Practice Test

Question 1

What event led to the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

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D: An alleged attack on US Navy ships by North Vietnam

Question 2

Which of the following inventions of the 1950s made other inventions possible?

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D: the transistor

Question 3

In 1965, President Johnson immediately used the authority of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to

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C: begin sustained bombing of North Vietnam.

Question 4

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization combined the military strength of

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C: the United States, Canada, and Western Europe.

Question 5

If the Twenty-Second Amendment had been in place during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term in office,

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A: FDR could only have been elected to one more full term.

Question 6

Immediately following World War II, President Truman reinstated price controls in an attempt to

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C: decrease the rate of inflation.

Question 7

Why did the system of government in the Soviet Union help to create conflict with the United States after World War II?

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C: The Soviet system of government did not allow its people to choose their own leaders, which the United States thought was wrong.

Question 8

What was the “missile gap” identified in the 1950s?

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A: The USSR, according to a report, was ahead in ICBM technology.

Question 9

Why was President Truman considered to be weak on communism despite the federal government’s measures to investigate communists?

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A: Fear of communism had reached a level that bordered on hysteria, and Truman’s actions did little to make it go away.

Question 10

Following World War II, the United States opposed the economic system of the Soviet Union and its allies because this kind of economy

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B: did not allow people to make free choices.

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