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