Question 1

The labor strikes that prevailed at the end of World War II began to subside when

Accepted Answer

A) Unions were able to negotiate better wages and conditions. 
B) President Truman threatened to seize the mines and railroads that had been shut down by strikes. 
C) Truman sent in troops to quell a strike in the Midwest. 
D) the CIO expelled several of its more radical affiliates. 
E) All of these choices. 
A) Unions were able to negotiate better wages and conditions. 
B) President Truman threatened to seize the mines and railroads that had been shut down by strikes. 
C) Truman sent in troops to quell a strike in the Midwest. 
D) the CIO expelled several of its more radical affiliates. 
E) All of these choices.

Question 2

The Hollywood Ten avoided jail time by naming other Communists in the entertainment industry.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The McCarran-Walter Internal Security Act authorized the deportation detention of alleged subversives in the name of national security.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Anticommunism was used to

Accepted Answer

A) strengthen support for labor unions. 
B) weaken labor unions. 
C) integrate labor unions. 
D) convince labor leaders to vote Republican. 
E) extend the right to unionize to women workers. 
A) strengthen support for labor unions. 
B) weaken labor unions. 
C) integrate labor unions. 
D) convince labor leaders to vote Republican. 
E) extend the right to unionize to women workers.

Question 5

The baby boom generation was

Accepted Answer

A) born between 1946 and 1964. 
B) associated with the rise of suburbia. 
C) was a unique social and cultural force. 
D) the name given to the 75 million babies born in the decades after the war. 
E) All of these choices. 
A) born between 1946 and 1964. 
B) associated with the rise of suburbia. 
C) was a unique social and cultural force. 
D) the name given to the 75 million babies born in the decades after the war. 
E) All of these choices.

Question 6

In Westminster School District v. Mendez, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in state-funded graduate and law schools was unconstitutional.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

According to FHA lending policies, only ________________ were seen as good credit risks.

Accepted Answer

The answer of According to FHA lending policies, only ________________...

Question 8

The couple arrested, tried, convicted, and executed (in 1953) for espionage were named

Accepted Answer

A) Hiss. 
B) Chambers. 
C) Rosenberg. 
D) Ackroyd. 
E) Jones. 
A) Hiss. 
B) Chambers. 
C) Rosenberg. 
D) Ackroyd. 
E) Jones.

Question 9

Examine Harry Truman's stand on the major civil rights issues of the 1940s and 1950s.

Accepted Answer

Harry Truman's stand on civil rights iss

Question 10

In the off-year elections of 1946, the ____________________ gained control of Congress for the first time since 1928.

Accepted Answer

The answer of In the off-year elections of 1946, the...

Question 11

MacArthur and Truman were in complete agreement regarding Korea.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

____________________ was the first military leader since Ulysses S. Grant to become president.

Accepted Answer

Dwight D.

Question 13

All of the following were characteristics of the suburbs except they

Accepted Answer

A) offered privacy, playgrounds, and built-in appliances 
B) increased property ownership and symbolized the crusade against communism 
C) served as model communities for racial integration. 
D) benefited from federal loan policies and tax breaks 
E) represented an optimistic spirit and confidence in the future. 
A) offered privacy, playgrounds, and built-in appliances 
B) increased property ownership and symbolized the crusade against communism 
C) served as model communities for racial integration. 
D) benefited from federal loan policies and tax breaks 
E) represented an optimistic spirit and confidence in the future.

Question 14

The Fair Deal's housing programs made absolutely no gains.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

In the late 1940s, the Supreme Court began to chip away at the separate-but-equal principle.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

The ____________________ were secret messages collected between the U.S.S.R. and spies in the United States by the U.S. Army counterintelligence in the 1940s.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The ____________________ were secret messages collected between...

Question 17

The wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union was merely a marriage of convenience.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In the presidential campaign of 1948, candidate Henry Wallace criticized President Truman for

Accepted Answer

A) his militant containment policies toward the Soviet Union. 
B) his plans to integrate the military. 
C) failing to win the war in Korea. 
D) losing China to communism. 
E) being a communist. 
A) his militant containment policies toward the Soviet Union. 
B) his plans to integrate the military. 
C) failing to win the war in Korea. 
D) losing China to communism. 
E) being a communist.

Question 19

The director of the FBI who led a campaign against subversives in American life by building files on American citizens was ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The director of the FBI who led...

Question 20

McCarthy proclaimed that he had a list of 205 communist in the ____________________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of McCarthy proclaimed that he had a list...

Exam 27: The Age of Containment, 1946-1953

The labor strikes that prevailed at the end of World War II began to subside when

The Hollywood Ten avoided jail time by naming other Communists in the entertainment industry.

The McCarran-Walter Internal Security Act authorized the deportation detention of alleged subversives in the name of national security.

Anticommunism was used to

The baby boom generation was

In Westminster School District v. Mendez, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in state-funded graduate and law schools was unconstitutional.

According to FHA lending policies, only ________________ were seen as good credit risks.

The couple arrested, tried, convicted, and executed (in 1953) for espionage were named

Examine Harry Truman's stand on the major civil rights issues of the 1940s and 1950s.

In the off-year elections of 1946, the ____________________ gained control of Congress for the first time since 1928.

MacArthur and Truman were in complete agreement regarding Korea.

____________________ was the first military leader since Ulysses S. Grant to become president.

All of the following were characteristics of the suburbs except they

The Fair Deal's housing programs made absolutely no gains.

In the late 1940s, the Supreme Court began to chip away at the separate-but-equal principle.

The ____________________ were secret messages collected between the U.S.S.R. and spies in the United States by the U.S. Army counterintelligence in the 1940s.

The wartime alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union was merely a marriage of convenience.

In the presidential campaign of 1948, candidate Henry Wallace criticized President Truman for

The director of the FBI who led a campaign against subversives in American life by building files on American citizens was ____________________.

McCarthy proclaimed that he had a list of 205 communist in the ____________________.

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

Colonization in North America, 1600-1680

Empires, Indians, and the Struggle for Power in North America, 1670-1720

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent, 1720-1763

Reform, Resistance, Revolution, 1763-1776

The Revolutionary Republic, 1776-1789

Completing the Revolution, 1789-1815

Northern Transformations, 1790-1850

The Old South, 1790-1850

Toward an American Culture, 1815-1850

Whigs and Democrats, 1815-1840

Antebellum Reform, 1820-1860

Manifest Destiny: an Empire for Liberty--Or Slavery 1845-1860

The Gathering Tempest, 1853-1860

Secession and Civil War, 1860-1862

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862-1865

Reconstruction, 1863-1877

A Transformed Nation: the West and the New South, 1865-1900

The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Cities, Peoples, Cultures, 1890-1920

Progressivism, 1900-1917

Becoming a World Power, 1898-1917

War and Society, 1914-1920

The 1920s

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939

America During the Second World War, 1939-1945

America at Midcentury, 1953-1963

America During a Divisive War, 1963-1974

Uncertain Times, 1974-1992

Economic, Social, and Cultural Change in the Late 20th Century

A Time of Hope and Fear, 1993-2014

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