HIST - 1302 EXAM 3

In 1932, how many millions of people were unemployed in America?

15

What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s?

Both had established fascist forms of government.

Baseball was integrated in 1947 when Jackie Robinson played for the:

Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Marco Polo Bridge incident brought Japan to war against what country?

China

The United States experienced a shock in 1949 when Communists took over:

China.

Despite the length and duration of World War II, total civilian and military deaths miraculously remained fewer than 1 million.

False

FDR made black civil rights a major priority, ordering that New Deal programs not practice racial discrimination.

False

Large numbers of Americans of German, Italian, and Japanese descent were incarcerated during World War II.

False

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration required farmers to donate surplus crops and livestock to feed the poor.

False

The Civilian Conservation Corps addressed the problem of overcharging by doctors and others in the medical and health professions.

False

During the presidential election of 1944:

Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term as president.

As a result of the Truman Doctrine:

Greece and Turkey were less vulnerable to communism.

Which of the following refused to apply for a Social Security card?

Herbert Hoover

Which of the following statements about the Social Security Act is NOT true?

It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes.

Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill?

Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.

Who directed the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the New Deal?

John Collier

The Tennessee Valley Authority, as a multipurpose public corporation, included all of the following states EXCEPT:

Louisiana.

When Soviet forces reentered Poland in 1944, they created a puppet Communist regime in:

Lublin.

Codes of fair practice were part of the:

National Recovery Administration.

In which state was the first Levittown located?

New York

The 1946 congressional elections resulted in:

Republican control of Congress.

During the presidential election of 1936:

Republicans hoped that third-party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election to them.

Which statement best describes the Allied invasion against Sicily in July 1943?

Sicily fell quickly after the Allied surprise landing.

When North Korea attacked South Korea, Truman concluded that:

Stalin and the Soviets were behind it.

What helped the Allies gain the advantage in the Battle of the Atlantic?

The Allies decoded German messages that indicated where the U-boats were.

At Casablanca, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that the terms for ending the war must include the unconditional surrender of all enemies.

True

By 1935, the National Recovery Administration had become unpopular.

True

By the end of World War II, more than 8 million women had entered the workforce.

True

During World War II, presidential authority expanded significantly.

True

Early in his presidency, Roosevelt ended Prohibition.

True

Harry Truman was born and raised in Missouri.

True

In the civil war that broke out in Greece after World War II, the United States assisted the British-supported government.

True

The Civil Rights Act established the Civil Rights Commission and a new Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.

True

The GI Bill of Rights provided financial assistance for home loans and college expenses.

True

The years after World War II witnessed a second Great Migration.

True

Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of supplying secret U.S. documents to the Soviets.

True

Within a few months of the end of World War II, there were strikes and other labor disputes in many key industries.

True

UN forces reaching the Yalu River brought about:

a massive Chinese intervention.

During the 1948 presidential campaign, Truman endorsed all of the following EXCEPT:

abolishing Social Security.

In early 1937, FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by:

adding up to six additional members.

The "sit-down strike" was used successfully in 1937 by:

automobile workers.

Elvis Presley's recordings:

blended a variety of musical styles.

The fair practices codes of the National Recovery Administration did all of the following EXCEPT:

break up large corporations.

One of rock and roll's most important contributions was to:

bridge class and racial divisions.

Following the defeat of Germany:

came the shocking realization of the full extent of the Holocaust.

The Potsdam Declaration:

demanded that Japan surrender or face "prompt and utter destruction."

One of Truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his:

determined, decisive character.

Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:

each have veto power over major UN decisions.

Many critics of American life in the 1950s believed that middle-class society suffered from:

excessive conformity.

The interstate highway system was:

funded by gasoline taxes.

War relocation camps:

housed more than 120,000 Japanese Americans during the war.

British and American differences over where to attack Germany first were resolved with the decision to launch an offensive:

in North Africa.

Labor's new direction in the late 1930s was toward:

industrial unions.

To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:

many landowners took their leased lands out of production.

Following the declaration of war:

men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted.

In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court:

overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act.

The GI Bill did all of the following EXCEPT:

pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military.

In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the:

persistence of poverty.

A very important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to:

prevent the return of the Depression.

After the war, Americans were most eager to:

purchase

The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act):

raised taxes on incomes above $50,000.

In regard to New Deal programs, Eisenhower:

retained most programs and even expanded some.

State Department official George Kennan:

said the United States should contain Soviet expansionist tendencies.

At the 1948 Democratic Convention:

segregationist delegates from Alabama and Mississippi walked out of the convention in protest.

The Office of Price Administration:

set price ceilings on highly demanded items such as tires, sugar, and gasoline.

As president, Eisenhower reverted to the nineteenth-century view that Congress:

should make policy, and the president should carry it out.

The baby boom:

started in 1941.

All of the following were established by the National Security Act of 1947 EXCEPT:

the Office of Homeland Security.

Which of the following countries was NOT an Axis Power by June 1941?

the Soviet Union

When North Korean Communists invaded South Korea:

the United Nations authorized military intervention against the aggressors.

All of the following countries were physically devastated during World War II EXCEPT:

the United States

All of the following were among the objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT:

the development of Smoky Mountain National Park.

Before becoming president, Eisenhower was most shaped by his experience in:

the military.

Most blacks who moved to the North were fleeing terrible poverty in:

the rural South.

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in:

the sunbelt

From late 1941 into early 1942, during World War II in the Pacific:

there was a succession of Japanese victories that saw numerous Allied outposts fall.

When confronted with a railroad strike in 1946, President Truman's response was to:

threaten to draft the strikers.

Truman fired MacArthur:

to preserve civilian control of the military.

The Atlantic Charter:

was a joint British-American statement of anti-Axis war aims.

The nation's suburban population by 1970 was overwhelmingly:

white