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UNIT 3 — MILESTONE 3 29/31
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# 29 questions were answered correctly.
2 questions were answered incorrectly.
1 "
●
The United Nations issued a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Which of the following statements reflects an idea contained in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of
Human Rights?
The Security Council of the United Nations would prosecute
● violations of human rights.
The rights and freedoms of people were best defined by individual
● sovereign nations.
The United Nations had the authority to enforce its declaration and
● vowed to do so.
Distinctions based on race, gender, religion or political positions of
" $ any person were prohibited.
CONCEPT
→ Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
Report an issue with this question
2 "
●
Choose the true statement about women in the workforce during World War II.
Employers did not want to hire married women with children.
●
Women were temporarily able to achieve equal pay with men.
●
The number of working women fell, as women supported the war
● effort by caring for the home.
Women made up more than a third of the domestic workforce.
" $
CONCEPT
→ The American Homefront
Report an issue with this question
3 "
●
What was one reason president John Kennedy was slow to put forth an aggressive civil rights agenda?
His administration prioritized engineering an exit from Vietnam.
●
He didn’t have the support of Congress on the issue.
" $
He believed strongly in the rights of the states to govern
● themselves.
He was waiting for committee reports investigating racism.
●
CONCEPT
→ The Early 1960s
Report an issue with this question
4 "
●
Federal housing policies prior to World War II and government agencies, such as the Home Owners' Loan
Corporation, helped create ________.
residential segregation
" $
low-income housing
●
equal access to home ownership
●
de jure segregation
●
CONCEPT
→ The Origins of Brown V Board
Report an issue with this question
5 #
●
Choose the true statement regarding the adoption of containment policy by the United States during the Cold
War.
The United States feared that Germany would reemerge as a
# $ military power.
The United States hoped to trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union.
" ●
The United States wanted other nations to take the lead in
● combatting the expansion of the Soviet Union.
The United States believed that communism was only a mild threat
● to the world.
CONCEPT
→ Origins of the Cold War
Report an issue with this question
6 "
●
Identity politics emerged in the 1960s as movements began to focus on issues specific to the subgroups to which
their participants belonged.
Choose the true statement about the effects of the Black Power movement.
"It was easier for white Americans to support the aims of the Black
● Power movement than the traditional Civil Rights movement."
" I supported nonviolence as the best strategy for social change."
●
"I supported the decision to kick whites out of the Student
" $ Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."
“I learned that integration was the best way to solve problems in the
● African American community.”
CONCEPT
→ The Rise of Identity Politics in America
Report an issue with this question
7 "
●
"Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children.
The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually
interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group."
Which of the following statements best explains Chief Justice Earl Warren's argument against public school
segregation contained in this excerpt?
Public school segregation interferes with the ability of both white
● and black students to reach their full potential in life.
Based on the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment, it is
● unconstitutional to segregate public school children.
Southern states have failed to provide truly equal facilities for black
and white students, and therefore the segregation of public schools
●
must end.
Separating children on the basis of race has a negative effect on
African American students even if the separate facilities are equal in
" $
every way.
CONCEPT
→ The Consequences of Brown V Board
Report an issue with this question
8 "
●
Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of
democracy" during World War II.
"Scrap metal and other materials are really hard to come by these
" $ days."
"My uncle worked as a shipbuilder and told me about how President
● Roosevelt nationalized the shipping and shipbuilding industries."
"The group that benefited most, economically, from wartime
● production was U.S soldiers."
"President Roosevelt had the government take over the shipping
● industry."
CONCEPT
→ Arsenal of Democracy
Report an issue with this question
9 "
●
Read the excerpt from an National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) petition asking
the United Nations to investigate racism in the United States, the introduction of which was written by W. E. B. Du
Bois:
"There are in the United States of America, fifteen millions or more of native-born citizens, something less than a
tenth of the nation, who form largely a segregated caste, with restricted legal rights, and many illegal disabilities.
They are descendants of the Africans brought to America during the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries and reduced to slave labor."
What was the purpose of Du Bois’s opening statement?
He was challenging American democracy by describing America’s
" $ history of racial inequality to the entire world.
He was asking the U.S. government to correct wrongs committed in
● the past.
He was arguing for the United Nations to respect African countries
● currently experiencing decolonization.
He was appealing to the international community to condemn the
● United States.
CONCEPT
→ Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
Report an issue with this question
10 "
●
Which of the following was a cause of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
America was protecting its Pacific interests.
" $
American citizens were ordered to leave Japan and return to the
● U.S.
The U.S. was providing supplies to Great Britain.
●
The U.S. had placed an embargo on Japan's ally, Italy.
●
CONCEPT
→ The American Homefront
Report an issue with this question
11 "
●
Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, President Truman created a committee to ________.
investigate racial discrimination in the United States
" $
desegregate sports
●
grant equal access to graduate education
●
strike down racially discriminatory real estate covenants
●
CONCEPT
→ The Origins of Brown V Board
Report an issue with this question
12 "
●
Choose the statement that describes a way that conformity was encouraged among Americans during the
Second Red Scare.
"Our neighbors seem to have an unusual family structure and
nontraditional gender roles, and we think they might be
" $
Communists."
"The government required us to report to the police anyone whom
● we felt might be a communist."
"The state must protect all workers from exploitation by subjecting
● industry to strict government regulation and supervision."
"Our national health insurance program takes away our freedom of
● choice."
CONCEPT
→ The Cold War in America
Report an issue with this question
13 "
●
Which of the following was a factor in President Harry Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?
A need to limit Soviet expansion in Asia
" $
Pressure from scientists to make use of the new technology
●
A desire to protect civilian populations from further bombing
●
The potential to benefit economically from Japan's rebuilding
●
CONCEPT
→ Truman and the Atomic Bomb
Report an issue with this question
14 #
●
Which of the following is an agreement formed during the Potsdam Conference?
The Soviet Union agreed with the other Allied powers to put Nazi
" ● officials on trial at the end of the war.
The Soviet Union agreed to join the United Nations.
●
The Soviet Union promised to help the U.S. fight Japan.
# $
The Soviet Union gained concessions in southeastern Europe.
●
CONCEPT
→ Origins of the Cold War
Report an issue with this question
15 "
●
Choose the true statement about the relationship between private business and the federal government during
World War II.
"Wartime mobilization was so important that the government eased
" $ antitrust regulations while we were in production."
"Wartime production was mostly done by government-owned
● factories rather than private companies like mine."
"Prices for the consumer goods we produced spiked during the war
● in the absence of government regulation."
"Corporations were allowed to ignore federal regulations to protect
● us workers in the interest of wartime production."
CONCEPT
→ Arsenal of Democracy
Report an issue with this question
16 "
●
What was one consequence of containment policy on American politics in the 1940s and 1950s?
An increase in Communist sympathies among the public
●
The discovery of more than 200 Communist sympathizers in the
● State Department
Red-baiting, or falsely accusing political opponents as Communist
" $ sympathizers
Highly contested legislative elections
●
CONCEPT
→ The Cold War in America
Report an issue with this question
17 "
●
Which of the following was associated with the New Left during the 1960s?
Withdrawal from mainstream society
●
Support for the Vietnam war
●
Communes
●
The Free Speech Movement
" $
CONCEPT
→ The Liberal Coalition Unravels
Report an issue with this question
18 "
●
Looking at the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1968 through ONLY the lens of class leads to which
of the following conclusions?
The disarray of the Democratic Party in Chicago aided Nixon's
● election by contributing to the sense that America was unraveling.
The election of 1968 revealed a political realignment occurring in
● many of the Southern states.
Republican voters accused the federal government of neglecting
" $ the needs of white rural Americans.
Many voters were angry at the Kerner Commission's suggestion that
white Americans were responsible for the creation of the racial
●
ghetto.
CONCEPT
→ The Significance of 1968
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19 "
●
Select the statement that best reflects John Kennedy's Flexible Response strategy during the Cold War.
It established a naval quarantine around Cuba to prevent the island
● from falling to Communism.
It favored displays of military strength over softer forms of
● diplomacy like economic aid.
It was the initial developer of the military-industrial complex.
●
It was reluctant to embrace the idea of "massive retaliation" in
" $ response to Soviet aggression.
CONCEPT
→ The Cold War Continues
Report an issue with this question
20 "
●
Which of the following traditions reflected the relationship between conformity and the American family in the
1950s?
Advertisers offered “labor-saving” devices aimed directly at a
" $ female audience.
Sons and daughters were encouraged equally to attend college and
● prepare for a career.
Those who chose to live outside of societal norms were largely
● ignored by mainstream culture.
Bachelors were celebrated for expressing their freedom.
●
CONCEPT
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UNIT 3 — MILESTONE 3 29/31
29/31 " that's 94% RETAKE
# 29 questions were answered correctly.
2 questions were answered incorrectly.
1 "
●
The United Nations issued a Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Which of the following statements reflects an idea contained in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of
Human Rights?
The Security Council of the United Nations would prosecute
● violations of human rights.
The rights and freedoms of people were best defined by individual
● sovereign nations.
The United Nations had the authority to enforce its declaration and
● vowed to do so.
Distinctions based on race, gender, religion or political positions of
" $ any person were prohibited.
CONCEPT
→ Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
Report an issue with this question
2 "
●
Choose the true statement about women in the workforce during World War II.
Employers did not want to hire married women with children.
●
Women were temporarily able to achieve equal pay with men.
●
The number of working women fell, as women supported the war
● effort by caring for the home.
Women made up more than a third of the domestic workforce.
" $
CONCEPT
→ The American Homefront
Report an issue with this question
3 "
●
What was one reason president John Kennedy was slow to put forth an aggressive civil rights agenda?
His administration prioritized engineering an exit from Vietnam.
●
He didn’t have the support of Congress on the issue.
" $
He believed strongly in the rights of the states to govern
● themselves.
He was waiting for committee reports investigating racism.
●
CONCEPT
→ The Early 1960s
Report an issue with this question
4 "
●
Federal housing policies prior to World War II and government agencies, such as the Home Owners' Loan
Corporation, helped create ________.
residential segregation
" $
low-income housing
●
equal access to home ownership
●
de jure segregation
●
CONCEPT
→ The Origins of Brown V Board
Report an issue with this question
5 #
●
Choose the true statement regarding the adoption of containment policy by the United States during the Cold
War.
The United States feared that Germany would reemerge as a
# $ military power.
The United States hoped to trigger the collapse of the Soviet Union.
" ●
The United States wanted other nations to take the lead in
● combatting the expansion of the Soviet Union.
The United States believed that communism was only a mild threat
● to the world.
CONCEPT
→ Origins of the Cold War
Report an issue with this question
6 "
●
Identity politics emerged in the 1960s as movements began to focus on issues specific to the subgroups to which
their participants belonged.
Choose the true statement about the effects of the Black Power movement.
"It was easier for white Americans to support the aims of the Black
● Power movement than the traditional Civil Rights movement."
" I supported nonviolence as the best strategy for social change."
●
"I supported the decision to kick whites out of the Student
" $ Nonviolent Coordinating Committee."
“I learned that integration was the best way to solve problems in the
● African American community.”
CONCEPT
→ The Rise of Identity Politics in America
Report an issue with this question
7 "
●
"Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children.
The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law, for the policy of separating the races is usually
interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group."
Which of the following statements best explains Chief Justice Earl Warren's argument against public school
segregation contained in this excerpt?
Public school segregation interferes with the ability of both white
● and black students to reach their full potential in life.
Based on the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment, it is
● unconstitutional to segregate public school children.
Southern states have failed to provide truly equal facilities for black
and white students, and therefore the segregation of public schools
●
must end.
Separating children on the basis of race has a negative effect on
African American students even if the separate facilities are equal in
" $
every way.
CONCEPT
→ The Consequences of Brown V Board
Report an issue with this question
8 "
●
Choose the statement that describes an economic consequence of the United States as an "arsenal of
democracy" during World War II.
"Scrap metal and other materials are really hard to come by these
" $ days."
"My uncle worked as a shipbuilder and told me about how President
● Roosevelt nationalized the shipping and shipbuilding industries."
"The group that benefited most, economically, from wartime
● production was U.S soldiers."
"President Roosevelt had the government take over the shipping
● industry."
CONCEPT
→ Arsenal of Democracy
Report an issue with this question
9 "
●
Read the excerpt from an National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) petition asking
the United Nations to investigate racism in the United States, the introduction of which was written by W. E. B. Du
Bois:
"There are in the United States of America, fifteen millions or more of native-born citizens, something less than a
tenth of the nation, who form largely a segregated caste, with restricted legal rights, and many illegal disabilities.
They are descendants of the Africans brought to America during the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries and reduced to slave labor."
What was the purpose of Du Bois’s opening statement?
He was challenging American democracy by describing America’s
" $ history of racial inequality to the entire world.
He was asking the U.S. government to correct wrongs committed in
● the past.
He was arguing for the United Nations to respect African countries
● currently experiencing decolonization.
He was appealing to the international community to condemn the
● United States.
CONCEPT
→ Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
Report an issue with this question
10 "
●
Which of the following was a cause of the attack on Pearl Harbor?
America was protecting its Pacific interests.
" $
American citizens were ordered to leave Japan and return to the
● U.S.
The U.S. was providing supplies to Great Britain.
●
The U.S. had placed an embargo on Japan's ally, Italy.
●
CONCEPT
→ The American Homefront
Report an issue with this question
11 "
●
Prior to Brown v. Board of Education, President Truman created a committee to ________.
investigate racial discrimination in the United States
" $
desegregate sports
●
grant equal access to graduate education
●
strike down racially discriminatory real estate covenants
●
CONCEPT
→ The Origins of Brown V Board
Report an issue with this question
12 "
●
Choose the statement that describes a way that conformity was encouraged among Americans during the
Second Red Scare.
"Our neighbors seem to have an unusual family structure and
nontraditional gender roles, and we think they might be
" $
Communists."
"The government required us to report to the police anyone whom
● we felt might be a communist."
"The state must protect all workers from exploitation by subjecting
● industry to strict government regulation and supervision."
"Our national health insurance program takes away our freedom of
● choice."
CONCEPT
→ The Cold War in America
Report an issue with this question
13 "
●
Which of the following was a factor in President Harry Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan?
A need to limit Soviet expansion in Asia
" $
Pressure from scientists to make use of the new technology
●
A desire to protect civilian populations from further bombing
●
The potential to benefit economically from Japan's rebuilding
●
CONCEPT
→ Truman and the Atomic Bomb
Report an issue with this question
14 #
●
Which of the following is an agreement formed during the Potsdam Conference?
The Soviet Union agreed with the other Allied powers to put Nazi
" ● officials on trial at the end of the war.
The Soviet Union agreed to join the United Nations.
●
The Soviet Union promised to help the U.S. fight Japan.
# $
The Soviet Union gained concessions in southeastern Europe.
●
CONCEPT
→ Origins of the Cold War
Report an issue with this question
15 "
●
Choose the true statement about the relationship between private business and the federal government during
World War II.
"Wartime mobilization was so important that the government eased
" $ antitrust regulations while we were in production."
"Wartime production was mostly done by government-owned
● factories rather than private companies like mine."
"Prices for the consumer goods we produced spiked during the war
● in the absence of government regulation."
"Corporations were allowed to ignore federal regulations to protect
● us workers in the interest of wartime production."
CONCEPT
→ Arsenal of Democracy
Report an issue with this question
16 "
●
What was one consequence of containment policy on American politics in the 1940s and 1950s?
An increase in Communist sympathies among the public
●
The discovery of more than 200 Communist sympathizers in the
● State Department
Red-baiting, or falsely accusing political opponents as Communist
" $ sympathizers
Highly contested legislative elections
●
CONCEPT
→ The Cold War in America
Report an issue with this question
17 "
●
Which of the following was associated with the New Left during the 1960s?
Withdrawal from mainstream society
●
Support for the Vietnam war
●
Communes
●
The Free Speech Movement
" $
CONCEPT
→ The Liberal Coalition Unravels
Report an issue with this question
18 "
●
Looking at the election of Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1968 through ONLY the lens of class leads to which
of the following conclusions?
The disarray of the Democratic Party in Chicago aided Nixon's
● election by contributing to the sense that America was unraveling.
The election of 1968 revealed a political realignment occurring in
● many of the Southern states.
Republican voters accused the federal government of neglecting
" $ the needs of white rural Americans.
Many voters were angry at the Kerner Commission's suggestion that
white Americans were responsible for the creation of the racial
●
ghetto.
CONCEPT
→ The Significance of 1968
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19 "
●
Select the statement that best reflects John Kennedy's Flexible Response strategy during the Cold War.
It established a naval quarantine around Cuba to prevent the island
● from falling to Communism.
It favored displays of military strength over softer forms of
● diplomacy like economic aid.
It was the initial developer of the military-industrial complex.
●
It was reluctant to embrace the idea of "massive retaliation" in
" $ response to Soviet aggression.
CONCEPT
→ The Cold War Continues
Report an issue with this question
20 "
●
Which of the following traditions reflected the relationship between conformity and the American family in the
1950s?
Advertisers offered “labor-saving” devices aimed directly at a
" $ female audience.
Sons and daughters were encouraged equally to attend college and
● prepare for a career.
Those who chose to live outside of societal norms were largely
● ignored by mainstream culture.
Bachelors were celebrated for expressing their freedom.
●
CONCEPT
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→ Family Life in the 1950s
