1920s - 1950s - Part 2 - Essentials
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- Q1Which trend in United States foreign policy is shown by the passage of the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s, Cash and Carry policy, the destroyers for bases deal of 1940, and the Lend-Lease Act of 1941?increase in support for the Allied powersexpansion of trade with the Axis powersreduction in war preparednesswithdrawal from overseas colonies30s
- Q2What a was a major reason for rationing during WWII?providing jobs for the unemployedrestricting lower-priced food importsensuring that troops were adequately suppliedpreventing currency deflation30s
- Q3The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was initially authorized bya proclamation by the governor of Californiaa constitutional amendmentan executive order of the presidenta decision of the Supreme Court30s
- Q4The decision of the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944) upheld the power of the president during wartime tostop mistreatment of resident legal aliensban terrorists from entering the countrydeport persons who work for enemy nationslimit a group's civil liberties30s
- Q5During World War II, many women experienced a change in role in that theyserved in military combat positionscontrolled most corporationschaired several congressional committeesworked in jobs formerly held by men30s
- Q6The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was a United States effort to assist the nations of Europe byforming a strong military alliancesending United States troops to trouble spotsproviding economic aidcontinuing Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union30s
- Q7A major purpose of the GI Bill was to provide World War II veterans witheducational opportunities after the warincreased Social Security paymentscivilian jobs in the militaryprotection against racial discrimination30s
- Q8The United Nations was created mainly toprevent globalizationwork for international peaceestablish democratic governmentsstop the spread of disease30s
- Q9The announcement of the Truman Doctrine, the Berlin airlift, and the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were actions taken by the United States to prevent thestarvation of refugees from Eastern Europerenewal of Nazi fascism in Germany, Italy, and Spainexpansion of communism into Western Europestart of an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union30s
- Q10All of the following were used to forward the foreign policy of containment after WWII EXCEPTKorean Warjoining the League of NationsNATOMarshall Plan30s
- Q11Which group was the main target of the Palmer Raids of 1919–1920 and the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s?African Americanscommunistsnativistsindustrialists30s
- Q12President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 toenforce school integrationsupervise local electionsend a bus boycottbreak up a steel strike30s
- Q13The immediate impact of the 1957 launch of Sputnik I was that itheightened the space race as a form of Cold War competitionheightened the space race as a form of Cold War competitionended the period of peaceful coexistence between the United States and the Soviet Unionfocused attention on the need to regulate the uses of outer space30s
- Q14Which decade was marked by the beginnings of the space race, suburbanization, and a continuing baby boom?1930's1890's1950's1970's30s