1302 History Final
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were
Accused of passing American secrets to enemies (Soviet Union spies)
In 1945, the first atomic explosion in history took place in
Alamogordo, New Mexico
In 1940, the lend-lease plan
Allowed the US to loan weapons to England to be returned when the war was over
The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
An agreement between 15 nations outlawing war; eventually 48 other nations joined the pact; Had no way of enforcing peace. Was signed with wide international acclaim.
During World War II, United States military
Began to relax its practice of racial segregation
During the 1920's the American Federation of labor?
Believed worker's should be organized on the basis of skills
The Internet grew out of
Concerns about defense and national security
The Works Progress Administration of 1935
Congress created agency that gave jobs to people who needed them: worked on bridges, roads, and buildings. Gave almost 9 million people jobs
All the following factors were causes of the Great Depression except?
Conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans
In the Vietnam war, the Ho-Chi Minh trail was
Continuously moved by the North Vietnamese
On October 29, 1929, the American stock market?
Crashed
The Munich agreement of 1938
Dealt with German designs on the country of Czechoslovakia.
In 1949, the NATO
Declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all
In February 1945, an Allied bombing attack on Dresden Germany
Destroyed most of the previously undamaged city. Killed more than 135,000 people, nearly all civilians.
The Social Security Act of 1935
Did not begin making payments to participants for years
The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton
Ended up with no charge attracting the majority of votes in the Senate
Roosevelt's Court-packing plan called for replacing conservative justices with liberal ones?
False
The Agricultural Adjustment Act did not bring about a rise in farm prices in the years immediately following its passage? (in 1933)
False
The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was followed by the fire bombing of Tokyo?
False
In late 1943 at the Tehran Conference
Franklin Roosevelt promised an Anglo American second front within 6 months
During World War 2, the United States Army chief of staff was?
George Marshall
As the Depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover?
Grew less willing to increase federal spending
The Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930?
In 1930 Congress passed the toughest tarrif in US history. It was meant to protect US industries yet had the opposite effect. Other countries enacted their own tariffs and soon world trade fell 40%
The Gulf War of 1991 had its origins in an Iraqi decision to?
Invade Kuwait
All the following are true of the Iraq war except
Iraq's rumored supply of "weapons of mass destruction" was uncovered by American troops 2005
Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Truman
Issued an ultimation to Japan to surrender or face utter devastation
In early 1945 at the Yalta Conference
It was agreed that the Soviet Union should regain land lost in the 1904 Russo-Japanese war
During the Bay of Pigs operation, President John Kennedy decided to withhold
Military air support
In 1950, the immediate cause of the Korean War was
Military invasion by North Korea into South Korea
During the 1930s, American literature?
Offered a greater guarantee of social commentary then did either radio or movies
The Neutrality Act of 1935
Originally designed to avoid American involvement in World War II, by preventing loans to those countries taking part in the War. They were later modified in 1939 to allow aid to Great Britain and other allied nations.
The Dawes Plan of 1924
Plan to revive the German economy: the US loans Germany money which then can pay reparations to England and France; who can then back their loans from the US. Circular flow of money was a success.
In 1933 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Protected the assets of small bank depositors
In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because MacArthur
Publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas
Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945 the US
Refused to accept large numbers of refugees
The Battle of the Bulge
Saw the American army drive deep into Germany:began in the spring of 1945
In 1941, the Atlantic Charter
Saw the US and New England claim to share common principles
During World War II, American Indians
Saw the war effort undermine efforts to revitalize tribal traditions
As a result of the great depression, social values?
Seemed to change relatively little
Evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war in mid-1945 included
Sending thousands of pilots on suicide missions. Nighttime attacks by Japanese troops against American lines.
During World War II, American women who worked outside the home?
Tended to be older than the women who worked in the past
In 1948, the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin was a response to
The creation of unified West Germany
In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was
The movie industry
The federal government's response to the Bonus Army included?
The use of 6 tanks to route the veterans from Washington. General MacArthur exceeding his orders to remove the veterans. Injuring over 100 marchers
The 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution was in response
To alleged attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on American destroyers
During his first 100 days in office, President Roosevelt let it be known that balancing the federal budget was a priority of his administration.
True
Harry Truman did not know of the existence of the Manhattan Project when he became president?
True
In December 1941, Germany declared war on the United States before the US declared war on Germany?
True
NSC-68 presume that the United States could not rely on other nations in resisting communism
True
Native American languages were useful in American military communications?
True
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States knew that an attack was imminent but not where it would be?
True
The Rural Electrification Administration was more effective and affected more people than the Resettlement Administration?
True
The Social Security Act was part of what has been the Second New Deal?
True
The Supreme Court declared both the National Industry Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional?
True
The United States never joined the League of Nations
True
The film, the birth of a nation, glorified the early Ku Klux Klan?
True
The great depression was caused by the stock market crash of 1929?
True
The 1962 Cuban missile crisis saw the
United States order a naval and air blockade of Cuba
The 1968 Tet offensive
Was a major political defeat for President Lyndon Johnson. Substantial military victory for the US. Permanantly depleted the ranks of the NFL
In the 1930s, the Dust Bowl?
Was a product of changing environmental conditions
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech
Was made shortly after Lyndon Johnson became president
Between 1947 and 1950, Marshall plan aid
Was offered to the Soviet Union
In 1947, the Truman Doctrine
Was originally invoked to provide aid to Greece and Turkey. Asserted it was the obligation of the US to support free peoples around the world. Assumed the Soviet Union would continually attempt a global expansion of its authority.
The human genome project
Will complete its gene identification project in 2003
The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933
experiment in regional planning by the federal government. Was headed by former electricity magnate Samuel Insull. ELECTRICITY
Lend-lease to Great Britain led directly to an American decision to patrol a neutral zone
false (Hemispheric Defense)
During the Great Depression?
men moved into jobs traditionally held by professional woman
When prohibition went into effect in 1920, it had support of not only middle-class Americans but most progressives as well?
true
In the 1980s presidential election, Ronald Reagan
won over Jimmy Carter, because of Iranian hostage crisis and Americas Stagflation.
