HIST 1302 Week 6 Quiz

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Question 1

Republicans won control of both branches of Congress in 1946 due in part to voter unhappiness over labor disputes.                                 

           

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 2

Civil rights initiatives after 1948:                        

                       

·        remained a strong priority for the Democratic Party.

·        waned, given widespread American sentiment that any criticism of American society smacked of “disloyalty.”

·        included enforcement of bans on discrimination in employment and housing.

·        became more important after the Soviets pointed out American hypocrisy.

·        continued in the same vein as those achieved during the Truman administration.

 

 

 

Question 3

What obstacle did Harry Truman face when he assumed the presidency following the death of Franklin Roosevelt in April 1945?                           

                       

·        Harry Truman had absolutely no experience in foreign policy, the most important qualification at this point in American history.

·        Roosevelt’s popularity made it difficult for Truman to win the respect of Congress and the people.

·        Roosevelt had become so unpopular with the American people that his vice president was likely to have to pay for the sins of his predecessor.

·        Truman had been such an aggressive power player in Congress that he was likely to face stiff opposition there.

·        At this time in the war, Americans were looking for a president with a military background, something Truman could not offer.

 

 

 

Question 4

The Berlin Blockade was:                          

                       

·        Erected because the United States threatened to invade the Soviet Union.

·        a temporary defensive measure by the United States that was soon taken down.

·        the reaction by the Soviet Union to the establishment of a separate currency in western Berlin’s occupied zones.

·        a barrier erected by Allied forces in postwar Berlin to shield them from angry protests of starving residents.

·        a means for the United States to justify its threat to mobilize Allied forces stationed in Turkey.

 

Question 5

Organized labor emerged as:                                 

                       

·        a major supporter of the foreign policy of the Cold War.

·        a vocal critic of McCarthyism.

·        the best informants for the FBI and HUAC.

·        a militant group willing to fight the Red Scare.

·        a radical wing of the Communist Party.

 

 

Question 6

The policy of “containment” can best be described as:                                   

           

           

·        Preventing the expansion of U.S. economic interests in Latin America to appease growing unrest in impoverished regions.

·        a focus on the containment of further military conflict in the postwar world.

·        Preventing the spread of communism worldwide.

·        George Kennan’s theory that the United States must pursue normal relations with the Soviet Union, or fail to contain Chinese postwar aggression.

·        C and D

 

 

                                   

Question 7

To improve the image of American race relations abroad, the U.S. government sponsored trips of African-American jazz musicians to Africa.                                 

                       

·        True

·        False

 

 

Question 8

The 1948 presidential race:                                   

           

·        Ended the movement of southern Democrats into the Republican Party.

·        Was the last to occur before television forever changed campaigning.

·        Was a three-way race.

·        Had Strom Thurmond as a close second to Harry Truman.

·        Highlighted gender as a campaign issue for the Republican Party.

 

Question 9

To wage the cultural Cold War, the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Department:                                 

                       

·        Sought to censor the work of painter Jackson Pollock.

·        imposed artistic conformity.

·        censored the work of modern artists.

·        promoted the work of artist Norman Rockwell.

·        funded artistic publications, concerts, performances, and exhibits.

 

 

Question 10

How had the political climate changed in the South during World War II in the early Cold War years?                         

·        The high concentration of prisoner-of-war camps in the region had made these southerners savvy in foreign affairs.

·        In light of the fight against an enemy with a racial ideology, the states of the upper South abolished segregation and Jim Crow rule.

·        The number of African-Americans in the region that were registered to vote increased sevenfold.

·        The mass exodus of African-Americans for the West Coast and Northeast left the region almost exclusively white.

·        The region’s central role in the development of the atom bomb made it the capital of militant Cold War politics.

 

 

Question 11

How did 1950s consumerism differ from previous eras?                                 

                       

·        Advertising shaped patterns of consumption based on “desires” rather than “needs.”

·        Americans became accustomed to buying goods with credit cards.

·        The wide availability of goods such as Levis, dishwashers, and refrigerators symbolized the superiority of American culture to communist culture.

·        B and C

·        A and B

 

 

 

 

 

Question 12

Which statement best describes the thesis of David Riesman’s book The Lonely Crowd?                        

           

·        White America had alienated black Americans from mainstream society.

·        Americans were conformists and lacked the inner resources to lead truly independent lives.

·        Women were unhappy with the role of wife and mother and longed for acceptance in higher education and other intellectual pursuits.

·        After World War II, Europe was left behind economically and politically with the emergence of the United States and Soviet Union as superpowers.

·        Unionism in America was doomed to fail if the union leaders did not embrace the fact that their demands and strikes labeled them as communists.

 

 

Question 13

Most likely why did the U.S. Supreme Court not order the immediate implementation of its ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?                           

                       

·        The plaintiffs in the case themselves had asked for a gradual desegregation of schools.

·        The Court did not have authority to declare segregation instantly unconstitutional.

·        Some of the justices had agreed to consent with the ruling only on the provision that it would not be implemented during their lifetimes.

·        Some justices on the Court feared the outbreak of widespread violence with such a bold ruling.

·        The Court wanted to give the defendants in the case the chance to appeal.

 

Question 14

By the mid-1950s, for the first time in American history, white-collar workers outnumbered blue-collar factory and manual laborers.

 

·        True

·        False

 

 

 

Question 15

The “standard consumer package” of the 1950s included a car, house, and television.                             

 

·        True

·        False

 

           

Question 16

How did American companies contribute to the influx of Puerto Rican migrants by the hundreds of thousands beginning in the 1950s?                                  

           

           

·        The increasing control of land by U.S. sugar companies on the island pushed small tobacco and coffee farmers off the land and into a search for jobs on the mainland.

·        They were looking for cheaper labor to replace expensive union contracts.

·        The dramatic environmental destruction corporations brought to Puerto Rico left residents no choice but to migrate to the mainland.

·        They recruited Puerto Ricans primarily for construction jobs in Florida and in the fishing industry.

·        The end of the bracero program in 1954 prompted American agro-business to look for new cheap labor in Puerto Rico.

 

 

Question 17

Eisenhower’s intervention in Vietnam partly consisted of:                             

           

·        Urging Ngo Dinh Diem not to hold elections.

·        hosting the 1954 Geneva Accords.

·        the United States paying four-fifths of the cost of the war between the French and Ho Chi Minh’s nationalist forces.

·        providing asylum for Vietnamese communist nationalists fleeing the bloodshed in their country.

·        A and C

Question 18

What inspiration did Martin Luther King Jr. gain from Mahatma Gandhi?                           

           

·        The notion of subversive obedience.

·        The idea of peaceful civil disobedience.

·        The spiritual essence of Buddhism.

·        The concept of black nationalism.

·        The principles of Zen pacifism.

 

 

 

Question 19

Governor Orval Faubus responded to the court-ordered desegregation of Central High School:                         

·        by urging President Eisenhower to send in federal troops.

·        by letting white students “opt out” and be home schooled or go to private school.

·        by immediately closing Central High School, much like Virginia’s governor had done to public schools in Virginia rather than integrate them.

·        with defiance, refusing to comply and allowing violence to break out.

·        by offering his resignation to the people of Arkansas in protest.

 

 

                                   

Question 20

The Eisenhower Doctrine was a promise to roll back communism in eastern Europe.                               

·        True   

·        False