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SOPHIA U.S. History II Unit 3 – Milestone 3 Test 1. Select the statement that best reflects John Kennedy’s Flexible Response strategy during the Cold War. It was reluctant to embrace the idea of “massive retaliation” in response to Soviet aggression. 2. Which of the following was associated with the New Left in the 1960s? Seeking to end poverty among poor people of color throughout the country. 3. Choose the action that reflects U.S. involvement in Vietnam during the Lyndon Johnson administration. The President was unwilling to de-escalate or withdraw from Vietnam because he feared being pained as “soft” on Communism. 4. Read the excerpt from the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education: “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group. A sense of inferiority affects the motivation of a child to learn. Segregation with the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to [retard] the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a racial[ly] integrated school system.” The court ruling makes which of the following arguments? Segregated schools lower the self-esteem of African American children. 5. Which of the following is true about the Yalta Conference? The U.S. and the Soviet Union promised to fight Japan together. 6. Choose the statement that best analyzes events in the year 1968 through the lens of politics. Divisions over the Vietnam War paved the way for a more conservative coalition to come to power. 7. Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) achieved several significant civil rights victories in the Supreme Court. These victories concerned which of the following issues? Equal access to graduate and law schools. 8. Choose the statement that describes a way that conformity was encouraged among Americans during the Second Red Scare. “Our neighbors seem to have an unusual family structure and nontraditional gender roles, and we think they might be Communists.” 9. Which of the following statements reflects a reason identity politics grew in the United States in the 1960s? “Because we were poor and working class, we were disproportionately drafted and sent into combat in Vietnam.” 10. When civil rights activists crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Salem, they were beaten by police on a day that became known as “Bloody Sunday”; the violence was a factor in prompting President Lyndon Johnson to sign which bill into law? The Voting Rights Act 11. What was the one way that the Second Red Scare encouraged conformity in the American people after World War II? Discovery and dismissal of homosexuals employed by the government.

12. Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an “arsenal of democracy” during World War II. “Scrap metal and other materials are really hard to come by these days.” 13. Which of the following World War II events happened first? Japan and Germany signed a mutual defense treaty. 14. What did President Kennedy order in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis? A quarantine zone around Cuba. 15. One component of containment policy was the Marshall Plan. Which of the following was one of the conditions of the Marshall Plan? “Any money received from the plan must be spent on American goods.” 16. What was the purpose of the U.S. strategy of “island-hopping” in the Pacific? To seize outlying islands in order to get close enough to bomb the Japanese mainland. 17. Which of the following led to the United States abandoning its neutral stance in World War II? President Franklin D. Roosevelt was convinced it was in the nation’s best interests to support Great Britain. 18. Choose the statement that best reflects a reaction against Brown v. Board of Education by Southerners during the 1950s. “This ruling will destroy the friendly relationship between the white and black races.” 19. Which of the following was a factor in President Harry Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan? Racism toward the Japanese. 20. The United Nations issued a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Which of the following statements reflects an idea contained in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Reason and conscience can guide human beings to treat one another as equals. 21. Which statement describes an effect of economic expansion in the 1950s? “We began to see more convenience stores and fast-food restaurants as car ownership increased.” 22. Read the excerpt from a presidential committee report published in 1947, at the beginning of the Cold War. “The international reason for acting to secure our civil rights now is not to win the approval of our totalitarian critics. We would not expect it if our record were spotless; to them our civil rights record is only a convenient weapon with which to attack us. Certainly we would like to deprive them of that weapon. But we are more concerned with the good opinion of the peoples of the world.” The excerpt twice refers to “them”. Who is “them”? The Soviet Union 23. Choose the statement that explains one way the federal government supported private business during World War II. “We will assume the majority of costs associated with converting your factory to produce wartime materials.” 24. Which of the following was an effect of the attack on Pearl Harbor? American support for fighting in World War II increased. 25. Economic expansion and suburbanization in the 1950s led to cultural pressures to behave in certain ways according to your gender. 26. What was one reason President John Kennedy was slow to put forth an aggressive civil rights agenda? He didn’t have the support of Congress on the issue. 27. Choose the statement that best explains why Richard Nixon represented a significant challenge to the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election. He represented the majority of Americans opposed to the social changes taking place in the country.

28. “After the violence at Selma, our governor, George Wallace, refused to do anything about it, so I was proud of our president, who introduced and signed a bill into law which removed obstacles for African Americans and lent federal support to our cause.” What was the name of that bill? The Voting Rights Act 29. Federal housing policies prior to World War II and government agencies, such as the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, helped create residential segregation. 30. Choose the true statement regarding the adoption of containment policy by the United States during the Cold War. The United States hoped to trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union. 31. Choose the true statement about women in the workforce during World War II. Married women outnumbered unmarried women in the workforce....