U.S. History Final Exam Spring 2021 Part 1 Question Preview (ID: 56242)


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The essential element of the policy of containment was..
a) a rejection of involvement in affairs outside the Western Hemisphere.
b) stopping the spread of communism
c) keeping illegal immigrants out of the country.
d) keeping unions out of big companies.

Truman's response to the Berlin Blockade was to...
a) abandon the Western-occupied portions of Berlin.
b) give up plans for uniting the three Western zones of Germany.
c) airlift all necessary supplies into Berlin for almost a year.
d)

The Twenty-First Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the ...
a) prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages.
b) equal rights for women.
c)
d)

In order to deal with the crisis in banking at the time of his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt...
a) drastically curtailed government spending and cut taxes.
b) announced a multi-billion dollar federal bailout package.
c)
d)

The effect of the Neutrality Acts of 1935-1937 was to...
a) encourage peaceful settlement of problems
b) prevent United States involvement in European wars.
c)
d)

The Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik in 1957 immediately led to...
a) an easing of US-USSR tensions.
b) increased federal funding to colleges and universities.
c)
d)

The case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) concerned...
a) the rights of the disabled.
b) segregation of schools
c)
d)

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution...
a) was claimed by President Johnson as legal authorization for the military involvement in Vietnam.
b) limited President Johnson to a one-time retaliatory bombing strike
c)
d)

Belief in the Domino Theory would most likely lead a person to support...
a) American intervention in the war in Vietnam to prevent a Vietcong victory.
b) a test ban treaty with the Soviets.
c)
d)

In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court declared that...
a) states could not establish racially segregated schools.
b) police had to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent.
c)
d)

Gerald Ford's main liability in the 1976 presidential election was...
a) his inexperience in foreign policy.
b) the Watergate scandal.
c)
d)

In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Carter ...
a) withdrew SALT II from consideration by the Senate
b) called for a boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
c)
d)

Reaganomics was based upon which of the following theories...
a) cutting taxes would stimulate investment which would in turn increase employment and tax revenue.
b) the government must institute wage and price controls.
c)
d)

The costly and highly criticized Reagan program known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) proposed to...
a) place Marines in the Middle East i
b) create a defensive missile system in space to shield the U. S.
c)
d)

Which of the following is true of NAFTA?
a) a free trade zone was established between the nations of North America.
b) It increased trade with China.
c)
d)

…It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger or entertains any projects as regards to the other nations of the Western Hemisphere save such as are for their welfare… Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which results in a general loose
a) William McKinley's rationale for war with Spain
b) Theodore Roosevelt's corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
c)
d)

Which of the following is evidence that many of the laws of the 1960's reflected the ideals and goals of the New Deal?
a) Meat Inspection Act
b) Medicare
c)
d)

The truth of the matter is that Europe's requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products--principally from America--are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial addition
a) USSR (1947)
b) Germany (1919)
c)
d)

Which of the following African-American leaders would have not backed the goals and tactics of the 1963 March on Washington?
a) Frederick Douglass
b) Marcus Garvey
c)
d)

Which of the following would support the 2001 Patriot Act?
a) Oliver Wendell Holmes decision in Schenck v. United States
b) Roger Baldwin's legal work in founding the American Civil Liberties Union
c)
d)

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