CH. 26

Question 1

Who carried out Roosevelt’s plans for final victory and an attempt at world peace?

Answer 1

Harry S. Truman

Question 2

How did Truman carry out Roosevelt’s plans for final victory and an attempt at world peace?

Answer 2

by ending the war in the Pacific with the atomic bomb and proceeding with the necessary preparations for the San Francisco Conference to organize the United Nations

Question 3

What provided discharge pay; hospitalization; government loans for purchasing homes, farms, or businesses; and educational benefits for veterans?

Answer 3

GI Bill of Rights

Question 4

What ended the Great Depression

Answer 4

World War II and its post-war economic boom

Question 5

What removed certain labor abuses and to curb the growing power of labor unions over individuals and employers?

Answer 5

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 6

Truman’s program of socialistic legislation

Answer 6

Fair Deal

Question 7

What gave the president the authority to fix wage and price ceilings?

Answer 7

Defense Production Act

Question 8

What law had made it a crime to advocate the violent over-throw of the U.S. government or to belong to a group dedicated to that purpose?

Answer 8

Smith Act

Question 9

What was designed to bring the activities of the Communist Party under closer surveillance and control?

Answer 9

Internal Security Act

Question 10

Publicly accusing a person without proper evidence

Answer 10

McCarthyism

Question 11

Who helped to transfer secret State Department documents to a Soviet agent before the war?

Answer 11

Alger Hiss

Question 12

A former Communist Party member and Soviet spy who had become horrified with Marxist totalitarianism when he realized its true nature

Answer 12

Whittaker Chambers

Question 13

What couple was executed for leaking vital atomic bomb secrets to Russian agents?

Answer 13

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 14

Who was Eisenhower’s running mate?

Answer 14

Richard Nixon

Question 15

What department was created from the Federal Security Agency?

Answer 15

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Question 16

What was the general trend of the Eisenhower administration?

Answer 16

The general trend of the Eisenhower administration was away from government participation in business and the economy

Question 17

What provided a fourth coast to the United States and enabled ocean-going vessels to visit Great Lakes ports?

Answer 17

St. Lawrence Seaway

Question 18

What cleared the way for private, commercial development of atomic power?

Answer 18

Atomic Energy Act

Question 19

The world’s first nuclear-powered merchant vessel

Answer 19

the Savannah

Question 20

The first Japanese American to Congress

Answer 20

Daniel Inouye

Question 21

What two states were admitted to the Union in 1959?

Answer 21

Alaska and Hawaii

Question 22

What declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional?

Answer 22

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Question 23

Who partially struck down the former decision by a ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?

Answer 23

Chief Justice Earl Warren

Question 24

John F. Kennedy’s running mate

Answer 24

Lyndon B. Johnson

Question 25

The youngest elected president 1960 presidential debate (forty-three), the first Roman Catholic president, and the first president born in the 20th century

Answer 25

John F. Kennedy

Question 26

What distinguished Kennedy from previous presidents?

Answer 26

The youngest elected president 1960 presidential debate (forty-three), the first Roman Catholic president, and the first president born in the 20th century

Question 27

How did the government create a feeling of false prosperity during President Kennedy’s administration

Answer 27

By living beyond its means, borrowing large amounts of money, foolishly expanding credit, and printing excess money

Question 28

Who assassinated Kennedy?

Answer 28

Lee Harvey Oswald

Question 29

What did President Johnson call his social welfare program?

Answer 29

Great Society

Question 30

When and where did this assassination take place?

Answer 30

Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963

Question 31

Name the main legislation that were passed as part of Johnson’s program to improve education and combat poverty.

Answer 31

Economic Opportunity Act Higher Education Act Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Question 32

Name the two new Cabinet departments established during the Johnson administration.

Answer 32

Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Transportation

Question 33

Name the first black ­American Cabinet member.

Answer 33

Robert C. Weaver

Question 34

What act prohibited discrimination in renting or selling houses

Answer 34

Fair Housing Act

Question 35

Kennedy's liberal program

Answer 35

New Frontier

Question 36

A conservative from Arizona. Goldwater was a Christian Jew and the first Jewish presidential nominee from a major party

Answer 36

Barry Goldwater

Question 37

What ensured that future presidents would be limited to two terms in office?

Answer 37

Twenty-Second Amendment

Question 38

What granted citizens residing in the D.C. the right to choose electors for the electoral college

Answer 38

Twenty-Third Amendment

Question 39

What outlawed poll taxes for national elections?

Answer 39

Twenty-Fourth Amendment

Question 40

What clearly laid out how the executive branch would respond to a president’s death or other inability to serve?

Answer 40

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Question 41

What confirmed that a vice president becomes the president?

Answer 41

Twenty-Fifth Amendment

Question 42

What lowered the voting age from twenty­one years to eighteen years of age, the same age men were eligible for the draft?

Answer 42

Twenty-Sixth Amendment

Question 43

Two major goals of the Great Society program

Answer 43

improve education and to eradicate poverty

Question 44

What inaugurated programs for the War on Poverty?

Answer 44

Economic Opportunity Act

Question 45

What continued federal grants for the construction of college buildings and ensured student loans and grants?

Answer 45

Higher Education Act

Question 46

What granted the first direct federal funding of local public schools?

Answer 46

Elementary and Secondary Education Act

Question 47

What was designed to provide medical care for the elderly under the Social Security system?

Answer 47

Medicare

Question 48

The first black-American associate justice of the Supreme Court

Answer 48

Thurgood Marshall

Question 49

What was intended to raise the standard of living in the Appalachian Mountain region?

Answer 49

Appalachian Regional Development Act