APUSH Finals Study Set 4
All of the following statements regarding the Allied development of an atomic bomb during World War II are true EXCEPT that
Albert Einstein was in charge of the development program.
Between 1945 and 1957, the growth of American consumerism was aided by
All of these answers are correct.
During the 1950s, the popularity in the United States of suburban living was partly explained by
All of these answers are correct.
Factors in the rise of the civil rights movement included
All of these answers are correct.
In February 1945, an Allied bombing attack on Dresden, Germany
All of these answers are correct.
In mid-1945, evidence of Japan's desperation to continue the war included
All of these answers are correct.
The 1968 Tet offensive
All of these answers are correct.
The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France
All of these answers are correct.
The National Security Act of 1947
All of these answers are correct.
In the 1960s, the philosophy of "black power"
Called for an increased awareness of racial differences
In the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the
United States ordered a naval and air blockade of Cuba
The most significant and largest public works project of the federal government under President Dwight Eisenhower involved
a federal highway system
In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by
airlifting supplies to West Berlin
All the following statements regarding the "zones of occupation" of Germany in 1945 are true EXCEPT that
all of Berlin was to be placed under Soviet control
In 1943, to simplify tax collections, Congress enacted
automatic payroll deductions
The Truman administration responded in 1950 to the onset of fighting in Korea by
calling on the United Nations to intervene
In the Vietnam War, the "Ho Chi Minh Trail" was
continually moved by the North Vietnamese
Great Society reforms
contributed to the greatest reduction in poverty in American history
The Soviet Union's 1948 blockade of West Berlin was primarily a response to the
creation of a unified West Germany
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful
During the 1950s in the United States, married women who worked outside the home
decreased in number throughout the decade.
The Immigration Act of 1965
eliminated rules that gave preference to immigrants from Northern Europe
During World War II, American shoppers
faced many shortages of consumer goods.
During World War II, the War Production Board
favored large over small contractors
In 1961, the "freedom rides" sponsored by CORE attempted to
force the desegregation of bus stations.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
gave President Lyndon Johnson wide latitude to escalate the conflict
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
gave economic and education subsidies to veterans.
During the 1950s, television networks
generally sought to convey an idealized image of a homogeneous America
Following World War II, the American economy
grew, between 1945 and 1975, nearly ten times faster than the population.
During Joseph McCarthy's investigation into alleged subversion in government,
he never produced conclusive evidence that any federal employee was a communist
All of the following statements regarding the 1968 Tet offensive are true EXCEPT that it
involved the fall of Saigon to the communists.
Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman
issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or face utter devastation.
The Soviet Union's announcement in 1960 that it had shot down an American U-2 spy plane
led Soviet Premier Khrushchev to withdraw his invitation to Eisenhower to visit Moscow
In February 1960, the first "sit-in" demonstration protesting segregation was held at a
lunch counter
The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956
marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest
The immediate cause of the Korean War, in 1950, was the
military invasion by North Korea into South Korea
In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock's best-selling Baby and Child Care contended that
mothers should subordinate their physical and emotional needs to those of their children
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
permitted the "union shop."
In 1951, President Harry Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of command because MacArthur
publicly criticized President Truman's policy in Korea
Regarding European Jewish refugees, between 1939 and 1945, the United States
refused to accept large numbers of refugees
One of the chief obstacles in John Kennedy's presidential bid in 1960 was his
religion
The McCarran Internal Security Act
required communist organizations to register with the government
Between 1945 and 1960, the birth rate in the United States
reversed a long pattern of decline.
In the civil rights movement, the spirit of "massive resistance" is associated with the actions of
southern whites
In the 1968 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon called for
stability and national law and order
The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 after
the Japanese failed to provide a response to the first bomb.
All of the following statements regarding Korea are true EXCEPT that
the United States left Korea in 1946
The political decline of Senator Joseph McCarthy began when he investigated
the army.
Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was
the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.
All of the following statements regarding the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 are true EXCEPT that
the landing was made across the narrowest part of the English Channel.
In 1947, the first target of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was
the movie industry
In 1957, the effort to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, required
the presence of federal troops to enforce court orders
In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"
there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk
Under John Foster Dulles's policy of "massive retaliation," announced in 1954, the United States would
use nuclear weapons against communist aggression
Following World War II, the great majority of working American women
wanted to keep working
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech
was given during the greatest civil rights demonstration in the nation's history
U.S. aid through the Marshall Plan
was offered to the Soviet Union.
In 1968, antiwar protesters at the Democratic convention in Chicago
were attacked by police in a bloody riot
During World War II, organized labor in the United States
won automatic union memberships for new defense-plant workers.
