Both Ratified in the 1930s, the twentieh amendment _______; The
twenty-first Amendment _____
shortened the time between presidential election and inauguration;
ended prohibition
In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that his
administration would demonstrate particular concern for
the forgotten man
the 1930s Dust Bowl was centered in the states of
Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Colorado
The Agriculture Adjustment Act attempted to solve the "farm
Problem" by
paying farmers to reduce their production and thus raise prices
The Federal Securities Act
created the securities and Exchange commission to require accurate
public information about stocks and bonds.
The Glass- Steagall Act
created the federal deposit insurance corporation to insure
individual bank deposits
The ____ was probably the most popular New Deal program; the ____ was
one of the most complex and the ______ was the most radical
Civilian Conservation Corps; Nation Recovery Administration;
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Phrase "Hundred Days" refers to
The first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency when congress
passed numerous important laws
Which of the following was not among the goals of the Tennessee
Valley Authority
bring business, labor, and agriculture under direct federal control
After the destroyer Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled and the
Reuben James sunk
congress authorized the arming of American Merchant Ships
Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasion of
______, HItlers invasion of _____, and Franco.. overthrow of
republican government of _____
Ethiopia, Czechosolvakia, and Spain
America's neutrality during the Spanish civil war of 1936-1939 allowed
Spain to become a fascist dictatorship
The 1941 Lend-Lease Act was all of the following except
an executive deal negotiated between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
Japan attacked the United States primarily because Franklin Roosevelt
insisted that Japan
leave China
In 1936 the British and French brought peace with Hitler at the Munch
Conference at the expense of
Czechoslovakia
Franklin Roosevelt's good neighbor policy
began to overturn longstanding Latin American resentment because of
the united States
the passage of the Neutrality Acts and other isolationist policies of
the 1930s resulted in all of the following except
a stiffening of British and French resistance to totalitiarian aggression
All of the following encouraged many postwar americans to move from
cities to the suburbs except
development of fuel efficient automobiles
In regard to postwar Germany, the Big Three allies agreed that
high-ranking nazis should be tried and punished for war crimes
Under the North atlantic Treaty, The United States
assumed a commitment to aid any member nation attacked by the Soviet Union
The Postwar policies adopted by the Truman administration toward the
Soviet Union were based on
expansionist
The huge baby boom reached its peak in
late 1950s
the The feminist revolt of the 1960s was sparked by
a clash between the demands of the traditional role of women as wives
and mothers
the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was passed to check the growing power of
labor unions
the marshall plan finally passed congress largely because it was
perceived there as
a way to block communist takeovers in western europe
Soviet specialist George F. Kennan framed a coherant theory for
american foreign policy that was...
containment
In 1956 the United States sharply critized ______ as the agressors in
the Suez Canal crisis.
Britain and France
Amont anticommunists, Senator Joseph R> McCarthy was the
the most ruthless and damaging to american traditions
By the end of the of the 1950s, Latin American anger toward the
United States had intensified because Washinton had done all of the
following except
allowed cuba to fall into the hands of communists
on te subject of racial justice, president eisenhower
argued that the law could not effectively change racial customs and prejudices
In the epochal 1954 decision in Brown V. Board of Education of
Topeka, the supreme court
declared that the concept of "separate but equal"
facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional
the 1955 Geneva Conference
established a permanent division of North Vietnam and South Vietnam
The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine empowered the president to extend
economic and military aid to the nations of ______ that wanted help to
resist communist aggression
the middle east
The suez crisis marked the last time in history that the United
States could
use its oil weapon to make foreign policy demands
The Power behind the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s was increasingly
science and technology
the launching of sputnik by the soviet union in 1957
created great anxiety about america's scientific and educational strength
Operation Rolling Thunder" was the code name for
American bombing raids on North Vietnam
All of the following prominant leaders of the 1960s died by violent
assassination except
george wallace
as a result of the voting rights act of 1965
black southerners gained new power in the region
by the late 1960s, black power advocates in the north focused their
attention primarily on
economic demands
regular american military forces first entered vietnam in order to
foster political stability and prevent Ngo Dinh Diem's regime from
falling to the communists
the "three Ps" that largely explain the cultural upheavels
of the 1960s are
population bulge, protest against vietnam, and prosperity
the cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except
s agreement to abandon the american base at guantanamo
the most serioys blow to Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam policy
was the tet offensive of 1968
when the soviet union attempted to install nuclear weapons in Cuba,
President Kennedy ordered
a naval quarantine of that island nation
John F. Kennedy's strategy of "flexibile response
called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the
scope and importance of a crisis
solidarity" was
a massive working-class labor union that toppled poland's communist puppet....
For Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnot (openness) and
perestroika (restructuring) to work ....
soviets keep control of eastern europe
Ronald reagan's supply side economic advisers assured him that te
combination of cutbacks in social programs and tax reduction would do
all the following exvept
create greater income equality
in response to the collapse of the soviet union, president george
bush called for a new world order where
democracy would reign supreme and diplomacy would replace weaponry
as one consenquence of the demise of the soviet union,
long-supressed ethnic hatreds flared in eastern europe and the former
soviet republics
to president reagan, "the focus of evil in the modern
world" was
the soviet union
the result of the persian gulf war was that
kuwait was liberated but saddam hussein stayed in power
the "new right" movement that helped to elect ronald reagan
was spearheaded by
evangelical christians
true to his campaign promises, as president, ronald reagan
cut taxes
Ronald Reagan differed from Franklin D. Roosevelt in that roosevelt
branded big business as the enemy of the common man, while reagan
depicted big government as the foe
as a result of the us support for israel in 1973 when it was attacked
by egypt and syria
arab nations placed an embargo on oil to america
in griswold v. connecticut, the supreme court declared a state law
prohibiting the use of contraceptives unconstitutional based on
a declared right to privacy
Title IX of the education amendments was passed by congress in 1972 to
prohibit sex descrimination in an federally funded education program
or activity
the killings of college students at kent state and jackson state
universities occurred in connection with campus protests against
nixon's invasion of cambodia
the guiding principle of president carter's foreign policy was
human rights
the effect of the supreme court ruling in Milliken v. Bradley that
integration did not have to take place across school district lines
was to
reinforce the division between poorer, minority inner city schools
and nearly all white suburbs
the supreme court case of roe v. wade ruled that state laws
prohibiting abortion were unconstitutional because they
violated a woman's constitutional right to privacy in her own person
The SALT II treaty between the soviet union and the united states
died in the senate when the soviets
invaded afghanistan
the nixon doctrine proclaimed that the us would
require its alies to fight their own wars without large numbers of
american troops