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AP US History Period 8 (1945 to 1980): the Cold War and civil rights quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What was the policy of containment?

  2. Which of these was an instrument of containment in the late 1940s?

  3. Which 1962 confrontation brought the superpowers to the brink of nuclear war?

  4. Who was the senator whose reckless accusations of disloyalty gave the Red Scare its popular name?

  5. Which 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that segregated public schools were unconstitutional?

  6. Which two laws dismantled the legal structure of Jim Crow segregation and disfranchisement?

  7. Which two Great Society programs created in 1965 provided health insurance for the elderly and the poor?

  8. Which 1964 resolution gave President Johnson broad authority to escalate the Vietnam War?

  9. Why was the 1968 Tet Offensive a turning point in the Vietnam War?

  10. What was Nixon's policy of gradually withdrawing American troops while turning the fighting over to South Vietnam called?

  11. What happened to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)?

  12. In what year were the first Earth Day held and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created?