1. Along with the stock market crash of 1929 which of these contributed to the cause of the Great Depression?
A. The federal reserve increasing the amount of money in circulation
B. A tariff on agricultural and Industrial goods, and lower duties.
C. Poor decision making by political and financial leaders.
D. Creditors lending out more money to help people cover their debts.


2. Based on the information in the graph in which year did personal income from farming decline the most?
A. 1932
B. 1930
C. 1929
D. 1931

3. As part of Roosevelt's New Deal program the National Industrial Recovery Act helped the nation's economy recover by:
A. Creating jobs for young men in the field of conservation.
B. Paying farmers to destroy livestock and take acreage out of production.
C. Providing refinancing of home mortgages at low rates.
D. Guaranteeing collective bargaining rights to workers, sparking new hope for union organizers.

4. Fascist governments that arose in Europe before WWII could be described as:
A. Open to the ideas of free speech and capitalism.
B. Right-wing dictators that were anti-democratic anti-parliamentary and anti-Semitic.
C. Right-wing parliamentary forms of government that were anti-dictatorship and anti-Semitic.
D. Governments that did not want to expand their territory but instead live in peace with the rest of the world.

5. Before formally entering WWII the United States helped the allied forces in what way?
A. Sending supplies, food and ammunition to Germany, Italy and Japan.
B. Sending troops to Russia to help stop Hitler from advancing.
C. Creating a lend-lease program which gave the allied forces supplies to fight the war.
D. Continuing their trade with the axis powers.

6. President Truman's administration feared that communist and socialist governments would:
A. Remain in the areas of Soviet influence after the war.
B. Spread out across the Globe.
C. Decline due to the weak economy of the Soviet Union.
D. Affect the trade between the United States and Western Europe.

7. Which of these was the military alliance between the United States and Western European countries in 1949 that was enacted to protect them from an attack by the Soviet Union?
A. NAFTA
B. NATO
C. NAACP
D. NLO

8. The returning soldiers after WWII expected women to:
A. Keep their jobs while the former soldiers stayed at home to take care of the family.
B. Compete with them for jobs to create a more diverse workforce.
C. Keep their jobs but also take care of the domestic aspects of the family.
D. Leave the workforce and return to their domestic duties as wives and mothers.

9. The decisions of the Supreme Court in the Brown v. Board of Education cases affected the American public education system by:
A. Confirming the separate but equal statements made in Plessy v. Ferguson.
B. Demanding African American history be taught in schools.
C. Declaring the doctrine of separate but equal unconstitutional and expecting integration of public accommodations with all deliberate speed.
D. Leaving the decision to integrate or not to integrate up to state governments.

10. After his experience in the bus boycotts in Alabama Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders created the:
A. Congress of Racial Equality (CGRE)
B. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
C. Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
D. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

11. Which of the following explains why the United States entered the Vietnam War?
A. The Monroe Doctrine
B. The Truman Doctrine
C. The Kennedy Doctrine
D. Johnson's idea of "the Great Society".

12. After the Tet offensive citizens of the United States reacted by:
A. Joining anti-war and black power movements.
B. Supporting the war until the United States won.
C. Re-electing President Johnson in the election of 1968.
D. Volunteering for the armed services.

KEY:1: C, 2: B, 3: D, 4: B, 5: C, 6: B, 7: B, 8: D, 9: C, 10: B, 11: B, 12: A

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