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AP U.S. History Exam 2.54. Given the excerpt, many critics of the war on terrorism believed that...what?
AP U.S. History Exam 2.55. Which of the following earlier time periods was most similar to the war on terrorism as described in the excerpt?
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AP U.S. History Exam 2.55. Which of the following earlier time periods was most similar to the war on terrorism as described in the excerpt?
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[ mumbles ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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All right, and the question:
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Which of the following earlier time periods was most similar
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to the war on terrorism as described in the excerpt?
- 00:27
[ mumbles ]
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Well, the restriction of civil liberties
- 00:33
during the war on terror sure scared up some opposition.
- 00:36
But let's see which answer describes another period of U.S. history
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faced with the same petrifying problem.
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All right, were events surrounding the war on terror similar to the A -
- 00:45
Spanish-American War?
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Well, tales of barbarism in the Philippines may have frightened
- 00:50
newspaper readers, but the Spanish-American War lacked
- 00:52
the heightened paranoia of the war on terror.
- 00:55
Could the war on terror have shared similarities with B -
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the Gilded Age?
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Well, actually, the Gilded Age was mostly a period
- 01:01
characterized by extreme wealth,
- 01:03
so B doesn't work. Period.
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Was the war on terror similar to D - the New Deal?
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Well, the New Deal was a collection of social and economic policies
- 01:12
aimed at reversing a period of extreme poverty.
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So we wouldn't put our money on D, either.
- 01:16
Which means the war on terror was most similar to C -
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the First Red Scare. After World War I,
- 01:22
the American government was pretty freaked out
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about the Russian Revolution spreading stateside.
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So Congress enacted several bills- uh, different bill -
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that targeted suspected communists in a similar fashion
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to methods suggested in the excerpt.
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So C is the correct answer.
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In fact, the same thing happened again after World War II,
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when the country was plunged into a Second Red Scare
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by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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[ crowd oohs ]
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