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US Hist 4
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. What was the main purpose of the flexible response military strategy?
a. to enable the United States to fight limited wars around the world
b. to decrease the number of nuclear weapons
c. to prepare for the Bay of Pigs invasion
d. to reduce defense spending
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2. What contributed to the end of the Cuban missile crisis?
a. America's secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey
b. the discovery that the missiles had been removed
c. Castro's promise to restore democracy
d. Castro's promise to break with the Soviet Union
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3. What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?
a. to embarrass America
b. to stop East Germans from fleeing to West Berlin
c. to reduce Cold War tensions
d. to demonstrate the success of communism
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4. How did America react to news that the Soviet Union was the first to put a man in space?
a. indifference
b. pride in human achievement
c. determination not to lose the space race
d. threats of military action
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5. Which of the following reflects the findings of the Warren Commission?
a. Oswald and Ruby were part of a conspiracy.
b. Oswald acted alone.
c. Cuban exiles were involved.
d. The FBI was involved.
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6. What was one unintended consequence of Johnson's Great Society initiatives?
a. a balanced budget
b. reduction in the power of the federal government
c. a conservative backlash
d. increased taxes
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7. Which of the following groups was intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?
a. minorities and the poor
b. white, middle-class families
c. farmers and laborers
d. businessmen
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8. All of the following contributed to the economic recovery after the war except
a. consumer demand.
b. labor strikes.
c. the Cold War.
d. the Marshall Plan.
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9. The first politician to skillfully use the new medium of television was
a. Harry S. Truman.
b. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
c. Richard M. Nixon.
d. Adlai Stevenson.
____ 10. The group that benefited most from the economy and culture of the 1950s was
a. African-American women.
b. African-American men.
c. white women.
d. white men.
____ 11. The dramatic increase in car ownership in the 1950s contributed to all of the following except
a. noise pollution.
b. the Interstate Highway Act.
c. decreased usage of national parks.
d. the widening gap between the middle class and the poor.
____ 12. Criticism of television in the 1950s was based on
a. its portrayal of an idealized society.
b. weak transmitters.
c. the size of the screen.
d. its black-and-white images.
____ 13. In the 1950s, both the beat movement and rock 'n' roll were viewed as forms of
a. harmless entertainment.
b. rebellion.
c. African-American culture.
d. mainstream American values.
____ 14. Three years after more than 57,000 people contracted polio, new innovations led to the development of a
vaccine for polio by
a. Jonas Salk
b. Jackie Robinson
c. Hector P. Garcia
d. James Baldwin
____ 15. To help create new economic opportunities, President Eisenhower’s administration did all of the following
except
a. extend Social Security benefits.
b. propose civil rights legislation.
c. increase the minimum wage.
d. create the Interstate highway system.
____ 16. In a capitalist system,
a. the state controls economic activity.
b. private citizens control economic activity.
c. elected officials control economic activity.
d. the dictator controls economic activity.
____ 17. The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to
a. promote free elections in Europe.
b. restrict the spread of communism.
c. force Germany to pay war reparations.
d. maintain international peace through the UN.
____ 18. The Soviet blockade of West Berlin was a response to
a. the Marshall Plan.
b. the formation of NATO.
c. efforts by Western nations to divide Germany.
d. efforts by Western nations to reunify Germany.
____ 19. When an armistice was signed ending the Korean War,
a. North and South Korea were still divided along the 38th parallel.
b. a communist government was established in South Korea.
c. communist fears in the United States were lifted.
d. China gained control of the entire peninsula.
____ 20. After the U-2 incident, all of the following events occurred except
a. the Soviet Union rejected Eisenhower's "open skies" proposal at Geneva.
b. Khrushchev called off a summit conference on the arms race.
c. Khrushchev withdrew his invitation for Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union.
d. Francis Gary Powers was released from prison after 18 months.
____ 21. Accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military were made by
a. Douglas MacArthur.
b. Joseph McCarthy.
c. John Foster Dulles.
d. Alger Hiss.
____ 22. American interest in developing a hydrogen bomb intensified when
a. the policy of containment failed in China.
b. the Soviet Union launched a space satellite.
c. the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb.
d. the Soviet Union exploded a hydrogen bomb.
____ 23. The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military intervention in
a. Latin America.
b. Eastern Europe.
c. Western Europe.
d. the Middle East.
____ 24. These decryped messages confirmed HUAC’s suspicions by determining that almost 400 U.S. residents had
covert relationship with the Soviet Union.
a. the blacklist
b. the Verona Papers
c. the Warsaw Pact
d. the Rosenberg Memos
____ 25. To combat wartime inflation, the U.S. government did all of the following except
a. raise and extend the income tax.
b. impose wage and price controls.
c. encourage the purchase of war bonds.
d. increase production of consumer goods.
____ 26. During the war, women in the WAACs served as
a. fighter pilots and foot soldiers.
b. shipbuilders and waitresses.
c. scientists and factory workers.
d. nurses and radio operators.
____ 27. Germany's goal in the Battle of the Atlantic was to
a. invade the coast of Great Britain and then take over the entire country.
b. keep food and war supplies from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
c. prevent Allied forces from landing in Normandy and liberating France.
d. prevent the invasion of North Africa.
____ 28. The Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe was
a. Chester Nimitz
b. George Marshall.
c. Omar Bradley
d. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
____ 29. In the Battle of Stalingrad, all of the following contributed to the Soviet victory except
a. a brutal winter.
b. a massive Allied invasion.
c. a massive Soviet counterattack.
d. Hitler's refusal to order a German retreat.
____ 30. The general who led Allied troops in battles on the islands of Bataan, Leyte, and Iwo Jima was
a. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
b. Chester Nimitz.
c. Charles Brown.
d. Douglas MacArthur.
____ 31. In deciding to use the atomic bomb against Japan, President Truman's main goal was to
a. end the war quickly.
b. weaken Japan for a long time.
c. get revenge for Pearl Harbor.
d. save Japanese lives.
____ 32. The GI Bill of Rights made it possible for
a. African Americans to serve in combat positions.
b. soldiers to take short leaves from fighting.
c. veterans to attend college for free.
d. enlisted men to receive officer training.
____ 33. Roosevelt's decision to remove people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps was a response to
a. strong anti-Japanese sentiment.
b. verified reports of Japanese Americans acting as spies.
c. the lack of Japanese Americans serving in the armed forces.
d. rumors that the Japanese were developing an atomic bomb.
____ 34. At the end of World War I, many new democracies were established in Europe. In the years between the two
world wars, what happened to most of these democracies?
a. They thrived.
b. They became Communist.
c. They were torn apart by civil wars.
d. They were replaced by dictatorships.
____ 35. Which of the following did Adolf Hitler oppose?
a. Kristallnacht
b. the Munich Pact
c. the Nuremberg Laws
d. the Treaty of Versailles
____ 36. How were Britain and France drawn into war with Germany?
a. Hitler had taken power in Germany.
b. Germany had attacked Poland.
c. Germany had attacked Czechoslovakia.
d. Germany had pulled out of the League of Nations.
____ 37. What happened during the Battle of Britain?
a. Germany joined the Axis powers.
b. Germany engaged in a three-front war.
c. Germany bombed Britain for two months.
d. Germany entered into a nonaggression pact with Britain.
____ 38. What was the Lend-Lease Act?
a. a statement of war aims compiled by Roosevelt and Churchill
b. a nonaggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union
c. a policy allowing the president to provide arms to certain foreign countries
d. an order to shoot German U-boats on sight
____ 39. What advances in conventional weapons did Germany’s blitzkrieg strategy use to take the enemy by surprise?
a. long-range missiles and larger bombs
b. fast tanks and more powerful aircraft
c. submarines and underwater missiles
d. motorcycles and machine guns