American History 1877-Present

Question 1

Which of the following was NOT a failed measure of Hoover’s in attempting to try to alleviate the depression

Answer 1

Created an agency to provide direct emergency relief to the jobless

Question 2

The dust storms that devastated the plains region referred to as the Dust Bowl resulted in all the following EXCEPT:

Answer 2

Logging of the regions trees

Question 3

During the depression, the federal government deported which of the following:

Answer 3

Mexicans

Question 4

The Great Depression was a nearly global economic catastrophe in the western hemisphere .victims of the depression overthrew the government of 7 Latin American countries

Answer 4

False

Question 5

All the following contributed to the onset of the great depression

Answer 5

US entry into WWII

Question 6

Rather than offer direct governmental relief to Americans suffering financial hardships during the depression President Hoover chose to rely on which

Answer 6

volunteerism and associationism to help the unemployed and hungry

Question 7

The Federal Legislation proposed a plan to offer old age pensions for American citizens

Answer 7

Social Security Act

Question 8

The New Deal according to the assessment in your text offered a legacy in all of the following except:

Answer 8

Brining recovery from the Great Depression

Question 9

Roosevelts Administration under the prodding of Elanor Roosevelt and Harold Ickes

Answer 9

began to support racial integration and ban discrimination in certain programs

Question 10

In the early days of the Great Depression in Wisconsin, dairy farmers spilled milk on to highways in a desperate attempt to raise milk prices

Answer 10

True

Question 11

Elanor Roosevelt publics effort won support for her husband from all of the following except:

Answer 11

American Fascist

Question 12

National bank holiday was FDR’s authorized closure of financial institutions in order to develop a plan to reopen them and make them safer investors

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Personally leading US army troops against the encampment of the so called bonus army was chief of staff general Dwight D Eisenhower

Answer 13

False

Question 14

The disparaging name given to the impoverish communities of homeless and poor as a result of the Great Depression was

Answer 14

Hooverville’s

Question 15

Which of the following individuals did not challenge the New Deal policies

Answer 15

Harry Hopkins

Question 16

How did president Hoover respond to the 1929 stock market crash

Answer 16

He assured the nation was sound

Question 17

Which of the following could best be described as having the most to do when ending the Great Depression

Answer 17

The massive government spending that accompanied the US entry into WWII

Question 18

One of the most important achievements of the New Deal in the area of banking was included in a 1933 Act, the key reform was:

Answer 18

The federal deposit insurance corporation so that the government would guarantee bank deposits

Question 19

Which newspaper line would have appeared in the spring of 1945

Answer 19

A stunned nation mourns the passing of FDR

Question 20

What significant event became immortalized on June 6 1944

Answer 20

Operation Overload also known as D-Day

Question 21

Great Britain and France declared war on Germany because of what

Answer 21

Attack on Poland

Question 22

Which of the following was not a military turning point of WWII

Answer 22

Battle of Little Big Horn

Question 23

The Allied Powers of WW included which

Answer 23

Soviet Union, Great Britain, France, US, China

Question 24

Allied grand strategy called for

Answer 24

Defeat Nazi Germany and then shift focus to Japan

Question 25

The US maintained its influence in Latin America because

Answer 25

Supporting dictatorships friendly to the US

Question 26

US military operational code name for producing an atomic weapon was The Manhattan project

Answer 26

True

Question 27

US military operational code name for producing an atomic weapon was The Bronx project

Answer 27

False

Question 28

The harness of atomic energy meant no one in the world, even the US, was not safe anymore

Answer 28

True

Question 29

o Assist Great Britain after the fall of France in 1940, President Roosevelt

Answer 29

Devised ways to provide Aid without going to war

Question 30

Which of the following was NOT a military turning point of WWII

Answer 30

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 31

The 1941 argument between FDR and Churchill stating their war aims, which included economic cooperation between the US and Britain was called The Atlantic Charter

Answer 31

True

Question 32

Japanese American citizens were confined in camps during the war

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Most Americans viewed war work for women as

Answer 33

A temporary response to the war emergency

Question 34

Before the US was involved in WWII, FDR wanted the nation to become the "Great Arsenal of Democracy" for the Allied Powers fighting against Hitler

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Which of the following pairs is INCORRECT in identifying war time leaders

Answer 35

Benito Mussolini - Japan

Question 36

The US pacific fleet was attacked and effectively destroyed in a surprise attack at Midway

Answer 36

False

Question 37

The McCarron act of 1950 required _____ to register with the government

Answer 37

Communist

Question 38

Harry S Truman was notable for having desegregated the military during his time in the oval office

Answer 38

True

Question 39

Under the 1947 taft-hartley bill, labor leaders were required to take loyalty oaths

Answer 39

True

Question 40

____ was the surprise winner in the 4 way presidential campaign of 1948

Answer 40

Harry S Truman

Question 41

President Truman became the first president to make civil rights a moral issue to be addressed by the federal government when he did what

Answer 41

Created the presidents committee for civil rights which issued the report "To secure these rights"

Question 42

President Eisenhower proposed to follow a course that politically would "take that straight road down the middle" by the 1950s, the middle meant ALL except

Answer 42

rejecting communist ideology while recognizing the values of allowing leftists to advocate their beliefs in a pluralistic free society

Question 43

The Supreme Court decision effectively overturned the principles advocated in Plesy v. Ferguson

Answer 43

Brown vs The Board of Education

Question 44

All of the following forces stymied Truman's effort to revive the New Deal except:

Answer 44

Unmet demands of veterans

Question 45

Among the shocks of 1949, was the

Answer 45

The fall of china to Mao Zedong communist

Question 46

This was the massive American relief package for rebuilding war torn Europe

Answer 46

The Marshall Plan

Question 47

Americas basic Cold War strategy emerged when the Truman administration adopted the recommendations of US diplomat and Soviet specialist George Kennen

Answer 47

The containment doctrine

Question 48

Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity in his crusade against domestic communist finally began to slide after he

Answer 48

was televised badgering witnesses and mocking senate procedures during senate hearings

Question 49

In the absence of sufficient US troops to confront the Soviet Army in Eastern Europe, what defense strategy was developed by the late 1940s

Answer 49

Nuclear deterrence

Question 50

The GI bill offered which

Answer 50

It paid tuition for college or vocational training

Question 51

_____ coined the phrase "_____" in his speech to the American public in Fulton MO,

Answer 51

Winston Churchill ; Iron Curtain

Question 52

The American couple ______ were arrested for _______ and were given death sentences after being found guilty

Answer 52

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, spying for the Soviets

Question 53

This was Truman's solution to Stalin's attempt at forcing the Western powers out of the Soviet occupied zone in Germany

Answer 53

Berlin Airlift

Question 54

Which of the following nations was not a combatant in teh Korean war

Answer 54

Japan

Question 55

On trend in federal government spending in the 1950s was

Answer 55

An increase in defense spending

Question 56

Which of the following was one principle trend of the period 1946-1960

Answer 56

A significant increase in American birthrate

Question 57

The congressional policy of termination provided one time payments but little else for

Answer 57

Native Americans

Question 58

_____ became very prominent in the US during the 50s

Answer 58

Religion

Question 59

What phrase did President Eisenhower coin to describe the vulnerable neighbors of a country like Vietnam threatened with a community takeover

Answer 59

A row of dominos

Question 60

Alfred Kinseys famous mid-century research dealt with

Answer 60

human sexuality

Question 61

What immediate problem in the first few years after WWII was

Answer 61

a serious shortage of housing

Question 62

Regarding his domestic policies, Eisenhower sought to eliminate as many new deal welfare state programs as he could

Answer 62

False

Question 63

The form of cooperate growth used to minimized shocks in specific markets is known as

Answer 63

Diversification

Question 64

When _______ asked the US to intervene against the Viet minh in 1954 at Dien Bein phu President Eisenhower refused their request

Answer 64

The French

Question 65

All the following offered conscious descent from the consensus oriented organization culture of the 1950s

Answer 65

TV Preachers

Question 66

A key to Dwight Eisenhower's political success was his

Answer 66

Positive image with both liberal and conservatives

Question 67

All of the following help explain the rise of suburbia EXCEPT

Answer 67

White flight

Question 68

Just before leaving office in 1961, President Eisenhower warned americans of the

Answer 68

dangers of the military industrial complex

Question 69

The soviet union jumped ahead in the race for technology when they

Answer 69

launched Sputnik into orbit