Final Flashcards
Which factor aroused Soviet suspicions of the Western Allies during World War II?
d. The Western Allies’ long delay in opening a second front in Western Europe
Which of the following describes President Truman’s decision to deploy 1.8 million troops in the Korean War without a formal declaration of war from Congress?
a. Truman’s action violated the spirit if not the letter of the Constitution.
Which of the following describes Truman’s authorization for General MacArthur to lead his troops across the thirty-eighth parallel in Korea?
b. It was the only time during the Cold War that the United States tried to roll back communism by force.
What was one consequence of the Korean War?
c. A massive increase in U.S. defense spending
What allowed the United States to emerge from World War II as the most powerful nation in the world?
c. It had both a monopoly on atomic weapons and expanded production capacity.
European nations used most of the U.S. funds provided by the Marshall Plan of 1948 to
b. buy American products.
In the post–World War II era, the term third world was used to refer to Latin America and
d. countries that had won their independence from war-weakened imperial powers.
According to President Truman, what was the government’s role in the postwar economy?
c. The government should continue to regulate the economy while it adjusted to peacetime production.
Which of the following was among the factors responsible for the post–World War II economic boom in the United States?
a. War-torn countries’ spending on American products
How did President Truman’s efforts to advance the cause of blacks’ civil rights compare with those of previous presidents?
b. They were bold and forward-looking.
During the anti-Communist scare of the late 1940s and early 1950s,
b. federal employees were investigated for Communist subversion.
What triggered U.S. military action in Korea in 1950?
a. The invasion of South Korea by troops from Communist North Korea
What characterized the period Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover described as a New Era in 1920?
b. A freewheeling economy
How did the Hoover administration respond to the World War I veterans who asked for the immediate payment of their pension or bonus?
It ordered the U.S. army to forcibly evict them from their camp on the edge of Washington, D.C.
By the early 1930s, unemployed workers were responding to the Great Depression by
c. becoming increasingly outraged and turning toward militant forms of protest.
How did the Great Depression affect the American family in the 1930s?
c. It created resentment among men, who lost their jobs more often than women did.
In its effort to create prosperity at home, the Harding administration supported
a. high tariffs to protect American businesses.
What did the presidential election of 1924, in which Calvin Coolidge defeated John W. Davis and Robert La Follette, reveal about American voters?
a. Their lack of support for labor unions, the regulation of business, and the protection of civil liberties
What factor diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s?
a. A lack of unity around the issues
The image of the new woman in American society in the 1920s
c. was felt by all women, even those who believed in traditional gender roles.
How did rural Americans perceive cities during the 1920s?
b. As the sources of vice, religious threats, and other assaults on traditional values
What was the purpose of the immigration laws of the 1920s, including the Johnson-Reed Act?
b. To place strict limits on immigration
Which of the following characterized the U.S. economy when Hoover moved into the White House in 1929?
a. There was a huge disparity in wealth between rich and poor.
What was the fundamental cause of the Great Depression in the United States?
b. Problems in the American and international economies
How did the American progressive movement begin and evolve?
It began at the grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government.
Correct.
During his first term as president, Woodrow Wilson refused to support child labor laws, woman suffrage, and labor’s demand for an end to injunctions because he
opposed affording special privileges to any group.
What did Eugene V. Debs advocate as an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats?
That men and women liberate themselves from the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery
What was the fundamental difference between the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois during the progressive period?
Washington focused on education and economic progress, while Du Bois emphasized civil rights and black leadership.
What did the social gospel movement of the late nineteenth century advocate?
t called for the reform of both individuals and society.
The 1909 strike at New York City’s Triangle Shirtwaist Company demonstrated that
women workers could create solidarity across social and ethnic lines.
What idea formed the core of reform Darwinist theory in progressive-era America?
The state should play a more active role in solving social problems.
What assumption lay at the foundation of the American progressive agenda in the early twentieth century?
Experts have the skills and knowledge to use scientific methods to improve society.
According to Theodore Roosevelt, the absolutely vital question facing the nation when he became president in 1901 was whether
the government had the power to control the trusts.
