16. The "good old days," when the gap between the rich and poor narrowed for the first and only time in US history to produce a solid middle-class nation, was a product of a capitalist economy that had been restored by war-time mobilization and 2. Heavy government investment in public goods, such higher education and infrastructure development b. Robust labor unions capable of bargaining collectively with employers over the terms of labor contracts; thereby, producing a healthy balance of power. c. Regulations and taxes imposed upon the capitalist class in the interest of ensuring that enterprises which profit from American labor, creativity, infrastructure, and stability enrich the nation rather than exploit and destabilize it. d. New Deal mandates such as a minimum wage, which equated to a living wage for even a family with a traditional single breadwinner. e. All the Above 17. The following was targeted for destruction by the FBI as a "Black messiah." Evidence shows the FBI had a hand in his murder after he began to speak out against the war in Vietnam, promote class-based uplift, and work to bring people together across the color-line for mutual benefit: a Martin Luther King, Jr. b. Fred Hampton c. Malcolm X d. All the Above 18. In the United States, the Korean War is typically portrayed as beginning when the communist northern Koreans invaded southern Korea. Evidence shows, however, that the forces from northern Korea responded to an outpouring of executions, imprisonment, and torture conducted by the US-backed government, and had the support of a majority of southern Koreans. a. True b. False 19. President Johnson was given war making power without an official declaration of war after lying to the American people about North Vietnamese aggression regarding this event: 2 Gulf of Tonkin b. My Lai Massacre c. Tet Offensive d. All the Above 20. CIA program designed to catalogue, assassinate, infiltrate, capture, interrogate, terrorize, torture in the most heinous ways, and murder alleged Vietcong sympathizers, partially by enticing accusations in the context of a war-ravaged nation: 2. Operation Overlord b. Operation Mockingbird c. Operation Ajax d. The Phoenix Progra c. COINTELPRO 16. The "good old days," when the gap between the rich and poor narrowed for the first and only time in US history to produce a solid middle-class nation, was a product of a capitalist economy that had been restored by war-time mobilization and 2. Heavy government investment in public goods, such higher education and infrastructure development b. Robust labor unions capable of bargaining collectively with employers over the terms of labor contracts; thereby, producing a healthy balance of power. c. Regulations and taxes imposed upon the capitalist class in the interest of ensuring that enterprises which profit from American labor, creativity, infrastructure, and stability enrich the nation rather than exploit and destabilize it. d. New Deal mandates such as a minimum wage, which equated to a living wage for even a family with a traditional single breadwinner. e. All the Above 17. The following was targeted for destruction by the FBI as a "Black messiah." Evidence shows the FBI had a hand in his murder after he began to speak out against the war in Vietnam, promote class-based uplift, and work to bring people together across the color-line for mutual benefit: a Martin Luther King, Jr. b. Fred Hampton c. Malcolm X d. All the Above 18. In the United States, the Korean War is typically portrayed as beginning when the communist northern Koreans invaded southern Korea. Evidence shows, however, that the forces from northern Korea responded to an outpouring of executions, imprisonment, and torture conducted by the US-backed government, and had the support of a majority of southern Koreans. a. True b. False 19. President Johnson was given war making power without an official declaration of war after lying to the American people about North Vietnamese aggression regarding this event: 2 Gulf of Tonkin b. My Lai Massacre c. Tet Offensive d. All the Above 20. CIA program designed to catalogue, assassinate, infiltrate, capture, interrogate, terrorize, torture in the most heinous ways, and murder alleged Vietcong sympathizers, partially by enticing accusations in the context of a war-ravaged nation: 2. Operation Overlord b. Operation Mockingbird c. Operation Ajax d. The Phoenix Progra c. COINTELPRO