HIST 1493 Guide for Test 3 23.

The Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922

Norton, Chapters 24-28 reflected...
Oates, VII-XI (pages 151-305) 24. The Dawes Plan...
Lectures 25. Why did more and more Americans move
50 of these questions will appear on the test... out of the cities and into the suburbs in the 1920s?
1. About how many European lives were lost 26. Warren G. Harding’s administration and
during World War One? personal reputation were tainted by
2. What was the biggest economic problem for 27. The Twenty-First Amendment...
the nations of Eastern Europe after World War 28. What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff do?
One? 29. The tax on foreign goods under the Smoot-
3. To which of the following nations did the Hawley Tariff of 1930
Allies owe the greatest debt after World War One? 30. Attacks from critics such as Huey P. Long
4. What were the reasons American financial and Father Charles Coughlin were partly
experts favored lending massive international responsible for...
loans? 31. To which act was the Wagner Act most
5. Which body performed the executive similar?
function in the League of Nations? 32. One unintended consequence of Prohibition
6. The Locarno Pacts grew out of ________ was...
fear that Germany would rise in belligerence again. 33. What did Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance
7. What did Article III of the Covenant of the Corporation do?
League declare was an important goal of the League 34. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
of Nations? replaced...
8. What was the focus of the Washington 35. What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do?
Conference? 36. The Soil Conservation and Domestic
9. What were the consequences of the Locarno Allotment Act subsidized farmers to...
Pacts?? 37. Economist John Maynard Keynes believed
10. What nation most greatly hindered attempts that depressed economies could be jump-started
at disarmament by the League of Nations? by...
11. What were the causes of the Great 38. Most New Deal legislation in the First
Depression? Hundred Days was passed to...
12. The “Bonus Army” marched on 39. Hoover’s attempts to end the depression
Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress to... differed from Roosevelt’s methods in that...
13. How did Herbert Hoover believe that the 40. How did the New Deal assist farmers?
economy could be revived? 41. What were the consequences of the
14. Why did topsoil turn to a fine layer of Tennessee Valley Authority?
infertile dust in the Dust Bowl region of the United 42. Congress passed or created all of the
States? following in 1933 as part of the First New Deal the
15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a landslide following....
victory in 1932 because Americans 43. Roosevelt reformed the banking and
16. What prompted the 1919–1920 Red Scare in financial sectors of the economy by...
the United States? 44. Why did many Americans criticize the
17. The Eighteenth Amendment --- Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
18. In what year were were women first allowed 45. Buying stocks “on margin” refers to the
to vote in a U.S. federal election? practice of...
19. What did the Immigration Act of 1924 do? 46. What did the Glass-Steagall Act do?
20. The Scopes "Monkey Trial" illustrated the 47. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial demonstrated...
heated debate between... 48. What were the factors which contributed to
21. What caused the so-called Roosevelt the demise of the New Deal?
Recession of 1937? 49. What did Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” do?
22. What did the 1939 Hatch Act do?
50. What were the components of the Second 75. What U.S. action created tension with
New Deal? Japan?
51. What was an effect of the Roosevelt 76. Who was the Japanese admiral behind the
Recession? Pearl Harbor attack?
52. In the Four-Power Treaty of 1922, France, 77. What are the facts about the Pearl Harbor
Britain, and the United States agreed... attack?
53. Which event is generally considered to be 78. What was unique about the Doolittle Raid?
the first belligerent act of World War II? 79. Which battle is considered to be the turning
54. Which two countries were the first to point for the war in the Pacific?
declare war on Germany? 80. The Battle of the Coral Sea was a unique
55. Against which country did the Soviet Union naval battle in that
instigate an armed conflict in late 1939? 81. During the Battle of Midway, Japan lost...
56. What were the first two western European 82. The Battle of Stalingrad was
countries that Germany invaded? 83. Who met at Casablanca?
57. What best describes Germany’s standard 84. What was the focus of the Tehran
invasion strategy at the beginning of World War II? Conference?
58. What major mistake did the Allies make in 85. What was the significance of Guadalcanal to
preparing to defend against Germany’s attack on Japan?
France? 86. Why was the Japanese capture of Rangoon
59. What happened at Dunkirk in May 1940? such a bitter loss for the Allies?
60. Where was the French surrender to Germany 87. What best characterizes the series of battles
signed? in the Pacific following the Battle of Guadalcanal?
61. Why did the British Royal Navy attack 88. What was the significance of Mt. Suribachi?
French warships at Mers-el-Kebir? 89. Which country instigated the conflict in
62. What was Germany’s initial strategy for North Africa?
conquering Britain? 90. Why did Allied forces invade Italy after it
63. What was the “London Blitz”? had already surrendered?
64. Overall, the Battle of Britain is considered to 91. What was Monte Cassino?
be... 92. The Battle of Kursk is best described as
65. What was Italy’s primary role in the war? 93. After the Battle of Kursk, German forces
66. What was Hitler’s primary justification for 94. What was the code name for the Allied
invading Russia? invasion of Europe?
67. What was the code name given to 95. The Allied invasion of Europe was primarily
Germany’s plan to invade the USSR? directed at
68. What happened to the Soviet air force 96. What was the location of the second major
during the opening days of the German invasion? Allied assault into Europe in1945?
69. Which of the following was not a part of the 97. Why was the Luftwaffe so ineffective during
Soviet defense plan against Germany? the last part of the war?
70. On which region of the Soviet Union did 98. Where did the Battle of the Bulge take
Hitler place the highest priority? place?
71. Via what route did Russians manage to send 99. What were the V1 and V2?
some supplies to Leningrad during the German 100. Which Allied country’s forces arrived in
siege of the city? Berlin first?
72. Which country was the site of most of the 101. In the last six months of the war, what was
Nazi extermination camps? the U.S. strategy for winning the conflict with
73. How did the Western Allies respond to Japan?
Germany’s invasion of Russia? 102. At what conference did the Allies set the
74. What Japanese action created tension with terms for the Japanese surrender?
the United States? 103. Joseph McCarthy’s political influence
waned after...
104. In both the 1950s and 1960s, national 126. The belief that the United States had to
income approximately prevent the USSR from expanding and Communism
105. What did the G.I. Bill do? from spreading was known as...
106. America’s postwar economic prosperity was 127. In which country or countries was the
the result of ... Truman Doctrine first put to the test in 1947?
107. Truman fired General MacArthur for... 128. Why did the USSR vehemently oppose the
108. What was the Marshall Plan intended to do? Marshall Plan?
109. Why did Truman ignore his advisors and 129. NSC-68 proposed that the U.S. government
officially recognize Israel as a new and independent should...
nation in 1948? 130. Why did Truman veto the McCarran Internal
110. The imaginary line of secrecy and mistrust Security Bill?
that separated the USSR and Eastern Europe from 131. What did Republicans in the House of
the West was known as... Representatives create in order to hunt for
111. The United States and the USSR distrusted Communist spies?
each other after World War II for the following 132. Future president Richard Nixon became
reasons... nationally prominent in the late1940s when he...
112. How did the Taft-Hartley Act hurt organized 133. The Red hunt and McCarthyism in the
labor? early 1950s were prompted by ...
113. In which U.S. presidential election did 134. Why was NATO created?
television first play a major role? 135. The Warsaw Pact was signed...
114. Kennedy’s doctrine of “flexible response”... 136. What did the National Security Act
115. At which parallel did delegates at the of 1947 do?
Geneva Conference divide North and South 137. Who said, “It must be the policy of the
Vietnam? United States to support free peoples who are
116. The Soviet Union’s brutal response to resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities
the 1956 Hungarian Revolution demonstrated the or by outside pressures”?
ineffectiveness of the U.S. strategy of 138. The Soviet satellite Sputnik I scared
117. The CIA orchestrated a coup against the Americans because they feared that the USSR...
government of Iran and restored the pro-American 139. What incident ruined the 1960 Paris summit
ruler in 1953 because of... between Eisenhower and Khrushchev?
118. Why did Great Britain, France, and Israel 140. The collapse of Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime in
launch a surprise attack on Egypt in 1956? South Vietnam prompted Kennedy to...
119. Eisenhower cut many federally funded 141. The leader of nationalist, Communist forces
government programs in order to curb what he in Vietnam in the 1950s was
called 142. The Eisenhower Doctrine was aimed at
120. The fall of the French garrison at Dien Bien bolstering key nations from Communist insurgents
Phu in 1954 prompted... in...
121. The United States tried unsuccessfully to 143. What did the Eisenhower Doctrine
unite pro-U.S. Southeast Asia together under what demonstrate?
treaty organization? 144. Why did Great Britain and France halt their
122. Which Kennedy initiative hoped to thwart attack on Egypt in 1956?
Communist insurgents in Latin America by 145. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg...
reducing income inequality in the region? 146. Truman’s liberal domestic policies were
123. What were the consequences of the Cuban collectively known as the...
missile crisis? 147. Along with the United States and Great
124. The United States and the USSR came Britain, which nations were given permanent seats
closest to nuclear war during ... on the powerful United Nations Security Council?
125. What did Kennedy’s New Frontier program 148. Who constituted the bulk of the Bay of Pigs
seek to do? invasion force?
 149. Cuban leader Fidel Castro allowed the
USSR to place nuclear missiles in Cuba after...
150. The Cold War was fought between the
United States and...

We will also have 5 multiple choice questions over

assigned readings in Oates.

Essay Questions (three out of these five will appear on

the test)

1. In your opinion, was Roosevelt’s New Deal a

success or a failure? Give your reasons.

2. Which had greater immediate effect on the

American economy, the First New Deal or the Second
New Deal? Which had greater long-term significance
after the end of the Great Depression?

3. Discuss the issues surrounding the United States’

decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. What
motives were behind this action, and what arguments
have been made against it?

4. Explain how the situation in Europe immediately

following the fall of Germany led directly to the Cold
War. In your opinion, should the Western Allies have
acted to oppose Soviet domination of Eastern Europe?

5. Why has the Korean War often been called

America’s “forgotten war”? What purpose did the war
serve, and what impact did it have?