History Chapter 20-23 Study Guide
Which work offered an intellectual justification for opponents of active government, laying the foundation for the rise of modern conservatism?
"The road to serfdom"
Henry Wallace
1948 Progressive Party candidate
Douglas MacArthur
5 star war general and Korean War commander
Which statement best describes what the NSC-68 was called for?
A permanent military build up and global containment
Whittaker Chambers
Accused Alger Hiss of being a spy
Eleanor Roosevelt
Advocated human rights
George Kennan
Author of containment doctrine
The McCarran Internal Security Act:
Barred the totalitarians from entering the U.S.
Jackie Robinson
Black baseball player
Walter Lippmann
Critic of the cold war
How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt describe the notion of a "liberty contract"?
Denounced it as a service to the interest of "the privileged few"
By 1935, Huey Long and Francis Townsend had made which of the following approaches to economic recovery less promising for New Dealers?
Efforts in general business recovery
When Mary McLeod Bethune remarked that the New Deal offered African-Americans a new day, she:
Expressed the hope for change despite discrimination and federal housing and employment
Harry Truman
Fair Deal
During the Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party emerged into a coalition that included all of the following:
Farmers, white supremacists, industrial workers, and northern african americans
The Social Security Act of 1935:
Gave pensions and unemployment relief
The "zoot suit" riots of 1943:
Highlighted the limits of racial tolerance during World War II.
The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
Is still controversial to this day
The Good Neighbor Policy was directed at:
Latin America
The Holocaust:
Mass extermination
What broad popular sentiments did the Ku Klux Klan express in the 1920s?
Nation should be run by native-born protestants
The Wagner Act:
National labor relations board would supervise union election
Meyer v. Nebraska:
Overturned a law that stated public schools instruct classes in english
Why were American diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a procommunist government in Poland in 1945?
Promised FDR a democratic Govt in Poland
Alger Hiss
Prosecuted by HUAC
During the 1920s, consumer goods:
Purchased on credit
Joe McCarthy
Senator of Wisconsin
The Great Depression shaped the lives of Americans in all of the following ways:
Some americans: lived in Hoovervilles, massive unemployment, lived in the country, and went on the road for work.
What prompted as many as 200,000 American citizens to leave the country during the Great Depression?
Some children went with their Mexican-born parents to Mexico
Rosenbergs
Soviet spies
Why did the United States allow West Germany to become part of a defensive alliance less than ten years after the defeat of Nazi Germany?
The successful Soviet Nuclear bomb
How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?
Truman ordered supplies to by brought by airlift
The Great Depression and the economic crisis that ensued discredited supporters of:
Unregulated capitalism
Under the New Deal, women:
Were more visible in national politics
Henry Steele Commager
Wrote "Who is Loyal to America"
The Freedom Train was:
a traveling exhibition of over 100 historical documents.
In the 1920s, employers embraced the American Plan, which:
advocated the open shop
Robert La Follette ran for president in 1924:
as a Progressive Party candidate
The Hays Code:
banned the use of profanity, limited the length of screen kisses and outlawed a series of words and behaviors.
American foreign policy during the 1920s:
close relationship between gov. and business
In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:
created a celebrity culture
The McCarran-Walter Act:
deported communists and some unnatural citizens
Joseph McCarthy's downfall came as a result of:
hearings on the defense department
The principle of human rights was introduced into international relations:
in the 18th century
The 1948 presidential race:
last one before television
In 1949, Mao Zedong:
led a communist revolution in China
Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt announce his candidacy for a third term in 1940?
recovery was too fragile and too dangerous for him to leave his post
Hoover's Response to the Depression included all of the following:
tax increase, high tariffs, reconstruction, finance corp., and federal loan home bank system
The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti demonstrated that:
the Red Scare extended into the 1920s
Why did cigarettes become known as "torches of freedom" during the 1920s?
women smoked them as an expression of personal freedom
