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History Exam II

Total questions: 110

Worksheet time: 9hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A war between Spain and the US in the Caribbean and the Philippines in 1898. The US declared war and successfully invaded Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, all of which Spain gave up by the Treaty of Paris (1898).

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

White-Man's Burden

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Open-Door Policy

e)

Roosevelt Corollary

2.

Proposes that the white race is morally obliged to civilize the non-white peoples of planet Earth, and to encourage their progress (economic, social, and cultural) through colonialism:

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

White-Man's Burden

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Open-Door Policy

e)

Roosevelt Corollary

3.

United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660–1783 (1890) won immediate recognition, especially in Europe.

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

White-Man's Burden

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Open-Door Policy

e)

Roosevelt Corollary

4.

Called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China.

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

White-Man's Burden

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Open-Door Policy

e)

Roosevelt Corollary

5.

States that the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American countries if they committed flagrant and chronic wrongdoings.

a)

Spanish-American War

b)

White-Man's Burden

c)

Alfred Thayer Mahan

d)

Open-Door Policy

e)

Roosevelt Corollary

6.

A separate peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, etc.), that ended Russia's participation in World War I due to its current communist revolution.

a)

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

b)

The Great Migration

c)

Nineteenth Amendment

d)

Fourteen Points

e)

Battle of the Somme

7.

African Americans in large numbers seen in the millions left southern states and fled to urban northern states for equal job opportunity while most individuals were fighting in World War I.

a)

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

b)

The Great Migration

c)

Nineteenth Amendment

d)

Fourteen Points

e)

Battle of the Somme

8.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

a)

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

b)

The Great Migration

c)

Nineteenth Amendment

d)

Fourteen Points

e)

Battle of the Somme

9.

A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918 speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.

a)

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

b)

The Great Migration

c)

Nineteenth Amendment

d)

Fourteen Points

e)

Battle of the Somme

10.

Was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the Somme, a river in France. More than three million men fought in the battle and one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in human history.

a)

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

b)

The Great Migration

c)

Nineteenth Amendment

d)

Fourteen Points

e)

Battle of the Somme

11.

When did World War I start?

a)

1912

b)

1913

c)

1914

d)

1915

12.

When did America enter World War I?

a)

1916

b)

1917

c)

1918

d)

1919

13.

What was the equipment used in World War I

a)

Full-Auto guns

b)

Poison/Tear Gas

c)

Tanks

d)

Barbed Wire

e)

All of the above

14.

What division in the U.S. Army was completely african american?

a)

92nd Division

b)

84th Division

c)

55th Division

d)

19th Division

15.

Monitored industrial production to ensure that the military had the materials and supplies needed for the war effort, such as ammunition and raw material.

a)

War Industry Board

b)

Food Administration

c)

National War Labor Board

d)

Four-Minute Men

e)

American Protective League

16.

Was a government department set up during the First World War to oversee the rationing of food, so it doesn't go to waste with how valuable resources are in the country economically and with the war in the current day of age.

a)

War Industry Board

b)

Food Administration

c)

National War Labor Board

d)

Four-Minute Men

e)

American Protective League

17.

Authorized in March 1918 for the purpose of preventing strikes that would disrupt production in war industries.

a)

War Industry Board

b)

Food Administration

c)

National War Labor Board

d)

Four-Minute Men

e)

American Protective League

18.

Committee on public information; was biased; 75,000 men would go to regular citizens and update them on the efforts of the war, but only what the government would want them to know.

a)

War Industry Board

b)

Food Administration

c)

National War Labor Board

d)

Four-Minute Men

e)

American Protective League

19.

A private organization with the goal to spy on neighbors to see if any of them were anti-American.

a)

War Industry Board

b)

Food Administration

c)

National War Labor Board

d)

Four-Minute Men

e)

American Protective League

20.

Prohibited obtaining information, recording pictures, or copying descriptions of any information relating to the national defense with the intent to negatively affect the country.

a)

1917 Espionage Act

b)

1918 Sedition Act

c)

1919 Paris Peace Conference "The Big Four"

d)

Treaty of Versailles 1919

e)

League of Nations

21.

Limited freedom of speech by making it illegal to publicly express any opposition toward the efforts in World War I.

a)

1917 Espionage Act

b)

1918 Sedition Act

c)

1919 Paris Peace Conference "The Big Four"

d)

Treaty of Versailles 1919

e)

League of Nations

22.

A meeting organized by the victors of World War I (Great Britain, France, Italy, and United States) to negotiate the peace treaties between the Allied and Associated Powers and the defeated Central Powers, that concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

a)

1917 Espionage Act

b)

1918 Sedition Act

c)

1919 Paris Peace Conference "The Big Four"

d)

Treaty of Versailles 1919

e)

League of Nations

23.

Treaty that ended World War I. It forced Germany to pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies.

a)

1917 Espionage Act

b)

1918 Sedition Act

c)

1919 Paris Peace Conference "The Big Four"

d)

Treaty of Versailles 1919

e)

League of Nations

24.

Was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

a)

1917 Espionage Act

b)

1918 Sedition Act

c)

1919 Paris Peace Conference "The Big Four"

d)

Treaty of Versailles 1919

e)

League of Nations

25.

Who was never a member of the League of Nations?

a)

Germany

b)

Great Britain

c)

United States

d)

None of the above

26.

Who won by the largest landslide victory in United States election history?

a)

1920 Warren Harding

b)

2020 Joe Biden

c)

1980 Ronald Reagan

d)

1864 Abraham Lincoln

27.

Including the Asian Exclusion Act and National Origins Act was a United States federal law that prevented emigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere. Additionally, the formation of the U.S. Border Patrol was authorized by the act.

a)

1924 Immigration Act

b)

Red Scare

c)

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial (Darrow v. Bryan: Evolution v. Religion)

d)

Harlem Renaissance

28.

A period of general fear of communist takeover. Examples being the American Communist Party (1919).

a)

1924 Immigration Act

b)

Red Scare

c)

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial (Darrow v. Bryan: Evolution v. Religion)

d)

Harlem Renaissance

29.

an American legal case in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee 's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.

a)

1924 Immigration Act

b)

Red Scare

c)

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial (Darrow v. Bryan: Evolution v. Religion)

d)

Harlem Renaissance

30.

A literary movement in the 1920s that centered on Harlem and was an early manifestation of black consciousness in the US The movement included writers such as Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, and musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Marcus Garvey (jazz/racial pride).

a)

1924 Immigration Act

b)

Red Scare

c)

1925 Scopes Monkey Trial (Darrow v. Bryan: Evolution v. Religion)

d)

Harlem Renaissance

31.

A subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

a)

The Flapper

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Model T-Ford

e)

Fordism

32.

An American industrialist, business magnate, founder of the Ford Motor Company, and chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production.

a)

The Flapper

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Model T-Ford

e)

Fordism

33.

A series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled. Compare with production line.

a)

The Flapper

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Model T-Ford

e)

Fordism

34.

An automobile that was produced by Ford Motor Company from October 1, 1908, to May 26, 1927. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class

a)

The Flapper

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Model T-Ford

e)

Fordism

35.

A manufacturing technology that serves as the basis of modern economic and social systems in industrialized, standardized mass production and mass consumption. Quantity over quality, but at the same time want it to be the popular choice.

a)

The Flapper

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Model T-Ford

e)

Fordism

36.

A negative worldwide economic effect. Marked by steep declines in industrial production and in prices (deflation), mass unemployment, banking panics, and sharp increases in rates of poverty and homelessness.

a)

The Great Depression

b)

Great Stock Market Crash of 1929

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Hoovervilles

e)

The Bonus Army

37.

When share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. Stock market dropped 11%, New York Stock Exchange lost three billion dollars, and 90% value gone in three-year process.

a)

The Great Depression

b)

Great Stock Market Crash of 1929

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Hoovervilles

e)

The Bonus Army

38.

An American politician and engineer who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 and a member of the Republican Party, holding office during the onset of the Great Depression.

a)

The Great Depression

b)

Great Stock Market Crash of 1929

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Hoovervilles

e)

The Bonus Army

39.

Shanty downdraught towns built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.

a)

The Great Depression

b)

Great Stock Market Crash of 1929

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Hoovervilles

e)

The Bonus Army

40.

An assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand immediate cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

a)

The Great Depression

b)

Great Stock Market Crash of 1929

c)

Herbert Hoover

d)

Hoovervilles

e)

The Bonus Army

41.

1931 invasion of Manchuria

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

Germany

d)

United States

42.

1937 invasion of China

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

Germany

d)

United States

43.

1935 invasion of Ethiopia

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

Germany

d)

United States

44.

1935 invasion of Albania

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

Germany

d)

United States

45.

1938 invasion of Sudetenland

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

Germany

d)

United States

46.

1939 invasion of Poland

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

Germany

d)

United States

47.

1942 invasion of North Africa

a)

Japan

b)

Italy

c)

Germany

d)

United States

48.

The territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development. Re-arm, re-militarize, and re-colonize.

a)

Lebensraum

b)

1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact

c)

1935 Neutrality Act

d)

1937 "cash and carry" requirements

e)

1941 lend-lease act

49.

Insures no aggression between Nazi's and Soviet's. Will not engage with each other when Nazi's invade Poland.

a)

Lebensraum

b)

1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact

c)

1935 Neutrality Act

d)

1937 "cash and carry" requirements

e)

1941 lend-lease act

50.

Imposes a ban on arm trade and other war materials to parties in war (American isolationism).

a)

Lebensraum

b)

1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact

c)

1935 Neutrality Act

d)

1937 "cash and carry" requirements

e)

1941 lend-lease act

51.

Permitted the U.S. to sell nonmilitary goods to warring nations, if the nations paid in cash (USD) and shipped the goods themselves.

a)

Lebensraum

b)

1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact

c)

1935 Neutrality Act

d)

1937 "cash and carry" requirements

e)

1941 lend-lease act

52.

An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States, was a program under which the United States supplied the Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and 1945. Loaned on the basis that such help was essential for the defense of America, this aid included warships and warplanes, along with other weaponry.

a)

Lebensraum

b)

1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact

c)

1935 Neutrality Act

d)

1937 "cash and carry" requirements

e)

1941 lend-lease act

53.

The central phrase used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio broadcast on the threat to national security, to keep Americans out of the war.

a)

Arsenal of Democracy (1940)

b)

Four Freedom's Speech (1941)

c)

Atlantic Charter (1941)

d)

War Powers Act (1941)

e)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941)

54.

The speech was intended to rally the American people against the Axis threat and to shift favor in support of assisting British and Allied troops.

a)

Arsenal of Democracy (1940)

b)

Four Freedom's Speech (1941)

c)

Atlantic Charter (1941)

d)

War Powers Act (1941)

e)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941)

55.

This set out American and British goals for the world after the end of World War II. The dismantling of the British Empire, the formation of NATO, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

a)

Arsenal of Democracy (1940)

b)

Four Freedom's Speech (1941)

c)

Atlantic Charter (1941)

d)

War Powers Act (1941)

e)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941)

56.

This improved the nation’s efficiency in fighting World War II. It empowered President Franklin D. Roosevelt to reorganize the executive branch, federal agencies, and government corporations.

a)

Arsenal of Democracy (1940)

b)

Four Freedom's Speech (1941)

c)

Atlantic Charter (1941)

d)

War Powers Act (1941)

e)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941)

57.

A "surprise" military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii.

a)

Arsenal of Democracy (1940)

b)

Four Freedom's Speech (1941)

c)

Atlantic Charter (1941)

d)

War Powers Act (1941)

e)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor (1941)

58.

An agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II.

a)

War Productions Board

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Second Great Migration

d)

Double V Campaign

e)

A. Phillip Randolph

59.

An icon for the feminist movement in the industrialized hemisphere of fighting for the war. As men left their positions to enlist in the army, the need grew for women to fill the void by joining the job market.

a)

War Productions Board

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Second Great Migration

d)

Double V Campaign

e)

A. Phillip Randolph

60.

Same as in World War I, was the movement of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the Northeast, Midwest and West for job opportunity while many individuals were off fighting in the war.

a)

War Productions Board

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Second Great Migration

d)

Double V Campaign

e)

A. Phillip Randolph

61.

Launched in 1947, was an initiative designed to highlight the plight of African American military personnel as they worked to fight for American principles overseas during World War II while fighting for their own rights as Americans in their hometowns.

a)

War Productions Board

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Second Great Migration

d)

Double V Campaign

e)

A. Phillip Randolph

62.

US labor and civil rights leader; full name Asa Philip Randolph. Believing that unions would benefit African Americans, he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1928 and served as its president until 1968.

a)

War Productions Board

b)

Rosie the Riveter

c)

Second Great Migration

d)

Double V Campaign

e)

A. Phillip Randolph

63.

prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee. It was the first federal action, though not a law, to promote equal opportunity and prohibit employment discrimination in the United States. Many citizens of Italian or German ethnicity were affected by World War II and this was impeding the war effort and lowering morale.

a)

Executive Order 8802

b)

1940 Battle of Britain

c)

1941 Operation Barbarossa

d)

1942 North African Campaign

e)

D-Day 1944 Invasion of Normandy

64.

Luftwaffe bomber fleets began attacking convoys and Royal Navy forces in English ports and the Channel. The results were positive and the Germans succeeded in forcing the British to abandon the channel convoy route and to redirect shipping to ports in north-eastern Britain.

a)

Executive Order 8802

b)

1940 Battle of Britain

c)

1941 Operation Barbarossa

d)

1942 North African Campaign

e)

D-Day 1944 Invasion of Normandy

65.

code name for the Axis invasion by the Nazi's on the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

a)

Executive Order 8802

b)

1940 Battle of Britain

c)

1941 Operation Barbarossa

d)

1942 North African Campaign

e)

D-Day 1944 Invasion of Normandy

66.

Between 1940 and 1943 British and Commonwealth troops, together with contingents from occupied European countries and the United States, fought an ultimately successful campaign to clear North Africa of German and Italian forces.

a)

Executive Order 8802

b)

1940 Battle of Britain

c)

1941 Operation Barbarossa

d)

1942 North African Campaign

e)

D-Day 1944 Invasion of Normandy

67.

Were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II by the allied powers against German forces.

a)

Executive Order 8802

b)

1940 Battle of Britain

c)

1941 Operation Barbarossa

d)

1942 North African Campaign

e)

D-Day 1944 Invasion of Normandy

68.

A fleet admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, US Pacific Fleet, and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas, commanding Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.

a)

Chester Nimitz

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

1945 Okinawa and Iwo Jima

d)

1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

69.

An American general best known for his command of Allied forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

a)

Chester Nimitz

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

1945 Okinawa and Iwo Jima

d)

1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

70.

The last major amphibious assault of World War II, when U.S. soldiers and Marines landed under heavy naval gunfire and aircraft support and successfully invaded......

a)

Chester Nimitz

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

1945 Okinawa and Iwo Jima

d)

1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

71.

Detonation of two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities _________ and ___________ by the United States that led to the Japanese surrender six days later.

a)

Chester Nimitz

b)

Douglas MacArthur

c)

1945 Okinawa and Iwo Jima

d)

1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki

72.

Was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

a)

Yalta Conference 1945

b)

Potsdown Conference 1945

c)

Occupation Zones

d)

1946 Iron Curtain Speech

73.

Was held to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

a)

Yalta Conference 1945

b)

Potsdown Conference 1945

c)

Occupation Zones

d)

1946 Iron Curtain Speech

74.

The division of Germany in four entities but divided from communism (east Germany) and capitalism (west Germany). Four zones were for the U.S., U.S.S.R., France, and the U.K.

a)

Yalta Conference 1945

b)

Potsdown Conference 1945

c)

Occupation Zones

d)

1946 Iron Curtain Speech

75.

Delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, that could spread if not contained to its neighboring countries.

a)

Yalta Conference 1945

b)

Potsdown Conference 1945

c)

Occupation Zones

d)

1946 Iron Curtain Speech

76.

US writer and diplomat considered the chief architect of the US containment policy against the Soviet Union, he held ambassadorships to the Soviet Union 1952 and to Yugoslavia 1961–63.

a)

George Kennan

b)

The Long Telegram (8,000 words long)

c)

The X Article (Containment Policy

d)

1947 Greek Civil War

77.

The telegram was prompted by US inquiries about Soviet behavior, fearing they will never comply with countries that hold capitalist values and spread communism to the west.

a)

George Kennan

b)

The Long Telegram (8,000 words long)

c)

The X Article (Containment Policy

d)

1947 Greek Civil War

78.

Advocated for its strategic use to CONTAIN against the Soviet Union.

a)

George Kennan

b)

The Long Telegram (8,000 words long)

c)

The X Article (Containment Policy

d)

1947 Greek Civil War

79.

One of the earliest Cold War tests of will between East and West ideologies. Authoritarian v. Socialism

a)

George Kennan

b)

The Long Telegram (8,000 words long)

c)

The X Article (Containment Policy

d)

1947 Greek Civil War

80.

Principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

1948 Marshall Plan

c)

1948 Berlin Airlift

d)

1949 formation of NATO

e)

1955 formation of Warsaw Pact

81.

An American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

1948 Marshall Plan

c)

1948 Berlin Airlift

d)

1949 formation of NATO

e)

1955 formation of Warsaw Pact

82.

The process of western allied forces provided natural resources and aid for western Germany. Joseph Stalin tried to blockade it but failed.

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

1948 Marshall Plan

c)

1948 Berlin Airlift

d)

1949 formation of NATO

e)

1955 formation of Warsaw Pact

83.

An alliance of western nations with the primary purpose to defend member nations from threats by any opposing countries.

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

1948 Marshall Plan

c)

1948 Berlin Airlift

d)

1949 formation of NATO

e)

1955 formation of Warsaw Pact

84.

An alliance of eastern nations with the primary purpose to defend member nations from threats by any opposing countries.

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

1948 Marshall Plan

c)

1948 Berlin Airlift

d)

1949 formation of NATO

e)

1955 formation of Warsaw Pact

85.

Mao Zedong (communist leader) successfully defeats the forces of Chiang Kai-Shek and his nationalist group to form the communist People's Republic of China. Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan after the defeat.

a)

Chinese Revolution 1949

b)

1950 N. Korean invasion of S. Korea

c)

Chinese Involvement (Korean Conflict)

d)

De-Militarized Zone

86.

After Japan was defeated in WWII, Korea was split between the North (communist and chaperoned by China) led by Kim Il-Sung, and the South (capitalist and chaperoned by the United States) led by Syngman Rhee.

a)

Chinese Revolution 1949

b)

1950 N. Korean invasion of S. Korea

c)

Chinese Involvement (Korean Conflict)

d)

De-Militarized Zone

87.

Douglas MacArthur gets deployed in South Korea to assist them from communist movement by North Korea and instead pushes South Korea past the border to start the Korean War.

a)

Chinese Revolution 1949

b)

1950 N. Korean invasion of S. Korea

c)

Chinese Involvement (Korean Conflict)

d)

De-Militarized Zone

88.

An area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. (EX: N. Korean and S. Korean border)

a)

Chinese Revolution 1949

b)

1950 N. Korean invasion of S. Korea

c)

Chinese Involvement (Korean Conflict)

d)

De-Militarized Zone

89.

A motion to forward the needed influence and creation of equality for all American citizens.

a)

Second bill of rights

b)

1947 Loyalty-Security program

c)

House Un-American Activities Committee

d)

Joseph McCarthy

90.

Created by President Truman that permitted officials to investigate any employee of the federal government for "subversive" activities that are anti-American or pro-Soviet Union

a)

Second bill of rights

b)

1947 Loyalty-Security program

c)

House Un-American Activities Committee

d)

Joseph McCarthy

91.

An investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having either fascist or communist ties.

a)

Second bill of rights

b)

1947 Loyalty-Security program

c)

House Un-American Activities Committee

d)

Joseph McCarthy

92.

An American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.

a)

Second bill of rights

b)

1947 Loyalty-Security program

c)

House Un-American Activities Committee

d)

Joseph McCarthy

93.

Julius Rosenberg was a key Soviet spy who passed along information (including nuclear weapon data) to the Soviet Union and recruited Manhattan Project spies.

a)

True

b)

False

94.

United States recovered from the Great Depression by establishing international trade

a)

True

b)

False

95.

Monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the United States, Canada, Western European countries, Australia, and Japan.

a)

Bretton Woods System

b)

World Bank

c)

International Monetary Fund

d)

1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades

96.

International financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.

a)

Bretton Woods System

b)

World Bank

c)

International Monetary Fund

d)

1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades

97.

Stated mission is "working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world."

a)

Bretton Woods System

b)

World Bank

c)

International Monetary Fund

d)

1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades

98.

Purpose was to make international trade easier by matching all currency to the US dollar.

a)

Bretton Woods System

b)

World Bank

c)

International Monetary Fund

d)

1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trades

99.

The practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict. The tactic occurs in international politics, foreign policy, labor relations, contemporary military strategy (by involving the threat of nuclear weapons), and high-stakes litigation.

a)

Eisenhower Nuclear Brinkenship

b)

Military Industrial Academic Complex

c)

Suburbia

d)

Homogeneity

100.

Describes the relationship between a nation's military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.

a)

Eisenhower Nuclear Brinkenship

b)

Military Industrial Academic Complex

c)

Suburbia

d)

Homogeneity

101.

A residential area comprised of middle class homes all identical to each other in residential communities within close distance to one another.

a)

Eisenhower Nuclear Brinkenship

b)

Military Industrial Academic Complex

c)

Suburbia

d)

Homogeneity

102.

The quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature. What most government complex locators desired in suburbia homes middle class white families.

a)

Eisenhower Nuclear Brinkenship

b)

Military Industrial Academic Complex

c)

Suburbia

d)

Homogeneity

103.

A discriminatory practice in which services (financial and otherwise) are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as 'hazardous' to investment

a)

Redlining

b)

1944 GI Bill

c)

Federal Housing Administration

d)

1947 Levittown

104.

Provided veterans of the Second World War funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing.

a)

Redlining

b)

1944 GI Bill

c)

Federal Housing Administration

d)

1947 Levittown

105.

Mission is made by private lenders for single-family properties, multifamily rental properties, hospitals, and residential care facilities. Mortgage insurance protects lenders against losses and risk.

a)

Redlining

b)

1944 GI Bill

c)

Federal Housing Administration

d)

1947 Levittown

106.

Settlement was built for returning World War II veterans and is today considered one of the first mass-produced suburbs in the country.

a)

Redlining

b)

1944 GI Bill

c)

Federal Housing Administration

d)

1947 Levittown

107.

Authorization of $25 billion for the construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System supposedly over a 10-year period, it was the largest public works project in American history through that time.

a)

1956 National Interstate and Defense Highway Act

b)

1959 Kitchen Debate

c)

The Beats

d)

Alfred Kinsey

108.

An informal exchange between US vice-president Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in July 1959. Nixon supporting capitalist ideology of all the accessories you can obtain, and Khrushchev refuting it by the gadgets being unnecessary and people should only get distributed tools of what they actually need.

a)

1956 National Interstate and Defense Highway Act

b)

1959 Kitchen Debate

c)

The Beats

d)

Alfred Kinsey

109.

United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress.

a)

1956 National Interstate and Defense Highway Act

b)

1959 Kitchen Debate

c)

The Beats

d)

Alfred Kinsey

110.

American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who surveyed men and women and how they were having sexual intercourse before marriage or during marriage with someone else.

a)

1956 National Interstate and Defense Highway Act

b)

1959 Kitchen Debate

c)

The Beats

d)

Alfred Kinsey