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History Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The casus belli for the Spanish-American War was the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine. | True |
| The literary style of Realism was best practiced by Thomas Alva Edison. | False |
| The influence of Sea Power Upon History by Alfred Thayer Mahan was the blueprint for some aspects of U.S. Imperialism. | True |
| President William McKinley is best known for the construction of the Panama Canal. | False |
| In a compare-contrast view of history, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois are the equivalent of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, respectively. | true |
| In an example of vertical monopolization, Railroad A will try to acquire Railroad C. | False |
| Edward Bellamy's 'Looking Backward' postulated a super-capitalist America in the year 2000 A.D. | False |
| One of the results in a historical cause-and-effect of the invention of Basketball was the American "hotdog". | False |
| Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday. | True |
| The "poster child" for the anti-imperialists was William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party candidate for President in 1896. | True |
| Taylorism applied the concept of Scientific Management to human labor to make it compatible with the machine age. | True |
| At the U.S. Centennial Exhibition, the main attraction was Alexander Graham Bell's telephone. | False |
| Las Gorras Blancas ("The White Caps") was a Mexican-American militant group that attacked the property of Anglo settlers moving into the West. | true |
| In a "structuralist" view of American History, the argument can be made that the assassination of William McKinley made the construction of the Panama Canal possible. | False |
| In a "determinist" view of American history, the argument can be made that Carrie nation was responsible for the passage of the 18th Amendment and the era of Prohibition. | True |
| William McKinley broke the tradition of American presidential politics by actively campaigning for the presidency. | False |
| The philosophical antithesis to the "Gospel of Wealth" theory was the Settlement House Movement. | True |
| The impact of mass production changed the way Americans dressed, shopped, and ate. | True |
| Mexicans developed most of the tools, techniques, and trappings that characterized the cattle industry: from boots, chaps and the "western" saddle, to roundups and roping. | True |
| Speak softly and carry a big stick was an old African proverb appropriated by President Ulysses S. Grant | False |
| Appeasement as a foreign policy tool meant peace at any price. | True |
| Revisionist historian John Lewis Gaddis has renamed the Cold War Period (1945-1989) "The Long Peace." | True |
| U.S. Atomic research during World War I was code-named "The Manhattan Project". | False |
| "Europe First" was the U.S. - British strategic plan to defeat Japan first. | False |
| The Dawes Plan was a multinational treaty outlawing war as an instrument of national policy. | True |
| John Scopes (or Juan Escopes) was put on trial in Tennessee for teaching abortion rights for women. | False |
| The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 killed more Americans than any war with U.S. involvement. | True |
| The 1920's introduced two elements that changed American consumerism: advertising and installment buying. | True |
| Isolationism was the U.S. world-view hat led ot the Neutrality Act of 1935. | True |
| Amelia Earnhart was the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris in 1927. | False |
| The Washington Conference of 1921 resulted in the Five-Power Pact, which established limits on aircraft construction. | False |
| Fear of Fascism was the cause of the "Red Scare" in the early 1920's. | False |
| The first commercialized broadcasting company in the U.S. was the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) in 1927. | True |
| The United States is the only country in history to drop atomic weapons in anger during wartime. | True |
| "Lend-Lease" was the successful Roosevelt administration attempt to circumvent the Neutrality Act. | True |
| Revisionist historians now see the atomic bombing of Japan by the U.S. as an attempt to threaten the Soviet Union. | True |
| 20,000 World War I veterans marched on Washington, D.C. in 1932, which was known as "The Bonus March." | True |
| Prohibition during the decade of the 1920's was a social engineering experiment that attempted to stop the manufacture, distribution, and consumption of tobacco. | False |
| During the Great Depression, if people weren't looking for work, they were looking for food. | True |
| Robert Goddard, the father of American rocketry and the last of the "backyard inventors", is also known as "America's Forgotten Genius." | True |
| Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded Richard Nixon as President. | False |
| The Reagan Administration was known as "Camelot". | False |
| The Berlin Airlift was the last crisis of the Cold War. | False |
| Kent State is synonymous with the domestic violence of the Vietnam anti-war movement. | True |
| Gerald Ford was the first "Appointed President" in U.S. history. | True |
| The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was on a "witch-hunt" for Nazis. | False |
| Lyndon B. Johnson's administration will always be remembered for the "New Deal". | False |
| "Chicano" refers to radical Hispanic political ideology. | True |
| Ronald Reagan ushered in the "Second Cold War". | True |
| The Domino Theory was an argument against foreign intervention by the United States. | False |
| Ronald Reagan viewed the Soviet Union as a trusted partner for ultimate world peace. | False |
| Jimmy Carter is best known for the Iranian Hostage Crisis. | True |
| George Kennan called for an end to the policy of containment. | False |
| The Cold War means shooting war. | False |
| The Warren Commission officially stated the John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a lone gunman. | True |
| Gerald Ford was the only President in United States history to resign from office. | False |
| The Cuban Missile crisis illustrated a violation of the United States' Monroe Doctrine. | True |
| The decade of the 1950's has been described as the "Indian Summer of American History." | True |
| The "Tet Offensive" was a last grasp attempt to win the Vietnam War militarily by the Vietcong. | True |
| John F. Kennedy's assassination ended the Vietnam War. | False |
| When monopolies were formed prices went down and the quality of goods and services went up. | False |
| In a Determinist view of history, Henry Ford is the cause for the Assembly Line Approach to all manufacturing. | True |
| One of the results of American industrialization was mass production which led to standardization. | True |
| The popular American literary style of the late nineteenth century was Realism. | True |
| The 1918 Influenza Pandemic killed more Americans than all wars with American involvement combined. | True |
| The Stock Market crash of October 1929, which caused world-wide depression, proved America's "Superpower" status. | True |
| One of President Woodrow Wilson's peace proposals in the "Fourteen Points" called for the creation of a League of Nations World Forum. | True |
| The decade of the 1920's was also known as the "Roaring Twenties" and the "Age of the Flapper". | True |
| Ronald Reagan's "Supply-Side" economics theory called for massive tax cuts on the rich to stimulate the economy and to create jobs. | True |
| The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War was the failure militarily for the communists, but a win politically due to Walter Cronkite's announcement. | True |
| The LBJ administration was known as Camelot. | False |
| Bill Clinton is the only President to be impeached in U.S. history. | False |
| Science Fiction movies of the 1950's and 1960's depicting alien invasions were reflections of American fears concerning subversion and possible invasion by a resurgent Nazi Germany. | False |
| The "Domino Theory" was the American foreign policy idea that when one country falls to fascism, any and all (contiguous) countries will also fall to fascism. | False |
| The concept of M.A.D. is an example of the strategy based on deterrance. | True |
| McCarthyism is a reference to the "witch-hunts" of Nazis during the Second Red Scare of the 1950's. | false |
| Gerald Ford was the first "appointed" President of the United States and was the last surviving member of the Warren Commission. | True |
| "Rock N' Roll" music was considered "satanic" by some socially conservative Americans, and is also a contemporary euphemism among black America for sexual activity. | True |
| The Black Panther Movement and the Chicano Movement were both radical wings for the Civil Rights struggle in America during the 1960's and 1970's. | True |
| "Stagflation" was the result of Jimmy Carter's economic policies. | True |
| JFK ushered in the Great Society. | False |
| Some revisionist historians consider the 20th century to being in 1914 and end in 1991. | True |
| The first decade of the 21st Century may become known as the "Naughty Aughties". | True |
| George H.W. Bush is the first U.S. President to engage in a prolonged war without a war tax. | True |
| The policy of "Containment" was formulated by Winston Churchill in the famous "Long Telegram". | False |
| The Civil Rights Act and The Voting Rights Act were the results of "The Great Society" domestic program of the mid-1960's. | True |
| Elvis Presley can be considered the Al Jolson (1920's Jazz) of the 1950's because of the similarities of a White man introducing African-American music into mainstream America. | True |
| The last Cold War confrontation that almost went "hot" was the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. | False |
| What were the giant ants symbolic of? | Communists |
| The failure to destory the young queen ants was symbolic of: | Failure to stop the spread of communism |
| The origin of the ants at Alamogordo, new mexico is symbolic of the origin of Communism from: | Moscow |
| References to mutation were symbolic of: | Fear of Radiation |
| According to Marx, the working class were labeled the "Proletariat". | True |
| The goal of Dialectical Materialism is to improve the human condition. | True |
| According to Marx, the human condition can be improved by making human behavior rational, enlightened, and predictable. | True |
| The world-wide international system is anarchic. | True |
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