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- 1. The Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928:
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- (A) enabled the United State and European allies to create a joint
- peacekeeping force
- (B) outlawed all wars, regardless of cause
- (C) led to the organization of the Conference of Versailles
- (D) permitted wars for the purposes of defense
- (E) led to the organization of United Nations
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- (D) The Pact permitted defensive wars.
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- 2. A major factor contributing to the stock market crash of 1929 was:
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- (A) unprecedented speculation in securities
- (B) public disinterest in investment
- (C) the decline of consumer goods industries during the 1920s
- (D) a series of bank holidays
- (E) federal assumption of public welfare costs
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- (A) Uncontrolled speculation contributed to the stock market crash.
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- 3. Which of the New Deal innovations would President Roosevelt have been most
- likely to describe as "a corporation clothed with the power of government
- but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise"?
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- (A) the Public Works Administration
- (B) the Civilian Conservation Corps
- (C) the National Labor Relations Board
- (D) the Tennessee Valley Authority
- (E) the Social Security Administration
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- (D) The TVA, founded in 1933, was intended to develop a neglected region.
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- 4. Which of the following candidates did NOT run for President against
- Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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- (A) Alfred M. Landon
- (B) Norman Thomas
- (C) Wendell Wilkie
- (D) Robert Taft
- (E) Thomas E. Dewey
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- (D) Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio never received the Republican party
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- 5. President Roosevelt's Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was intended to:
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- (A) increase farm production by direct subsidies to farmers
- (B) restore parity by raising the level of agricultural production
- (C) increase farm income by controlling agricultural production
- (D) curtail the impact of inflation by raising the exchange value of
- agricultural products
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- (C) The purpose of the AAA was to increase farmers' incomes.
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- 6. Alternatives to the New Deal were advocated by all of the following EXCEPT:
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- (A) Earl Browder
- (B) Huey Long
- (C) James A. Farley
- (D) Charles E. Coughlin
- (E) Francis E. Townsend
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- (C) James A. Farley was Roosevelt's Postmaster General and advisor. All of the
- others were well-known critics of the New Deal.
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- 7. The "Grand Alliance" during World War II was composed of:
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- (A) Britain, the USSR, and the United States
- (B) Germany, Italy, and Japan
- (C) Italy and Germany
- (D) Britain and the United States
- (E) Britain, the United States, and France
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- (A) The Axis powers, who opposed the "Grand Alliance," were Germany, Italy,
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- 8. The final wartime conference of World War II, attended by the Allied heads
- of state, was held at:
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- (A) Moscow
- (B) Versailles
- (C) Potsdam
- (D) Yalta
- (E) Geneva
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- (C) The Potsdam Conference of 1945 was the final wartime conference of World
- War II. It was attended by Truman, Stalin, and Clement Atlee, representing
- the U. S., the USSR, and Britain.
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- 9. The "closed shop" was outlawed by the:
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- (A) Taft-Hartley Act
- (B) Wagner Act
- (C) Fair Employment Practices Commission
- (D) Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
- (E) Supreme Court
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- (A) One provision of this law outlawed the "closed shop," a workplace where
- union membership was required to get a job.
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