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- Which of the following was not a federal program/act started by the government in 1970?The Environmental Protection AgencyThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe Clean Air ActThe Department of EducationAll of the above were started in 1970
- _________________ were the bloody conflicts between U.S. soldiers and Native Americans in the West from the 1860s to the 1870s.The Range warsThe Indian warsThe Remington warsThe Arapaho battlesThe Medicine Lodge wars
- This major offensive by the Viet Cong forces in 1968 dealt a devastating morale blow to the United States and in its media.The Saigon CounterattackThe Tet OffensiveThe Hanoi InvasionThe Gulf of Tonkin AssaultThe Plieku Ambush
- What type of social law had every state in the Union adopted by 1985?Non-fault divorce lawVoter registration lawMarijuana legalization lawCapital punishment banSeat belt law
- Who was the most famous leader of the Black Power movement?H. Rap BrownMartin Luther King Jr.Stokely CarmichaelMalcolm XEugene Connor
- Who was the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi?Stephen RadissonMark LouisEric GarveyAndrew StevensJames Meredith
- Who was the leader of the Free Speech Movement?Mario SavioTom HaydenAl HaberRoss GellarJoey Fatone
- Who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981?Sandra Day O'ConnorRuth Bader GinsburgSonia SotomayorElena KaganHillary Rodham Clinton
- The landmark Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson established the legal precedent ofseparation of powers.judicial review.separate but equal.verticality.capital punishment.
- The First Gulf War (Persian Gulf War) began when Iraq invaded the country of ______.Saudi ArabiaIranSyriaTurkeyKuwait
- Who was the commander of United States combat soldiers in Vietnam?General Douglas MacArthurGeneral Oliver NorthGeneral Norman ScharzkopffGeneral William WestmorelandGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Who became the new Premier of Russia in 1985?Leonid BrezhnevYuri AndropovMikhail GorbachevBoris YeltsinPavel Vasily
- What happened on November 9, 1989?Poland was allowed to have free, democratic electionsEast Berlin citizens crossed freely into West BerlinUkraine declared independence from the USSRCommunist China declared war on TaiwanNorth Korea conducted its first successful nuclear weapons test
- Who ordered the Mai Lai Massacre in 1968?Shaun AlexanderWilliam CalleyJames StarksWalter PeytonJohn Kuhn
- From which university did MLK earn his PhD?Boston UniversityUniversity of Rhode IslandGeorgia State UniversityPrinceton UniversitySyracuse University
- On August 11, 1965,race riots erupted in the area of _____, a Los Angeles suburb.EncinoFlorenceRedlandsPalmsWatts
- Who was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967?Kendra MatthewsKathy SwitzerSarah CampionMelanie AllanLindsey Dunmire
- Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968 after winning the __________ State Democratic Primary Election.MassachusettsIllinoisTexasAlabamaCalifornia
- In what year were the last US combat troops removed from Vietnam?19641967197019731976
- _________ was the leader of Iraq in 1990 who started the First Gulf War (Persian Gulf War).Ayatollah KhomeiniYasser ArafatMenachim BeginSaddam HusseinHassan Rouhani