AMH 2026 MDC FINAL EXAM STUDY
GUIDE QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
It could be argued that the most important Indian reform of the New Deal was that: -
Correct Answer ✔✔ the tribes regained control over Indian land.
FDR not only strengthened the office of the presidency, he tried to dominate the other
branches of government. He was relatively successful during his first administration, in
________, but unsuccessful during his second, in ________. - Correct Answer ✔✔
getting Congress to pass his legislative proposals; reshaping the Supreme Court
The New Deal's first step to achieve recovery dealt with: - Correct Answer ✔✔ banking
The dust storm that devastated the plains DID NOT result from: - Correct Answer ✔✔
logging of the region's trees
During the Depression, the federal government began to deport: - Correct Answer ✔✔
Mexicans
True or False: The U.S Supreme Court ruled the legislation creating the NRA void
because Congress had unconstitutionally delegated legislative power to the President. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ True
Labor unions, taking advantage of New Deal legislation, secured impressive gains
despite Roosevelt's aloof attitude. - Correct Answer ✔✔ True statement about the New
Deal
The story of the "Scottsboro boys" illustrates the point that the Depression: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ inflamed racial prejudice
Besides the defeat of the discredited Hoover, what else did the election of 1932
accomplish? - Correct Answer ✔✔ It solidified the shift to a Democratic party majority
True or False: The basic idea of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was that in
exchange for the federal government's relaxing of antitrust laws , corporations would
make concessions such as recognizing the right of workers to organize unions, and
establishing a minimum wage. - Correct Answer ✔✔ True
What is the character of the post offices murals painted during the Depression? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ They showed common folk from the region doing common,
traditional tasks.
,This was NOT a component of U.S Diplomacy between the world wars: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ joining collective efforts to block German and Japanese aggression.
The Southeast Asian state known as French Indochina is today known as: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Vietnam
The text portrays the key agreements at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin Yalta
Conference of 1945 as: - Correct Answer ✔✔ A series of compromises and US
concession, relying on Soviet cooperation for fulfillment.
With the election of 1936, your text points out: - Correct Answer ✔✔ class replaced
region as the dominant element in American politics.
Most Americans viewed war work for woman as: - Correct Answer ✔✔ a temporary
response to the war emergency.
True or False: The Panay incident brought the US and Japan close to war in 1937 when
an American battleship accidentally sank a Japanese patrol boat. - Correct Answer ✔✔
False
The chapter introduction tells the story of Hawaiian pipefitter John Garcia to make the
point that: - Correct Answer ✔✔ the attack on Hawaii and subsequent global war taught
Americans that they could not be isolated from the perils of the rest of the world.
Winston Churchill's vision for the postwar world: - Correct Answer ✔✔ stressed the
balance of power to check the Soviets, and resisted ending colonial empires.
The first city attacked with atomic weapons was - Correct Answer ✔✔ Hiroshima
The text makes the point that minorities in the United States: - Correct Answer ✔✔
enlisted to become a part of the American mainstream.
True or False: President Truman's China policy was based on continued support of
Chiang Kai-shek, but without a commitment to intervene military to save his regime. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ True
This was NOT an aspect of an impact of WWII on American Society: - Correct Answer
✔✔ Women and minorities felt resentment at being barred from military service
True or False: At the Yalta Conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt agreed to the
basic plan for the United Nations, which included a Security Council with permanent
membership for the United States, Great Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union -
Correct Answer ✔✔ True
, To assist Great Britain after the fall of France in 1940, President Roosevelt: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ devised ways to provide aid without going to war.
What did the secretary of state offer in his Marshall Plan? - Correct Answer ✔✔ to
provide financial aid to rebuild Europe's war-torn economies.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity in his crusade against domestic Communists
finally began to slide after McCarthy: - Correct Answer ✔✔ was televised badgering
witnesses and mocking Senate procedures during Senate hearings.
True or False: The Korean War began in 1950 when military forces of the communist
North invaded the pro-Western South - Correct Answer ✔✔ True
What fueled the postwar economic boom? - Correct Answer ✔✔ both private-sector
spending and public-sector spending
NSC-68, a proposal of Truman's National Security Council, called for - Correct Answer
✔✔ massive US defense expenditures to counter the worldwide Soviet threat.
How did the Korean War finally end? - Correct Answer ✔✔ A military deadlock and
protracted negotiations finally ended in an armistice that maintained a divided Korea.
General MacArthur was relieved of his command in Korea because he: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ publicly opposed Truman's policy of limited war in Korea.
In addition to Communist takeovers in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, what else did the
Soviets do to try to cement their hold on Eastern Europe? - Correct Answer ✔✔ block
Western access to Berlin.
True or False: The Truman Doctrine called for the US to send troops to Greece and
Turkey. - Correct Answer ✔✔ False
Among the "shocks of 1949" was the - Correct Answer ✔✔ fall of China to Mao
Zedong's Communists
In the absence of sufficient U.S. troops to confront the Soviet army in Eastern Europe,
what defense strategy was developed by the late 1940s? - Correct Answer ✔✔ nuclear
deterrence
America's basic cold war strategy emerged when the Truman administration adopted
the recommendations of U.S. diplomat and Soviet specialist George Kennan. This
strategy is known as the - Correct Answer ✔✔ Containment Doctrine
Religion in the 1950s was - Correct Answer ✔✔ one way Americans in suburbia
maintained a sense of identity and community.
GUIDE QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
It could be argued that the most important Indian reform of the New Deal was that: -
Correct Answer ✔✔ the tribes regained control over Indian land.
FDR not only strengthened the office of the presidency, he tried to dominate the other
branches of government. He was relatively successful during his first administration, in
________, but unsuccessful during his second, in ________. - Correct Answer ✔✔
getting Congress to pass his legislative proposals; reshaping the Supreme Court
The New Deal's first step to achieve recovery dealt with: - Correct Answer ✔✔ banking
The dust storm that devastated the plains DID NOT result from: - Correct Answer ✔✔
logging of the region's trees
During the Depression, the federal government began to deport: - Correct Answer ✔✔
Mexicans
True or False: The U.S Supreme Court ruled the legislation creating the NRA void
because Congress had unconstitutionally delegated legislative power to the President. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ True
Labor unions, taking advantage of New Deal legislation, secured impressive gains
despite Roosevelt's aloof attitude. - Correct Answer ✔✔ True statement about the New
Deal
The story of the "Scottsboro boys" illustrates the point that the Depression: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ inflamed racial prejudice
Besides the defeat of the discredited Hoover, what else did the election of 1932
accomplish? - Correct Answer ✔✔ It solidified the shift to a Democratic party majority
True or False: The basic idea of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was that in
exchange for the federal government's relaxing of antitrust laws , corporations would
make concessions such as recognizing the right of workers to organize unions, and
establishing a minimum wage. - Correct Answer ✔✔ True
What is the character of the post offices murals painted during the Depression? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ They showed common folk from the region doing common,
traditional tasks.
,This was NOT a component of U.S Diplomacy between the world wars: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ joining collective efforts to block German and Japanese aggression.
The Southeast Asian state known as French Indochina is today known as: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ Vietnam
The text portrays the key agreements at the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin Yalta
Conference of 1945 as: - Correct Answer ✔✔ A series of compromises and US
concession, relying on Soviet cooperation for fulfillment.
With the election of 1936, your text points out: - Correct Answer ✔✔ class replaced
region as the dominant element in American politics.
Most Americans viewed war work for woman as: - Correct Answer ✔✔ a temporary
response to the war emergency.
True or False: The Panay incident brought the US and Japan close to war in 1937 when
an American battleship accidentally sank a Japanese patrol boat. - Correct Answer ✔✔
False
The chapter introduction tells the story of Hawaiian pipefitter John Garcia to make the
point that: - Correct Answer ✔✔ the attack on Hawaii and subsequent global war taught
Americans that they could not be isolated from the perils of the rest of the world.
Winston Churchill's vision for the postwar world: - Correct Answer ✔✔ stressed the
balance of power to check the Soviets, and resisted ending colonial empires.
The first city attacked with atomic weapons was - Correct Answer ✔✔ Hiroshima
The text makes the point that minorities in the United States: - Correct Answer ✔✔
enlisted to become a part of the American mainstream.
True or False: President Truman's China policy was based on continued support of
Chiang Kai-shek, but without a commitment to intervene military to save his regime. -
Correct Answer ✔✔ True
This was NOT an aspect of an impact of WWII on American Society: - Correct Answer
✔✔ Women and minorities felt resentment at being barred from military service
True or False: At the Yalta Conference, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt agreed to the
basic plan for the United Nations, which included a Security Council with permanent
membership for the United States, Great Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union -
Correct Answer ✔✔ True
, To assist Great Britain after the fall of France in 1940, President Roosevelt: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ devised ways to provide aid without going to war.
What did the secretary of state offer in his Marshall Plan? - Correct Answer ✔✔ to
provide financial aid to rebuild Europe's war-torn economies.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity in his crusade against domestic Communists
finally began to slide after McCarthy: - Correct Answer ✔✔ was televised badgering
witnesses and mocking Senate procedures during Senate hearings.
True or False: The Korean War began in 1950 when military forces of the communist
North invaded the pro-Western South - Correct Answer ✔✔ True
What fueled the postwar economic boom? - Correct Answer ✔✔ both private-sector
spending and public-sector spending
NSC-68, a proposal of Truman's National Security Council, called for - Correct Answer
✔✔ massive US defense expenditures to counter the worldwide Soviet threat.
How did the Korean War finally end? - Correct Answer ✔✔ A military deadlock and
protracted negotiations finally ended in an armistice that maintained a divided Korea.
General MacArthur was relieved of his command in Korea because he: - Correct
Answer ✔✔ publicly opposed Truman's policy of limited war in Korea.
In addition to Communist takeovers in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, what else did the
Soviets do to try to cement their hold on Eastern Europe? - Correct Answer ✔✔ block
Western access to Berlin.
True or False: The Truman Doctrine called for the US to send troops to Greece and
Turkey. - Correct Answer ✔✔ False
Among the "shocks of 1949" was the - Correct Answer ✔✔ fall of China to Mao
Zedong's Communists
In the absence of sufficient U.S. troops to confront the Soviet army in Eastern Europe,
what defense strategy was developed by the late 1940s? - Correct Answer ✔✔ nuclear
deterrence
America's basic cold war strategy emerged when the Truman administration adopted
the recommendations of U.S. diplomat and Soviet specialist George Kennan. This
strategy is known as the - Correct Answer ✔✔ Containment Doctrine
Religion in the 1950s was - Correct Answer ✔✔ one way Americans in suburbia
maintained a sense of identity and community.
