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The leader of the Moral Majority was
Jerry Falwell
the literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was the grapes of Wrath by:
John Steinebck
Winston Churchill who would become the british prime minister in 1940, described which agreement as "a defeat without a war"?
Munich Pact
Codes of fair practice were part of:
NRA
Permanent members of the United Nations security council
can veto any major promosal
the marco polo bridge incident brought japan to war against what country?
china
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique
explained the unhappiness of so many middle-class women
two decades after 194-
life expectancy for non whites rose ten years and lage wage earning increased fourfold
Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:
made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964
After the war, americans were most eager to
purchase
between 1945 and 1960 home ownership
significantly increased
the conventional, or "orthodox", view of cold war history hold whom or what most responsible for beginning this conflict?
stalin's quest for world domination
the baby boom
started in 1946
the postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in
the sunbelt
Carter's management of the economy resulted in
unacceptably high rates of inflation
which of the following were NOT members of the "brain trust"?
union members
Reagan's experience as an actor
was invaluable in a television age
during the 1950's the income gap between whites and blacks
widened
in 1932 what was the percentage of American's unemployed
25
houses in Levittown in the early 1950s all sold just under
6900
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the
Bay of Pigs Invasion
In 1966 the rallying cry of the civil rights movement became
Black Power
What did the governments of ITaly and Germany have in common by the 1930's
Both had established fascist forms of government.
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the U.S. had the support of troops from
Great Britain, Australia, and Poland.
At the Altamont concert in 1969
Hells Angels killed a man in front of the stage
This organization on sought to set workplace standards such as child labor restrictioncs
NRA
In 1968 the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was
Richard Nixon
Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be
Southern Baptists
America's Good Neighbor policy
Supported the idea of nonintervention in Latin America
As George H. W. Bush prepared for the 1992 election, his greatest weakness became:
a major downturn in the economy
At Columbia University in 1968
a student strike shut down the campus
teh taft-hartley act of 1947
allowed the resident to impose a "cooling-off period during major strikes
The Strategic Defense Initiative involved
an anti-missile defense system
For the first Bush administration, the major problem in the early 1990s was
an economic recession
The United States entered the 1990s:
as the world's only remaining superpower
The hippie movement ultimately
began to wane as counterculture had become counterproductive
while college enrollments soared in the postwar period
black veterans encountered barriers to entrance
the students for a democratic society (SDS) in the early 1960's
challenged established authority in factor of "participatory democracy"
In the Birmingham campaign in 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from
changing southern white attitudes to obtaining federal enforcement and new laws
the post war economic boom was fueled mainly by
cold-war related military spending
the goal of the agricultural adjustment act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through
cut back in production
As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by
cutting taxes
one of the truman's great strengths as he assumed the presidency was his
decisive character
At the outset of his presidency, to deal with the banking crisis, Roosevelt:
declared a bank holiday, shutting the banks down briefly
Huey long
developed a program called Share The Wealth
on the domestic front, president truman soon made clear his intention to
enlarge the New Deal
The feminist movement suffered a setback with the
failure of the states to ratify the equal-rights amendment
All of the following increased through the postwar years EXCEPT: Select one: a. advertising b. credit purchases c. the number of shopping centers d. family savings e. urban populations
family savings
The Neutrality Act of 1935
forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations
Richard Nixon:
had a reputation for hard-line anticommunism and rough campaign tactics
all of the following are true of Harry Truman except: a. had been shaped politically by the Kansas City Democratic machine b. was an artillery officer in World War I c. had an Ivy League education d. personally suffered by contrast to Franklin Roosevelt when he became president e. was a failed businessman after World War I had an Ivy League education
had an ivy league education
By 1971, the New Left
had split into factions and largely self-destructed
President roosevelt did not intervene in the Spanish Civil war because
he accepted the French and British position that the western democracies should not intervene
The German occupation of Czechosl ovakia had what effect on Roosevelt
he no longer professed impartiality in the impending European struggle
The anti-feminist women led by Phyllis Schlafly
helped keep the equal-rights amendment from being ratified
a major economic problem president truman faced immediately after the war was
high rates of inflation
the person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been
his brother, robert
Kennedy's inauguration is best remembered for
his elegant and inspiring rhetoric
John F Kennedy was careful to conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign his
his health
during the spanish civil war
hitler and mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco
American foreign policy in Latin America in the period between world wars included all the following except: a. abrogating the Platt Amendment b. participation in Pan-American conferences c. withdrawing U.S. Marines from Nicaragua and Haiti d. withdrawing U.S. Marines from Haiti e. insisting that the Monroe Doctrine provided a valid justification for intervention
insisting that the Monroe Doctrine provided a valid justification for intervention
The Nye committee
investigated and criticized the role that bankers and munitions makers played in America's entry into World War I
all of the following is true of the national youth administration except: a. it was part of the WPA b. it provided part-time employment to students c. it provided Richard Nixon with a job d. it was the parent organization for the CCC e. it set up technical training programs
it was the parent organization for the CCC
Which of the following is NOT true of the GI Bill? Select one: a. It led to the creation of the Veterans Administration. b. It caused a dramatic increase in college enrollments. c. It is also known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act. d. It enabled many veterans to buy new homes e. Its huge cost did not justify its benefits. Its huge cost did not justify its benefits.
its huge cost did not justify its benfits
Young men were able to avoid service in Vietnam by all of the following methods EXCEPT: a. going to prison b. fleeing to Canada or Sweden c. obtaining conscientious objector status d. failing the physical examination on purpose e. joining VISTA or the Peace Corps
joining VISTA or the peace corps
student civil rights activists in the south would like experience all of the following except a. Kennedy's public encouragement b. extreme verbal abuse c. growing public admiration d. mob violence e. mass arrests
kennedy's public encouragement
the location of William Levitt's first suburban development was
long island
In the impeachment proceeding, Bill Clinton was charged with
lying under oath to a grand jury
To earn the federal payments for reducing rops
many landowners took their leased lands out of production
President Kennedy's cabinet was dominated by
men with new ideas and fresh thinking
The bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building was an example of
militia hatred of the federal government.
The Great Depression and the economic struggles it caused during the early 1930's generally made Americans:
more isolationist in sentiment
The GI Bill did all the following except: a. pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military b. help prevent a postwar depression c. provide housing loans for veterans d. provide medical treatment for veterans e. provide educational benefits for veterans pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military
pay veterans large bonuses to remain in the military
A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was
population growth in the South and the West
In their role at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, the Yippies could best be described as
pranksters
a very important reason for passage of the GI bill was to
prevent the return of the depression
in the 1960 presidential race, John F kennedy
promised to get the country "moving again"
the main purpose of the civilian conservation corps was to
provide work relief for young men
he 1946 congressional election resulted in
republican control of congress
In its controversial miranda v arizona decision, the warren court
required that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights
To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed
sunny
The religious right fervently supported Reagan because he
supported its conservative social values
Early in Reagan's presidency, all of the following were increasing EXCEPT: a. defense spending b. budget deficits c. poverty levels d. tax revenues e. cuts in social programs
tax revenues
when confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industries in 1946, president truman's response was to
temporarily seize those industries
One major inspiration for Reagan's economic approach was
the Republican tax-reduction program of the 1920s
In 1968 the correct order of events was:
the Tet offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Democratic convention in Chicago.
violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate
the University of Mississippi
the dust bowl can be associated with
the blowing away of millions of acres of top soil
who tagged truman "the No. 1 strikebreaker"?
the congress of Industrial Organizations
all of the following were established by the national security Act of 1947 except: a. the Central Intelligence Agency b. the National Security Council c. subcabinet Department of the Air Force d. the Department of Homeland Security e. subcabinet Department of the Navy
the department of Homeland security
by 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by
the example of the civil rights movement
Early in his presidency, Kennedy accomplished all of the following except: a. support for space exploration b. the passage of a large tax cut c. the creation of the Peace Corps d. increases in Social Security benefits and the minimum wage e. the Trade Expansion Act of 1962
the passage of a large tax cut
President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come" after
the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
In 1954, all of the following were major TV shows EXCEPT: a. Leave It to Beaver b. Father Knows Best c. The Price Is Right d. The General Electric Theater e. I Love Lucy
the price is right
the protest tactic initiated by black students in Greensboro, north carolina, was
the sit-in
The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and VISTA were all part of
the war on poverty
The panay incident
was a japanese attack on an American ship in China
the result of the 1960 election
was likely determined by African American votes in a few southern states
In 1964, the University of California at Berkeley
was the site of a free-speech movement (FSM)
The youths of the counterculture
were the direct descendants of the Beats of the 1950s