Exam 2

President Harding' call for a return to normalcy meant:

A call for the regular order of things, without progressive reform.

Which would NOTT be considered a characteristic of a flapper?

Advocated temperance.

"D-Day" refers to the:

Allied invasion of Europe at Normandy.

Relief for young men

Civilian conservation corps

All of the following statements about the Cold War's impact on American life are true EXCEPT:

Cold War military spending weakened the economy.

The Truman Doctrine:

Committed the United States to fighting communism anywhere.

Set quotas for immigration

Fair deal

FDR's Four Freedoms include all of the following EXCEPT:

Freedom of enterprise.

Latin America

Good neighbor policy

The GI Bill of Right:

Included scholarships for education for veterans.

All of the statements about Prohibition during the 1920s are true EXCEPT:

Religious fundamentalists opposed Prohibition on the grounds that it violated freedom.

As racism rose in Europe and Asia during the 1930's most Americans:

Supported U.S. neutrality.

"Slave labor" bil

Taft-Hartley Act

December 7, 1941, is known as a "date that will live in infamy", referring to:

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

All of the following are enactments of the policy of containment EXCEPT:

The Warsaw Pact.

How did white supremacists take advantage of anti-communist rhetoric?

They charged African-American civil rights leaders with a communist agenda.

Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?

They were afraid that if they did not help with the recovery, western European nations might fall into the Soviet sphere of influence.

According to the policy of containment, as laid out by George Kennan, the:

United States was committed to preventing the spread of communism.

Recognized Labor Unions

Wagner act

What ended the Great Depression?

World War II spending.

The Tennessee Valley Authority:

combined economic regional planning with relief.

The National Industrial Recovery Act:

established codes that set standards for production, prices, and wages in several industries.

The Social Security Act of 1935:

included pensions and unemployment relief.

The Harlem Renaissance:

included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.

The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:

increased government regulation of banking and the stock market.

The Fair Labor Standards Act instituted all of the following changes EXCEPT:

it established the fifty-hour workweek.

The Scopes trial of 1925:

pitted creationists against evolutionists.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act:

raised farm prices by establishing quotas and paying farmers not to plant more.

President Hoover responded to the onset of the Depression by:

reassuring Americans that "the tide had turned."

In the United States during World War II:

unemployment declined, production soared, and income taxes increased.