Deck 8: The United States Canada and Latin America

Question 1

Identify the following terms:
September 11, 2001

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

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supply-side economics

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

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the "war on poverty"

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

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"white backlash"

Question 5

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Watergate

Question 6

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Nixon's "silent majority"

Question 7

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Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Question 8

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Jimmy Carter and the Ayatollah Khomeini

Question 9

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the free speech movement

Question 10

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Joseph McCarthy

Question 11

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC

Question 12

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Malcolm X and the Black Muslims

Question 13

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The Great Society

Question 14

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World Trade Organization

Question 15

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OPEC

Question 16

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teach-ins and sit-ins

Question 17

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Watts riots

Question 18

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Iraq's Saddam Hussein

Question 19

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Bill Clinton, "a new Democrat"

Question 20

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Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts

Question 21

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"baby boom"

Question 22

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An Inconvenient Truth

Question 23

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Postmodernism

Question 24

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Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

Question 25

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the Alliance for Progress

Question 26

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consumer society

Question 27

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Roe v. Wade

Question 28

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John Adams' Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic

Question 29

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North American Air Defense Command and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

Question 30

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Stephen Harper

Question 31

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Parti Québécois and Rene Levesque

Question 32

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the Organization of American States (OAS)

Question 33

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Abstract Expressionism

Question 34

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Pierre Trudeau

Question 35

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Sputnik I

Question 36

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Pop Art

Question 37

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Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring

Question 38

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liberation theology

Question 39

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descamisados

Question 40

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Philip Glass and minimalism

Question 41

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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Question 42

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General Augusto Pinochet

Question 43

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the Falkland Islands war

Question 44

Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty included all of the following except

A) a universal health care program.
B) the Job Corps.
C) food stamps.
D) health care for the aged.
E) federal aid to education.

Question 45

Identify the following terms:
Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Luis Borges, and Carlos Fuentes

Question 46

America's "Red Scare" in the late 1940s and early 1950s was partially a consequence of

A) the Soviet Union's invasion of Western Germany.
B) the Cuban Missile Crisis.
C) Sputnik .
D) the Communist takeover of China.
E) America's economic collapse after World War II.

Question 47

The American economic boom after World War II was influenced by

A) a surplus of consumer goods during the war.
B) surplus income accumulated during the war and a desire to spend it.
C) military cutbacks during the Korean War.
D) an anti-Keynesian policy of balanced budgets and reduced government spending.
E) fear of military catastrophe due to the Cold War.

Question 48

Identify the following terms:
the Bay of Pigs

Question 49

Identify the following terms:
Nestor Kirchner

Question 50

In 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for the Supreme Court, said that

A) separate educational systems were legal if they were truly equal.
B) Senate Joseph McCarthy deserved censure for his attack on the United States Army.
C) mandatory bussing was unconstitutional.
D) separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
E) Martin Luther King's March on Washington was constitutionally protected.

Question 51

Identify the following terms:
Salvador Allende

Question 52

Joseph McCarthy allegations attacked

A) self-identified communists.
B) supporters of GATT.
C) Peronists.
D) suspected communists.
E) the Silent Majority.

Question 53

Identify the following terms:
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez

Question 54

Identify the following terms:
Juan and Eva Peron

Question 55

The goal of General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was to

A) lower tariffs and quotas in order to promote trade.
B) punish countries that had supported Germany during WWII.
C) return the world to the protective trade policies that had spurred growth in the 1940s.
D) increase tariffs to create more domestic production.
E) isolate Cuba after the Cuban Revolution.

Question 56

Identify the following terms:
Vicente Fox

Question 57

Identify the following terms:
the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Question 58

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the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

Question 59

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Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara

Question 60

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the "Dirty War"

Question 61

The terrorist group responsible for the tragedy of September 11, 2001, was

A) Hammas.
B) the Iraqi National Congress.
C) Hezbollah.
D) al-Qaeda.
E) the Iranian Liberation Front.

Question 62

The new consumer society possessed all of the following except

A) a well regulated system to prevent cycles of "boom and bust".
B) increasing levels of personal debt.
C) changing social mores.
D) a greater attention on possession of material goods.
E) risky banking practices.

Question 63

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s resulted in

A) an increase in legal segregation.
B) a truly integrated American society at all levels.
C) almost no progress on ending racial segregation.
D) progress, but also ghetto riots and a "white backlash."
E) the assassination of Vice President Herbert Humphrey.

Question 64

The Watergate scandal ended

A) with the resignation of Richard Nixon.
B) the "Red Scare".
C) with the vindication of Richard Nixon.
D) the fear that communists were subverting the government.
E) the Civil Rights movement.

Question 65

In 1973, as a result of the Arab-Israeli War,

A) the OAS raised oil prices.
B) OPEC imposed an oil embargo.
C) the Arabs captured Jerusalem.
D) the price of gasoline declined in the United States.
E) a religious revolution took place in Iran.

Question 66

Environmental progress in the United States was complicated by the

A) Cold War.
B) fear of international terrorism.
C) concern over its impact upon the economy.
D) complete lack of interest on the part of ordinary men and women.
E) absence of scientific knowledge regarding the sources of pollution.

Question 67

All of the following occurred during the administration of George W. Bush except

A) support from evangelical Christians.
B) a controversial war in Iraq.
C) rise in the price of oil.
D) increased immigration.
E) a reduction of national budget deficits.

Question 68

In the decades following World War II, the United States experienced all of the following except

A) the growth of the middle class.
B) the expansion of higher education.
C) a decline in immigration.
D) more mobility.
E) a "baby boom" after World War II.

Question 69

The feminist book which had the same impact on women in the United States as did Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in Europe was

A) The Silent Spring .
B) Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus .
C) Masculine Inferiority .
D) The Feminine Mystique .
E) Self Help for Women .

Question 70

The National Environmental Policy Act that created the EPA was signed by

A) Richard Nixon.
B) Lyndon Johnson.
C) Bill Clinton.
D) Jimmy Carter.
E) John Kennedy.

Question 71

The free speech movement

A) began at Harvard University as a protest against grade inflation.
B) led to sit-ins supporting the Vietnam War as a "just war."
C) began as a protest by the students of the University of California Berkeley against the impersonality of the large university.
D) organized teach-ins about the dangers of communist subversion.
E) was enthusiastically supported by Lyndon Johnson.

Question 72

The Ronald Reagan administration

A) balanced the federal budget.
B) reduced military expenditures
C) abolished Social Security.
D) produced record government economic deficits.
E) declared war against Iraq.

Question 73

By 1980, the Carter administration

A) was widely popular for its economic policies in increasing the real income for almost all Americans.
B) succeeded in lowering gasoline prices after several years of massive increases.
C) faced economic deflation caused by reduced military outlays.
D) freed fifty-three hostages held in Iran.
E) was unpopular because of high inflation and declining real incomes.

Question 74

During and after World War II, major research in science and technology has been largely

A) the product of government and large corporations.
B) the result of individual genius combined with expertise in marketing.
C) the private preserve of colleges and universities.
D) most effective when entirely removed from any possible practical application, either in military or civilian fields.
E) accomplished by Asian immigrants, attracted to the United States for economic gains.

Question 75

The number of Hispanics living in the United States has increased to

A) 50 million.
B) 14 million.
C) 10 million.
D) 22 million.
E) 76 million.

Question 76

The author who drew attention to serious environmental problems in the United States was

A) Betty Friedan.
B) Rachel Carson.
C) Gloria Steinem.
D) Doris Salcedo.
E) Eva Peron.

Question 77

The American artist who transcended the distinctions between painting, sculpture, and photography in creating "collages" or "combines" was

A) Jackson Pollock.
B) Andy Warhol.
C) Robert Rauschenberg.
D) Doris Salcedo.
E) Robert Gober.

Question 78

The Bill Clinton administration

A) faced the challenge of a severe economic depression.
B) benefited from a broad economic revival.
C) dramatically extended welfare benefits to America's poor.
D) solved the previously divisive issues of abortion and affirmative action to the satisfaction of almost all Americans.
E) was hampered by the impeachment of President Clinton by the Democratic congress.

Question 79

The foreign policy crisis that brought about the defeat of Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was

A) the nationalization of Suez Canal and the subsequent war.
B) the Arab capture of Jerusalem during the Arab-Israeli War.
C) the seizure of Bahrain by Iraq.
D) the holding of fifty-three American hostages by the Iranian government.
E) America's recent defeat in Vietnam.

Question 80

All of the following marked the Clinton Presidency except

A) a welfare bill that granted more power to the states.
B) a gradual reduction in the annual government budget deficit.
C) declining crime rates.
D) a free trade agreement with Mexico.
E) an invasion of Iraq.