1896 that declared segregation was
acceptable as long as facilities were “separate but equal”? (b) Which Supreme Court case
overturned this case by declaring that “separate is inherently unequal”?
13. Multiple choice: In which of the following documents did Martin Luther King, Jr declare that the
civil rights movement “cannot wait” despite the violence that the movement is causing in the
South? (a) “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963; (b) “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” in 1963;
(c) “Silent Spring” in 1962
14. Three part question: identify the major ideas of each of the following civil rights leaders
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.; (b) Malcolm X; (c) Stokely Carmichael
15. Which civil rights law ended Jim Crow segregation in public facilities?
16. Two part question: (a) Which Supreme Court decision declared that accused persons should be
informed of their rights to a lawyer and from self-incrimination? (b) Which Supreme Court
decision protected a woman’s right to an abortion in the first trimester as a matter of privacy?
17. Name 3 political figures who were assassinated in the 1960s
18. Name 3 programs that were created as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society”
19. Name 2 reasons why 1968 was a year of turmoil in U.S. history
20. Two part question: (a) Which civil rights group began the sit-in movement in 1960? (b) What was
the name of the civil rights event in which African Americans rode busses throughout the South
to determine if integration orders were being enforced?
21. Who wrote the “Feminine Mystique” in 1963 and formed the National Organization of Women?
22. Who wrote “Silent Spring” in 1962 which launched the modern environmental movement?
23. What is the difference between the ERA and the EPA?
24. Name 3 conservative politicians from the 1960s to the 1980s
25. Name the 3 components to Nixon’s “triangular diplomacy”
26. Two part question: (a) What was Nixon’s Vietnamization plan? (b) What did Nixon mean by
“détente”?
27. Two part question: (a) What was the name of the scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation in 1974?
(b) Why was Gerald Ford’s presidency impacted by this scandal?
28. Two part question: (a) What was the focus of the Bakke v Regents of California at Davis Supreme
Court case? (b) What was the focus of Title IX legislation?
29. Two part question: (a) Name 1 reason Jimmy Carter’s presidency was not successful;
(b) Name 1 success of the Carter years
30. Name 2 parts of President Ronald Reagan’s economic plan for the USA
31. Two part question: (a) Name 1 foreign policy success of Reagan’s presidency; (b) What was the
name of the foreign policy scandal that occurred while Reagan was president?
32. Name 2 reasons the economy was bad in the 1970s
33. What is the difference between the “New Left” and the “New Right”?
34. What was the difference between Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm?
35. Two part question: (a) Whose presidency was defined by the signing of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the USA, Canada, and Mexico as well as an impeachment
trial after the Monica Lewinski scandal broke? (b) Whose presidency was defined by the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and the War on Terrorism?
US History EOCT Review Game #3—Units 13-16
THE ANSWERS
1. Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), [Berlin Airlift is acceptable
2. (a) Communism did not spread to Western Europe; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and/or NATO were
effective policies; Berlin Airlift is a good example of success; Korean War stopped communism in the South
(b) China fell to communism in 1949; Vietnam; Communism in Cuba
3. (a) North Korean communists crossed the 38° parallel and attacked South Korean in an attempt to unify
the country under a communist government; (b) South Korea was defended and the country remains
divided into a communist North Korea and a democratic/capitalist South Korea at the 38° parallel
4. (a) Threat of communism in Europe; Discovery of spies in America like Alger Hiss (Pumpkin Papers) and
Julius/Ethel Rosenberg (atomic secrets); (b) Senator Joseph McCarthy
5. (a) Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (b) Tet Offensive
6. (a) The Soviet launching of Sputnik (b) The military-industrial complex
7. (a) Bay of Pigs invasion (b) Kennedy issued a “quarantine” (blockade) of Cuba to keep more Soviet
missiles from arriving, he promised never to invade Cuba again, and he secretly removed U.S. missiles
from Turkey
8. Increased prosperity because of World War II and the end of the Great Depression, the increase in
consumer goods like TVs and electrical appliances, automania (demand for cars), the baby boom, suburbs,
new products for teenagers, rock n roll, the beginning of the civil rights movement
9. (a) A example of a massive suburban community in the 1950s; (b) The GI Bill of Rights
10. (a) the violence in Birmingham led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the violence at Selma
led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965; (b) the TV debates helped John Kennedy defeat
Richard Nixon; (c) Vietnam became a “living room war” as news reports showed the body counts and
violence of the conflict in Asia
11. (a) Truman integrated the military in 1949; (b) Jackie Robinson for the Brooklyn Dodgers
12. (a) Plessy v Ferguson (1896); (b) Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
13. (b) “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
14. (a) Nonviolent protest; Peaceful resistance; (b) “Any means necessary”; Black nationalism; Black
separatism; Not “black power”…this idea is very similar to Malcolm X’s ideas but the phrase is not
introduced until 1966 after his death; (c) “Black power”; Black nationalism; Supporting black politicians
and black businesses
15. Civil Rights Act of 1964
16. (a) Miranda v Arizona; (b) Roe v Wade
17. President John F Kennedy in 1963; Malcolm X in 1965; Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968; Presidential
candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968
18. Medicare; Medicaid; Head Start for pre-K, Civil Rights Act of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; Clean Air
and Water Acts; National Endowment for the Arts/Humanities (PBS & National Public Radio); Any of the
“War on Poverty” programs like Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Office of Economic
Opportunity, Food Stamp program
19. Tet Offensive in Vietnam; Assassination of Martin Luther King; Assassination of Robert Kennedy; Student
protest at the Chicago Democratic National Convention
20. (a) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); (b) Freedom Rides
21. Betty Friedan
22. Rachel Carson
23. The ERA is the Equal Rights Amendment that would have outlawed sexual discrimination (but it never
passed); The EPA is the Environmental Protection Agency that was formed in 1970
24. Barry Goldwater ran for president in 1964 but lost to Lyndon Johnson; Richard Nixon won the presidency
in 1968 and 1972; Ronald Reagan won in 1980 and 1984; George Bush won in 1988
25. Ending the war in Vietnam; Recognizing communist China under Mao and opening China to U.S. relations
and trade; easing tensions (détente) with the Soviet Union
26. (a) Gradually pull out American troops from Vietnam and replace them with South Vietnamese soldiers;
(b) “easing tensions” with the Soviet Union, most famously accomplished by the SALT agreement in 1972
27. (a) Watergate; (b) Ford was VP under Nixon and became president when Nixon resigned; Ford pardoned
Nixon which hurt Ford’s reputation
28. (a) Whether affirmative action policies were acceptable (The court said they were); (b) Education
programs (like public high schools) that accept money from the federal government cannot discriminate
based on sex (so schools must have an equal number of boys and girls athletic programs)
29. (a) Increasing stagflation or the Iran-Hostage Crisis; (b) Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel
30. “Reaganomics” included a 25% tax cut (supply side economics); Cuts to government spending on social
programs; Increasing the budget for military spending; Ending stagflation
31. (a) Return of hostages held in Iran; “Won” the Cold War against the Soviet Union; Berlin Wall came down
in 1989; INF agreement between Reagan and Gorbachev that reduced nuclear missiles; Strategic Defense
Initiative/SDI program (“Star Wars”); (b) Iran-Contra Affair
32. Stagnant economy (no economic growth); high inflation; high unemployment; energy crisis due to the
OPEC oil embargo; stagflation
33. The “New Left” was a liberal movement that protested American involvement in Vietnam, participated in
the civil rights movement, and wanted more government involvement in society in order to improve the
lives of all Americans; The “New Right” was a conservative movement that called for tax cuts; reduced
government spending; increased military spending; an emphasis on family values
34. Desert Shield was designed to protect Saudi Arabia from a potential invasion by Iraq under Saddam
Hussein; Desert Storm was the war fought to liberate Kuwait from Saddam’s Iraqi occupation
35. [Note: we haven’t studied this yet, but it might be on the EOCT] (a) Bill Clinton; (b) George W Bush
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