History 1302 Final

The person who lost the most from the outcome of the Hiss-Chambers case was:

Alger Hiss

In what city did Mayor Connor order police to unleash their dogs and clubs on civil rights demonstrators?

Birmingham, Alabama

By the spring of 1945, the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in:

Eastern Europe

Adlai E. Stevenson was:

Eisenhower's opponent for president in both 1952 and 1956

By 2000, the AIDS epidemic had disappeared

False

Cesar Chavez served in the army during WWII.

False

George W. Bush won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election.

False

In Germany, a bloody revolution brought the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

False

In the early months of the Korean War, UN forces encountered little resistance until they reached the Chinese border.

False

President Johnson was not as adept at handling Congress as President Kennedy had been.

False

Ronald Reagan made AIDS research a top priority of his administration.

False

The Dodd-Frank bill called for government agencies to exercise less oversight over highly leveraged and highly complex new financial instruments.

False

The Fair Deal was President Truman's name for his approach to foreign policy in the early days of the cold war.

False

The postwar era witnessed tremendous economic depression and failing social contentment.

False

The religious Right was a Protestant-dominated movement in which Catholics were not allowed to participate.

False

When North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam in 1975, U.S. troops were sent back into the region.

False

Ultimately, the outcome of the 2000 election depended upon the final result in:

Florida

In the war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the United States was most closely supported by:

Great Britain

President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:

Great Society

As a result of the Truman Doctrine:

Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism

Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman often referred to themselves as:

Groucho Marxists

Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.

By 2015, the largest number of legal immigrants to the United States came from:

Mexico

The reform-minded Soviet premier who emerged in the mid-1980s was:

Mikhail Gorbachev

In the Truman years, the United States abandoned a longtime tradition with its involvement in:

Peacetime alliances

In late 1989, all the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe toppled bloodlessly EXCEPT that of:

Romania

The 1991 Persian Gulf War resulted in:

Saddam Hussein remaining in power

Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be:

Southern Baptists

The conventional, or "orthodox," view of cold war history holds whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?

Stalin's quest for world domination

By 2011, the conservative insurgency led by the Tea Party focused on the record-breaking federal deficit and the tepid economic recovery (2011 home sales were the worst in history).

True

For pardoning Nixon, President Ford suffered a huge decline in his popularity.

True

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

True

Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was called the Great Society.

True

President Ford vetoed more bills than any previous president.

True

Ralph Ellison wrote the invisible man

True

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act was also known as the GI Bill of Rights.

True

The Sunbelt includes the southern and western states.

True

The best salesman of this gospel of reassuring "good news" was the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale.

True

The years during and after World War II witnessed tremendous growth in big business.

True

Unemployment jumped to 9 percent in 1975, and the annual rate of inflation had reached double digits.

True

The Cuban missile crisis led to all of the following EXCEPT:

a U.S.-Soviet agreement to scrap nuclear weapons

Opposing Iraq in the Gulf War was:

a coalition of over thirty nations

The Nixon Doctrine implied a foreign policy that was shaped more by:

a need to be selective in its commitments abroad

Republican Contract with America

aimed to reduce big government and limit the welfare state

Taft-Hartley Act (1947)

allowed the president to impose a "cooling-off" period during major strikes

The major motivation behind the Saturday Night Massacre was Nixon's desire to:

avoid handing over the key White House tapes

By the early 1980s, Lebanon:

became an anarchic battleground for warring factions

President Truman vetoed the McCarran Internal Security Act:

because he felt it promoted thought control

One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his:

confidence and self-assuredness

As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:

cutting taxes

Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could be viewed as a sixteenth-century religious zealot in that he:

divided the world into forces: those who are Christians and the others

Most Americans personally encountered the war on terror at home by:

enduring more extensive airport security and screening

Hispanic was originally a term for any immigrant in Chicago.

fALSE

All of the following are true of Cesar Chavez EXCEPT that he:

failed to secure collective bargaining rights for farm workers

The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:

failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment

The Reverend Norman Vincent Peale emphasized:

faith, enthusiasm, and joy

The housing industry crash in 2007:

froze credit and provoked a recession

Soviet and Communist activities in regard to Turkey and Greece were intended to:

gain the Soviets access to the Mediterranean

In retrospect, Johnson's war on poverty:

generated middle-class resentment that benefited the Republicans

The term Hispanic referred to:

growing political assertiveness among Mexican Americans

Richard Nixon

had a reputation for hard-line anticommunism and rough campaign tactics

During the 1950s, novelist John Updike observed:

he and other writers felt estranged "from a government that extolled business and mediocrity"

The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:

his brother Robert

In The Crack in the Picture Window, John Keats described suburban life as:

homogeneous

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

influence Truman to slow down on civil rights

In regard to Vietnam policy, Nixon:

insisted that he would pursue "peace with honor"

Young men were able to avoid service in Vietnam by all of the following methods EXCEPT:

joining VISTA or the Peace Corps

Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:

made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964

President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:

men with new ideas and fresh thinking

Truman viewed his victory as a mandate for:

moderate liberalism

Bush ultimately dealt with Noriega by:

ordering a military invasion to arrest him

By 2015, what was the percentage of people who were living in cities across America?

over 80

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did all of the following EXCEPT:

paralyze the United States in fear and disunity

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

persistence of poverty

Which of the following dramatically decreased in the 1980s?

personal savings

The major purpose of the passage of NAFTA was to:

promote freer trade with Canada and Mexico

The Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe:

proved to be meaningless

One major reason that World War II inspired postwar changes in race relations was the:

racist nature of the enemies of the United States

During the fifties, the U.S. marriage rate:

reached an all-time high

Changes in immigration law in 1965:

removed quotas based upon national origin

In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:

required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights

In the Brown decision, the Supreme Court:

struck down "separate but equal" in public education

Elvis was especially controversial because of his:

suggestive gyrations on stage

The religious Right fervently supported Reagan because he:

supported its conservative social values

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded:

that Stalin and the Soviets were behind it

When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:

the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors

The fundamental source of instability in the Balkans in the 1990s was:

the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991

The crowning achievement of President Obama's anti-terrorism efforts was:

the discovery of Osama bin Laden's hideout

The issue that dominated the last couple of months of the 2008 campaign was:

the economic crisis

What was the major factor in the Republican takeover after the 1994 midterm election?

the health-care bill disaster

Shocking events at Kent State University involved:

the killing of four students by the National Guard

Most blacks who moved to the North were fleeing terrible poverty in:

the rural South

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

the sunbelt

All of the following were arguments in favor of health-care reform EXCEPT:

the support of drug companies and the insurance industry for reform

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

uniformity

The result of the 1960 election:

was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states

In moving quickly on key issues and campaign pledges just after his inauguration, President Obama:

was mimicking the government's actions in the 1930s

Bay of Pigs Invasion

was thoroughly bungled by the CIA

The youths of the counterculture:

were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s

By and large, Truman's Fair Deal proposals:

were thwarted by a conservative coalition in Congress