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| during the 1952 presidentail campaign, republican candidate dwight eisenhower declared that he would ___ to help to end the korean war |
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| dwight eisenhower's greatest asset as president was his |
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| enjoyment of the affection and respect of the american people |
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| senator mccarthy first rose to national prominence by |
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| charging that dozens of known communists were working within the US state department |
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| as a result of senator mccarthy's crusade against communist subversion in america, |
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| the state department lost a number of asian specialists who might have counseled a wiser course in vietnam |
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| senator mccarthy's anticommunist crusade ended when he |
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| alleged that there were communists in the army |
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| in an effort to overturn jim crow laws and the segregated system african-americans used all of the following methods except |
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| appeals to foreign governments to pressure the united states to racial justice |
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| which one of the following is least related to the other three |
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| the supreme court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because |
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| ongress had abdicated its responsibilities by refusing to deal with the issue |
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| in the epochal 1954 decision in brown v. board of education of topeka, the supreme court |
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| declared that teh concept of "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional |
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| president eisenhower defined the domestic philosophy of his administration as |
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| the bracero program between the united states and mexico involved |
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| legally importing mexican farm workers to the united states |
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| during his presidency, dwight eisenhower accepted the principle and extended the benefits of |
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| the social security system |
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| the lartgest public works project during eisenhower's presidency was |
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| construction of the interstate highway system |
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| the leader of the nationalist movement in vietnam since world war 1 was |
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| in 1956 the united states condemned ____ as the aggressors in the suez canal crisis |
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| during the 1950s, the central intelligence agency engineered pro-american political coups in both |
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| the 1957 eisenhower doctrine empowered the president to extend economic and military aid to nations of _____ that wanted help to resist communist aggression |
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| the paris summit conference scheduled for 1960 was aborted by the |
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| what may well have tipped the electoral scales for john f. kennedy in the presidential election of 1960 was |
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| his televised debates with richard m. nixon |
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| the affluent life-style developed in america during the 1950s was stimulated mainly by |
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| the new technology of television |
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| in the 1950s, the key to economic growth rested in |
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| in the 1950s, the work force began to change when |
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| white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar workers |
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| in the book "the feminine mystique", betty friedan discusses |
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| the stifling boredom of suburban housewifery |
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| when he became attorney general, robert kennedy wanted to refocus the attention of the FBI on |
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| organized crime and civil rights |
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| when he took office in 1961, president kennedy chose to try to stimulate the sluggish economy throught |
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| the 1962 trade expansion act |
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| john f. kennedy's strategy of "flexible respone" |
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| called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis |
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| american military forces entered vietnam in order to |
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| prevent ngo dinh diem's regime from falling to the communists |
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| the alliace for progess was intended to improve the level of economic well-being in |
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| when the soviet union attempted to install nuclear weapons in cuba, president kennedy ordered |
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| a naval quarantine of that island |
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| the cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except |
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| u.s. agreement to abandon the american base at guantanamo |
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| at first, john f. kennedy moved very slowly in the area of racial justice because he |
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| needed the support of southern legislators to pass his economic and social legislation |
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| john kennedy joined hands with the civil rights movement when he |
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| sent federal marshals to protect the freedom riders |
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| president kennedy ordered hundreds of federal marshals and thousands of federal troops to force the racial integration of |
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| the university of mississippi |
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| the official governmetn investigation of john f. kennedy's assassination was led by |
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| psident kennedy'salleged assassin was |
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| president johnson called his package of domestic reform proposals the |
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| with the passage of the tonkin gulf resolution, |
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| congress handed the presidne ta blank check to use further force in vietnam |
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| voters supported lyndon johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their |
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| loyalty to the kennedy legacy, faith in the great society promises, fear of the republican nominee barry goldwarter, and trust in johnson's vietnam policy |
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| lyndon johnson channeled educational aid |
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| to public and parochial schools |
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| all of the following programs were created by lyndon johnson's administration except |
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| the landmark civil rights act of 1964 accomplished all of the following except |
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| requiring "affirmative action" against discrimination |
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| the common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in teh south was outlawed by the |
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| as a result of the voting rights act of 1965 |
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| white southerners began to court black votes |
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| the watts riot in 1965 symbolized |
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| the more militant and confrontational phase of the civil rights movement |
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| black leaders in the 1960s included _____, an advocate of peaceable resistance; _______, who favored black separatism; and _______, an advocate of "black power" |
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| martin luther king jr., malcolm x, stokely carmichael |
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| "operation rolling thunder" was the code name for |
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| american bombing raids on north vietnam |
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| the most serious blow to lyndon johnson's vietnam policy |
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| was the tet offensive of 1968 |
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| the 1968 democratic party convention witnessed |
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| demonstrators outside the convention hall in chicago |
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| the third-party candidate for presiden in 1968 for the american independent party was |
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| the site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation |
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| the stonwall inn (new york city) |
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| the nixon doctrine proclaimed that the united states would |
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| honor it existing defense commitment, but that in the future its allies would have to fight their own wars without large numbers of american troops |
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| "operation rolling thunder" was the code name for |
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| american bombing raids on north vietnam |
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| the most serious blow to lyndon johnson's vietnam policy |
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| was the tet offensive of 1968 |
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| the 1968 democratic party convention witnessed |
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| demonstrators outside the convention hall in chicago |
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| the third-party candidate for presiden in 1968 for the american independent party was |
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| the site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation |
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| the stonwall inn (new york city) |
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| the nixon doctrine proclaimed that the united states would |
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| honor it existing defense commitment, but that in the future its allies would have to fight their own wars without large numbers of american troops |
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