Advertising in the 1920s was strongly influenced by the success of what World War I‒era agency? A) Committee on Public Information B) War Industry Board C) War Labor Board D) American Protective League ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
“Eugenics” is __________. A) pseudo-scientific racism B) a post‒laissez faire economic theory C) a belief that all people are equally capable of progress D) an early form of psychiatry ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Marcus Garvey was a champion of __________. A) black economic self-determination B) black cultural assimilation C) the ideas of Booker T. Washington D) racial integration ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Francis Townshend’s Revolving Pension plan would have provided $200 a month to __________. A) all unemployed people B) every head of household C) all people over sixty D) devoted Roman Catholics ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The influence of the women’s network in the New Deal is exemplified by FDR’s appointment of Frances Perkins as __________. A) secretary of labor B) the first woman on the Supreme Court C) attorney general D) the first female army general ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these was at the heart of Huey Long’s economic proposals? A) the abolition of the income tax B) the elimination of government regulation C) wealth redistribution D) supply-side theories ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
As Japan continued to expand into Indochina, President Roosevelt responded by __________. A) moving the U.S. Pacific fleet to Hawai’i B) appealing to the League of Nations C) cutting off oil shipments to Japan D) ordering American forces to attack Japanese forces ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Germany, Italy, and __________ formed the Axis powers. A) China B) Japan C) the Soviet Union D) Spain ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The British prime minister, with whom FDR formed a particularly close wartime relationship, was __________. A) Clement Atlee B) Winston Churchill C) Bernard Montgomery D) Stanley Baldwin ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why did Truman make the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: casualties in the Pacific; U.S.-Soviet relations; projected cost of an invasion of Japan
Date: September 9th, 2020
