Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

Exams 21-24 (Major Exam 2) > Exams 21-24 (Major Exam 2) > Flashcards

Exams 21-24 (Major Exam 2) Flashcards

1
Q

All of the following nations belonged to the Central Powers EXCEPT:

A

Japan.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Even before direct American involvement, the United States was linked to the Allies’ cause:

A

because of the valuable loans that banks had issued to Allied nations.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Germany resorted to submarine warfare:

A

in its effort to break England’s naval blockade on trade with the Central Powers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

In August of 1914, as war erupted in Europe, most Americans:

A

felt that America should maintain a neutral role in the conflict.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

In July, 1918, President Wilson agreed to send 15,000 troops to:

A

Russia.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

In the Zimmerman Note, Germany promised:

A

that Mexico could regain lost territory in America if it joined the Central Powers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

In winning the election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson benefited from:

A

the belief of many voters that the Republicans were a “war party.”

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Major aspects of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points included all of the following EXCEPT:

A

promotion of regulated international trade.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Of the following, which gained territory as a result of World War I?

A

France

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

The 1909 agreement, the Declaration of London, was designed to protect the rights of:

A

nations who were neutral in military conflicts.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

The American Protective League was designed to do all of the following EXCEPT:

A

work for the reelection of President Wilson due to his wartime leadership.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

The Committee on Public Information:

A

served as the foundation of the government’s pro-war propaganda.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

The Food Administration:

A

succeeded at raising farm incomes.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

The Irreconcilables opposed participation in the League of Nations because they:

A

felt it would strengthen the power of imperialist nations.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

The National War Labor Board accomplished all of the following goals EXCEPT:

A

keeping wages ahead of inflation.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

The Red Scare was caused by all of the following factors EXCEPT:

A

Lenin’s open threats of toppling the U.S. Empire.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

The Treaty of Versailles places sole responsibility for the start of World War I on:

A

Germany.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

The War Industries Board was established to organize all of the following EXCEPT:

A

the criteria for drafting soldiers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

The leader of the American Expeditionary Force was:

A

John Pershing.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

The only nation not to approve the Versailles Treaty was:

A

the United States.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Which of the following was NOT one of the new countries created in Europe in the aftermath of World War I?

A

Denmark

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Which statement about the American military in World War I isnottrue?

A

African Americans were not allowed to join either the army or navy.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

A major industrial trend of the 1920s was:

A

the concentration of wealth in the largest firms of an industry.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

All of the following were aspects of theopen shopcampaign EXCEPT:

A

the extension of collective bargaining rights for unskilled laborers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

As the nation’s productivity increased:

A

wages were not proportionately raised.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Calvin Coolidge:

A

continued Harding’s pro-business themes.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

DuPont emerged as a powerful corporation in the:

A

chemical industry.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

During the Harding administration, the Supreme Court:

A

became substantially more pro-business.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Effects of the Great Migration included all of the following EXCEPT:

A

ending housing and job discrimination in the North.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Effects of the automobile industry’s growth included all of the following EXCEPT:

A

reducing the use of assembly-line production.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

In an effort to expand markets and avoid foreign tariffs, U.S. companies:

A

increasingly became multinational corporations.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
32
Q

In the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the U.S.:

A

renounced aggression and condemned war.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
33
Q

Jazz had its roots in ________ music.

A

African American

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
34
Q

Politicians stopped supporting women’s reform issues:

A

when they realized women were not voting as a bloc.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
35
Q

Proponents ofwelfare capitalismbelieved that:

A

corporations could undercut unions by providing certain benefits.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
36
Q

Several “sick” industries experienced all of the following problems EXCEPT:

A

high corporate taxes.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
37
Q

Suburbanization in the 1920s:

A

was made possible by the success of the automobile.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
38
Q

The Harlem Renaissance:

A

featured some of the greatest literature, music, and visual art of the era.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
39
Q

The National Origins Act of 1924 was aimed at limiting the immigration of:

A

southern and eastern Europeans and Japanese.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
40
Q

The Republican presidents of the 1920s:

A

emphasized the importance of business interests.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
41
Q

The Scopes Trial revealed fundamentalists’ discomfort with:

A

evolutionary science.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
42
Q

The Sheppard-Towner Act:

A

provided federal funds for infant and maternity care.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
43
Q

The term ________ refers to a situation in which a few large corporations control an industry.

A

oligopoly

44
Q

Which group would have not been strong supporters of prohibition?

A

immigrants in urban ethnic areas

45
Q

Which of the following was not a specific requirement for joining the Klan in the 1920s?

A

middle class or above

46
Q

Which statement about industry in the 1920s isnottrue?

A

Businesses rejected any implementation of Taylor’s scientific management.

47
Q

Which statement about living patterns in the 1920s isnottrue?

A

The majority of Americans still lived in rural areas.

48
Q

Which statement about the Harding administration isnottrue?

A

The open shop movement was opposed by Harding’s top advisers.

49
Q

Which statement about the Ku Klux Klan isnottrue?

A

The Ku Klux Klan’s membership was restricted to whites of any ethnic background.

50
Q

Court packing” refers to FDR’s proposal to:

A

assert more presidential control over the makeup of the Supreme Court.

51
Q

A significant shift in voting demographics occurred in the 1930s when:

A

blacks shifted their loyalties from the Republicans to the Democrats.

52
Q

All of the following statements about Eleanor Roosevelt are true EXCEPT:

A

despite her active role, she did not become involved in lobbying Congress.

53
Q

All of the following statements are true about the Works Progress Administration EXCEPT:

A

despite its good intentions, it provided few jobs for Americans.

54
Q

All of the following were causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

A

a drop in agricultural production in the mid-1920s.

55
Q

As leader of the PWA, Harold Ickes insisted that:

A

blacks should receive relief jobs in proportion to their share of the population.

56
Q

Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in 1932 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

A

Roosevelt had announced the specifics of his New Deal package of legislation.

57
Q

Franklin Roosevelt’s first goal as president was to:

A

strengthen the faltering bank industry.

58
Q

Huey Long felt that FDR should:

A

enact wider social welfare programs.

59
Q

In the early years of the Depression:

A

foreign markets for American goods shrank.

60
Q

In the first years of the depression, personal income:

A

dropped by more than half.

61
Q

Militant laborers challenged traditional labor leaders by forming the:

A

Congress of Industrial Organizations.

62
Q

Most southerners supported the Tennessee Valley Authority because it:

A

brought jobs and modern conveniences to an impoverished region.

63
Q

On Memorial Day in Chicago in 1937:

A

police fired on strikers and their families, killing 10 people.

64
Q

One of Herbert Hoover’s few relief measures was creation of the:

A

Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

65
Q

Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act:

A

guaranteed workers the right to collective bargaining.

66
Q

Social effects of the depression included all of the following EXCEPT:

A

higher divorce rates.

67
Q

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration attempted to:

A

raise farm incomes by attacking overproduction.

68
Q

The Bonus Army:

A

was dispersed by troops under the command of General Douglas McArthur.

69
Q

The Indian Reorganization Act:

A

guaranteed religious freedom, and halted the sale of tribal lands.

70
Q

The Securities and Exchange Commission was created to regulate:

A

the stock market.

71
Q

The Social Security Act:

A

established federal responsibility in providing social welfare.

72
Q

The ________ received the most New Deal money on a per capita basis for welfare, relief, and loans.

A

West

73
Q

The election of 1936:

A

revealed that an overwhelming number of Americans supported FDR and the New Deal.

74
Q

What occurred on “Black Tuesday”?

A

A stock market crash wiped all the gains of the previous year.

75
Q

What were Hoovervilles?

A

They were squalid collections of shacks where the homeless of America’s cities lived.

76
Q

Which statement about conditions for African-Americans during the depression is true?

A

Blacks were generally the first workers to be fired and the last to be hired.

77
Q

Which statement about women during the Great Depression isnottrue?

A

Women were not included in the NRA’s minimum wage requirement.

78
Q

Which statement about women during the depression isnottrue?

A

Firing women usually opened up more job opportunities for men.

79
Q

Which statement best summarizes protest movements in the early years of the depression?

A

Protesters came from a vast range of social, political, and economic interests.

80
Q

A turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic came when:

A

new sonar systems improved tracking of German U-boats.

81
Q

A turning point on the Eastern Front came when:

A

the Soviet Union forced a German surrender after the Battle of Stalingrad.

82
Q

After the fall of Mussolini:

A

bitter fighting for the control of Italy took place between the Allies and Germany.

83
Q

An important turning point in the bombing raids of Germany occurred when:

A

P-51 Mustangs began to successfully escort American bombers in relative safety.

84
Q

At the Yalta Conference:

A

the Soviet Union asserted control of land it already controlled.

85
Q

During World War II, riots in Harlem and Detroit revealed that:

A

racial divisiveness was still a social problem in America.

86
Q

FDR’s “lend-lease” program allowed:

A

Britain to borrow military equipment from the United States.

87
Q

FDR’s issuance of Executive Order 8802:

A

banned racial discrimination in employment for defense industries.

88
Q

Germany’s invasion of ________ on September 1, 1939 marked the start of World War II.

A

Poland

89
Q

In an effort to avoid conflict, Congress passed a set of acts, designed to continue America’s trade with its world partners but prohibit the president from taking sides in the mounting European crisis. They were called:

A

the Neutrality Acts.

90
Q

In the Potsdam Declaration of 1945, the United States attempted to:

A

open the door for a Japanese surrender.

91
Q

In the early 1930s, Hitler established this type of government in Germany.

A

fascist

92
Q

In the months leading up to Pearl Harbor:

A

FDR froze Japanese assets and increased U.S. naval presence in the Pacific.

93
Q

Japan surrendered to the United States:

A

after the United States dropped a second atomic bomb.

94
Q

Tens of thousands of German civilians were killed in the “terror raid” fire bombing of:

A

Dresden.

95
Q

The American strategy in the Pacific has often been called:

A

island hopping.

96
Q

The Atlantic Charter of 1941:

A

provided a political framework for the possibility of American involvement.

97
Q

The Manhattan Project was the code name for:

A

the project to develop the atomic bomb.

98
Q

The Nye Committee hearings made Americans think that America fought in World War I to:

A

make profits for large American corporations.

99
Q

The Office of Price Administration fought inflation by:

A

implementing price controls and rationing.

100
Q

The first check to Japanese expansion came at the Battle of the Coral Sea when:

A

U.S. aircraft carriers halted a Japanese advance toward Australia.

101
Q

The main reason behind Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb was:

A

American officials believed the Japanese would fight up to the point of annihilation

102
Q

The purpose of the D-Day invasion was to:

A

liberate France from German control.

103
Q

Which is the correct trio of Axis Powers in World War II?

A

Germany, Japan, Italy

104
Q

Which statement about Pearl Harbor is true?

A

More than 2,000 Americans were killed in the surprise Japanese attack.

105
Q

Which statement about the Holocaust isnottrue?

A

Jews and Poles were the only people killed in Nazi death camps.

Exams 21-24 (Major Exam 2) (1 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions