HIST 1051: Final Exam
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The National Recovery Administration (NRA)
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established a system of industrial self-government.
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By the time Congress recessed in June 1933, it had accomplished all of the following except
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breaking the grip of the depression.
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In addition to old-age pensions, the Social Security Act provided for
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unemployment compensation.
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The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
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reversed the Dawes Severalty Act and promoted tribal self-government.
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Which of the following was not an important political legacy of the New Deal for the Democratic Party?
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Southern white Democrats became the strongest advocates of progressive political reforms.
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The Neutrality Act of 1935 and its 1936 and 1937 amendments
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required that belligerent nations wanting to buy nonmilitary goods from the United States pay in cash and supply their own shipping.
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During World War II, the War Production Board
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preferred dealing with large corporations, hastening the formation of the military-industrial complex.
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In June 1943, thirty-four people died during a major race riot in
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Detroit.
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In June 1942, U.S. naval forces inflicted crucial damage on the Japanese fleet in the great battle of
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Midway Island.
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At Yalta, agreement was reached between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin that
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Eastern Europe, in principle, would be a Soviet sphere of influence, although the specific dimensions remained vague.
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In his Truman Doctrine speech, the president
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asked for military and economic assistance for Greece and Turkey.
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The National Security Council's (NSC) 1950 document known as NSC-68 held (among other things) that
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the United States must significantly increase its defense spending.
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Which of the following parts of Truman's Fair Deal actually earned congressional approval?
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Social Security benefits were increased.
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Modern Republicanism was
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an updated party philosophy that emphasized only moderating, rather than dismantling, federal responsibilities.
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In his final presidential address in 1961, President Eisenhower
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warned Americans about the influence of the "military-industrial complex."
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The predominant theme of post-World War II corporate life has been
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the consolidation of economic power within big corporate firms.
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Which of the following was not a characteristic of the U.S. car culture during the 1950s?
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Serious research on the development of fuel-efficient autos
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Alan Freed
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helped to introduce white America to the new black sound by playing rhythm and blues records on the radio in 1954.
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In 1953, when Congress authorized a program to terminate the legal standing of Indian tribes and to move their members off reservations,
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the Bureau of Indian Affairs encouraged migration to cities by subsidizing moving costs and establishing urban relocation centers.
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The Southern Manifesto was a
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statement by 101 southern congressmen denouncing the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown decision as "a clear abuse of judicial power" and calling on their constituents to resist it.
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President Kennedy's fundamental (and most important) economic policy was to
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reduce taxes and incur deficits for a few years in the expectation that an expanding economy would raise incomes and generate higher tax revenues.
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The Kennedy administration's defense policy
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stressed a "flexible response."
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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??followed an unprovoked attack by North Vietnam on American troops outside Da Nang.
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Malcolm X
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??advocated indiscriminate violence by blacks to achieve separatism from white America before his break with the Nation of Islam.
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Which of the following was not a characteristic of the Tet offensive or its aftermath?
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Major military victory for the Vietcong
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Nixon administration's domestic policies?
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The Office of Economic Opportunity was abolished by the Nixon administration.
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President Nixon's obstruction of justice began when he
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sent word to the FBI not to investigate links between the Watergate burglars and his administration.
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In the 1970s, the most violent opposition to court-ordered busing occurred in
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Boston, Massachusetts.
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In the 1970s, the phenomenon of deindustrialization in the United States was most visible in the
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Midwest and Northeast
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President Carter achieved his greatest foreign policy success in
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initiating a peace process in the Middle East.
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Which of the following is an important conservative organizational think tank that gives institutional support to the New Right?
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All of the above
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All of the following were policies of the Reagan administration except
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large cuts in defense spending.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the circumstances leading up to armed confrontation with Iraq?
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In November 1990 the UN Security Council voted to authorize the use of force if Iraq did not withdraw from Kuwait by Jan 15, 1991.
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As a result of the impeachment and trial of President Clinton,
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the president was unable to fashion a coherent Democratic alternative to the Republican's conservative agenda.
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In 1994, President Bill Clinton arranged a meeting between Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat, chairman of
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the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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What percentage of American children were growing up in households in the 1990s that conformed to the model of the ideal American family?
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30 percent
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The economic recovery of the United States during the 1990s was associated with all of the following factors except
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the nation's heavy industries increased their market share.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the status of organized labor in the United States during the 1990s?
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The labor movement was declining in the face of globalization, government opposition, and changing work patterns.
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Regarding the history of American immigration, 1970-2000:
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almost 28 million immigrants—21 million legal migrants and 7 million illegal entrants—came into the United States.
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Despite polls showing strong support for many feminist goals, feminism was jeopardized by
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a campaign against the feminist agenda launched by conservative social groups.
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Which of the following government agencies finally determined the outcome of the 2000 election?
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The judicial branch
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Midway through Bush's second term in office, the national debt stood at over
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$8 trillion.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the U.S. attack on Iraq led by President George W. Bush?
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All of the above
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Which of the following statements does not characterize the economic, political, and social development of China in the early twenty-first century?
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China committed no violations of human rights criticized by the West.
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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the EU (European Union) in the early 21st century?
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All of the above
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