Which of the following is true of McCarthyism?

2) Before his assassination, Senator Huey Long appeared to be developing as some sort of political threat to FDR.
Answer: True False
3) The Social Security system offered only a retirement plan for the elderly. Answer True False
4) Eisenhower’s Democratic opponent in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections was:
Answer:
A) John Kennedy
B) Harry Truman
C) Adalai Stevenson
D) Richard Nixon
5) President Kennedy gave his support to demonstrators for voting rights in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 by a stirring speech on civil rights for black people.
Answer:True False
6) Which of the following did FDR NOT use to get his message across to the American people?
Answer:
A) newspapers
B) radio
C) movies (newsreels)
D) public appearances
E) television

7) What was the term for the conflict and tensions that started right after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and lasted for over 40 years?
Answer:A) Stalin’s folly B) the Cold War C) World War III D) the Korean War
8
New Deal programs were called “alphabet soup” because:
Answer:
A) the Campbell’s Soup Company gave FDR large political contributions
B) they were hard to digest for many Americans
C) they were hard to understand and spell
D) many agencies and programs were known by their initials

 

10) Which of the following national leaders was assassinated by a Palestinian extremist?
Answer: A) JFK B) Martin Luther King Jr. C) Robert Kennedy D) Malcom X E) Medgar Evers

11) Which of the following statements about Watergate is NOT true?
Answer:
A) It involved cover-ups
B) It was proven years later that Nixon ordered the break-in
C) Money was raised for legal defense of the burglars
D) High-ranking White House officials served time in jail
E) Reporters Woodward and Bernstein investigated the break-in throughly
F) Information was provided to Woodward by a shadowy figure named Deep Throat (later found to be Mark Felt)

12) The Warren Commission concluded that:
Answer:
A) there was a conspiracy in the death of President Kennedy
B) the Soviets were responsible for planning Kennedy’s assassination
C) Lee Harvey Oswald, an American citizen, was the lone assassin responsible for Kennedy’s death
D) the Mafia may have had a hand in Kennedy’s assassination

13) Although he visited China in 1972, President Nixon skipped the opportunity to pay a similar visit to the other communist giant, the Soviet Union. Answer: True False

14) Why did LBJ decide not to run for president in 1968?
A) He knew the war was won in Vietnam
B) He could not because of the Twenty-Second Amendment
C) His wife did not want him to
D) His leadership on the war was dividing his party and the nation
E) His Great Society programs had accomplished his goal of ending poverty

15) Who did Eisenhower named as chief justice of the Supreme Court?
A) Richard Nixon
B) William Rehnquist
C) Fred Vinson
D) Earl Warren

2) Before his assassination, Senator Huey Long appeared to be developing as some sort of political threat to FDR.
Answer: True False
3) The Social Security system offered only a retirement plan for the elderly. Answer True False
4) Eisenhower’s Democratic opponent in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections was:
Answer:
A) John Kennedy
B) Harry Truman
C) Adalai Stevenson
D) Richard Nixon
5) President Kennedy gave his support to demonstrators for voting rights in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 by a stirring speech on civil rights for black people.
Answer:True False
6) Which of the following did FDR NOT use to get his message across to the American people?
Answer:
A) newspapers
B) radio
C) movies (newsreels)
D) public appearances
E) television

7) What was the term for the conflict and tensions that started right after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and lasted for over 40 years?
Answer:A) Stalin’s folly B) the Cold War C) World War III D) the Korean War
8
New Deal programs were called “alphabet soup” because:
Answer:
A) the Campbell’s Soup Company gave FDR large political contributions
B) they were hard to digest for many Americans
C) they were hard to understand and spell
D) many agencies and programs were known by their initials

 

10) Which of the following national leaders was assassinated by a Palestinian extremist?
Answer: A) JFK B) Martin Luther King Jr. C) Robert Kennedy D) Malcom X E) Medgar Evers

11) Which of the following statements about Watergate is NOT true?
Answer:
A) It involved cover-ups
B) It was proven years later that Nixon ordered the break-in
C) Money was raised for legal defense of the burglars
D) High-ranking White House officials served time in jail
E) Reporters Woodward and Bernstein investigated the break-in throughly
F) Information was provided to Woodward by a shadowy figure named Deep Throat (later found to be Mark Felt)

12) The Warren Commission concluded that:
Answer:
A) there was a conspiracy in the death of President Kennedy
B) the Soviets were responsible for planning Kennedy’s assassination
C) Lee Harvey Oswald, an American citizen, was the lone assassin responsible for Kennedy’s death
D) the Mafia may have had a hand in Kennedy’s assassination

13) Although he visited China in 1972, President Nixon skipped the opportunity to pay a similar visit to the other communist giant, the Soviet Union. Answer: True False

14) Why did LBJ decide not to run for president in 1968?
A) He knew the war was won in Vietnam
B) He could not because of the Twenty-Second Amendment
C) His wife did not want him to
D) His leadership on the war was dividing his party and the nation
E) His Great Society programs had accomplished his goal of ending poverty

15) Who did Eisenhower named as chief justice of the Supreme Court?
A) Richard Nixon
B) William Rehnquist
C) Fred Vinson
D) Earl Warren