Test of History II

Question 1

To oversee activities in the stock market, established in 1934.

Answer 1

securities and exchange commission

Question 2

approximately how many people died after the atomic bomb was dropped on hiroshima?

Answer 2

140,000 persons

Question 3

a former New Dealer accused of being a communist, convicted of perjury.

Answer 3

Alger Hiss

Question 4

An anti-labor law passed over Truman’s veto

Answer 4

Taft Hartley Act

Question 5

Headed by South Caroline Governor J. Strom Thurmond in 1948; also called the ‘Dixiecrats”

Answer 5

The States Right Party

Question 6

A journalist who influenced cold war policy

Answer 6

Walter Lippman

Question 7

A cabinet member who ran for president in 1948 under the progressive party

Answer 7

Henry Wallace

Question 8

A military alliance; Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first supreme commander

Answer 8

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Question 9

Contain communism by giving $ 400 million to Greece and Turkey

Answer 9

Truman Doctrine

Question 10

A campaign by the CIO to unionize Southern industry after WWII

Answer 10

operation Dixie

Question 11

George kennan’s advice that led to the U.S containment policy

Answer 11

Long telegram

Question 12

Labor leader who co-founded the United farm workers

Answer 12

Cesar Chavez

Question 13

the government misled the public about the Vietnam war

Answer 13

Pentagon paper reveal

Question 14

Osama bin laden was killed?

Answer 14

yes, by u.s navy seals in Pakistan in 2011

Question 15

What was the peak daily COVID-19 death rate under Trump?

Answer 15

over 3,000 deaths per day

Question 16

who did the states rights party nominate in 1948

Answer 16

J. Strom Thurmond

Question 17

How many U.S president have been impeached?

Answer 17

Three ( Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump)

Question 18

first woman in congress; voted against both world war

Answer 18

Jeannette Rankin

Question 19

1919 case limiting free speech during wartime

Answer 19

Schenck v. united states

Question 20

Terrorist attack by al-Qaeda 3,000 dead; led to war on terror

Answer 20

September 11,2001

Question 21

crime in 2014 full scale invasion in 2022

Answer 21

Russian invade Ukraine

Question 22

Barack Obama; 365 electoral votes and 69.5 million popular votes

Answer 22

2008 Election

Question 23

massive flooding especially in New Orleans 1,800 deaths and federal response criticism

Answer 23

Hurricane Katrina

Question 24

conservative evangelical leader founder of the moral majority

Answer 24

Jerry Falwell

Question 25

Third- party u.s presidential candidate in 1992 and 1996

Answer 25

Ross Perot

Question 26

reaffirmed immigration quotas and targeted communists

Answer 26

Mccarran Walter Act

Question 27

George W. Bush won via the electoral college though AI Gore won the popular vote

Answer 27

Election of 2000 results

Question 28

NAACP lawyer in brown v. board first African American supreme court justice

Answer 28

Thurgood Marshall

Question 29

the businessman who expanded McDonald's into a franchise empire

Answer 29

Ray Kroc

Question 30

segregation in education is unconstitutional

Answer 30

Earl Warren

Question 31

were convicted of murder and robbery in south Baintree Massachusetts

Answer 31

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomero Vanzetti

Question 32

Indian policies

Answer 32

John Collier

Question 33

During the 1920s, the brotherhood of sleeping car porters

Answer 33

Philip Randolph

Question 34

Believed workers should be organized

Answer 34

AFL

Question 35

born in Jamaica launched the university negro improvement association (UNIA)

Answer 35

Marcus Garvey

Question 36

-the spirit of st. louis -the first solo nonstop flight across the atlantic ocean

Answer 36

Charles lindberg

Question 37

Crusading pioneer for contraception

Answer 37

Margaret Sanger

Question 38

federal funds to endangered banks and corporation

Answer 38

(RFC) reconstruction finance corp

Question 39

Ramshackle huts on the outskirts of Washington

Answer 39

Hoovervilles

Question 40

-protect banks from failing -insurance for banks deposits, restored public trust

Answer 40

(FDIC) federal deposit insurance corp

Question 41

Black teenagers were accused of rape by two white women

Answer 41

Scottsboro Court Case

Question 42

music, poet, writers, and intellectuals

Answer 42

Harlem Renaissance