DCUSH Semester 2 Final MCQ

All if not most questions from the bank

President George H. W. Bush saw himself as a guardian of the Reagan legacy, but he was more inclined than President Reagan had been to

b. approve government activity in the private sphere.

What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) program that began in 1933?

a. The TVA helped supply jobs and power to impoverished rural communities.

In her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan argued that

c. the idealization of domesticity pressured women to seek fulfillment in serving others

How did the Agricultural Adjustment and Farm Credit Acts of 1935 aim to help American farmers?

b. The acts paid farmers not to grow crops and provided long-term credit on mortgaged farm property.

The goal of Franklin Roosevelt's good neighbor policy was to

form a less belligerent, more cooperative relationship with Latin America.

The primary mission of Japanese kamikaze pilots was to

defend Okinawa from U.S. troops.

Which of the following describes the Ku Klux Klan of the mid-1920s?

The KKK had a strong influence on politics in California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.

At the end of the twentieth century, globalization

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

President Lyndon Baines Johnson brought to the White House

enormous skill in persuading and threatening legislators.

In late-nineteenth-century American cities,

Asian immigrants on the West Coast were made economic scapegoats.

What occurrence proved that opposition to the New Deal had increased by the end of 1938?

Republicans gained seven seats in the Senate and eighty in the House in the congressional elections.

America's return to a peacetime economy in 1920 and 1921 was marked by

a 20 percent unemployment rate, the highest to date.

In 1966, feminists led by Betty Friedan and others founded

the National Organization for Women

President Wilson responded to the initial outbreak of war in Europe in 1914

with a proclamation of America's absolute neutrality.

In February 1948, while Congress debated the Marshall Plan, the Soviet Union was

staging a coup and installing a Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.

The GI Bill help to boost the U.S. economy after World War II

with the provision of job training, education, and low-interest home loans.

President Kennedy criticized the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy because it

included limited defense spending and heavy reliance on nuclear weapons.

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

initially organized peaceful demonstrations using civil disobedience.

The naval battles in the Coral Sea and at Midway Island signaled to the American military that

Japanese domination of the Pacific was weakening.

Why didn't southern tenant farmers benefit from the programs developed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Farm Credit Act?

Landlords controlled the distribution of the benefits and denied benefits to many of their tenants.

Between 1955 and 1961, the United States spent $800 million in South Vietnam, most of it to

fund the South Vietnamese army.

During the 1980s, as Americans' average personal income increased, how did the level of economic inequality in the U.S. change?

Economic inequality also increased.

When Warren G. Harding appealed to a return to normalcy, he was calling for

a regular steady order of things, without excess.

When black veterans of World War I returned home from their deployments, they found

race riots and economic hardship.

How did the Populists propose to help American farmers in the 1890s?

They recommended creating a government-sponsored sub-treasury.

In addition to economic motivations, which factor contributed to U.S. expansion overseas in the 1890s?

Christian missionaries' eagerness to spread the gospel

The purpose of the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, when it was enacted in 1934, was to

create the National Labor Relations Board and guarantee workers the right to organize.

In the United States, the flapper of the 1920s represented

a challenge to women's traditional gender roles.

The purpose of the Eisenhower Doctrine was to

aid any Middle Eastern nation requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by international communism.

What made the election of 1932 particularly historic?

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

One important goal of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s was

the establishment of survival schools to teach Indian history and values.

To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal in 1903, the United States

backed an uprising in Panama arranged by New York investors.

The Selective Service Act of 1917 authorized the armed forces to conscript

all young men.

What did popular culture and consumer goods have in common in the 1920s?

Both were mass-produced and mass consumed.

The American hostages were held in the U.S. Embassy in Teheran by their Iranian captors

until the day President Carter left office.

One factor that aroused Soviet suspicions of the Western Allies during World War II was

the Western Allies' long delay in opening a second front in Western Europe.

Why did Roosevelt fail to push for more ambitious reforms for black Americans?

He could not afford to lose the support of southern Democrats for his New Deal agenda.

Bill Clinton's ambitious plan for health care reform failed early in his presidency because

liberals and conservatives both opposed it.

How did the American progressive movement begin and evolve?

It began at the grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government.

In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to

fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.

Opponents of the New Deal included business leaders and

some labor leaders.

What happened to American defense spending under President Reagan?

It increased beyond the level of spending during the Vietnam War.

During the 1920s, most American women who worked had

manufacturing jobs in factories.

The outcome of the shift toward repetitive assembly-line work and specialized management divisions in the 1920s was

a tremendous increase in business productivity and overall efficiency.

What did President Hoover do to offer a solution to the human problems of the depression in 1929?

He instituted a voluntary recovery plan, protective tariffs, and some government intervention, including public works projects and small federal loans to states.

What was the outcome of the Dawes Act of 1887?

Division of reservations and allotment of individual plots of land to Native Americans

Which group was hardest hit by the Great Depression?

The unemployed, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers

How close were the votes in the House and Senate for and against a declaration of war against Germany in April 1917?

The House and Senate both voted to declare war with large majorities.

The Hoover administration responded to the World War I veterans who asked for the immediate payment of their pension or bonus

by ordering the U.S. army to forcibly evict them from their camp on the edge of Washington, D.C.

Which of the following was among the factors responsible for the postwar economic boom in the United States?

War-torn countries' spending on American products

The term muckrakers refers to Progressive Era journalists who were known for

writing stories about corporate and political wrongdoing.

The purpose of the National Security Act of 1947 was to

place oversight of all branches of the military under the secretary of defense.

The Social Security Act of 1935 provided

old-age pensions, grants to states for dependent mothers and children, and unemployment insurance.

Why did the United States fail to act on reports of Hitler's genocidal atrocities?

The American public and its officials believed the reports were exaggerated.

As the Allies closed in on him in December 1944, Hitler ordered a desperate counterattack through Belgium known as

the Battle of the Bulge.

By 1900, the WCTU (Women's Christian Temperance Union) could claim credit for

providing a generation of women with experience in political action.

What occurrence made April 30, 1945, a turning point in the war?

Adolf Hitler killed himself in his underground bunker.

The Treaty of Paris that ended the war with Spain ceded which islands to the United States?

Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

The 1991 Americans with Disabilities Act

required that private businesses be accessible to people with disabilities.

Which of the following describes the Gilded Age?

An era marked by personal greed and a corrupt partnership between business and politics

One consequence of the Korean War was a

massive increase in U.S. defense spending.

Which of the following statements describes the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?

It set standards for wages and hours.

What was the three-part goal of Roosevelt's New Deal?

Relief, recovery, and reform

During the Bataan Death March of 1942,

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

What did American women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries conclude about the settlement house movement?

Settlements gave women opportunities to use their talents to help society.

Which piece of legislation enabled workers in larger companies to take time off for the birth or adoption of a child, for the care of aging parents, and for family emergencies?

Family and Medical Leave Act

The United States intervened in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait because

it needed to maintain access to Middle Eastern oil resources.

The Platt Amendment in the 1898 Cuban constitution

gave the United States the power to oversee Cuban debt.

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 promise to potential migrants to the West?

160 acres free to any citizen or prospective citizen who settled on land west of the Mississippi River for five years

Who was Geronimo?

An Apache warrior and chieftain who led raiding parties and killed ranchers on both sides of the Mexican border

In the presidential election of 2000,

George W. Bush won the electoral college vote.

Which of the following economic developments characterized Jimmy Carter's presidency?

The president was compelled to cut federal spending in order to compensate for rising inflation.

The U.S. policy of détente with the Soviet Union entailed the United States

beginning new discussions with the Soviet Union on arms control and trade.

How did American labor unions respond to the production demands of World War II?

Labor unions granted the government's request that they pledge not to strike.

What was the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned Americans about before he left office?

An association between the military and defense contractors to spend more money on increasingly powerful weapons systems

What was the outcome of the return to free enterprise in the United States after World War I?

A rise in unemployment and new conflicts between business and labor

Secretary of State John Hay initiated the Open Door policy in 1900

to guarantee access to trade in China for all colonial powers.

The Allied assault against the German army on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, is commonly known as

D Day.

President Roosevelt justified the proposed Lend-Lease Act in January 1941

by citing the need to defend freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear, and other ideals.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 transformed southern politics by

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

How did Alexander Graham Bell's telephone revolutionize both communications and business in America?

Bell used a complicated organizational structure in his new company that allowed both local and cross-country communication.

In what major way did Barack Obama's foreign policy differ from that of George H. W. Bush?

Obama was committed to a multilateral approach to foreign affairs.

Why did U.S. policymakers support a non-Communist South Korea?

They believed South Korea was key to the revival of the Japanese economy and crucial to U.S. defense strategy in Asia.

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

grow the economy.

Margaret Sanger promoted birth control in the 1910s because she

believed it would usefully alter social and political power relationships.

The outbreak of World War I in 1914 was triggered by

the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by a Bosnian Serb terrorist.

When advocates of bimetallism referred to the crime of '73, they were talking about

the decision by Congress in 1873 to stop buying and minting silver.

What did anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarthy do that led to his condemnation by the U.S. Senate?

McCarthy conducted televised hearings in which he charged that the U.S. army was full of Communists.

What was the significance of the Battle of Britain in 1940?

The British victory handed Hitler his first major defeat.

What was the significance of the U.S and British landing in Sicily in July 1943?

The landing marked the end of Mussolini's fascism.