HIST 2112 Exam 3

Which of the following was NOT one of the Four Freedoms?

Freedom of the Seas

Rosie the Riveter:

Was the nickname for female workers in war-production industrial plants

This major military offensive by the Allied forces attacked Nazi military positions in France:

D-Day

This organization was intended to be a new and improved version of the League of Nations:

The United Nations

The Battle of Midway Island:

Was a major victory of the United States over the Japanese.

The Freedom Train:

Was a traveling exhibit of important American documents that toured the U.S.

Which American program sought to bring a kind of New Deal to Europe after the war?

The Marshall Plan

Which statement about NSC-68 best describes its goals?

To create a permanent military buildup and a global application of containment

The Truman administration's "containment doctrine":

Sought to contain the spread of communism around the world

The document titled To Secure These Rights officially presented:

The Truman administration's support for African American civil rights

Which term was used to indicate America's rapid rise in fertility after World War II:

The Baby Boom

"New Conservatives" wanted government to:

Regulate personal behavior

Levittown was:

a famous suburban development built after World War II.

This event sparked new emphasis on the education of scientists and engineers in the U.S.

The Soviet launching of Sputnik

What were The Beats?

Poets and anti-Establishment writers in the 1950s.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring inspired the

Environmentalist movement

An important civil rights leader in Mississippi, who became nationally known during the Democratic National convention of 1964:

Fannie Lou Hamer

During the Cuban Missile Crisis:

the U.S. established a naval blockade to stop Soviet ships from reaching Cuba

President Eisenhower warned the nation against ____ shortly before he left office:

The concentrated power of America's military-industrial complex

The Young Americans for Freedom (YAF)

Believed that the free economic markets assured personal freedom

Malcolm X:

Was a well-known spokesman for the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) AND Was assassinated in 1965

The Hart-Cellar Act, was a major shift in American:

Immigration policy

The author of The Feminine Mystique:

Betty Friedan

The Philadelphia Plan:

Was proposed by President Nixon AND Created affirmative-action quotas for the Construction Industry AND Was opposed by the white working class.

The War Powers Act:

Placed restrictions on a President's power to wage war without Congressional approval.

The Fascists (c. 1920-1945) believed:

Democracy was inherently weak AND Individual rights were a myth AND The Nation was everything; all true citizens were part of the state

In 1941, these two nations became allies to create a New World Order that would last 1,000 years:

Germany and Japan

As he tried to get America prepared for entry into World War II, Roosevelt had to overcome:

The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s AND A widespread belief that isolationism was America's best policy.

The United States entered World War II:

when Japan bombed the U.S. military bases in Hawaii

Executive Order 8802:

Called for racial equality in hiring in U.S. defense plants

This law was intended to prevent an economic depression and social unrest after World War II:

The G.I. Bill

In the film, "Korean War Stories," this action was the immediate cause of the Korean War:

Invasion of South Korea by North Korea

This group of Democrats bolted the Democratic national convention of 1948:

The southerners who would soon form the State's Rights (or Dixiecrat) party

The Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954:

Overturned Plessy's traditional "Separate but Equal" Doctrine

Martin Luther King, Jr., first became nationally known during this campaign:

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Which Civil Rights organization was born from the sit-in movement of the early 1960s:

Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

This event in Alabama boosted American support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965:

"Bloody Sunday"

This organization was organized in 1966 to promote women's equality:

The National Organization of Women (NOW)

The Congressional legislation known as Title IX:

Mandated equal opportunity for women in Higher Education.

Which of the following groups in South Vietnam opposed Ngo Dinh Diem's government:

Communists AND Students AND Buddhists

How did North Vietnamese leaders interpret the assassination of Diem? They viewed it as:

A sign that America was going to leave Vietnam soon

This was the legal justification for the U.S. war in Vietnam from President Johnson through President Nixon:

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The Documentary film Dear America was based on:

Letters that U.S. Soldiers had sent home from Vietnam

This battle was a military victory but a psychological defeat for the U.S. in Vietnam:

The Tet Offensive

This foreign policy helped President Nixon bring North Vietnam to sue for peace:

Détente

Domestic political issues of the 1970s included:

Women's rights AND Gay rights AND Environmentalism

Which of the following made President Carter look weak to most Americans:

The Iran Hostage Crisis

Which of the following lists events of 1968 in their proper chronological order:

The Tet Offensive, King's assassination, Robert Kennedy's assassination, Nixon's election

"Thinking Historically," according to professor Flamming, involves:

Developing historical intuition AND Thinking about change over time AND Making connections between the past and the