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17. During the 1950s, all of the following contributed to a 24. Which of the following pairs of people is closely
more homogeneous culture EXCEPT identified with the bonus march?
a. Building of the interstate highway system a. Herbert Hover and Douglas MacArthur
b. The soil-bank program b. Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt
c. Television programming c. Harry Hopkins and Frances Perkins
d. Spread of franchise operations d. John L. Lewis and John Maynard Keynes
e. Growth of the suburbs e. Alf Landon and Al Smith
25. All of the following were passed or created by Congress 32. “In these circumstances, it is clear that the main element
during the second New Deal EXCEPT of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must
a. the Social Security Act be that of a long-term, patient, but firm and vigilant
b. the Wagner Act containment of Russian expansive tendencies. It is
c. the Works Progress Administration important to note, however, that such a policy has nothing
d. the Resettlement Administration to do with outward histrionics, with threats or blustering
e. the National Recovery Administration or superfluous gestures of outward ‘toughness.’”
a. President Roosevelt’s speech at the Yalta conference
26. All of the following played a role in causing the Great b. Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech
Depression EXCEPT c. George Marshall’s introduction to his Marshall Plan
a. uneven distribution of wealth d. George Kennan’s article, “the Sources of Soviet
b. weak farm economy Conduct”
c. overproduction of consumer goods e. General MacArthur’s letter to Congressman Joseph
d. low tariffs Martin
e. practice of buying stocks with borrowed money
33. The Primary purpose of the Marshall Plan was to
27. The New Deal implemented theories of John Maynard a. end the rift between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
Keynes that stressed the importance of b. establish a uniform world currency
a. a balanced federal budget c. aid the economic recovery of war-devastated Europe
b. deficit spending for “pump priming” d. set up a military alliance of anticommunist nations
c. a laissez-faire policy toward business e. hinder the economic recover of nations under Soviet
d. “trickle-down” economic theory control
e. high-tariff protectionism
34. Which U.S. action is NOT correctly paired with an event
28. In response to conservative rulings of the Supreme Court, in international politics?
President Roosevelt took action that resulted in a. airlift – Soviet blockade of Berlin
a. his first major legislative defeat b. troops sent to Korea – Churchill’s Iron Curtain
b. passage of a law recognizing the judicial branch speech
c. his reelection in 1936 c. Truman Doctrine – civil war in Greece
d. New Deal laws being declared unconstitutional d. Marshall Plan – growing popularity of communism in
e. Enactment of legislation known as the third New Western Europe
Deal e. Development of hydrogen bomb – A-bomb tested in
29. U.S. economic expansion after WWII was encouraged by Soviet Union
all of the following EXCEPT
a. Office of Price Administration 35. Which of the following was NOT an issue during the
b. Veterans’ loans Korean War?
c. Increased savings from the war years a. whether to expand the war by attacking China
d. High demand for consumer goods b. whether North Korea had committed aggression
e. Increase in per capita income c. whether Congress should have declared war
d. the removal of General Douglass MacArthur
30. President Truman’s domestic policies included support for e. the policies of containment and “limited war”
all of the following EXCEPT
a. a full-employment bill 36. Which of the following contributed the LEAST to the
b. increase in the minimum wage growth of the Red Scare in the 1950s?
c. national health care insurance a. loss of atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets
d. desegregating the armed forces b. Army-McCarthy hearings
e. the Taft-Hartley Act c. Alger Hiss case
d. Fall of China to the Communists
31. Which of the following was NOT a major issue between e. Investigations by the House Un-American Activities
the Soviet Union and the U.S. in the postwar years 1945- Committee
1950?
a. establishment in Communist governments in Eastern 37. Which of the following BEST describes Truman’s foreign
Europe policy from 1945 to 1952?
b. occupation zones in Japan a. reluctance to involve the United States in foreign
c. access to Berlin conflicts
d. Marshall Plan aid b. willingness to negotiate differences with the Soviet
e. Development and control of atomic weapons Union
c. aggressive use of U.S. troops in Europe and Asia
d. commitment to containing Communist challenges
e. extending foreign aid only with U.N. approval
38. A principal reason for defeat of most Fair Deal programs 45. Consequences of Truman’s decision to use the atomic
was bomb against Japan included all of the following
a. opposition by Republicans in Congress EXCEPT
b. outbreak of the Second Red Scare a. the surrender of Japan
c. McCarthy’s accusations b. the end of WWII
d. Truman’s lack of experience in domestic policy c. full-scale invasion of Japan by U.S. troops
e. Dewey’s speeches in the election of 1948 d. destruction of two Japanese cities
e. the deaths of thousands of civilians
39. Which of the following phrases accurately describes
Franklin Roosevelt’s good-neighbor policy? 46. At which of the following did Stalin agree to hold free
a. search for improved relations with Canada elections in the countries of Eastern Europe?
b. abandonment of the Open Door Policy in China a. London
c. U.S. pledge not to intervene in Latin America b. Casablanca
d. Diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union c. Teheran
e. Commitment to the democracies of Europe d. Yalta
e. San Francisco
40. United States participation in the United Nations and the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) after World 47. Which is an accurate characterization of how U.S. foreign
War II demonstrated that the United States policy changed from 1938 to 1941?
a. recognized the importance of international a. from neutrality to support for Britain
cooperation b. from isolationism to neutrality
b. returned to the policy it followed after World War I c. from intervention in Latin America to the good-
c. believed in the principle of hemispheric isolation neighbor policy
d. embraced a postwar policy of strict neutrality d. from hostility to Japan to diplomatic efforts to
Americans appease Japanese
e. replace racial segregation with an integrated society e. from pro-German policies to anti-Japanese policies
41. Which of the following was an expression of isolationism 48. From 1942 to 1945, the U.S. was allied with
in the 1930s? a. Great Britain only
a. Roosevelt’s “quarantine” speech b. Great Britain and the Soviet Union
b. The good-neighbor policy c. France, Spain, and the Soviet Union
c. The Nye Committee d. Italy and Great Britain
d. Recognition of the Soviet Union e. No other nation
e. “cash and carry” policy
49. Of the following, the one with the most far-reaching
42. In the 1930s, the foreign policies of Japan and the U.S. influence on American society’s development in the post-
were chiefly in conflict over WWII period was the
a. U.S. control of the Philippines a. GI Bill
b. Japanese invasion of China b. Baby boom
c. U.S. isolationism c. Taft-Hartley Act
d. Ideological differences d. Fair Deal Program
e. Internment of Japanese Americans e. Employment Act
43. On the WWII home front, U.S. involvement brought 50. In the 1920s and 1930s, isolationists often cited the words
about and warnings of
a. increased labor violence a. James Madison
b. increased spending on consumer goods b. James Monroe
c. increased employment for women c. George Washington
d. strict limits on corporate profits d. Theodore Roosevelt
e. an end to deficit spending by the federal government e. Woodrow Wilson
63. In the 1930s, one factor that accounted for the westward
migration of farmers from the Great Plains was
a. high farm prices
b. new technologies
c. the dust bowl
d. the baby boom
e. barbed wire
76. Which heading would be most appropriate for the outline Extra Credit
below? E1) Shadow discovered Sandy lying on her side in a puddle of
water and broken glass. When the doctor arrived he
I.__________________________________ pronounced her dead. Since Sandy had no cuts on her body,
A. Congress passes the Alien and Sedition Acts. how did she die?
B. President Abraham Lincoln suspends habeas corpus. E1) Sandy died of suffocation. Sandy is a goldfish who’s
C. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders internment of fishbowl was knocked over.
Japanese Americans.
D. Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings on identifying
Communists. E2) Mel Colly stared through the dirty soot-smeared window
on the 26th floor of the office tower. Overcome with
a. Changes in Economic Policy depression he slid the window open and jumped through it. It
b. Federalism and the Constitution was sheer drop outside the building to the ground.
c. Checks and Balances at Work Miraculously after he landed he was completely unhurt. Since
d. Examples of Nativism there was nothing to cushion his fall of slow his descent, how
e. Threats to Civil Liberties could he have survived?
E2) Mel Colly was so sick and tired of washing windows,
77. The main reason for the passage of the Homestead Act in he opened the window and jumped inside
1862 was to provide for
a. farms on the Great Plains E3) NASA was considering sending canaries into space to
b. national parks study them under zero gravity. The project was scrapped
c. irrigation of desert lands when someone realized that in spite of having sufficient water
d. reservations for Native American Indians supply, the canaries could die of dehydration within a few
e. 40 acres and mule for former slaves hours. Why?
E3) Birds, unlike humans, need gravity to swallow.
78. According to the theory of laissez-faire capitalism, prices
of products are determined by the E4) Professor Quantum answered his phone to hear an excited
a. interaction of supply and demand Professor Beaker telling him about his amazing invention.
b. cost of producing the products “Quantum, you won’t believe what I’ve just discovered! I’ve
c. government developed a liquid that is so powerful it will dissolve
d. bankers anything! Do you realize the benefits of such a product? It
e. high tariffs and taxes will turn the industrial world on its ear! For a few grand I’ll
cut you 40% of the action.” Quantum replied, “There’s no
79. The creation of the first political parties in the United doubt in my mind of the value of such a product, but before I
States resulted from a controversy over invest any money I would want to see proof of your claims
a. declaring independence from Great Britain and of course, run a few tests of my own.” “No problem,”
b. recognizing women’s equality responded beaker, “I’ll bring a half liter of liquid in a few
c. expanding slavery into the newly acquired territories minutes.” Quantum sighed and replied, “On second thought
d. the election of George Washington as the first I’m not interested.” Why would he lose interest in such a
President valuable product?
e. interpreting the Constitution E4) Professor Beaker could not have brought a sample
over, since no container could hold a liquid that would
80. “The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign dissolve anything
nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have
with them as little political connection as possible.”
— George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796
According to President Washington, the interests of the United
States would be best served by
a. placing tariffs on imported goods
b. forming military alliances with other nations
c. avoiding trade agreements with foreign nations