HIST106 Exam 2 Review (Quizzes)

The 1934-1936 Nye Committee, under the direction of Sen. Gerald Nye (R - ND), investigated

relationships between financial firms and munitions manufacturers in World War I.

By the time when FDR was inaugurated for his second term as President in 1937, the depression was almost over as shown by an unemployment rate of only 4.5%

False

A purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) was to renounced war as an instrument of national policy.

True

Two factors that contributed to U.S. isolationism in the pre‑WW II period were concern over the great depression and lingering memories of WW I.

True

Among the legacies of the New Deal were a minimum level of well-being and increased regulatory function of government.

True

From the time that Eleanor Roosevelt attended the Allenswood School as a young girl, she was an outspoken supporter of women's right to vote.

False

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

NOT a new deal program

England was engaged in the Boer War in South Africa.

True

Many Englishmen believed that God fought on the side of the English Army.

True

The students were permitted to celebrate the English Army's victories.

True

Mlle. Marie Souvestre told her favorite students privately that big countries needed to let small countries run their own affairs.

True

Republican President Herbert Hoover was elected in 1928 and inaugurated in 1929. At the beginning of his administration, he relied on local governments, voluntary cooperation of businesses, and the free market system to provide solutions to the Great Depression.

True

Representative Willis C. Hawley (R-OR) and Senator Reed Smoot (R-UT) are best known for

sponsoring a record-high tariff during the Great Depression.

When Jim Braddock and the other men showed up for work on the docks, Jake the foreman was able to offer a day's work to only a few men and most were left empty-handed.

True

Although Jim Braddock was in dire financial straits, he was such a proud man that he never accepted state welfare funds.

False

When Mae Braddock and daughter Rosie returned to the Braddocks' apartment, they saw a strange man outside. He was verifying that the Braddocks were eligible to receive food stamps.

False

During the birthday party for the kids at the church, Father Rorick mentioned to Jim that he hadn't seen him at Church lately. Jim told him that church was for women and he'd rather spend his time having a few beers with his chums.

False

Although Eleanor Roosevelt's 1943 trip to the South Pacific captured wide media attention in the U.S., Australians practically ignored her visit to their country because they believed that the U.S. had abandoned them.

False

Kristallnacht was

a night of violence, arson, and looting directed against German‑Jewish shops, offices, and synagogues.

Herbert Hoover was the Democratic candidate.

False

Alfred E. Smith was the first Roman Catholic candidate for the presidency.

True

Alfred E. Smith was a "wet," that is, he opposed prohibition.

True

In the film Cinderella Man, Jim Braddock and Mike Wilson had a conversation over a beer. Mike said that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was no better than Herbert Hoover to solve the depression's problems.

True

One of FDR's messages to America was ""The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

True

When FDR assumed the presidency, one in four working people were unemployed.

True

FDR agreed with the economic principles espoused by John Maynard Keynes.

True

One of FDR's earliest measures to stabilize the monetary system was a 4-day bank holiday.

True

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation guaranteed savers' deposits in banks up to $2,500.

True

The Civilian Conservation Corps gave young men jobs doing environmental work.

True

The American Slave Narratives were produced under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration.

True

In the film Cinderella Man, when Jim Braddock returned home, Mae Braddock said that Sara Wilson was there. Sara told Jim that her husband Mike had

moved into one of the Hoovervilles in Central Park.

What contributed to the onset of the economic depression in 1929?

Fierce competition fostered overproduction and market saturation, Investors purchased stocks on margin, advancing as little as 10% of the purchase price, As sales fell, manufacturers' profits declined., Reduced consumption caused companies to downsize and layoff employees.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was successful in getting an anti‑lynching bill passed thanks to the support of southern senators and congressmen.

False

In chapter 1, author J. William T. Youngs invokes the teaching of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to argue that the Victorian culture of Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood set clearly defined roles for men and women.

True

Purposes of the Social Security Act of 1935 included all to the following

Aid for dependent childrenUnemployment insurancePension fund for retireesAssist blind and disabled

Like Lillian Wald and Jane Addams, Eleanor found personal satisfaction in

working among the poor in settlement houses

In the 1938-1939 period, Nazi Germany forced a union with _____, seized _____, and invaded _____.

Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland

In the chapter titled "Grief," Youngs records that under the direction of Herbert Hoover, the Food Administration urged Americans to plant "victory gardens.

True

In chapter 7, Youngs relates that Eleanor found a speech by Carrie Chapman Catt so inspirational that she became active in the League of Women Voters.

True

In the chapter titled "Grief," Youngs records that during WW I, Eleanor Roosevelt was active in the Navy League's Comforts Committee that supervised the knitting of sweaters and socks for members of U.S. military services.

True

In the chapter titled "Grief," Youngs records that after the U.S. declared war in 1917, former President Theodore Roosevelt asked the sitting president to let him (Roosevelt) lead a division to Europe.

True

In the early part of his career in public service, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is most closely associated with the Navy.

True

In 1931, Japan invaded the Chinese region called Shanghai.

False

Japan's strategic goal was to establish the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" with Japan occupying the leadership position.

True

Japan surrendered only after the U.S. destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs.

True

One of Japan's objectives in World War II was acquiring sources of petroleum, oil, and lubricants.

True

At the very end of the film, viewers were solicited to save scrap metal for the war effort.

False

Near the end of the film, the departing Marines and newly arrived soldiers joked about meeting in Tokyo

True

When Father Donnelly was conducting religious services onboard ship, one Marine complimented Sammy's singing. Sammy explained his father was a cantor in the synagogue.

True

The landing on Guadalcanal occurred in August, 1942.

True

When reinforcements arrived on Guadalcanal, one Marine asked Cpl. Taxi Potts about the female situation on "this gook island.

True

When Mao Tse‑tung (Mao Zedong) and the Communists prevailed in the People's Republic of China, President _____ was accused of "losing" China.

Harry S. Truman

Eleanor Roosevelt proved true to her Republican roots by supporting Herbert Hoover for the presidency.

False

Although Eleanor supported Al Smith out of party loyalty, she aligned herself with those who believed a Catholic president would greatly harm the nation.

False

Franklin Roosevelt's nominating speech at the Democratic Party convention in Houston described Al Smith as someone with a genuine interest in his fellow man.

True

Eleanor agreed to run the women's side of the Democratic national campaign.

True

Eleanor's experience in the campaign caused her to conclude that prejudice impairs people's intelligence.

True

In the chapter titled "First Lady," Youngs relates that when the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) barred African American singer Marian Anderson from singing in their auditorium, Eleanor Roosevelt told President Roosevelt to cut federal support to the DAR.

False

According to Chapter 10, Eleanor felt it was not her place to respond to anti-communists like Joseph McCarthy who sought to associate civil rights advocates and other reformers with Communism, so she simply ignored them.

False

According to Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, Chapter 8 described the depression as:

American industrial production had declined by 50%.Annual national income had fallen from $81 billion to $41 billion.The number of unemployed had risen from 4 million to almost 15 million.Thousands of depositors, distrusting banks, took their money from banks.

In the 1930s Japan's behavior toward other nations became more aggressive after the _____ faction gained dominance in the Japanese government.

militarist

Women refused to assume manual-labor jobs traditionally held by men.

False

Although the U.S. military was segregated, a number of African American men (the Tuskegee Airmen) were trained to be aviators and fought with distinction.

True

By Executive Order 9906, the U.S. interned 120,000 Japanese Americans, of whom 100,000 were U.S. citizens.

True

Manufacturing companies shifted from producing consumer products (e.g. automobiles) to war materiel (e.g. tanks and fighter-planes).

True

The U.S. Army's highly decorated 442 Regiment was made up of _____ and fought principally in _____.

Japanese Americans, Europe

Arthurdale was physical rehabilitation sanitarium Franklin entered after he was diagnosed with polio.

False

When King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the White House, Eleanor arranged for Marian Anderson to perform Negro spirituals as part of the entertainment.

True

Eleanor Roosevelt was decidedly "left-leaning" and sometimes echoed the words of Karl Marx when criticizing those who used the concept of property rights "to retain in the hands of a limited number the fruits of the labor of many.

True

In the chapter titled "A Politician's Wife," British Ambassador Sir Cecil Spring-Rice scolded Eleanor Roosevelt for being unfamiliar with American History.

True

While Eleanor was First Lady, one of her best friends was Elinor Morgenthau, the wife of FDR's Secretary of the Treasury.

True

Guadalcanal Diary was produced in 1943 nearly two years before the war was to end. The film's creators strove to inspire patriotism, to convey a sense that the war was an "all-American" effort, and to raise viewers' confidence that America had the military might to prevail against the Japanese. Which scene(s) reflected this?

-Onboard the transport ship, New York Yankees fan Sergeant "Hook" Malone and Brooklyn Dodgers fan Corporal "Taxi" Potts continually engaged in spirited banter about the great American pastime - baseball.-Onboard ship, the film's creators introduced a set of characters that included a Jew, a Texan, an Irish‑American Catholic priest, a Mexican‑American, and an African American sailor.-When the Marines ran up on deck, they looked out on a vast flotilla of American warships poised to take the battle to the Japanese.-When the Marines landed on Guadalcanal and advanced to the partially completed Japanese airfield, one of their first acts was to take down the Japanese flag and raise the Stars and Stripes.

One of Japan's immediate objectives following the attack on Pearl Harbor was to seize major ports on the West Coast of the U.S. mainland.

False

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin (R-MT) was the only member of congress who refused to endorse the declaration of war against Japan.

True

The Molotov - Ribbentrop Pact assured non‑aggression between Germany and the U.S.S.R.

True

The world leaders and their respective nations represented at the Yalta Conference (1945) were Winston Churchill (England); Franklin D. Roosevelt (U.S.); Joseph Stalin (USSR).

True

When Stalin, Churchill, and FDR met in Yalta (1945), they agreed that after the war, Poland would be divided into three sectors with each party maintaining their respective spheres of influence.

False

When the U.S. entered World War II, one American objective in the Pacific was to seize advanced naval and air bases.

True

When American forces and its allies landed on D-Day (June 6, 1944), Nazi Germany was faced with a western front and an eastern front.

True

In 1940, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters A. Philip Randolph threatened a "March on Washington" if the federal government did not take steps to expand jobs for African Americans.

True

Kristallnacht" refers to the 1938 event in Germany in which Nazis and Nazi‑supporters attacked Jews, burned their synagogues, and smashed the windows of stores owned by Jews.

True

The Post‑WW II military alliance that included the U.S. and Western European nations was called the Democratic Alliance for Peace (DAP).

False

In the 50s, homosexuals were considered security risks in sensitive government positions because their sexual orientation might make them susceptible to being blackmailed.

True

George F. Kennan articulated the policy of "containment" which stated that, while recognizing that the U.S. had little likelihood of fundamentally changing the social, political, economic, and cultural characteristics of the USSR, it was possible to limit their expansion elsewhere in the world.

True

When some Southern delegates to the 1948 Democratic national convention objected to a platform plank supporting expanded civil rights for African Americans, a third party emerged called the States' Rights Democratic Party ("Dixiecrats").

True

The terms "Mutually Assured Destruction," "Massive Retaliation," and "Brinksmanship" refer to the nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the USSR.

True

Strom Thurmond was the 1948 presidential candidate of the States' Rights Democratic Party ("Dixiecrats").

True

The CBS network was fearful of losing one of its important sponsors - International Engineered Aluminum Fabricators (IEAF).

False

Don Hollenbeck was a CBS newscaster being targeted by Hearst columnist Jack O'Brian for his (Hollenbeck's) left-leaning views.

True

When Shirley Wershba (played by Patricia Clarkson) and Joe Wershba (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) met by the file cabinets, they were discussing a loyalty oath that CBS was requiring employees to sign.

True

In the advertisement for Kent cigarettes, the product spokesman stated that the intelligence and discernment of Murrow's viewers would lead them to choose Kent cigarettes over other brands.

True

Fred Friendly (played by George Clooney) and Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) passed a TV showing President Eisenhower speaking. This would indicate that events depicted in the film occurred in the1950s.

True

Early in the Cold War, the Soviets cut off British, French, and U.S. ground access to Berlin, requiring a nearly year‑long airlift of food and supplies to the city.

True

As World War II drew to a close, the U.S. airlifted two Army Airborne divisions into Berlin to secure it against destruction and looting by Soviet forces.

False

As World War II drew to a close, the U.S. airlifted German scientists and government officials out of Berlin and granted them political asylum in the U.S.

False

When the Berlin Wall was erected in 1961, British, French, and U.S. aircraft transported food and supplies to citizens behind the wall.

False

As depicted in the film Good Night and Good Luck, which of the following statements most closely reflects Edward R. Murrow's opinion about television?

TV was a communications medium whose best uses were informing and educating the public.

She refused to participate in UN activities because she believed the organization was soft on communism.

False

In August 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled on a U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Newfoundland where he and Winston Churchill drafted the Atlantic Charter.

True

She accepted President Truman's invitation to join America's UN delegation because she believed the UN offered the hope of a peaceful world.

True

She supported Senator Joseph McCarthy's efforts to identify and prosecute communists.

False

Eleanor Roosevelt found Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson's views too conservative and she refused to support him in 1952 and 1956.

False

On D-Day, June 6, 1944, American, British, and Canadian forces landed on the south coast of Germany.

False

In 1937, Japan and China were at war.

True

Americans raised the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi (Iwo Jima) on February 23, 1945.

True

Among Japan's early military success in WW II were Hong Kong (Britain), Indochina (France), and Guam (U.S.)

True

The Battle of the Coral Sea (May, 1942) and the Battle of Midway (June, 1942) were principally contested between Japanese and American aircraft carriers and their planes.

True

Murrow came to Radulovich's defense because the Air Force was using the same "guilt by association" tactics against Radulovich that McCarthy used in Senate committee investigations.

True

An Air Force court martial found Milo Radulovich guilty of espionage, dishonorably discharged him from the service, and sentenced him to life imprisonment in a federal penitentiary.

False

Milo Radulovich's Air Force superiors sought his resignation because they suspected he had passed classified messages to Pentagon code room employee Annie Lee Moss.

False

CBS Chief Executive William S. Paley (portrayed by Frank Langella) refused to let Murrow discuss the Radulovich incident on the air because he did not want to antagonize the Air Force.

False

Dixiecrats

southern democrats that did not want to expand civil rights

Marion Anderson

african american singer, does not sing at constitutional hall

jaenetta rankin

pacifist, first congress woman that votes against the war

frances perkins

first woman to hold cabinet position. scretary of labor

Mary mcleod bethune

civil rights activist, national council of negro women

Eleanor Roosevelt

FDR's Wife and New Deal supporter. Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws. She also worked for birth control and better conditions for working women

vera lynn

The Forces' Sweetheart"Born 1917Decorated by British EmpireWrites song - "blue birds over white cliffs of Dover" (message of hope)

father vincent warren ssj

kidnapped by the KKK

Alfred E. Smith

democrat candidate, immigrant descendant, wet

herbert hoover

republican, dry

a phillip randolph

african american leader who threatens a march to end discrimination in the work place, march on washington

hoover

dry; protestant; individualism

smith

wet; catholic

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

protect domestic manufactures; tax on goods

Work Progress Administration (WPA)

start building schools, hospitals, parks, bridges

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

electricity to rural areas

federal depository insurance corp

gives back up to $2500

wagner act

rules on how working man and owners negotiate

dust bowl

wind erosion, dust storms, nickanme for the great plains regions

Blitzkrieg

lightning war