Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
US History · Unit 8 · Paper 2

Period 8: 1945–1980 unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 40 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 8, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
1

Watergate

2

United Farm Workers grape boycott

3

Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)

4

Stagflation

5

GI Bill (1944)

6

NATO (1949)

7

Title IX (1972)

8

Voting Rights Act (1965)

9

Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)

10

OPEC oil embargo (1973)

11

Proposition 13 (1978)

12

Venona decrypts

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Great Society

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Environmental Protection Agency (1970)

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Détente

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Containment

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

Evaluate the extent to which the Cold War shaped domestic policy in the United States in the period from 1945 to 1980.