History MC (24-27)
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s believed largely in:
"100 percent Americanism"
The tariff policy of the early 1920s:
made it harder for other nations to sell to the United States
Calvin Coolidge derisively called President Hoover:
"Wonder Boy"
The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 created:
. a new Bureau of the Budget to streamline the process of preparing an annual federal budget
How many people were out of work in early 1933?
12 million
The amendment to the Constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:
1919
In the 1928 presidential election, the Democrats nominated:
Alfred Smith
Which of the members of Harding's cabinet was jailed for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal?
Albert Fall
Harding's secretary of the treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was:
Andrew Mellon
What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s?
Both had established fascist forms of government.
Of the following presidents, which tied government and business closer together than at any other time in the twentieth century?
Calvin Coolidge
The Marco Polo Bridge incident brought Japan to war against what country?
China
Which is true of the 1936 presidential election?
FDR defeated Alf Landon in a landslide.
Whose campaign song was "Happy Days Are Here Again"?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which of the following statements about the 1940 presidential election is true?
Franklin Roosevelt became the only president to run for and win a third term.
Following the Pearl Harbor attack:
Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States
All of the following statements about the German Blitzkrieg of spring 1940 are true, EXCEPT:
Germany carefully avoided attacks on neutral nations and only targeted professed enemies
Who headed the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at its creation in 1935?
Harry Hopkins
Which of the following is NOT true about Robert La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign?
He tried to unite the fractured Democratic party.
Who served as secretary of agriculture under FDR?
Henry Wallace
Which of the following refused to apply for a Social Security card?
Herbert Hoover
During the Spanish Civil War:
Hitler and Mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco
Who was known as "Kingfish"?
Huey Long
Which statement best describes the Native American experience in the armed forces during World War II?
Indian servicemen were integrated into regular units.
Which of the following is NOT true of the "American plan" concept of employment?
It promised a more democratic work environment than most other shops.
Which of the following is NOT true of the McNary-Haugen plan?
It was supported by Coolidge as a way to empower farmers.
Winston Churchill, who would become the British prime minister in 1940, predicted that this agreement would not end Hitler's assaults, saying that, "This is only the beginning of the reckoning."
Munich Pact
This organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions:
National Recovery Association
Germany's invasion of what country triggered the beginning of World War II in Europe?
Poland
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
During the 1924 presidential election:
Robert M. La Follette barely won the nomination of a faction-ridden Republican party
The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act):
The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act):
Whose campaign pledge stated he would "safeguard America first"?
Warren G. Harding
Franklin Roosevelt's opponent in the 1940 presidential election was:
Wendell Willkie
Who said, "When the hordes of aliens walk to the ballot box and their votes outnumber yours, then that alien horde has got you by the throat"?
William J. Simmons
At the outset of his presidency, to deal with the banking crisis, Roosevelt:
declared a bank holiday, shutting the banks down briefly
Democratic presidential nominee Alfred Smith was hurt in 1928 by the fact that he was:
a New Yorker and a Catholic
The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by:
a sharp decrease in government spending
In early 1937, FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by:
adding up to six additional members
In late summer 1940, President Roosevelt agreed to send fifty "overaged" destroyers to Britain in return for:
allowing the United States to build naval and air bases on British islands in the Caribbean
Like Huey Long, Charles Coughlin:
appealed to people who had lost the most during the Great Depression
How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?
as many as 4 million
Hoover's early efforts to end the Depression included:
asking businessmen to maintain wages and avoid layoffs, in order to keep purchasing power strong
The "sit-down strike" was used successfully in 1937 by:
automobile workers
The bracero program:
brought some 200,000 Mexican farmworkers into the western United States
The McNary-Haugen bill:
called for surplus crops to be sold on the world market in order to raise domestic prices
Following the defeat of Germany:
came the shocking realization of the full extent of the Holocaust
The offensives Italy launched in 1940 against Greece and British forces in Egypt:
came with the help of German forces
Despite the many well-founded criticisms of Warren Harding as president, he was a visionary for his era in the field of:
civil rights
Through the Lend-Lease bill, passed in January 1941, "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States
could receive military equipment, supplies, and other necessary materials even if that country lacked the funds to pay for those items
The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:
cutbacks in production
Huey Long:
developed a program called the Share-the-Wealth Society
Harding's secretary of the treasury:
favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation but mainly for the rich
The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:
favored immigrants from northern and western Europe
In the 1920s, farm prices:
fell sharply
The Neutrality Act of 1935:
forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations
In yellow-dog contracts, employers:
forced workers to agree to stay out of unions
Just before his election to the presidency in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was serving as:
governor of New York
The Klan attracted all of the following groups EXCEPT:
immigrants
In Texas, the Klan focused on:
imposing its severe view of righteous Protestant morality on others.
British and American differences over where to attack Germany first were resolved with the decision to launch an offensive:
in North Africa
Labor's new direction in the late 1930s was toward:
industrial unions
In June 1941, Germany widened the war by:
invading the Soviet Union
The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:
involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies
The progressive coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
many of the progressive reforms still seemed unattainable
Following the declaration of war:
men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted
In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt for the first time presented:
no new reform programs that year
In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court:
overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act
The 1939 Neutrality Act's cash-and-carry provision:
permitted the United States to sell arms to Britain and France if they paid up-front and carried their purchases on their own ships
The Marx Brothers:
produced plotless masterpieces of irreverent satire
The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to:
provide work relief for young men
In the case of Norris v. Alabama, the Supreme Court:
ruled that the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries denied Scottsboro defendants equal protection of the law
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938:
set a minimum wage of 40¢ an hour
The Office of Price Administration:
set price ceilings on and rationed highly demanded items such as tires, sugar, and gasoline
The 1924 immigration law:
set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country
America's "good neighbor" policy:
supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America
Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?
the Scopes Trial
The country that suffered the most deaths in the fighting of World War II was:
the Soviet Union
Roosevelt's court-packing scheme became unnecessary when:
the Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal
By the autumn of 1941:
the U.S. Navy was engaging the German Navy in the Atlantic
Following the conclusion of World War II, the two most powerful nations in the world were:
the United States and the Soviet Union
The Dust Bowl can be associated with:
the blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil
All of the following were 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
What significant objective motivated Japanese expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific during 1940-1941?
the expansion's provision of access to vitally needed raw materials
The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:
the fact that Americans in the 1920s were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble"
Of all the causes of the stock market crash of October 1929, the greatest culprit was:
the weak foundation of the 1920s economy
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:
two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
Conservatives lambasted the Social Security Act as:
tyrannical
The "Ohio gang":
was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political office
Eleanor Roosevelt:
was especially supportive of women, blacks, and youth
The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930s:
was heaviest in the South
The National Labor Relations Act:
was often called the Wagner Act
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
was permanently disabled after contracting polio
Charles E. Coughlin:
was the "radio priest"
John W. Davis:
was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924
Yellow-dog contracts:
were used by employers to restrict union membership
By November 1941, the United States insisted it would reopen trade with Japan only after that country:
withdrew completely from China
Richard Wright:
wrote Native Son, a story of racial prejudice
