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100

During the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s goal was

European domination and world power

100

Which of the following was a long-term consequence of the Korean War?

It established a precedent of avoiding atomic weapons in future Cold War conflicts

100

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes U.S. immigration laws between World War II and the mid-1960s

In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Act ended the exclusion of immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia

100

The United States adopted the gold standard in the 1870s for its currency because

It hoped to encourage European investment in the United States

100

Richard Nixon’s landslide victory in the election of 1972 signaled

a major political realignment in the United States

200

Franklin Roosevelt responded to A. Philip Randolph’s plan for a March on Washington by

issuing Executive Order 8802

200

Truman’s domestic program during his second term in office was known as the

Fair Deal

200

The term restrictive covenants refers to

Prohibitions on black residents in some communities

200

Who benefitted most from the General Mining Act of 1872, which allowed individuals who discovered minerals on federally owned land to work the claim and keep the proceeds?

Powerful investors

200

Why did President Ford pardon Nixon a month after Ford took office in 1973?

He wished to spare the country the agony of rehashing Watergate

300

 Which of the following statements describes the forced relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II?

The internment policy was not applied to the many Japanese Americans who lived in Hawaii

300

Which of the following statements is true about the post–World War II U.S. economy?

American prosperity was beyond the reach of many poor and nonwhite Americans

300

Which of the following contributed to the powerful mystique that followed the presidency of John F. Kennedy?

Kennedy's 1963 assassination

300

Reformers believed that the best way to save the Indians was through

education

300

The resurgence of Christian faith in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s has been labeled by historians as the

Fourth Great Awakening

400

What was the principal reason that Harry Truman and his American advisors decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan in the summer of 1945?

They demanded unconditional surrender and were not willing to invade Japan.

400

The term Pax Americana refers to

American domination of the global economy after World War II

400

Women’s liberation activists modeled their ideas, goals, and tactics after the

Black Power movement

400

Which of the following statements characterizes the employment of women in the American labor force during the late nineteenth century?

More than 75 percent of all stenographers and typists were female

400

What effect did the Cold War have on the civil rights movement?

It both constrained and led to support for reforms

500

 Which of the following established the Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe?

Yalta agreement

500

Which of the following statements characterizes the pressure felt by middle-class American women during the 1950s?

Cultural messages indicated that domesticity should be women's highest priority

500

Malcolm X and the Black Muslims pursued a philosophy that differed dramatically from that of

Martin Luther King Jr.

500

Which of the following was the purpose of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

To authorize the president to take any action necessary to prevent further aggression in Vietnam

500

Which of the following statements describes women and their relationship to work and family life in the postwar decades?

Most "women's jobs" were in teaching, nursing, or the service sector