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AP® U.S. History, 1945 - 1980
See how far your knowledge of 1945 to 1980 goes, from Cold War crises and the Vietnam War to the Civil Rights Movement and Watergate. Think you can keep up with 125 questions on the decades that reshaped America?
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- Which U.S. foreign policy doctrine, announced in 1947, pledged American support to nations threatened by communist expansion?
- The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
- What was the name of the U.S. economic aid program launched in 1948 to help rebuild war-devastated Western European nations after World War II?
- President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972 marked the first time a sitting U.S. president had visited the People's Republic of China.
- Which event in 1957 sparked fears of a technological gap between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in employment and public accommodations.
- What term describes the U.S. policy of preventing the further spread of communism, which guided American foreign policy throughout the Cold War era?
- Which president's administration was responsible for the Watergate scandal, which ultimately led to the first resignation of a U.S. president?
- What name was given to the 1947 U.S. foreign policy that stated the United States would support free peoples who were resisting subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures?
- The Korean War ended in 1953 with a formal peace treaty that reunified North and South Korea.
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