HIST-12: Exam 2

Which of the following was NOT a factor behind Nixon's election in 1968?

?Nixon's support of the New Deal -Nixon's appeal to mainstream voters -Nixon's criticism of forced integration in the South -A split in the Democratic Party

Which of the following does NOT reflect the youth culture that emerged in the post-WWI era?

A decline in attendance at movies and dance clubs

The disc jockey who popularized rock and roll was ________.

Alan Freed

The program to recruit Mexican agricultural workers during World War II was the ________.

Bracero

allowing gays into military but forbids being openly homosexual.

Don't Ask, Don't tell

What were the circumstances surrounding the beating and murder of Emmett Till in 1955?

He spoke to a white woman in a store in a way she felt was rude

What was the outcome of Joseph McCarthy's hunt for American communists?

He was condemned for his actions and his political career dwindled

Which of the following was NOT a goal of the movements within the New Left?

Support for the war in Vietnam

Which of the following is an anarchist belief that, ultimately, biased the jury against Sacco and Vanzetti when they were accused of robbery and murder in 1920?

The destruction of capitalistic society through violence

What is the definition of Nativism?

The rejection of outside influences in favor of local or native customs

Carter deregulated several major American industries in an effort to ensure that companies would________.

become more competitive

Kennedy proposed a constitutional amendment that would ________.

outlaw poll taxes

Johnson's Medicaid program targeted ________.

the poor

Removed the poll taxes so more people can vote

24th Amendment

The Scopes Monkey Trial revolved around a law that banned teaching about ________ in public schools.

Evolution

A movie with a soundtrack.

Talkies

The goal of the Mississippi Summer Project (otherwise known as "Freedom Summer") of 1964 was to ___________.

register African Americans to vote

What was the Journey of Reconciliation?

A bus trip taken by African American and white men through states of the Upper South to test their enforcement of desegregation on buses

A new strategy used against Hitler in which the Western democracies would give into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace.

Appeasement

Which of the following was NOT part of Roosevelt's strategy to reform the banks within his first 100 days in office?

Give commercial banks tax incentives to encourage their investment banking

The common name for homeless shantytowns.

Hoovervilles

Who was the Republican presidential nominee for the 1920 election?

Warren Harding

the first woman ever appointed to a presidential cabinet.

-Eleanor Roosevelt -Francis Perkins

protest march to support voting rights by African American that turned violent

-Freedom Rides -Greensboro Sit-ins -Freedom Summer

What type of help did the Civil Works Administration (CWA) provide?

-Refinancing mortgages to avoid foreclosures -Employment planting trees and fighting forest fires

Coolidge's presidency was characterized by________.

-scandal and dishonesty -ambition and greed

Which of the following is NOT true about Cuba during Kennedy's presidency?

?The US invaded Cuba at the Bay of Pigs and destroyed the Soviet missiles -A US-supported attempt to remove Castro from power was a foreign policydisaster -The Soviet Union staged missiles in Cuba which made the U.S. more vulnerable -Cuba's leader, Fidel Castro, favored communism and had a pro-Soviet foreign policy

What did NOT characterize Hoover's response to the first months of the Great Depression?

A funneling of large sums of government funds through non-secular aid organizations

Which of the following was NOT a problem faced by the U.S. government when it was time to demobilize American troops?

A group of servicemen petitioned the government to remain in their posts to keep a watch on Germany and Japan to prevent retaliation

Which of the following was a common challenge faced by women during WWII?

A lack of adequate childcare facilities

Which of the following was NOT associated with the 1960s counterculture ?

A promotion of middle-class values

Which of the following was NOT a policy undertaken by the National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA)?

Agreement among industries to reinvest profits into their firms

Government paid farmers not to plant crops, provided loans for farmers to help pay mortgages.

Agriculture Adjustment Act

Which group of mainly conservative Democrats claimed Roosevelt's New Deal programs were fascist and a threat to democracy?

American Liberty League

Which of the following is NOT a consequence of Roosevelt's first wave of New Deal policies?

Americans re-invested in the stock market

Which of the following best describes the Truman Doctrine?

An attempt by the United States to support countries trying to withstand Communist takeover with financial assistance and weaponry

Which novel of the era satirized the conformity of the American middle class?

Babbitt

Which of the following was NOT a contributing factor to the American stock market crash of 1929?

Bad federal investments in the U.S. global territories

wrote the book and a best seller The Feminine Mystique, in which she contested the post-World War II belief that it was women's destiny to marry and bear children.

Betty Friedan

Who was both a professional baseball player and an influential evangelist during the 1920s?

Billy Sunday

The African American group, founded in Oakland which advocated the use of violence and espoused a Marxist ideology was the ________.

Black panthers

Supreme Court decision that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and abolished racial segregation in public schools.

Brown v. Board of Education

The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, flying from New York to Paris in 33 hours.

Charles Lindbergh

Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Charles Lindbergh

Navajo radio operators who helped secure communications in the Pacific

Code Talkers

A foreign policy developed by diplomat George Kennan that claimed that the only way to stop Russia's expansionist ways was to contain it.

Containment

What was the U.S. policy of trying to limit the expansion of Soviet influence abroad known as?

Containment

A major filmmaker during 1910s.

D.W. Griffith

Which of the following was NOT a key condition that led to the Dust Bowl?

Decreasing demand for farm produce

African Americans campaign to fight not only for victory over Hitler in Europe, but also against racism at home

Double V Campaign

A massive environmental disaster caused by destructive farming and drought

Dust Bowl

14 year-old African-American murdered in 1955 for whistling at a white woman by her husband and his friends.

Emmett Till

Which of the following is NOT a challenge that everyday Americans faced during the Great Depression?

Epidemic diseases

Which amendment did Alice Paul draft and promote?

Equal Rights Amendment

Truman referred to his program of economic and social reform as the ________.

Fair Deal

Truman's policy of social improvement, which included support for increasing welfare, slum clearance, and civil rights.

Fair Deal

Which of the following was NOT a function of the Neutrality Acts passed during the 1930s?

Forbidding Americans to voluntarily join the war efforts

Which country did Stalin press Roosevelt and Churchill to invade?

France

What of the following was NOT a reaction to desegregation in the South?

Full presidential and congressional support for desegregation

The United States Senator who led the non-interventionists in Congress and called for neutrality legislation in the 1930s was ________.

Gerald P. Nye

Which of the following does NOT represent contributions that American civilians on the home front made to the war effort?

Giving part of their salaries to help fund military efforts

Created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

President Johnson vision which everyone could share in the opportunities for a better life that the United States offered

Great Society

The flourishing of African-American literature and art in the 1920's, mostly in urban centers across America.

Harlem Renaissance

_________ was California's first openly gay man elected to public office, whose term was cut short when he was assassinated.

Harvey Milk

After being reelected in 1936, how did Roosevelt attempt to transform the Supreme Court to better serve his agenda?

He attempted to expand the Supreme Court from nine to fifteen judges

Which assessment of Herbert Hoover's presidency is most accurate?

Hoover did not cause the stock market crash but responded inadequately to it

Which of the following is NOT an example of local, city, and state efforts to combat the Great Depression?

Importation of excess food from overseas

What did President Ford label the nation's most dangerous public enemy?

Inflation

Because of the American backing of ________ during the Yom Kippur War, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC) imposed an embargo on oil shipments to the United States from October 1973 to March 1974 driving gasoline prices to record highs.

Israel

Which of the following is NOT true about the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?

It builds new roads and railroad hubs

Why was the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) not passed in the 1970s?

It failed to be ratified by enough states

Which of the following islands had to be captured in order to provide a staging area for U.S. bombing raids against Japan?

Iwo Jima

Which of the following led to the United States entering World War II in December 1941?

Japanese aircraft attacked a U.S. Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii

The first U.S. president born in the 20th century

John F. Kennedy

The "Chicago Seven" was a reference to ___________.

Leaders of protest camp outside the Convention, who were charged with inciting a riot

Who was arrested for the murder of President John F. Kennedy?

Lee Harvey Oswald

mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes in suburban New York to help relieve the postwar housing shortage.

Levittown

Post war writers that left a sense of dislocation and alienation. They felt the real America had been lost or distorted and questioned American pop culture in the 1920's.

Lost Generation

Which of the following is NOT part of the Chicano Movement?

MFDP

The founder of Planned Parenthood, launched an information campaign on birth control to give women a choice in the having a child.

Margaret Sanger

The Truman administration tried to help Europe recover from the devastation of World War II with the ________.

Marshall Plan

Which of the following is NOT an advocate of black separatism?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Although it grew to draw members from across the nation, the American Indian Movement (AIM) began in ___________.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Which of the following was NOT a way in which the movie industry promoted the war effort during WWII?

Movie dramas were replaced by documentaries on the war effort

Which of the following phrases best characterizes Herbert Hoover's foreign policy agenda?

Mutual respect in terms of not interfering unnecessarily in others' affairs

Which of the following pieces of Truman's domestic agenda was rejected by Congress?

National healthcare

A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones

Nativism

Passed by Congress in the 1930s, spurred by the turmoil in Europe and Asia in the 1930s and reflecting the isolationism/non-interventionism views in America.

Neutrality Acts

Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies to alleviate the suffering caused by the Great Depression

New Deal

Developed in November 2002, incorporated parts of eight cabinets and 22 agencies to coordinate intelligence and defense against terrorism.

Office of Homeland Security

Government agency which curbed inflation by fixing price ceilings on commodities and introducing rationing programs during World War II.

Office of Price Administration

When four African American families moved into a previously all-white Levittown after a court ruled that they could legally purchase homes in the neighborhood

Orval Faubus

humanitarian projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Peace Corps

What 1969 event is identified as a key precursor of the U.S. gay rights movement?

Police attempts to arrest the customers of a gay New York bar that led to two nights of riots

What did President Lyndon Johnson identify as the primary cause of poverty and social problems?

Poor education

Set aside $3 billion to create jobs building roads, sewers, public housing units, and other civic necessities

Public Works Administration

The popularization of ________ expanded the communications and sports industries.

Radios

Economic program which cut taxes and government regulation in order to increase productivity, and eventually increase tax revenue as cash flowed in the economy.

Reaganomics

Which of the following was NOT a group targeted by Joseph McCarthy's Senate Committee?

Republican congressmen

Which of the following does NOT represent an effort made by President Roosevelt to ensure more opportunities to African Americans in hiring practices for relief agencies?

Restructuring the Civilian Conservation Corps to be an exclusively African American program

Who founded the Crusade for Justice in Denver, Colorado in 1965?

Rodolfo Gonzales

Which of the following best describes Roosevelt's attempts to push his political agenda in the interregnum period after his election victory?

Roosevelt kept silent in the four months between election and inauguration

Which nationality was NOT interned in the US during the war?

Russian

In 1929, Albert Fall was convicted of bribery while holding the position of ________.

Secretary of the Interior

What practice did the Mendez v. Westminster (1947) case declare unconstitutional?

Segregating children of Hispanic descent in schools

Provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans as well as one-year of unemployment compensation. It also provided loans for returning veterans to buy homes and start businesses

Servicemen's Readjustment Act

Which of the following statements accurately describes Mary McLeod Bethune?

She was a key figure in the National Youth Administration (NYA)

The popularization of which psychologist's ideas encouraged the new morality of the 1920s?

Sigmund Freud

Which nation was the first to successfully send a human to orbit the earth?

Soviet Union

Sharp reduction in stockpiles of nuclear weapons between Russia and US

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

Which of the following was a prominent New Left organization of the early 1960s?

Students for a Democratic Society

Many Americans began to doubt that the war in Vietnam could be won following the ________.

Tet Offensive

Which of the following had the greatest negative impact on the public perception of the Hoover presidency?

The Bonus Expeditionary Force

Which of these films, released in 1927, was the first successful talking motion picture?

The Jazz Singer

Who was the U.S.'s co-signatory on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) to limit the deployment of antiballistic missile systems?

The Soviet Union

What was one of the reasons why Americans began to doubt the containment of Communism?

The Soviet Union exploded their first atomic bomb

What is NOT true about the conflict between North and South Korea?

The Soviet Union remained neutral

Which of the following is NOT true about relations between the United States and Japan in the years prior to 1942?

The United States recognized Japan's rights over certain parts of China

Which New Deal agency was the first to hire women openly?

The Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Which of the following is NOT a factor that led to a shift in federal Indian policy?

The election of numerous American Indians to Congress

The demonstrations at Kent State University in May 1970 were held to protest what event?

The invasion of Cambodia by U.S. forces

Which of the following contributed to the Democrats' loss in the 1972 election?

The party's handling of revelations about their vice-presidential candidate

President Nixon was forced to resign in 1974 following ___________.

The release of audio tapes from the Oval Office

What was NOT a result of the major WWII summit meetings?

The restoration of democracy in Germany

What was the purpose of the 1961 "freedom rides"?

To challenge segregation on southern buses by having African American and white activists defy the seating order dictated by Jim Crow laws

Which of the following was NOT a founding goal of the National Organization for Women (NOW)?

To de-criminalize the use of birth control

Wrote the documentary novel "Boston" based on Sacco and Vanzetti's trial.

Upton Sinclair

Kennedy described his sealing off of Cuba to prevent Soviet shipments of weapons or supplies as ________.

a quarantine

The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade established that ________.

abortions during the first three months of pregnancy were legal

When Nixon used the term "the silent majority" he was referring to blue-collar workers who ________.

felt their views were ignored in the political process

During the 1976 election campaign, Jimmy Carter famously promised that ________.

he would never lie

During World War II, unionized workers agreed to________.

keep production going by not striking

Which of the following hardships did African Americans NOT typically encounter during the Great Depression?

mass deportations similar to those affecting Mexican nationals

President Nixon took a bold diplomatic step in early 1972 when he ________.

met with Chinese leaders in Beijing

Recognizing that ongoing protests and campus violence reflected a change in public opinion about the war, in 1971 Nixon ________.

repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The non-violent form of protest used by students in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 that launched a new dimension to the larger civil rights movement was the ________.

sit-in

Which of the following was NOT a key issue that allowed Calvin Coolidge, and then Herbert Hoover, to defeat the Democratic Party?

social welfare

The agreement Gerald Ford signed with the leader of the Soviet Union that ended the territorial issues remaining from World War II was ________.

the Helsinki Accords