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The uneven distribution of wealth in America helped cause the Depression because:
a. as production increased, demand declined
b. many people no longer had extra money to invest in stocks
c. corporations no longer had sufficient capital to expand their productive capacities |
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I was unable to find anything on the internet about this other than whoever wrote this question was full of shit.
I would guess
a. as production increased, demand declined?
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This is socialist propaganda if it's being used in a school. Uneven "distribution of wealth" had nothing to do with the great depression. You need to question everything this teacher tells you, and learn how capitalism and free markets work. |
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The National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagoner Act
a. provided for the prohibition of unions
b. prohibited employers from firing workers
c. guaranteed workers' rights to organize unions and bargain collectively |
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c. guaranteed workers' rights to organize unions and bargain collectively
The National Labor Relations Act (or Wagner Act, after Robert F. Wagner) is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector that create labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands. |
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The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:
a. cutbacks in production
b. intensive farming
c. state and federal subsidies |
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a. cutbacks in production (although C looks like it could apply too -_-)
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) (Pub.L. 73-10, enacted May 12, 1933) restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby a portion of their fields lie fallow. The money for these subsidies was generated through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products. |
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The Axis powers included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. Japan
b. Russia
c. Germany |
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"Rosie the Riveter" was:
a. a cartoon produced by Disney
b. a woman in wartime propaganda documentaries produced by Hollywood
c. the graphic image of a glamorous machinist who labored in American industry to bring her man home from the war |
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b. a woman in wartime propaganda documentaries produced by Hollywood
(although again it looks like C could work as well, although the image in question is just a woman flexing her muscle)
Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II,[1][2] many of whom worked in the manufacturing plants that produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military. |
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President Roosevelt supported Americans' wartime aims in his speech on the "Four Freedoms." Those were all of the following EXCEPT:
a. freedom from fear
b. freedom from oppression
c. freedom from want |
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b. freedom from oppression
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of religion
Freedom from want
Freedom from fear |
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The Bracero program:
a. was a reaction to the "zoot suit" riots.
b. led to the forced evacuation of over 100,000 Japanese-Americans
c. brought some 200,000 Mexican farmworkers into the western United States |
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c. brought some 200,000 Mexican farmworkers into the western United States
the Bracero Program (from the Spanish word brazo, meaning "arm") was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. |
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The Battle of Midway:
a. was fought to a draw
b. was fought in the Coral Sea
c. was the turning point of the war in the Pacific |
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c. was the turning point of the war in the Pacific
The Battle of Midway (Japanese: ミッドウェー海戦) is widely regarded as the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. Between 4 and 7 June 1942, approximately one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy decisively defeated an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese. |
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Of the following, the biggest single source of government financing for America's war effort was:
a. increased federal taxes
b. loans from financial institutions
c. the sale of public lands in the Northwest |
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Not sure, can't find a good source.
I'd guess
a. increased federal taxes
Federal tax policy was highly contentious during the war, with Roosevelt battling a conservative Congress. Everyone agreed on the need for high taxes to pay for the war. Roosevelt tried unsuccessfully to increase tax on incomes over $25,000, while Congress enlarged the base downward. By 1944 nearly every employed person was paying federal income taxes (compared to 10% in 1940). |
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The "Double V" was:
a. a group of cryptanalysts (code breakers)
b. the code name for the atomic bomb
c. a slogan that meant victory abroad over Hitler and victory at home over racial discrimination |
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c. a slogan that meant victory abroad over Hitler and victory at home over racial discrimination
The Double V campaign:
In a 1942 letter to the Pittsburgh Courier, James G. Thompson called for a Double V Campaign to achieve two victories: over the Axis powers in World War II and over racial prejudice in the United States. |
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War Relocation Camps:
a. housed over 100,000 Japanese-Americans during the war
b. were actually prisoner-of-war camps for captured Germans
c. helped the families of American servicemen cope with the absence of husbands and fathers |
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a. housed over 100,000 Japanese-Americans during the war
Japanese-American internment was the forced relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the wake of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. |
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Following the Allied victory in Sicily:
a. Mussolini committed suicide
b. Italy joined the Allies
c. the Allies turned their attention to Egypt |
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Couldn't find much information on this but I found that Mussolini did not commit suicide, he was executed, and I didn't find Egypt mentioned anywhere, although it does say that Italy Surrendered and there was a coup so...
b. Italy joined the Allies
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The meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to plan an invasion of France and a Russian offensive took place in:
a. Teheran
b. Paris
c. Geneva |
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a. Teheran
The Tehran Conference (codenamed Eureka) was the meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill between November 28 and December 1, 1943, most of which was held at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran. |
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf:
a. caught Hitler by surprise
b. was a victory for the Japanese
c. was the largest naval engagement in History |
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c. was the largest naval engagement in History
The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also called the "Battles for Leyte Gulf", and formerly known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and also one of the largest naval battles in history. |
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The Yalta Conference:
a. discussed wartime economic cooperation
b. gave Russia control of eastern Germany
c. decided on the long-awaited cross-channel invasion against Germany |
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b. gave Russia control of eastern Germany
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President Roosevelt died:
a. of leukemia
b. less than a month after the surrender of Japan
c. less than a month after the surrender of Germany. |
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NONE OF THESE ARE RIGHT
Roosevelt Died of a STROKE
He died on April 12, 1945
Germany surrenders May 8, 1945
Japan surrenders September 2, 1945
There must be a typo and he meant "BEFORE" or "STROKE" like seriously. |
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V-E Day:
a. celebrated the defeat of Japan
b. celebrated the defeat of Germany
c. followed the Allied victory at Iwo Jima |
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b. celebrated the defeat of Germany
Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) was on May 8, 1945, the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. |
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The National Security Act:
a. was passed over President Truman's veto
b. set up the OSS and the House Un-American Activities Committee
c. set up the CIA and the National Security Council |
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c. set up the CIA and the National Security Act
Aside from the military reorganization, the act established the National Security Council, a central place of coordination for national security policy in the executive branch, and the Central Intelligence Agency, the States' first peacetime intelligence agency.
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Which of the following was NOT a permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations?
a. Britain
b. Japan
c. Russia |
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b. Japan
There are 15 members of the Security Council, consisting of 5 veto-wielding permanent members (China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States) and 10 elected non-permanent members with two-year terms. |
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East Germany was controlled after World War II by the:
a. Soviet Union
b. United States, France, and Italy
c. United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain |
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a. Soviet Union
The Yalta Conference:
a. discussed wartime economic cooperation
b. gave Russia control of eastern Germany
c. decided on the long-awaited cross-channel invasion against Germany |
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In response to a Soviet blockade of West Berlin, Truman:
a. used a massive airlift to supply the city
b. used armed convoys to supply the city
c. conceded Berlin to the Russians in order to save East Germany |
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a. used a massive airlift to supply the city
In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. Great Britain's Royal Air Force and the recently formed United States Air Force, flew over 200,000 flights over the time span of one year that provided 13,000 tons of daily necessities such as fuel and food to the people of Berlin |
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In the area of civil rights, President Truman:
a. refused to address the issue of racial violence
b. issued an Executive Order banning racial segregation in the armed forces.
c. pushed through Congress a voting rights act that effectively ended barriers to black voting |
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b. issued an Executive Order banning racial segregation in the armed forces
What factors motivated President Truman in his decisions to form a Civil Rights Commission in 1946 and to desegregate the Armed Forces in 1948? |
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The person usually credited with formulating the doctrine of containment was:
a. James F. Bymes
b. Harry Hopkins
c. George F. Keenan |
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c. George F. Keenan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. |
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The police action in Korea:
a. lasted just eight months
b. began in 1950, when North Korea forces invaded South Korea
c. began in 1946, when Mao Tse-tung's forces refused to serve South Korea |
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b. began in 1950, when North Korean forces invaded South Korea
The situation escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. |
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Ho Chi Minh:
a. was a fascist
b. was a French nationalist?
c. was a Vietnamese nationalist? |
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c. was a Vietnamese nationalist
Hồ led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. He lost political power inside North Vietnam in the late 1950s, but remained as the highly visible figurehead president until his death. The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, after the Fall of Saigon, was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City in his honor. |
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The 1960 Russian-American Summit meeting in Paris failed:
a. because of the U-2 gov plane incident
b. after Russia offered military aid to the rebel government in Hungary
c. when Eisenhower refused to give Russia permission to inspect American miitary installations |
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a. because of the U-2 gov plane incident
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union. The United States government at first denied the plane's purpose and mission, but then was forced to admit its role as a covert surveillance aircraft when the Soviet government produced its remains (largely intact) and surviving pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Coming just over two weeks before the scheduled opening of an East–West summit in Paris, the incident was a great embarrassment to the United States[1] and prompted a marked deterioration in its relations with the Soviet Union. |
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The "Southern Manifesto:"
a. opposed the Brown decision
b. supported the Brown decision
c. was written by Martin Luther King Jr. |
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a. opposed the Brown decision
The Southern Manifesto was a document written in February-March 1956 by legislators in the United States Congress opposed to racial integration in public places. The document was largely drawn up to counter the landmark Supreme Court 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education, |
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When black students tried to enter Mansfield High School:
a. the governor of Texas sent the Texas Rangers to protect them
b. the governor of Texas sent the National Guard to protect them
c. the governor of Texas sent the Texas Rangers to prevent the students from entering the school |
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c. the governor of Texas sent the Texas Rangers to prevent the students from entering the school
Texas Governor Allan Shivers supported the protests, and even dispatched Texas Rangers to prevent integration. He then authorized the Mansfield Independent School District to send its black students to Fort Worth, Texas. By doing this the school district had effectively ignored a federal court order for integration. |
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The "N" in SNCC stands for:
a. National
b. Nonviolent
c. Negro |
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b. Nonviolent
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (conventionally pronounced /ˈsnɪk/) was one of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. |
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The philosophy of "militant nonviolence" was best seen in the work of:
a. H. Rap Brown
b. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. Huey P. Newton |
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b. Martin Luther King Jr.
I picked this because there's a book titled Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence [Paperback] lol? |
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The 1963 March on Washington:
a. was the largest civil rights demonstrations in American history
b. was the setting of Jesse Jackson's "I have a Dream" speech
c. ended when Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders were arrested for parking without a permit |
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a. was the largest civil rights demonstrations in American History
I don't think Jesse Jackson was present but i'm dead tired and this is like the last question. |
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Martin Luther King Jr was:
a. assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Nashville Tennessee |
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a. assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Nashville Tennessee
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, a shot rang out. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, now lay sprawled on the balcony's floor. Although this says "Memphis" Tennessee like he always seems to be a bit off -_- |
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