question

In the election of 1932,

answer

Franklin Delano Roosevelt won 57 percent of the popular vote, and Democrats swept both houses of Congress.

question

Father Charles Coughlin, an opponent of the New Deal, called for

answer

an expansion of the money supply.

question

Roosevelt did not push for more ambitious reforms for black Americans because he was

answer

concerned about losing the support of southern Democrats for his New Deal agenda.

question

Underlying the New Deal was the belief that

answer

capitalism held the solution to the nation's economic crisis.

question

One of the most impressive achievements of the New Deal was

answer

that the United States did not abandon democracy to confront the nation's economic crisis.

question

When President Roosevelt said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was referring to

answer

the paralyzing terror caused by the depression.

question

Underlying the New Deal was the belief that

answer

capitalism held the solution to the nation's economic crisis.

question

Opponents of the New Deal included business leaders and

answer

some labor leaders.

question

One of the most impressive achievements of the New Deal was

answer

that the United States did not abandon democracy to confront the nation's economic crisis.

question

During the Great Depression, Native Americans

answer

were once again able to own land communally.

question

Dictators such as Anastasio Somoza and Fulgencio Batista terrorized their nations

answer

with private support from U.S. businessmen and tacit support from the Roosevelt administration.

question

The Maginot Line was a

answer

concrete fortification that separated much of France from Germany.

question

In the Bataan Death March in 1942,

answer

Japanese soldiers forced U.S. soldiers to march sixty-five miles to a concentration camp.

question

Blacks who migrated to take jobs in defense industries were met with

answer

widespread racial violence.

question

Women who remained at home contributed to the war effort by

answer

All of the above

question

By the end of World War II, the United States had emerged with

answer

fewer casualties than its allies and foes in Europe and Asia.

question

Blacks who migrated to take jobs in defense industries were met with

answer

widespread racial violence.

question

Women who remained at home contributed to the war effort by

answer

All of the above

question

In 1942, President Roosevelt authorized the roundup and internment of all Americans of Japanese descent because

answer

a large number of people believed that Japanese Americans were potential sources of espionage and subversion.

question

Just after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941,

answer

Congress endorsed President Roosevelt's call for a declaration of war.

question

Working women in the postwar economy by and large

answer

saw their earnings decline.

question

The founding of the American GI Forum in 1948 and subsequent efforts by Mexican Americans to challenge their segregation in public schools demonstrated the

answer

growing mobilization of Mexican Americans in the Southwest.

question

The Employment Act of 1946

answer

formalized the U.S. government's responsibility for keeping the economy healthy.

question

In 1948, President Truman issued an executive order to

answer

desegregate the armed services.

question

President Truman's decision to deploy 1.8 million troops in the Korean War without a formal declaration of war from Congress

answer

violated the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution.

question

After World War II, Joseph Stalin's primary goal was to

answer

have governments friendly to the Soviet Union on its borders in Eastern Europe.

question

In his iron curtain speech, British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested that

answer

Soviet suppression of the popular will in eastern and central Europe had isolated those regions from the free world.

question

President Truman's decision to deploy 1.8 million troops in the Korean War without a formal declaration of war from Congress

answer

violated the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution.

question

In 1948, President Truman issued an executive order to

answer

desegregate the armed services.

question

The Employment Act of 1946

answer

formalized the U.S. government's responsibility for keeping the economy healthy.

question

The three-part program for compensating, "terminating," and relocating Native Americans reflected the Eisenhower administration's commitment to

answer

restricting federal government activity.

question

Levittown, New York, was

answer

an example of the assembly-line approach to producing affordable housing.

question

A possible reason for the Cuban uprising led by Fidel Castro would be the Cuban people's

answer

desire for political and economic autonomy.

question

Before he left office, President Eisenhower warned Americans about the military-industrial complex. He was describing a

answer

collaboration between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems.

question

Between 1940 and 1960, higher education in the United States

answer

became increasingly available to veterans, the middle class, and African Americans.

question

Anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy was finally discredited when he

answer

charged that there were Communists in the U.S. army.

question

The United States reacted to the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik in 1957

answer

with a feeling of inferiority about U.S. scientific and technological development.

question

The Montgomery, Alabama, police arrested Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, because she refused to

answer

give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

question

Between 1940 and 1960, higher education in the United States

answer

became increasingly available to veterans, the middle class, and African Americans.

question

Before he left office, President Eisenhower warned Americans about the military-industrial complex. He was describing a

answer

collaboration between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems.

question

All in all, major decisions from the Warren Court

answer

have withstood the test of time.

question

The U.S. president who created the Environmental Protection Agency was

answer

Richard M. Nixon.

question

Following the enactment of the Medicare and Medicaid programs,

answer

physicians' fees and hospital costs escalated.

question

The Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964

answer

put northern college students to work helping blacks register to vote.

question

Ultimately, the War on Poverty

answer

did not significantly redistribute total national income.

question

President Kennedy believed that to eradicate poverty and solve most social problems, the United States needed to

answer

grow the economy.

question

César Chávez and Dolores Huerta organized the Chicanos primarily to

answer

improve the conditions of migrant farmworkers in California.

question

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

answer

authorized the use of federal agents to enforce African Americans' right to register and vote.

question

Ultimately, the War on Poverty

answer

did not significantly redistribute total national income.

question

In the summer of 1963, President Kennedy asked his aides to plan an attack on poverty and called for the passage of a comprehensive civil rights bill. He was unable to achieve those goals because

answer

he was assassinated that November.

question

In the early 1960s, General Maxwell Taylor believed that the United States should hold firm in Vietnam to show the Soviet Union that wars of national liberation were "costly, dangerous, and doomed to failure." The two major problems with Taylor's analysis were that the Vietcong were an indigenous force whose initiative came from within and that the

answer

South Vietnamese government and army proved to be ineffective, and their corruption and repression alienated their own countrymen.

question

The single largest group of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam was made up of

answer

poor and working-class Americans.

question

Of the more than 7,500 American women who served in the Vietnam War,

answer

most served as nurses.

question

In 1968, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin

answer

instigated a violent demonstration during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

question

Returning veterans of the Vietnam War in large part

answer

felt betrayed by the government for not allowing them to win the war, and by their countrymen for its lack of support for the war.

question

The Peace Corps was launched by the Kennedy administration in 1961 to

answer

work directly with the people in third world countries.

question

President Kennedy criticized the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy for

answer

limiting defense spending and relying too heavily on nuclear weapons.

question

In the Vietnam War, military officials began calculating their progress in body counts and kill ratios because

answer

it was impossible to measure military success based on territory seized.

question

In the end, the Vietnam War

answer

contributed to internal disorder in the United States and the downfall of two presidents.

question

In 1968, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin

answer

instigated a violent demonstration during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

question

Walter Mondale's running mate in the presidential election of 1984 was

answer

Geraldine A. Ferraro.

question

The new conservative movement of the 1970s

answer

believed that the government's intrusion into the individual's economic life hindered prosperity and stifled personal responsibility.

question

The "Saturday night massacre" began with

answer

President Nixon's decision to fire the Watergate independent prosecutor.

question

In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Carter did all of the following except

answer

ask the United Nations to expel the Soviet Union from the Security Council.

question

During the Carter administration,

answer

the president was compelled to cut federal spending due to rising inflation.

question

By the time Ronald Reagan left office in 1989, the United States and the Soviet Union

answer

had reached their highest level of cooperation since World War II.*****

question

During the Carter administration,

answer

the president was compelled to cut federal spending due to rising inflation.

question

One surprising development in the 1972 presidential election was

answer

Richard Nixon's strength among southern, Catholic, urban, and blue-collar voters.

question

According to the independent prosecutor charged with investigating the Iran-Contra scandal, President Reagan and Vice President George Bush

answer

had "knowingly participated or at least acquiesced" in covering up the scandal.

question

Despite the antifeminist tone of the Reagan administration, feminists and the administration found common ground in

answer

helping single and divorced mothers collect court-ordered child support payments.

question

The Clinton administration ended its eight years in office with

answer

a surplus in the federal budget and the longest economic boom in history.

question

The Americans with Disabilities Act (1991)

answer

required that private businesses be accessible to people with disabilities.

question

Protesters at the November 1999 demonstrations in Seattle reflected a new alliance between environmentalists and

answer

labor unions.

question

Globalization at the end of the twentieth century was

answer

facilitated by new communications technology that linked almost all parts of the world.

question

President Clinton ultimately backed away from his campaign promise to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military because of opposition from

answer

conservatives

question

The USA Patriot Act of 2001

answer

suspended certain civil liberties protections.

question

A major problem with President George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" law was that it

answer

lacked adequate funding for implementation by the states.

question

Protesters at the November 1999 demonstrations in Seattle reflected a new alliance between environmentalists and

answer

labor unions.

question

Globalization at the end of the twentieth century was

answer

facilitated by new communications technology that linked almost all parts of the world.

question

President Clinton ultimately backed away from his campaign promise to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military because of opposition from

answer

conservatives.

History Exam 2 – Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

Haven't found what you were looking for?

Search for samples, answers to your questions and flashcards