Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or
answers the question.
1. In Truman's election in 1948, the Democratic party:
A) faced defections from the right and left wings of the party.
B) had no significant opposition from the Republicans.
C) refused to accept Truman Vice Presidential candidate.
D) was able to compromise satisfactorily on the civil rights issue.
2. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was:
A) designed to oversee the Marshall Plan.
B) a failure, as Germany and Spain withdrew from it in the first
two years.
C) a military alliance between United States and Western
European nations in order to combat Communist power.
D) an alliance among Western European allies in order to keep
Germany a weak nation.
3. John Foster Dulles' policy towards communism in reality was
Truman's containment policy. However Dulles called for the U.S.
to have:
A) detente.
B) liberation of people subjected to communism.
C) normal relations with mainland China.
D) increased trade with Eastern Europe.
4. During the Korean War, President Truman:
A) clearly stated how the United Nations would win the war.
B) acted to oppose communist aggression.
C) reluctantly cooperated with the United Nations' decision to
defend South Korea.
D) supported General MacArthur's proposal to bomb China.
5. Rosa Parks did which of the following:
A) She headed the southern Christian Leadership Conference.
B) She did not give up her seat on a city bus.
C) She headed S.N.C.C.
D) She became a student at the University of Mississippi.
6. In general, by the mid-1960s Stokely Carmichael, Huey Newton and
the Black Panthers
A) accepted the basic tenets of SCLC.
B) rejected non-violent protest as the only way to help Blacks.
C) agreed to work closer with Martin Luther King, Jr..
D) refused to endorse the concept of "black power."
7. The Bay of Pigs invasion:
A) established a successful beachhead against Castro's Cuba.
B) was planned by the military and without Kennedy's full knowledge.
C) was one of the more serious blunders of Kennedy's foreign policy.
D) was covered up in the UN by the rather devious manipulations
of Adali Stevenson.
8. The father of Vietnam independence is:
A) Ngo Dinh Diem
B) Ho Chi Minh
C) Mao
D) Dien Bien Phu
9. The Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.):
A) called for racial changes in the U.S. political system.
B) were lead by Bob Dylan.
C) were hippies.
D) called for a free Vietnam.
10. The "southern strategy" of Richard Nixon and the Republican
party during the 1970s refers to the party's:
A) determination to impose integration in the South by force, if necessary.
B) support of southern demands for increased busing of black students to white schools in the North.
C) attempt to attract conservative political support mainly in the south.
D) plans to move the capital to Texas.
11. Nixon and Kissinger's foreign policy was based on the view that:
A) since the Communist world was no longer a monolith, a balance
of power could be achieved among the major nations.
B) the Communist bloc was a monolith which had to be restrained
with force.
C) European nations had little or no part to play in the world
of the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
D) China was an insignificant factor in world politics.
12. George McGovern from South Dakota became the democratic
candidate in 1972 by:
A) saying "peace was at hand."
B) being supported by non-party regulars like anti-war movement,
minorities and young people.
C) having George Wallace throw his support to him at the
convention.
D) putting together a geographic balance of north and west.
13. In running his administration, President Nixon preferred to
A) work alone or with a few trusted advisers.
B) use an open forum to arrive at decisions.
C) seek advice regularly from Democratic congressional leaders.
D) appointed minorities to key cabinet posts.
14. How was Judge John Sirica able to help discover the Watergate
cover-up?
A) He gave very stiff sentences to the people involved in the break-in.
B) He went directly to the White House and asked for help.
C) He used the FBI.
D) He had the aid of a special prosecutor, John Ehrlichman.
15. The complete Watergate tapes were released:
A) after an unanimous Supreme Court ruling.
B) with the Woodward-Burnstein ruling.
C) when John Dean used them in the Ervin Committee hearings.
D) after Ford became President.
Multiple-Choice
1. A
2. C
3. B
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. C
11. A
12. B
13. A
14. A
15. A