Many Americans were convinced by ____ that a policy of isolationism was necessary.
Senator Gerald Nye's report
In the United States, during World War II
unemployment declined, production soared, and income taxes increased.
Which work offered an intellectual justification for opponents of active government, laying the foundation for the rise of modern conservatism?
Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
The GI Bill of Rights provided for Veterans
low cost mortgage loans, scholarships for college education, job training,
ALL of the Above
The policy followed by Britain and
France toward Germany of giving concessions in hopes of avoiding war was called
The program that began in 1942 that allowed experienced Mexican agricultural workers to cross the border to work under government labor contracts was called the
What was the double V campaign?
An attempt to gain victory in Germany and an end to segregation in America.
During the 1930's the Good Neighbor Policy
was a foreign policy based on the recognition of the autonomy of Latin American countries, including those that were ruled by dictatorships.
Under the bracero program
Mexicans were encouraged to immigrate, but they were denied the right of citizenship.
Men like Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin were members of the
America First committee, an isolationist group.
Who was the only member of Congress to vote against a declaration of war against Japan after Pearl Harbor?
The Fair Employment Practices Commission
was the first federal agency since Reconstruction to advocate equal opportunity for blacks
The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
brought the war to an end but remains controversial.
At Yalta the Big Tree met for a summit. It was here that it was finally agreed
that the Soviet Union would enter the Pacific war.
Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson's concern in his dissent in Korematsu v. United States is that the Court has become an instrument of
December 7, 1941, is known as a "date that will live in infamy." referring to
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Which statement about the Japanese-American internment is false
Once the FBI did background checks on individuals they were free to leave the camps and return home.
As fascism rose in Europe and Asia during the 1930s, most Americans
favored an end to international trade.
Which statement is true about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
All the members pledged mutual defense against future Soviet attack.
Militant Liberty was the code name for national security agencies encouraging
Hollywood to produce anticommunist movies.
Which statement about the Korean conflict is false?
Chinese troops threatened to enter the conflict, but never did.
How did the United States respond to Joseph Stalin's blockade around Berlin?
Truman ordered that supplies be brought to Berlin via airlift.
One of the reasons that the Soviet Union felt justified in making demands on the Western world was the enormous sacrifice it had made in the World War II, which is estimated at _____ million dead.
The first confrontation of the Cold War took place in the Middle East when Soviet troops refused to leave
George Kennan's Long Telegram outlined the containment policy. What actually put the policy into effect?
ALL of the above.
Which statement best describes what NSC-68 called for?
A permanent military buildup and a global application of containment
Who were the common victims of McCarthyism?
virtually anyone who refused to cooperate with the investigations
What reason did the Hollywood Ten give for not cooperating with the HUAC hearings?
they felt the hearings were a violation of the First Amendment
According to the policy of containment, as laid out by George Kennan, the
United States was committed to preventing the spread of communism.
Which statement is not true about the Truman Doctrine?
It guaranteed billions of dollars for the rebuilding of Europe.
What set a precedent for American assistance to anticommunist regimes throughout the world, no matter how undemocratic?
The Truman Doctrine
Japan's constitution, which Americans had written, provided for the first time in Japanese history
Which civil rights measure was passed into law during Truman's administration?
Desegregation of the armed forces
Andy Warhol's 1962 piece called Green Coca-Cola
Bottles is best described as
continuous, straight rows of Coca-Cola bottles.
How was freedom displayed in the American National Exhibition that opened in Moscow in 1958?
Many conservative businessmen found intellectual reinforcement in the writings of the economist
The 1960 presidential debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon
highlighted the impact of television on political campaigns.
In 1954, the Supreme Court case known as Brown v Board of Education
found that separate in bus stations was unlawful.
In response to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas,
violence broke out, and President Eisenhower sent in federal troops.
In the 1960 presidential race, John F. Kennedy became the Democratic candidate, despite
In Brown v. Board of Education, what was Thurgood Marshall's main argument before the Supreme Court
That segregation did lifelong damage to the children, undermining their self esteem.
Which statement best describes how the white South reacted to the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
some states closed the public schools, rather than integrate, and offered white children the choice to opt out of the integrated schools.
Which statement best describes the thesis of David Riesman's book The Lonely Crowd?
Americans were conformists and lacked the inner resources to lead truly independent lives.
In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned Americans about
the military-industrial complex.
Which Middle Eastern country did President Eisenhower use the CIA to overthrow a government in the early 1950s, in large part because it attempted to nationalize
British-owned oil fields?
During the Cold War, religious differences
were absorbed within the notion of a common Judeo-Christian heritage.
What was the organization called that Martin Luther King Jr. established after the Montgomery bus boycott?
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
By 1960, approximately which percentage of Americans enjoyed what the government defined as a middle-class standard of living?
During the Eisenhower administration, US-Soviet relations
improved somewhat after the end of the Korean War and the death of Stalin.
After World War II, suburban growth
increased dramatically, especially in places like Levittown and California.
Which was not a new innovation of the 1950s that helped to transform Americans daily lives?
Dwight Eisenhower appointed which kind of individuals to his cabinet?
Wealthy businessmen to run the government like an efficient business.
A balanced mixture of Republicans and Democrats since his party did not control Congress
hardened racial divisions in American life.
In response to the Brown decision and the general growth of the civil rights movement during the 1950s, southern states
subsidized private academies for black students only.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 in part because he
manifested a public image of fatherly warmth.
As a result of the Montgomery boycott in 1955-1956,
the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public transportation was illegal.
During the postwar suburban boom, African-Americans
were often unable to receive either private or public financing for housing.
To libertarian conservatives, freedom meant
individual autonomy, limited government, and unregulated capitalism.
In the 1952 presidential campaign, Richard Nixon's Checkers speech
reflected the growing importance of television in American life.
The center of gravity of American farming after World War II shifted to
Texas, Arizona, and Mississippi.