Hist 2 Exam 3

All of the following are true of Harry Truman except that he

had an Ivy League education

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

A major economic problem President Truman faced immediately after the war was:

high rates of inflation

American foreign policy in Latin America in the period between world wars included all of 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 I

All of the following is true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT:

it was the parent organization for the Civilian Conservation Corps

Two decades after 1940:

life expectancy for nonwhites rose ten years and black wage earnings increased fourfold

The Neutrality Act of 1935

made it illegal for Americans to sell arms to any country at war

To earn the federal income payments for reducing crops

many landowners took their leased lands out of production

The Great Depression and the economic struggles is caused during the early 1930s generally made Americans

more isolationist in sentiment

The GI Bill of Rights did all of the following except

pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military

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

prevent the return of the Depression

The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to:

provide works relief for young men

After the war, Americans were most eager to:

purchase

Between 1945 and 1960, home ownership:

significantly increased

The baby boom

started in 1946

America's Good Neighbor policy:

supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America

When confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, President Truman's response was to

temporarily seize those industries

All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 except

the Department of Homeland Security

The dust bowl can be associated with

the blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

the sunbelt

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

During the 1950s, the income gap between whites and blacks:

widened

Houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold for just under:

$6,900

By 1932, what percentage of American workers were unemployed?

25

What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s?

Both had established fascist forms of government

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

China

Who tagged Truman "the No. 1 strikebreaker"?

Congress of Industrial Organizations

The German occupation of Czechoslovakia had what effect on Roosevelt?

He no longer professed impartiality in the impending European struggle

During the Spanish Civil War:

Hitler and Mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco

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

Its huge cost did not justify its benefits

The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was The Grapes of Wrath by:

John Steinbeck

The location of William Levitt's first suburban development was

Long Island

Codes of fair practice were part of:

NRA

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

NRA

The 1946 Congressional elections resulted in

Republican control of Congress

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

Stalin's quest for world domination

Winston Churchill who would become the British prime Minister in 1940 described which agreement as "a defeat without a war"?

The Munich Pact

In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows except

The Price is Right

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

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

While college enrollments soared in the postwar period:

black veterans encountered barriers to entrance

Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council

can veto any major proposal

The post war 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

One of Truman's greatest 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

All of the following increased though the postwar years except

family savings