Kaley M
2011-09-17 17:53:49 UTC
I have to make an 80 on it or I fail the whole class.
Penn Foster American History, Exam 007700, An Uncertain Horizon.
1. Which of the following is true of the Truman Doctrine?
A. It amounted to an informal declaration of Cold War.
B. It created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
*C. It established the Marshall Plan.
D. It ended the policy of containment.
2. After Hitler came to power in 1933, he blamed Germany's defeat in World War I on
A. Jews and Gypsies.
*B. Communists and American imperialists.
C. Jews and Communists.
D. Communists and Socialists.
3. During the McCarthy era, which of the following was (were) executed for allegedly giving atomic secrets to the Soviet Union?
*A. Whittaker Chambers
B. Alger Hiss
C. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
D. Klaus Fuchs
4. When postwar expansion slowed in the 1950s, an economic stimulus was provided by
A. Cold War spending.
B. increased consumer goods manufacturing.
C. the construction of Levitt Towns.
*D. the baby boom.
5. The majority of states that did not ratify the Equal Rights Amendment were located in the
A. West.
B. Northeast.
*C. Midwest.
D. Southeast.
6. Under Franklin Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy,
A. the Platt Amendment was rescinded.
*B. Cordell Hull favored continued military interventions in Latin America.
C. American commerce with Latin America increased, but only slightly.
D. the collective security among the nations of the Western Hemisphere declined.
7. Which of the following is true of President G. W. Bush?
*A. He accepted the United States' role in the International Criminal Court.
B. He rejected unilateralism.
C. He reluctantly endorsed the Kyoto Protocol.
D. He vowed to punish all countries sponsoring terrorism.
8. Which of the following statements is true of the Gulf of Tonkin affair?
A. The destroyer Maddox was sunk by North Vietnamese gunboats.
B. Johnson approved covert amphibious raids on North Vietnam.
*C. Congress was divided and only reluctantly passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
D. Johnson sought passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in order to freely expand American involvement in Vietnam.
9. Which of the following is true of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
A. It established that all citizens should have access to public education.
*B. It ruled that desegregation was a state issue, but that segregation was a federal issue.
C. It declared that segregated schools were inherently separate and unequal.
D. It ruled that segregation should proceed with "all deliberate speed."
10. Which of the following statements is true regarding the Korean War?
A. Both Stalin and Mao expected the American response to the invasion.
*B. The Chinese armed and trained the North Korean army.
C. Stalin approved the North Korean attack in advance.
D. Stalin was outraged by the North Korean attack on South Korea.
11. Which of the following was true of Nixon's presidency?
A. It resisted affirmative-action legislation.
B. It tried to overthrow Johnson's Great Society agenda.
*C. It oversaw the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency.
D. It shifted responsibility for welfare programs from the states to the federal government.
12. Among instances of corporate malfeasance in the early twenty-first century, the _______ scandal was the most shocking and economically damaging for employees and shareholders.
A. Enron
B. Tyco International
*C. American Tobacco
D. WorldCom
13. During World War II, the tide turned in favor of the United States at the Battle of
*A. the Coral Sea.
B. Midway.
C. Okinawa.
D. Leyte Gulf.
14. At the beginning of World War II, Roosevelt dealt with France
A. by supporting the Free French under Charles de Gaulle.
*B. through negotiations with the Vichy Government.
C. by joining with the British in an assault on North Africa.
D. by seeking an alliance with French Algeria.