Final Exam questions
Which newspaper headline would have appeared in the spring of 1945?
"A Stunned Nation Mourns the Passing of FDR"
What question did Reagan famously pose to the American electorate during the 1980 campaign?
"Are you better off now than you were four years ago?"
Black Tuesday
"Crash"
Garfield
"From he towpath to the White House"
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke which famous words at the March on Washington?
"I have a dream..."
Prominently displayed in Bill Clinton's campaign headquarters was a sign featuring the phrase
"It's the Economy, Stupid!"
Photojournalism
"Life" Magazine
Vatican II resulted in which of the following?
"Meatless" Fridays were no longer required. Priests faced the congregation, rather than the altar, during mass. Mass would be conducted in the vernacular rather than in Latin. not: Confession on Saturday was compulsory.
Republican Party
"The Grand Old Party"
To end bottlenecks in production, the president installed Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes as director of the new Office of "_____"
"War Moblization"
Haywood
"Wobblies"
What phrase did President Eisenhower coin to describe the vulnerable neighbors of a country like Vietnam threatened with a Communist takeover?
"a row of dominoes"
What best describes Reagan's style of leadership?
"hands-off" style.
What category of American citizens helped turn the tide in Kennedy's favor in the election of 1960?
"hyphenated" Americans
Which category of American citizens helped turn the tide in Kennedy's favor in the election of 1960
"hyphenated" Americans
Carter described the need for a comprehensive energy plan as the
"moral equivalent of war."
Donald Trump referred to African nations as
"shithole" countries.
All of the following help explain the rise of suburbia EXCEPT
"white flight," which lured rural residents to the glamour and high living standards of metropolitan areas.
The second ruling in the Brown decision, handed down in 1955, required that school desegregation be carried out
"with all deliberate speed."
When North Vietnam began a new offensive against South Vietnam in 1975, how much did Ford request from Congress in emergency funding?
$1 billion
Reparations
$56 billion
New Deal agencies discriminated against African Americans in which of the following ways
- They were paid less that whites -They lost their jobs to whites -They were not allowed to live in certain cities
Which of the following evidence supports the view that Stalin's actions after WWII were primarily defensive
-American military forces occupied in both Europe and Asia -Soviet agriculture and industry were struggling due to war time damage
Which of the following evidence supports the view that Stalin's actions after World War II were primarily defensive?
-American military forces occupied territory in both Europe and and Asia. -Soviet agriculture and industry were struggling due to wartime damage.
Japanese actions in 1941 and the U.S. response to them
-Having established control of the Chinese coast, the Japanese marched into French Indochina and prepared for more conquests. -The United States demanded that Japan withdraw from China and renounce its 1940 pact with Germany and Italy. -While negotiating with the Americans, the Japanese were secretly preparing to attack U.S. possessions in the Pacific.
While a candidate, Eisenhower referred to himself as a "_____________" Republican, as opposed to the more "_____________" members of the party.
-modern -hidebound
Favored policy positions by Eisenhower addressed during his administration
-modest increases in social security -increasing the minimum wage
in the 1960s, Tom Hayden, Mario Savio, and others believed in participatory democracy and used tactics such as
-participating in sit-ins -marching in protests
Key issues in the civil rights movement during the post-World War II era included which of the following?
-receiving equal pay for equal work -extending voting rights -improving segregated schools
Key issues in the civil rights movement during the post- World War II era included which of the following?
-receiving equal pay for equal work -improving segregated schools -extending voting rights
Which of the following was President Truman most likely referring to when, in September 1945, he announced his intention to extend the New Deal into the post-war era?
-subsidized public housing -a commission to fight job discrimination -guaranteed full employment -national health insurance
Which of the following postwar developments indicate the global implications of the cold war?
-the United States rebuilt the economies of western Europe and Japan -The two superpowers possessed the nuclear capability to annihilate each other and the rest of the world -Eastern Europe and China aligned with the Soviet Union
Which of the following issues were used against Democrats by their republican opponents during the presidential campaign in 1952
-the stalemate in Korea -fear of communism -corruption among Truman's associates
What aspects of the Soviet system particularly inspired suspicion among Americans?
-the use of violence and terror -the rejection of private property
Which of the following are success of the New Deal
-unemployment insurance -banking regulations -wage requirements
Members of the counterculture often felt than many current social conventions
-were too repressive. -should be reformed.
By 2001, the Hindu population of the U.S. was about
1 MIL
Which of the following were features of George H. W. Bush's upbringing
1) Member of the East Coast Establishment 2) Son of a Connecticut Senator 3) Student at Yale University
Which of the following statements are true regarding the issue of nuclear power
1) Some regarded nuclear power plants as a non polluting resource that could reduce US dependency of foreign oil. 2) Environmentalists feared the fact that there was no solution to safely dispose of nuclear waste.
During what year was evidence of the eruption of violence in the U.S. found in the Wisconsin dairy farmers' protest and the "coal caravan" in Illinois?
1932
During what year was evidence of the eruption of violence in the U.S. found in the Wisconsin diary farmer's protests and the "coal caravan" in Illinois?
1932
When President Johnson asked Congress to approve the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, how many dissenting votes were there?
2
From 1944 to 1948, approximately how many veterans took advantage of the GI Bill?
2 million
from 1944 to 1948, approximately how many veterans took advantage of the GI Bill
2 million
What percentage of the cuban economy was in the hands of U.S. intrests in the 1950s?
80%
The final outcome of the more than five million investigations conducted by the Loyalty Review Board was...
A heightened fear of Communists
Which U.S Supreme Court case found that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to other racial groups besides African Americans
Hernandez v. Texas
Which U.S. Supreme Court case found that the Fourteenth Amendment applied to other racial groups besides African Americans?
Hernández v. Texas
Barack Obama's main competitor in the 2008 Democratic primary elections was
Hillary Clinton.
The Clinton administration's health care proposal was created by a task force headed by
Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The United States dropped atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Why was Pat Robinson so successful in communicating his message
His Christian Broadcast Network used modern media techniques
Which of the following statements is not an accurate representation of Ralph Nader's interaction with the private sector in the 1960s?
His advocacy of government regulation of the private sector contributed to a notable decline in national GDP as the decade concluded.
Martin Luther King Jr. Spoke which famous words at the March on Washington
I have a dream
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke which famous words at the March of Washington?
I have a dream...
Choose the correct sequence of campaigning on the western front in the European theater of operations: I. Cross-channel invasion; II. Invasion of Italy; III. North Africa campaign; IV. Invasion of Sicily.
III, IV, II, I
Thousands of Japanese Americans were placed in ___________, or concentration camps during the war.
INTERNMENT
Assimilation
Immigrants worked to become Americanized
When did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
In 1979, during the rule of Leonid Brezhnev after the Iranian Revolution
The New Deal legislation that was designed to raise farm commodity prices through reductions in agricultural production was known as the
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Wright Brothers
Airplane
In the presidential election of 2000, who led in the popular vote nationwide?
Al Gore
Scottsboro
Alabama, 9 Defendants
Wallace
Alabama, Presidential candidate
Who wrote Sand County Almanac, in which he proposed that rather than see land as a "commodity belonging to us," we should see it as a "community to which we belong"?
Aldo Leopold
The popular movie Saturday Night Fever reflected the ______ of the American people.
Alienation
In the off-year elections of 1938, in the midst of the "Roosevelt recession," Roosevelt tried to purge five senators. What was the result?
All five were reelected, handing Roosevelt a defeat.
The Kennedy Government program to improve U.S relations with Latin America through the use of foregin aid as was known as the ___________________ for ______________________
Alliance for Progress
The Kennedy government's program to improve U.S. relations with Latin America through the use of foreign aid was known as the _______ for _______.
Alliance for Progress
Nativism
Americans blamed problems on immigrants
Which event did not take place after the American Blockage of Cuba was put in place
An American U-2 spy plane completed a successful mission in Cuban Airspace
Dulles
Anti-communist, Secretary of State
Clergy who preached their message on the television in the 1950s tended to focus on what themes?
Anticommunism and patriotism
Dewey
Applied theories of pragmatism to education
PLO
Arafat
The famous group from Liverpool, England, that changed rock music in the United States and the world was the
Beatles
As minorities began to move into white neighborhoods in Detroit, a race riot broke out when ______.
Blacks and Hispanics were attacked by white mobs
Great migration
Blacks to North
George
Blamed poverty on the greed of the wealthy
The status of some minority groups, including ________________ Americans and _______________ Americans, improved as a result of their participation in the war effort by allowing them to enter the American mainstream.
Blank 1: Mexican Blank 2: Asian, Filipinos, or Chinese
What folk artist shocked fans by shifting to "folk-rock" in 1965?
Bob Dylan
This Supreme Court decision effectively overturned the principles advocated in Plessey v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Which of the following was a landmark civil rights case from 1954 in that it challenged the premise behind Plessy v. Ferguson ?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
The PWA built which of the following
Brownsville, Texas Triborough Bridge Lincoln Tunnel
Rosa Parks
Bus rider
The "Good Neighbor" policy originated during which presidential administration?
Calvin Coolidge
Khmer Rouge
Cambodia
The best known farm strike of the 1930s took place in San Joaquin Valley cotton fields and was organized by the....
Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union
The best-known farm strike of the 1930s took place in the San Joaquin Valley and was organized by the
Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union
One of the methods used by SNCC and CORE during the rise of black militancy was
Carrying Arms to defend themselves
Consolidation
Control competition and reduce instability
The Voting Rights Act
Eliminated Literacy Tests used to screen voters
When natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina occur, the government agency assigned to help is the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Fireside Chats
FDR explained his plans to America through his informal radio broadcasts called ____.
Ford
First famous car that would bear his name
In the 1968 presidential election, this third-party candidate won about 14% of the vote
George Wallace
Which of the following factors contributed to the erosion and dust storms of the Great Plains
Grazing Farming Drought
The St. Lawrence Seway Act, which Eisenhower signed in 1954, providing federal funding for a waterwat that would connect to the
Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
The St. Lawrence Seaway Act, which Eisenhower signed in 1954. provided federal funding for a waterway that would connect the...
Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean (US to Canada)
President Johnson intended to build a "_____ ______" in which racism and poverty had been eliminated.
Great Society
President Johnson intended to eliminate racism and poverty as part of what is known as
Great Society
President Johnson intended to eliminate racism and poverty as part of what was known as a
Great Society.
Reagan
Great communicator
Sullivan
Greatest figure in the early development of the skyscraper
A crucial moment in the cold war came when Britain withdrew aid to which two countries?
Greece and Turkey
An OPEC boycott of oil exports to the United States was a direct result of U.S. support for which of the following countries?
Israel
Japanese in the United States who were not eligible to become citizens were called
Issei
How did the Eisenhower administration address the recession of 1953-1954?
It balanced the budget and checked inflation.
What effect did the Voting Rights Act have on African American voter registration in the South?
It nearly doubled.
In 9164, the U.S Congress passed the National Wilderness System Act. What did this act do?
It reserved wilderness lands so that they could always remain wild
What was Carter's principal criticism of previous U.S. foreign policy?
It supported right-wing dictatorships.
Which of the following statements are true of the Gramm-Rudman Act?
It threatened successful programs such as Medicare. It established a set of limits on federal spending.
What did the Supreme Court decision in Butler v. U.S. (1936) do?
It voided the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Which of the following best describes the relationship among Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Teheran in 1943?
It was a high point of cooperation among the three leaders.
Which of the following statements about the Immigration and Control Act of 1986 is true?
It was not successful in curbing illegal immigration to the United States.
Why was Afghanistan an obvious target of the war against the "radical network of terrorists"?
It was the seat of the Taliban.
What action did Japan take after the League of Nations condemned it for attacking China?
It withdrew from the League.
The 1963 March on Washington encouraged
It's participants to back congress's civil rights actions
The earliest fascist agression took place when
Italy attacked and captured Ethiopia.
In 1937, President Roosevelt called for an international quarantine of which three aggressor nations?
Italy, Germany, and Rome
As the U.S. economy struggled in the mid-1970s, what was happening in the Soviet Union?
Its economy was also stagnating.
Beatniks
Jack Kerouac
Fulfilling his promise to provide opportunities for women to participate in his administration, Bill Clinton appointed ______ as his attorney general.
Janet Reno
At the final meeting of the Big Three, Churchill worried about Soviet aggression, whereas Roosevelt hoped for Soviet support against __________
Japan
In the years preceding WWII, the influence of U.S. in Asia was increasingly under threat from the expansion of which country?
Japan
In the years preceding World War II, the influence of United States in Asia was increasingly under threat from the expansion of which country?
Japan
In the years precending World War 2, the influence of the united states in asia was increaingly under threat from the expansion of which country?
Japan
Which of the following nations WAS NOT a combatant in the Korean War?
Japan
Under American law, the children of _______________ immigrants could become U.S. citizens, but not the immigrants themselves.
Japanese
Debs
Leader of American Railway Union
What statement about the state of American manufacturing in the 1970s is true?
Many American manufacturers moved high-wage, skilled jobs overseas.
Which of the following statements about the state of American manufacturing in the 1970s is true?
Many American manufacturers moved high-wage, skilled jobs overseas.
Why did the Puerto Rican community in New York lose some of the leadership it needed to advance its political interests after World War II?
Many light-skinned Puerto Ricans escaped racial discrimination and segregation to blend into the middle class. Most Puerto Ricans were not willing to put down the kind of roots stateside that would have been necessary.
Why were some groups hesitant to energetically tackle the AIDS crisis?
Many sufferers were gay or drug addicts.
Who led Communist troops to victory in China in 1949
Mao Zedong
Who led Communist troops to victory in China in 1949?
Mao Zedong
Coxey's Army
Marched on Washington
"I Have a Dream," the great landmark speech of the civil rights movement, was delivered by
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the Key community leader of the Montgomery bus boycott
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the key community leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was the key leader of the Montgomery bus boycott?
Martin Luther King Jr.
What were some of Professor Alfred Kinsey's startling conclusions about sexuality in the 1950s?
Masturbation was widespread and premarital petting was common.
Upon what state did SNCC and CORE workers focus, for over two years, their voting rights efforts?
Mississippi
Which of the following leaders did Martin Luther King Jr. Follow by embracing nonviolence?
Mohandas Gandhi
The People for the American Way was formed in reaction to political pressure from the...
Moral Majority
How did Johnson's Great Society have a lasting impact on the role of the following government
Most Americans did not challenge federal intervention in the enviornment the economy, or providing mecial care for the elderly and poor.
The military alliance that the United States joined in the fifties to defend against Soviet aggression.
NATO
Stalin's actions in Berlin sped up the formation of an alliance known as ________.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The _______ ________ was made up of young volunteers who provided technical, educational, and medical assistance to Third World countries.
Peace Corps
What did the 1932 election results illustrate about the country's view of Roosevelt?
People from all sectors of society put their faith in Roosevelt
What did the 1932 election result illustrate about the country's view of Roosevelt?
People from all sectors of society put their faith in him
One of the most famous court cases of the 1930's involved accusations of a rape against a group of African American men who came to be known as the
Scottsboro Boys
One of the most famous court cases of the 1930s involved accusations of rape against a group of African American men who came to be known as the...
Scottsboro boys
Which of the following cities did NOT experience rioting in the late 1960s?
Seattle
Which of the following cities did not experience rioting in the late 1960s
Seattle
Which of the following cities did not experience rioting in the late 1960s?
Seattle
Perkins
Secretary of Labor
Suburbs
Smaller communities on the fringes of big cities
In order to keep foreign goods from flooding U.S. markets, Hoover supported the ______ Tariff.
Smoot- Hawley
In order to keep foreign goods from flooding U.S. markets, Hoover supported the ___________ Tariff
Smoot- Hawley
Passed in 1935, the ______ ______ Act established a pension plan for the elderly and unemployed.
Social Security
De facto segregation is segregation that is
Socially Accepted mistreatment of African Americans.
In the 1990s, U.S. troops were sent to different countries, including
Somalia & Haiti
The name of the first space satellite, which was launched into orbit by the Soviet Union, was ______.
Sputnik
U-2
Spy plane
OPA
Stabilize Prices
What was the purpose of the International Monetary Fund?
Stabilize national currencies to promote trade.
When President Truman found out that the atomic bomb had been successfully tested, ____________ was already aware of the existence of such a weapon.
Stalin
Conservative outrage against communism grew as
Stalin extended Soviet
Conservative outrage against communism grew as
Stalin extended Soviet control in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Conservative outrage against communism grew as...
Stalin extended Soviet control in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Which of the following accurately describe the 1943 Teheran conference?
Stalin reaffirmed his pledge to declare war against Japan once Germany was beaten. The D-Day invasion was agreed upon. Stalin promised to launch a spring offensive to keep German troops occupied on the eastern front. Not: Churchill pushed to make a European invasion a priority, but Stalin resisted throughout.
In the vicious fighting at ______, each side suffered more casualties than the Americans did during the entire war.
Stalingrad
Who founded Apple Computer in the 1970s?
Steve Wozniak Steve Jobs
The U.S. policy of "nonrecognition" of Japan's taking control of Manchuria was also known as the
Stimson Doctrine
What was the purpose of the World Bank?
Stimulate economic growth through investment.
Star Wars
Strategic Defense
Formed by Civil Rights Activist Tom Hayden, this radical group criticized the "old left" and believed that action was necessary to bring about change
Students For a Democratic Society
Formed by civil rights activist Tom Hayden, this radical group criticized the "old left" and believed action was needed to bring about change
Students for a Democratic Society
Formed by civil rights activist Tom Hayden, this radical group criticized the "old left" and believed action was needed to bring about change.
Students for a Democratic Society
Which observation about the makeup of suburban populations in the 1950s is inncorrect?
Suburbs tended to be dominated by aa single ethnic group
Truman
Succeeded FDR
Alliances
Successor of the Grangers
Reaganomics
Supply-side
What was NOT a principle or strategy that unified the diverse group known as isolationists?
Support for the Lend-Lease Act.
By the mid 1930s, Roosevelt had come to view the ______ as the primary impediment to the New Deal.
Supreme Court
By the mid-1930s Roosevelt had come to view the __________________________ as the primary impediment to the New Deal
Supreme Court
Sandra O'Connor
Supreme Court
Missouri
Surrender
Social Darwinism
Survival of the fittest applied to the marketplace
Yom Kippur
Syria and Egypt
The cold war had its roots in the unresolved issues of World War II, especially the questions of German reparations and boundaries, Poland's government, the future of China, and the relationship of the Soviet Union to its bordering nations.
T
Truman adviser Bernard Baruch proposed a plan for U.S.-led international control of atomic energy that the Soviets rejected.
T
Hawley-Smoot
Tariff
Panama Canal
Teddy Roosevelt determined to connect the Atlantic and Pacific by constructing the _____.
Zimmerman
Telegram, Mexico
Tet Offensive
Television covered the ____ when the Viet Cong launched a huge attack in South Vietnam.
Willard
Temperance
The New Deal program that constructed dams and provided electricity for an impoverished area of the country was the
Tennessee Valley Authority
The New Deal program that constructed dams and provided electricity for an impoverished area of the country was...
Tennessee Valley Authority
Which of the following does not explain the rise of militancy among young African Americans
The Civil Rights Act and Voing Rights Act eliminated all forms of discrimination
Which of the following does NOT explain the rise of militancy among young African Americans?
The Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act eliminated all forms of discrimination
The New Deal program that exclusively hired young, single men was the...
The Civilian Conservation Corps.
What, ultimately, ended Roosevelt's pursuit of his "court-packing" plan?
The Court suddenly began to reverse itself, upholding New Deal agencies.
Jackson
The Democrats tried to retain ties to which former President?
Which of the following presented the most divisive issue the Kennedy administration had to face?
The civil rights movement
Pennsylvania
The first established oil well was in ____.
Keating-Owen
The first federal law regulating child labor was known as the ____-____ Act.
Richmond
The first town with an electric trolley was ____.
What role did the media play in the civil rights movement
The images from demonstrations made people outside of the south support the movement
How did efforts to impeach presidents Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon differ?
The impeachment of Clinton was largely a partisan effort.
Baby Boom
The increased birthrate after World War II was known as the ____.
Which of the following is not an accurate statement concerning Latin American culture and politics in the 1960s?
The intractable differences among various Latino groups made cooperation among them impossible.
How did the social upheavals of the 1960s affect the rights and reform movements as the decade progressed?
They limited public support and tolerance for them.
Which best reflects the role of African American Voters in the civil Rights movement?
Those outside the South voted in great numbers, influencing politicians to take a stand on civil rights issues
Which best reflects the roles of African American voters in the civil rights movement
Those outside the south voted in great numbers, influencing politicians to take a stand of civil rights issues
The PWA built...
Triborough Bridge and Lincoln Tunnel, port city of Brownsville Texas, and two aircraft carriers.
John Foster Dulles wanted Communist influence to be rolled back not just contained.
True
Striking automotive workers were successful in their attempts to negotiate with employers
True
At the height of the war, the Allies consisted of a group of 50 countries that referred to themselves as the ___ ___
United Nations
At the height of the war, the Allies consisted of a group of 50 countries that referred to themselves as the _______ _______.
United Nations
At the height of the war, the Allies consisted of a group of 50 countries that referred to themselves as the ________ ___________
United Nations
Bernard Baruch rejected the proposal by a high-level government committee that mining and use of atomic materials should be supervised by the
United Nations
Bernard Baruch rejected the proposal by a high-level government committee that mining and use of atomic materials should be supervised by the _____ _____.
United Nations
Bernard Baruch rejected the proposal by a high-level government committee that mining and use of atomic materials should be supervised by the _______ _______.
United Nations
Bernard Baruch rejected the proposal by a high-level government committee that mining and use of atomic materials should be supervised by the ______________________________________________
United Nations
Bonus Army
WWI veterans who marched on Washington DC were called the ____.
What is an example of a sit-in
Waiting at a lunch counter until being served food
What is an example of a sit-in?
Waiting at a lunch counter until being served food.
Baruch
War Industries Board
In the early 1940s, the protest of tens of thousands of laborers against working conditions led to the creation of the ______.
War Labor Board
The ___ ____ ___ was created in 1942 to end labor strife
War Labor Board
The _________ _______ _________ was created in 1942 to end labor strife.
War Labor Board
In 1969 President Nixon appointed who as chief justice of the Supreme Court?
Warren Burger
The Soviet Union sent tanks back into Budapest in October 1956 because of Hungary's decision to withdraw from...
Warsaw Pact
Spoils
What is the ability of a political party to control and dispense jobs?
Nativists
What term defined people who believed open immigration was harming the nation?
Detente
What term described the goal of lessening tension between the US and the USSR?
Treaty of Versailles
What treaty was a peace settlement between Germany and the Allies and formally ended WWI?
December 7, 1941
What was the date of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
October 29, 1929
What was the date of the beginning of the Great Depression?
Lusitania
What was the name of the British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1915?
Muckrakers
What were journalists who drew attention to injustices in American society called?
1950
What year did the Korean War begin?
Most fundamentally, over what did internationalists and isolationists disagree?
Whether war could be prevented by collective security.
Churchill
Which British Prime Minister was one of the century's greatest men?
Roosevelt
Which President said that he was "steward of public welfare?"
Garfield
Which President was assassinated after just a few months in office?
McCarthy
Which Republican senator from Wisconsin believed the U.S. government contained communists?
Collage-Briand
Which agreement was supposed to "outlaw" war?
21st amendment
Which amendment repealed prohibition?
Italy
Which country changed sides in WWI?
Wallace
Which does not belong? (George Wallace, Watergate, Democratic headquarters, Nixon re-election)
SEC
Which group is supposed to police the stock market?
Social Security Act
Which of Roosevelt's programs was called the most important social welfare legislation?
AAA
Which of the New Deal programs asked farmers to cut production to raise prices?
REA
Which of the New Deal programs brought electricity to farmers?
TVA
Which of the New Deal programs truly "paid its own way"?
Toledo
Which of these cities had unemployment of 80%?
Italy
Which of these did not control part of Germany after WWII?
Speech Act
Which of these did not curtail free speech? (Speech Act, Espionage Act, Sabotage Act, and Sedition Act)
Drake
Which of these does not belong? (Bessemer, Drake, Kelly, and Hewitt)
Pentagon leak
Which of these does not belong? (Kent State, Pentagon leak, ROTC building burned, and four dead)
Easy entrance, exit
Which of these does not belong? (New York City, Triangle Factory, Easy entrance, exit, and 146 dead)
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Which of these does not belong? (Square Deal, Payne-Aldrich Tariff, Trust Buster, and San Juan Hill)
Carnegie
Which of these does not belong? (Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Hill, and Huntington)
Italy
Which of these had the lowest sea power after 1921?
Temperance Union
Which of these should not be included? (Temperance Union, Anna Shaw, Carrie Catt, and 19th Amendment)
Secretarial
Which of these was not a "woman's profession" in the 1800s? (Secretarial, Librarian, Nursing, and Teaching)
Maynard
Which of these was not a key labor leader?
Howell
Which of these was not a key painter? (Whistler, Howell, Homer, and Sargent)
Revivals
Which of these was not a major reason for urban growth? (revivals, jobs, amenities, and public transportation)
Children were given away
Which of these was not a result of the depression?
Potsdam
Which of these was not a wartime conference?
Ford
Which of these was not defeated by Reagan?
Meuse-Argonne
Which offensive effectively ended WWI?
People's Party
Which powerful third party was especially attractive to farmers?
Lifestyle of Rich and Famous
Which was not "escapist" radio?
Too many farms
Which was not a cause of the Great Depression?
Russia
Which was not conquered by Germany in the 1930s?
Bok
Who figured out how to have mass market circulation of magazines?
Edison
Who is said to be America's greatest inventor?
Wallace
Who was FDR's Secretary of Agriculture?
Taft
Who was Teddy Roosevelt's handpicked successor and became the 27th President?
Oswald
Who was accused of assassinating Kennedy?
Mussolini
Who was the Fascist leader of Italy?
Hitler
Who was the Nazi leader of Germany whose mad ambitions led to World War II?
Pershing
Who was the commander of the American Expeditionary Force?
Collier
Who was the commissioner of Indian affairs responsible for helping the Indians preserve their tribal identities?
Shepherd
Who was the first American in space?
Sally Ride
Who was the first female astronaut to fly in space?
Nasser
Who was the leader of Egypt who was hostile to America and welcomed help from USSR?
Tojo
Who was the war leader of Japan?
Carnegie
Who wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People?
Upton Sinclair
Who wrote a novel regarding unsanitary methods of meat preparation entitled The Jungle?
Sullivan
Who, from Chicago, was considered the "Father of the skyscraper"?
Swift
Whose company developed the refrigerated railroad car?
In the 1950s many young people adopted the defiant attitude and rebellious ways of the character portrayed by Marlon Brando in The ______________________ One.
Wild
Coin's Financial School
William H. Harvey
New freedom
Wilson
Virgin Islands
Wilson purchased the ____ from Danish West Indies in order to keep Germany from getting them.
McKinley
Winner of the 1896 election
_______________coined the phrase the "_______________" in his speech to the American public in Fulton, MO
Winston Churchill; Iron Curtain
Roe vs. Wade
____ vs. ____ removed all restrictions on abortions during the first three months of pregnancy.
Glenn
____ was the first American to orbit the earth.
in his 1937 foreign policy speech, the first he had given in 14 months, FDR called for
a "quaratine" of aggressor nations.
Both the Alger Hiss case and the Klaus Fuchs case reinforced to Americans that what existed in the United States?
a Communist conspiracy
Parts, or all, of which of the following had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court as of 1935?
a New York minimum-wage law the Agricultural Adjustment Act the National Recovery Act
Hoover believed which of the following was necessary to restore business confidence?
a balanced federal budget
Which of the following proposals from the "Contract with America" passed the House of Representatives?
a balanced-budget amendment a broader application of the death penalty tax cuts
he war aims of the Allies were articulated before U.S. entry into the war, in the so-called Atlantic Charter. This document included all of the following EXCEPT
a call for a new association of nations.
Which of the following best describes John F. Kennedy?
a charming man with a talent for politics and organization
The chapter introduction uses the automobile as a symbol for the 1950s in order to make the point that
a culture of mobility developed, featuring abundance and a high degree of movement, especially to the suburbs.
Early advocates of the Internet saw it as
a democratic and free technology.
The failure of health care reform under Bill Clinton in 1993 led to
a disenchantment with Congress, which in turn led to Republican victories in the 1994 midterm elections.
What was the Philadelphia Plan?
a federal affirmative action plan that affected the building trades
What did southern senators threaten to use to derail the implementation of recommendations from the Committee on Civil Rights?
a filibuster
What did southern senators threaten to use to derail the implementation of recommendations from the Committee on Civil Rights?
a filibuster (A prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assemble while not technically contravening the required procedures.)
What did Kennan's theory of containment offer to leaders in Washington who were struggling with what to do about the Soviets?
a framework for analyzing Soviet behavior
Johnson made education the cornerstone of his Great Society because he believed
a good education would compensate those with incomes below the federal poverty line for other disadvantages.
For the U.S. military-intelligence community, the Tet Offensive can best be described as...
a huge failure
What was Carter's first proposal to stimulate the stagnating economy?
a series of tax rebates
One trend in federal governmental spending durnig the 1950s was
a significant increase in defense spending.
What was the result of the "Education Summit" of 1989?
a small set of future goals
Most Americans viewed war work for women as
a temporary response to the war emergency.
Based on your reading on the decade of the 1950s, one immediate problem in the first few years after World War Two was
a very serious shortage of housing.
Anti- New Deal businessmen and conservatives claimed that Franklin Roosevelt was
a would-be dictator who violated property rights
In response to increased Japanese expansion in Asia, The united states
barred iron and oil shipments, embargoed trade, and froze Japanese assets
In response to increased Japanese expansion in Asia, the United States ______.
barred iron and oil shipments, embargoed trade, and froze Japanese assets
In response to increased Japanese expansion in Asia, the United States
barred iron and oil shipments, embargoed trade, and froze Japanese assets.
When Cesar Chavez was growing up, his family lost their farm in Arizona and
became migratory workers earning less than $10 per week
When Cesar Chavez was growing up, his family lost their farm in Arizona and...
became migratory workers earning less than $10 per week.
Once George H. W. Bush moved to Texas, he
became more conservative.
Why can the profile of Asian immigration to the United States be described as resembling an hourglass?
because most of the immigrants are either relatively well off or extremely poor
During the Depression, many Mexican workers following crop harvests around the country found that
it was difficult for their children to get and education
Arguments against NSC-68's recommendations included...
it was too expensive, and too complex
What action did Japan take after the league of Nations condemned it from attacking China?
it withdrew from the league
The 1963 March on Washington encouraged
its participants to back Congress' civil rights actions.
Why was General Electric so well positioned to diversify?
its size enabled it to finance large research-and-development budgets
The Economic Opportunity Act addressed which of the following?
job training for the unemployed
The Economic Opportunity Act addressed which of thr following?
job training for the unemployed
Each of the following was a component of U.S. diplomacy between the world wars EXCEPT
joining collective efforts to block German and Japanese aggression.
The Soviet Union jumped ahead in the race for technology following World War Two when they
launched Sputnik into orbit.
De facto segregation is segregation that is not in written
law.
symbolic of its refusal to take a leadership role in international affairs was the fact that the united states never joined the __ __ __
league of nations
In the years immediately following 1929, the number of persons
leaving the United States exceeded the number entering
In the years immediately following 1929, the number of persons...
leaving the United States exceeded the number entering
In 1995, the Republicans' decision to force the government to shut down rather than compromise on the budget
led the public to turn its back on the Republican revolutionaries.
Franklin Roosevelt's election to an unprecedented fourth term
led to a very close election and signs of weakness within the New Deal coalition
Franklin Roosevelt's election to an unprecedented fourth term ______.
led to a very close election and signs of weakness within the New Deal coalition
Used in the Civil Rights Movement, the tactic known as the sit in:
led to thousands of arrests in the 1960's, and was a nonviolent form or protest.
Used in the civil rights movement, the tactic known as the sit in
led to thousands of arrests in the 1960s is a nonviolent form of protest
As unemployment increased during his administration, Herbert Hoover...
lessened his opposition to federal relief to aid the unemployed
The Social Security Act did what?
levy a tax on employers and employees to fund pensions; pave the way for the welfare state; provide a safety net for the unemployed
Someone who advocates small government and emphasizes private individuals' freedom to do what they want is
libertarian
Someone who advocates small government and emphasizes private individuals' freedom to do what they want is a
libertarian.
In cooperation with local and state officials, the Tennessee Valley Authority created which social programs?
library bookmobile service and an anti malaria campaign
Young Americans for Freedom wanted to
limit the role of the government and encourage conservative views.
To combat job discrimination, what did Truman seek to maintain?
the Fair Employment Practices Commission
To combat job discrimination, which of the following did Truman seek to maintain?
the Fair Employment Practices Commission
The United States increased its indirect involvement in Vietnam after 1945 because...
the French were unable to defeat indigenous guerillas
The United States increased its indirect involvement in Vietnam after 1945 because
the French were unable to defeat indigenous guerrillas.
What caused George H. W. Bush's ratings to soar so high that his chief of staff said he really needed to do nothing more?
the Gulf War
What legislation led to a sharp increase in the number of immigrants from Asia after 1965?
the Immigration Reform Act
The idea of Net neutrality states that
the Internet should be free for all to use and not dominated by large companies.
Many members of Saddam Hussein's army eventually joined what would become
the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
In 1941 the U.S. Congress passed a new program to aid Britain called
the Lend-Lease Act.
Which U.S. congressional action created the Atomic Energy Commission?
the McMahon Act
Which of the following regions was a major supplier of oil to the United States in the 1970s?
the Middle East
Since the recession and inflation had big roles in determining the outcome of the 1980 election, one could say that Carter lost and Reagan won largely because of
the economy
Francis Townsend's Depression Era relief were focused on...
the elderly
In their rejection of middle-class culture, the beats objected to..
the elevation of material abundance above spiritual enlightenment.
In their rejection of the middle-class culture the beats objected to
the elevation of material abundance above spiritual enlightment
According to Jonathan Schell in his book The Fate of the Earth, what would be the aftermath of a U.S.-Soviet nuclear exchange?
the end of life on earth
What were some issues the United States faced in the 1970s that limited its ambitions?
the energy crisis; rising inflation; increasing competition from Europe and Asia
The "new debate" over immigration in 2006 centered upon
the fate of 11 million illegal immigrants who were living in the U.S.
What issue did the Camp David Accords fail to address?
the fate of Palestine
The Teheran Conference in November 1943 was significant because it was
the first meeting of the Big Three leaders and where D-Day was agreed upon.
When _____________ asked the United States to intervene against the Viet Minh in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu, President Eisenhower refused the request.
the french
If the battle of britain was a success
the germans could invade from France
Which shift in the relationship between the government and the people was reflected in the Social Security Act
the government became responsible for the social well-being of Americans
What accurately described the CAWIU farm strike?
the government stepped in the arbitrate a wage settlement
What was a consequence of the success of women in high-tech and professional industries?
the growing political influence of educated women
A striking characteristic of U.S. military enlistment in WWII was
the high enlistment rate among Mexicans and Asians.
The differnce between men's and women's wages in the United states in the 1950s was _________ among industrialized countries
the largest
The difference between men's and women's wages in the United States in the 1950s was ______ among industrialized countries.
the largest greater
before he began to organize wartime protests, A. Phillp Randoph had been
the leader of a black labor organization
All of the following could be attributed to the Soviet Union;s apparent lead in the space race except
the loss of a U-2 high altitude spy plane
All of the following factors made it harder for blacks and ethnic minorities to thrive in the U.S cities during the 150s except
the migration of minorities to the suburbs
All of the following factors made it harder for blacks and ethnic minorities to therive in the U.S cities during the 1950's except
the migration of the minorities to the suburbs
The Paris Agreement called for limitations on greenhouse gases to keep global temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees Celsius. Most climate scientists considered this goal
the minimum that was necessary.
What CIA action under Reagan violated international law and provoked the U.S. Congress to pass the Boland Amendment?
the mining of a Nicaraguan harbor
Why did President Hoover's spending on public works fail to end the Great Depression
the money he allotted for public works was less than one-tenth of what was needed
The allies' earliest successes came in
the pacific
As the end of WWII approached, Allied generals had to worry also about winning
the peace
What "race" began during the Kennedy administration?
the race to the moon
What event was a direct consequence of Gorbachev's desire to build a "new world order"?
the removal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan and Eastern Europe
As the 1980s progressed and the economy improved,
the richest Americans controlled even more wealth.
The Griswold v. Connecticut (1964) case concerned
the sale of contraceptives
The increasing importance of the West Coast in American culture was demonstrated by
the shift of television production from New York to Hollywood. the role of the San Francisco area in initiating the counterculture. the national ascendancy of music about cars and surfing. not: the election of John F. Kennedy to the presidency.
What riots started when sailors began beating Hispanics in Los Angeles in 1943, causing Hispanics to retaliate?
the soot suit riots
A. Philip Randolph was responsible
-He was an advocate of greater Black militancy. -He launched a campaign for Blacks to gain entrance to jobs in defense industries and government agencies.
Woodstock was a
-Huge rock festival held in 1969. -Celebration of the counterculture.
Roosevelt wanted to avoid which of the following patriotic excesses that occurred during World War I?
-Intimidation of immigrants -Harassment of pacifists -Neighbors spying on each other not denigration of returning soldiers
Used in the civil rights movement, the tactics known as the sit-in
-Is a non-violent form of protest. -led to thousands of arrests in the 1960s.
Referring to Pesident Truman's decision to recognize the new state of __________________________ in May 1948, the British prime Minister Clement Attlee observed, "There's no______________________ vote in America, but there's a heavy__________________ vote."
-Israel -Arab -Jewish
Which of the following are failures of the New Deal
-It did not help the neediest Americans -It did little to change the nation's economic and racial culture -it did not spend enough
Some of the organizations involved in the integration of the Little Rock, Arkansas schools included
-Justice Department. -National Guard.
The establishment of the Tennessee Valley authority led to which of the following outcomes
-Servicing of poor, rural areas by library bookmobiles -availability of electricity at rates lower than those of private utility companies -the movement of thousands of families from their homes
Which of the following evidence supports the view that Stalin's actions after World War II were primarily defensive
-Soviet agriculture and industry were struggling due to wartime damage -American military forces occupied territory in both Europe and Asia
Which of the following evidence supports the view that Stalin recognized the emerging power of the Soviet Union on world affairs following World War II?
-Soviet spies informed Stalin that the United States possessed only a small nuclear arsenal. -The Soviet border was secure except for its southern border with Iran. -The former powers Germany and Japan had both be soundly defeated.
The Battle of Midway
-The battle marked the end of Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific. -American code-breaking efforts contributed significantly to U.S. victory in the battle. -American Marines were able to land on the island of Guadalcanal.
Which of the following statements about the building of the dams under the New Deal are true?
-The dams resulted in negative impacts on the environment -the goal was to control whole river systems for regional use -Their creation often resulted in the generation of cheap electricity
Manhattan Project
-The project cost in excess of $2 billion. -Scientists involved were American, Canadian, and British. -Throughout the project, the fear was that the Germans would produce a bomb first.
Which of the following postwar developments indicate the global implications of the cold war.
-The two superpowers possessed the nuclear capability to annihilate each other and the rest of the world. -Eastern Europe and China Aligned with the Soviet Union -The United States rebuilt the economies of Western Europe and Japan
Which of the following statements correctly describes the employment situation of woman and minorities after World War II?
-They fell victim to a policy of "Last hired, first fired." -They were often displaced by returning veterans.
Which of the following was President Truman most likely referring to when, in September 1945, he announced his intention to extend the New Deal to the post war era?
-a commission to fight job discrimination -guaranteed full employment -subsidized public housing -national health insurance
The Earl Warren Supreme Court is seen as a liberal court because a number of its rulings relate to the rights of
-criminal suspects. -minorities.
Opposed policy positions by Eisenhower addressed during his administration
-dismantling the New Deal -Deficit spending
Which of the following factors contributed to the erosion and dust storms of the Great Plains? -industry -drought -plant growth -grazing -farming
-drought -grazing -farming
The 1965 Immigration Act provisons that
-encouraged the reunion of immigrants with family members already in the United States -limited the numbers of immigrants from some areas of the world
The 1965 Immigration Act had provisions that
-encouraged the reunion of immigrants with family members already in the United States. -limited the numbers of immigrants from some areas of the world.
Which of the following issues were used against Democrats by their Republican opponents during the presidential campaign in 1952?
-fear of communism -corruption among Truman's associates -the stalemate in Korea
In comparison with black suburbanites, black city dwellers in the 1950's tended to have
-fewer jobs -declining education
Which two factors drove the postwar economic boom?
-government expenditures -consumer and business spending
Woodstock was a
-huge rock festival held in 1969 -celebration of the counterculture
Roosevelt's supporters in the 1932 election included which of the following? -industrial workers in the North -disillusioned western Republicans -residents of large urban areas -poor farmers in the South
-industrial workers in the North -residents of large urban areas -poor farmers in the South
Which two factors in the immediate postwar ultimately put an end to Truman's hopes for extending the New Deal
-inflation -labor unrest
Which two factors in the immediate postwar period ultimately put an end to Truman's hopes for extending the New Deal?
-labor unrest -inflation
During the late 1980s, developments in health and medicine in the United States included
1) rising medical costs 2) Millions of people without health insurance
1. Nixon hope that the policy of "Vietnamization" would help to 2. Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" called for
1. reduce the U.S. presence in the war 2. making South Vietnam's armed forces capable of fighting independently.
During WWII, the proportion of women making up the U.S. workforce increased from 1/4 in 1940 to more than ______ in 1945
1/3
During World War II, the proportion of women making up the U.S. workforce increased from 1/4 in 1940 to more than ______ in 1945.
1/3
How long did it take U.S.-led ground forces to vanquish the Iraqi Republican Guards?
100 hours
Between Pearl Harbor in 1941 and March 1945, approximately _____ million people (not counting those in military service) had changed their county of residence.
15
How many U.S soiliers were serving as military advisers in Vietnam in 1963
16,000
How many U.S. soldiers were serving as "military advisers" in Vietnam in 1963?
16000
When was the phrase "Under GOD" added to the pledge of Allegiance
1954
When was the phrase "under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance?
1954
When was the phrase "under God," added to the Pledge of Allegiance?
1954
In what year was Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in Vietnam toppled by a military coup?
1963
In what year was Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in Vietnam toppled by military coup?
1963
The first Earth Day was celebrated in...
1970
The first Earth Day was celebrated in
1970.
In what year were American troops finally back home from Vietnam?
1973
As Republicans attempted to appeal the Affordable Care Act, the Congressional Budget Office's analyses consistently reported that the plans they proposed would deprive ______ Americans of their health insurance.
20 million
From 1944 to 1948, approximately how many veterans took advantage of the GI Bill?
2million
The first contingent of U.S. combat troops that President Johnson sent to Vietnam consisted of
3,500 marines
Between 1940 and 1960, the percentage of wives working outside the home went from 15 percent to
30 percent.
Between 1940 and 1960, the percentage of wives working outside the home went from 15% to...
30%
By about what percentage did workers' wages increade between 1950 and 1960
35%
In the postwar years, how many African Americans moved to cities in the middle Atlantic states, the Northeast, and upper Midwest?
4.5 Million
In 1950 the Communist Party in the US could claim about ______ members out of a population of 150 million.
43,000
In 1950 the Communist Party in the United States could claim about ______ members out of a population of 150 million.
43,000
In 1950 the Communist Party in the United States could claim about ________ members out of a population of 150 million.
43,000
In 1950 the Communist Party in the United States could claim about ___________ members out of a population of 150 million
43,000
In the 1960s, business spending on technology was about 3 percent. By the mid-1990s, it was
45%
Between 1949 and 1960, the number of Americans who owned a television set grew from one million to....
46 million
Approximately what percentage of Americans belonged to a church in the 1950's
50%
Approximately what percentage of Americans belonged to a church in the 1950s?
50%
The war in Vietnam (and its aftermath) was responsible for more than ______ refugees between 1975 and 1990.
500,000
What percentage of voters cast a ballot in the 1960 U.S. presidential election?
64
What percent of voters cast a ballot in the 1960 US presidential election?
64%
What percentage of voters cast a ballot in the 1960 U.S presidential election
64%
By 1945, how many Americans were in the army?
7 million
Among the women who worked outside the home during WWII, what percentage hoped to keep their jobs after the war, according to one survey?
75%
Among women who worked outside the home during World War II, what percentage hoped to keep their jobs after the war, according to one survey?
75%
Thanks in large part to the Rural Electrification Administration, by 1950 the percentage of American farms that had electricity had risen to ______, up from 10 percent in 1925.
90 percent
All of the following were elements of Johnson's "Great Society" programs EXCEPT
<Blank Answer>
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to your text, "marked one of the great moments in the history of American reform." It barred discrimination in all of the following EXCEPT
<Blank Answer>
The Double V strategy was the
<Blank Answer>
Early advocates of the internet saw it as
A democratic & free technology
Potsdam
A meeting between Truman, Stalin, and Churchill was held in ____ to settle Germany's future.
How did Kennedy respond to the discovery that the Soviet Union had deployed nuclear weapons in Cuba?
A naval blockade of Cuba
Which of the following was one principal trend of the period 1946-1960?
A significant increase in the American birth rate.
Noting inequalities of the hiring of minorities for public-sector jobs during WWII, __________ set up a black march on Washington
A. Philip Randolph
Noting inequalities in the hiring of minorities for public-sector jobs during World War II, ______ set up a black march on Washington.
A. Phillip Randolph
The Democratic nominee for president in 1952 was
Adlai E. Stevenson.
Director Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will (1935) mythologized...
Adolf Hitler
Madison Avenue
Advertising
At the beginning of his presidency, pressure was high on President Obama to redeploy U.S. troops to
Afghanistan.
In 1972 Huey Newton thought that these people might be the most oppressed people in America
African Americans
Which of the following formed part of the "Roosevelt coalition"
African Americans
Who formed part of the "Roosevelt Coalition"?
African Americans
Why did the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII?
After the bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese emperor intervened for peace.
What happened to the Scottsboro boys?
After years of appeals, charges against four were dropped, but five received substantial prison sentences.
Isolationism
America's desire to close itself off from the rest of the world was called ____.
Battle of the Coral Sea
America's first important victory over Japan was ____.
Popular Front
American Communists
"Thought Police"
American Protective League
The Battle of Midway:
American code-breaking efforts contributed significantly to U.S. victory in the battle. The battle marked the end of Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific. American Marines were able to land on the island of Guadalcanal.
According to Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, the key problem confronted by married, middle-class American women was that...
American culture regarded them simply as homemakers rather than as individuals with dreams and aspirations.
The Federal Writers Project employed writers to capitalize on the public's interest in
American history
In the 1930s, which of the following presented a challenge to U.S. foreign policy?
American interests in the Pacific were being threatened by the growing rivalry and expansion of Japan.
In the 1930's which of the following presented a challenge to U.S. foreign policy?
American interests in the pacific were being threatended by the growing rivalry and expansion of Japan
Why didn't the U.S take a leadership role to ease international tensions before the outbreak of WW2?
American leadership chose not to.
Why didn't the United States take a leadership role to ease international tensions before the outbreak of World War II?
American leadership chose not to.
Hiroshima
As a means to end the war, the atomic bomb was first dropped now which city?
What region did MacArthur hold to be the key to world history in the future?
Asia
On the West Coast best coast, many _______ workers were given opportunities to work in the aircraft industry.
Asian
Which of the following statements regarding the Black Panthers is False
At its height the group claimed 200,000 members
Which of the following statements regarding the Black Panthers is false?
At its height, the group claimed 200,000 members
Munich
At the ____ Conference Hitler was awarded Sudetenland in exchange for his anti-aggression pledge.
What statement about Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism is incorrect?
At the height of his power, McCarthy controlled the HUAC
Which statement about Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism is incorrect?
At the height of his power, McCarthy controlled the HUAC.
In August 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill met secretly and drew up the ___________ ___________.
Atlantic Charter
Manhattan Project
Atomic Bomb
National Labor Union
Attempted to unite various unions
The Neutrality Act of 1935 ___________ the sale of munitions to belligerents in wartime.
BANNED.
The term " _________ _________" describes the dramatic population growth that took place in the United States after WWII.
Baby Boom
the term" ________________ ________________" decribes the dramtic population growth that took place in the U.S. after World War II
Baby Boom
John Hopkins
Baltimore
Pancho Villa
Bandit
The so-called "merchants of death," ___ and __ __ were found by the Nye Committee to have profited from World War 1
Bankers, arms, makers
Martin Luther King Jr. was a
Baptist minister.
In the election of l964, President Johnson was opposed by the candid and outspoken
Barry Goldwater
Lyndon Johnson won a landslide victory against this Arizona Republican in the 1964 presidential election.
Barry Goldwater
General Douglas MacArthur's victory in which battle effectively destroyed Japan's navy?
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Which of the following pairs is INCORRECT in identifying war-time leaders?
Benito Mussolini-Japan
What city became a focus of cold war tension in the spring of 1948, when US, Britain, and French allies sought to transform their occupation zones into an independent West German state?
Berlin
In 1963, women's rights were brought to national attention in the Feminine Mystique, written by....
Betty Friedan
Twenty-five million
Between 1865 and 1915 there were ____ immigrants.
Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, with their alliance and leadership, were called the
Big Three.
President Kennedy announced his support for a strong civil rights bill following demonstrations in what city?
Birmingham, Alabama
Why was the postwar bulge in population growth unexpected?
Birthrates generally decrease as societies industrialize.
Garvey
Black nationalism
The creation of the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction took place at
Bretton Woods.
By responding to the needs of various groups that had usually been ignored, "Roosevelt's "_______ ______" prevented a social revolution in the United States.
Broker State
Robinson
Brooklyn Dodgers
What contributed to the less than stellar performance of the National Recovery Administration?
Businesses were not forced to comply, Big business shaped the act's codes to their advantage, and the codes proved to be costly and complicated
John Lewis
CIO
In June 1944, Hitler thought the Allies would invade Europe at ______, and the Allied planners did all they could to encourage this belief.
Calais
What state did people hoping to escape the devastation of the dust bowl migrate to?
California
Catholic dogma held that life began at conception.
Catholic dogma held that life began at conception.
Because of his weekly broadcasts criticizing the New Deal, Father _____ ______ earned the nickname "Radio Preist"
Charles Coughlin
Because of his weekly broadcasts criticizing the New Deal, father ______________________________ earned the nickname "Radio Priest"
Charles Coughlin
In the early 1970s, the United States hoped to reach the Soviet Union by reaching out to...
China
Trump's tariff increases resulted in trade wars with which of the following?
China
The Chinese inflicted one of the worst military defeats in U.S. history at....
Chosan
The Chinese inflicted one of the worst military defeats in US history at
Chosan.
What was NOT a significant effect of the growth of suburban communities and the expansion of U.S. highways?
Cities expanded public services by taxing suburbs at higher rates.
Commission
City government
Intended to raise morale, the first attempt a work relief program was the short-lived
Civil Works Administration
Intended to raise morale, the first attempt at a work relief program was the short-lived _______ _______ ______.
Civil Works Administration
The New Deal program that exclusively hired young, single men was the
Civilian Conservation Corps
This SCOTUS nominee of George H. W. Bush was controversial because he was accused of sexually harassing a subordinate attorney, Anita Hill.
Clarence Thomas
Which U.S. Supreme Court nominee of George H. W. Bush was controversial because he was accused of sexually harassing a subordinate attorney, Anita Hill?
Clarence Thomas
Navajos
Code-Talkers
The post- World War II period of U.S.- Soviet relations that was characterized by increasing political tensions and military build-up is known as the _______________________________________
Cold War
The post-World War II period of US-Soviet relations that was characterized by increasing political tension and military build-up is known as the ________ ________.
Cold War
Thanks to New Deal Era damn projects, what river had turned so salty that its water was unfit for either drinking of irrigation by 1950?
Colorado
Thanks to New Deal-era dam projects, what river had turned so salty that its water was unfit for either drinking or irrigation by 1950?
Colorado
Eisenhower
Commander in Europe
Although the American Federation of Labor excluded unskilled laborers, the newly formed _________ for ____________________ welcomed them
Committee for Industrial Organization
Viet Cong
Communist guerrillas
The McCarran Act of 1950 required _____________ to register with the government.
Communists
Truman's critics frequently charged that he did not do enough to rid the United States of _________.
Communists
What did the McCarran Act mandate?
Communists must register with the attorney General
What did the McCarran Act mandate?
Communists must register with the attorney general.
What measures were taken to address income inequality during Obama's second term?
Congress passed a slight increase in tax rates for incomes over $250,000.
Why did Congress fail to ratify SALT II?
Congressional Republicans opposed further détente with the Soviet Union.
Muir
Conservation
Which of the following statements regarding global warming is true?
Conservatives and industry leaders continued to express skepticism over global warming.
the "good neighbor" policy originated during which presidential administration(s)?
Coolidge and Hoover
What issues were used against Democrats by their Republican opponents during presidential campaign in 1952?
Corruption among Truman's associates; fear of communism; the stalemate in Korea
President Truman's full-employment bill, in addition to establishing that the government was responsible for maintaining full employment, also created the
Council of Economic Advisers.
Angry with Populists
Coxey's Army was not ____.
President Truman became the first president to make civil rights a moral issue to be addressed by the federal government when he did this?
Created the President's Committee for Civil Rights which issued the report To Secure These Rights
When Roosevelt and Churchill announced production targets soon after the United States entered the war, what happened?
Critics sneered, but in fact American, British, and Canadian production exceeded these goals.
The Distinguished Flying _____________ was awarded to more than 80 black pilots.
Cross
Congressional hearings revealed that the CIA carried out assassination attempts on leaders of what countries?
Cuba, Congo, South Vietnam, and the Dominican Republican
The United States invaded Grenada to oppose rebels who sympathized with the politics of
Cuba.
Bay of Pigs
Cuban invasion
A communist coup in February 1948 overthrew the democratically elected government of which country?
Czechoslovakia
Congress finally approved the Marshall Plan after Communist actions in what country?
Czechoslovakia
The britisha and french policy of attempting to placate hitler backfired in september 1938, when the western democracies gave the Nazi leader the go-ahead annex a large portion of
Czechoslovakia
A Communist coup in February 1948 overthrew the democratically elected government of which country?
Czechosolovakia
What is the commonly used name for the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944?
D-Day
In 1948 half the population of Donora, Pennsylvania, was hospitalized because of exposure to all of the following except
DDT
The pesticide ____________ and hybrid seeds are two examples of beneficial WWII scientific advances that also had negative effects.
DDT
In what city was President Kennedy shot in 1963
Dallas
In what city was President Kennedy shot in 1963?
Dallas
In what city was President Kennedy assassinated?
Dallas,TX
Scopes Trial
Darrow and Bryan
McCarthy decided to go after the army when who was denied a commission?
David Schine
Which of the following is the most likely reason for the rise of black militancy in the 1960s?
De facto segregation persisted despite new civil rights laws.
Keynes
Deficit Spending
Republicans blamed ___________ for the fall of China to the Communists
Democrats
Whihc indicated the failure of Eisenhower's "modern Republicanism" to find lasting support among American voters?
Democrats' success in the 1958 midterm elections
In the new debate over immigration, Hispanics tended to support
Democrats.
The 1991 U.S.-led bombing campaign against Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait was code-named Operation
Desert Storm.
Which of the following did the Central Intelligence Agency believe would enable its army of 1400 Cuban rebels to overthrow Fidel Castro
Desire of Cuban people to escape communism
Which statement regarding the Battle of Midway is not correct? American Marines were able to land on the island of Guadalcanal. The battle marked the end of Japanese naval supremacy in the Pacific. Despite the American victory, U.S. carrier losses were as bad as those experienced by the Japanese. American code-breaking efforts contributed significantly to U.S. victory in the battle.
Despite the American victory, U.S. carrier losses were as bad as those experienced by the Japanese.
In which American city did a riot break out in 1943 over the proposed development of minority housing?
Detroit
Throughout Reagan's term in office, the CIA
Did not realize the fragility of the Soviet Union
Why had Ngo Dinh Diem lost the support of many South Vietnamese by 1961?
Diem , A Catholic, persecuted members of the Buddhist majority.`
With thier garrison under seige at ____________ ________________ _______________, the French requested support from the U.S Military
Dien Bein Phu
With their garrison under siege at Dien Bien Phu , the French requested support from the U.S. military.
Dien Bien Phu
The southern conservative wing of the Democratic Party came to be known as the...
Dixiecrats
This Cold War theory involved the principle that should one nation fall to the communists, their neighboring states would as well.
Domino effect.
Spock
Dr. Benjamin ____ authored Baby and Child Care and influenced America's permissive society
What led Stalin to see an opportunity to advance Soviet state interests?
Due to the toll of the war, Britain and the United States were unlikely to enter into conflict with the Soviet Union; The American atomic arsenal was much smaller than previously thought; The defeat of Germany and Japan meant that eastern and western Soviet borders were secure.
Relief
During the 1930's, financial assistance to the unemployed was called ____.
Stevenson
Election of 1952
Dust storms throughout the Great plains caused the condition known as the
Dust Bowl
Dust storms throughout the Great Plains caused the condition known as the ________ ________
Dust Bowls
Dust storms throughout the Great Plains caused the condition known as the __________ __________.
Dust Bowls
When the Watergate burglars went on trial in January 1973, two White House aides went on trial with them. Who were they?
E. Howard Hunt Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy
When the Watergate burglars went on trials in Jan 1973, two WH aides went on trials with them, who?
E. Howard Hunt Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy
When the Watergate burglars went on trial in January 1973, two White House aides went on trial with them. Who were they?
E. Howard Hunt, Jr., and G Gordon Liddy
Berlin Wall
East Germany built the ____ to prevent East Germans from escaping to freedom in West Berlin.
Several factors explain the rise of the cold war, according to the text. Which IS NOT a correct statement of one these factors?
Economic: both the U.S. and USSR were economically devastated after World War II.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Effort to outlaw monopolies
The Kennedy administration employed covert operations similar to those approved by President _________________________
Eisenhower
What change in the U.S. foreign preceded Soviet Premier Khrushchev's decision to visit the United States
Eisenhower wanted to improve U.S- Soviet relations
What change in the U.S. foreign preceded Sovit Premier Khrushchev's decision to visit the United States
Eisenhower wanted to improve U.S- Soviet relations
What change in U.S. foreign policy preceded Soviet Premier Khrushchev's decision to visit the United States?
Eisenhower wanted to improve U.S.-Soviet relations
How did the downign of an American spy plane impair Eisenhower's efforts to improve relations with the soviet union
Eisenhower's visit to Moscow was canceled
Why did Carter's comprehensive plan fail to pass Congress?
Energy policy was heavily influenced by special interests.
Darwin
English scientist associated with the theory of evolution
The Civil Rights Act did all of the following except
Ensure and protect African American Voting
This 1970s act, which prohibited discrimination based on gender, passed the House and the Senate but failed to gain sufficient support in state legislatures.
Equal Rights Amendment
This 1970s act, which prohibited discrimination based on gender, passed the House and the Senate but failed to gain sufficient support in state legislatures
Equal Rights Amendment Act - CW
American foreign policy advisers held a(n) ______view of foreign affairs whereby Korea was merely a "small link" in a global security system.
Eurocentric
American foreign policy advisers held a(n) _______ view of foreign affairs whereby Korea was merely a "small link" in a global security system.
Eurocentrist
The tension between Truman and MacArthur corresponded to foreign-policy experts' disagreements on whether to focus on the Pacific basin or
Europe
If you are claiming you are born again, you belong to this type of church
Evangelical
What statements regarding the foreign policy document known as NSC-68 is correct?
Even the harshest critics of NSC-68 admitted that its analysis was correct.
Which statement regarding the foreign policy document known as NSC-68 is incorrect?
Even the harshest critics of NSC-68 admitted that its analysis was correct.
Harry S. Truman
FDR's running mate in the 1944 election
President Roosevelt established the _______________ in order to stop discrimination in the hiring of government or defense industry workers.
FEPC
Churchill and Roosevelt denied Stalin his requested second ____________ from 1942 to 1944.
FRONT
A Republican favoring small government, Eisenhower consistently fought to overturn programs accociated with New deal liberalism
False
Even in the face of the "Roosevelt recession" conservatives in the U.S. Congress found that the President was too influential for them to push through their agenda
False
McCarthy's young staffers Roy Cohn and David Schine behaved diplomatically on their tour of Europe
False
T or F: Eisenhower abandoned the containment doctrine formulated by the Truman administration.
False
T or F: Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, Korea occupied a central place in the Truman administration's foreign policy.
False
T or F; McCarthy was the guiding force behind the national concern about Communists in the United States.
False
true or false: The House Committee on Un-American Activities uncovered a powerful network of Communist filmmakers.
False Reason: The HUAC never presented convincing evidence of any such network.
True or false: The postwar baby boom was a continuation of an already existing demographic trend of increasing birthrates in twentieth-century America.
False Reason: Birth rates dropped to an all-time low during the Depression because many couples chose to delay having children.
True or false: The Communist Party became an important force in American politics during the 1930s.
False Reason: Recall that the Communist Party was weak in the 1930s.
True or false: Neither Roosevelt nor Churchill were concerned about containing the Soviet Union after World War II.
False Reason: The leaders did have postwar concerns about the Soviet Union.
T or F: McCarthy's young staffers Roy Cohn and David Schine behaved as diplomats on their tour of Europe
False Reason: The staffers did not behave as diplomats.
True or false: President Truman was able to use the atomic bomb to gain diplomatic advantage over the Soviets.
False Stalin already knew about the existence of the atomic bomb before Truman referred to it.
True or false: The U.S. navy effectively destroyed the Japanese navy at the Battle of Midway. True false question. True
False The victory over the Japanese navy was at the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
The New Deal program that offered loans to tenant farmers so that they could buy their own farms was the...
Farm Security Administration
The founder of the United ________ ________ of America, an organization of migrant workers in the United States, was Cesar Chavez.
Farm Workers
What factors contributed to the erosion and dust storms of the Great Plains?
Farming, drought, and grazing
In order to rid the government of " Reds, phonies, and 'parior pinks,'" Truman established the
Federal Employee Loyalty Program
In order to rid the government of "Reds, phonies, and 'parlor pinks,'" Truman established the
Federal Employee Loyalty Program
The Banking Act of 1935 established the...
Federal Reserve Board
The New Deal agency that insured deposits up to a certain amount was called the
Federal deposit Insurance Corporation
The Banking act of 1935 established the
Federal reserve Board
The integration of the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas took two years and the arrival of
Federal troops
Radicals in the late 1960s, throughout the world, lauded who?
Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara
During the 1970s, many people turned to the born-again movement because they wanted to
Find more traditional Religious practices
Spencer
First proponent of Social Darwinism
What was the ruling in the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case Bakke v. Regents of the University of California?
Fixed quotas were disallowed as a means by which to promote diversity in higher education.
The presidential election of 2000 was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court because of an electoral stalemate in the state of
Flordia
Hoover
Food administration
Taiwan
Formosa
Rockefeller
Founder of the Standard Oil Company
The Big Three included __________ as part of the division of Germany.
France
Big Three
Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, with their alliance and leadership
What was "fragging" in the Vietnam War?
GIs throwing grenades at officers who were pursuing the war too aggressively.
Eisenhower's claim that the U-2 shot down by the Soviet military was a weather plan was invalidated when Khrushchev produced the plane's pilot, whose name was...
Gary Powers
Eisenhower's claim that the U-2 shot down by the Soviet military was a weather plane was invalidated when Khrushchev produced the plane's pilot, whose name was
Gary Powers.
Who in the Soviet Union chain of command was in charge of deciding whether to use the nuclear weapons located in Cuba?
General Issa Pliyev
Who in the Soviet chain of command was in charge of deciding whether to use the nuclear weapons located in Cuba?
General Issa Pliyev
Sloan
General Motors
The Manhattan Project was spurred by fears that the _______ were developing nuclear weapons.
Germans
In late 1941 Roosevelt and Churchill decided that ______ was the country that posed the greatest threat.
Germany
WW2 began when which country invaded poland in 1939?
Germany
Who was the aggressor in the Battle of Britain?
Germany
Who was the aggressor in the battle of britain?
Germany
World War II began when which country invaded Poland in 1939?
Germany
Great Britain and France declared war on Germany because of which action?
Germany's attack on neighboring Poland
In 1937, President Roosevelt called for an international quarantine of three aggressor nations:
Germany, Italy, Japan
Axis
Germany, Italy, and Japan were together called ____ Powers.
The Employment Act of 1946 established what principle?
Government was responsible for managing unemployment.
Which of the following was among the countries to which U.S. troops were deployed in the early 1990s?
Haiti
Hanna
Hand-picked governor William McKinley
Who said, " he who controls Europe is well on his way toward controlling the whole world"?
Hans Margenthau
Gold Standard
Hard Money
The anger, frustration, and despair felt in the ghettos manifested itself in rioting in the ______ neighborhood of New York City; the ______ neighborhood of Los Angeles; Detroit' and elsewhere.
Harlem ; Watts
Who oversaw the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
Harry Hopkins
Which of the following best describes Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of protest during the Civil Rights Movement?
He advocated protest through nonviolent and Christian ideals
Which of the following best describes Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of the protest during the civil rights movement?
He advocated protest through nonviolent christian ideals
Which of the following best describes Martin Luther Kings Jr.s philosophy of protest during the civil rights movement
He advocated protest through nonviolent means and Christian ideals
Which of the following statements regarding King's response to the rise of militancy is not correct
He attempted to find a middle ground between his approach and that of the Militants
How did Johnson feel about ghetto violence, rioting, and Black militancy?
He believed that they undermined the racial progress of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.
How did Khrushchev solve the problem of East Germans crossing into West Germany
He built a wall in Berlin
How did Khrushchev solve the problem of East Germans crossing into West Germany?
He built a wall in Berlin.
Which of the following accurately describes Bill Clinton?
He called for reform of the welfare and health care systems. His wife, Hillary, had a full-time career. He was the first baby boomer president.
Why did Dulles Refuse to allow Vietnamese people to elect their leaders in a democratic election?
He considered any victory for communism to be unacceptable
Why did Dulles refuse to allow the Vietnamese people to elect their leaders in a democratic election?
He considered any victory for communism to be unacceptable.
How did Reagan handle the PATCO strike in 1981?
He declared the strike illegal and fired the air traffic controllers.
Why was President Kennedy reluctant to use federal intervention in Southern civil rights matters?
He did not want to alienate white southern Democrats
Why was President Kennedy reluctant to use federal intervention in Southern civil rights matters?
He did not want to o alienate white southern Democrats
How did Lee Harvey Oswald explain his motivations?
He did not; he was killed by Jack Ruby two days after his arrest.
How did Carter prefer to tackle rising energy prices in the United States?
He encouraged conservation
How did Carter prefer to tackle rising energy prices in the United States?
He encouraged conservation.
How did Kennedy respond to the discovery that the Soviet Union had deployed nuclear weapons in Cuba?
He enforced a naval blockade of Cuba.
Part of Johnson's legacy as president are the Great Society programs. What was his personal view of civil rights, aid to those with incomes below the federal poverty line, education, and welfare for the elderly?
He genuinely believed in these things.
Which of the following statements about Eugene McCarthy is not true?
He had a strong support from conservative Republicans
The articles of impeachment against Nixon charged which of the following?
He had hindered the House Judiciary Committee's investigation. He had obstructed justice. He had abused his constitutional authority in properly using federal agencies to harass citizens.
How did Henry Ford react to the 1932 protest in which three thousand marchers stormed the Dearborn plant?
He had his police force use water hoses and guns against the protesters.
How did Henry Ford react to the 1932 protests in which three thousand marchers stormed the Dearborn plant?
He had his police force use water hoses and guns against the protesters.
Which of the following correctly describes candidate Donald Trump?
He had never held political office. He had faced dozens of lawsuits for nonpayment of debts. He had at least four bankruptcies.
The articles of impeachment against Nixon charged him with what?
He had obstructed justice, had abuse his constitutional authority in improperly using federal agencies to harass citizens, and had hindered the committee's investigation
What led to VP Agnew's resignation in the midst of the Watergate investigation?
He had systematically solicited bribed as governor and vp
What led to Vice President Agnew's resignation in the midst of the Watergate investigation?
He had systematically solicited bribes both as governor and as vice president.
Labor leader A. Philip Randolph was responsible for which of the following? Multiple select question. He launched a campaign for blacks to gain entrance to jobs in defense industries and government agencies. He promoted peaceful talks and negotiations with white leaders. He was an advocate of greater black militancy. He pushed for more extreme segregation between blacks and whites.
He launched a campaign for blacks to gain entrance to jobs in defense industries and government agencies. He was an advocate of greater black militancy.
Labor leader A. Philip Randolph was responsible for:
He launched a campaign for blacks to gain entrance to jobs in defense industries and government agencies. He was an advocate of greater black militancy.
In what way did Thurgood Marshall differ from previous leading Black leaders?
He moved with ease among Blacks and whites and was more "of the people."
What did Lyndon Johnson do on his first day as President?
He promised civil right leaders he would pass Kennedy's civil rights bill
What did Lyndon Johnson do on his first day as a president?
He promised civil rights leaders he would pass Kennedy's civil rights bill
What did Lyndon Johnson do on his first day as president?
He promised civil rights leaders he would pass Kennedy's civil rights bill.
In the 1932 campaign, what best describes what Roosevelt promised?
He promised whatever he needed to, depending on his audience.
How did Clinton portray himself as a new type of Democratic politician?
He promoted a moderate, probusiness agenda.
How did Bush approach the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro?
He resisted efforts to address global warming.
What action did democratically elected Colonel Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán take that triggered a covert CIA operation in Guatemala, resulting in his ouster and replacement with a military dictatorship?
He seized land that belonged to the United Fruit Company.
How did president Kennedy respond to the desegregation of the University Of Mississippi
He sent Federal marshals to keep the peace
What statement best describes Nixon's adherence to conservative or liberal philosophies during the course of his presidency?
He subscribed to conservative beliefs but supported the most popular aspects of liberal government
Which of the following statements best describes Nixon's adherence to conservative or liberal philosophies during the course of his presidency?
He subscribed to conservative beliefs but supported the most popular aspects of liberal government.
How did President Roosevelt modernize the presidency?
He took a leading role in initiating new laws
What statements are an accurate representation of Ralph Nader's interaction with the private sector in the 1960s?
He used his early success as a consumer advocate to fund an advocacy organization that exposed the irresponsible practices of numerous corporations; He played a key role in the passage of unprecedented gov standards for the safety of cars and roads; His research into unsafe cars led GM to initiate a campaign to discredit him.
How did Carter try to distance himself symbolically from the idea of the imperial presidency?
He walked to his inauguration.
According to John Poindexter's testimony, why did he not tell Ronald Reagan about the plots linking Iran and the Nicaraguan Contras?
He wanted Reagan to maintain "future deniability."
What was Khrushchev's chief reason for placing nuclear weapons in Cuba?
He wanted to level the nuclear playing field with the United States.
What accurately describes Bill Clinton?
He was the first baby boomer president. He called for reform of the welfare and health care systems. His wife, Hillary, had a full-time career.
How did the Bonus Army's situation affect Hoover's reputation as a president?
He was viewed as unsympathetic to the plight of the unemployed
The Johnson administration developed an education initiative for preschools known as
Head Start
The Johnson administration developed an education initiative for preschoolers known as
Head Start.
Why were many conservative adults uncomfortable with Elvis Presley's popularity among young people
His style was shaped by lower-class and black influences
Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City
John Foster Dulles promoted a South Vietnamese governmentled by a Ngo Dinh Diem as preferable to a unified Vietnam Under ____________ ______________ _______________
Ho chi minh
Which did conservatives claim was controlled by Communist sympathizers?
Hollywood
The United States did very little to end the ______ or aid Europe's Jews.
Holocaust
The United States did very little to end the _____________ or aid Europe's Jews.
Holocaust
What was a chief argument of the United Organizations of Taxpayers regarding the benefits of lower property taxes for small homeowners?
Homeowners did not receive tax breaks like businesses.
Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation
Housing patterns that kept African Americans from buying property in white neighborhoods
$12 billion
How much did the Marshall Plan cost?
Riis
How the Other Half Lives
The politician responsible for the "Share Our Wealth" clubs was...
Huey Long
Adams
Hull House
China
In 1882, the government voted to halt immigration form the country of ____.
Stalin's actions in Berlin sped up the formation of an alliance known as
NATO
Stalin's actions in Berlin sped up the formation of an alliance known as...
NATO
Panay
In the ____ incident, the Japanese sank an American gunboat.
1871
In what year was the great Chicago fire?
Thomas Edison
Incandescent lamp (light bulb)
Seeking a solution to the socioeconomic problems confronting their communities, some Chicano activists in the late 1960s called for the creation of
Independent latino enclaves
Among Asian immigrants to the United States, those from ______ have more easily adapted to American society because many had college degrees and previous knowledge of English.
India
How did the New Deal change the extent to which Indians controlled their own land?
Indians' control over their land increased for the first time since the 1880's.
Steffen
Influential muckraker
What was Truman's primary motivation for firing McArthur?
Insubordination
The ________________ ________________ Act established the largest public works project in U.S history, providing federal funding for 41,000 mile of roads
Interstate Highway
In 1946, the NAACP obtained the Morgan v. Virginia ruling, which declared that segregation was illegal on/in:
Interstate buses
All of the following were covert elements of the Iran-Contra affair except
Invading Grenada
Naismith
Invented the sport of basketball
Warren Commission
Investigated assassination
The first nation that appeared to be the place in which the Truman Doctrine would be applied was
Iran
The first nation that appeared to be the place in which the Truman Doctrine would be applied was...
Iran
What two countries fought a bloody war in the Middle East from 1980 to 1988?
Iran and Iraq
What were some of the results from the covert CIA operation Ajax?
Iran's monarch was returned to power and The Mossadeq government in Iran was overthrown.
To evoke a connection to Richard Nixon's presidential mistakes, the press labeled Ronald Reagan's intrigues in Iran and Nicaragua
Irangate.
After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq,
Iraq fractured along religious and ethnic lines
Holocaust
Jews
CCC
Jobs for Young Men
In the 2004 presidential election, George W. Bush defeated Democrat ______, who was burdened with a reputation for "flip-flopping" on issues.
John Kerry
When coal miners, led by ______, went on strike, President Roosevelt considered arresting and drafting them.
John L. Lewis
The Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 election was
John McCain.
Which pope convened Vatican II?
John XXIII
What had brought on the inflation portion of the "stagflation" of the early 1970s?
Johnson's refusal to raise taxes
Eisenhower opposed the extreme actions of the anti-Communists, but he never publicly condemned the actions of Wisconsin Senator _________________________________________________
Joseph McCarthy
The American couple, ________________, were arrested for ________________ and were given a death sentence after being found guilty.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; spying for the Soviet
Okinawa
June 1945
Some of the organization involved in the integration of the Little Rock, Arkansas schools included the
Justice Department National Guard
Some of the organizations involved in the integration of the Little Rock, Arkansas, schools included the
Justice Department. National Guard.
Alfred Landon
Kansas Republican
New Frontier
Kennedy's domestic program was called the ____.
Memphis
King assassination
Long
Kingfish, Louisiana
Arguing that it would put an unfair burden on American businesses, the Bush administration rejected an international agreement from 1997 to curb global warming. This agreement was called the
Kyoto Protocol.
Led by middle class Latinos, the organization known by the acronym _______ sought to promote the American identity of Mexican Americans and fought for Latino civil rights in the United States.
LULAC
Led by middle-class Latinos, the organization known by the acronym ______________sought to promote the American identity of Mexican Americans and fought for Latino civil rights in the United States
LULAC
After Reagan's 1982 tax increases, what occurred?
Labor productivity improved. Unemployment fell.
After Reagan's 1982 tax increases, which of the following occurred?
Labor productivity improved. Unemployment fell. not: The stock market fell sharply. Inflation surged.
Symbolic of its refusal to take a leadership role in international affairs was the fact that the United States never joined the _______ _____ _______.
League of Nations
Kennedy's assassin was ______ ________ ________.
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F Kennedy's assassin was
Lee Harvey Oswald.
John F. Kennedy's assassin was
Lee Harvey Oswald.
The Johnson administration saw Affirmative Action as a way to correct the effects of discrimination in this kind of way
Legally
The Catholic Church established the __________ of ___________ in 1933 to review motion pictures.
Legion of Decency
The Catholic Church established the ___________ of _____________ in 1933 to review motion pictures
Legion, Decency
Who was the Reagan administration's point man during the Iran-Contra affair?
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North
This militant civil rights leader was familiar with the plight of the lower class from his own experience
Malcom X
RFC
Loans to Banks and Railroads
The following American cities were the sites of major race riots in 1943:
Los Angeles & Detroit
Robert Kennedy and MLK both exemplified liberal politics because of their history of championing the cause of the...
Lower Classes
At the pinnacle of McCarthyism, thirty-two of states required teachers to take a _________________ oath
Loyalty
Even before McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Truman had set up the Federal Employee _____________________________ program to root out Communist sympathizers
Loyalty
"Great Society"
Lyndon Johnson
"I have a dream..."
MLK Jr.'s speech
The militant civil rights leader ______ was familiar with the plight of the lower class from his own experience.
Malcolm X
This militant civil rights leader was familiar with the plight of the lower class from his own experience
Malcolm X
This militant civil rights leader was familiar with the plight of the lower class from his own experience.
Malcolm X
V-Day
May 8, 1945
Eisenhower opposed the extreme actions of the _____ but did not publicly condemn McCarthyism.
McCarthyites
Begun during the Johnson administration, this program provides medical care for low income families
Medicaid
______ provides medical care for low-income families, and ______ provides health insurance for the elderly.
Medicaid ; Medicare
AMA
Medical standards
What federal program illustrates Johnson's concern for the elderly, who typically use the hospital three times more frequently than the general public but had half the income?
Medicare
What federal program illustrates Johnsons concern for the elderly, who typically used the hospital three time more frequently than the general public but had half the income
Medicare
Which of the following does not characterize the counterculture?
Members were interested in preserving current society.
The Delgado v. Bastrop ruling demonstrated that
Mexican Americans wanted full rights of citizenship.
How did the larger, comprehensive high schools of the 1950s affect the middle-class youth culture?
Middle class youths adopted aspects of the culture of working class students
Following the Battle of ______, the United States went on the offensive, which drastically changed the war in the Pacific.
Midway
Chavez
Migrant workers
Which of the following contributed to most Americans being unaware of Asian involvement in identity politics?
Most Asian Americans lived in only three states. Most Asian Americans were unlikely to join in the more public and vocal protests of the era. Not: Most Asian Americans self-identified more with whites than with ethnic minorities. Anti-black racism among Asian Americans kept them from participating in many of the era's movements.
What contributed most to Americans being unaware of Asian involvement in identity politics?
Most Asian Americans were unlikely to join in the more public and vocal protests of the era; Most Asian Americans lived only in three states.
The Internment of Japanese communities: Which of the following statements about the internment of Japanese communities are true?
Most Japanese Americans were forced to sell their property and goods at below market value. Only those in western states were sent to internment camps. Most internment camps were in Western states.
Why did the Puerto Rican community in New York lose some of the leadership it needed to advance its political interests after WWII?
Most Puerto Ricans were not willing to put down the kind of roots stateside that would have been necessary; Many light-skinned Puerto Ricans escaped racial discriminations and segregation to blend into the middle class.
James
Most prominent publicist of pragmatism
By the winter of 1931-1932, what was the state of private relief organizations?
Most were severely depleted, with little hope of new donations.
Women's Colleges
Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe
Which activity was encouraged in the communities created by William Levitt
Mowing the lawn weekly
What event made black soldiers, especially, question why they were fighting in Vietnam?
Muhammad Ali's refusal to be drafted
Choose the answer that correctly lists, from earliest to latest, the rise to power of the following world leaders.
Mussolini, Roosevelt, Hitler
Choose the answer that correctly lists, from earliest to letest, the rise to power of the following world leaders.
Mussolini, Roosevelt, Hitler
To cope with the effects of the Great Depression, Mexican Americans formed _______, traditional societies that provided insurance and sickness benefits to members.
Mutualistas
Which of the following civil rights organizations effectively used the nation's judicial system to implement lasting change in America?
NAACP
Colonel Gamal Adbel _____________ was the nationalist leader of Eygpt who tried to modernize his country and foster a pan- Arab alliance in the 1950s
Nasser
Malcolm X was associated with this religious group
Nation of Islam
Malcolm X was associated with what religious group?
Nation of Islam
What legislation established the Public Works Administration?
National Industrial Recovery Act
Which of the following established the largest public works project in U.S. history, providing federal funding for 41,000 miles of road?
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
Which of the following established the largest public works project in U.S. history, providing federal funding for 41,000 miles of roads?
National Interstate and Defense Highways Act
The _____ _____ ______ Act created a board that had the authority to ensure the bargaining rights of unions.
National Labor Relations
The ___________ ______________ ______________ Act created a board that had the authority to ensure the bargaining rights of unions
National Labor Relations
Alice Paul
National Women's Party
The agency that provided jobs for young people was the...
National Youth Administration
U.S. leaders viewed Japan's invasion of ______ as a threat to the U.S. open-door policy.
Nationalist China
U.S. leaders viewed Japans invasion of ___ as a threat to the U.S. open door policy.
Nationalist China
** The Congressional policy of termination essentailly provided one-time payments, but little else for
Native Americans.
Working Class suburbs tended to develop...
Near manufacturing centers
Which statement about the end of the Korean war is incorrect?
Nearly 17,000 Americans were killed in the Korean War.
Which statement about the end of Korean War is incorrect?
Nearly 17,000 Americans were killed in the Korean War. True: Korea remained divided much as it had been in 1950. An armistice ended the war in July 1953. Communism had been "contained."
Which statement about the end of the Korean War is incorrect?
Nearly 17,000 Americans were killed in the Korean war
In order to give China continued access to American goods, President Roosevelt in 1937 refused to invoke the __________ _____________ , but this ultimately benefited Japan, whose volume of trade with the United States dwarfed China's.
Neutrality Act
FDR
New Deal
In promoting his "Fair Deal" , Truman called for the revival of several __________________________________ programs, including regional improvement projects like the TVA
New Deal
In promoting his Fair Deal, Truman called for the revival of several ________ ________ programs, including regional improvement projects like the TVA.
New Deal
In promoting hisFair Deal, Tuman called for the revival of several _______ ______ programs, including regional improvement projects like the TVA.
New Deal
Nixon hoped that the frustration many Democrats felt over the social upheavals of the 1960s could contribute to Republican dominance and destroy the Democratic coalition that had existed since the
New Deal
The Progressive ticket thought that Truman had not gone far enough in carrying out ________ ________ reforms.
New Deal
The progressive ticket though that Truman had not gone far enough in carrying out _____________________ reforms
New Deal
Henry Hopkins
New Deal Administrator
The federal block grant program of 1972 was part of a conservative agenda that was designed as a counter to liberal federal programs. Nixon called this program...
New Federalism
What was the first state to have an agency to handle the unemployed, the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA) established in 1931?
New York
Japan's attack of ________ confirmed doubts about the effectiveness of the U.S. policy of "nonrecognition"
Shanghai
Speaker of the House ______ led the 1994 Republican majority in the House of Representative and promised to complete the conservative revolution begun by Ronald Reagan.
Newt Gingrich
What triggered the Vietcong to renew their guerrilla warfare in 1956?
Ngo Dinh Diem decided not to hold elections
The War Powers Resolution was created in reaction to the...
Nixon Presidency
What statement best portrays the efforts of the Nixon administration to achieve more favorable relations with the Soviet Union and China?
Nixon sought to resolve issues of mutual concern with the Soviets and exploited the rivalry between the Soviet Union and China to his advantage.
What is an accurate statement in connection with Nixon's view of the potential political uses of independent federal bureaucracies?
Nixon's deep resentment of opponents encouraged him to settle scores by any means.
Which of the following is an accurate statement in connection with Nixon's view of the potential political uses of independent federal bureaucracies?
Nixon's deep resentment of opponents encouraged him to settle scores by any means.
What initiative, signed into law in January 2002, attempted to make schools more accountable through the use of standardized tests?
No Child Left Behind
Who told Congress that a war in Asia would be the " wrong war, at the wrong place, and the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy"?
Omar Bradley
Dwight Eisenhower was the commander of the June 1944 invasion of ___________
Normandy
One of the turning points of the war in Europe was Operation Torch in late 1942, which was an assault on
North Africa
One of the turning points of the war in Europe was operation Torch in late 1942, which was an assault on
North Africa
What country's troops crossed the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950?
North Korea
When did the Cuban missile crisis take place?
October 1962
Townsend
Old Age Pension Plan
Grangers
Oliver H. Kelly
Who told Congress that a war in Asia would be "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy"?
Omar Bradley
Who told Congress that a war in Asia would be "the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy."
Omar Bradley
Hoovervilles
Shanty Towns
By the early 2000s, the largest number of Muslim immigrants to the U.S. came from
Pakistan and South Asia.
How many Mexican Americans were in the Senate during the New Deal Era?
One, Dennis Chaves
Sociologist William Whyte regretted the loss of what in suburban developments?
Open Space
Glasnost
Openness
Political Machines
Organizations that dispensed favours to the voters
One infamous militant who traveled to Afghanistan to join Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s was ______, who was born in Saudi Arabia.
Osama Bin Laden
The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001 in part to capture Osama bin Laden, who was affiliated with the Afghanistan group the
Osama bin Laden
MacArthur
Pacific Commander
Midway
Pacific Turning Point
The GI Bill offered which of the following?
Paid tuition for college or vocational training.
What did the Japanese conquer?
Philippines
The most high-profile movement against the Equal Rights Amendment, called STOP ERA, was led by
Phyllis Schlafly.
Sears
Please list an early illustration of a "chain store" that was given in the notes.
Germany invaded ______ on September 1, 1939, starting World War II.
Poland
Germany invaded ___________ on September 1, 1939, starting WWII.
Poland
Coolidge
Police strike
Salk
Polio Vaccine
Bosses
Political machines were headed up by ____.
Which statement regarding the Loyalty Review Board is incorrect?
President Truman actively opposed the board's creation.
Which statement regarding the system of loyalty review boards is incorrect?
President Truman actively opposed the board's creation.
Space Shuttle
Re-usable
President Ford gave former President Nixon a
Presidential Pardon
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
In terms of philosophical influence, 1960s environmentalists felt that government corporate interact in conservation efforts should resemble that of the
Progressive Era
Bull Moose
Progressive Party
Patronage
Spoils system
The American involvement in Vietnam essentially came to an end in 1975 because
Public frustration compelled the U.S congress to refuse further funding
In his " Letter from Birmingham Jail," King responded to local ministers who wanted him to
Put an end to confrontation
After the 1983 bombing of a marine barracks in Lebanon,
Reagan withdrew the troops
Communism
Red Scare
What did President Herbert Hoover allow his secretary of state, Henry Stimson, to do in response to the Japanese takeover of Manchuria?
Refuse to recognize the new Japanese territories.
_______________ became very prominent in the United States during the decade of the fifties.
Religion
CORE
Resist Racial Segregation
Roosevelt responded to critics like Huey Long, and Father Charles Coughlin with the __________ ________ of 1935 also known as the " Wealth Tax Act"
Revenue act
Dwight Eisenhower's vice presidential running mate in 1952 was...
Richard M. Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower's vice-president running mate in 1952 was
Richard M. Nixon
The Watergate tapes contained recordings of several consecrations and telephone calls from
Richard Nixon
The Watergate tapes contained recordings of several conversations and telephone calls from
Richard Nixon.
In May 2017, the Justice Department appointed ______ as special counsel with the authority to investigate Russian meddling in the election and any potential collusion with the Trump campaign.
Robert S. Mueller
Young Americans for Freedom's ultimate political legacy was their
Role in shaping the conservative Republican party figures of the 1970s
A famous 1987 summit meeting in Reykjavík, Iceland, featured which two world leaders?
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
Which of the following spurred Americans to change their views from isolationism to internationalism?
Roosevelt's aid to the Allied powers and the Battle of Britain
Coughlin
Royal Oak, Michigan
The Second New Deal agency that brought electric power to farmers and other isolated Americans was the
Rural Electrification Administration
The Second New Deal agency that brought electric power to farmers and other isolated Americans was the ______ _____ ______.
Rural Electrification Administration
One way that the Great Depression affected African Americans was by discouraging immigration out of the
Rural South
People from what nation promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton to members of Trump's campaign team?
Russia
Bill Clinton appointed ______ to the Supreme Court.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Which civil rights organization did the Kennedy administration convince to focus on voter registration
SNCC
Which civil rights organization did the Kennedy administration convince to focus on voter registration?
SNCC
By 1967, what city was recognized as the center of the counterculture
San Francisco
By 1967, what city was recognized as the center of the counterculture?
San Francisco
Appointed by Reagan, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court was
Sandra Day O'Connor.
Franz-Ferdinand
Sarajevo
What position did John Foster Dulles hold in the Eisenhower administration?
Secretary of state
The agency established to oversee the stock market was the...
Securities and Exchange Commission
The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka concerned
Segregated schools ordered to end ( de jure segregation )
At the time he was chosen to run as Kennedy's vice president, Lyndon Johnson was
Senate majority leader.
Brown v. Board of Education overturned the doctrine of
Separate but equal
How did John F. Kennedy reassure voters concerned about the fact that he was the first Catholic to run the White House
Separation of church and state He emphasized his belief in the separation of church and state.
Japan's attack of ___ confirmed doubts about the effectiveness of the U.S policy of "nonrecognition"
Shanghai
Why did members of the international community protest the actions of Ariel Sharon's troops during Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982?
Sharon used the war as a pretext to attack Palestinian settlements.
When President Truman received word of the successful testing of an atomic bomb while he was at Potsdam, these were the questions he asked...
Should the U.S. now use the bomb? Should Truman inform Stalin that the U.S. possessed an atomic bomb? Should the U.S. warn Japan before dropping the bomb?
President Truman hoped that a victory in Korea would benefit him politically in which of the following ways?
Silence Senator McCarthy; give democrats an edge in upcoming elections
African Americans left the _____ in such large numbers that cotton growers began to buy mechanical harvesters to replace their labor.
South
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnam
In the 1960s to the 1980s, Asian immigrants to the United States included a higher percentage of people from...
Southeast Asia
In the 1960s-1980s, Asian immigrants to the United States included a higher percentage of people from
Southeast Asia
The name of Martin Luther a King Jr.s organisms that emerged following the Montgomery bus boycott was the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s organization that emerged following the Montgomery bus boycott was the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Churchill did not want to see Poland and eastern Europe end up under the control of the ______.
Soviet Union
Lobbyists
Special interest groups
Lindbergh
Spirit of St. Louis
What triggered Nixon's authorization of "the plumber's" break-in in 1971?
The "Pentagon Papers" had been leaked to the press.
Legislation declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court as of 1935.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act, a New York minimum wage law, and the National Recovery Act.
Four million
The Alliances peaked with just over ____ members.
In what way did the Great Depression cause Anglo-American attitudes to change toward Mexicans and Latinos?
The Anglo population's attitude shifted against Mexicans
In what way did the Great Depression cause Anglo-Americans to change toward Mexicans and Latinos
The Anglo population's attitude shifted against Mexicans
Which of the following WAS NOT a military turning point of World War Two?
The Battle of Gettysburg
Which of the following was not a military turning point of World War Two?
The Battle of the Little Big Horn.
What did Stalin perceive as threatening to Soviet interests after the war?
The French, British, and American presence in Southeast Asia; American control of Middle East oil fields
Which of the statement regarding the suspicion of Communist activity in Hollywood and the resulting HUAC investigation is incorrect?
The HUAC investigations had little impact on Hollywood
What statement regarding the suspicion of Communist activity in Hollywood and the resulting HUAC investigation is untrue?
The HUAC investigations had little impact on Hollywood.
What was the result of the attempt to impeach Bill Clinton?
The House voted to impeach Clinton, but the Senate acquitted him of the charges.
What legislation led to a sharp increase in the number of immigrants from Asia after 1965?
The Immigration Reform Act.
Child-labor
The Keating-Owen Act delay with ____.
Which event pushed aside the significant opposition to NSC-68
The Korean War
Written in 1950, David Riesman's book __________ argued that Americans were becoming more "other directed" than "inner directed"
The Lonely Crowd
This was the massive American relief package for rebuilding war-torn Europe.
The Marshall Plan
Which statement about the Marshall Plan is incorrect
The Marshall Plan included a provision stating that, as a precondition for aid, nations had to renounce communisim
Which of the following resulted from the covert CIA Operation Ajax?
The Mosaddeq government in Iran was overthrown. Iran's monarch was returned to power.
The integration of the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas took two years and the arrival of
The National Guard
What was the sticking point in peace negotiations in Vietnam in the early 1970s?
The North Vietnam rejected any agreement that left the South Vietnamese government in power.
In his book ______, William Whyte condemned the homogeneity and materialism of white-collar families in suburbia.
The Organization Man
In his book _________, William Whyte condemned the homogeneity and materialism of white-collar families in suburbia.
The Organization Man
Philadelphia and Reading
The Panic of 1893 was started by which railroad?
U.S officials falsely believed that China was the puppet of which country?
The Soviet Union
The Allied Powers of World War included which?
The Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, China, Free France.
What was McCarthy's first target?
The State Department
Which of the following statements concerning the Gulf of Tonkin incident and its immediate aftermath is most accurate?
The U.S. Congress authorized the president to take measures that held the potential to deepen the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
The National Recovery Administration was ended because
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional
Great White Fleet
The U.S. sent sixteen battleships known as the ____ to display our naval potential.
Which statement regarding Japanese actions in 1941 and the U.S. response to them is incorrect?
The U.S.-Japanese stalemate came to an end when Japan, imitating Hitler's Polish campaign, swept into the Dutch East Indies.
Sputnik
The USSR launched the first manmade satellite and name it ____.
What was not a result of Reagan's decision to intervene in Lebanon?
The United States harassed Palestinians living in Lebanon.
What actions did the U.S. government take in Yugoslavia in the 1990s?
The United States participated in a NATO bombing campaign against Serbia and sent troops as part of a NATO peacekeeping operation in Kosovo.
The Soviet Union sent tanks back into Budapest in October 1956 because of Hungary's decision to withdraw from
The Warsaw Pact
Selective Service
The ____ Act drafted almost three million men into the army.
Paris Peace
The ____ Conference took place to draft a treaty to formally settle the war.
38th Parallel
The ____ is the latitude line dividing communist North Korea from democratic South Korea.
Great Migration
The ____ occurred when nearly 500,000 blacks left the rural South for the industrial North.
Dust Bowl
The ____ was a large area of the South and Midwest that experienced severe drought.
Square Deal
The _____ was Theodore Roosevelt's slogan for his second term in office.
William Levitt is noted for which of the following?
The adaptation of assembly-line methods to the process of home construction.
Which of the following best identifies U.S Attorney General Robert Kennedy's reasoning for encouraging a shift to voter registration on the part of civil rights workers?
The belief that voter registration would stir up less violence than other tactics
Which of the following were objections raised by critics of the tax cuts proposed by Bush?
The cuts did little to spur the creation of jobs. The cuts erased the Clinton-era budget surpluses. The cuts favored those in high-income brackets.
Which of the following statements about the building of dams under the New Deal are true?
The dams resulted in negative impacts on the environment. Their creation often resulted in the generation of cheap electricity. The goal was to control whole river systems for regional use.
What is a principal reason that a disproportionate number of African American men lost their jobs starting in the 1970s?
The decline of American industry
In 1989-1990 this event captured the world's imagination and reunified the country at the heart of Cold War tensions
The destruction of the Berlin Wall
Race riots
The end of WWII did not bring an increase in ____.
Colleges
The federal government donated land to the states to create ____.
Pendleton
The first national civil service measure was the _____ Act.
Which shift in the relationship between the government and the people was reflected in the Social Security Act?
The government became responsible for the social well-being of Americans.
Liberty Bonds
The government took loans from the American people known as ____ to finance the war.
What did Huey Long's Share Our Wealth program propose for recovery?
The government would limit the size of all fortunes and confiscate the rest.
Which event prompted business leaders to seek ways to reduce the toll of economic slumps?
The great depression
What was not a source of division in the Middle East?
The growing number of democratic states in the region
Why did President Hoover's spending on Public works fail to end the Great Depression?
The money he allotted for public works was less than one-tenth of what was needed.
What happened to the American Indian Movement after Wounded Knee in 1973?
The movement splintered into more than 100 different organizations.
Social Darwinism
The philosophy that the strongest businesses would survive was called ____.
Which of the following best describes the position of African Americans concerning the Vietnam War?
The racial consciousness of many African Americans led them to identify with the Vietnamese.
What was the result of the investigation into allegations about Whitewater during Clinton's first term?
The special prosecutor did not find any evidence of illegal actions by the Clintons.
Which of the following statements about the foreign policies of the Eisenhower era is NOT true?
The summit meeting scheduled for 1960 between Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev was never held, because of the Berlin blockade.
Participation the war by homosexuals?
The war gave many gays their first major exposure to other homosexuals.
The Economic Recovery Tax Act the Reagan urged through the U.S. Congress lowered taxes the most for
The wealthy
zThe houses William Levitt built were known for
Their basic design
Large U.S. corporations in the WWII
Their share of the workforce more than doubled.
Why were Republicans opposed to the Panama Canal's return to the country of Panama?
They believed that it showed American weakness.
How did wartime U.S. employers deal with workers with disabilities?
They employed them in order to overcome the labor shortage.
In drafting the Social Security legislation, what did legislators do to appease southern Democrats hostile to African Americans?
They excluded occupations that were disproportionately held by blacks.
Why did the " Hollywood Ten" go to prison?
They refused to say whether they were Communists.
Why did the "Hollywood Ten" go to prison?
They refused to say whether they were Communists.
Why did black parents support busing of their children to schools in white neighborhoods?
They saw it as a way for their children to get a better education
During what was called by German U-boat sailors "the American hunting season," merchant sailors on oil tankers would sleep where on ship?
They slept wherever they wanted; no one would survive a U-boat attack.
Why did Washington officials fail to anticipate Chinese involvement in Korea?
They thought Mao was a Soviet puppet who would do nothing.
What was noteworthy about the conviction of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
They were convicted of espionage
When Mexican immigrants were deported back to Mexico in the 1930s, what happened to their American-born children, who were U.S. citizens?
They were deported with their parents.
What correctly describes the employment situation of women and minorities after WWII?
They were often displaced by returning veterans; They fell victim to a policy of "last hired, first fired"
In what ways did New Deal agencies discriminate against African Americans?
They were paid less than whites; they were not allowed to live in certain towns, and they lost their jobs to white workers.
What impeded relief efforts for Mexican Americans during the New Deal?
They weren't a priority for the government, claim procedures were unfamiliar to many, and Latino culture did not encourage seeking aid from government
NATO
This alliance between the U.S. and Western Europe was first commanded by Eisenhower.
Which of the following correctly describe the Manhattan Project? All work was in a centralized location to insure security. Throughout the project, the fear was that the Germans would produce a bomb first. Scientists involved were American, Canadian, and British. The project cost in excess of $2 billion.
Throughout the project, the fear was that the Germans would produce a bomb first. Scientists involved were American, Canadian, and British. The project cost in excess of $2 billion.
Who is the 1960s counterculture figure best known for the promotion of drugs such as LSD?
Timothy Leary
What was the name of the landmark report put out in 1946 by the Committee on Civil Rights?
To Secure These Rights
What agreement was made at Munich in 1938 between Great Britain, France and Germany?
To allow Germany to take a portion of Czechoslovakia
Why did the Black Panthers arm themselves
To protect black communities from police harassment.
Why did the Black Panthers arm themselves?
To protect black communities from police harassment.
African Americans were hired in large numbers by the...
WPA
True or false: Saturday Night Fever glamorized vulgarity, sexuality, and violence.
True Reason: Recall that the movie glamorized vulgar language, violence, explicit sexuality, and drug use.
In a March 1947 speech to Congress, President Truman called for American aid to support freedom in the face of totalitarianism, thus introducing what came to be known as the
Truman Doctrine
Fair Deal
Truman's "____" was a progressive postwar domestic program that was opposed by Congress.
Which of the following statements regarding Trump's election is true?
Trump did not win the popular vote.
Germany attempted to break the Atlantic connection between the United States and Britain through the use of
U-boats.
Which statement regarding the "miracle" of war production is most accurate?
U.S. achievements in war production proved as important to the Allied victory as success on the battlefield.
Membership in LULAC was limited to....
U.S. citizens
Although some argued that the United States had to enter Yugoslavia to stop the violence, others feared that
U.S. troops could become entangled in another conflict like the Vietnam War.
At the close of WWII, which country was in the strongest relative position?
US
McGovern
Ultra liberal
Hoover feared that providing direct federal relief to the unemployed would
Undermine the initiative of the recipients
By 1944, what was the number of unemployed people in the U.S.?
Unemployment had virtually disappeared.
How did the Great Depression affect African American unemployment levels?
Unemployment increased.
by 1944 what was the number of unemplyed people in the U.S.?
Unemplyed had virtually disappeared
Meredith
University of Mississippi
Under the New Deal, which of the following occurred in the organized labor?
Unskilled labor found a powerful voice for collective bargaining
Under the New Deal, what occurred in organized labor?
Unskilled labor found a powerful voice for collective bargaining.
Sacco
Vanzetti
in the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church responded to the growing concern for social issues through a series of reforms known as
Vatican II
In the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Church responded to the growing concern for social issues through a series of reforms known as
Vatican II.
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnam
Three-quarters of the almost 1 million refugees who arrived in the U.S. by 1990 were from where?
Vietnam
A unifying characteristic of student movements across the world was their opposition to U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War.
By 1967 members of the public such as college students were increasingly more likely to
Voice their opposition of the Vietnam War
In what area did nearly 250,000 Dominican immigrants settle during the 1970s and 1980s?
Washington Heights, New York
War production created new industrial centers, especially in the ______.
West
Stalin's postwar plans called for a greatly expanded role for the Soviet Union in world affairs, but they did not call for a major conflict with the...
West.
Interstate Commerce Act
What Act did congress pass to regulate the railroad industry?
In His Steps
What C.S. novel applied the teachings of Christ to modern times?
Hearst
What California resident helped popularize "yellow journalism"?
Direct Primary
What allowed voters to choose candidates rather than political machines?
17th Amendment
What amendment provided for direct election of senators previously appointed by state legislatures?
Radar
What device revolutionized the tracking of ships and planes during WWII?
Polio
What disease did FDR overcome?
OPEC
What organization refused to sell oil to nations supporting Israel and raised prices 400%?
Blitzkrieg
What was the German word for "lightning war"?
Russia, France, and Britain
What was the Triple Entente comprised of?
In 1955, Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi because he
While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
Dewey
Who applied theories of pragmatism to education?
Alger
Who became famous for his "rags to riches" stories?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who became the recognized spokesman for Black America during and after the bus boycott?
Bell
Who created the first patented, commercially useful telephone?
What conclusion did Professor Alfred Kinsey reach concerning women and sex?
Women enjoyed sex in much the same way that men did.
Which of the following best describes employment opportunities from women during the Great Depression?
Women in the workforce continued to work in positions traditionally held by women
In 1969, the _____ Music Festival was the ;largest rock concert ever organized.
Woodstock
Headed by Harry Hopkins, the largest work relief program introduced during the "second hundred days" was the
Works Progress Administration
What did al Qaeda bomb in its first attack on the United States in 1993?
World Trade Center
In 1973 the Indian activist group AIM protested policies of the U.S. government's bureau of Indian Affairs by taking over a trading post
Wounded Knee
In 1973 the Indian activist group AIM protested policies of the U.S. government's Bureau of Indian Affairs by taking over a trading post in
Wounded Knee.
Where did the Big Three leaders meet for the last time, to discuss postwar Europe and the war against Japan?
Yalta
What was the "Munich analogy"?
You dare not appease aggressors.
Burger
____ replaced Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Before he began to organize wartime protests, A. Philip Randolph had been ______.
a labor leader the leader of a black labor organization.
New Deal relief efforts had....
a limited effect on Latino communities
New Deal relief efforts had
a limiting effect on Latino communities
Which demographic initiative did the Kennedy adminustration manage to see through the U.S Congress
a minimum wage increase
The Ho Chi Minh Trails could best be described as
a network of routes that passed through Laos and Cambodia
All the following factors played into Nixon's decision to resign the presidency except
a public admission of guilt. factors: impending impeachment for abusing his power. evidence that he was involved in bribery. a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against him.
During WWII, American women in the military were
able to serve as noncombatants
During World War II, American women in the military were ______.
able to serve as noncombatants
The new Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965:
abolished "national origins" quota system that had been in place since 1924, the act also doubled the number of immigrants allowed to enter annually while for the first time setting limits on immigrants from the Western Hemispere, it further provided for the admission of close relatives of US citizens, outside those numerical limits
In the Rod v. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that certain state legislation had unduly restricted women's access to
abortion
In the Roe v Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that certain state legislation had unduly restricted women's access to...
abortion
In the Roe v. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that certain state legislation had unduly restricted women's access to
abortion.
By how many votes did John F. Kennedy defeat Richard Nixon?
about 118,000
What revelation was central to the experience of being born again?
acknowledging sinfulness
What best describes Reagan as president?
adaptable
When China threated Taiwan in 1955, Eisenhower availed himself of all the following options expect
agreeing to recognize Communist China
The Economic Opportunity Act tried to address the various causes of poverty by
aiding small businesses, migrant workers, and unskilled workers
Which of the following most transformed West Coast industry during World War II?
aircraft construction
which of the following most transformed West Coast industry during WW2
aircraft construction
The September 11, 2001, attacks were coordinated and carried out by
al Qaeda.
Japanese who were U.S. citizens were treated no differently than Japanese
aliens.
Osama bin Laden was dismayed that his home country of Saudi Arabia
allowed the United States to stage attacks on Iraq from Saudi lands.
Under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court made rulings that affected ordinary Americans by
allowing more people the right to a fair trial
Under Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Supreme Court made rulings that affected ordinary Americans by
allowing more people the right to a fair trial.
Richard Nixon's attitude toward "value movements" could best be described as...
ambivalent, but he thought they had broad popular appeal
What did Father Divine promise his followers?
an afterlife full of equality
All of the following describe attepts to improve relations between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Cuban missle crisis except
an agreement to reduce the number of nuclear weapons possessed by both sides
From Hitler's perspective, what was the principal benefit of signing the August 1939 nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union?
an assurance that he would not have to fight a two-front war.
Which one of the following WAS NOT a major social or economic trend of the post-World War II era?
an cultural consensus enthusiastically supported by all segments of society
The $700 billion TARP program, in which the government purchased "toxic assets" to try to stabilize the financial markets, was
an example of government involvement in business affairs.
With respect to Poland, the Yalta conference provided for
an interim government and subsequent free elections.
Difficult campaigns on Okinawa and Iwo Jima convinced Roosevelt that the only way to defeat Japan was through ______.
an invasion of the mainland
Following the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans faced a different scare when it was revealed that letters containing ______ had been sent through the postal system.
anthrax spores
Clergy who preached their message on television in the 1950s tended to focus on what themes?
anticommunism patriotism not: the infallibility of the Bible the universalism of God
Former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of ______, which served to strengthen Hitler's expansionist policy, was used as a warning for American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union.
appeasement
Former British prime minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of _________________________, which served to strengthen Hitler's expansionist policy, was used as a warning for American foreign policy toward the soviet Union.
appeasement
Which best described the non-confrontational policy of Britain and France toward German expansion in 1938?
appeasement
which of the following terms best describes the non-confrontational policy of Britain and France toward German expansion in 1938?
appeasement
President George W. Bush hoped to impose conservative values on judicial rulings by
appointing John Roberts to the Supreme Court.
What was the central message of prosperity theology?
approval of economic success
Which of the following tactics was Martin Luther King Jr. unlikely participate in?
armed protests
How did Reagan-era conservatives generally perceive environmental regulations?
as a strategy to regulate business
In the powerful position as director of the Office of War Mobilization, Supreme Court justice James F. Byrnes earned the unofficial title "____________ ____________"
assistant president
The Manhattan Project was a large scale project to develop an ____ ____
atomic bomb
The Manhattan Project was a large-scale project to develop an _________ __________
atomic bomb
As part of the Tet Offensive, the Vietcong:
attacked the presidential palace in South Vietnam and invaded the American Embassy in Saigon.
With the introduction of color and ___________, movies entertained Depression-era audiences and allowed them to forget their troubles.
audio
The largest strikes occurred in which industry
automobile
The Environmental Protection Agency's first major act was to
ban most domestic uses of DDT.
In the 1990s, young Mexican immigrants gathered to listen to what type of music?
banda
The so-called "merchants of death," ___________ and ________ _____________ were found by the Nye Committee to have profited from World War I
bankers and arms makers
The so called "merchants of death," ______ and ______ were found by the Nye Committee to have profited from World War I.
bankers; arms makers
Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008. This was a sign of the problems in the ______ industry.
banking
The Net neutrality act of 1935 ___ the sale of munitions to belligerents in wartime
banned
The Neutrality Act of 1935 ______ the sale of munitions to belligerents in wartime.
banned
The Neutrality Act of 1935
banned the sale of munitions to all belligerents.
The neutrality legislation of the 1930s was based on the assumption that the United States could keep out of war by
banning arms sales to countries at war
Which of the following actions did federal, state, and local authorities take to combat Communist influence in the United States?
banning the book Robin Hood requiring loyalty oaths from teachers inquiring about employees' newspaper subscriptions not: barring known Communists from voting
Which of the following were medical breakthroughs of the 1980s?
the CAT scan MRIs synthetic insulin production
In 1966 U.S. national leaders who were hawks concerning the Vietnam war
believed that a U.S. victory was crucial to safeguard the lives of Americans fighting the way
In 1966 national leaders who were hawks concerning the Vietnam war
believed that a US victory was crucial to safeguard the lives of American fighting at war
Hollywood studios, fearful of government anticommunist pressure, produced a _________ to prevent suspected Communists from finding work.
blacklist
Hollywood studios, fearful of government anticommunist pressure, produced a _____________________ to prevent suspected Communists from finding work
blacklist
Hollywood studios, fearful of government anticommunist pressure, produced a(n) ____ to prevent suspected Communists from finding work.
blacklist
Because the fighting against the Vietcong had no well-defined front lines, the U.S. military gauged success by the number of enemies killed, a measurement known as
body count.
High war wages allowed consumers to accumulate considerable funds in savings accounts and war_____.
bonds.
In July 1932 Hoover brought in the U.S. Army to disperse the remnants of the
bonus army
All of the following were popular radio programs during the Great Depression except -variety shows. -soap operas. -broadcasts of baseball games. -broadcasts of football games.
broadcasts of football games.
By responding to the needs of various groups that had usually been ignored, Roosevelt's "________________________________________" prevented a social revolution in the United States
broker state
A highly valuable manner in which students expressed their feeling about U.S. military policy was to do this to their draft cards
burn
What were some practices that Supreme Court allowed in a 1971 decision in which it greatly strengthened integration efforts in the public schools?
busing redrawing school district lines balancing ratios
What were some practices that the Supreme Court allowed in a 1971 decision in which it greatly strengthened integration efforts in the public schools?
busing, balancing ratios, and redrawing school district lines.
When the feud between Truman and MacArthur went public, how did Truman respond?
by consolidating support among politicians
A Key component of the cold war mentality was the fear that the Soviets could ( and if given the opportunity, would) defeat the United States either on the battlefield or
by subverting it from within
How did whites react to the Montgomery bus boycott?
by using legal and physical intimidation
One of the most notable examples of water pollution in the United States was the Cuyahoga River because it
caught on fire in 1969.
The "New Look" in cold war policy, identified with Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, proclaimed a
containing the Soviets through security and trade agreements, covert action, and the threat of a full nuclear response.
The purpose of Woodstock was to
celebrate the promise of peace, love, and freedom. Woodstock drew 400,000 people for one long weekend based on sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
How did FDR die?
cerebral hemorrhage
how did FDR die?
cerebral hemorrhage
The American G.I. Forum was established in 1948 to campaign for
civil rights
The congressional act that established the Atomic Energy Commission was intended to place control of all fissionable atomic materials, for both military and peacetime applications, in ______ hands.
civilian
As the Vietnam war progressed, a point of contention with the Selective Service System was that...
college students and people in certain occupations could avoid military service.
As the war progressed, a point of contention with the Selective Service System was the fact that...
college students and people in certain occupations could avoid militry service.
Which best descibes Khrushchev's temperament during his first meeting with Kennedy in Vienna?
combative and pushy
Which best describes Khrushchev's temperament during his first meeting with Kennedy in Vienna?
combative and pushy
Psychologist Fredric Wertham blamed the rise in juvenile delinquency on
comic books.
One of the mainstays of Reagan's presidency was his visible fight against
communism
Truman's critics frequently charged that he was "soft" on ___.
communism
Truman's critics frequently charged that he was "soft" on ______.
communism
Which was at odds with what postwar commentators descibed as the American "consensus"
communism
Kissinger defended U.S. meddling in the democratic affairs of Latin American countries in the name of combating
communism or socialism
One of the mainstays of Reagan's presidency was his visible fight against
communism.
In his book A Sand Country Alamanac, ecologist Aldo Leopold argued that people must see the land as a....
community to which we belong.
In his book A Sand Country Almanac, ecologist Aldo Leopold argued that people must see the land as a
community to which we belong.
What constrained the projects in which the Works Progress Administration could be involved?
competing with private industry
Developers ignored potential hazards, such as filling wetlands and ignoring flood dangers, in order to
contain land purchase costs.
President Bill Clinton's political skills
conflicted with other aspects of his personality.
Critics of middle-class culture were distressed by how social pressure, the spread of suburbs growing materialism, and homogeneous values bred ________ among subrban residents in the post wr United States
conformity
Allen Ginsberg, in his 1955 poem Howl, blamed what for his generation's disillusionment?
conformity and capitalism
A corporation that diversifies its interests by purchasing firms that operate in a number of unconnected markets is called a(n)
conglomerate
A corporation that diversifies its intrests by purchasing firms that operate in a number of unconnected markets is called
conglomerate
In a 1976 survey, the majority of Americans believed that the nation's leaders
consistently lied to them
Developers ignored potential hazards, such as filling wetlands and ignoring flood dangers, in order to...
contain land purchase cost.
In terms of foreign policy, Stalin was most concerned with which of the following after WWII
control of territory along the Soviet Union's borders
In terms of foreign policy, Stalin was most concerned with which of the following after WWII?
control of the territory along the Soviet Union's border
In terms of foreign policy, Stalin was most concerned with what after WWII?
control of the territory along the Soviet Union's borders
In terms of foreign policy, Stalin was most concerned with which of the following after World War II?
control of the territory along the Soviet Union's borders
Which of the following was not a strategy used by firms like IT&T, Mobil, and Exxon to extend the reach of thier business intrests?
controlling supply chains through vertical intergration
What was not frowned upon in many evangelical religious circles?
converting nonbelievers
Who were the beats' models?
cool urban hipsters
Which of the following adjectives does not accurately describe Nikita Khrushchev
coolheaded
Which of the following adjectives does not accurately describe Nikita Khrushchev?
coolheaded
A fundamental assumption of the Johnson administration policy of escalation in the Vietnam War was that the enemy
could not match gradual increases in U.S. military force.
In the early 1940s, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program ______.
created strong opposition in both parties
The lead character of the television series All in the Family, Archie Bunker, was a...
critic of permissive viewpoints
The lead character of the television series All in the Family, Archie Bunker, was a...
critic of permissive viewpoints.
What was the topic of the "Pentagon Papers"?
criticism of the Vietnam War
The distingushed flying ____ was awarded to more than 80 black pilots
cross
In 1958, anti-American sentiments in Latin America became obvious when...
crowds in several countries spat on VP Nixon's car and threw eggs and stones.
What caused the "Roosevelt recession" in 1937?
cuts in federal spending
For many Americans, Vietnam and Watergate helped to create a sense of
cynicism.
Just before leaving office in 1961, President Eisenhower warned Americans of the
dangers of the military-industrial complex.
As he began his term as president, Harry Truman's leadership style was ______.
decisive
According to conventional economic theory, a recessionary market corrects itself by forcing prices and wages to
decline
According to conventional economic theory, a recessionary market corrects itself by forcing prices and wages to...
decline
In the 1980s, American workers who belonged to unions
decline in number
In the 1980s, Central Americans joined the northward flow of Mexican illegal immigrants because of ______ in their home countries.
economic issues
As part of his global strategy, MacArthur advocated which of the following?
defeat of communism through Asia
John Maynard Keynes's theory of "countercyclical" action meant...
deficit spending in depressions and tax increases in prosperous times
Under FDR, " The good neighbor" policy
defined relationships with Latin American nations
Under Franklin Roosevelt, the "Good Neighbor" policy
defined relationships with Latin American nations.
During the Spanish Civil War, Americans were torn between support for the
democratic Popular Front and Francisco Franco's fascists
Republicans blamed ______ for the fall of China to the Communists.
democrats
What were the first political events to be shown on television?
the Democratic and Republican conventions
The U.S military's plan to prevent a Soviet attack by preparing a devastation atomic counterattack was known as
deterrence
To assist Great Britain after the fall of France in 1940, President Roosevelt
devised ways to provide aid without going to war.
The chapter 27 introduction recounts the stories of returning GI Timuel Black and nurse Betty Basye. The point drawn from these anecdotes is how
different from "normal" life became as the American government met the international and economic challenges of peacetime.
Life became ______ for loyal Asian Americans following the outbreak of war with Japan.
difficult
Life became _______ for loyal Asian Americans following the outbreak of war with Japan.
difficult.
A revenue sharing act passed in 1972 funded block grants as an innovative funding mechanism that was designed to
disburse federal aid at the state and local level with no conditions for how it was to be spent
The Hoover administration's actions to combat the Depression led to widespread
discontent
When the Holocaust became public knowledge, many Americans
discouraged Jewish immigration to the United States.
The form of corporate growth used to minimize shocks in specific markets, used when General Electric entered markets for appliances, X-ray machines, and elevators, is known as
diversification
Vietcong guerrillas were able to conduct the Tet offensive by
diverting U.S. troops from urban areas to rural areas
Jimmy Carter was among a new breed of southern governors who distinguished themselves from their predecessors by being....
economic progressives
American foreign policy advisers held a _______________ view of foreign affairs whereby Korea was merely a "small link" in a global security system.
euro-centric
Which stereotype of women was most common in the 1950s?
domestic and motherly
The majority of Americans who served in the military in Vietnam were chosen by Selective Service System as part of the
draft
The majority of Americans who served in the military in Vietnam were chosen by the Selective Service System as part of the
draft
In his famous speech of March 1946, what did Winston Churchill claim that the Soviet Union had done concerning its satellite nations?
dropped an iron curtain in front of them
The Marshall Plan allowed all European countries to apply for
economic aid
The Marshall Plan allowed all European countries to apply for...
economic aid
The Marshall Plan allowed all European countries to apply for
economic aid.
What caused a spike in emigration out of Mexico in the 1980s?
economic downturn
Which two of the following were long-term problems that Obama faced during his second term as president?
economic inequality global warming
The Voting Rights Act
eliminated literacy test used to screen voters
In wartime factories, Black and Latino workers ______.
encountered the same discrimination they'd always found
What were the first political events to be shown on televison
the Democratic and Republican conventions
The primary goal of the Montgomery bus boycott was to
end seating discrimination on buses.
In 1974 the American Psychiatric Association promoted gay and lesbian rights by...
ending its classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder...
What were generally considered the two most prominent issues on Carter's domestic agenda?
energy and the environment
The text makes the point that minorities in the United States
enlisted to become a part of the American mainstream.
The Civil Rights Act did all of the following except
ensure and protect African-American voting
After the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the U.S. economy
entered a serious recession.
An event in Donora, Pennsylvania, in 1948 illustrated what danger that was associated with the growing consumer society?
environmental damage
An event in Donora, Pennsylvania, in 1948 illustrated which danger associated with the growing consumer society?
environmental damage
In the 1960s this movement emerged from the rejection of the idea that pollution and destruction of natural resource were acceptable in exchange for industrial progress and prosperity
environmental movement
In Yugoslavia a terrible consequence of Bosnia gaining its independence was the mass killing of rival populations, a practice called
ethnic cleansing
If you claim you are born again, you belong to which type of church?
evangelical
John Foster Dulles viewed the Soviet Unionas a(n)
evil enemy to be vanquished
John Foster Dulles viewed the Soviet Union as a(n)
evil enemy to be vanquished.
What has been most effective in changing the Affordable Care Act during the Trump administration?
executive orders
A crucial factor that led to Nixon's resignation was the refusal on investigators and prosecutors to accept his interpretation of the concept of
executive privilege
A crucial factor that led to Nixon's resignation was the refusal of investigators and prosecutors to accept his interpretation of the concept of
executive privilege.
How did business try to protect their economic security in the postwar era.
expanding in size
What was not a qualification that Robert McNamara brought to his job as secretary of defense?
experience in counterespionage
The health reform law enacted in 2010 gave 16 million low-income people insurance by
extending Medicaid coverage.
Once in office, Donald Trump issued executive orders to stem immigration through the use of
extreme vetting.
According to the text, the Western Allies (Great Britain and the United States) were willing to leave Hitler in power if he could help contain the spread of Soviet Communism across Eastern Europe.
f
The U. S. military's operational codename for producing an atomic weapon was the Bronx Project.
f
After their initial success in Iraq, U.S. forces
faced difficulty in creating a viable Iraqi government while striving to contain violence
Following legal challenges in 1996 and 2003, affirmative action
faced serious limitations but survived as a policy.
At what point in WW2 did the Allies have their first successes in Europe?
fall 1942
At what point in World War II did the Allies have their first successes in Europe?
fall 1942
Among the "shocks of 1949" was the
fall of China to Mao Zedong's Communists.
Computers were already in widespread use in the business community by 1950
false
Eisenhower abandoned the containment doctrine formulated by the Truman administration
false
Prior to the outbreak of hostilities, Korea occupied a central place in the Truman administration's foreign policy
false
Regardng his domestic policies, as a staunch conservative, Eisenhower sought to eliminate as many New Deal welfare state programs as he could get away with.
false
The Kennedy administration recieved strong support for its domestic agenda from the conservative Democrats who dominated Congress
false
The post war baby boom was a continuation of an already exsisting demographic trend of increasing birthrates in the twentith century
false
Suburban homebuilders of the 1950s faced strict builing and zoning code in rual areas slotted for development.
false Reason: Only events like the landslides in California provoked a move toward more restrictive building codes.
In the 2006 midterm elections,
the Democrats took control of the House and Senate
Which best describes the Communist Party in American society in 1950?
fear-inducing
The integration of the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, took two years and the arrival of
federal troops.
After 1929, the cost of living in the United States...
fell but incomes dropped more sharply
While he served as FDR's vice president, Harry Truman met the president
fewer than ten times.
What strategy in pursuing equal rights did LULAC share with the NAACP in the 1940s?
filing court cases to secure equal rights and opportunities.
Eisenhower believe the governement should be
financially prudent but socially compassionate
Eisenhower believed that government should be
financially prudent but socially compassionate.
During the 1970s, many people turned to the "born-again" movement because they wanted to
find more traditional religious practices.
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau argued for what economic approach?
fiscal restraint
The Elementary and Secondary School Act provided all of the following to low-income school districts except
grants based on standardized testing results.
McNamara proposed replacing the all or nothing nuclear policy of Dulles and Eisenhower with a doctrine of ______ ________, which would allow for negotiation with the Soviet government.
flexible response
The Nicaraguan Contras consisted primarily of what group of people?
followers of former dictator Anastasio Somoza
Why did Carter choose to cancel his proposed tax rebates?`
for fear of enlarging the deficit
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration provided...
grants to states, local governments, and nonprofit organizations
In 1990, Lawrence Auster revived old nativist arguments in his book The Path to National Suicide in which he warned of
the "browning of America."
Between 1929 and 1932, about one worker in ____________ could not find work
four
What was the original purpose of agreeing to conduct arms sales with Iran, a U.S. enemy?
freeing U.S. hostages
Churchill and roosevelt denied stalin his request second ____ from 1942 to 1944
front
President Ford gave former president Nixon a
full pardon.
Although they had generally supported President Johnson's efforts at social uplift for minorities, middle class whites opposed these initiatives when they judged that minorities and rights groups
gaining unfair advantages from the system
Although they had generally supported President Johnson's efforts at social uplift for minorities, middle class whites opposed these initiatives when they judged that minorities and rights groups were...
gaining unfair advantages from the system
Which of the following was one reason Hollywood became a target for anticommunists?
high-profile foreign celebrities
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution
gave President Johnson the authority to increase military involvement in Vietnam.
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution...
gave President Johnson the authority to increase military involvement in Vietnam.
Which is the best description of Eisenhower as a military commander during World War II
gifted organizer
The cash-and-carry policy may have helped lead the U.S. toward involvement in WWII by
giving preference to the British
The Employment Act of 1946 established what principle?
government was responsible for managing unemployment
The elementary and secondary school act provided all of the following (funds for textbooks, enrichments programs like Project head start, educational tools) to low-income school districts except
grants based on standardized testing results
Between the years 1950 and 1964, the American economy
grew at a consistent pace.
Affirmative action rested on the notion that racial minorities had been discriminated against as...
groups
What was the broad, underlying shift in American society to which critics of mass culture are responding?
growth of impersonal organizations and insulated suburbs
`New Deal efforts to bring electricity to rural areas...
had a dramatic effect on the lives of rural Americans
Radio in the 1930s
had a unifying effect on the country
As the investigation into the Watergate burglary progressed evidence indicated that the White House
had directed the crime and subsequent cover-up
As the investigation into the Watergate burglary progressed, evidence indicated that the White House...
had directed the crime and subsequnet cover-up
While he served as FDR's vice president, Harry Truman ______.
had learned almost nothing of Roosevelt's postwar plans
In World War II, homosexuals in the U.S. military
had to hide their sexual orientation in the screening process.
The appeal of Obamacare
has not yet happened, as of December 2018.
Franklin Roosevelt turned the 1936 presidential election into a contest between...
haves and the have nots
After Malcolm X made a pilgrimage to Mecca, he:
he converted to Orthodox Islam and began publicly accepting the idea of cooperation between blacks and whites
Truman did not declare war on North Korea because
he did not want to provoke a war with China
The 1992 election results made it difficult for Bill Clinton to get legislation passed by Congress without making compromises because
he did not win more than 50 percent of the popular vote and had only narrow Democratic majorities in Congress.
Which best describes how Truman responded to his critics during the 1948 election?
he fought back
What was Khrushchev's cheif reason for placing nuclear weapons in Cuba?
he wanted to level the nuclear playing field with the united states
What kept Huey Long from running in the 1936 election?
he was shot to death by a disgruntled constituent.
How did the Bonus army's situation affect Hoover's reputation as a president
he was viewed as unsympathetic to the plight of the unemployed
What did kennedy's fascination with James Bond reveal about his character?
he was willing to back his idealistic rhetoric with pragmatic decisions
A key component of the Clinton health care reform effort was
health care coverage for all Americans.
In 2009 liberals called for spending as much as one trillion dollars in the United States in order to
help restore the economy.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States was involved in the politics of South Vietnam by
helping make Ngo Dinh Diem the president of South Vietnam.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the United States was involved in the politics of South Vietnam by...
helping make Ngo Dinh Diem the president of South Vietnam.
The rapidly changing American youth culture was centered around the
high school
Eleanor Roosevelt prodded her husband to
hire more women and minorities
Proposition 209, passed in California in 1996, eliminated racial and gender preferences in which of the following?
hiring & college admissions
What were some reasons for Reagan's mastery of public speaking and presidential performance?
his expert communications staff; his time as California governor; his acting career
When George W. Bush took office, he pushed for an agenda that appealed to
his political base on the right.
Ho Chi Minh was confident that he would win the national elections that had been agreed upon at Geneva because of...
his popularity among the Vietnamese people.
Which of the following proved insignificant with respect to Kennedy's victory in the 1960 Election
his realative youth
Which of the following were reasons for Reagan's mastery of public speaking and presidential performance
his time as California governor his expert communications staff his acting career
Suburban culture in postwar America is best described as
homogeneous.
In 1972 Huey Newton thought that these people "might be the most oppressed people" in America.
homosexuals
The Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society were founded to promote the rights of
homosexuals
The Daughters of Bilitis and the Mattachine Society were founded to promote the rights of...
homosexuals
Immediately following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States worried about attacks from
hostile groups who disagreed with U.S. policies.
Which represents the relationship between cost of living and household income from 1929 to 1933?
household income decreased more than cost of living.
Which of the following is an example of de facto segregation?
housing patterns that kept African Americans from buying property in white neighborhoods
Woodstock was a
huge rock festival held in 1969 celebration of the counterculture
Alfred Kinsey's famous midcentury research dealt with
human sexuality
The case of the "Scottsboro boys" shows that the Great Depression was a period marked by...
increased prejudice against African Americans
Latin American immigrants tended to settle in enclave communities where
immigrants from the same country supported each other.
By 1992, the currency flow of the global oil trade was the largest in volume. The currency flow of what was second largest?
immigrants sending funds
Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan?
in response to the defeat of a pro-Soviet regime
United Nations Organization
included an 11-member Security Council and a General Assembly
When President Nixon was in office, he
incorporated a blend of liberal and conservative practices and ideas.
Nixon believed that the best way to jump start peace negotiations whenever they stalled was to do this to the scale of U.S. military action
increase
Nixon believed that the best way to jump-start peace negotiations whenever they stalled was to do this to the scale of U.S. military action
increase
Nixon believed that the best way to jump-start peace negotiations whenever they stalled was to do this to the scale of U.S. military action.
increase
To end a depression, the economist John Maynard Keynes advocated
increase government spending
What was one of the provisions of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982?
increase tax enhancing revenue by raising taxes
Over the course of the New Deal, membership in the Democratic Party
increased as African Americans, Farmers, and workers joined its ranks
During Harry Truman's presidency, the U.S. defense budget
increased by billions of dollars
What was the immediate effect of laarger families on American Society?
increased demand for housing
What was the immediate effect of larger families on American society?
increased demand for housing
To end a depression, the economist John Maynard Keynes advocated...
increased government spending
The postwar NAACP decision to use the legal system to attack the Jim Crow laws reflects
increased national influence due to African American migration from the South
What is the reason the Middle East peace initiative under Bill Clinton failed to achieve lasting peace?
increased suspicion and violence by extremists
The "Nixon Doctrine" was intended in part to create stability in key regions of the world by do this to the size of the armed forces of certain U.S. allies
increasing
The "Nixon Doctrine" was intended in part to create stability in key regions of the world by doing what to the size of the armed forces of certain U.S. allies?
increasing
Which of the following were issues the United States faced in the 1970s that limited its ambitions?
increasing competition from Europe and Asia rising inflation the energy crisis
The ongoing peace negotiations affected U.S. servicemen and veterans by...
increasing tension between officers and enlisted men in the field.
How did Kennedy's Liberal economic Advisers propose to help the economy and reduce unemployment
increasing the federal budget and reducing taxes
How did Kennedy's liberal economic advisers propose to help the economy and reduce unemployment?
increasing the federal budget and reducing taxes
Worldwide, what was the trend regarding religion in the 1980s?
increasingly conservative
In the 1960s, American music
increasingly included the topic of drugs. was heavily influenced by British groups. began to show increasing attention to political and social themes. not: moved away from the social commentary that dominated music in the fifties.
Was the Reconstruction Finance Corportation a success?
incredibly so
Seeking a solution to the socioeconomic problems confronting their communities, some Chicano activists in the late 1960s called for the creation of
independent Latino enclaves
U.S. _____________ proved every bit as important as battlefield victories to the nation's ultimate success in WWII.
industrial production
President Truman proclaimed that he was "tired of babying the Soviets" after a February 1946 speech in which Stalin proclaimed that in a world allegedly dominated by capitalism, war was
inevitable.
Which military division suffered 90 percent of battlefield casualties during the war?
infantry
which milltary division suffered 90 percent of battlefield casualties during the war?
infantry
The heavy U.S. spending associated with the Vietnam War threatened the economy by contributing to
inflation
California's middle-class and lower-class homeowners were burdened by...
inflation and higher taxes
The author of the policy of containment, George Kennan, argued that Soviet leaders were a combination of which two forces?
insecurity and Marxism
The author of the policy of containment, George Kennan, argued that soviet leaders were a combination of which two forces
insecurity and Marxism
Following the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, North Vietnam
insisted that the U.S. cease supporting the South Vietnamese government
Following the death of Ho Chi Minh in 1969, North Vietnam
insisted that the US cease supporting the South Vietnamese government.
According to the policy known as _____________, the United States should work actively with other nations to dictate world affairs.
internationalism
Thousands of Japanese Americans were placed in ____ camps during the war.
internment camps
What was Eisenhower's main objection to the military-industrial complex
it unbalanced the national budget
What did the Supreme Court decision in Butler v U.S. (1936) do?
it voided the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
The integration of the schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, resulted in President Eisenhower federalizing
the Arkansas National Guard.
In his famous speech of March 1946, what did Winston Churchill claim that the Soviet Union had done concerning its satellite nations
iron curtain falling across Eastern Europe
Describe the international policy of the United States during the 1930s
isolationist
Which term best describes the international policy of the United States during the 1930's
isolationist
Which term best describes the international policy of the United States during the 1930s?
isolationist
Americans were divided between internationalists, who desired to work closely with other nations, and ___, who believed that the United States should avoid entangling alliances.
isolationists
What did MacArthur do without the approval of Truman?
issue an ultimatum to Chinese commanders
How did the Eisenhower administration address the ression of 1953-54
it balanced the budget and check inflation
In seeking support for the new interstate highway system, Eisenhower argued that
it could be used to evacuate cities in case of a nuclear attack.
Although Latino voters in California had opposed Proposition 187, which denied benefits to illegal immigrants, they supported Proposition 227 because
it mandated that schools teach their children to read and write English.
Which is not true about the Emergency Relief and Construction Act
it represents one of Hoover's greatest successes during his presidency
What was Eisenhower's main objection to the military- idustrial complex?
it unbalanced the national budget
The 1965 Immigration Act had provisions that
limited the number of immigrants from some areas of the world encouraged the reunion of immigrants with family members already in the US
How did the Council of Economic Advisers propose to prevent an inflationary spiral in the steel industry?
limiting price and wage increases
How did the Council of Economicg Advisors propose to stabilize prices
linking wage increase to productivity
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established in 1932 in order to...
loan banks money and stop the failure and closure of those banks
Muhammad Ali's refusal to enter the U.S. military resulted in the...
loss of his heavyweight boxing title.
Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. both exemplified liberal politics because of their history of championing the cause of the
lower classes.
What was the principal goal of the United Organizations of Taxpayers?
lowering taxes
At the pinnacle of McCarthyism, 32 states required teachers to take a(n) ____ oath.
loyalty
At the pinnacle of McCarthyism, thirty-two states required teachers to take a ________ oath.
loyalty
Eisenhower's _____________ campaign resulted in thousands of resignations from government employees
loyalty
As he prepared to begin peace negotiations, Nixon sought to use his previous foreign-policy stances to convince Hanoi that he was a bit of a
lunatic
After serving less than a month, Donald Trump was forced to fire his national security advisor, Michael T. Flynn, for
lying about his contacts with the Russian ambassador.
The Immigration and Control Act of 1986 did which of the following?
made American employers responsible for determining whether employees were legal residents granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who had arrived in the country before 1986 granted legal residency status to illegal immigrants who had arrived before 1986 Not: fined illegal immigrants who had arrived in the country before 1986
What did the Immigration and Control Act of 1986 do?
made American employers responsible for determining whether employees were legal residents; granted amnesty to illegal immigrants who had arrived in the country before 1986; granted legal residency status to illegal immigrants who had arrived before 1986
Most consumer advocated came from these segments of American society
mainstream
Most consumer advocates came from which segment of American society?
mainstream
Most consumer advocates come from which segment of American society?
mainstream
The increased number of American women in the workforce because of WWII
maintained old views of genera roles and temporary job security.
In the 1960s, Tom Hayden, Mario Savio and others believed in participatory democracy and used tactics such as
marching in protest, participating in sit-ins.
The majority of female workers in World War II were either ______ or between ______ years old.
married; 55 and 64
Cultural critics lamented the homogenized suburban lifestyle they believed was created by conspicuous consumption, widespread conformity, and
mass media
Which of the following were features of George H. W. Bush's upbringing?
member of the East Coast establishment student at Yale University son of a Connecticut senator
What were some features of George H.W. Bush's upbringing?
member of the East Coast establishment, student at Yale University, son of a Connecticut senator
Which of the following does not characterize the counterculture
members were interested in preserving current society
Which of the following correctly describes the communist party in the U.S. during the Great Depression?
membership increased slightly but the party never became a real political force
Dwight Macdonald disparaged cultural forms popular with the suburban middle class by describing The Ten Commandments as examples of ________________________
midcult
The New Deal generally failed to provide assistance to which of the following groups?
migrant workers sharecroppers tenant farmers
The policy of containment called for the United States to stop Soviet expansion through diplomatic, economic, and _______ pressure.
military
The policy of containment called for the United States to stop Soviet expansion through diplomatic, economic, and _________ pressure.
military
What condition of U.S. finances was indicated by $600 toilet seats and $7,000 coffee pots?
military overspending
American life in the 1950s has been described—then and since—as a time of "consensus." What does your text recognize as a dark side to this consensus?
mindless conformity
The riots of the late 1960s were often triggered by
minor events like arguments.
The Earl Warren Supreme Court is seen as a liberal court because a number of its rulings relate to the rights of
minorities, criminal suspects
As part of their tactics, the Vietcong commonly
mixed in with civilians
Most homemakers coped with declining family incomes by...
monitoring family budgets carefully
As compared to his predecessor, Pope John Paul II was...
more conservative
By the 1960s, the southern economy was
more integrated into the national economy. more diversified than it had been before World War II.
By 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt was...
more popular then her husband, FDR
In its two year existence, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) furnished relief valued at...
more than $1 billion
In its two-year existence, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) furnished relief valued at
more than $1 billion.
In the 1950s, the median wage of men was ______ that of women.
more than double
Between 1947 and 1952 U.S defense spending
more than quadrupled
Between 1947 and 1952 U.S. defense spending
more than quadrupled.
By the winter of 1931-1932, what was the state of private relief organizations?
most were severely depleted, with little hope of new donations
The justices of the Supreme Court recognized that 15 years after the Court's Brown decision, school districts were
mostly segregated.
What entertainment venues lost a significant portion of their clientele to television and drive-in theaters?
movie theaters
The Federal Arts Program was best known for the _____ its artist created around the country.
murals
The Federal Arts Program was best known for the ______ its artists created around the country.
murals
To cope with the effects of the Great Depression, Mexican Americans formed ___________, which provided insurance and sickness benefits to members
mutualistas
The phrase _______ _______ destruction was used to describe the likely outcome of any conflict between the US and the Soviet Union because of both countries aggressive nuclear weapons programs.
mutually assured
Working-class suburbs tended to develop
near manufacturing centers.
What effect did the Voting Rights Act have on African American voter registration in the south?
nearly doubled (black voter registration jumped from 35 to 65 percent)
The Johnson administration regarded escalation as a useful strategy because it thought that it would encourage North Vietnam to
negotiate because the costs were too high otherwise
The Johnson administration regarded escalation as a useful strategy because it thought that it would encourage North Vietnam to....
negotiate because the costs were too high otherwise
During the 1988 election, what did Bush promise audiences at his campaign events?
no new taxes
In the wake of the Tet Offensive, a critical problem for the U.S. leadership was that
no one could be sure if any level of force could secure a U.S. victory
Owing to racial prejudice, the army ________ African Americans during WWII.
noncombatant
The marches, boycotts, and hunger strikes employed by Cesar Chavez illustrated his devotion to
nonviolent resistance
What two options did King present to African American ministers in his "Letter from Birmingham Jail"?
nonviolent resistance and violent insurrection
In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union sought political accommodation and signed agreements to limit these kind of weapons
nuclear
In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union sought political accommodation and signed agreements to limit these kind of weapons.
nuclear
Weapons eliminated by a 1987 U.S.-Soviet agreement included a type of
nuclear missiles.
The Manhattan Project was a large-scale project to develop a(n)
nuclear weapon
In their effort to contain Soviet aggression, Eisenhower and Dulles replaced conventional forces with the threat of massive retaliation with
nuclear weapons
In their effort to contain Soviet aggression, Eisenhower and Dulles replaced conventional forces with the threat of massive retaliation with _______ ______.
nuclear weapons
What position did John Foster Dulles hold in the Eisenhower administration?
secretary of state
During the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, special prosecutor Kenneth Starr said that Bill Clinton should be put on trial for
obstruction of justice and perjury.
Following new waves of immigration to the United States in the late twentieth century, mainline churches
often accommodated immigrant communities.
What conflicting American interests in the Middle East molded U.S. policy in the region?
oil and Israel
during the war, about ___ african americans served in the armed forced
one million
Sociologist William Whyte regretted the loss of what in suburban developments?
open space
Reagan's controversial secretary of the Interior, James G. Watt, favored
opening public lands to private development.
Reactions toward the Freedom Riders in the south lead President John F. Kennedy to
order federal authorities to prevent further violence
Reactions toward the freedom riders in the South led President John F. Kennedy to
order federal authorities to prevent further violence.
As Nixon sought to end U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, what actions did he take in 1969-70 in an effort to make the North Vietnamese government more pliable at the negotiating table?
ordering U.S. troops to attack North Vietnamese bases in Cambodia; Letting the North Vietnamese think he would stop at nothing to end the war; launching air attacks against North Vietnamese supply depots in Cambodia
Nixon defied members of his cabinet in 1970 by
ordering the deployment of troops into Cambodia
The movement of U.S. jobs to countries that pay lower wages is known as
outsourcing
Following the Geneva peace conference, Vietnam was temporarily divided at the 17th
parallel
Following the Geneva peace conference, Vitnam was temporarily divided at the 17th_____________________
parallel
President Ford said he
pardoned Nixon to put the pain of Watergate behind the American people.
One of the strongest indicators of Internet access in the home is
parents' education level Reason: Families with college-educated parents were three times more likely to have Internet access in the home than families with parents with high school educations.
César Chávez's father's experience with ______ greatly influenced the younger Chávez in his later life.
participating in agricultural strikes
A key challenge faced by Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the two main contenders for the 1968 election, involved distancing themselves from their
past policy positions
A key challenge faced by Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the two main contenders for the 1968 election, involved distancing themselves from their...
past policy positions
By 1944, Roosevelt wanted to place the Soviet Union within an international ______ following World War II.
peacekeeping system
By 1944, Roosevelt wanted to place the Soviet Union within an international _________ following WWII.
peacekeeping system
Which of the following resulted from a sharp spike in oil prices in the mid-1970s?
people waiting for hours in long lines at gas stations an annual inflation rate of 14 percent the near bankrupting of New York City Not: an increase in the value of the dollar
What was the result of a sharp spike in oil prices in the mid-1970s?
people waiting for hours in long lines at gas stations; an annual inflation rate of 14 percent ;the near bankrupting of New York City
Unemployed musicians who found work through the Federal Music Project...
performed for the public at shows that were affordable
Although student movements varied from country to country, it would be fair to characterize the 1960s as
period of student radicalism
Although student movements varied from country to country, it would be fair to characterize the 1960s as a...
period of student radicalism
What product did most industries in the postwar era rely on the increase production
petroleum
What product did most industries in the postwar era rely on to increase production?
petroleum
The War Powers Resolution limited presidential authority by requiring congressional involvement in which of the following?
planning troop deployments
Which major technological breakthrough contributed to the vast increase of trash in the United States?
plastics
In the 1936 U.S. election, women...
played a critical role in Roosevelt's reelection campaign
Roosevelt was _____ the interest of African Americans.
sympathetic to
As the Civil Rights movement progressed in the late 1960s, minority groups such as gays, feminists, Latinos and African Americans challenged the prevailing liberal idea of integration and assimilation, replacing it with a model that preserved the groups' essential differences. This model is known as
pluralism
As the civil rights movement progressed in the late 1960s, minority groups such gays, feminists, Latinos, and African Americans challenged the prevailing liberal idea of integration and assimilation, replacing it with a model that preserved the groups' essential differences. This model is known as
pluralism
The military movement against North Korea under the supervision of the United Nations was called a(n
police action
What caused a spike in emigration out of Central America in the 1980s?
political unrest
In the 1936 election, Roosevelt won about 60 percent of the popular vote.
popular
in the 1936 election, Roosevelt won about 60% of the________ vote
popular
A key to Dwight Eisenhower's political success was his
positive image with both liberals and conservatives
Which market represents General Electric's original area of focus?
power and light
The Bush administration argued that United States should invade Iraq before the United States itself was attacked. This policy was known as the doctrine of
preemption.
In his relationship with Latin American countries during his first term as president, Franklin Roosevelt
preferred a policy that inspired international goodwill.
Following his reelection in 2004, George W. Bush unsuccessfully pushed for
privatizing Social Security and extending his earlier tax cuts.
In the context of the 1960s, liberalism described a belief system that
promoted civil rights and helped the disadvantaged
Under Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency began
promoting the use of coal.
In 1978, California's Proposition 13 placed a legal limit on the
property taxes of homeowners.
The plans put forward by Sinclair, Coughlin, Long and Townsend
proposed uncomplicated solutions to address the problems of the Great Depression
The first contingent of U.S. troops arrived in Vietnam to
protect US airbases
The Social Security act did all of the following except
provide benefits specifically for women and minorities
In order to keep South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem in power, the United States
provided military training to the South Vietnamese Army.
New Deal water management programs
provided water to barren areas and generated electricity while creating detrimental effects on local ecologies
New Deal water management programs...
provided water to barren areas and generated electricity while having detrimental effects on local ecologies.
What domestic initiative did the Kennedy administration manage to see through the U.S. Congress?
providing financial aid to rural areas
Which domestic initiative did the Kennedy administration manage to see through the U.S. Congress?
providing financial aid to rural areas
The American involvement in Vietnam esstentially came to an end because (1975)
public frustration compelled the U.S. Congress to refuse further funding.
The American involvement in Vietnam essentially came to an end in 1975 because
public frustration compelled the U.S> Congress to refuse further funding
The New Deal program that hired contractors to build permanent structures as a way to stimulate the economy was the, _____________ ______________ Administration.
public works
As evidence mounted that implicated the White House in the Watergate burglary and cover-up, Nixon did all the following except
quickly admit his direct involvement in ordering the burglary. Nixon did: accept the resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, his closest aides. cite executive privilege in refusing to turn over tape-recorded conversations. fire his White House counsel, John Dean.
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001
quickly brought down the Taliban but failed to secure the capture of Osama bin Laden
Although the U.S. Supreme Court case of Gratz v. Bollinger did not allow the University of Michigan to use a point system to provide minorities preference in admissions, the Court did allow
race to be used as a consideration in the admissions process.
By the 1960s, federal minimum wage laws
raised southern wages closer to the national average.
Michael Harrington's book The Other America contributed to the development of Johnson's Great Society by
raising the nation's consciousness of widespread poverty despite a booming economy.
Michael Harrington's book The Other America contruibuted to the development of Johnson's Great Society by
rasing the nation's consciousness of widespread poverty despite a booming economy.
In 1982 and 1983, Ronald Reagan supported economic measures that represented a reversal of his campaign stance to
reduce taxes
Many white conservative voters during 1968 harbored all the following beliefs about the U.S. political environment except the belief that
reduce the U.S. presence in the war.
How did Eisenhower believe that the government should tackle economic problems?
reduce the federal deficit
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 encourage American Indians to...
reestablish native arts and culture and to celebrate festivals
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 encouraged American Indians to
reestablish native arts and culture and to celebrate festivals
reflected the growing importance of California and the West Coast as a center of culture.
reflected the growing importance of California and the West Coast as a center of culture.
What emerged as a primary foreign policy problem of the Clinton administration?
regional ethnic conflicts
President Eisenhower proposed to follow a course that politically would "take that straight road down the middle." By the 1950s, "the middle" meant all EXCEPT
rejecting communist ideology while recognizing the value of allowing leftists to advocate their beliefs in a pluralistic, free society
All of the following features of middle-class suburban life in the 1950s came under attack by intellectuals except
religiosity
In 1974 the American Psychiatric Association promoted gay and lesbian rights by
removing homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.
Which measure did Eisenhower refuse to endorse during his presidency?
repeal of the New Deal
The debate over immigration in the mid-2000s revealed a split particularly among
republican
Who were Roosevelt's supporters in the 1932 election?
residents in large urban areas, industrial workers in the North, and poor farmers in the South.
Which of the following best describes Roosevelt's approach to governance?
results oriented
What best describes Eisenhower's strategy toward negotiations with the North Koreans and the Chinese
rewards and punishment
What best describes Eisenhower's strategy toward negotiations with the North Koreans and the Chinese?
rewards and punishment
What dismantled the closed-shop system?
right to work laws
Which of the following dismantled the closed-shop system?
right-to-work laws
Young Americans for Freedom's ultimate political legacy was their
role in shaping the conservative Republican Part figures of the 1970s
Young Americans for Freedom's ultimate political legacy was their
role in shaping the conservative Republican Party figures of the 1970's
One way that the Great Depression affected African Americans was by discouraging immigration out of the ________ ________.
rural south
By the end of the 1980s, less regulation by the federal government led to high rates of failure in this area.
savings and loans institutions
The Engel v. Vitale (1962) case, which was very concerning to conservatives, involved the issue of
school prayer.
What was the U.S. Army tactic used in Vietnam for identifying enemy strongholds, attacking them, and then returning to base?
search and destroy
What was the U.S. Army tactic used in Vietnam for identifying enemy strongholds, attacking them, and then returning to base?
search-and-destory
Owing to racial prejudice, the army ___ african americans during WW2
segregated
Owing to racial prejudice, the army ______ African Americans during World War II.
segregated
Owing to racial prejudice, the army ________ African Americans during WWII.
segregated
Brown v. Board of Education was an important court case that ruled that
segregated public schools were unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education was an important case that ruled that
segregation is public schools is unconstitutional
Brown v. Board of Education overturned the doctrine of
separate but equal.
Delgado v. Bastrop ruling in 1947
served as a precedent to Brown v. Board of Education
The Delgado v. Bastrop ruling in 1947
served as a precedent to Brown v. Board of Education
What served as a symbolic gesture to announce Roosevelt's break with the customs of the Hoover White House?
serving less fancy meals to White House visitors.
What action by Nasser prompted Dulles to rescind the American offer to help Egypt build the Aswan Dam?
setting up an Arab alliance against Israel
The New Deal generally failed to provide assistance to...
sharecroppers, tenant farmers, migrant workers,
Between 1932 and 1936, most black voters...
shifted from supporting Republicans to supporting Democrats
The large influx of women into the workforce during the war ultimately resulted in ______.
short-term independence for women that ended when the men returned from war
During the 1968 peace negotiations in Paris, the United Stated and North Vietnam
showed few signs of progress
During the Paris peace negotiations in 1968, the United States and North Vietnam...
showed few signs of progress
Nixon said that Americans who obeyed the law, worked hard at their jobs and did not protest and demand special privileges out of a sense of entitlement were part of what he called a
silent majority
Nixon said that Americans who obeyed the law, worked hard at their jobs, and did not protest and demand special privileges out of a sense of entitlement were part of what he called a...
silent majority
In what group was poverty most common during the 1980s?
single mothers
When African-American students in Greensboro, North Carolina, entered a local store's all-white restaurant and waited to be served, they engaged in a tactic called a ________.
sit-in
Roosevelt was ________ the interests of Africans Americans
sympathetic to
Radio programs if the 1930s that told stories based on individuals' personal struggles were originally called "___________ operas" because of their advertisers.
soap
Radio programs of the 1930s that told stories based on individuals' personal struggles were originally called " operas" because of their advertisers.
soap
Radio programs of the 1930s that told stories based on individuals' personal struggles were originally called "_________ operas" because of their advertisements
soap
What were popular radio programs during the Great Depression?
soap operas, variety shows, and broadcasts of baseball games.
What was a major cause of accelerating inflation in the 1970s?
soaring energy costs
Most consumer advocates came from these segments of society
social mainstream
As the population of the U.S. grew more diverse...
some questioned whether new immigrants' minority cultures would influence the traditional majority cultures
As the population of the United States grew more diverse,
some questioned whether new immigrants' minority cultures would influence the traditional majority cultures. Reason: The United States did not end its limits on the number of immigrants it permits each year.
As African Americans became more socially and politically conscious, this type of music came to express black pride in the 1960s
soul music
With the introduction of color and ________, movies entertained Depression-era audiences and allowed them to forget their troubles
sound
By the end of the twentieth century, Latino immigrant communities in the United States were
spread across urban and suburban areas.
What were some medical breakthroughs of the 1980s?
synthetic insulin production MRIs the CAT scan
What is the name for the economic phenomenon in which unemployment rose together with inflation, in contradiction to conventional economic theory?
stagflation
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established in 1932 in order to
stop the failure and closure of banks
Elijah Muhammad established the Black Muslims in 1931 and encouraged his followers to do what?
strive for a separate, all black nation; celebrate their African heritage, and live lives of self discipline
During his negotiations with the Vietnamese, Nixon hoped to remind people about his past...
strong anticommunist views
A major cause of the housing market's collapse was the overuse of
subprime mortgages.
According to Nixon, which group was NOT a part of the portion of society
suburban youth
According to Nixon, which group was NOT a part of the portion of society he represented
suburban youth
According to Nixon, which group was NOT a part of the portion of society he represented?
suburban youth
An earlier chapter pointed out that by 1920, more than half the American population lived in urban places. By 1960, 40 years later, half the population lived in
suburbs
which of the following statements about the economy in the immediate postwar are is incorrect?
supply of consumer goods was high
Which of the following statements about the economy in the immediate postwar era is incorrect?
supply of consumer goods was high (people weren't buying things)
Before the Untied States was involved in World War Two FDR wanted the nation to become the "great arsenal of democracy" for the Allied powers fighting against Hitler and the Nazis.
t
Japanese American citizens were also known as nisei and, if they lived on the West Coast, were confined in camps during the war.
t
The 1941 agreement between FDR and Churchill stating their war aims, which included economic cooperation between the U. S. and Britain was the Atlantic Charter.
t
The 1950 document that recommended a sharp rise in military spending, thus establishing the framework for U.S. cold war policy, was NSC-68.
t
The U. S. military's operational codename for producing an atomic weapon was the Manhattan Project.
t
The harnessing of atomic energy meant no one in the world, even in the United States, was safe anymore.
t
What were some of President Obama's proposals in 2009 for dealing with the collapsing economy?
tax cuts expanded unemployment benefits spending on infrastructure
The Revenue Act of 1942
taxed all Americans earning over a certain level a flat 5 percent, a regressive tax.
Meetings in which college professor described the issues concerning the Vietnam War to concerned students were called
teach-ins
The 1980s saw an explosion of ______ along interstate highways where office and industrial parks housed technology companies, pharmaceutical concerns, professionals, and providers of financial services.
technoburbs
Consistent with suburbia's leisure-minded lifestyle was a new household technology that burgeoned in the 1950s: _____________.
television
In the 1960s and 1970s, Reverend Jerry Falwell communicated his message through...
television
According to the text, all of the following contributed to the explosive growth of suburbs EXCEPT
television, which drew Americans toward the centers of cities
All of the following contributed to the explosion in televison's populatriy during the 1950s except
televsion sets were portable and inexpensive
The federal government sought to improve social conditions for Native Americans by reforming the reservation system through a policy known as...
termination
What was the main conclusion of hearings directed by Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota in 1935?
that bankers and munitions makers had profited from World War I
In sending Americans all over the world, the U.S. military showed ______.
that the war and the reach of the United States were global
What women's rights organization convinced President Johnson to include women along with African Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities as a group covered by federal affirmative action programs?
the National Organization for Women
The Allies' earliest successes came in ______.
the Pacific
General Douglas MacArthur famously promised that he, and American forces, would return to ______.
the Philippines
Following Germany's surrender in WWII, the Allies met at Potsdam, where
the Russians prevailed, receiving German reparations and a divided Germany.
According to Reagan in 1980, ______ was responsible for "all the unrest in the world."
the Soviet Union
What was McCarthy's first target?
the State Department
What organization formed from the Greensboro sit-in movement?
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
All of the following offered, directly or implicitly, conscious dissent from the consensus-oriented, organizational culture of the 1950s EXCEPT
the TV preachers
Donald Trump rejected what trade agreement?
the Trans-Pacific Partnership
George W. Bush won the presidential election of 2000 because
the U.S. Supreme Court ended the recount of Florida's votes and awarded the state to Bush.
When they met at Dumbarton Oaks in 1944, what body did the Western powers agree to create?
the United Nations Organization
Following the Tet Offensive, U.S. Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford met with a group of respected cold war experts who concluded that
the United States could not win the war and that Johnson should seek a negotiated settlement with North Vietnam.
What conflict did Reagan want American citizens to leave in the past so as to rebuild their international leadership?
the Vietnam War
What key legislation was passed in August 1965?
the Voting Rights Act
Women entered the U.S. army in what was called ______.
the Women's Army Corps
Women entered the U.S. army in what was called
the Women's Army Corps.
Which institution was attacked by Senator Joe McCarthy in the infamous televised hearings that ultimately destroyed his reputation?
the army
Which institution was attacked by senator Joe McMarthy in the infamous televised hearings that ultmately destroyed his reputation?
the army
The chapter introduction tells the story of Hawaiian pipefitter John Garcia to make the point that
the attack on Hawaii and subsequent global war taught Americans that they could not be isolated from the perils of the rest of the world.
An affect that emerging minority activism had on conventical liberal politics was that...
the belief that all groups would assimilate into mainstream America gave way to the idea that groups would be equal but remain distinct
Which of the following best identifies U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy's reasoning for encouraging a shift to voter registration on the part of civil rights workers?
the belief that voter registration would stir up less violence than other tactics
What action did the Nixon administration take in Vietnam in May 1972?
the bombing of Haiphong
By the twenty-first century the biggest economic divide was between
the college-educated and noncollege-educated.
Soviet troops blockaded Berlin in order to prevent
the creation of West Germany
Allied grand strategy during World War Two called for
the defeat first of Nazi Germany, then shifting the focus to defeat Japan.
Which statement about U.S. defense policy during the late 1940s is incorrect
the strategy of nuclear deterrence was ultimately founded on the conviction that the United States could and would win the cold war
What effect did the passage of Proposition 13 have in other states?
the tax rebellion spread across the nation
At Yalta, Stalin agreed to enter the Pacific war within three months after Germany's defeat. In exchange, he wanted ______.
the territories that Russia had lost in the Russo-Japanese War
Although Iraq had not attacked the United States, the Bush administration saw war in Iraq as necessary because it believed that
the threat of weapons of mass destruction was so great that Saddam Hussein needed to be removed before he could use them.
What finally pushed the Kennedy administration to commit to federal legislation to end segregation and protect voting rights?
the violent repression of nonviolent demonstrations
What were some underlying causes of the Soviet Union's fragility?
the war in Afghanistan, political corruption, a stagnant economy
What did Roosevelt and Churchill prioritize when they met in Washington?
the war in Europe
The Economic Recovery Tax Act that Reagan urged through the U.S. Congress lowered taxes the most for
the wealthy.
By the end of the 1960s, many rights activist organization splintered because members developed differing ideas about
their individual identity
In drafting the Social Security legislation, what did legislators do to appease southerners Democrats hostile to African Americans
they excluded occupations that were disproportionately held by blacks
One of the major problems that U.S. troops face in South Vietnam
they often could not distinguish between enemy combats and civilians
Many white conservative voters during 1968 harbored what beliefs about the U.S. political environment...
they should be removed from federal government programs involving social welfare and worker's rights
Many white conservative voters during 1969 harbored all of the following belief about the U.S. political environment except the belief that...
they should be removed from federal government programs involving social welfare and worker's rights
Critics of nuclear power say that there are hazards with this type of power. They mention the partial meltdown in 1979 at the nuclear power plant at
three miles island, Pennsylvania
Which statement best describes why Truman dropped the atomic bomb on Japan?
to bring the war to an end speedily and to intimidate the Russians
After Stalingrad, Stalin's forces
went on the offensive, toward Poland and Romania.
What was the first recommendation of American security advisors in response to the discovery of Soviet missles in Cuba?
to conduct air strikes agais Cuba
What was the goal of the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
to control competition among businesses
What was the American Liberty League's purpose?
to disparage Roosevelt and the New Deal
What was the purpose of the 1958 National Defense Education Act?
to emphasize the sciences and foreign languages in schools
Why did McCarthy send two young staff members to Western Europe in the summer of 1953?
to investigate the State Department
According to Reagan, for what reason did the United States invade the small island nation of Grenada?
to protect a group of American students
Why did the Black Panthers arms themselves?
to protect black communities from police harassment
Truman did not want the United States to declare war against North Korea because he did not want
to provoke the Soviets
What was the purpose of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty?
to reduce U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons stockpiles
Which of the following did Trump promise during his presidential campaign?
to repeal the Affordable Care Act to protect gun rights
Why did Saddam Hussein order the Iraqi army to invade Kuwait in August 1990?
to rescue Iraqi finances by seizing Kuwait's oil assets
Wy did Harley Earl add fins to the design of the 1948 Cadillac?
to sell more cars with a stylish design
What did Roosevelt and his advisors decide was the best way to save desperate European Jews?
to win the war as soon as possible
The interstate highway system and the St. Lawrence Seaway were both built with funds from user ________________ and taxes
tolls
The interstate highway system and the St. Lawrence Seaway were both built with funds from user__________and taxes.
tolls
Which of the following did not lead to the death of the counterculture
too many people left mainstream society to join communes
Owing to the United Mine Workers' coal strike, the federal government
took control of the mines.
Ronald Reagan's national security advisors and their aides
took power because Reagan did not concern himself with foreign policy.
The signing of the 1939 Soviet-German nonaggression pact
took the Western powers by surprise.
What measure introduced by Pope John Paul II ran counter to the opinion of most American Catholics?
tougher opposition to birth control
In 2008 the U.S. government modified its initial financial stabilization program to provide funds directly to
troubled banks.
Americans in the 1950s sought fulfillment from new patterns of consumerism and a demand for the "American Dream"-a car, a house and a family.
true
Regardng his domestic policies, "Ike's" presidency stressed moderation and behind-the-scenes negotiation.
true
The individual widely acknowledged as the innovator of affordable mass produced houseing in the postwar period was Bill Levitt.
true
African American unemployment was ______ white unemployment in 1932.
twice that of
The sit-in movement was begun by
two college students in Greensboro, North Carolina.
All of the following forces stymied Truman's efforts to revive the New Deal EXCEPT
un-met demands of veterans
What two factors drove the postwar economic boom?
unbridled consumer and business spending. government expenditures at the local, state, and federal levels
Sociologists warned that jobless African Americans in decaying urban areas would become a permanent
underclass
Hoover feared that providing direct federal relief to the unemployed would...
undermine the initiative of the recepients.
All of the following words describe the majority of Americans' reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 except
understanding
All of the following words describe the majority of Americans' reactions to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 except...
understanding
Members of the Bonus Army were...
unemployed WW1 veterans
The members of Roosevelt's "Brains Trust" agreed on the need for...
unemployment relief
The members of Roosevelt's Brains Trust agreed on the need for
unemployment relief
George W. Bush's foreign policy sought to engage the world on its own terms and not through consensus, an approach known as
unilateralist.
Robert Taft's primary goal in the Taft-Hartley Act was to contain
unions.
After the Tet Offensive, how did the general public view the Johnson administration's assessment of U.S. prospects in the war?
unrealistic
Politically, Howard Jarvis, the founder of United Organizations of Taxpayers, was
very conservative
The GI Bill was designed to help ______ go to college.
veterans
The GI Bill was designed to help _________ go to college.
veterans
Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1968. In 1968, Humphrey was the
vice president.
By 1944, what was the number of unemployed people in the United States?
virtually none
By 1967, members of the public such as college students were increasingly more likely to...
voice their opposition of the Vietnam War
By 1967, members of the public such as college students were increasingly more likely to
voice their opposition of the Vietnam War.
High war wages allowed consumers to accumulate considerable funds in savings accounts and war
war bonds
Which of the following describes most of the Cubans who came to the U.S. after Castro came to power in 1959?
~An usually large number came from Cuba's professional, business, and government class. ~They settled around Miami. ~They were racially white. Not: ~They were mostly liberal. ~They actively sought alliances with other Latino communities.
War Labor Board
was created in 1942 to end labor strife.
Although Gerald Ford had no ties to the Watergate scandal, some people felt his ability to govern the country was weakened by the fact that he
was not elected vice president or president
Members of the counterculture viewed the use of drugs, such as hallucinogens, as
way to raise their states of consciousness and to free themselves from conventions
The Tet Offensive can best be described as...
well coordinated Vietcong operation that surprised but did not defeat U.S. forces.
After Stalingrad, Stalins forces
went on the offensive, toward Poland and Romania
In the 1936 U.S. election, women
were appointed to high federal positions
Under the New Deal, women
were appointed to high federal positions
Under the New Deal, women...
were appointed to high federal positions
After 1994 the proposals from the "Contract with America"
were largely passed in the Republican-controlled House but were less successful in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Class distinctions in suburbs
were more pronounced between them rather than within them.
Class distinctions in suburbs...
were more pronounced between them rather than within them.
Some observers worried that upon entering the White House, Jimmy Carter and his advisers
were too much outsiders to succeed.
Members of the counterculture often felt that many current social conventions
were too repressive should be reformed
Members of the counterculture often felt that many social conventions
were too repressive, should be reformed
Compared to the soldiers sent to fight in World War 2, Americans who served in Vietnam usually
were younger
Compared to the soldiers sent to fight in World War II, Americans who served in Vietnam usually
were younger.
Because of the threat of German U-boats, merchant sailors on oil tankers would sleep where on ship?
wherever they wanted
Which best describes how Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end?
with a willingness to negotiate, combined with a threat of retaliation
How did Mississippi residents respond to the federally ordered desegregation of the University of Mississippi?
with violence and vandalism
What was the U.S. response when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan?
withdrawal from the Moscow Olympics
For Truman, MacArthur's calls to take the battle to China threatened to begin another _____ _____.
world war
For Truman, MacArthur's calls to take the battle to China threatened to begin another _______ _______.
world war
Anti-New Deal businessmen and conservatives claimed that Franklin Roosevelt was...
would be a dictator who violated property rights
Professor Alfred Kinsey began his career in what area of study before he began researching data on sex?
zoology