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1. Conservative opponents of the New Deal urged:
(A) a reduction of government authority
(B) a rise in taxes and federal expenditures
(C) pensions for the aged and infirm
(D) passage of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
(E) creation of a Federal Bureau of Investigation
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(A) Conservative opponents of the New Deal urged a reduction of government
authority.
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2. "The plot concerns the plight of farm families during the depression who
are driven from their homes . . . They cross the country to find a new and
better life in California." This literary work is most likely to be:
(A) IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE by S. Lewis
(B) DEATH OF A SALESMAN by A. Miller
(C) A FAREWELL TO ARMS by E. Hemingway
(D) THE SOUND AND THE FURY by W. Faulkner
(E) THE GRAPES OF WRATH by J. Steinbeck
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(E) This novel (1939) is a moving and effective portrayal of the Depression.
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3. Which of the following best describes the United States' response to Great
Britain in 1940-41?
(A) The U. S. provided aid to Great Britain through the Lend-Lease Act.
(B) The U. S. supported Britain at the Munich Conference.
(C) The U. S. adopted a position of complete neutrality.
(D) The U. S. Air Force bombed German industrial centers.
(E) The U. S. urged Britain to withdraw from war in Europe.
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(A) The U. S. sent military equipment.
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4. The United States program to help the peoples of western Europe rebuild
their economies after World War II was known as:
(A) the Fair Deal
(B) the Marshall Plan
(C) the Atlantic Charter
(D) the Good Neighbor Policy
(E) UNESCO
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(B) Proposed by Secretary of State George G. Marshall in a 1944 speech, this
plan provided massive aid and relief to western Europe.
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5. The beginning of the Cold War can be most accurately attributed to:
(A) the inability of western Europe to recover from World War II
(B) Prime Minister Churchill's disagreements with President Truman
(C) the refusal of Berlin to admit Allied peacekeeping forces
(D) the refusal of the U. S. to form an alliance with the Soviet Union
(E) conflict between the U. S. and the Soviet Union over Soviet policy in
eastern Europe
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(E) A main cause was Soviet domination.
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6. Black American allegiance to the Democratic Party began during the
administration of:
(A) Calvin Coolidge
(B) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(C) Dwight D. Eisenhower
(D) James Earl Carter
(E) Ronald Reagan
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(B) During the New Deal, many black Americans began to shift their allegiance
from the "Party of Lincoln" to the Democratic Party.
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7. The "Truman Plan" was intended primarily to:
(A) defeat Japan by 1945
(B) spur economic recovery after World War II
(C) aid the unemployed after World War II
(D) help Greece and Turkey resist Communist aggression
(E) rid the State Department of Communists
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(D) In 1947, President Truman urged Congress to appropriate funds to aid Greece
and Turkey.
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8. The Manhattan Project can be most accurately described as:
(A) the urban renewal program of the 1950s
(B) a secret committee in the 1950s that investigated security clearances
(C) a group of physicists working at Los Alamos during World War II
(D) a pressure group opposed to the use of nuclear weapons
(E) a W. P. A. cultural program
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(C) The Manhattan Project was a secret effort to develop an atomic bomb.
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