Deck 8: The United States, Canada, and Latin America

Question 1

Which French Canadian politician's government created a bilingual civil service?

A)Jean Diefenbaker
B)Rene Levesque
C)Pierre Trudeau

Answer 1

Pierre Trudeau

Question 2

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

A)The growth of the middle class
B)The expansion of higher education
C)A decline in immigration

Answer 2

A decline in immigration

Question 3

Which foreign policy crisis did much to bring about the defeat of Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980?

A)The nationalization of Suez Canal and the subsequent war
B)The holding of fifty-three American hostages by the Iranian government
C)The seizure of Kuwait by Iraq

Answer 3

The holding of fifty-three American hostages by the Iranian government

Question 4

Which statement would best describe the changes in art, music, and literature in the United States after the World War II?

A)They were characterized by a willingness to experiment in subject and technique.
B)They were characterized by a desire to return to older methods.
C)They mainly centered on the daily lives of small-town or big-city America.

Question 5

By 1980, how is the Carter administration best described?

A)It was widely popular for its economic policies in increasing the real income for almost all Americans.
B)It succeeded in lowering gasoline prices after several years of massive increases.
C)It was unpopular because of high inflation and declining real incomes.

Question 6

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

A)Support from evangelical Christians
B)A controversial war in Iraq
C)A reduction of national budget deficits

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of specific American-Canadian cooperation in the decades after World War II?

A)Membership in the Common Market
B)The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
C)The Kyoto Agreement to reduce greenhouse gasses

Question 8

Traditionally, the nations of Latin America relied economically on which of the following?

A)The export of raw materials
B)The import of raw materials
C)The export of manufactured goods

Question 9

Which artist used contemporary advertisements in appealing to mass tastes and helped develop the genre of "pop art"?

A)Jackson Pollock
B)Andy Warhol
C)Robert Rauschenberg

Question 10

What was one of the causes of the economic failures in Latin America during the 1970s and early 1980s?

A)Its commitment to free trade and no tariffs
B)The failure of a number of governments to pay interest on their debts to foreign banks
C)The widespread adoption of Marxist methodologies

Question 11

During and after World War II, how is major research in science and technology best described?

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

Question 12

Before becoming U.S. president in 2016, Donald Trump is best described as which of the following?

A)A former lawyer
B)A career diplomat and public commentator
C)A former reality TV star and real estate developer

Question 13

The Ronald Reagan administration's policies resulted in which of the following outcomes?

A)It balanced the federal budget.
B)It produced record government economic deficits.
C)It abolished Social Security.

Question 14

Among the problems facing the Latin American countries in their pursuit of industrialization was which of the following?

A)The limited size of their domestic markets
B)The refusal of America and Japan to allow the Latin American nations to purchase advanced technology
C)The preference of the growing middle classes for United States' products no matter the cost

Question 15

Joseph McCarthy's allegations attacked which of the following groups?

A)Self-identified communists
B)Suspected communists
C)Peronists

Question 16

Which problem plagued most U.S. administrations throughout the late 1970s and 1980s?

A)Stagnant wage growth but increasing inflation
B)Stagnant economic growth but decreasing wages
C)Stagnant wage growth but decreasing inflation

Question 17

The American economic boom after World War II was influenced by which of the following?

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

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT true about the Obama administration?

A)It faced the challenge of a severe economic depression.
B)It benefitted from broad bipartisan support for its policy initiatives.
C)It created a government-funded health insurance program for all Americans.

Question 19

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

A)Hamas
B)Al-Qaeda
C)Hezbollah

Question 20

All of the following marked the Clinton presidency except which?

A)A welfare bill that granted more power to the states
B)A gradual reduction in the annual government budget deficit
C)An invasion of Iraq

Question 21

Relations between Cuba and the United States seriously deteriorated after which of the following events?

A)The Cuban government nationalized United States companies and banks.
B)Cuba's government passed a law nationalizing all land holdings over 100 acres.
C)The United States placed an embargo on goods from the Soviet Union.

Question 22

How is "Liberation theology" best described?

A)It put spiritual matters over worldly concerns.
B)It was strongly supported by the Catholic Church's hierarchy.
C)It argued that Christians could use violence, if necessary, to free society's oppressed poor.

Question 23

The book One Hundred Years of Solitude explores which of the following?

A)The transformation of a small town and the arrival of a U.S. banana company
B)The Cuban Revolution and rise of Fidel Castro
C)The inhumanity of war in Argentina

Question 24

What was the Red Scare?

Question 25

What was a teach-in?

Question 26

Under the leadership of Juan Peron, Argentina followed which policy?

A)He encouraged foreign investment.
B)He took over the railways, banking, insurance, and the communications industries.
C)He reduced its industrial capacity, preferring to rely instead on agricultural production, particularly wheat and beef cattle exports.

Question 27

What has the Organization of American States (OAS), established in 1948, promised to do?

A)Fight communism in the Americas
B)End rural poverty through land reform programs
C)End unilateral action in one state by another

Question 28

Why is Bill Clinton described as a moderate?

Question 29

In the decades before 2000, Mexican political power had been monopolized by which institution?

A)PRI
B)Peronistas
C)OAS

Question 30

Which of the following resulted from Castro's socialist revolution?

A)Cuba experienced an industrial revolution.
B)Cuba's economy continued to rely on exporting sugar.
C)Sugar was abandoned as a cash crop, with tobacco becoming the primary export.

Question 31

During Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's leadership, Brazil accomplished all of the following except which?

A)It created a military alliance in Latin American similar to NATO.
B)It instigated economic policies to shrink the gap between wealth and poor in Brazil.
C)It became a major world exporter of wheat, cotton, and soybeans.

Question 32

By the end of the twentieth century, Argentina was experiencing which of the following?

A)Increased but unwanted immigration from Europe, especially from Italy
B)Inflation, caused by full employment and increased wages
C)Low growth and shrinking markets

Question 33

What is the role of the IMF?

Question 34

What was the goal of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?

A)Lower tariffs and quotas in order to promote trade
B)Punish countries that had supported Germany during World War II
C)Return the world to the protective trade policies that had spurred growth in the 1940s

Question 35

What was the result of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Question 36

Why was President Nixon impeached?

Question 37

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

A)The Soviet Union's invasion of western Germany
B)The Cuban Missile Crisis
C)Communist takeover in China

Question 38

The military regime that came to power in Argentina in 1976 did which of the following?

A)They killed 9,000 fascist Peronistas .
B)They killed 6,000 leftists.
C)Won a war with Great Britain and reclaimed the Falkland Islands for Argentina.

Question 39

During the 1960s, almost all economically advanced South American countries experienced which of the following?

A)Recolonization by the United States, Spain, and Portugal
B)Continued strengthening of democratic institutions
C)Domestic strife and military despotism

Question 40

Which Marxist was elected president of Chile in 1970?

A)Augusto Pinochet
B)Salvador Allende
C)Juan Peron

Question 41

How did generational divides exacerbate tensions surrounding several different protest movements of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s?

Question 42

What as the U.S. policy been toward Cuba in the twenty-first century?

Question 43

What themes emerge from contemporary Latin American literature?

Question 44

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

A)A universal health care program
B)The Job Corps
C)Food stamps

Question 45

To what extent did the civil rights movement solve its most pressing challenges? To what extent are solutions still elusive?

Question 46

What were the underlying causes of social reforms in the United States of the 1950s and 1960s?

Question 47

What is liberation theology?

Question 48

How did Juan Peron take power?

Question 49

Why were so many Latin American economies still dependent on Europe in the twentieth century?

Question 50

What is the significant of the ERA?

Question 51

What is the purpose of the EPA?

Question 52

What is the PRI?

Question 53

What was the cause of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008?

Question 54

How is abstract expressionism different to pop art?

Question 55

In 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren, speaking for the Supreme Court, issued which of the following opinions?

A)Separate educational systems were legal if they were truly equal.
B)Separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.
C)Mandatory bussing was unconstitutional.

Question 56

Why was globalization an important issue for the Trump campaign in 2016?

Question 57

Who is Pierre Trudeau, and what is his significance?

Question 58

How did TV change the way music is consumed?

Question 59

What are the key principles of postmodernism?

Question 60

Why has the gap between wealthy and poor increased in the United States?

Question 61

What were the political, social, and economic effects of the 1980s recession in Latin America?

Question 62

What influence has the PRI had on contemporary Mexican politics?

Question 63

The Watergate scandal had what result?

A)It ended with the resignation of Richard Nixon.
B)It inflamed tensions between the United States and South.
C)It resulted in the overthrow of the shah of Iran.

Question 64

What is the ERA, and why has it not passed? What arguments have been made for and against it?

Question 65

What similarities and differences exist between contemporary Cuban and Venezuelan development?

Question 66

What were the central issues in Canadian politics from the postwar period to the 1980s? Have they been resolved?

Question 67

Why has climate change become a matter of such urgent importance to most governments and administrations in the United States and across the world?

Question 68

How did the 9/11 attacks change American foreign and domestic policies?

Question 69

How did broadcast media like television change the way cultural products such as music, sports, and news are consumed?

Question 70

Which of the following was a result of the Arab-Israeli War of 1973?

A)The OAS raised oil prices.
B)OPEC imposed an oil embargo.
C)Arab armies captured Jerusalem.

Question 71

What was the intent of tax reform under the Trump administration? What effects did it have? Has it achieved its goals?

Question 72

What influence has Juan Peron had in Argentinian politics?

Question 73

What role did easy credit play in shaping the late twentieth-century U.S. economy?

Question 74

What is magical realism? How has it been used in contemporary Latin American literature? Discuss at least two examples in your response.

Question 75

What is the relationship between abstract expressionism, pop art, and postmodernism?

Question 76

Who signed the National Environmental Policy Act that created the EPA?

A)Richard Nixon
B)Lyndon Johnson
C)Bill Clinton

Question 77

What is stagflation, and what effect did it have on the U.S. economy? What were its causes and how did various administrations attempt to fight it?

Question 78

How is the free speech movement best described?

A)It began at Harvard University as a protest against grade inflation.
B)It led to sit-ins supporting the Vietnam War as a "just war."
C)It began as a protest by the students of the University of California, Berkeley, against the impersonality of the large university.

Question 79

How did the Obama administration respond to the global financial crisis?