On your answer document, indicate the best response to each of the following questions or prompts.
1.
One of the goals of the GI Bill was to
A)
require employers to reserve a set percentage of new job openings for returning soldiers.
B)
prop up the sagging post-war housing industry.
C)
prevent a sudden explosion in the number of people looking for jobs.
D)
outlaw deficit spending for peacetime purposes.
2.
What was the main reason for the rash of strikes that began in late 1945 and extended through 1946?
A)
Major unions were competing with one another to get the best deal for their members.
B)
The Communist Party had actively recruited workers during the war and was now ready to assert itself.
C)
Most major corporations had withdrawn vacation and pension benefits that had been extended during the war years.
D)
Inflation was eating away at workers' incomes.
3.
To deal with strikers who refused to work in an industry considered vital to national security, Truman requested that Congress authorize the president to
A)
fire all strikers and prevent them from ever returning to their jobs.
B)
imprison strikers who refused to negotiate in good faith with management representatives.
C)
force labor and management to settle their differences within a specified period of time.
D)
draft into the armed forces all strikers who refused a presidential order to return to work.
4.
Which of the following is true of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947?
A)
It repealed most of the 1935 Wagner Act.
B)
It allowed states to pass right-to-work laws outlawing the “closed shop.”
C)
It weakened labor unions by making collective bargaining illegal.
D)
It allowed union contributions to political funds in federal elections.
5.
William Levitt is noted for which of the following?
It required members of “Communist-front” organizations to register with the government.
D)
It made it illegal to belong to an organization that advocated the violent overthrow of the United States government.
24.
Which of the following is true of the 1954 Communist Control Act?
A)
It put all labor unions suspected of communist domination under surveillance.
B)
It effectively made membership in the Communist Party illegal.
C)
It provided for the internment of known communists during a national emergency.
D)
It denied employment to communists in defense-related industries.
25.
Richard Nixon, Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg, and Ethel Rosenberg all gained national attention during the late 1940s and early 1950s because they were all associated with
A)
civil rights infringement trials.
B)
Cold War spy trials.
C)
Korean War profiteering trials.
D)
stock price manipulation trials.
26.
How did Senator Joseph McCarthy finally undercut himself?
A)
He charged that fellow senators were communist dupes.
B)
He took on the U.S. Army in front of millions of television viewers.
C)
He appeared on the Senate floor in an obviously inebriated state.
D)
He publicly stated that President Eisenhower was a “communist sympathizer.”
27.
In its report To Secure These Rights, President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights proposed which of the following?
A)
An increase in the number of Supreme Court justices
B)
Federal aid to African American colleges
C)
The enactment of antilynching and antisegregation legislation
D)
Legislation to bring about a redistribution of wealth in the United States
28.
Which of the following statements best expresses the significance of the report issued by President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights?
A)
It represented the willingness of the president to acknowledge the federal government's responsibility to strive for racial equality.
B)
It indicated that the president was willing to respond to congressional demands that he provide a comprehensive legislative agenda to protect minority rights.
C)
It indicated the government's willingness to bow to public pressure and actively protect the rights of minorities.
D)
It indicated that the president was unwilling to support ideas that would cost him white votes in the southern states.
29.
The Supreme Court's decision in Smith v.Allwright benefited African Americans by
A)
ending racially-discriminatory hiring practices.
B)
desegregating the nation's public schools.
C)
desegregating all public accommodations.
D)
outlawing whites-only primaries.
30.
Supreme Court decisions in such 1940s cases as Smith v. Allwright, Morgan v. Virginia, and Shelley v. Kramer suggest that by the 1950s
A)
environmentalists had little reason to expect help from the Supreme Court.
