Why, when the United States had been attacked by Japan, and Britain was threatened by the possibility of a German invasion, did the Allied strategists decide to first commit American troops in North Africa? Assess the wisdom of this strategy as you see it. ANSWER When the United States joined the war, President Roosevelt […]
Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter when news was received in Charleston that Lincoln had A) decided to resupply the fort. B) ordered the evacuation of federal troops from the fort. C) proclaimed that the South was in a state of insurrection against the federal government. D) decided to send troops and arms to the […]
Who was the central figure in American Transcendentalism? A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow B) Nathanial Hawthorne C) Herman Melville D) Ralph Waldo Emerson ANSWER D
At the end of World War II, Eastern Europe was liberated from Nazi control by the A) Soviet Red Army. B) Polish underground. C) United States Army. D) British Army. ANSWER A
It might be said that the Cold War was declared in early 1946 when ________ announced that “from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the [European] continent.” A) Franklin D. Roosevelt B) Dean Acheson C) Winston Churchill D) Harry S. Truman ANSWER C
What industries were most financially important to the West by the 1970s? A) oil and mining B) lumbering and tourism C) farming and ranching D) electronics and service ANSWER D
What kind of popular novels did early nineteenth-century middle-class Americans tend to prefer? A) urban crime stories B) sentimental family stories C) western sagas D) pirate adventure tales ANSWER B
Who was the author of America’s Cold War foreign policy that was designed to restrain Soviet expansion? A) George Kennan B) Walter Lippmann C) George Marshall D) Dean Acheson ANSWER A
What was the primary factor shaping American attitudes toward the Cuban revolution in 1895? A) the humanitarian concern that the American public had for Cubans and their independence B) presidents Cleveland and McKinley’s aggressive expression of their pro-war view C) the strategic location of Cuba in the Caribbean D) the amount of capital that United […]
Describe the motives and goals of early nineteenth-century moral reformers. What social problems did they identify with prostitution and “heavy drinking”? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Goals: get people to adopt more godly personal habits, observe the Sabbath, read the Bible, etc.; curb the resort to immoral practices in society, prostitution, overuse […]
