Chapter 06 Reading Quiz

* not completed

. 1. Walter Reuther left the US for better job prospects in the Soviet Union at the height of the Great Depression in

1929 correct incorrect

1933 correct incorrect

1939 correct incorrect

1945 correct incorrect

* not completed

. Mother’s Day started as

A celebration of women’s labor correct incorrect

A way to satisfy women without giving them the right to vote correct incorrect

A way to prevent women from getting the right to vote correct incorrect

A scheme of the Hallmark company correct incorrect

* not completed

. American culture in the 1920s was seen in Europe as

Modern and progressive correct incorrect

Inimitable correct incorrect

Repressive and bigoted correct incorrect

Both A and C correct incorrect

* not completed

. During the 1920s in the US, condoms and other forms of birth control

Had not yet been invented correct incorrect

Were widely available and freely used correct incorrect

Were illegal and seen as immoral correct incorrect

Were used despite being prohibited correct incorrect

* not completed

. Fascists and Communists in the 1930s had in common

Their belief that politics was warfare correct incorrect

Their economic theory correct incorrect

Their ethno-nationalist views correct incorrect

Their hatred for the United States correct incorrect

* not completed

. John Maynard Keynes argued that deficit spending was necessary to counter a depression because

Deficit spending would create a centralized state-run economy correct incorrect

Deficit spending would bring down inflation correct incorrect

Deficit spending would create jobs and improve the economy through consumption correct incorrect

Deficit spending would show economic strength to the world correct incorrect

* not completed

. The Nazi ideology of racial hierarchy was

Far out of the mainstream of Western thought correct incorrect

Distinguished from the mainstream only by their treatment of the inferior correct incorrect

Scientifically based correct incorrect

Never put into practice correct incorrect

* not completed

. The first Neutrality Act made neutrality official US policy in

1789 correct incorrect

1865 correct incorrect

1919 correct incorrect

1935 correct incorrect

* not completed

. The Good Neighbor policy, which replaced __________, had a good impact on US-Latin American relations.

Gunboat diplomacy correct incorrect

Dollar diplomacy correct incorrect

Big stick diplomacy correct incorrect

Nonintervention correct incorrect

* not completed

. Even under the Good Neighbor Policy, the US supported dictators in Latin America such as

Benito Mussolini correct incorrect

Fulgencio Batista correct incorrect

Fidel Castro correct incorrect

Josef Stalin correct incorrect