US History 25,26,27
The Republicans won control of Congress in:
1946
What occurred on "Black Tuesday"?
A stock market crash wiped out all the gains of the previous year.
FDR's "lend-lease" program allowed:
Britain to borrow military equipment from the United States.
Of the three Allied leaders, which was closest to the idealism of Woodrow Wilson?
Churchill
"Operation OVERLORD" was the code name for the:
D-Day invasion
Tens of thousands of German civilians were killed in the fire bombing of:
Dresden
Nazi aggression finally stalled in early 1941 when:
England steadfastly resisted the Nazis in the Battle of Britain
In the months leading up to Pearl Harbor:
FDR froze Japanese assets, stopped petroleum shipments to Japan, and increased U.S. naval presence in the Pacific.
Which statement about women during the depression is NOT true?
Firing women usually opened up more job opportunities for men.
Which is the correct trio of Axis Powers in World War II?
Germany, Japan, Italy
The courageous athlete who broke the "color line" in major league baseball was:
Jackie Robinson
Which statement about the Holocaust is NOT true?
Jews and Poles were the only people killed in Nazi death camps.
Germany's invasion of _________ on September 1, 1939 marked the start of World War II.
Poland
Which statement about American support for World War II is true?
The support for the war unified Americans across regional, national, and class divisions
Which statement about Native Americans in World War II is true?
They served as effective code-talkers by using Native American languages.
What were Hoovervilles?
They were squalid collections of shacks where the homeless of America's cities lived.
The 1945 American bombing of _________ was likely the largest mass killing of all time.
Tokyo
The first check to Japanese expansion came at the Battle of the Coral Sea when:
U.S. aircraft carriers halted a Japanese advance toward Australia.
Which countries each controlled a zone within Germany after World War II?
United States, Soviet Union, Britain, France
All of the following were causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT:
a drop in agricultural production in the mid-1920s.
One immediate problem in the first few years after the war was:
a housing shortage
An early result of the 1929 stock market crash was:
a large decrease in American investments in Europe.
All of the following facets of Harry Truman's economic package passed EXCEPT:
a plan to provide national health insurance for all Americans.
Most southerners supported the Tennessee Valley Authority because it:
brought jobs and modern conveniences to an impoverished region.
Civil rights reforms enacted by the Truman administration included:
desegregation of the armed forces
The Indian Reorganization Act:
guaranteed religious freedom, and halted the sale of tribal lands.
Many scientists who helped develop the atomic bomb for the United States:
had escaped from facist and nazi aggression in europe
"The 100 Days" refers to:
he active first three months of FDR's first term of office.
In the year after the surrender of Japan:
high demand and short supply meant inflationary pressure.
Social effects of the depression included all of the following EXCEPT:
higher divorce rates.
The G.I. Bill was geared at helping veterans in the areas of:
housing and education
The Office of Price Administration fought inflation by:
implementing price controls and rationing
During the depression, Hispanic Americans:
lost many jobs due to prejudice against them.
A turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic came when:
new techniques, including radar and sonar systems, improved the tracking of German U-boats.
In the Potsdam Declaration of 1945, the United States attempted to:
open the door for a Japanese surrender
Third-party presidential candidate Strom Thurmond left the Democratic Party because of his:
opposition to civil rights reforms raised by party members
The major importance of the Alger Hiss case was that:
people began to place more importance on Hiss as a symbol than as an alleged spy.
The Atlantic Charter of 1941:
provided a political framework for the possibility of American involvement.
The bitter intensity of the war in the Pacific was magnified by:
racial hatred and cultura differences between both sides
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration attempted to:
raise farm incomes by attacking overproduction
What prompted J. Robert Oppenheimer to say, "Now I am become death"?
seeing a nuclear fission bomb tested for the first time
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization:
solidified ties between the united states and its western european allies
Franklin Roosevelt's first action as president was to:
strengthen the faltering bank industry.
Which of the following had the highest population growth rate between 1940 and 1998?
suburbs
Results of the Communist victory in China included all of the following EXCEPT:
the Cold War between the United States and the U.S.S.R. was no longer as intense has it had been.
All of the following statements about women workers on the home front are true EXCEPT:
the percentage of women working in manufacturing jobs did not increase
The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to:
use U.S. economic power to help free nations resist subversion or aggression.
In the years after World War II, the American Communist Party:
was actually in rapid decline.
The Bonus Army:
was dispersed by troops under the command of General Douglas McArthur.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:
were convicted and electrocuted on charges of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Which statement about Pearl Harbor is true?
More than 2,000 Americans were killed in the surprise Japanese attack.
Which statement best summarizes protest movements in the early years of the depression?
Protesters came from a vast range of social, political, and economic interests.
One of Herbert Hoover's few relief measures was creation of the:
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in 1932 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
Roosevelt had announced the specifics of his New Deal package of legislation.
In the 1948 presidential election, the __________ Party won 39 electoral votes.
States' Rights
Which statement about women during the Great Depression is NOT true?
Women were not included in the NRA's minimum wage requirement.
A major effect of the Marshall Plan was:
a strengthening of the economic relationship between the United States and western Europe.
Japan surrendered to the United States:
after the united states dropped a second atomic bomb
The United States and other Western nations responded to the Berlin blockade by:
airlifting supplies into the isolated city
The main reason behind Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb was:
american officials believed the Japanese would fight up to the point of annihilation
The content of George Kennan's "long telegram" depicted:
an aggressive U.S.S.R. driven by expansionist communism
"Court packing" refers to FDR's proposal to:
assert more presidential control over the makeup of the Supreme Court.
FDR's issuance of Executive Order 8802:
banned racial discrimination in employment for defense industries.
After the fall of Mussolini:
bitter fighting for the control of Italy took place between the Allies and Germany
A significant shift in voting demographics occurred in the 1930s when:
blacks shifted their loyalties from the Republicans to the Democrats.
All of the following statements about Eleanor Roosevelt are true EXCEPT:
despite her active role, she did not become involved in lobbying Congress.
All of the following statements are true about the Works Progress Administration EXCEPT:
despite its good intentions, it provided few jobs for Americans.
The plight of American farmers during the depression was magnified by:
devastating droughts and dust storms throughout the 1930s.
In the first years of the depression, personal income:
dropped by more than half.
Huey Long felt that FDR should:
enact wider social welfare programs.
The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were designed to:
ensure the United States' central role in reviving the world economy
After the war, middle-class Americans overwhelmingly expressed the desire to:
establish prosperity after 15 years of depression and war.
The Social Security Act:
established federal responsibility in providing social welfare.
According to Gallup polls throughout the 1930s, 70 percent of Americans:
expressed that becoming involved in another world war would be a mistake.
Harry Truman's economic package was known as the:
fair deal
In the early 1930s, Hitler established this type of government in Germany.
fascist
In 1947, President Truman and Congress appropriated $400 million to:
fight communism in Greece and Turkey
One of the most provocative activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities was to investigate alleged communism in:
film industry
The FHA:
financed nearly 40 percent of all home mortgage debt between 1946-1950.
In the early years of the Depression:
foreign markets for American goods shrank.
The first woman named to a presidential cabinet was Secretary of Labor:
frances perkins
Dean Acheson and President Truman believed that North Korea's invasion of South Korea:
involved planning by the soviet union
The American strategy in the Pacific has often been called:
island hopping.
The world was brought to the brink of World War III surrounding a civil war in
korea
The Taft-Hartley Act:
represented the most progressive labor reforms since the Wilson administration.
The election of 1936:
revealed that an overwhelming number of Americans supported FDR and the New Deal.
The period 1946-1950 began a 40-year era of:
rivalry with communism and the Soviet Union
Which American plane was known as the "Flying Fortress"?
the B-17
Which agency was created personally by FDR?
the Civilian Conservation Corps
At the Yalta conference:
the Soviet Union asserted control of land they already controlled
Effects of the Korean War included all of the following EXCEPT:
the Soviet Union became once again convinced of the United States' military invulnerability.
A turning point on the Eastern Front came when:
the Soviet Union forced a German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad.
All of the following statements about the NRA are true EXCEPT:
the Supreme Court upheld its constitutionality in 1935.
Loyalty boards were originally created and initiated by:
the Truman administration
In his July, 1947 Foreign Affairs article, George Kennan argued that:
the United States should seek to "contain" Soviet expansion.
The Manhattan Project was the code name for:
the project to develop the atomic bomb.
The most important result of the fighting after the Allied landing at Normandy was:
the retreat of the Germans out of France.
One effect of FDR's "court packing" proposals was
the revival of conservative opposition to FDR
With the hopes of expanding to new markets and increasing trade, President Roosevelt extended formal recognition of this country in November, 1933.
the soviet union
The United States and U.S.S.R. disputed the Yalta Conference's decrees regarding:
the status of Poland.
The Securities and Exchange Commission was created to regulate:
the stock market.
Most development and production of American nuclear weapons took place in the ________ United States.
western