Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained a large national following by promising to
a. nationalize all banks and public utility companies.
b. make Jews pay for causing the Great Depression.
c. help farmers and workers organize to resist the power of corporations.
d. provide the unemployed and elderly a 200-a-month social security payment.
e. share our wealth by raising taxes on the rich and giving every family 5,000.
Question 2
The SALT II Treaty between the Soviet Union and the United States died in the Senate when the Soviets
a. refused to sign the Helsinki accords.
b. cracked down on Soviet dissidents.
c. halted the immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel.
d. helped Muslim fundamentalists to overthrow the shah of Iran.
e. invaded Afghanistan.
