2Q.2.1 Challenges to the American Dream, 1963–1980 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 27

The 20 questions

1. What name was given to President Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic reform programme targeting poverty?

   • The New Frontier
   • The Fair Deal
   • The Great Society
   • The New Deal

2. Which landmark 1964 legislation outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin?

   • Fair Housing Act
   • Civil Rights Act
   • Equal Rights Amendment
   • Voting Rights Act

3. Which 1965 law banned literacy tests and increased federal protection for voter registration?

   • Civil Rights Act
   • Social Security Act
   • Voting Rights Act
   • Equal Pay Act

4. Which 1964 congressional resolution authorised direct US military escalation in Vietnam?

   • Vietnam War Act
   • Southeast Asia Resolution
   • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
   • Tonkin Gulf Treaty

5. Which January 1968 communist attack severely shook US public confidence in the Vietnam War?

   • My Lai Massacre
   • Tet Offensive
   • Easter Offensive
   • Gulf of Tonkin

6. Which student organisation, abbreviated as SDS, became a primary leader of anti-war protests?

   • CORE
   • SNCC
   • SDS
   • SCLC

7. Which women's rights organisation was founded in 1966 by Betty Friedan?

   • Women's Liberation Front
   • Equal Rights Association
   • National Organization for Women
   • National Women's Political Caucus

8. Which policy of the Nixon administration aimed to gradually withdraw US troops from Vietnam while the South took over the fighting?

   • Dollar diplomacy
   • Brinkmanship
   • Vietnamisation
   • Containment

9. Which 1972 treaty limited the strategic nuclear missiles held by the USA and USSR?

   • INF Treaty
   • SALT II
   • START I
   • SALT I

10. Which US president made a historic 1972 visit to Beijing to normalise relations with China?

    • Richard Nixon
    • Jimmy Carter
    • Gerald Ford
    • Lyndon B. Johnson

11. Which scandal of 1972-1974 forced President Nixon to resign?

    • Iran-Contra
    • Watergate
    • Whitewater
    • Teapot Dome

12. Which 1973 event caused oil prices to quadruple and severely damaged the US economy?

    • Iranian oil crisis
    • Panama Canal dispute
    • Arab oil embargo
    • Suez Crisis

13. What term describes the 1970s US economic problem of high inflation combined with high unemployment?

    • Stagflation
    • Deflation
    • Recession
    • Hyperinflation

14. Which 1979 crisis involved American diplomats held hostage in Tehran?

    • Persian Gulf crisis
    • Middle East hostage crisis
    • Tehran Embassy siege
    • Iran hostage crisis

15. Which December 1979 action by the USSR prompted President Carter to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics?

    • Invasion of Czechoslovakia
    • Invasion of Hungary
    • Invasion of Afghanistan
    • Building Berlin Wall

16. Who defeated Jimmy Carter in the 1980 US presidential election?

    • Ronald Reagan
    • Richard Nixon
    • Gerald Ford
    • George H. W. Bush

17. Which landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling legalised abortion across the United States?

    • Brown v. Board
    • Roe v. Wade
    • Miranda v. Arizona
    • Regents v. Bakke

18. At which university were four anti-war student protesters shot dead by National Guardsmen in 1970?

    • Kent State
    • Jackson State
    • Columbia
    • UC Berkeley

19. Which South Vietnamese capital fell to communist forces in April 1975, ending the Vietnam War?

    • Saigon
    • Da Nang
    • Hanoi
    • Hue

20. Which major political scandal forced US President Richard Nixon to resign from office in 1974?

    • Whitewater
    • Watergate
    • Iran-Contra
    • Teapot Dome

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