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In the 1964 election campaign, the Republican candidates view on Vietnam was the

 

a. the U.S. should get out immediately.

 

b. the U.S. should continue financial support but withdram troops.

 

c. the U.S. commitment should stay at the same level.

 

d. the U.S. should consider using tactical nuclear weapons to win the war.

 

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d.
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the nation invaded by President Johnson in 1965was

 

a. cuba.

b. Egypt.

c.the dominican republic.

d. guatemala.

 

Definition
c.
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the '' Great Society'' was the domestic reform goal of President

 

a. Franklin roosevelt.

b. John Kennedy.

c.Lndon Johnson.

d.Harry truman.

Definition
c.
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the women's movement of the 1960s received help form

 

a. the Black Panthers.

b. the selection of a woman to Supreme Court.

c. The publication of The Feminine Mystique.

d.the anti war movement.

Definition
c.
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the most sinificant factor in the 1968 presidential election was

 

a. Nixon's alleged corruptionas vice-president.

b. the splt in society over vietnam and domestic issues.

c. Humphrey's inability to articulate his views.

d. the economic recession resutlting from spending cutbacks.

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b.
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during the past thirty-five years, third partis

 

a. have virtually disappeared.

 

b. caused changes in the electoral college.

 

c. continued to attract supposrt from dissatisfied voters.

 

d. determined the winners in most presidential elections.

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c.
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The tonkin Gulf Resolution

 

a. gave the president great power in vietnam.

b. declard war on vietnam.

c. limited funds for fighting the war.

d.authorized the vietnamization of the war.

Definition
a.
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President Lyndon Johnson maintained that congress had indicated its support of the escalation of the Vietam War by ists approval of the.

 

a. Tonkin gulf Resolution. 

b. Geneva Accords.

c. N.A.T.O. Alliance.

d. the Grat Society.

Definition
a.
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the Republican candidate for president in 1964 who said he would not rule out the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam was

 

a. Barry goldwater.

b. Nelson Rockefeller.

c. Richard Nixon.

d. Spiro Agnew.

Definition
a.
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The Great Society initated all the following except

 

 

a.V.I.S.T.A

b.Medicare.

c. the Job corps.

d the Peace Corps.

Definition
d.
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The American Independent party candidate for president in 1968 who got over 10 million votes was

 

a. Ross Perot.

b. Robet Kennedy.

Hubert Humphrey.

d. George Wallace.

Definition
d.
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The most extensive civil rights legislation in american history was the

 

a. New Deal.

b. Fair Deal.

c. Civil Rights Act of 1964.

d. Twenty-fifth Amerndemnt.

Definition
c.
Term

Title IX of the Education act of 1972

 

a provided for eequal voting rights.

b. banned discrimination at public facilites.

c. called for affirmative action fro women in college.

d.proveded for gay rights.

Definition
c.
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The Supreme court's Miranda decision in 1966

 

a. banned discriminationin voting.

 

b. established the''one man, one vote'' rule.

 

c. outlawed discrimination in college sports programs.

 

d. demanded that police inform arrested persons of their rights.

Definition

d.

Term

Native Americans seized this property in 1968 to protest government policies toward Indians.

 

a. Alcatraz

b. Lincoln Memorial

c. Washington Monument

d. wounded Knee

Definition
a.
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The Immigration Act of 1965

 

a. lowered immigration quotas.

b. allowed citizens and political refugees to bring in relatives regardless of immigration quotas.

 

c. banned immigration from Asia.

d. increased immigration quotas for Europe.

Definition
b.
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