Practice Test Answers

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

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

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

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization combined the military strength of

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

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

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

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

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

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

When did the Bay of Pigs invasion into Cuba occur?

The arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union began when

How did the police respond to protestors at the Democratic National Convention in 1968?

Which of these events contributed to Joseph McCarthy’s rise to power during the early 1950s?

Nixon’s plan to end the Vietnam War through the strategy of Vietnamization

Which of the following saw a decrease in the United States during the 1950s?

In the wake of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuba

The Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was designed to prevent