DCUSH

social Darwinism

was a term coined Herbert Spencer

2. The Cold War can be BEST described as

the political and economic

3. In 1962 in this country, the Kennedy administration countered Khrushchev in the most dangerous event of the Cold War, one that could have resulted in nuclear war. The Soviet atomic warheads and missiles were in this country, but the Kennedy administration successfully handled the two-week crisis by

Cuba

4. Which of the following BEST describes the policies of Herbert Hoover in the early years of the Great Depression? He believed it was a natural economic downturn

He believed it was a natural economic downturn

5. Which of the following has been cited as reasons for the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in 1945 EXCEPT the need to

block a planned Japanese

6. In the 1930s the American President who initiated the domestic economic reform program which he labeled as his "New Deal" was

Franklin Roosevelt

7. Which statement does NOT describe the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001?

The attackers were Iraqi soldiers acting under

8. For what reason was John Scopes arrested and placed on trial in the summer of 1925?

teaching evolution

9. The American home front in the Second World War is best described as

economically invigorated

10. Which of the following best describes the U.S. reaction to the successful launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik in 1957?

Fears that the United States had fallen

11.Which of the following BEST describes the Berlin Wall?

The wall was built to prevent East Berliners

12.During World War I (1914-1918) the primary naval weapon of Imperial Germany that caused considerable economic distress to the nations allied with America was

Submarine

13. In the early 1900s, President Theodore Roosevelt's action which most angered many nations of Latin America and in particular Colombia was his

Acquisition of the Panama Canal

14. Which of the following BEST describes the Beatniks?

They were rebels who were frustrated

15. To what does the term "Harlem Renaissance" refer?

literature, art, and music

16. One of the most hotly debated foreign policy issues and scandals of the 1980s concerned the Reagan administration's

Opposition to the Sandinista government

17. Which of the following BEST describes the GI Bill of Rights?

It provided veterans with various services

18. In the 1980's President Reagan's domestic political agenda and economic policy could best be described as

opposed to big government

19. Which statement best describes President Reagan's plan to deal with the Soviets?

Peace through strength.

20. Who was the first woman on the Supreme Court as a justice?

Sandra O'Connor

21. Which of the following were reasons for the depth and length of the Great Depression?

All of these choices.

22. What was the main goal of the Marshall Plan?

To finance the economic reconstruction of Western Europe.

23.Two constitutional amendments adopted in part because of wartime influences were the Eighteenth, which dealt with prohibition, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was woman suffrage.

Prohibition and women suffrage

24. In the 1970s, Jimmy Carter attempted to bring peace to former enemies Egypt and Israel through the implementation of a peace process known as the?"

Camp David Accords

25. Which of the follows NOT characterize the internment of Japanese Americans.

"Several incidents of clear Japanese espionage,

26. The military operation involving US troops in 1991 in a conflict in the Middle East was called?

Operated desert storms

27."During the 1950s and the Cold War Era, the United States went through a period of "Red Scares" ..".

Joseph McCarthy.

28. The Farmers Alliance of the 1870s and 1880s was the driving force behind which political party, that advocated for more benefits for the common man like frei coinage of silver and direct elections?

Populist Party

29. Which of the following American inventors developed the light bulb as well as the phonograph and motion picture camera?

Thomas Edison

30. The American General who was the commander of American ground forces in World War I was:

John J. Pershing

31. What was the agreement with Canada and Mexico called that abolished import taxes between the three nations?

North American Free Trade Agreement

32. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the "farm problem" by

reducing agricultural production

33.Which of the following best describes a situation that the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 sought to prevent?

Two major firms in an industry agree to merge

34. According to the graph above, the largest decrease in the percent of Americans living below the poverty line accompanied which of the following federal policy initiatives?

The great society

35. Betty Friedan was the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and author of The Feminine Mystique. What best represents her ideology?

Women were disastisfied with the

36. Which of the following statements best explains the stock market crash of 1929?

both b and c

37. The "Captain of Industry" most associated with the steel industry and verticle alignment in America was?

Andrew Carnegie

38. the 1920s, the U.S. President who promised Americans a return to "normalcy" but whose administration was shadowed by political scandal was?

Warren Harding

39. The most promising third party movement in years was sparked in 1992 by the presidential bid of

Ross Perot

40. Which of the following were the US leaders of the Pacific Theater?"

Admiral Chester A. Nimitz & General Douglas MacArthur