HIST 1302 Unit 3

In 1932, how many millions of people were unemployed in America?

15

"D-day" refers to the:

Allied invasion at Normandy.

Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:

Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Marco Polo Bridge incident brought Japan to war against what country?

China

The first large-scale experiment with federal work relief, which put people directly on the government payroll at competitive wages, came with the formation of the:

Civil Works Administration.

The First Indochina War ended when the French suffered a major defeat at:

Dien Bien Phu.

Adlai Stevenson was:

Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956.

On his second day in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt called upon Congress to meet in a special session on March 9 to pass the:

Emergency Banking Relief Act.

Who was the California doctor who called for old-age pensions from the government?

Francis Townsend

During the presidential election of 1944:

Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term as president.

The secretary of state who devised the plan of massive economic recovery aid to Europe was:

George Marshall.

In early 1942, the biggest challenge the United States faced in the Atlantic was:

German submarine warfare.

The head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration was:

Harry Hopkins.

Which of the following statements about the Social Security Act is NOT true?

It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes.

All of the following were original North Atlantic Treaty Organization members EXCEPT:

Japan.

The Tennessee Valley Authority, as a multipurpose public corporation, included all of the following states EXCEPT:

Louisiana.

When Soviet forces reentered Poland in 1944, they created a puppet Communist regime in:

Lublin.

What organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions?

National Recovery Administration

Less than a month before the surrender of Germany:

President Roosevelt died in office.

During the presidential election of 1936:

Republicans hoped that third-party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election to them.

Which statement best describes the Allied invasion against Sicily in July 1943?

Sicily fell quickly after the Allied surprise landing.

Prime Minister Churchill worried that if the Red Army arrived in Berlin first:

Stalin would control the postwar map of Europe.

What helped the Allies gain the advantage in the Battle of the Atlantic?

The Allies decoded German messages that indicated where the U-boats were.

What was the most significant consequence of the Battle of Leyte Gulf?

The Japanese lost most of their remaining sea power and ability to defend the Philippines.

What was the significance of the use of atomic bombs against Japan?

They allowed the Americans to avoid an amphibious invasion of Japan.

The second-place finisher in the 1948 election was:

Thomas Dewey.

In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.

True

Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in many key industries.

True

What agency was created to direct industrial conversion to war production?

War Production Board

During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

abolishing Social Security.

After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, the United States:

accepted Japan's surrender, albeit with the condition that the emperor could keep his throne.

In early 1937, FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by:

adding up to six additional members.

At the Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to all of the following EXCEPT:

an immediate launching of a cross channel invasion into France.

On March 12, in the first of his radio-broadcast "fireside chats," the president:

assured the 60 million Americans listening that it was safer to "keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress."

The "sit-down strike" was used successfully in 1937 by:

automobile workers.

With the end of World War II, Korea:

became divided into northern and southern halves.

In regard to Israel's founding in 1948, the United States:

became the first country to recognize the Jewish state.

President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act:

because he felt it promoted thought control.

By 1960, about 65 percent of Americans:

belonged to a church.

Elvis Presley's recordings:

blended a variety of musical styles.

The fair practices codes of the National Recovery Administration did all of the following EXCEPT:

break up large corporations.

One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:

bridge class and racial divisions.

The bracero program:

brought some 200,000 Mexican farm workers into the western United States.

Frequently lumped together as "Okies" or "Arkies," dust bowl refugees:

came from cotton belt communities.

Following the defeat of Germany:

came the shocking realization of the full extent of the Holocaust.

The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income, mainly through:

cutbacks in production.

In 1933, President Roosevelt confronted all the following major challenges EXCEPT:

defending the country against communism.

The Potsdam Declaration:

demanded that Japan surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction."

Huey Long:

developed a program called Share-the-Wealth.

By the mid-1950s, an increasing number of workers:

did mental rather than physical labor.

Alan Freed was a notable:

disc jockey.

Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from:

excessive conformity.

On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:

expand the New Deal.

The youthful rebels known as the Beats:

favored road trips, Buddhism, and jazz.

A significant economic problem during the war was:

finding enough workers for the essential wartime industries.

The interstate highway system was:

funded by gasoline taxes.

With the end of World War II, women workers were encouraged to:

give up their jobs to returning veterans.

All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:

had an Ivy League education.

Life magazine's ideal woman of the mid-1950s was:

having babies.

Labor's new direction in the late 1930s was toward:

industrial unions.

During the 1948 campaign, the Dixiecrats did all of the following EXCEPT:

influence Truman to slow down on civil rights.

In June 1941, Germany widened the war by:

invading the Soviet Union.

All of the following statements are true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT:

it was the parent organization for the Civilian Conservation Corps.

Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to:

launch a massive airlift of supplies into West Berlin.

The mobilization of women in the labor force during World War II:

led to a significant increase of American women joining the labor force.

Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:

liberalism.

To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:

many landowners took their leased lands out of production.

Following the declaration of war:

men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted.

Suburban growth was spurred by all of the following EXCEPT:

new construction of mass public transportation.

Blacks who moved to northern cities found:

new problems and forms of exploitation.

In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court:

overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act.

In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:

persistence of poverty.

A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

prevent the return of the Depression.

The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:

proved to be meaningless.

The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to:

provide work relief for young men.

After the war, Americans were most eager to:

purchase.

The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act):

raised taxes on incomes above $50,000.

In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

retained most programs and even expanded some.

Many concerned observers blamed teen delinquency on:

rock and roll.

The Office of Price Administration:

set price ceilings on highly demanded items such as tires, sugar, and gasoline.

In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision, the Supreme Court:

struck down "separate but equal" in public education.

By late 1942, the United States effectively countered German advantages in the Atlantic with what strategic response?

subchasers

Jack Kerouac wrote on what topic?

the Beats

The country that suffered the most deaths in the fighting of World War II was:

the Soviet Union.

In early 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in:

the State Department.

Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in:

the U.S. Army.

All of the following countries were physically devastated during World War II EXCEPT:

the United States.

One major reason for religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was:

the desire to combat godless communism.

All of the following were among the objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT:

the development of Smoky Mountain National Park.

The Atlantic Charter included all the following principles EXCEPT:

the elimination of communism.

Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:

the military.

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

the sunbelt.

From late 1941 into early 1942, during World War II in the Pacific:

there was a succession of Japanese victories that saw numerous Allied outposts fall.

When confronted with a railroad strike in 1946, President Truman's response was to:

threaten to draft the strikers.

Truman fired MacArthur:

to preserve civilian control of the military.

By the 1950s, suburban life was marked by an increasing:

uniformity.

The Atlantic Charter:

was a joint British-American statement of anti-Axis war aims.

Eleanor Roosevelt:

was especially supportive of women, blacks, and organized labor.

The National Labor Relations Act:

was often called the Wagner Act.

Inch'on was the site:

where General MacArthur turned the war around with a surprise landing.