front 1 The New Deal's first step to achieve recovery dealt with | back 1 c. banking |
front 2 What New Deal agency put young, single men to work planting trees, building parks, and fighting soil erosion? | back 2 c. Civilian Conservation Corps |
front 3 Which program was enacted during the Second New Deal? | back 3 b. an insurance program for the elderly |
front 4 The neutrality legislation of the 1930's was based on the assumption that the United States could keep out of war by | back 4 d. banning arms sales to countries at war |
front 5 Most Americans viewed war work for women as | back 5 b. a temporary response to the war emergency |
front 6 The first city attacked with atomic weapons was | back 6 b. Hiroshima |
front 7 Because of Anglo hostility toward Latinos focused on pachucos, the Los Angeles city council passed an ordinance making it a crime to wear a tuxedo. | back 7 False |
front 8 The harnessing of atomic energy meant no one in the world, even the United States, was safe anymore. | back 8 True |
front 9 What did the secretary of state offer in his Marshall Plan? | back 9 a. to provide financial aid to rebuild Europe's war-torn economies |
front 10 Which of the following presented the most divisive issue the Kennedy administration had to face? | back 10 b. the civil rights movement |
front 11 Which statement about the postwar world of work is most accurate? | back 11 c. Monority workers lost their jobs through the practice of "last hired, first fired |
front 12 With his "Fair Deal", Truman hoped to keep his working coalition of _____ together. | back 12 a. labor and farmers |
front 13 Religion in the 1950's was | back 13 c. one way Americans in suburbia maintained a sense of identity and community |
front 14 Which stereotype of women was most common in the 1950's? | back 14 c. domestic and motherly |
front 15 In the election of 1960, which of the following were key components to Kennedy's victory? | back 15 d. all of these answers are correct (religion, race, & ethniticity) |
front 16 The case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka concerned | back 16 c. racial segregation in public schools |
front 17 Which of the following civil rights organizations effectively used the nation's judicial system to implement lasting change in America? | back 17 a. NAACP |
front 18 In reaction to the Soviet blockade, the Western powers initiated a massive airlift to supply the besieged people. | back 18 True |