U.S. History Final Exam Review

The row house was a new type of housing that conserved space by

What happened during the Battle of Britain?

This was based on the idea that countries on the brink of communism were waiting to fall one after another.

Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington?

“Double standard” refers to

What lies inside the door?

As Secretary of State, he proposed that the U.S. declare its intention to use a massive retaliation against aggression

Truman’s aim in deciding to drop the atomic bomb was to ___.

Because militarism had been a major cause of the war, the framers of the Treaty of Versailles

Which was not a cause of the Great Depression?

The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called

The Espionage and Sedition Acts affected freedom of speech because they

At the end of WW2, many new democracies were established in Europe. In the years between the 2 world wars, what happened

All of the following factors contributed to the immense industrial boom of the early 1900s except

Of the following New Deal policies, ___ had the biggest long-term impact on the American society.

Which of the following was a result of the Selective Service Act?

The main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920s was

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

Truman fired MacArthur because of his insistence that the U.S. should blockade and bomb North Korea

What caused militarist leaders to gain control of the Japanese government in the early 1930s?

On what did the German military strategy of blitzkrieg depend?

Which of the following reached a new high during Roosevelt’s first term as president?

The factor that most contributed to the upset win of Truman in the 1948 election was

Remember the Maine!” became a rallying cry for U.S. intervention in Cuba.

Which of the following was most responsible for bringing an end to the era of the wide-open western frontier?

All of the following were important causes of the Great Depression except

Which of the following nations was not a member of the “Big Four”?

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan represented attempts by the United States to deal with the

An example of patronage would be

This is a company that offers the same products or services in many locations

Teddy Roosevelt’s approach to foreign policy reflected the proverb “Speak softly and carry a big stick” because

McDonald’s is one of the earliest examples of this type of buisness

Which of the following best states the primary goal of prohibitionists?

As secretary of state in the Johnson administration, he argued for U.S. escalation in Vietnam

The Open Door Policy was designed as a way for the United States to further

After defeating Russia on the eastern front, the Central Powers concentrated on fighting in France.

What does the donkey represent?

Bimetallism would allow for the exchange of paper currency for

Which of the following was the main objective of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

General ___ led the Third Army into Paris to liberate the city from German occupation.

It was difficult to enforce the laws governing prohibition for all of the following reasons except

The United States gained control of the land it needed to build the Panama Canal by

What did industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late 1800s?

The GI Bill of Rights made it possible for

The Zimmermann note suggested an alliance between Germany and Mexico.

Which doctrine relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

___, the head of the NAACP’s group of lawyers, argued Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka before the Supreme Court.

The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called

What does buying a stock on margin mean?

The satellite nations of the Soviet Union were members of this military alliance

The Harlem renaissance refers to

Who gained most from the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment?

What reason did Senators give for opposing U.S. membership in the League of Nations?

What name was given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work?

Which of the following is not considered a sign that the prosperity of the 1920s was superficial?

Nisei who lived on the West Coast were subjected to ___ during the war.

Which of the following was not an effect of the Great Depression?

Flappers were emancipated young women who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.

Buying stocks on the chance of a quick profit without considering risks is known as

This is a major corporation that includes a number os smaller companies in unrelated industries

In which Japanese cities was the atomic bomb dropped

Which statement best characterizes Roosevelt’s position on trusts?

The “iron curtain” is a reference to the Soviet Union and the satellite nations of the Soviet Union.

Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?

The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the ___.

What political policy is satirized in this cartoon?

In following a policy of appeasement, what did Britain and France do?

To obtain liquor illegally, drinkers went underground to hidden night-clubs known as

When did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement toward Germany?

Television, the worsening state of the U.S. economy, and the Fulbright hearings helped to increase this.

This is the preocupation with buying material goods

Jim Crow laws were laws that

The law that required truthful labels was the

Which of the following was a goal of the New Deal?

The Soviet Union set up the ___ in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with, and convicted of,

The personal friends that President Harding put into his cabinet were known as the fall guys.

The Interstate Commerce Act gave the right to supervise railroad activities to

The Pendleton Civil Service Act required

The panic surrounding the threat of communism in the early 1920s was called the “Big Scare.”

What caused widespread starvation in Germany?

___ is best known for investigating communism in the film industry.

The ___ were defeated in the civil war in China despite 2 billion dollars in aid sent to them from the United States.

Which group of people suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust?

This is a marketing strategy in which manufacturers purposely design products to wear out in a short period of time.

Who are the smaller men in the picture?

The Teapot Dome scandal centered around

Which of the following describes a government system for giving payments or food to the poor?

Which weapons of mechanized warfare were introduced in World War I?

Which of the following leaders transformed the Soviet Union from a rural nation into an industrial power?

___ is arrested for refusing to give up a bus seat to a white man.

Billions of dollars in economic aid was provided to many foreign nations as part of the Truman Doctrine.

In the 1050’s, both the beat movement and rock n’ roll were viewed as forms of

Which statement best characterizes the position of Gifford Pinchot toward land conservation?

The Boxer Rebellion was an attempt by Chinese revolutionaries to

Why did little of the free land offered by the Homestead Act end up being claimed by settle

Why were early progressive attempts to enact federal bans on child labor unsuccessful?

For more than three years, the major form of fighting on the western front was air combat.

Which of the following was not central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800s?

___ was/were most effective in convincing the American public that the war was not winnable.

Who are the men in the cartoon?

The Sherman Antitrust Act

What effect did World War I have on the suffragist movement?

Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath about the grim lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression?

Which effect can be traced directly to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

The “Great Migration” of 1910–1920 refers to the movement of ___.

This offered 160 acres of land free to any head of household

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court declares ___ in public schools unconstitutional.

This policy intended to defend to defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country.

Germany’s goal in the Battle of the Atlantic was to

The actions of which country finally forced the United States to enter the war?

One long-range effect of the Great Depression was that many people

The policy that kept the United States out of the war for three years was called

Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change?

In the late 1800s, collective bargaining was a technique used to

Which of the following increased in the 1920s?

Which of the following did not stimulate U.S. imperialism?

During which period did defense spending expenditures increase the most

Based on the map, you could infer that Ohio was _____ than Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.

Which strategy was not employed by woman suffragists to obtain their goal?

Truman is shown riding through cannon fire, because during the1948 election he

Which of the following states suffered the most damage during the Dust Bowl period?

The NAACP did all of the following except

___ was the leader of the Communists in China.

The name for sensational and often irresponsible news headlines and stories is “yahoo journalism.”

Which of the following was most directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work?

General John J. Pershing led a force of fifteen thousand soldiers in an attempt to capture

Which of the following did not intensify the debts that Plains farmers had during the late 1800s?

The ___ appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict.

This allowed Communists in North Vietnam to supply military arms to the government opposition group in South Vietnam.

The primary goal of the NAACP was

music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such musicians as

The immigration policies of the 1920s limited immigration from all of the following countries except

The Dixiecrats were strong supporters of Truman’s civil rights policies.

In the Battle of Stalingrad, all of the following contributed to the Soviet victory except

To label someone’s activities as ___ would be to suggest that the person is making unsupported accusations.

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

Which was not a cause of the Dust Bowl?

What was the Lend Lease Act

Except for ___, all of the following were likely to approve of prohibition in the 1920s and early 1930s

This U-2 pilot was convicted of espionage after his plane was shot down and he was forced to parachute into Soviet land

Which president asked Congress for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?

As secretary of defense in the Johnson administration, he admitted he would have “thought differently at the start”

The war might have involved only two nations, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, if not for

The first person to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit” was

Nationalism in Europe, a policy under which nations built up their armed forces, was a major cause of World War I.

General Douglas MacArthur commanded U.S. forces in ___.

One of the benefits that the GI Bill of Rights offered to returning veterans was ___.

Charles Lindbergh was famous as a(n)

After Stalin’s death, several leaders shared power in the Soviet Union until Nikita Khrushchev claimed leadership

The rapid growth of industry in the United States helped fuel imperialism because

What war ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1898?

The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention in

Theodore Roosevelt was known as the hero of San Juan Hill.

The Allied invasion of ___ was given the code name D-Day.

The Schlieffen Plan was effective because it

When forced to abandon the Philippines, ___ made the vow, “I shall return.”

United States would not withdraw its army from Cuba until that country adopted the Platt Amendment.

Andrew Carnegie gained control of a large percentage of the steel industry by doing all of the following except

Which of the following did not keep African Americans in the South from voting?

The Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe was

The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except

Which of the following marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians?

Who was the Leader of the fascist government in Italy?

This U.S. policy required greater dependence on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered them.

Which nation(s) signed a nonaggression pact with Germany that led to the invasion and division of Poland?

This gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges

Which country’s residents became citizens of the United States in 1917?

The mysterious sinking of the U.S.S. Thomas fueled the movement for war with Spain.

Muckrakers were

The U.S. military used planes to spray this leaf-killing toxic chemical, which devastated the landscape of Vietnam.

What is genocide, as practiced by the Nazis?

People who oppose all forms of government are called anarchists.

The main goal of the ___ was to stop the spread of communism.

An example of racial tensions during the war years is

Where did the assassination that triggered World War I occur?

Which of the following might be associated with the sharp decline in Chinese immigration in 1883–1884?

Which of the following rivers appears to have the most dams built on it?

When an armistice was signed ending the Korean War

Which of the following is an example of graft?

Which of the following statements most accurately reflects Roosevelt’s feelings toward joining the war?

Which of the following called for the abolition of private property in order to equally distribute wealth and power?

Which of the following was not a cause of World War I?

Of the following statements, the one that best reflects an anti-imperialist attitude is

Between which of the following years did defense expenditures decrease the most?

How were Britain and France drawn into war with Germany?

Which of the following does not describe a typical supporter of a political machine?

If you were traveling east along the Tennessee River, which dam would you encounter next after passing the Wheeler Dam?

Which of the following did Winston Churchill oppose?

Which of the following did the United States insist that Cuba include in its constitution?

What did the United States use to overcome the threat of German U-boats?

The height of this unprecedented population explosion was in 1957.

Following the Arkansas governor’s refusal to obey the Supreme Court decision in ___, a crisis occurs

Which of the following correctly matches the politician with his nation?

He led the Indochinese Communist Party and fought French, Japanese, and U.S. forces for the independence of Vietnam.

Accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military were made by

Which of the following issues prompted the assassination of President Garfield

___ marked the works of many famous writers of the 1920s, including the Lost Generation.

To protect their own interests, employers often accused striking workers of being

This event led Khrushchev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold.