HIST 1302 Final Exam
In the reading "FDR- Government Must Act" what is FDR's response to the Great Depression?
Great Depression was a national emergency and had to be dealt with by the federal government
What did Lyndon Johnson call his domestic program?
Great Society
What was the primary guiding principle of Carter's foreign policy during his early years in office?
Human rights
Which of these programs was introduced under Johnson's Great Society?
Medicare
How did the United States respond to the independence movement in Vietnam?
Opposed Vietnamese independence and supported French attempts to retain its colonial control
Deindustrialization in the United States refers to loss of industrial output and factory jobs in which region of the United States?
The Rust Belt
What was the topic of the Winter Soldier documentary?
Vietnam Veterans' accounts of atrocities
What was the term that referred to Nixon's plan to train South Vietnamese forces while drawing down American troop numbers in Vietnam?
Vietnamization
Approximately what percent of Americans were investing in the stock market prior to the crash?
2.5%
This amendment repealed prohibition in 1933 . . .
21st
In the immediate aftermath of World War II Germany was divided up into how many occupation zones?
4
She wrote The Feminine Mystique
Betty Friedan
This was the metric for measuring progress during the Vietnam War.
Body count
President Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 partially in response to what event in Selma, Alabama
"Bloody Sunday," the beating of peaceful marchers by police officers
During the 1969 Altamont concert, the Hell's Angels received this as payment for being the show's "security team".
$500 in beer
Which amendment outlawed the sale and consumption of alcohol?
18th
Of the over 110,000 Japanese-descended Americans who were detained in internment camps, approximately how many were American citizens?
70,000
What was Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg referring to when she said the following: "[t]hrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."
A 2013 challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What is happening here?
A Buddhist monk is protesting the religious intolerance of the South Vietnamese government
What was the event that triggered the Watergate investigation?
A break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters
All of the following led to the economic development of the Sun Belt EXCEPT . . .
A resurgence in southern agriculture
One of the intellectual leaders of the Harlem Rennaissance wrote that "we are achieving something like a spiritual emancipation." Who was this intellectual?
Alain Locke
How did Malcolm X differ from Martin Luther King in his approach to Civil Rights?
All of the above
The American Indian Movement brought international attention to the plight of Native Americans when they did which of the following?
All of the above
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
All of the above
What was the result of Brown v. Board of Education?
All of the above
Which of these are global factors leading to deindustrialization in the American Midwest?
All of the above
Why was the "loss" of China to communism so upsetting to Americans?
All of the above
Why was Emmett Till murdered?
Allegedly whistling at a white woman
Which of the following most accurately describes religious commitment during the early Cold War years?
Americans attended church at higher rates than in any time in American history
Which was presented in the textbook as a legacy of the New Deal?
Americans came to see the federal government as a potential ally in their daily struggles
The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when __________
Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid
Why might the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 be considered redundant?
Because they essentially restated the 14th and 15th Amendments
During the Cold War, the official US policy aimed at halting the spread of communism throughout the world was referred to by this name . . .
Containment
Reaganomics promoted economic growth by implementing which of these policies?
Deregulation
This term refers to the easing of Cold War tensions resulting from Nixon's policies of opening relations with China and the Soviet Union
Détente
How did increased availability of consumer credit in the 1920s influence American expenditures?
Expenditures increased
LBJ's Great Society was largely a continuation of . . .
FDR's New Deal
"The Feminine Mystique" focused primarily on which issue?
Feelings of dissatisfaction with life as a housewife
Which is NOT true of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
He was a small government conservative
Who was Mao Zedong?
He was the leader who fought to bring communism to China and in 1949 established the People's Republic of China
He led the nationalist movement to liberate Vietnam.
Ho Chi Min
During the Cold War, where was West Berlin located?
In East Germany
What was the consequence of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930?
International trade collapsed
Britain and France declared war on Germany after which invasion?
Invasion of Poland
During the Nixon administration student protestors were killed by national guardsmen at this Ohio university . . .
Kent State
Nixon won election in 1968 by promising this . . .
Law and Order
Which President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Lyndon Johnson
Who is the teacher pictured here at this Cotulla Texas school?
Lyndon Johnson
How did attitudes toward sex change in the 1920s?
Many college-educated white women rebelled against "Victorian" notions of sexuality, leading to an increase in premarital sex
Which of the following describes the place of the labor movement during the 1920s?
Membership declined
Who won the first shooting war of the Cold War?
Neither side - it ended in stalemate with an unchanged border
What initially sparked the 1973 energy crisis?
OPEC's embargo of oil exports to the United States in retaliation for American intervention in the Middle East
During FDR's presidency most Americans remained unaware . . .
Of the President's physical handicap that required him to use a wheel chair or crutches
The Brown v. Board of Education case overturned which specific Supreme Court decision from the late 19th century?
Plessy v. Fergusson
Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion hinged on what legal idea?
Right of privacy
This Supreme Court decision made abortion legal in the United States?
Roe v. Wade
This court case challenged a Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools . . .
Scopes Trial
All of the following are true about the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the ensuing resolution EXCEPT . . .
Served as justification for the assassination of Ngo Diem
Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin?
Soviet Union
What was the first Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union?
The Berlin Airlift
More than any other this international crisis contributed to Carter's unpopularity and his losing the 1980 presidential elections to Ronald Reagan
The Iran Hostage Crisis
First students to integrate Central High in Little Rock
The Little Rock Nine
A young Martin Luther King became a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement after he was called to lead which event?
The Montgomery bus boycott
Which of these events was organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955?
The Montgomery bus boycott
The 1969 police raid of this New York City club kicked off 5 days of rioting and a militant gay liberation movement.
The Stonewall Inn
He was the NAACP attorney and later Supreme Court Justice that successfully argued the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Thurgood Marshall
Why did the East Germans build the Berlin Wall?
To keep the East Germans out of West Berlin
Which of the following would you NOT associate with the welfare state?
Trickle-down economics
What's going on here?
Troops of 101st Airborne Division protect Little Rock Nine
What happened at My Lai?
U.S. troops massacred hundreds of civilians
Which is true regarding of Hoover's approach to federal government assistance in the reading "Hoover on Limited Government"?
When the government is centralized there arises a limitation upon the liberty of the individual and a restriction on individual liberty
Who were the flappers of the 1920s?
Women during the 20s who embraced women's liberation by wearing short dresses, cutting their hair, and visiting speakeasies
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did which of the following?
all of the above
Which is true of the American plan to rebuild Europe after the Second World War?
all of the above
Passed by Congress in 1972, Equal Rights Amendment was which of following?
none of the above
