history exam 12
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 is NOT an example of local, city, and state efforts to combat the Great Depression?
Importation of excess food from overseas
What was one of the reasons why Americans began to doubt the containment of Communism?
The Soviet Union exploded their first atomic bomb
The program to recruit Mexican agricultural workers during World War II was the ________.
bracero
During World War II, unionized workers agreed to________.
keep production going by not striking
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
Which assessment of Herbert Hoover's presidency is most accurate?
Hoover did not cause the stock market crash but responded inadequately to it
Who was the Republican presidential nominee for the 1920 election?
Warren Harding
Coolidge's presidency was characterized by________.
silence and inactivity
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
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
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 a policy undertaken by the National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA)?
Agreement among industries to reinvest profits into their firms
The disc jockey who popularized rock and roll was ________.
Alan Freed
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
Describe Eleanor Roosevelt's role in challenging societal norms on race, gender and class.
As an influential person in President Roosevelt's life, Eleanor Roosevelt was able to use her position to champion causes that focused on race, class and gender. For example, she had a large hand in the creation of Arthurdale, a resettlement community for displaced coal miners who had nowhere else to go. She was also an influencing factor in the passing of anti-lynching legislation and other policies aimed at better securing civil rights for African Americans and women. She frequently defied societal norms by identifying and inviting key figures in the civil rights and women's movements to the White House, which generated a great deal of attention and awareness.
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
Who was both a professional baseball player and an influential evangelist during the 1920s?
Billy Sunday
Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Charles Lindbergh
Choose Two: During the 1920s and 1930s, what two industries had the biggest impact on the country's economic future in terms of investment, potential growth, and employment?
Construction and Automobile
What was the U.S. policy of trying to limit the expansion of Soviet influence abroad known as?
Containment
Which of the following was NOT a key condition that led to the Dust Bowl?
Decreasing demand for farm produce
Which groups were excluded from receiving pension funds as outlined in Roosevelt's Social Security Act?
Domestic workers and Farmers
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
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 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
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
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
Which of the following is NOT true about the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
It builds new roads and railroad hubs
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 Truman administration tried to help Europe recover from the devastation of World War II with the ________.
Marshall Plan
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
The Arkansas governor who tried to prevent the integration of Little Rock High School was ________.
Orval Faubus
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
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
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 of the following was NOT a key issue that allowed Calvin Coolidge, and then Herbert Hoover, to defeat the Democratic Party?
Social welfare
What were the tenants of the Atlantic Charter?
The Atlantic Charter was an agreement between England and the United States that defined the role of the nations in WWII. The agreement mandated that neither country would use the situation to seek new territory, but work to restore the self-determination of countries where it had been eliminated. It declared freedom for the seas, discouraged the use of force to settle international disputes, and required postwar disarmament.
Which of the following had the greatest negative impact on the public perception of the Hoover presidency?
The Bonus Expeditionary Force
What were the major goals and accomplishments of the Indian New Deal?
The Indian Reorganization Act, or Indian New Deal, of 1934 put an end to the policies set forth in the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887. Rather than encouraging assimilation, the new act promoted Indians' development of local self-government and the preservation of Indian artifacts and heritage. John Collier, the Commissioner on Indian Bureau Affairs, was able to use the law to push for federal officials' return of nearly two million acres of government-held land to various tribes.
Which of these films, released in 1927, was the first successful talking motion picture?
The Jazz Singer
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 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
What was NOT a result of the major WWII summit meetings?
The restoration of democracy in Germany
What type of help did the Civil Works Administration (CWA) provide?
Work building bridges and repairing roads
The Scopes Monkey Trial revolved around a law that banned teaching about ________ in public schools.
evolution
Which of the following hardships did African Americans NOT typically encounter during the Great Depression?
mass deportations similar to those affecting Mexican nationals
The popularization of ________ expanded the communications and sports industries.
radios
