History True and False Questions
T/F The primary criticism of Roosevelt by the Republican presidential candidate of 1940 was that Roosevelt was leading the country to war.
T/F The Germans sank an American naval vessel in the North Atlantic killing over 100 American sailors, prompting Roosevelt to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany.
T/F The use of blitzkrieg on the western front convinced most American isolationists of the need to support the Allies.
T/F In 1938, Roosevelt approved of the policy of appeasement that British and French leaders had decided to pursue with Hitler.
T/F In 1940, the Republicans nominated a businessman who had been a long-standing Democrat.
T/F Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. relied primarily on economic sanctions to deter Japanese aggression in Asia and the Pacific.
T/F More than two-thirds of the people of Japanese descent who were forced to move to concentration camps in the U.S. interior were Nisei, native-born Americans.
T/F The Yalta Conference took into account the Soviet effort on the eastern front, and concessions made there represented a diplomatic victory for Stalin.
T/F Scholars have determined that Truman decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan in order to intimidate the Soviets.
T/F The Fair Employment Practices Committee was even more influential than the nationwide labor shortage in creating a rise in black employment during wartime.
T/F Henry Wallace, protesting Truman's civil rights platform, announced his candidacy for the 1948 presidential race.
T/F Senator Joseph McCarthy's witch hunts led to dozens of communists in government being convicted.
T/F The amphibious landing in Korea occurred at Inchon.
T/F NSC-68 called for reliance upon massive retaliation with nuclear weapons to halt communist aggression.
T/F President Truman supported the use of American ground troops to help Chiang Kai-Shek defeat Mao and the Communists.
T/F Four candidates received electoral votes in the 1948 Presidential election.
T/F The main Russian response to the containment policy was the Berlin blockade.
T/F To receive Marshall Plan aid, countries had to pledge to renounce communism.
T/F George Marshall facilitated in the successful formation of a coalition government between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung.
T/F As a consequence of HUAC hearings, President Truman felt compelled to initiate a loyalty program.
T/F The birth rate began to decline again in the mid-1950s.
T/F The number of working wives dropped during the 1950s with the rise of the baby boom suburban family.
T/F As president, Eisenhower sought to increase defense spending to 2/3rds of the federal budget.
T/F Gasoline typically sold for less than 30 cents per gallon during the Eisenhower years.
T/F In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that as long as schools within a system were equal, they could be maintained separately, but the separate schools in Topeka were not equal.
T/F The United States was the first country to launch a satellite in orbit around the Earth.
T/F Levittown was the first integrated suburb in America.
T/F As president, Truman oversaw the passage of the first general civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
T/F The Montgomery bus boycott was not a single, spontaneous event, but rather an event that grew out of a long tradition of black protest against segregation.
T/F The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which formed as a result of the sit-in movement, advocated direct action instead of court action.
