Question | Answer |
"As advertising developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some marketers used fear to sell products. Which of the following disease-sounding words was created to sell Listerine?
" | Halitosis 2 |
"The agency that resettled tens of thousands of Civil War refugees, built dozens of hospitals, and issued millions of rations to the poor and hungry was
" | the Freedmen's Bureau. 3 |
"What general led the U.S. offensive in the Pacific theatre during World War II?
" | General Douglas MacArthur 11 |
"Who was Arthur Levitt?
" | Builder of planned communities 13 |
"The heaviest casualties in the Spanish-American War came as a result of
" | tropical diseases. 14 |
"What is the name of Booker T. Washington's famous school for blacks in the South?
" | Tuskegee Institute 18 |
"""About 150,000 WAC members and nearly as many WAVES served in World War II.""
What does this statement refer to?
" | Women serving with the armed forces 27 |
"An ongoing event in the 1920s that focused on finding communists hidden in the U.S. was called
" | the Red Scare. 36 |
The year 1968 was marred by the assassinations of two important public figures; Martin Luther King, Jr. and | Robert Kennedy. 37 |
"Which candidate for president in the election of 1992 won the most popular votes for an independent party in several decades?
" | Ross Perot 42 |
"What area of the U.S. was most affected by the ""Dust Bowl"" phenomenon of the 1930s?
" | Southern Plains states 45 |
"Where did Puerto Ricans tend to settle in 1950s America?
" | New York 52 |
"The movie industry thrived during the Great Depression. Which of the following films opened in the 1940s and dealt with issues of economic depression in a serious manner?
" | The Grapes of Wrath 53 |
"In the infamous Scottsboro case, who were the accusers?
" | Two white women 55 |
"Malcolm X broke with which organization in 1964?
" | The Nation of Islam 60 |
"Lend-Lease allowed the U.S. to do what?
" | Break the Neutrality Act by selling arms to Great Britain 62 |
"What are the dates of the Korean War?
" | 1950-1953 63 |
"""Zoot suit"" refers to
" | a clothing style worn mostly by male Latino teens in the 1940s. 66 |
"The largest armada ever assembled was at
" | Normandy, France. 67 |
"The heaviest U.S. casualties in the Pacific during World War II were sustained at
" | Okinawa. 68 |
The American diplomat usually associated with the Cold War policy of containment is | George F. Kennan. 71 |
"In 1983, who did Reagan refer to as the ""Evil Empire""?
" | The Soviet Union 72 |
"What was the conclusion of the Berlin blockade and airlift?
" | The Soviets stopped the blockade 73 |
"What is the ""Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944"" more commonly known as?
" | The GI Bill 75 |
________ was NOT one of the major decisions of the Yalta conference in 1945 | India would become an autonomous nation. 78 |
"Which countries border Vietnam to the west and were involved in the Vietnam War?
" | Laos and Cambodia 80 |
"The man who succeeded Stalin and with whom Eisenhower had to deal was
" | Nikita Khrushchev. 84 |
what issue forced President Eisenhower to take a stand on civil rights? | The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas 91 |
"What was the U.S. plan for the Bay of Pigs invasion?
" | Armed Cuban exiles launched from offshore U.S. boats would land on the beach and encourage the Cuban people to rise up and revolt against Castro. 93 |
"The Marshall Plan has been called one of the most important pieces of foreign policy in U.S. history. What did the plan do?
" | Provided $13 billion in loans to Western Europe's recovery effort 95 |
"AIM is an acronym for what group of militants that seized the deserted Alcatraz island in 1969 and kept it until 1971?
" | American Indian Movement 100 |
"In what year was the famous Tet offensive of the Vietnam War?
" | 1968 101 |
"Why did President Lyndon Johnson not run for reelection in 1968?
" | He did not want to further divide the country over his war politics. 102 |
In 1992 President George H. W. Bush sent peacekeeping troops to what African country in a mission that ended in disaster in 1993? | Somalia 103 |
"Nixon nominated three justices considered to be conservative. Therefore, he was surprised when the famous Roe v. Wade case was handed down, as it was considered a liberal ruling. The judge who wrote the decision was
" | Harry Blackmun 107 |
"A book called The Feminine Mystique galvanized the feminist movement in the 1960s. It was written by
" | Betty Friedan. 110 |
"A nickname often used for President Ronald Reagan is
" | the "Great Communicator." 111 |
"In 1990 the Senate voted whether to authorize the president to take military action against Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait. What was the result of that vote?
" | A slim majority of votes were given for war 116 |
"What was the important legislation passed in 1990 that covered most employees in the country and all businesses with over 25 employees?
" | The Americans with Disabilities Act |