HIST2112: Final Exam
Thirty-seven year old white engineer, Bernard Goetz shot and seriously wounded four black teenagers on a subway car because he suspected the young men-armed with screwdrivers-planned to rob him. What percentage of white New Yorkers sympathized with Goetz?
90%
What was the top tax rate during World War II?
94%
What was the message of NSC-68?
A call for a tripling of the annual defense budget for the purpose of stopping communism
What was the Bonus Army?
A group of World War I veterans who petitioned the government to make an early payment on bonuses scheduled to be released in 1945
What was the "Nixon Doctrine?"
A military policy of détente
All of the following led to the economic development of the Sun Belt EXCEPT
A resurgence in southern agriculture
Which of the following advantages did the Soviet Union achieve during the Cold War?
All of the above
The 1968 Democratic National Convention included massive protests and violent reprisals by police. Where did this convention meet?
Chicago
Hitler and Mussolini helped to topple which government in Spain?
Communists
The cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty was which program?
Community Action
The Religious Right built a powerful coalition that united conservative evangelicals with what other influential voting group?
Conservative Catholics
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1957 accomplish?
Created a Civil Rights Commission in the Department of Justice to investigate claims of racial discrimination
How did racism influence the growth of the modern Republican Party?
Democrats took the lead in passing civil rights legislation, pushing many white Americans toward the Republican Party
How did Ronald Reagan win over the Religious Right?
Denouncing abortion and prayer in schools
What was the subject of Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring?
Environmental dangers of pesticides
Which of the following industries experienced the most economic growth under Reagan?
Financial Services
Which of the following best describes the marketing techniques of early television executives?
Finding programming that would appeal to the widest possible audience
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
How did the United States respond to the independence movement in Vietnam?
Opposed Vietnamese independence and supported French attempts to retain its colonial control
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 focused on what primary issue
Outlawing discrimination in housing
How did the Federal Reserve respond to the financial collapse?
Overcorrected by raising interest rates and tightening credit
Who was the leader of the movement to stop the Equal Rights Amendment?
Phylis Schlafly
Advertisers in the 1960s innovated by beginning to emphasize which of the following traits as a means of selling products?
Rebellion and individuality
Roe v. Wade, the court case that legalized abortion hinged on what legal idea?
Right of privacy
Who first challenged segregation on buses?
Sarah Keys
Which group first promoted the idea that drug use could remedy feelings of alienation?
Scientists
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 leader of the Soviet Union advocated the projects of glasnost and perestroika?
Mikhail Gorbachev
How did American liberals change their views of poverty during the 1960s?
More and more saw poverty from the failure of individuals to take full advantage of the American system
What percent of Americans were investing in the stock market prior to the crash?
2.5%
Approximately how many women served in the military during WWII?
350,000
Approximately how many civilians were killed by the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
180,000
The Dow Jones Industrial Average-which stood at 950 in 1981-reached _______ by the end of Reagan's second term.
2,239
How did the first freedom ride end?
Angry mobs composed of KKK members attacked the riders in Birmingham, Alabama and burned one of the buses and beat the activists who escaped
The Stonewall incident that catalyzed the gay rights movement occurred when __________
Bar patrons in New York City protested a police raid
What was the name of the 1950s counterculture that rejected the values of conformity and domesticity?
Beats
How did President Eisenhower attempt to prevent a Soviet Attack on the United States
By promising "massive retaliation" and appealing to the logic of "mutually-assured destruction"
Why did Hitler stop the Blitz in June 1941?
Germany needed the resources of the Luftwaffe to invade the Soviet Union
Which of the following statements are true regarding Soong May-ling, known to the public as Madame Chiang?
Her American education made her an effective diplomat in Chinese-American relations
What was the primary guiding principle of Carter's foreign policy during his early years in office?
Human rights
All of the following aspects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 are true EXCEPT:
Increased federal revenues
What was the consequence of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930?
International trade collapsed
Which Allied nation was the first to reach Berlin?
Soviet Union
Which of the following best characterized German military tactics
Speed and maneuverability
What was the most dramatic result of the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act?
The creation of a national minimum wage
Why was the federal government slow to respond to the AIDS crisis?
The issue disproportionately affected gay Americans, a marginalized group
Who were the "Brass Hats?"
The leadership of the National Association of Manufacturers who created advertising campaigns supporting free enterprise.
After the Victory in Europe, the United States suffered a setback in the Pacific. What was that setback?
The surrender of American forces in the Philippines
The presidential election of 1984 convinced the Democratic Party that its future lied with what group?
Upwardly mobile professionals and suburbanites