Deck 4: The Other Half of the Walnut Social Reform and Activism in the Postwar Years

Question 1

Most liberals believed that FDR would _______ the New Deal as soon as the war ended.

A) Resurrect and revitalize
B) Eliminate
C) Allow more progressive programs to replace
D) Scale back

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Truman's postwar legislative agenda included

A) The GI Bill
B) A 40-hour work week
C) A higher minimum wage
D) An end to married women laboring outside the home

Answer 2

C

Question 3

_____ of women in Detroit wished to continue working at the end of the war.

A) 20%
B) 50%
C) 75%
D) 80%

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Postwar attitudes encouraged women to return to their place in the home in order to

A) Ensure that returning soldiers would have wives to take care of them
B) Ensure that women would want to marry
C) Ensure that children were raised by their mothers
D) Ensure that returning soldiers would have jobs to return to

Question 5

Many women lost their jobs postwar as

A) Returning veterans took priority over wartime workers in competition for jobs
B) Demand tapered off and factories let workers go
C) Companies reimposed restrictions against hiring married women
D) All of the above

Question 6

The movement to improve conditions for Black Americans postwar was primarily led by

A) Members of the Black elite
B) Black elected officials
C) Returning war veterans
D) Women workers

Question 7

One of the biggest obstacles to registering to vote for Black Mississippians was

A) The fact that 95% of Black residents were employed by white people
B) The power of the Ku Klux Klan
C) The illiteracy that was common in the Black community
D) The weak desire for voting rights on their part

Question 8

-What in this photo represents the indignity of segregation?

A) The ragged state of the shoppers' clothing
B) The rickety look of the building
C) The lack of goods for sale
D) The abuse by white neighbors that the shoppers endured

Question 9

Union membership was _______ times higher in 1945 than it had been in 1933

A) Two
B) Four
C) Five
D) Ten

Question 10

CIO leaders rejected what they saw as the _______ of the American Federation of Labor

A) Conservative, business unionism
B) Blue-collar biases
C) Socialism
D) Anarchism

Question 11

The CIO Political Action Committee tried to work through the Democratic Party to

A) Form a new, socialist party
B) Move the US towards communism
C) End the power of business and management
D) Institutionalize the social welfare state

Question 12

The _______ provided a vehicle for prosecuting anyone who advocated communism during the war

A) House Committee on Un-American Activities
B) Red Scare
C) Smith Act
D) Hart-Celler Act

Question 13

Executive Order 9835 created the Federal Employee Loyalty Program, which screened federal government employees for

A) Communist leanings
B) Support for desegregation
C) Married women
D) Conservative beliefs

Question 14

The House Committee on Un-American Activities frequently disregarded civil liberties in the name of anticommunism, acting in concert with

A) The FBI
B) Congress
C) The White House
D) The AFL-CIO

Question 15

In the 1948 presidential election,Harry Truman was challenged by the Progressive candidate

A) Thomas Dewey
B) Henry Wallace
C) George Marshall
D) James F. Byrnes

Question 16

Which of the following is not part of the liberal consensus that coalesced following the 1948 election?

A) Capitalism is the best economic system in the world
B) Capitalism and democracy are inextricably intertwined
C) Some structural problems in American society required radical change
D) A bipartisan commitment to anticommunism

Question 17

Passed in 1950, the McCarran Act

A) Required communists to register with the government
B) Revoked the passports of those suspected of communist sympathy
C) Established provisions for setting up concentration camps for subversives
D) All of the above

Question 18

American fears of Soviet spies were magnified by

A) The trial of Alger Hiss
B) The successful prosecutions of Senator Joseph McCarthy
C) The fall of Greece to communism
D) The Soviet explosion of an atomic weapon in 1949

Question 19

Chafe argues that the other half of America's anticommunist policy, represented by the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine abroad, was

A) The politics of anticommunism at home
B) The founding of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
C) The Warsaw Pact
D) The space program

Question 20

The first test of the policy of containment was

A) The Soviet takeover of Poland
B) The Berlin Blockade
C) The North Korean invasion of South Korea
D) The fall of Vietnam to communism