HIST 106: EXAM 2
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Which of the following was NOT characteristics of U.S. life in the years between the end of WWI (1918) and the onset of the Great Depression (1929)?
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larger families
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Because people on the lowest rung of the social ladder organized themselves and proposed remedies for America's social ills during the first tow decades of the 20th century, historians have concluded that the middle class contributed little to Progression.
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False
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What the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, why did it take so long for the U.S.S. Oregon to get from the West Coast of U.S. to the Caribbean?
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The Oregon had to sail southward all the way to the tip of South America, then northward to the Caribbean.
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The __ Party slogan supporting the reelection of __ in 1916 was ____.
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Democratic; Woodrow Wilson; "He kept us out of war!"
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Which of the following naval reinforce Mahan's contention that a Central American isthmian canal was vital to U.S. strategic interests??
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the ten-week transit of the U.S.S. Oregon from San Francisco to Florida
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Which event contributed most directly to Britain's decision to go to war against Germany?
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Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939
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Which of the following was NOT a Japanese objective after the attack on Pearl Harbor?
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Capture strategic cities the U.S. West Coast
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Which activist is best known for advancing women's suffrage?
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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During his first term in office, Woodrow Wilson took the position that states-- not the federal government-- were responsible for resolving issues like women's suffrage, child labor, and finical aid for struggling farmers.
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true
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Republican President Herbert Hoover, elected in 1929, has been criticized for relying too heavily on local governments, voluntary cooperation of businesses, and the free-market system to provide solutions to the Great Depression.
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true
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During 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, Russian and Japanese naval forces engage in the Battle of the Yellow Sea and the Battle of Tsushima Straight. Who won?
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Japan won both
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Who led the U.S. delegation at the Paris peace talks in 1919?
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President Woodrow Wilson
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____ Was typically characteerized by employer-sponsored pensions, profit sharing plans, recreational facilities, cafeterias, and other amenities to reduce worker discontent and discourage the growth of labor union in the
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Welfare capitalism
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According to the Nash textbook, the term "great migration" is the most closely associated with
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African Americans who left the South during and after WWI to take jobs in the North
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The Victory at Sea episode about the early stages of WWII in Europe stated all of the following except:
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Japanese submarine "wolf-packs" supported their German allies in the North Atlantic
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Which statements about progressive era reformers are true?
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which statements about the U.S. membership in the League of Nations is TRUE?
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____ this treaty b/w the U.S. and Colombia granted the U.S. the right to build a canal in Colombia's province of Panama; the U.S. Senate approved it but Colombia's Senate rejected it.
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Hay-Herran Treaty (1903)
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____ this treaty between the U.S. and Britain permitted the U.S. to construct an isthmian canal w/o British participation and signaled Britain's Britain's acknowledgement that its inflence in the Caribbean had fallen behind that of the U.S.
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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty (1901)
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___ this treaty b/w the U.S. and Britain specified that any canal constructed in Central America had to be joint British-U.S. projected; the treaty gave evidence to Britain's continued political and economic interests in the Caribbean region at the time
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850)
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____ this treaty between the U.S. and the new nation of Panama permitted the U.S. to construct a canal in Panama under terms similar to those in the treaty previously rejected by Colombia's Senate.
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Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty (1903)
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President Theodore Roosevelt strongly supported construction of the Panama Canal
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True
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When civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph informed President Franklin D. Roosevelt that he intended to lead an real rights march on Washington D.C., FDR responded by issuing Executive Order 8800 which
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prohibited racial discrimination in hiring w/in the U.S. Government and defense industries
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In Guadalcanal Diary, the Marines have a conversation in the underground bunker during Japanese naval and air bombardment. In All Quiet on the Western Front, the soldiers converse while they're sitting near a tree eating. The conversation are similar in that the men talk about their
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difficulty in grasping the larger meaning of war
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Which was not one of President Wilson's Fourteen Points?
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The punishment of Germany
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Which of the statements about the film All Quiet on the Western Front are FALSE?
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I. When Paul Baümer (played by Lew Ayres) visited his school while home on leave, he made a patriotic speech extolling the glory of serving the nation in wartime.
II. Actor Lew Ayres became so inspired by military valor while making the 1930 film that he immediately enlisted in t…
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Prior to the Progressive Era, court cases involving disputes between companies and their employees were more often decided in favor of companies than workers.
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True
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Progressivism
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Reform by the middle-class
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The 1918 treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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brought an end to hostilities between Germany and Russia, allowing Germany to concentrate it military power on its western front
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Admiral Sir John Fisher order the ordered the squadron of British station cruisers to withdraw from the Caribbean because:
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All of the above
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In the 1930s Japan's behavior toward other nations become more aggressive after the ___ faction gained dominance in the Japanese government.
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militarists
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Political views that found voice in the platform of third parties in major elections
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often reappeared in the platform of one of both major
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In June 1940, Germany required the French sign the terms of surrender
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in the railway car where Germany had surrendered in 1918
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The committee headed by U.S. Senator Gerald P. Nye (R-ND) from 1934 to 1937 concluded that
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American businesses that produced war materials for WWI had close connections with the War Department and made huge profits from the war
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Which of the following is NOT considered a legacy of the New Deal?
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Which statements about the growth of naval power around the turn of the Century FALSE?
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Because Germany believed
Superior technology made it possible for the U.S.
Because the French recognized that they might have
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German Admiral Alfrd Von Tirpitz require all of his ships' captains to read
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captain alfred thayer mahan's the influence of Sea Power Upon History
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Which of the following contributed to the onset of economic depression in 1929?
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All of the above
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The Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 to the Great Depression because it raised the cost of imported goods for American consumers while it prompted American's tradition partners to take retaliatory measures that, in turn, reduced foreign demand for American goods.
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True
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