last history exam
Which of the following events occurred after Truman's 1947 speech to Congress?
A precedent was set to create military alliances against the Soviet Union.
Which of the following best explains George H. W. Bush's loss in the 1992 presidential election?
America was in a recession in 1992.
What statement below best summarizes the difference between the impeachments of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton?
Andrew Johnson's impeachment concerned matters of Reconstruction and the rights of former slaves, but Bill Clinton's concerned what many deemed a juvenile escapade.
What did President John F. Kennedy have in common with his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Both distrusted Fidel Castro.
When Ford took office in 1974, what occurred for the first time in U.S. history?
Both the president and vice president took office without being voted in.
The Camp David Accords brokered a peace between what two countries?
Egypt and Israel
After World War II, how were Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms altered?
Freedom of enterprise replaced freedom from want and fear.
Which of the following is evidence that freedom for women expanded in the 1970s?
Gender discrimination was banned in higher education
What obstacle did Harry Truman face when he assumed the presidency following the death of Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945?
Harry Truman had absolutely no experience in foreign policy, the most important qualification at this point in American history.
How did President Clinton respond to the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections?
He campaigned against radical Republicans and moved toward the center.
In what aspect of American foreign policy did Franklin D. Roosevelt break from Herbert Hoover's precedent?
He exchanged ambassadors with the Soviet Union.
Which of the following best describes Nixon's foreign policy of "détente"?
He inaugurated an era of peaceful coexistence with communist countries.
By the end of Bill Clinton's presidency, what was the state of affairs between Israel and Palestine?
In the absence of an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty, violence continued.
In addition to prohibiting racial discrimination, what did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 accomplish?
It banned discrimination on the grounds of sex.
Why did the Office of War Information come under criticism?
It devoted too much time to promoting Roosevelt's New Deal.
How did the role of the national government change during the war?
It grew and created several federal agencies to regulate the war effort.
Why did Goldman Sachs have to pay a fine of half a billion dollars in 2010?
It had knowingly sold toxic mortgage-based securities and then bet on their failure.
What event forced John F. Kennedy to take meaningful action in support of the civil rights movement?
King's demonstrations in Birmingham
Why did more American women hold paying jobs in mid-2009 than men?
Men were more likely to lose their jobs during the great recession.
How did World War II affect the West Coast of the United States?
Millions of Americans moved to California for jobs and military service.
How did Los Angeles epitomize the new emphasis on the car in 1950s America?
People drove to and from work on a web of highways and shopped at malls only accessible by driving.
The outcome of the presidential election of 2008 would have been less decisive if
President Bush's popularity had not suffered from the recession and the war on terror.
How was Richard Nixon treated by the Ford administration?
President Ford pardoned Nixon.
Which of the following contributed to the banking crisis of 2008?
Public and private policies favored economic speculation and get-rich-quick schemes.
Why were American suburbs of the 1950s so heavily segregated?
Residents, brokers, and realtors dealt in contracts and mortgages that barred sales to nonwhite residents.
Why were American diplomats particularly dismayed that the Soviets had installed a procommunist government in Poland in 1945?
Stalin had promised Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta that he would allow a democratic government in Poland.
How did World War II change the role of corporations in American life?
Technological innovation and high productivity in the war effort restored the reputations of corporations from their Depression lows.
What did Roosevelt mean by the phrase "Freedom from Want"?
That, once the war finished, he would continue to protect the standard of living of the common man.
How did Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme serve as a metaphor for the American economy?
The American economy's growth was based on borrowing from others and spending money people did not have.
Which of the following accurately describes the Iran Crisis?
The Iranian Revolution signaled that opposition movements in Middle Eastern countries were shifting to religious fundamentalist ideologies.
Why did the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) emerge at the Democratic Party convention in Atlantic City in 1964?
The MFDP challenged the state Democratic Party's claim that it represented Mississippi fairly.
Why did the United States allow West Germany to become part of a defensive alliance less than ten years after the defeat of Nazi Germany?
The Soviet detonation of a nuclear bomb underlined the importance of a militarily united West.
What was the result of Lawrence v. Texas?
The Supreme Court declared the criminalization of homosexual acts unconstitutional.
Which statement about the Korean conflict is correct?
The United Nations authorized the use of force to repel the North Koreans.
Which of the following happened right after World War II?
The United States emerged as the world's greatest power because it had the most powerful air force and navy.
How did American companies contribute to the influx of Puerto Rican migrants by the hundreds of thousands beginning in the 1950s?
The increasing control of the island's land by U.S. sugar companies pushed small farmers off the land.
Why did France and other European nations understand NATO as a form of double containment?
The pact would guard them against Soviet aggression as well as Germany's resurgence.
Why did so many American workers walk out of their jobs between 1943 and 1944?
They charged their employers with the unseemly expansion of corporate profits.
What happened to most female war workers after the war?
They lost their jobs, especially those in better-paying ones.
Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?
They were afraid that otherwise, western European nations might fall under Soviet influence.
Which of the following comparisons of wage trends for 1953 to 1973 and 1973 to 1993 is accurate?
Wages increased significantly in the first period but stagnated in the second.
As suggested by some commentators, how did big business enable individual freedom in the 1950s?
With large-scale production of goods came the freedom for individuals to choose among many items.
What, according to author Eric Foner, would be the best possible outcome of the Rwandan genocide and the ethnic cleansing during the Balkan wars in the mid-1990s?
a more effective international system for the protection of human rights
What did congressional Republicans denounce as a "government takeover" in March 2010?
a sweeping health care bill that required all Americans to purchase health insurance
Militia groups arose in America during the 1990s
and engaged in acts of domestic terrorism.
William Levitt, with the help of the GI Bill, gave many Americans the opportunity to
become homeowners.
How did Obama appeal to the young population during his presidential campaign?
by promising change
What was essential to the growth of suburbs?
cars
Anita Hill
charged Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment in 1991.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
ended when the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle the missiles it had installed in Cuba.
In addition to deregulation, what contributed to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010?
globalization
Women working in defense industries during the war
made up one-third of the West Coast workers in aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding.
The Housing Act of 1949
reinforced the concentration of poverty in nonwhite urban neighborhoods.
Casey v. Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania
repudiated the centuries-old claim that a husband had a legal claim to control his wife's body.
What did the Kerner Report cite as the cause of urban riots in the 1960s?
segregation and poverty
During the 1950s, which of the following functioned as economic engines of the U.S. economy?
services and education
The economic condition known as stagflation was caused by
stagnant economic growth and high inflation.
During Bill Clinton's first term, what federal economic policy helped lift millions out of poverty?
the Earned Income Tax Credit
The Berlin Blockade was
the Soviet Union's reaction to the establishment of a separate currency in the western occupied zones.
After World War II, the only nation that could rival the United States was
the Soviet Union.
What triggered the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?
the U.S. invasion of Cambodia
Which of the following found inspiration in the movements of the 1960s and support across the political spectrum?
the disability movement
The shopping mall was the inevitable result of
the growth of the suburbs.
The Office of War Information
used all its resources to show the American people the war was ideological.
The Berlin Wall
was a tangible symbol of Cold War dynamics.
Health care reform during Clinton's first term
was opposed by drug companies, insurance companies, and doctors.
Regarding civil rights during his presidency, John F. Kennedy
was reluctant to address the movement's demands until 1963.
The Civil Rights Act
was seen by Lyndon Johnson as "a fitting memorial" to John F. Kennedy, after his assassination.
Barry Goldwater's conservative movement
was strongly embraced by the Young Americans for Freedom.
In the 2008 election, when Barack Obama "redrew the nation's political map," he
won in reliably Republican states as well as in Democratic strongholds.
