1. The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 6.

The destroyers-for-bases deal, the Lend-Lease Act, and

demonstrated the shoot-on-sight order are best described as
A) the fact that America had a weak military A) policies increasingly favoring Britain during WWII,
B) no defense of America's colonial possessions while the U.S. was technically still a neutral
C) America's determination to keep Japan from country
becoming a world power B) economically lucrative deals that arguably helped
D) America's determination not to get involved in bring the U.S. into WWII by incentivizing
another World War involvement
E) America's belief they could not fight a war against a C) imperialist foreign policy in Latin America during
European power single-handedly the Spanish-American War era
D) ways that the United States supported the Allies
2. United States foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s
during WWII, while still appeasing isolationists
consisted of primarily
E) channels through which proxy wars with the Soviet
A) imperialism Union were fought during the Cold War
B) isolationism 7. The Four Freedoms were
C) assurance of mutual destruction
D) colonialism A) enacted by John F. Kennedy in his Civil Rights
legislation
E) containment
B) enumerated by John Locke in his Two Treatises on
3. Franklin Roosevelt did not agree to peg the dollar to Government
other currencies because C) ideals proposed by Thomas Jefferson upon his
A) he believed Europe was in worse economic shape inauguration into the presidency
than America D) principles of freedom endorsed by Franklin
B) he thought it might hinder his recovery efforts Roosevelt in the Atlantic Charter
C) he planed to change the silver standard E) freedoms supported by Woodrow Wilson in the
D) he believed the pound was worthless Versailles Treaty
E) he foresaw a war which would hurt the currency 8. The Selective Service and Training Act and the War
4. German militarization of the Rhineland and Italian Resources Board demonstrated
invasion of Ethiopia demonstrated A) Democratic dissent to any preparation to war
A) the military power of Germany and Italy B) Republican support for helping the Allies
B) American desire to prevent another war C) Worry about the war in Japan
C) the ignorance of dominance in the Pacific by Japan D) the United States was taking any measure to avoid
D) the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations war
E) the American inability to stop Germany or Italy E) the United States was gearing up for war

5. Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini invaded which 9. The “date that would live in infamy” refers to
African nation in 1935? A) the falling of the Berlin Wall
A) South Africa B) Congo B) the surrendering of the Confederacy
C) Ethiopia D) Algeria C) the sinking of the Maine
E) Zimbabwe D) the attack on the Alamo
E) the attack on Pearl Harbor
10. The Tripartite pact was 15. The policy of the United States toward Greece and
Turkey in the early years of the Cold War are best
A) the alliance of the Native Americans, French, and
described as examples of
Spanish against the English in the French and
Indian War A) imperialism
B) an agreement between three Native American B) coups d'etat
tribes to fight the U.S. in the 1870s and 1880s C) the policy of containment
C) an alliance between Britain, France, and Russia D) nation-building
during World War I E) isolationism
D) an agreement of farmers, businessmen, and labor
16. The creation of NATO was a significant event in
to help the Union in the Civil War
American history because
E) an agreement between Japan, Germany, and Italy
during World War II A) it established free trade between the US and
Europe
11. Among the changes in the lives of African-Americans
B) it slowed the development of the Cold War
during World War I was
C) it allowed the US to enter the Korean War
A) the increased migration of blacks to the North and D) it was the USA's first peacetime military alliance
West in search of higher paying jobs E) the support of NATO allies in Europe helped the
B) the integration of the armed forces Berlin airlift succeed
C) the election of several Southern Black Democrats
to the House of Representatives 17. The Berlin Airlift arose out of a unique post World War
II situation, in which the major powers had agreed to
D) the passage of the anti-poll tax amendment
E) the passage of federal anti-lynching legislation A) divide Germany and Berlin into zones of east-west
occupation
12. The Zoot Soot Riots primarily involved
B) allow self determination in all reorganizing
A) Mexican American immigrants during WWII nations, regardless of results
B) counterculture movement followers in the 1960's C) build a wall dividing the capital into a democratic
C) veterans and students protesting the Vietnam War and communist side
D) laborers demanding higher minimum wages D) become the permanent members of the United
E) African Americans following the assassination of Nations Security Council
Malcom X E) create buffer nations out of Austria and Poland
13. What did the Supreme Court’s rule in Korematsu v. 18. Which of the following correctly matches 20 th century
United States? American wars with the political ideologies they were
mainly fought against?
A) Japanese Americans were full-blown citizens.
B) Interference with the draft was illegal. A) World War I and fascism, World War II and
C) Flag burning was illegal. communism
D) Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese B) World War I and imperialism, World War II and
Americans was legal. fascism
E) Restriction of speech in war time was legal. C) World War II and communism, Cold War and
fascism
14. The United Nations was established in principle in an
D) World War II and imperialism, Cold War and
agreement at
fascism
A) Potsdam B) Teheran E) World War II and fascism, Cold War and
C) Casablanca D) Yalta communism
E) Paris
19. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was an advocate 24. The Iron Curtain was the figurative line
of
A) separating North Korea from South Korea
A) "brushfire" wars B) through Europe dividing capitalist from
B) nuclear test bans communist states
C) "massive retaliation" C) separating the United States from the rest of the
D) conventional war world
E) isolationism D) separating the world into capitalist and communist
camps
20. What is an important new technology the United States
E) through Europe dividing democratic from
and the Soviet Union acquired in 1952 and 1953
authoritarian states
respectively?
25. Which of the following statements about the Korean
A) Guided missiles B) Hydrogen Bomb
War is correct?
C) Radar D) Homing missiles
E) Laser weapons A) The Korean War was the shortest war in American
history.
21. What was the Soviet organization formed in response to
B) President Eisenhower helped broker a peace treaty
NATO?
soon after coming to power.
A) Yalta Conference C) Less Americans died in the Korean War than any
B) United Nations prior conflict.
C) Moscow Treaty Organization D) President Truman's decision to send troops was
D) Warsaw Pact motivated by the communist takeover of China.
E) Commissar E) President Truman sent troops to Korea because he
wanted to protect South Korea's democratic
22. What did the Marshall Plan do?
government.
A) Rewrite Japan’s constitution 26. At the end of the Korean War,
B) Aid Latin American countries becoming new
democracies A) North Korea gained several hundred square miles
C) Prepare for self-determination in African nations in territory
D) Give money to Chiang Kai-shek to fight the B) South Korea gained ground on North Korea
Communists in China C) the border between the Koreas was nearly the
E) Provide economic aid for war-torn Europe same as at the start of the war
D) South Korea had to face a second serious
23. What was one result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957? communist resurgence
A) The Soviets became the first nation to reach the E) North Korea was not longer a military power
moon. 27. The U.S. role in the Chinese Civil War was to
B) The Soviets were able to gain more respect from
the international community. A) aid in defeating Chiang Kai-shek
C) Americans felt they faced a deficit of technology. B) take a neutral position
D) The Soviets intimidated Eastern European nations C) send troops to fight the communists
into joining the Warsaw Pact. D) send over $2 billion in aid to the nationalists
E) The Soviets parlayed the satellite into an important E) support Mao Zedong with troops
military tool. 28. How did the United States respond to Fidel Castro's
communist take-over of Cuba?
A) Ended diplomatic relations with Cuba
B) Attempted to invade Cuba
C) Insisted that Cuba break off ties with the Soviets
D) Installed missiles in the Dominican Republic
E) Installed missiles in Turkey
29. Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade 34. The chief American army generals in the European
was waged by the House of Representatives' Theatre of World War II were
A) McCarran Internal Security Committee A) Generals Nimitz and DeGaulle
B) military tribunals B) Generals Pershing and McArthur
C) Army-McCarthy hearings C) Generals Montgomery and Bradley
D) House Un-American Activities Committee D) Generals Rommel and Marshall
E) Red Scare hearings E) Generals Patton and Eisenhower
30. The Alger Hiss case is an example of 35. On “D-Day,” the Allies
A) the problems associated with the development of A) bombed the Germans at Dresden
the Hydrogen bomb B) landed on the Solomon Islands
B) the fear that communists had infiltrated the United C) liberated the concentration camps at Auschwitz
States government after World War II D) pushed the German forces out of Stalingrad
C) the fallout of the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act E) invaded Normandy
D) a victory for the rights to the accused, as it
36. Japan's surrender in World War II was a direct result of
guaranteed even the indigent the right to an
attorney A) the firebombing of Tokyo
E) the successful capture and arrest of a Nazi war B) the conference at Casablanca
criminal in Argentina by the FBI C) the death of Hirohito
31. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act, commonly known D) the Battle of Midway
as the GI Bill of Rights, was most successful at: E) Truman's use of the atomic bomb
A) allowing World War II veterans to join the 37. Which of the following took place while President
middle-class through home loans and education Eisenhower was in office?
grants A) Republicans outnumbered Democrats in both
B) integrating the previously segregated armed forces houses of Congress.
C) permitting the United States military to become B) America pulled its troops out of Japan.
the most technologically advanced fighting force C) The post-WWII baby boom reached its highest
in the world point.
D) recruiting a new generation of Americans to join D) The G.I. Bill was passed in Congress.
the United States Army E) America entered the Korean War.
E) encouraging current soldiers to re-enlist
38. Eisenhower appointees to the Supreme Court William
32. Harry Truman's "Fair Deal" might be interpreted as an Brennan and Earl Warren both
extension of
A) served as forces of social and political change
A) Theodore Roosevelt's "big stick" diplomacy B) lasted for only a few years on the court
B) George Washington's isolationism C) sided for integration, but were generally
C) Woodrow Wilson's moral diplomacy conservative
D) the Monroe Doctrine D) upheld Eisenhower’s policies
E) Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal E) dissented against the decision in Brown v. Board
33. What was the purpose of the 22 nd amendment? of Education
A) To end prohibition
B) To create the direct election of senators
C) To limit the president to just two terms
D) To change the voting age to 18
E) To legalize income tax
39. Transportation developments under Dwight 43. In 1957 which of the following landmarks of the Civil
Eisenhower’s administration included Rights movements took place in Little Rock, Arkansas?
A) creating highways across Alaska and Hawaii A) 10,000 National Guardsman were sent to Central
B) building the Interstate Highway System High school to allow the school to be integrated.
C) developing the Concorde aircraft B) Four black students organized a sit at a Woolworth
D) adding thousands of additional railroad tracks in lunch counter, an event that led to the formation of
the West the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
E) linking the Missouri and Columbia rivers C) Rosa Parks refused to go the back of a municipal
bus.
40. President Truman scored a major civil rights victory by
D) Martin Luther King, Jr. announced the founding of
issuing an executive order to
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
A) enforce affirmative action and protect black E) James Meredith became the first black student to
enrollment at universities enroll at the University of Arkansas.
B) outlaw 'separate but equal' based public 44. What was one tactic used throughout the South to
accommodation and transport protest against discrimination in the 1960s?
C) integrate the United States military
D) guarantee equal pay for African Americans A) Migration B) Open shop
working in government C) Blockade D) Violent strike
E) desegregate schools, through busing if necessary E) Sit-ins
41. Which of the following statements about the Dixiecrat 45. When Rosa Parks was arrested, the blacks in
party is correct? Montgomery decided to

A) Its members held similar views to Democrats but A) violently resist the decision
were generally more liberal. B) boycott the bus system
B) Its members felt that FDR's New Deal went too C) vote out whites from office
far. D) move from Montgomery
C) Its members were social conservatives from the E) take no action
southeast and northwest. 46. Right after World War II, a significant amount of
D) Its members believed that the Democrats no longer women
cared about the agricultural sector.
E) Its members were opposed to civil rights A) were replaced by returning soldiers in the
legislation. industrial workforce
B) were arrested for joining female communist
42. The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of organizations
Education overturned its decision in
C) ran for elected office but lost due to gender
A) Plessy v. Ferguson discrimination
B) Schenck v. United States D) refused to have children in order to protest gender
C) Munn v. Illinois inequality
D) United States v. Butler E) joined feminist organizations in order to fight
E) Korematsu v. United States unfair treatment
47. “White flight” in the 1950s meant
A) whites leaving the cities for the suburbs
B) whites were beginning to travel on the new
commercial aircrafts
C) whites advancing beyond blacks in income and
technology
D) whites moving from the U.S. to Canada
E) whites leaving the north for the south
48. The dominant position among women in the years soon 49. The group of writers and artists who supported
after World War II was rebellion against social standards and spontaneous
behavior in the 1950s was the
A) a desire to take new strides in politics and business
B) a newfound cult of domesticity A) Traditionalists B) Lost Generation
C) a desire to leave traditionally women’s fields for C) Realists D) Beats
men’s fields of work E) Transcendentalists
D) the ability to obtain equal pay as men 50. Whose book The Commonsense Book of Baby and
E) a desire to stay in the workplace they had worked Child Care sold an average of one million copies
so hard in during World War II between 1946 and 1960?
A) Dr. Benjamin Spock
B) Dr. Jonas Salk
C) Dr. James Watson
D) Dr. Frances Coughlin
E) Dr. Aaron Popov