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(A) send troops to Europe to defend France
against the Blitzkrieg
(B) provide armaments to Britain but stay out
of the war
(C) allow American pilots to fly British war
planes
(D) maintain a strict isolationist posture
regarding Europe
(E) commit troops to the war only if Japan
attacked Pearl Harbor
14. Which of the following events directly con-
tributed to passage of the National Defense
Education Act, enacted by Congress in 1958
to improve education in mathematics and the
sciences?
(A) Soviet Union military intervention in
Hungary
(B) The Soviet Union’s launching of the sat-
ellite Sputnik
(C) Civil rights protests against segregated
schools
(D) Eisenhower’s election to a second term
as President
(E) The Suez Crisis

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U.S History Subject Test
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15. All of the descriptive phrases listed below are
correctly associated with the president named
EXCEPT
(A) The New Deal—Franklin D. Roosevelt
(B) The Square Deal—Theodore Roosevelt
(C) The Fair Deal—Harry S. Truman
(D) The Great Society—Lyndon B. Johnson
(E) The Return to Normalcy—Calvin
Coolidge
16. The National Security Act of 1947 created all
of the following EXCEPT
(A) a separate Air Force
(B) the Joint Chiefs of Staff
(C) the National Security Council
(D) the Central Intelligence Agency
(E) the Department of War
17. Which of the following descriptions best
defines the concept of a monopoly?
(A) A market dominated by a single buyer