1302 US History Exam 2 review

What helped drive the consumer culture of the 1920's?

Effective marketing tactics

What inspired FDR to set up the Manhattan Project?

Einstien warned them

_________did not benefit from a post-World War I economic boom?

Farmers

What was not a big business that attracted cheap laborers to their factories during the Progressive period?

Farming

The commander of the German forces at Normandy who was at home during the invasion was_________.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

In 1939, FDR had Congress modify the Neutrality Acts to allow_______.

France and England to send their ships to get American goods

Who liberated Paris from Nazi control during World War II?

Free French Resistance

Heading into the Second World War, _______ and _____ embraced fascism.

Germany and Italy

World War II started when________.

Germany launched a surprise attack against Poland to regain the Polish Corridor; this caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany.

During the Great War, what countries made up the Central Powers?

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Thanks to the ____________, African Americans saw greater acceptance and political rights during the 1920's in the North.

Great Migration

In 1915, the Supreme Court struck a blow for the political rights of African Americans by abolishing the grandfather clause in this case.

Guinn vs. United States

Wilson offended many in Congress when he did not choose _______________ to accompany him to the peace negotiations.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Individuals labeled Mugwumps were best associated with which concept?

Honest government

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was created to do what?

Hoover's attempt to deal with the Depression by propping up banks, life insurance companies, and railroads.

____________ is an incorrect statement regarding the War Industries Board.

I could force workers to work in specific factories

During the Progressive Era, who was considered a leading reformer?

Jane Addams

The concept of socialism is most associated with________.

Karl Marx

As a result of the economic expansion during the Great War, ___________ moved to ________________ in cities like Los Angeles and Houston.

Latinos, barrios

___________is not considered part of the modernism movement.

Mark Twain

In response to the crises of the Great Depression, states deported ____________ and _______________.

Mexican Americans, their American-born children

A person who opposed immigration in the 1920s because it would dilute what it "meant to be an American" would be subscribing to what type of viewpoint?

Nativism

The Allied invasion of Europe by the Allied Expeditionary Force was known as_______.

Operation Overlord

The peace negotiations to end the Great War were held in ______________ in ________________.

Paris, 1919

To combat inflation during World War II, Congress_____.

Raised and extended income taxes; Imposed wages and price controls; Encouraged purchase of war bonds

_______________ are the payment of money for war damages.

Reparations

To help finance the war, Congress_______.

Revenue Act of 1942, raised tax rates and increased the number of taxpayers

________had the highest casualties during the Great War?

Russia

The case involving ___________ was infamous for revolving around terror attacks by anarchists and a very biased judge during the First Red Scare.

Sacco and Vanzetti

__________ statement regarding President Wilson's Fourteen Points is not correct.

The Fourteen Points called for racial equality

What was a Hoover blanket?

The nickname for old newspapers that people used during the '30s when sleeping for warmth, once again criticizing the president for not providing anything "but the newspaper."

How was the foundation of the progressive movement different than that of the Populist movement?

The progressive movement was based on addressing issues that occured in urban areas

What ignited the progressive movement?

The worst economic downturn in U.S. history

According to your textbook, what often limited reformers like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson's actions?

Their belief in the supremacy of the "Anglo-Saxon race"

The so-called Big Four at the peace negotiations to end the Great War did not include______.

Turkey

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Congress passed the _____________, which gave the president the ability to reorganize the government to make it more effective during war.

War Powers Act

What organization saw the conversion of American industries to war production?

War Production Board

Who made up the so-called Bonus Expeditionary Force?

World War I veterans

As the Great Depression lengthened, President Hoover did not _________.

he asked union leaders to organize strikes

American isolationists in 1940 were primarily located________.

in the midwest

_________ is an inaccurate statement regarding the effects of the Great Depression.

malnutrition was not a serious concern during the great depression

When the Great Depression broke out, the American federal government had ________________ programs in place to deal with homelessness and joblessness.

no

The First New Deal focused on what three immediate goals?

relief, recovery, reform

Because of the actions of the Federal Reserve, the American money supply ________________ in the period from 1929 to 1932.

shrank

President Wilson believed that the keystone to ensuring lasting world peace was______.

the League of Nations

According to your textbook, the most scandalous event in the history of American art occurred at________.

the armory show in 1913

Those who came of age during the 1920's are known as________.

the lost generation

__________was not part of the "good government" movement of the Progressive Era?

ending segregated schools

________was not a motive of reformers?

Abolish Slavery

During World War II, the North experienced a dramatic increase in the population of _________ moving there because the job demand.

African Americans

Perhaps the most profound discovery of the Modernist Era is ____________'s theory of relativity.

Albert Einstein

One way that American socialists differed from European socialists was that_______.

American socialists did not advocate for government ownership of businesses.

During the Great Depression____________did not increase in frequency.

Birth rates

An excellent example of the reckless speculation of the late 1920's was_______.

Buying stock on margin

Why did Japan invade Manchuria in the 1930s?

China and USA had put up tariffs, Japan needed raw materials to survive, China was the answer

The Dust Bowl did occur in __________.

Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma

During the Great War, the Espionage and Sedition Acts__________.

Congress outlawed criticism of government leaders and war policies

What two items led to a major change during the 1920's in how Americans spent their leisure time?

automobiles and rising income

One of the areas most prone to experiencing revolution in manners and morals in the 1920's was_________.

college campuses

How did the Wilson administration use women to aid the war effort?

they took over businesses so that men could go into war and fight and they made the supplies and shipments and food and clothes for the soldiers and they took over offices to help run the country while the men were gone