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COMMENDED SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENT

Question 1

Veterans Act

GI Bill GI Act

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Patriot Bill

1944 law that gives military veterans financial and education benefits

Question 2

Baby Burst

Baby Explosion

Baby Boom

Baby Increase

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Who founded Pennsylvania?

Period from the end of WWII through the mid 1960’s marked by unusually

high birth rates?

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Question 3

Medicare

Lone Star

WIC

Medicaid

Program that provides health insurance for people on welfare?

Question 4

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Civil Rights Act of 1965 Civil Rights Act of 1964

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Civil Rights Act of 1963

Eliminated literacy tests for voters?

Question 5

26th Amendment

22nd Amendment

25th Amendment

27th Amendment

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Gave voting rights to Americans 18 years and older, largely due to the fact 18 year olds were eligible for the draft during the

Vietnam War

Question 6

Limitation

Constraint Containment

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Restraint

Policy that the US should prevent communism from spreading to

other nations?

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Question 7

League of Nations

United Lands United Nation-States

United Nations

International organization formed after WWII to serve as a

peacekeeper in world conflicts?

Question 8

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Berlin Wall

Iron Curtain Escalation Wall

German Wall

Wall built by the Soviets to separate East and West Berlin. Wall stood until

1989 when communism collapsed?

Question 9

Communist Theory

Domino Theory Social Darwinism

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Ladder Theory

Belief that if a nearby nation becomes communist then surrounding nations

will do the same?

Question 10

University of California v. Bakke

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Reynolds v. Sims

Brown v. Board of Education 1954Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court decision that upheld segregation and said that “separate

but equal” facilities were legal?

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Question 11

Martin Luther King Jr.Booker T. Washington

Rosa ParksMalcom X

Civil Rights leader, helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, March on Washington, gave famous “I have a

dream” speech?

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Question 12

Civil Rights Act of 1966Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1965Civil Rights Act of 1963

Made discrimination based on race, religion or national origin in public

places illegal and required employers to hire on an equal opportunity basis?

Question 13

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Peace CorpsNew Society

New ExplorationNew Frontier

Kennedy's program that addressed social and international concerns and the expansion of the space program?

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Question 14

Heavy MetalHip-Hop

Rock N RollJazz

Form of music that became popular in the 1950’s sometimes seen as a

rebellion against the conformity of the decade?

Question 15

Great Society

Great Humanity Great Progress

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Great Civilization

LBJ’s program that addressed America’s social problems including health care, civil rights, and urban

decay?

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Question 16

United Nations

League of Nations UNAF

NATO

Military alliance formed between the US, Canada and ten western

European countries?

Question 17

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McCarthyism

Bolshevikism Palmer Raids

Communist Trial

Witch-hunt of suspected Communists in the early 1950’s?

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Question 18

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis Cuban Insurrection

Cuban Nuclear Crisis

Standoff between the US and the Soviet Union when Soviets had

installed missiles in Cuba pointed towards the US?

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Question 19

Vietnam Offensive

Vietnam Commitment Escalation

Acceleration

Term used to describe the growing US presence in Vietnam, including

the build-up of U.S. troops

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Question 20

Kosmos 1

Vostok 1 Spiktnich 1

Sputnik 1

Fist man-made satellite to be launched into outer space. Symbolic success for Communism. Space race

developed soon after?

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Question 21

Truman Doctrine

Containment McCarthyism

Marshall Plan

US policy that gave military and economic aid to countries threatened

by communism?

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Question 22

Marie Foster

Rosa Parks Susan B. Anthony

Jo Ann Robinson

Refused to give up her seat to white passenger, Montgomery bus boycott

was organized soon after?

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Question 23

Reynolds v. Board of Regents

James v. Board of Education Brown v. Board of Education

Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court decision that made segregation illegal in public schools?

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Question 24

NATO

UNSPA NATA

NASA

US space agency that sent Americans into outer space. 1969 First man landed on the moon?

Question 25

Watergate

Nixon Scandal

Waterloo

Nixon Ordeals

Political scandal involving abuseof power and bribery and

Obstruction of justice. Led to Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 ?

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Question 26

Berlin PlanBerlin Airlift

Marshall PlanGerman Recovery Plan

US operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Union set

up a blockade in 1948?

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Question 27

Bay of Cuba

Bay Guantanamo Bay of Birds

Bay of Pigs

Failed invasion of Cuba planned by US government. US used exiled Cubans to invade Cuba but were soundly defeated

by Cuban military?

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Question 28

Mahatma Gandhi

Booker T. Washington

Martin Luther King Jr.

Malcolm X

Black Muslim leader argued for separation, not integration, and influenced the Black Panther

movement?

Question 29

Medicare

War on Poverty

War on Deficiency

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Medicaid

Lyndon B. Johnson’s agenda designed to help poor American’s.

This included the Head Start program and Job Corps Training?

Question 30

Interstate Road Act

Interstate Highway Act

State Highway Act

State Road Act

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Authorized the building of a national highway system. New roads encouraged

the development of suburbs away from the city?

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Question 31

Radio Debate

UFC Debate

Satellite Debate

Televised Debate

Kennedy and Richard Nixon were involved in the first _______ during the

election of 1960?

Question 32

Hawks

Doves Cardinals

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Eagles

Critics of the Vietnam War who believed the US should withdraw

from the Vietnam War?

Question 33

24th Amendment

22nd Amendment

23rd Amendment

25th Amendment

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Abolished the poll tax??

Question 34

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Segregation Laws

Jim Crow Laws Jim Beam Laws

Negro Affiliation Laws

Southern race laws that encouraged segregation and discrimination against

African-Americans?

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Question 35

Little Rock NineLittle Rock Seven

Arkansas SevenDesegregated Nine

Group of African-American students that were integrated into an all-white

school in 1957?

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Question 36

Austin, TexasDallas, Texas

Fort Worth, TexasHouston, Texas

John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald in what city?

Question 37

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LoneStarWIC

MedicaidMedicare

Federal program that provides health insurance to Americans over the age

of 65?

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Question 38

Rosenberg’sPeterson’s

Schmidt’sVanzetti’s

American couple who were accused of Communism and helping the Soviet Union obtain information about the atomic bomb.

Found guilty and sentenced to death?

Question 39

Hawks

Cardinals

Doves

Eagles

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Supporters of the Vietnam War who believed the US should increase

military force in order to win the war?

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Question 40

Vietnamese Solution

Tet Offensive Solution

Vietcong Resolution

Tonkin Gulf Resolution

Congressional approval that gave LBJ the power to escalate the war in

Vietnam?

Answer A

Answer C

Answer B

Correct Answer

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