WorksheetsFinal Exam AMH2020 Multiple Choice
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Why did American policymakers agree to spend billions of dollars on the economic recovery of Europe under the Marshall Plan?
They were happy to provide their own constituents with profitable defense contracts.
They were trying to further solidify the division between the East and the West on the continent.
Most Americans still had immediate family in Europe and felt a strong personal connection.
They were afraid that otherwise, western European nations might fall under Soviet influence.
They hoped to provoke the Soviet Union with this program.
Between 1946 and 1960, the American gross national product
more than doubled, and wages increased.
increased so dramatically that poverty was completely eliminated.
returned to prewar levels.
stayed about the same.
declined as wages stagnated.
Where did the turning point of World War II in the European Eastern Theater occur?
Moscow
Stalingrad
Berlin
Paris
Warsaw
Emerging from World War II, what was the only nation that could rival the United States?
Great Britain
France
Japan
China
the Soviet Union
The Internet
failed to contribute to the democratization of information.
privatized the use of information.
began as a high-speed communications network for large corporations.
expanded the flow of information more radically than any invention since the printing press.
has no drawbacks.
Which of the following formed part of the conservative agenda?
a. a willingness to raise taxes
b. increasing government involvement in the people’s lives
c. the advancement of limited individual freedom
d. a strong critique of the welfare state
e. the determination to stop the international crusade against communism
The Great Society
established the Departments of Agriculture and Justice.
included new health care, education, and urban development initiatives paid for with federal funds.
reduced federal power, as most of its programs were administered at the local level.
was the term conservatives used to describe Kennedy’s Cold War policies.
led to a significant increase in poverty in both urban and rural areas.
The “Iron Curtain”
separated Japan from the rest of Asia.
was a term used to ridicule the Soviet Union.
isolated Japan from the world economy.
was a term used in reference to the division between the capitalist West and the communist East.
separated south and north Vietnam.
How did the role of the national government change during the war?
It allowed the national market economy to run free, both locally and internationally.
It dedicated all of its efforts to promoting racial equality at home.
It financed manufacturing companies to diversify production.
It shrank in size and stopped getting involved in the daily lives of businesses and citizens.
It grew and created several federal agencies to regulate the war effort.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
was sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man.
marked the end of the civil rights movement.
did not succeed in desegregating the public buses.
lasted less than two weeks.
propelled Thurgood Marshall into the national spotlight as a leader in the civil rights movement.
Which of the following describes what happened after the Soviet Union dissolved?
The United States exercised, once again, an isolationist policy.
Fifteen new independent nations arose in its place.
Russia emerged as a superpower.
The war on communism ended, as no other country claimed it as a form of government.
East European countries rapidly prospered.
Which of the following statements is accurate of the 1965 Voting Rights Act?
It was strongly endorsed by President Nixon.
It upheld the right of county officials to oversee Black voter registration.
Its passage was prompted by fear of violent protests.
It empowered federal officials to oversee voter registration.
Congress was slow to pass the act after the president’s speech.
The Manhattan Project
was operated jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union.
was kept a secret from the entire executive branch except for President Roosevelt and Vice President Truman.
involved the rapid construction of the Pentagon as the new defense headquarters.
never produced an atomic bomb.
was a top-secret program in which American scientists developed an atomic bomb.
What philosophy did the protesters at the Greensboro sit-in adhere to?
militancy
nonviolence
Buddhism
violence as self-defense
Marxism
What did the turmoil of 1968 lead to?
a. a conservative white backlash
b. an end to the Vietnam War
c. immediate gains for liberals on civil rights issues
d. the reelection of Lyndon Johnson
e. more radical liberals winning seats in Congress
Globalization
opposed the free flow of goods and services across borders.
was symbolized by corporations such as Microsoft and organizations like the WTO.
is closely associated with the 1970s, although it was not a new phenomenon.
involved a strict regulatory apparatus for the control of global trade.
had little to do with the collapse of communism.
Between 1990 and 2008, how did companies contribute to U.S. job growth?
General Motors opened 100 new plants across the Midwest, creating 1.6 million new jobs for American workers.
Apple alone created nearly 1 million new jobs in the United States with the development of the iPhone.
Companies expanded significantly, hiring unprecedented numbers of American workers.
Companies implemented a direct strategy to hire more women and minority workers.
Companies took manufacturing to other countries where labor was cheaper, causing the loss of American jobs.
Truman’s 1947 speech to Congress, in which he outlined what would become known as the “Truman Doctrine,” gave rise to what events?
The Central Intelligence Agency and the Atomic Energy Commission were established with strict democratic oversight.
Truman received only immediate, short-term Republican support for his containment policies.
Congress approved $400 million in U.S. military aid to West Germany.
A precedent was set to create military alliances against the Soviet Union.
A precedent was established for the United States to support terroristic regimes everywhere in their struggles against communism.
In which part of the United States did the Freedom Rides take place?
the Northeast
the Pacific Northwest
the West Coast
the Deep South
What led England and France to declare war on Germany, marking the start of World War II?
Hitler rounded up European Jews and put them in camps.
Germany invaded Poland, a country Britain and France had promised to protect.
Germany invaded Austria, the place of Hitler’s birth.
Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
After gaining the Sudetenland through an agreement, Germany then took the rest of Czechoslovakia.
Even after legal segregation was over, school segregation continued to be determined by housing patterns.
True
False
To Roosevelt, the Four Freedoms expressed deeply held American values worthy of being spread worldwide.
True
False
