AP American: 1950s-1970s

T or F? Throught the 1950s and early 1960s, both unemployment and infiltration remained low.
True False

T or F? The first scale use of pestiside DDT was to improve American crop production.
True False

T or F? The post WWII black migration out of the South and into northern cities was much larger than the Great Migration which followed WWI.
True False

T or F? Both Medicare and Medicaid were enacted during the Kennedy administration.
True False

T or F? The Kennedy Administration created and carried out the plan to oust Castro from Cuba that became the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
True False

The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose called for
A. an end to ALL assimilation practices
B. an armed opposition to the US government
C. the preservation of Indian hertitage
D. all of the above

In 1972 a peace agreement between the US and North Vietnam was first announced just days
A. after a major North Vietnamese offensive
B. before the American presidential election
C. after the American presidential election
D. before the final American ground troops were pulled out of Vietnam

T or F? When the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v Wade decision, abortion became legal for the first time in American history
True False

T or F? There was never any conclusive evidence that President Nixon had planned or approved the Watergate burglary.
True False

Weeks after a peace agreement was announced in Vietnam, President Nixon ordered the heaviest air raids on North Vietnam of the entire war.
True False

T or F? The AIDS epidemic weakened the gay rights movement in the early 1980s.
True False