Semester 2 Study Guide Flashcards
On September 11, 2001, three hijacked planes killed about ______ people when they slammed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
3,000.
Osama bin Laden- Who was he? What did he do?
The leader of the al Qaeda terrorist network masterminded the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
In a speech in early 2002, President George W. Bush described which country as part of an “axis of evil”?
North Korea, Iraq, and Iran. All of these a correct
What city experienced a major riot in 1992?
Los Angeles.
As a result of Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980, what happened?
The Republicans gained control of the Senate.
Members of the Moral Majority were who?
Typically religious fundamentalists.
One of the chief goals of the Reagan administration was to do what?
Curtail social programs.
Under President Reagan, the budget for military expenditures did what?
Increased immensely while spending for social programs decreased.
During the 1980s the gap between the wealthiest and poorest segments of American society did what?
Increased greatly.
In 1978 the public became alarmed about which toxic chemical incident that took place in Niagara Falls, New York?
Love Canal.
Like his liberal predecessors, Richard Nixon believed that the office of the president should be what or act how?
Ought to be the engine of the political system.
In the 1970s, the most critical factor that disrupted the American economy was what?
The oil embargo.
As Richard Nixon planned his reelection campaign in 1972, what were the republicans determined for?
The Republicans were determined to sweep the presidential and congressional elections.
In November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated where? Doing what?
President Kennedy was on a political trip to help unite the Texas Democratic Party.
The documents published by the New York Times revealed what? Pentagon Papers?
Fabrications and faulty assumptions that had guided the Vietnam War.
One of the chief obstacles John Kennedy had to overcome to win the election of 1960 was the fact that he was what?
Roman Catholic.
As a result of the Watergate scandal what happened?
Many Americans lost faith in the presidency.
By 1960, most Americans tended to believe that the federal government should act how?
Assume an active role in providing welfare benefits for the people.
During the 1960s, the civil rights movement in the United States…
Often employed civil disobedience, such as sit-ins, to achieve its goals.
President Kennedy’s New Frontier program was met with…
Met resistance on several points.
A spokesman for the more militant blacks during the 1960s was who?
Malcolm X.
After he became president, Lyndon Johnson’s proved to be…?
Proved effective in working with Congress.
After learning of missiles in Cuba, Kennedy imposed what?
A quarantine.
At the end of World War II, American policymakers generally envisioned a world that what?
In which American values would spread.
After World War II, what did the Soviet Union want?
Was determined to have a buffer zone for protection of its western border.
Joseph Stalin, who headed the government of the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, believed that what should happen to Europe?
Eastern Europe must be kept under Russia & rsquo;s influence.
Agricultural developments in the United States during the 1950s.
Were influenced by important new technology.
During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, corporate development in the United States was characterized by what?
Was characterized by increasing concentration of control.
The first confrontation between the Soviet Union and Western democracies even before the end of World War II came over what?
Poland.
After World War II, Winston Churchill believed what?
Believed that Europe had become divided into two camps.
