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MC Questions for Final
Jeff passed me the following, culled from the cards. Good quesions! Five of these will appear on the final.
What 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned the constitutionality of laws establishing "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites?
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Meredith v. Board of Regents
C. Parks v. Georgia
D. Brown v. Board of Education
Which African American sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to take a seat at the back of the bus?
A. Martin Luther King, Jr.
B. Bobby Seale
C. Rosa Parks
D. James Meredith
Along with race, the 1964 Civil Rights Act included provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of what criterion?
A. sexual orientation
B. religion
C. age
D. gender
Who served as US president during both the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall?
A. Dwight Eisenhower
B. John F. Kennedy
C. Richard Nixon
D. Lyndon Johnson
What caused President Truman to remove General Douglas MacArthur from command during the Korean War?
A. MacArthur's alleged communist sympathies
B. MacArthur's military defeat at Dien Bien Phu
C. MacArthur's insubordination and open letter to Congress for an escalation of the war
D. MacArthur's refusal to pursue Chinese forces across the border
The European Recovery Plan enacted after WWII was more popularly known by the name of its author:
A. Harry S. Truman
B. Winston Churchill
C. George Marshall
D. George Kennan
What congressional resolution in 1964 was cited by the Johnson Administration as authorization for expanding the US military role in the Vietnam War?
A. Haiphong Harbor Resolution
B. Tet Offensive Resolution
C. Vietnamese Freedom Resolution
D. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Who was the most prominent senatorial leader of the 1950s Red Scare, in which the federal government sought to root out communists from political and public life?
A. Joseph McCarthy
B. Eugene McCarthy
C. Richard Nixon
D. Alger Hiss
What 1948 congressional resolution stressed multilateralism as the basis for Cold War foreign policy, clearing the way for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
A. Iron Curtain Resolution
B. Vandenberg Resolution
C. Truman Doctrine Resolution
D. Communist Containment Resolution
The four Kent State students killed by National Guard troops on May 4, 1970, were protesting
A. lack of federal progress on desegregation
B. tuition increases
C. the US extension of the Vietnam War into Cambodia
D. the assassination of black nationalist leader Malcolm X
What 1954 Supreme Court decision overturned the constitutionality of laws establishing "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites?
A. Plessy v. Ferguson
B. Meredith v. Board of Regents
C. Parks v. Georgia
D. Brown v. Board of Education
Which African American sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to take a seat at the back of the bus?
A. Martin Luther King, Jr.
B. Bobby Seale
C. Rosa Parks
D. James Meredith
Along with race, the 1964 Civil Rights Act included provisions prohibiting discrimination on the basis of what criterion?
A. sexual orientation
B. religion
C. age
D. gender
Who served as US president during both the Cuban Missile Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall?
A. Dwight Eisenhower
B. John F. Kennedy
C. Richard Nixon
D. Lyndon Johnson
What caused President Truman to remove General Douglas MacArthur from command during the Korean War?
A. MacArthur's alleged communist sympathies
B. MacArthur's military defeat at Dien Bien Phu
C. MacArthur's insubordination and open letter to Congress for an escalation of the war
D. MacArthur's refusal to pursue Chinese forces across the border
The European Recovery Plan enacted after WWII was more popularly known by the name of its author:
A. Harry S. Truman
B. Winston Churchill
C. George Marshall
D. George Kennan
What congressional resolution in 1964 was cited by the Johnson Administration as authorization for expanding the US military role in the Vietnam War?
A. Haiphong Harbor Resolution
B. Tet Offensive Resolution
C. Vietnamese Freedom Resolution
D. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Who was the most prominent senatorial leader of the 1950s Red Scare, in which the federal government sought to root out communists from political and public life?
A. Joseph McCarthy
B. Eugene McCarthy
C. Richard Nixon
D. Alger Hiss
What 1948 congressional resolution stressed multilateralism as the basis for Cold War foreign policy, clearing the way for the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
A. Iron Curtain Resolution
B. Vandenberg Resolution
C. Truman Doctrine Resolution
D. Communist Containment Resolution
The four Kent State students killed by National Guard troops on May 4, 1970, were protesting
A. lack of federal progress on desegregation
B. tuition increases
C. the US extension of the Vietnam War into Cambodia
D. the assassination of black nationalist leader Malcolm X
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