history of us Flashcards
The end of the Cold War and the fall of Eastern European communism occurred during the presidency of
George Bush
the economy during Carter’s administration
high interest rates, high inflation, high unemployment
The first person to become both president and vice president without having been elected to either office was
Gerald Ford
In the Persian Gulf War, President George H.W. Bush did not oust Saddam Hussein from power because
U.S. military planners worried about being able to control a post-Saddam Iraq.
One of the most damaging problems of the Carter administration was its failure to win the release of U.S. hostages from
Iran
Reagan’s “Star Wars” program was
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles
During the 1970s and 1980s, the fastest growing region in the United States was the
The “sunbelt”
The phrase “supply-side economics” refers to
a theory that maintains that increasing the supply of goods and services is the engine of economic growth.
Which cable network debuted in 1980?
CNN
The “most trusted” newscaster on television in the U.S. was
Walter Cronkite
1950s domestic scene
Women working, higher minimum wage and new urban rebuilding programs
The U.S. anti-Communist crusade caused the federal government to
support corrupt, oppressive, racist governments in other countries.
Truman responded to the Berlin Blockade by
He and the remaining Allies began the Berlin Airlift, an operation that carried food, fuel and other supplies into West Berlin by plane.
The Central Intelligence Agency was
established to help counter the Soviet threat
1949-1950
Fair deal, Social security act, housing act, Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation was unconstitutional
G.I. Bill
Comprehensive benefits for those who had served in the armed forces: financial aid for college, job training programs, preferential treatment when applying for government jobs, favorable financial terms when purchasing homes or businesses, medical care
The first player to break Major League Baseball’s policy of racial discrimination was
Jackie Robinson
The major goal of the Marshall Plan was to
prevent the spread of communism in Western Europe and to stabilize the international order
According to President Eisenhower in 1961, the greatest danger to the United States was
The military-industrial complex
The 1949 military and political alliance linking western European nations with the United States was
National Treaty Organization (NATO)
The program that sent Americans overseas to work on developmental projects was the
Peace corps
According to the popular view of containment policy
all leftist insurgencies everywhere are controlled by the Russian Communists.
The space program launched by President Kennedy with the goal of reaching the moon was the
Apollo 11
In 1961, the U.S. backed Cuban military force attempting to overthrow Fidel Castro was defeated at
Bay of Pigs beach
All of the following are true about the Truman Doctrine except that it
Was strongly opposed by all members of Congress
Harry Truman’s motives for using the atomic bomb against Japan included his
desire to end the war quickly to save American lives
In 1939 and 1940, FDR tried to halt Japanese expansion in China and Indochina by
Imposing economic sanctions to limit Japanese access to raw materials
President Hoover’s response to the Bonus Army
President Hoover elected to ignore them, hoping they would go away.
The so-called “cash and carry” legislation was all of the following except
a way for the United States to strengthen its defenses
The government program that employed some two million young men planting trees and improving the environment in 1933 was the
Civilian Conservation Corps
The organization founded during WWII devoted to nonviolent resistance to segregation was the
Congress of Racial Equality
The Roosevelt proposal of 1937 that aroused tremendous public resistance was the
plan to increase the size of the Supreme Court
The American people united behind President Roosevelt’s decision to ask for a declaration of war when
Japan attacked pearl harbor
Eleanor Roosevelt was
wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was the First Lady of the United States longer than any other First Lady.
One of the major demands of women reformers during the New Deal years was for
Protective legislation
The “fireside chats” were
radio broadcasts given to the American people that were designed to help him explain his policies and actions and encourage
All of the following are reasons why the Great Depression occurred except
a drop in agricultural production in the mid-1920s.
Herbert Hoover’s response to the Great Depression was to
At first he felt that government should not get involved, so he did nothing.
Herbert Hoover’s position on the question of relief was that
it would destroy their desire to work and undermine their self-worth.
American foreign policy in the early and mid-1930s was basically
Isolationist
During WWII, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were
placed into concentration camps within the United States
The right of every worker to join a union was guaranteed in
1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act
Roosevelt’s proposal to lend munitions to the Allies in WWII was known as the ____________ plan.
lend-lease
The popularity of the Superman comics reflected
working-class male anxiety over threats posed by insensitive employers.
The government agency that oversaw the conversion of factories to wartime production in WWII was the
War Production Board
Sensitive U.S. military communications about operations in the Pacific were kept secret because of the use of
Navajo instead of English when transmitting messages.
The transmission of electric power over long distances became possible with the development of
Transformers
Andrew Carnegie created a monopoly in what industry?
Steel
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were similar in that they both
gave tens of millions of dollars to philanthropic causes
The first assembly line was introduced in the
1913, at the Highland Park Ford Plant
The introduction of the assembly line at Ford led to all of the following except
increased worker job satisfaction
In the fight for equal rights, black leader Booker T. Washington adopted a strategy that emphasized
Self help and education
All of the following were characteristics of urban life in the late nineteenth century except
Social classes and ethnic groups mixed freely in city housing areas
The most popular form of entertainment in turn-of-the-century urban America was
the movies
Middle-class female reformers like Florence Kelly and Jane Addams
were cultural conservatives concerned about female sexuality and alcohol consumption.
In the Gilded Age the most important advertising medium was
magazines and catalogs
The “gospel of wealth”
he advised that wealth should be put towards programs and public goods that will encourage and enable the poor to improve their situation
One of the major political scandals of the Grant presidency involved
Credit mobilier
“Granger laws”
A set of laws designed to address railroad discrimination against small farmers, covering issues like railroad rates.
The Greenback and “free silver” movements supported
More silver in circulation
Which union war hurt irrevocably by the Haymarket Square protest?
Knights of labor
The strike at the Homestead plant in Pennsylvania is famous for the
armed resistance by striking steel workers
