History True Or False Questions

1. Determined to end dependence on the British fleet, President A1 Smith tripled the navy's strength during his term in office.

2. On August 15, 1914 the first ocean steamer sailed through the Panama Canal which coast $275 billion to build.

3. William Jennings Bryan, Bryan's secretary of state, was a pacifist.

4. In March 1912, Germany declared unrestricted submarine warfare against all armed ships.

5. Helped by the U.S. propaganda campaign, anti-French sentiment spread rapidly in the United States

6. Eugene V. Debs, was convicted for violation of the Espionage Act and spend the war in a penitentiary in Atlanta

7. The Treaty of Versailles was rejected by the United States Senate.

8. In 1918, Congress passed the Seventeenth Amendment granting women the right to vote

9. By 1920. there were 5,000,000 million cars in the United States

10. By 1929, union membership declined for a postwar high of five million to less than three million by 1929.

11. By 1920, more than 75% of the people of the United States lived in cities.

12. Between 1920 and 1930, the portion of women in the workforce increased by 50%.

13. During the 1920s the NAACP moved its headquarters to Chicago, Illinois.

14. The United States became the dominant member of the League of Nations.

15. The National Origins Act of 1924 restricted immigrants from Mexico.

16. Attorney General Palmer rounded over 6, 000 suspected communists in a single evening

17. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was anti-black and pro-Catholic

18. President Wilson vetoed a literacy test for immigrants in1915.

19. Antiforeign hysteria climaxed in the trial of two anarchist immigrants from Italy, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

20. By 1929. the United States had 877 buildings more than seventy stories high.

21. During the 1920s, bootleggers took in $45 billion annually, about 5% of the gross national product.

22. After 1925, membership in the Ku Klux Klan increased

23. William Jennings Bryan defended Clarence Darrow when he taught the theory of evolution.

24. During the 1920S, Republicans widened the scope of federal activity and nearly doubled the ranks of government employees.

25. Calvin Coolidge was the central figure in the Teapot Dome scandal.

26. Herbert Hoover came from an elite Massachusetts family and graduated from Harvard University.

27. Al Smith was a strong supporter of prohibition.

28. Unemployment in 1932 had swelled to 52%of the workforce.

29. During the 1920s, factory production went up 43% but the wages of industrial workers had only gone up 11%.

30. The basic explanation for the Great Depression lies in the fact that U.S. factory produced more goods than the American people could consume.

31. Herbert Hoover public image suffered its sharpest blow in the summer of 1932 when he orders General Douglas MacArthur to clear out the bonus army.

32. The 1932 presidential election was one of the closest in American history.

33. Franklin Roosevelt was a master of the use of radio for political communication.

34. Large farmers benefited most from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

35. Jane Addams was the first woman female cabinet member in American history.

36. Dorothea Lange worked as a photographer for the Farm Securities Administration in the 1930.

37. Dr Francis Townsend proposed giving a stipend of $800.00 a month to poor mothers with dependent children.

38. By the end of 1933, Huey Long distributed money to one-half of the American people.

39. The most significant reform enacted in 1935 was the Social Security Act.

40. Harry Hopkins was deported to Canada on September 8,1935 after he was implicated in a plot to kill President Roosevelt.

41. By 1930, the CIO had some forty million members, slightly more than the AFL.

42. African-Americans rallied behind Franklin Roosevelt's leadership abandoning their historic ties to the Republican Party.

43. Militarists began to dominate the government of Japan by the1930.

44. Roosevelt announced the transfer of two hundred old destroyers to Britain in exchange for rights to build air and naval bases on six British possessions in the Western Hemisphere.

45. The defense budget of the United States increased in 1940.

46. Japan invaded Ethiopia in 1931.

47. On Dec 8. the United States declared war against Germany, Russia, and Japan.

48. The United States and Britain fought separate wars during World War II without any attempt at cooperation.

49. Germany and Japan achieved a complete wartime partnership.

50. Charles Lindbergh was one of the early advocates of the United State entry into World War II.

51. The Austrians bore the brunt of the battle against Hitler in the early years of World War II.

52. By 1940. the Germans had been driven from Africa.

53. Six million Mexican-Americans served in the armed forces during world War II.

54. In 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill met in Casablanca to plan the founding of the United Nations.

55. Half of the cost of World War II in the United States was funded by borrowing: the other half came from revenues.

56. The battle of Midway ended with the loss of 9 American aircraft carriers and 52Japanese aircraft carriers.

57. The Japanese victory at Midway reversed the balance of naval power in the Pacific and put the Americans at a disadvantage until the end of 1945.

58. Roosevelt decided not to run for a fourth term because of health concern.

59. At the Yalta conference, Stalin agreed to enter the Pacific war three months after Germany surrendered.

60. The atomic bomb at Hiroshima killed more than a million people instantly.

61. NATO was founded by the Soviet Union to counter the growing influence of the United States.

62. The Marshall plan was developed to obtain retribution payments from Japan.

63. Strom Thurmond accepted the vice-presidential spot on Truman's Democratic ticket.

64. The Japanese denounced war in their constitution created after World war ll.

65. Chief Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote the landmark opinion, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

66. The Brown v Board of Education of Topeka case challenged the Plessy v Ferguson c.

67. The climax of the March on Washington was Martin Luther King's eloquent description of his dream for a united America.

68. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was promptly signed into law by President Kennedy.

69. The full-scale involvement in Vietnam began in 1975.

70. It was Vietnam rather than Latin America that became Lyndon Johnson's obsession and led ultimately to his political downfall.

71. Martin Luther King's denunciation of the Vietnam War cost him the support of the Johnson administration and the more conservative civil rights groups such as the NAACP and the Urban League.

72. Nixon planned to use American trade to induce Soviet cooperation while improving U.S. relations with Chi.

73. Clinton's veto of the NAFTA agreement was overridden be Congress.