USH 2025 Semester 2 USH Final Review 2

Question 1

Who was the first African-American opera singer to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera?

Accepted Answer

Marian Anderson

Question 2

What is a political movement driven by people who have more power as a group than they do individually?

Accepted Answer

Grassroots movement

Question 3

How did women’s wages compare with men’s wages after the end of World War II and during the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

Women earned significantly less

Question 4

What did the United States lose when China became a communist country?

Accepted Answer

A potential ally in Asia

Question 5

What forms of entertainment that developed in the 1950s became part of mainstream American culture

Accepted Answer

Television and rock and roll

Question 6

Why did many Americans become dependent on automobiles during the Cold War years?

Accepted Answer

Suburban living required personal transportation

Question 7

In what ways did Americans’ obsession with cars affect other industries during the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

It boosted oil, steel, and highway construction

Question 8

Where did the conflict over federal authority and states' rights erupt in 1957?

Accepted Answer

Little Rock, Arkansas

Question 9

Why might some Americans today idealize the 1950s

Accepted Answer

Because of economic prosperity and cultural nostalgia

Question 10

Whose case did Rosa Parks work on before becoming the catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

Claudette Colvin’s

Question 11

When did the Soviet Union develop its own atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

1949

Question 12

What did Korea and Vietnam have in common after World War II?

Accepted Answer

Both were divided due to Cold War tensions

Question 13

How might the need for oil affect American foreign policy?

Accepted Answer

Influences alliances and military actions in oil-rich regions

Question 14

Why did organizers think the Montgomery Bus Boycott would be successful?

Accepted Answer

African Americans were the majority of bus riders

Question 15

What is one way the GI Bill helped returning veterans?

Accepted Answer

Offered education and housing support

Question 16

Which group did Joseph McCarthy target within the U.S. government?

Accepted Answer

Alleged communists

Question 17

What happened to the "Hollywood Ten" after their HUAC hearings?

Accepted Answer

They were imprisoned or blacklisted

Question 18

Who served as an inspiration to Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Accepted Answer

Mohandas Gandhi

Question 19

What charge did Alger Hiss face during his trial?

Accepted Answer

Perjury

Question 20

Why did Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie attack Plessy v. Ferguson?

Accepted Answer

It supported “separate but equal” segregation

Question 21

What motivated many Americans to move to suburbs during the Cold War years?

Accepted Answer

Access to affordable homes and better schools

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