APUSH Final MCQ

Which of the following pieces of legislation was an example of the United States engaging in isolationism?

Who was given authorization to give aid to certain countries under the Lend Lease Act?

In order to meet the massive demand for agricultural goods, the United States partnered with Mexico to contract 4.5 million migrant workers to fill in this demand. What was the name of this program?

Who are Issei and Nisei?

Who was the lead scientist on the Manhattan Project?

What was the battle that proved to be the turning point for the Allies on the western front of the European theater?

Which of the following was a violation of a group of citizen’s civil rights?

Why was their distrust amongst the Allies?

What best describes the concept of total war?

How did the goals of the Marshall Plan and the end of World War II differ from the goals of the Treaty of Versaille and World War I?

Which president authorized the use of nuclear weapons against Japan?

For how long did America’s military occupation of Japan last?

Which president oversaw the Berlin Airlift, the Marshall Plan, the formation of NATO, and the defeat of communist insurrections in Greece and Turkey?

What was the name of the speech in which president Woodrow Wilson outlined what America’s role should be in post-World War I and the role that the League of Nations would have for international affairs?

During the 1920s, what was the name of the practice of people purchasing stocks by only putting 10-15% down on a purchase and financing the rest through a brokerage firm?

In order to protect domestic sale of US manufactured goods during the early on-set of the Great Depression, what drastic step did president Hoover take?

What was not one of the characteristics of the Great Depression?

What was the major criticism of Herbert Hoover during the early onset of the Great Depression?

In the immediate years after the Great Depression, banks were plagued with chronic closures; made worse by the public lacking faith in banks from which a panic would take place and people would withdraw their deposits en masse. What was the name of this phenomenon?

What was the name of shanty towns that became commonplace amongst the major cities of the United States during the Great Depression?

Who won the presidential election of 1933?

Which part of the New Deal focused on providing temporary jobs for the unemployed through federal work programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps?

Which part of the New Deal focused on stimulating the economy; specifically in agriculture and manufacturing?

During the Roosevelt administration, what happened to the laissez faire economic policies of decades past?

The FDIC was created in 1934 to ensure trust in the banking system and still exists today. What is the role of the FDIC?

Which act made banks separate their commercial activities from their investment activities?

What part of the New Deal was focused on creating rules and regulations for the financial sector and for engaging in the social welfare of citizens of the United States; both relatively new roles for the federal government?

Which president oversaw the end of the Korean War, the open testing of nuclear weapons via Operation Teapot, and was concerned with the Domino Theory; which purported that if not stopped, communism would spread in Southeast Asia and Latin America?

Which president delivered the “Ich Bin Berliner” speech and led the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Which president sought to enact the “Great Society” and authorized a major escalation of troops in Vietnam?

Which president led the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the creation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and ended America’s involvement in the Vietnam War?

The Korean War saw the incursion of what major communist nation directly into the conflict?

Which president pursued a lowering of hostilities known as detente and was the first president to visit communist China?

Who pardoned Richard Nixon?

Which president established the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) which was part of the “War on Drugs”?

What did the Kerner Commission research and investigate?

Which president withdrew from his party’s presidential nomination primarily over his unpopular handling of the Vietnam War?

What was the term used to describe the widening differences between how president Lyndon B Johnson’s narrative of the war differed from what reporters such as Walter Cronkite were reporting?

What is stagflation?

Which organization placed an oil embargo on the United States during the early 1970’s due to the country’s support of Israel?

Prior to being president, what kind of farmer was Jimmy Carter?

Which event served as a catalyst for the early Civil Rights Movement?

What was a recurring theme throughout the desegregation of Southern schools during the 1950s and 1960s?

According to Martin Luther King Jr., what was the “most segregated city” in America?

Leading up to 2000, dot.com companies were the hottest investment in the stock market as more people began using personal computers. What happened in April 2000 to the dot.com market?

Which SCOTUS case ruled that miscegination laws (laws that outlawed interracial marriages) were unconstitutional?

While under investigation for improper land dealing at the Whitewater River in Arkansas, which president’s sexual history and string of sexual allegations led to an impeachment case?

Which one of the following was NOT a contributing factor to the economic boom under the Clinton administration?

Which state’s voter recount was at the center of the controversial 2000 presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush?

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs would go on to found Apple. Prior to this, they were part of a group of computer hobbyists who wished to “liberate” the computer and put its power into everyone’s hands. What was the name of this group?

In summer of 1980 IBM, which was known for manufacturing computers for office work, began to develop a new product to go head-to-head with Apple. Its product went on sale in August, 1981 and it was a huge success. What was this product?

Developments from the military and the RAND Corporation in the 1970s, scientists working on CERN in the 1990s, and the advent of the personal computer contributed to the development of what information technology?

The majority of the terrorists from the attack on September 11, 2001 were from which country?

Which of the following was NOT a tenet of Reaganomics?

What were the major causes of the Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession?

Why was the SCOTUS case, Obergefell v. Hodges, significant?

Republicans wanted to make it easier for banks to give out mortgages. Democrats wanted more people to achieve a big part of the American dream: home ownership. Under this environment, banks were allowed to issue mortgages without down payments, or documentation of income or ability to make loan payments. These mortgages were then sold between financial institutions for profit. What was the name of this market?

What happened to the housing market between 2001 and 2006?

The Democratic primary of 2008 became a race between which two politicians?

Under the Obama administration, the Democrat controlled Congress passed sweeping changes that required every American to have health insurance, prohibited insurance companies from excluding anyone including those with preexisting conditions, and provided government subsidies for those who had trouble buying insurance. What was the common name for this law?

What was the name of the movement that was a reaction to the increased role of the federal government under the Obama administration?

Under the de-regulations of the Clinton and Bush administrations, investment banks such as Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs were free to speculate on the stock market and other investments but were not federally insured. The divide between investment banking and commercial banking, which had been separated from 1933 to 1999, was taken away. What was the name of the act that held that separation?

In the immediate wake of the financial crisis from 2008 to 2011, the federal government bailed out the financial sector and the automotive industry. What criticism did many Americans have of this policy?

Who was the frontrunner throughout the 2012 Republican presidential primary?

What was the name of the movement that decried the growing wealth gap between the rich and poor and had the rallying cry “We are the 99%”?

In the 2016 presidential election, what two states, that had not been won by a Republican since the 1980s, were won by Donald Trump?

Which news outlet claimed that Hillary Clinton had a 99% chance of winning the presidency on election day during the 2016 presidential election?

What was the name of the U.S.’s strategy in the Pacific theater that involved not attacking every single fortified island position and territory but rather picking and choosing strategic positions that could be used to cut off supply chains?

What kind of government was installed in Japan after the war was over?

What was the political effort that was engaged after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that saw the U.S. engage in military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq?

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, at President Bush’s request, Congress passed an act that greatly expanded the Justice Department’s authority to search telephone, email, medical, and financial records without a court order and increase the monitoring of the border. It also gave the Treasury the right to monitor financial records and bank transactions. What was the name of this act?

From what war did the United States acquire Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines?

What was NOT one of the major concerns of the presidential election of 2012?

In the aftermath of the collapse of the housing market and the following financial crisis from 2006 to 2008, what happened to unemployment and housing?

What event brought the United States into World War II?