US History final exam MCQs

In 1940, the "lend-lease" plan

Allowed the U.S. to loan weapons to England, to be returned or paid for when the war was over

The so-called "Zimmerman telegram"

Included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico

In 1943, the country that pressed for an immediate Allied invasion of France against Germany was

The Soviet Union

In 1940, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study on

The Standard Oil Trust

One key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was

The moving assembly line

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

Took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

The "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s

Was a product of changing environmental conditions

The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933

Was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government

Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government

Was relatively inactive

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.

One long-term consequence of the New Deal was that

the national government assumed a responsibility for the basic welfare of the people

In the 1920s, the "flapper" lifestyle

Had a particular impact on lower-middle-class single women

In 1941, Germany's declaration of war against the United States

Occurred before the United States declared war on Germany

In August 1944, the Allies liberated from German occupation the city of

Paris

During World War 2, Germany held the technological edge over the Allies in

Rocket-propelled bombs

Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the U.S. economy

Saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities

To oversee activities in the stock market, in 1934 Congress established the

Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC)

All of the following occurred as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT

Significant reduction in poverty in the region

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur

Steel

By the middle of 1940, Germany had defeated

All of these answers are correct

During Progressive Era, the "new woman" was a product of

All of these answers are correct

In mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included

All of these answers are correct

The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century

All of these answers are correct

The Battle of Midway in 1942

All of these answers are correct.

All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political campaign EXCEPT

Big-business owners

During President Franklin Roosevelt's early days in office

He promised to take drastic, even warlike, action against economic conditions

The Soviet Union's 1948 blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to the

Creation of a unified West Germany

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle concerning the conflict between

Creationism and evolution

The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in

Cuba

The Munich Conference of 1938 was precipitated by a crisis over

Czechoslovakia

In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all

In the aftermath of the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania,

Germany pledged to the United States it would not repeat such an action

In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

During World War 2, the first Axis country to be defeated was

Italy

The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps was the Battle of

Iwo Jima

Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio

John D. Rockefeller

The term "muckrakers" referred to

Journalists

Uptown Sinclair's 1906 novel ,The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

Meatpacking industry

The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the

Military invasion by North Korea into South Korea

In 1939, the first steps toward the creation of an atomic bomb were taken by

Nazi Germany

In 1918, President Wilson's "Fourteen Points" received significant political support from

None of these answers are correct

Regarding the Treaty of Versailles, the United States Senate decided in 1919 to

Not ratify it