HIST 2620 Chapter 25 Summative quiz

The slow transition from wartime to peacetime manufacturing resulted
in
A) another depression.
B) passage of the GI Bill.
C) shortages of consumer goods.
D) declining corporate profits.
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The slow transition from wartime to peacetime manufacturing resulted
in
A) another depression.
B) passage of the GI Bill.
C) shortages of consumer goods.
D) declining corporate profits.
C) shortages of consumer goods
Although a Democrat like his predecessor, Truman was less inclined
than Roosevelt to support the agenda of
A) African Americans.
B) organized labor.
C) farmers.
D) women.
B) organized labor.
The Democratic Party's loss of its majority in Congress in 1946 can be
attributed to President Truman's
A) anti-Communist fervor.
B) aggressive foreign policy.
C) opposition to civil rights.
D) anti-union policies.
D) anti-union policies.
Truman's unsuccessful veto of the Taft-Hartley Act was motivated by
A) postwar shortages of manufactured goods.
B) pressure from former vice president Henry Wallace.
C) Democratic losses in the 1946 midterm elections.
D) the popularity of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act.
C) Democratic losses in the 1946 midterm elections.
One consequence of African American participation in World War II
was
A) heightened expectations among black citizens for equal treatment
in postwar America.
B) white Americans' recognition of African American service and
sacrifice during the war years.
C) an end to white supremacist violence against and harassment of
minority citizens.
D) the ending of racial segregation of public accommodations in the
southern states.
A) heightened expectations among black citizens for equal treatment
in postwar America.
. Rising divorce rates following World War II were the result of
A) women working outside the home.
B) the rise of juvenile delinquency.
C) economic uncertainty and food shortages.
D) the lengthy separations imposed by the war.
D) the lengthy separations imposed by the war.
Jackie Robinson was the first African American
A) author of a federal government report.
B) baseball player in the major leagues.
C) World War II veteran shot by a Ku Klux Klansman.
D) to found a post world War II civil rights organization.
B) baseball player in the major leagues.
The report To Secure These Rights, which called for desegregation
and the extension of voting rights to black Americans, was produced by the
A) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
B) Congress of Racial Equality.
C) President's Committee on Civil Rights.
D) National Association of Colored Women.
C) President's Committee on Civil Rights.
One consequence of Truman's decision to desegregate the military
was
A) a surge of violent attacks against black veterans.
B) the integration of major league baseball.
C) the founding of the Congress of Racial Equality.
D) Strom Thurmond's third-party presidential campaign.
D) Strom Thurmond's third-party presidential campaign.
African American activists linked the civil rights struggle to the Cold
War to capitalize on the Truman administration's interest in
A) preventing black citizens from becoming Communists or
sympathizers.
B) maintaining America's image as a bastion of freedom and equality.
C) alienating southern Democrats who were white supremacists.
D) keeping Henry Wallace from running against Truman in 1948.
B) maintaining America's image as a bastion of freedom and equality.