HIST 1302 Review
In 1966 the rallying cry of the civil rights movement became:
"Black power".
Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under
$6,900.
In 1932 what was the percentage of American's unemployed
25
As George H. W. Bush prepared for the 1992 election, his greatest weakness became:
A major downturn in the economy.
At Columbia University in 1968:
A student strike shut down the campus.
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947:
Allowed the president to impose a "cooking-off" period during major strikes.
The Strategic Defense Initiative involved:
An anti-missile defense system.
For the first Bush administration, the major problem in the early 1990s was:
An economic recession.
The United States entered the 1990s:
As the world's only remaining superpower.
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the:
Bay of Pigs invasion.
The hippie movement ultimately:
Began to wane as counterculture had become counterproductive.
While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:
Black veterans encountered barriers to entrance.
What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s
Both had established fascist forms of government.
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:
Can veto any major proposal.
The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s:
Challenged established authority in favor of "participatory democracy".
In the Birmingham campaign in 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from:
Changing southern white attitudes to obtaining federal enforcement and new laws.
The Marco Polo Bridge incident brought Japan to war against what country?
China.
The postwar economic boom was fueled mainly by:
Cold war-related military spending.
The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:
Cutbacks in production.
As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:
Cutting taxes.
One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his:
Decisive character.
At the outset of his presidency, to deal with the banking crisis, Roosevelt:
Declared a bank holiday, shutting the banks down briefly.
Huey Long:
Developed a program called Share the Wealth.
On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to:
Enlarge the New Deal.
Betty Friedman's The Feminine Mystique:
Explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women.
The feminist movement suffered a setback with the:
Failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment.
All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT:
Family savings.
The Neutrality Act of 1935:
Forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations.
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. had the support of troops from:
Great Britain, Australia, and Poland.
Richard Nixon:
Had a reputation for hard-line anticommunism and rough campaign tactics.
All of the following are true of Harry Truman EXCEPT that he:
Had an Ivy League education.
By 1971, the New Left:
Had split into factions and largely self-destructed.
President Roosevelt did not intervene in the Spanish Civil War because:
He accepted the French and British position that the western democracies should not intervene.
The German occupation of Czechoslovakia had what effect on Roosevelt?
He no longer professed impartiality in the impending European struggle.
At the Altamont concert in 1969:
Hells Angels killed a man in front of the stage.
The anti-feminist women led by Phyllis Schlafly:
Helped keep the equal-rights amendment from being ratified.
A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:
High rates of inflation.
The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:
His brother, Robert.
Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for:
His elegant and inspiring rhetoric.
John F. Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his:
His health
During the Spanish Civil War:
Hitler and Mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco.
American foreign policy in Latin America in the period between world wars included all the following EXCEPT:
Insisting that the Monroe Doctrine provided a valid justification for intervention.
The Nye committee:
Investigated and criticized the role that bankers and munitions makers played in America's entry into World War 1.
All of the following is true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT:
It was the parent organization for the CCC
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?
Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.
The leader of the Moral Majority was:
Jerry Falwell.
The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was The Grapes of Wrath by:
John Steinbeck
Young men were able to avoid service in Vietnam by all of the following methods EXCEPT:
Joining the VISTA or the Peace Corps.
Student civil rights activist in the South would likely experience all of the following EXCEPT:
Kennedy's public encouragement.
Two decades after 1940:
Life expectancy for nonwhites rose ten years and black wage earnings increased fourfold.
The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was:
Long Island.
In the impeachment proceeding, Bill Clinton was charged with:
Lying under oath to a grand jury.
Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:
Made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964.
To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:
Many landowners took their leased lands out of production.
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by:
Men with new ideas and fresh thinking.
the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was an example of:
Militia hatred of the federal government.
The Great Depression and the economic struggles it caused during the early 1930s generally made Americans:
More isolationist in sentiment.
Winton Churchill, who would become the British prime minister in 1940, described which agreement as "as defeat without a war"?
Munich Pact.
Codes of fair practice were part of:
NRA.
The organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions:
NRA.
The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:
Pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military.
A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was:
Population growth in the South and the West.
In their role at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Yippies could best be described as:
Pranksters.
A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:
Prevent the return of the Depression.
In the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy:
Promised to get the country "moving again:.
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 1946 congressional elections resulted in:
Republican control of Congress.
In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:
Required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights
In 1968 the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was:
Richard Nixon.
Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:
Significantly increased.
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.
The baby boom:
Started in 1946.
To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:
Sunny.
The religious right fervently supported Reagan because he:
Supported its conservative social values.
America's Good Neighbor policy:
Supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America.
Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 strikebreaker"?
The Congress of Industrial Organizations.
All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:
The Department of Homeland Security.
In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT:
The Price Is Right.
One major inspiration for Reagan's economic approach was:
The Republican tax-reduction program of the 1920's.
In 1968 the correct order of events was:
The Tet Offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Democratic convention in Chicago.
Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:
The University of Mississippi.
The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and VISTA were all part of:
The War on Poverty.
The dust bowl can be associated with:
The blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil.
By 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by:
The example of the civil rights movement.
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following EXCEPT:
The passage of a large tax cut.
President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come" after
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, was:
The sit-in.
The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:
The sunbelt.
Carter's management of the economy resulted in:
Unacceptably hight rates of inflation.
Which of the following were NOT members of the "brain trust"?
Union members
The Panay incident:
Was a Japanese attack on an American ship in China.
Reagan's experience as an actor:
Was invaluable in a television age.
The result of the 1960 election:
Was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states.
In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley:
Was the site of a free-speech movement (FSM).
The youths of the counterculture:
Were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s.
During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:
Widened.
Early in Reagan's presidency, all of the following were increasing EXCEPT:
Tax revenues.
When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to:
Temporarily seize those industries.