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The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that the United States would
a. honor its existing defense commitment, but that in the future its allies would have to fight their own wars without large numbers of American troops.
b. supply only economic aid to its allies.
c. seek detente with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
d. intervene to help its allies fight communism only if the United States was allowed to send American troops.
e. maintain naval and air bases in East Asia but not put troops on the Asian mainland.

Richard Nixon's policy of détente
a. was designed to improve relations between the Soviet Union and China.
b. was aimed at ending the division of Germany and Korea.
c. was a failure.
d. found support in the Democratic party but not the Republican party.
e. ushered in an era of relaxed tensions between the United States and the two leading communist powers, China and the Soviet Union.

As a result of U.S. support for Israel in 1973 when it was attacked by Egypt and Syria,
a. Israel took control of Syria.
b. America had to reduce its aid to other nations.
c. Arab nations placed an embargo on oil to America.
d. the Soviet Union started sending arms to Syria.
e. Israel was able to seize the Suez Canal.

The 1973 War Powers Act
a. gave the president the power to commit troops without declaring war.
b. compelled President Nixon to end the secret bombing war in Cambodia.
c. required the president to report to Congress any commitment of American troops.
d. ended the military draft and created an all-volunteer army.
e. required Congress to approve funds for military operations.

With the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
a. the United States declared war on Vietnam.
b. Congress handed the president a blank check to use further force in Vietnam.
c. the military was given the authority to use tactical nuclear weapons.
d. Congress maintained its war-declaring power.
e. the goals of American military involvement in Vietnam were clear.

Voters supported Lyndon Johnson in the 1964 presidential election because of their
a. loyalty to the Kennedy legacy.
b. faith in the Great Society promises.
c. fear of the Republican nominee, Barry Goldwater.
d. trust in Johnson's Vietnam policy.
e. All of these

As a result of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
a. fewer Asians came to the United States.
b. the number of immigrants entering the country was reduced.
c. the racial and ethnic makeup of the country was unchanged.
d. sources of immigration tilted to Eastern Europe.
e. sources of immigration shifted to Latin America and Asia

The common use of poll taxes to inhibit black voters in the South was outlawed by the
a. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
b. Voting Rights Act of 1965.
c. Twenty-Fourth Amendment.
d. War on Poverty.
e. Twenty-Fifth Amendment.

After the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the chief goal of the black civil rights movement in the South became to
a. secure the right to vote.
b. end discrimination in housing.
c. gain equality in education.
d. prohibit racial discrimination in employment.
e. integrate private social clubs and organizations.

As a result of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
a. whites left the South in record numbers.
b. centuries of discrimination and oppression ended.
c. whites refused to do business with blacks.
d. white southerners began to court black votes.
e. the South became strongly Democratic.

The Watts riot in 1965 symbolized
a. the still-troubled racial situation in the South.
b. the rise of the Black Muslim movement in Los Angeles.
c. a more militant and confrontational phase of the civil rights movement.
d. the power of Martin Luther King in the black community.
e. the ineffectiveness of the Voting Rights Act.

The militant African American leader who most directly challenged Martin Luther King, Jr.'s goal of peaceful integration was
a. Medgar Evers.
b. Malcolm X.
c. Fannie Lou Hamer.
d. Marcus Garvey.
e. Ralph Abernathy.

By 1972, public schools in the South were
a. integrated at higher rates than schools in the North.
b. integrated at lower rates than schools in the North.
c. taught primarily by teachers trained in northern colleges.
d. continuing to close their doors rather than admit blacks to all-white schools.
e. the final hold-outs against efforts at racial equality.

The 1968 Democratic party convention witnessed
a. a long deadlock over the nomination of its presidential candidate.
b. a violent conflict between police and antiwar demonstrators outside the convention hall.
c. a walkout by hundreds of southern delegates, who then founded the Independent party.
d. the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy soon after he delivered a speech at the convention.
e. the enthusiastic nomination of Vice President Humphrey.

The political challenge to President Johnson's Vietnam policies gained great momentum when
a. the Senate voted to cut off funds for any further escalation of the war.
b. the favorite for the Republican nomination, Richard Nixon, began opposing the war.
c. third-party challenger George Wallace began criticizing Johnson.
d. Vice President Hubert Humphrey turned against Johnson's policies.
e. Senator Eugene McCarthy nearly defeated Johnson in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

The focal point of congressional opposition to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam War policy was
a. the Republican party in both the Senate and the House.
b. the Senate office of Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
c. Senator Richard Russell's Armed Services Committee.
d. the House Ways and Means Committee.
e. Senator William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee.

The 1967 Six-Day War intensified the Arab-Israeli conflict by bringing into constant, direct conflict
a. Americans and Israelis.
b. Israel and Saudi Arabia.
c. Israel and the United States on the one hand and the Arabs and the Soviet Union on the other.
d. the Israeli government and Jewish settlers on the West Bank.
e. Israelis and Palestinians.

The site of the first major militant protest on behalf of gay liberation in 1969 was
a. the Mattachine Society headquarters (Los Angeles).
b. Fire Island, New York.
c. Key West, Florida.
d. Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana).
e. the Stonewall Inn (New York City).

The three P's that largely explain the cultural upheavals of the 1960s are
a. poverty, political radicalism, and protest against authority.
b. public schools, parietal rules, and parental restrictions.
c. population bulge, protest against Vietnam, and prosperity.
d. patriotism, prowar enthusiasm, and perfectionism.
e. the pill, pot, and popular rock music.