us history final exam
"New Liberalism" advocated all of the following except
A balanced budget.
All of the following refer to religion in the 1950s except which of the following?
A series of scandals rocked the mainline denominations.
One problem faced immigrant workers relocating to the new sites of war production, and that was
A shortage of housing.
During the 1970s two new means for promoting racial equality were
Affirmative action and school busing.
William J. Levitt was the pioneer of
Affordable housing for the working class.
Which country did the United States target in the immediate wake of 9/11?
Afghanistan
The United States helped restore some peace to the Balkans
After millions had suffered because of American reluctance.
Americans in the 1950s had a rebirth of concern for the environment because of
All of the above.
Several factors enhanced the economic growth of the 1950s. Of the following, which is not among the reasons?
Americans remembered the Depression and the sacrifices of the war years, and they commonly saved their money for their children.
"Open Skies" was
An agreement between the US and USSR.
The philosophical foundation of Malcolm X was his
Belief that African Americans should acquire freedom "by any means necessary."
In the 1980s most states in the United States had
Decriminalized homosexual behavior.
President Reagan's opponent for the presidency in the 1984 election was
Democrat Walter Mondale.
Despite their gains in employment, American women workers faced
Discrimination.
Which of the following statements is an incorrect characterization of the American economy in the 1970s?
Energy and food prices stabilized.
The group of Third World oil-exporting nations that came to be so familiar to Americans in the 1970s is
OPEC.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was partly intended to counter the growing influence of which country?
China.
The terrorist-supporter __________ was the focus of the Reagan administration.
Muammar Qaddafi
In 1993, the first female attorney general was
Janet Reno.
Which of the following did not trouble adults about the postwar youth culture?
Cars
Which of the following is true about African American high school graduation rates in 2002?
Black graduation grates had roughly quadrupled.
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) would
Create a space-based missile defense system that would use advanced technology to shoot down nuclear missiles launched at the United States.
In the election of 1976, all of the following are correct except that
George Wallace received 2 percent of the electoral vote.
In March 1967, President Johnson shocked the American people by announcing all of the following except that
He was firing General William C. Westmoreland.
When the United States came to the defense of Israel in the Yom Kippur War, the Arab countries
Imposed an oil embargo on the Western world.
The first bomb attack on the World Trade Center took place
In February 1993.
Which of the following issues do Millennials face?
Large student loan bills.
The Nuremberg Laws resulted in all of the following except
Laws passed by the Congress to prevent the United States from going to war against Germany.
In the Supreme Court case Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Court ruled that
Mandatory busing to desegregate schools was constitutional.
President Kennedy confronted the Soviets over their construction of launch sites for nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kennedy's initial response was to
Order a naval quarantine of the Caribbean island.
Which of the following measures did the Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 put into effect?
Preventing insurance companies from denying coverage because of preexisting conditions.
The Reagan Doctrine was applied on the Caribbean island of Grenada to
Protect about 1,000 Americans, mostly medical students, from a new Marxist regime.
During World War II, army leadership struggled to preserve
Racial traditions of segregation.
In return for the withdrawal of Soviet missiles in Cuba, the United States
Removed obsolete missiles from Turkey.
The term "reconversion" referred to
Restoring the nation's economy and society back to prewar status.
The head of one restaurant company explained that which worker population was "always polite" and "never shows up late"?
Robots.
The Axis Powers included all of the following except
Russia
By the 1980s, the largest American Protestant denomination was the
Southern Baptists.
What role did Poland play in the discussions at Yalta?
Stalin worried that the Soviet Union was threatened by an unfriendly or anti-Soviet government in Poland.
Prior to the entry of the United States into the World War, President Roosevelt allowed all of the following except
Strict enforcement of the Neutrality Acts.
The Cold War became global because
Strife in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America was seen as a part of the conflict between the United States and USSR.
The civil rights organization that sprang from the sit-ins was the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Which of the following did George W. Bush successfully pass through congress?
Tax cuts.
Which of the following was not one of the charges anti-globalization protesters leveled against the WTO in Seattle in 1999?
That they threatened the wealth of developed nations
The one thing most Americans feared above all else following the war was
The economic slide into a postwar depression.
Which of the following statements characterizes what Franklin McCain and his friends expected when they sat down at the lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's lunch counter?
They might get beaten and arrested
Which of the following best describes the position of internationalists in 1939?
They saw free trade as a solution to international conflict.
Why did Japan pursue a "go south" strategy in 1939?
To encircle China.
By the 1990s,
Tourism was possibly the largest single global industry.
How did the U.S. development of the nuclear bomb affect U.S.-Soviet relations?
U.S. secrecy about the development of the bomb further strained U.S.-Soviet relations.
