Final Exam 2 (second half)
Hippies
People who identified with the 1960's counterculture. Mind altering drugs, communal living, new forms of music.
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Permitted the United States to lend or lease arms and other supplies to the Allies, signifying increasing likelihood of American involvement in the Second World War.
Poland
Poland is an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea known for its medieval architecture and Jewish heritage
Black Panthers
Political party formed by African Americans to fight police brutality. They urged violent resistance against whites. Many whites and moderate African Americans feared the group.
1978
President Carter brokers the Camp David Accords.
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman's program of post-Second World War aid to European countries--particularly Greece and Turkey--in danger of being undermined by communism.
War on Poverty
President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social services for the poor and elderly
1981
President Reagan fires members of PATCO for illegally striking
1981
President Reagan fires members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for illegally striking.
Harry Truman
President from 1945-1953. He required "equality of treatment (integration) and opportunity" in the armed forces. His point of view on the issue was one of the first ex. of the federal government's support for integration.
Dwight Eisenhower
President from 1953-1961, and he federalized Arkansas' National Guard . Then sent 1,000 paratroopers to enforce integration, and to protect the "Little Rock Nine"
"good neighbor" policy
Proclaimed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first inaugural address in 1933, it sought improved diplomatic relations between the United States and its Latin American neighbors
"Seward's folly" involved
Purchase of Alaska
Purchase of Alaska
Purchased from the Russian Empire. They wanted to sell Alaska because they feared a war with British that would allow the British to seize Alaska, they were also in a difficult financial position. It cost 7.2 million dollars.
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of the United Kingdom
In 1948, the States' Rights Democratic party stood for
Racial Segregaion
de jure segregation
Racial segregation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies.
1952
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is published
1971
Ratification of the 26th Amendment gives 18 yr olds the right to vote in all elections.
1987
Reagan delivers his famous Berlin Wall speech; the Tower Commission issues a report on the Iran-Contra Affair.
The Tower Commission placed much of the blame for the Iran-Contra affair on
Reagan's aloofness and ignorance.
The Tower Commission placed much of the blame for the Iran-Contra affair on
Reagan's lack of close management of his administration.
The Port Huron Statement
Reflected the ideals of the New Left, was drafted by Tom Hayden, and was influenced by African American activists in the South.
Because of the rising number of immigrants to the United States, this political party found itself in becoming a minority party.
Republican
Senator Barry Goldwater
Republican Senator from Arizona who ran for president in 1964 but lost to Johnson.
Joseph McCarthy was a
Republican senator from Wisconsin who led an anti-Communist crusade
Joseph R. McCarthy was a
Republican senator from Wisconsin who led an anti-Communist crusade.
For the first time since the 1950s, this party captured control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in 1994.
Republicans
1995
Republicans promote the contract within America
In 1968, the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was
Richard Nixon
In 1968, the candidate who clamied to speak for the "silent majority" and "middle america" was
Richard Nixon
In 1968, the candidate who claimed to speak for the "silent majority" and "Middle America" was
Richard Nixon.
1965
Riots break out in the African American community of Watts, California
June 1968
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
In the 1924 presidential election, many progressives rallied behind third-party candidate
Robert La Follette.
1943
Roosevelt and Churchill meet Stalin in Tehran
January 1943
Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet Casablanca
The Montgomery Alabama NAACP Buss boycott secretary of the NAACP...
Rosa Parks
The New Deal program which created utility cooperatives for rural Americans was the
Rural Electrification Administration
August 1990
Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait
In the 1890s, anti-imperialists included
Samuel Gompers, Andrew Carnegie, and William James.
The election of 2008 was historic for all of the following reasons except that
Sarah Palin was the first woman to run for president
To oversee activities in the stock market in 1934, Congress established the
Securities and Exchange Commission
Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?
Securities and Exchange Commission
de facto segregation
Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.
The Iran-Contra affair involved
Selling arms to Iran to secure the release of hostages, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, and secretly supporting rebels in Nicaragua.
German troops invade Poland.
September 1939
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.
September 1940
The Japanese surrender.
September 2, 1945
The Chicago Seven
Seven defendants charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protest
President Wilson argues that women's suffrage
Should be enacted by the states
Nixon sought to lessen criticism of the Vietnam War by
Slowly reducing the number of American troops there, creating a lottery to determine who would be drafted, and using more air strikes rather than ground warfare.
1939
Soviet Union agrees to a nonaggression pact with Germany
The United States boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow because of the
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The Suez War of 1956 occurred at the same time as the
Soviet repression of an uprising in Hungary.
1961
Soviets erect the Berlin Wall
Theodore Roosevelt's motto
Speak softly, and carry a big stick
SNCC
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, college kids participate in Civil Rights, stage sit-ins and such
1960
Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a sit-in to demand service at a "whites-only" lunch counter
Demographic forces favorable to Reagan and conservatism included growth in the
Sunbelt population.
2000
Supreme Court issues Bush v. Gore decision
Tet offensive
Surprise attack by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese during the Vietnamese New Year of 1968; turned American public opinion strongly against the war in Vietnam.
Yellow Press
Tabloid journalists and newspapers that reported sensationalist stories with a stron emotional component during the Spanish-American War.
Great Society
Term coined by President Lyndon B. Johnson in his 1965 State of the Union address, in which he proposed legislation to address problems of voting rights, poverty, diseases, education, immigration, and the environment.
Iron Curtain
Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the cold war divide between western Europe and the Soviet Union's Eastern European satellites.
Silent Majority
Term used by President Nixon to describe Americans who disapproved of the counterculture.
2001
Terrorists hijack 4 commercial jets to carry out deadliest terrorist attacks in the nation's history
2001
The 9/11 attacks take place.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
The Act is an extensive statute which funds primary and secondary education. This allowed the government to help those who cannot achieve a good education.
Operation Overlord
The Allies' assault on Hitler's "Atlantic Wall," a seemingly impregnable series of fortifications and minefields along the French coastline that German forces had created using captive Europeans for laborers.
Axis Powers
The Axis powers, also known as the Axis and the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied forces
Battle of Britain
The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by the German Air Force
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major confrontation of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought from 4 to 8 May 1942, was a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia, taking place in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War
November 1989
The Berlin Wall is torn down
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question"
The Final Solution or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was a Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jews during World War II
Blitzkrieg (the Blitz)
The German "lightening war" strategy used during the Second World War; the Germans invaded Poland, France, Russia, and other countries with fast-moving, well-coordinated attacks using aircraft, tanks, and other armored vehicles, followed by infantry.
Grand Alliance
The Grand Alliance, also known as The Big Three, was a military alliance consisting of the three major Allied powers of World War II: the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom
"final solution"
The Nazi party's systematic murder of some 6 million Jews along with more than a million other people including, bur nor limited to, gypsies, homosexuals, and handicap individuals.
Holocaust
The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews
House Committee on UN-American Activities (HUAC)
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
2003
The Iraq War begins with Operation Iraqi Freedom.
D-Day
The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
2011
The Occupy Wall Street movement begins; U.S. troops return from Iraq.
1995
The Republicans promote the Contract with America.
Rhineland
The Rhineland is the name used for a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section.
"Long March"
The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang army
Maginot Line
The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada
Battle of El Alamein
The Second Battle of El Alamein was a battle of the Second World War that took place near the Egyptian railway halt of El Alamein. With the Allies victorious, it was the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act made racial, religious, and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights, including desegregation of schools and public places.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
This gave the president authority to take "all neccessary measures to repel any armed attack against forces of the United States."
Joseph Stalin
To ensure that the Soviet Union did not interfere with his plans to conquer Poland, Hitler, on August 23, 1939, contradicted his frequent denunciations of communism and signed a Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact with Soviet premier Joseph Stalin in which the two totalitarian tyrants secretly agreed to divide up northern and eastern Europe between them.
"Dynamic conservatism" meant being conservative about money but liberal about people.
True
A major blow to Bush and his war against Saddam Hussein was the absence of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq.
True
A major catalyst for the Suez War in 1956 was the cancelation by the United States of a major dam project in Egypt.
True
A major catalyst for the Suez War in 1956 was the cancellation by the United States of a major dam project in Egypt.
True
A major challenge to European countries was repaying their war debts to the United States.
True
A recession occurred in 1937 when FDR ordered sharp cuts in federal expenditure.
True
According to Eisenhower, "dynamic conservatism" meant being "conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings."
True
According to president Dwight D. Eisenhower, "dynamic conservatism" meant being "conservative when it comes to money and liberal when it comes to human beings."
True
African American pilots were trained in a segregated facility at Tuskegee in Alabama.
True
Although Americans emerged from World War II proud of their military stature, there was an overwhelming fear of atomic war.
True
Although he campaigned on a platform that promoted unity between the two national parties, the end of his first term polls found Obama to be the most polarizing president in modern history
True
As a result of the Little Rock crisis, the city's high schools closed rather than allow integration.
True
As a result of the Little Rock crisis, the city's high schools closed.
True
As blacks moved into northern cities, many white residents moved to suburbs, which created racial ghettos in these large urban centers.
True
At Kent State University in Ohio, and Jackson State in Mississippi, students were killed by members of the National Guard who were present to quell anti-war protests.
True
Before World War II began in Europe, the conflict had already started in Asia.
True
Benito Mussolini had emerged as the virtual dictator of Italy as early as 1925.
True
Betty Friedan was a leading feminist and a founder of the the National Organization for Women (NOW)
True
Betty Friedan was a leading feminist who helped to launch the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966.
True
Between 1980 and 1989, the federal debt grew and was much higher than when Reagan became president.
True
By 2005, Hispanics comprised the largest minority group in the nation.
True
By 2005, Hispanics were the largest minority group in the nation
True
By the end of 1936, the Supreme Court had ruled against New Deal programs in seven out of nine major cases.
True
Challenges to the Plessy decision's separate-but-equal doctrine were led by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
True
Detente was an easing of tensions between the United States and the Communist powers initiated by Richard Nixion
True
During his first term, Obama's most pressing challenge was preventing the Great Recession from becoming a prolonged depression
True
Détente was an easing of tensions between the United States and the Communist powers initiated by Richard Nixon.
True
Ending Prohibition was one of FDR's campaign promises.
True
FDR ended the Civil Works Administration (CWA) because of its high costs and because he feared people would become dependent on the government.
True
Former secretary of state and presidential contender William Jennings Bryan was a fundamentalist.
True
Franklin D. Roosevelt's (FDR's) talented pool of advisers was called the "brain trust."
True
Franklin Roosevelt's talented pool of advisers was called the "brain trust."
True
George F. Kennan devised the concept of containment.
True
George W. Bush discarded cold war policies of containment and deterrence and adopted an new policy of preemptive military action
True
George W. Bush discarded cold war policies of containment and deterrence for a new policy of preemptive military action.
True
Harry Truman was a strong believer in the need for civil rights for blacks
True
Harry Truman was a strong believer in the need for civil rights for blacks.
True
In 1918, the United States sent troops to fight the Bolsheviks in Russia.
True
In 1922, delegates of five nations met and signed a treaty limiting the size of their navies.
True
In 1947, George F Kennan advocated a policy of containment toward the Soviet Union
True
In 1947, George F. Kennan advocated a policy of containment toward the Soviet Union.
True
In 1948, Truman banned racial discrimination in federal employment.
True
In 1948, the Dixiecrats nominated Strom Thurmond for president, thereby splitting the Democratic party.
True
In 1948, the Dixiecrats nominated Strom Thurmond for presidents, thereby splitting the Democratic party
True
In 1968, George C. Wallace, a defender of segregation, received over 13 percent of the popular vote for president as the nominee of the American Independent party.
True
In 1968, George Wallace, A defender of segregation, received over 13 percent of the popular vote for president as the nominee of the American Independent Party
True
In 1990, with the collapse of Soviet domination in Eastern Europe, Germany was reunited as one country for the first time since World War II.
True
In 1990, with the collapse of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, Germany was reunited as one country for the first time since World War II.
True
In 2005, President Bush was blamed for the inept federal response to human suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
True
In 2007, President Bush was blamed for the inept federal response to human suffering in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
True
In the 1960 presidential election, Nixon carried more states than Kennedy did.
True
In the 1960 presidential election, Richard M. Nixon carried more states than Kennedy did
True
In the 1960 presidential election, Richard M. Nixon carried more states than Kennedy did.
True
Jackie Robinson became the first black major league baseball player in 1947.
True
Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority, a movement of the religious right.
True
Jimmy Carter created the Departments of Energy and Education.
True
Jimmy Carter created the departments of Energy and Education.
True
Jimmy Carter succeeded in negotiating a treaty to return the Panama Canal to Panama.
True
John Foster Dulles advocated more than containment in foreign policy, namely the liberation of Eastern Europe.
True
John Foster Dulles advocated the liberation of Eastern Europe
True
John Kennedy's religion played a significant role in the 1960 election; he overcame the traditional American bias against Roman Catholicism to become the nation's first Catholic president.
True
Joseph R. McCarthy even called war hero General George C. Marshall a traitor.
True
Joseph R. McCarthy had even implied that war hero General George C. Marshall a traitor.
True
Joseph R. McCarthy had even implied that war hero general George C. Marshall was a traitor.
True
Kuwait was invaded by Iraq when it raised its price for oil in opposition to OPEC policy.
True
Kuwait was invaded by Iraq when it raised its price for oil in opposition to the policy of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
True
Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson were part of the Harlem Renaissance.
True
Malcolm X was a leader in the Black Muslim movement
True
Malcolm X was a leader in the Black Muslim movement.
True
Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
True
More people worldwide died in the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 than during World War I.
True
Most Republicans and Bill Clinton supported the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
True
Most Republicans and Bill Clinton supported the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
True
Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2007.
True
Nancy Pelosi became the first female speaker of the House of Representatives in 2007.
True
Nixon's announcement that the United States would pursue partnerships with Communist countries in areas of mutual interest shocked many people because he was an ardent anti-communist
True
Nixon's vice-president, Spiro Agnew, had resigned before the Watergate scandal was concluded because it was discovered that he had been accepting bribes from contractors.
True
Of all minorities in the 1960s, the plight of the Native Americans was the most desperate
True
Of all the minorities in the 1960s, the plight of the Native Americans was desperate.
True
One legislative victory for President Clinton came when Congress approved NAFTA.
True
One of Bill Clinton's major achievements was comprehensive reform of the welfare system
True
One of the leading black novelists of the Depression was Richard Wright.
True
One part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the Federal Writers' Project.
True
Perhaps the most enduring voting change brought by FDR was the shift of the black vote to the Democratic party.
True
President Kennedy's program to help Latin America was called the Alliance for Progress.
True
President Kennedy's program to help Latin America was called the Alliance for progress
True
President Lyndon B. Johnson was truly committed to civil rights.
True
Probably the decisive reason the United States entered World War I was the issue of submarine warfare.
True
Proponents of literary and artistic change included T. S. Eliot and James Joyce.
True
Racial violence erupted after the end of the war, with twenty-five riots and over eighty lynchings.
True
Reagan argued that cutting taxes and domestic federal spending would increase government revenues.
True
Reagan was unsuccessful at curbing the federal deficit, and it nearly tripled during his eight years in office.
True
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
True
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advocated the liberation of Eastern Europe.
True
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath depicted "dust bowl" migrations to California.
True
The "Good Neighbor" policy applied to Latin America.
True
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) of 1933 tried to help farmers by getting them to reduce production.
True
The Beats originated in Greenwich Village in New York City.
True
The Cambodian "incursion" led to widespread rioting on U.S. college campuses
True
The Catholic, "wet" (anti-Prohibition) candidate for president in 1928 was Alfred E. Smith, a Democrat.
True
The Charter of the United Nations was drawn up in San Francisco by delegates from fifty nations, even before the fighting in Europe had ended.
True
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants.
True
The Diem government of South Vietnam, endorsed by Eisenhower, refused to hold the free elections promised for all Vietnamese in the Geneva Accords of 1954.
True
The Ngo Dinh Diem government of South Vietnam, endorsed by Eisenhower, refused to hold the free elections promised for all Vietnamese in the Geneva Accords of 1954.
True
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used its oil reserves as a political and economic weapon after the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
True
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) used its oil reserves as a political and economical weapon after the Yom Kippur War of 1973
True
The Port Huron Statement launched Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which adopted the term "New Left" for their efforts at grassroots democracy.
True
The Port Huron Statement launched the Students for a Democratic Society, which adopted the term "New Left" for their efforts at grassroots democracy
True
The Tet offensive had a great effect on U.S. public opinion as opposition to the Vietnam War grew.
True
The Tet offensive had a great effect on the U.S. public opinion as opposition to the Vietnam war grew
True
The Tonkin Gulf resolution sanctioned America's escalation of the Vietnam conflict
True
The Tonkin Gulf resolution sanctioned America's escalation of the Vietnam conflict.
True
The Truman Doctrine extended economic aid to Greece and Turkey, in the hope that it would contain the spread of Soviet Influence in the Mediterranean
True
The Truman Doctrine extended economic aid to Greece and Turkey, in the hope that it would contain the spread of Soviet influence in the Mediterranean.
True
The Truman Doctrine extended economic aid to Greece and Turkey, in the hope that it would halt any attraction that communism might have to their citizens.
True
The Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution brought an end to Prohibition.
True
The U-2 incident revealed that Eisenhower had lied to Nikita Khrushchev about the true nature of a spy plane over the Soviet Union and was a major crisis during the cold war.
True
The United Nations (UN) was organized in San Francisco even before the second world war had ended.
True
The United Nations Charter was drawn up in San Francisco by delegates from fifty nations, even before the fighting in Europe had ended.
True
The United States gave diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1933.
True
The Wagner Act, passed in 1935, gave workers the right to organize and bargain in unions.
True
The Wagner Act, passed in 1935, gave workers the right to organize unions.
True
The War Industries Board was the most important agency mobilizing the nation for war.
True
The War Powers Act requires a president to withdraw troops sent abroad after sixty days, unless Congress specifically authorizes a longer stay
True
The War Powers Act requires a president to withdraw troops sent abroad after sixty days, unless Congress specifically authorizes a longer stay.
True
The baby boomers were an essential ingredient in the rebellions of the 1960s
True
The civil rights act of 1964 barred racial discrimination in hotels and restaurants
True
The economic stimulus bill was also called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
True
The founder of the United Farm Workers was Cesar Chavez
True
The great migration of African Americans from the South to the cities of the North continued into the 1930s.
True
The inequality between the wealthy "1 percent" and poor "99 percent" became the foremost social issue of the twenty-first century
True
The leader of Iraq who precipitated the Gulf War was Saddam Hussein.
True
The leader of the North Vietnamese was Ho Chi Minh.
True
The leader of the South Vietnamese was Ho Chi Minh.
True
The military part of Operation Iraqi Freedom went surprisingly smoothly and quickly.
True
The sit-ins in 1960 ignited the first mass movement in African American history.
True
Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act dealt with affirmative action for women
True
Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act dealt with affirmative action for women.
True
Under Operation Enduring Freedom, the United States and Britain bombed Taliban sites in Afghanistan
True
Under Operation Enduring Freedom, the United States and Britain bombed Taliban sites in Afghanistan.
True
V-E day was celebrated before the fall of Japan, in May 1945.
True
V-E day was celebrated before the fall of Japan, in ay 1945
True
When it came to the Arab-Israeli conflict, President Clinton followed the path established by his predecessor, George H.W. Bush.
True
When the Germans sued for peace, they wanted the negotiations to focus around the Fourteen Points.
True
William Levitt's homes were not initially available to blacks.
True
William Levitt's houses were not initially available to blacks.
True
Wilson's decision to attend the Paris Peace Conference was a political blunder in the eyes of many Americans.
True
With the future uncertain, the birthrate plummeted during the Depression.
True
World War I began soon after a Serbian nationalist assassinated the archduke Franz Ferdinand.
True
World War II caused the deaths of 50 million people worldwide.
True
November 1948
Truman defeats Dewey in the presidential election
July 1948
Truman issues an executive order ending segregation in the U.S. armed forces
Miranda v. Arizona
U.S. Supreme Court decision required police to advise persons in custody of their rights to legal counsel and against self-incrimination.
December 1989
U.S. Troops invade Panama and capture Manuel Noriega.
Marshall Plan
U.S. program for the reconstruction of post-Second World War Europe through massive aid to former enemy nations as well as allies; proposed by General George C. Marshall in 1947.
Containment
U.S. strategy in the cold war that called for containing Soviet expansion; originally devised in 1947 by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan.
1950
United States & other UN members go to war in Korea
1950
United States and other UN members go to war in Korea
James Meredith
United States civil rights leader whose college registration caused riots in traditionally segregated Mississippi (born in 1933)
In response to the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover
Urged the American people to remain optimistic, signed into law the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and pushed Congress to pass the Revenue Act of 1932.
May 8, 1945
V-E day
Spiro T. Agnew
VP under Nixon, resigned for extortion and bribery charges
Vichy France
Vichy France is the common name of the French State headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the
Vienna SUmmit
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the
Vienna Summit
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the
Vienna Summit.
January 1968
Viet Cong stages the Tet offensive
The march from Selma to Montgomery emphasized
Voting Rights.
The march from Selma to Montgomery emphasized
Voting rights
Michael Harrington's The Other America influenced the
War on Poverty.
"I have no trouble with my enemies, I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends . . . They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!" said
Warren G. Harding.
The Tennessee Valley Authority
Was a bold attempt at regional planning, fostered soil conservation and forestry, and built dams to create electricity.
Richard Milhaus Nixon
Watergate Scandal & End to Vietnam War
1972-74
Watergate scandal unfolds
In 1940, Roosevelt ran for a third term as president against
Wendell L. Willkie
In 1940, Roosevelt ran for president against
Wendell L. Willkie.
Reconcentration in Cuba
Were inflicted by the Spanish, to try to control rebels and the country as a whole. The concentration camps were horrendous and left many ill and dead.
Winston Churchill
a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955
CORE
a bar of magnetic material (as soft iron) that passes through a coil and serves to increase the inductance of the coil
Peace Corps
a civilian organization sponsored by the United States government
Students for a Democratic Society
a group of college students who joined together to protest the war
Nation of Islam
a group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans
Voting Rights Act 1965
a law designed to help end formal and informal barriers to African-American suffrage
Tet Offensive
a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968.
In the 1930's, the director Frank Capra typically displayed in his films
a populist admiration for ordinary Americans
Head Start
a preschool program for children from low-income families that also provides healthcare, nutrition services, and social services
Labor Camps
a prison camp in which a regime of hard labor is enforced
Alliance for Progress
a program in which the United States tried to help Latin American countries overcome poverty and other problems
In the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy ordered
a quarantine of Cuba
In the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy ordered
a quarantine of Cuba.
The Court-packing scheme of 1937 was all of the following except
a successful attempt to gain popularity among progressives.
The Court-packing scheme of 1937 was all of the following except FDR's attempt to stop the Supreme Court from declaring New Deal legislation unconstitutional. an action that lost FDR much of his popularity. an unprecedented attempt to add to the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Correct Response a successful attempt to gain popularity among progressives.
a successful attempt to gain popularity among progressives.
Ho Chi Minh Trial
a supply route used by the nirth vietnamese wich was a network of paths and tunnels that led from north vietnam through laos and cambodia and into south vietnam
Berlin Wall
a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
The ideal for middle-class women in the 1950s was to be
a wife and mother.
In the 1930s prior to World War II, actual conflict broke out first in
a. Asia between Japan and China
The Watergate was
a. an office building in Washington, D.C b. The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee headquarters during the 1972 election c. a massive cover-up of a break-in whereby it became clear that President Nixon was lying to the American People. d. all of these all of these
Among other terms, the Atlantic Charter of 1941
a. outlined the ideals of anti-Axis nations
The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific because it
a. stopped the eastward advance of the Japanese
Which of the following was not a motive of reformers?
abolish slavery
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that
abortion in the first three months of pregnancy was legal
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that
abortion within the first three months of pregnancy was a constitutionally protected right.
A common occurrence during the Gilded Age of politics was that members of Congress often
accepted bribes
The case of Hopwood v. Texas involved
affirmative action
The subject of the Supreme Court decision in Hopwood v Texas (1996) was
affirmative action
The case of Hopwood v. Texas involved
affirmative action.
The suburbs boomed because of
affordable, Levitt-style houses; government-backed mortgages; improved roads and cars.
A key element in the postwar consumer revolution was
all of the above
Causes of increased homelessness in the 1980s included
all of the above
Germany took priority in the fighting because
all of the above
In fighting Iraq in Desert Storm, the Bush administration
all of the above
The Iran-Contra affair involved
all of the above
The suburbs boomed because of
all of the above
U.S. officials were slow to aid Jewish refugees because
all of the above
The "Sputnik syndrome" led to
all of these
The Tennessee Valley Authority was a bold attempt at regional planning. fostered soil conservation and forestry. built dams to create electricity. Correct Response all of these
all of these
During the first year of the National Recovery Administration
all of these answers are correct (industry prices rise, industry production declined, large producers consistently dominated the code writing process)
During the 1930's the radical left in the US
all of these answers is correct (found broad acceptance among both the working class and intellectuals, experienced intense government hostility, saw a widening of the ideological range of mainstream art and politics,
The federal governments response to the Bonus Army included
all of these are correct (the use of six tanks to rout the veterans from Washington , General MacArthur exceeding his orders to remove the veterans, the injuring of 100 marchers)
1945
- February: Yalta Conference - April: FDR dies, Hitler commits suicide, 50 nations at war with Axis powers sign the UN's charter - May 8: V-E day - August: Atomic bombs dropped on the Hiroshima & Nagasaki - September 2: Japanese surrender
Stalin "Uncle Joe"
"Uncle Joe" is what Americans thought of Joseph Stalin before and after World War II
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that
"separate but equal" in public education was unconstitutional.
The National Industrial Recovery Act provided for
$3.3 billion in spending through the Public Works Administration (PWA), codes of fair practice for industries, and the right of workers to form unions.
Immigration and Nationality Act
(1965) This law made it easier for entire families to migrate and established "special categories" for political refugees. This act increased the amount of immigration.
Women made major and lasting gains as workers when they entered the workforce in large numbers during World War I.
) False
1964
- August: Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf Resolution -Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
1963
- August: March on Washington for jobs & freedom - November: JFK is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
1961
- Bay of Pigs fiasco - Soviets erect the Berlin Wall
1947
- Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Labor Act - National Security Council (NSC) is established
1973
- January: In Paris, US, North & South Vietnam, & the Viet Cong agree to restore peace in Vietnam - Congress passes the War Powers Act
1968
- January: Viet Cong stages the Tet Offensive - April: MLK jr. is assassinated - June: Robert Kennedy is assassinated
1944
- June 6: D-day - Congress passes the Serviceman's Readjustment Act (Gi Bill of Rights)
1953
- June: Ethel & Julius Rosenberg are executed - July: Armistice is reached in Korea
1998
- Kenneth Star issues his report on the Whitewater Investigation - Bill Clinton brokers the Wye Mills Accord with Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization, & Jordan
1965
- Malcolm X is assassinated by a rival group of black Muslims - Riots break out in the African American community of Watts, California
1969
- March: US planes begin a 14 month long bombing campaign aimed at a Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia
1948
- May: Israel is proclaimed an Independent nation - July: Truman issues an executive order ending segregation in US armed forces - October: Allied forces begin airlifting supplies to West Berlin - November: Truman defeats Dewey in presidential election
1979
- November: Islamic militants storm the US embassy in Tehran & take more than 50 Americans hostage
2011
- Occupy Wall Street movement begins - US troops return from Iraq
1978
- President Carter brokers the Camp David Accords - SC issues the Bakke Decision
1954
- SC issues ruling in Brown v. Board of Ed in Topeka, Kansas -Geneva Accords adopted
1990
- Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait
1956
- Suez War, Israel, Britain, & France attack Egypt - Hungarian revolt against the Warsaw Pact suppressed - Allen Ginsberg's Howl is published
1989
- Tiananmen Square protests in China - Pat Robertson forms the Christian Coalition - November: Berlin Wall is torn down - December: US troops invade Panama & capture manual Noriega
1987
- Tower Commission issues report on Iran-Contra affair - Reagan delivers his famous Berlin Wall Speech - October: Stock Market experiences Black Monday
1960
- U-2 incident reveals that the US is flying spy planes over SU - Students in Greensboro, NC stage a sit-in to demand service at a "whites-only" lunch counter -US food & drug Administration approves Birth Control Pill
My Lai Massacre
1968, in which American troops had brutally massacred innocent women and children in the village of My Lai, also led to more opposition to the war.
Ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment gives eighteen year-olds the right to vote in all elections.
1971
The Watergate scandal unfolds.
1972-1974
Congress passes the War Powers Act.
1973
By 1900, what percentage of the residents in major cities was foreign born?
30
The death toll in the September 11, 2001, attacks was approximately
4,000
In 2014 Hispanics made up a growing population in how many states?
50
How many men roughly did the United States lose in combat in the course of its involvement in the Great War?
50,000
What percentage of voter turnout was typical during the Gilded Age?
70 to 80
In 1932, the unemployment rate in Toledo, Ohio was the worst in the nation at
80%
During George W. Bush's presidency, what event boosted his public approval rate the most?
9/11/11
Sirhan Sirhan
Assassinated Robert Kennedy on June 6, 1968 in Chicago after hearing pro-Israeli remarks in his victory statement after having won the California primaries.
August 1945
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Senator Robert F. Kennedy
Attorney General under his brother, JFK, he was assassinated in June 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic party nomination.
Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
August 1945
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is held.
August 1963
Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution.
August 1964
2005
August: Hurricane Katrina
Which widely read book captured the frustrations of many suburban women after WW2?
B- The feminine mystique
Which is correct chronological order of events?
B- Will J Cliff impeached, Trade Center Attack, Barack Obama President
2009
Barack Obama becomes nations 1st African American President
2009
Barack Obama becomes the nation's first African American president.
'I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice'
Barry Goldwater
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" said
Barry Goldwater.
"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice," said
Barry Goldwater.
1940
Battle of Britain
June 1942
Battle of Midway
The Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall in the aftermath of the
Bay of Pigs invasion.
1961
Bay of Pugs fiasco
Benjamin Davis
Became first African American in U.S. Air Force.
The biggest stumbling block to progressivism during the Progressive Era was
Big business
1998
Bill Clinton brokers the Wye River Accord; Kenneth Star issues the Whitewater report.
1999
Bill Clinton is impeached and acquitted.
"Don't ask, don't tell" was
Bill Clinton's policy on gays in the military
"Don't ask, don't tell" was
Bill Clinton's policy on gays in the military.
Eugene "Bull" Conner
Birmingham police chief who promised that "blood would run in the streets of Birmingham" before he would allow the city to be integrated, and obtained a court order banning all demonstrations of protest there, and he arrested those who defied the order. 900 high school and college students joined the protest, and he arrested all of them on May 2nd.
The postwar Red Scare was aimed at
Bolsheviks, radicals, and aliens.
In fighting Iraq in Desert Storm, the Bush administration
Built an alliance of over thirty countries, fought a relatively short campaign of just six weeks, and failed to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
As a result of the publication of the influence of sea power upon history, the us
Built eleven new steel battleships
Nixon's Vietnam Policy included all of the following except
C- Continued buildup of armed forces
Chronological Order
C- Korean War, Kennedy elected, Iraq invaded
The freedom rides were organized by
CORE
In the 1930's, the largest Japanese and Chinese American populations were found in
California
Clinton's health-care initiative
Called for large businesses to pay for the bulk of their employees' health insurance,was heavily influenced by his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and was defeated in Congress.
Cuban missile crisis
Caused when the United States discovered Soviet offensive missile sites in Cuba in October 1962; the U.S.--Soviet confrontation was the cold war's closest brush with nuclear war.
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek, also romanized as Chiang Chieh-shih and known as Chiang Chungcheng, was a political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975
Brown Power
Chicano Movement - young Mex-Am students emphasize pride in Mexican culture and heritage
1949
China "falls" to communism
The first large-scale experiment with federal work relief was the
Civil Works Administration.
During the1930's, the most important group within the Popular Front was the
Communist Party
1964
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
1996
Congress passes the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Act
1996
Congress passes the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.
1944
Congress passes the Serviceman's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights)
1947
Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Labor ACt
August 1964
Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution
During the recession of 1937,
Congressional Republicans took most of the blame
Teller Amendment
Congressional promise "to leave the government and control of the [Cuban] Island to its people" as the end of the Spanish-American War.
U.S. military forces halted Japanese advances at the Battles of
Coral Sea and Midway
Roosevelt Corollary (1904)
Corollary to the 1823 Monroe Doctrine that announced the U.S. intention to act as an "international police power" in Latin America.
Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)
Created by Montgomery, Alabama's African American community to direct the non-violent protest by Martin Luther King. Made a "first come first served" policy so that African Americans could sit in back of the bus but didn't have to give up their seat.
October 1962
Cuban missile crisis
The Civil Rights Act...
D- All of the above
June 6, 1944
D-Day
The Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins.
December 1955
The Japanese launch surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
December 7, 1941
1941
December 7: Japanese launch surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1955
December: Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott begins
Dixiecrats
Deep South delegates who walked our of the 1948 Democratic National Convention in protest of the party's support for civil rights legislation and later formed the States' Rights (Dixiecrat) party, which nominated Strom Thurmond of South Carolina for president.
In 1940, in calling for the United States to be the "arsenal of democracy," Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) wanted to provide assistance to the Soviet Union.
False
In 1941, the lend-lease program concentrated on stopping Italian conquests in eastern Europe.
False
In Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, the Supreme Court acquitted him
False
In Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, the Supreme Court acquitted him.
False
In December 1954, the Senate voted 67 to 22 to expel Senator Joseph McCarthy.
False
In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Police Commissioner "Bull" Connor criticized the civil rights protesters.
False
In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," police commissioner "Bull" Connor criticized the civil rights protesters.
False
In retaliation for the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin
False
In retaliation for the formation of NATO, the Soviet Union blockaded Berlin.
False
In the 1988 election, George H. W. Bush defeated Jimmy Carter.
False
In the 1990s, the Supreme Court defended affirmative-action programs in employment and education
False
In the 1992 election, Bill Clinton won with about 50 percent of the vote.
False
In the Spanish Civil War, the United States intervened militarily on the side of the pro-Franco Catholics against the Communists.
False
In the elections of 1946, the Democrats won majorities in both houses of Congress.
False
Italian Americans and German Americans were interned in camps in Arizona for the duration of the war
False
Italian Americans and German Americans were interned in camps in Arizona for the duration of the war.
False
J. Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on the Progressive party ticket.
False
John F. Kennedy constantly worked hard to achieve full civil rights for African Americans
False
John F. Kennedy constantly worked hard to achieve full civil rights for African Americans.
False
Labor unions experienced phenomenal growth in the twenties.
False
Most blacks who migrated to the North lived in the suburbs.
False
Mussolini's Nazi party promised a growth of national pride and a return to law and order.
False
NATO members included both East and West Germany.
False
National Security Council memorandum number 68 (NSC-68) called for the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
False
Native Americans were segregated in the military.
False
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) mambers included both East Germany and West Germany
False
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members included both East Germany and West Germany.
False
Obama's health-care initiative was passed quickly by Congress
False
Obama's health-care initiative was passed quickly by Congress.
False
Operation Desert Storm involved sending U.S. troops into Romania to support democratic, anti-Communist forces.
False
Organized crime began during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
False
President Bill Clinton had enormous success achieving his domestic goals in his first two years in office.
False
President Eisenhower strongly supported enforcement of the Brown decision.
False
President Gerald Ford's full pardon of Nixon was a popular act that ended the nightmare of Watergate.
False
President Nixon vetoed both the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.
False
President Nixon vetoed by the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act
False
Reagan's attack on Grenada was called "Star Wars."
False
Richard J. Daley urged people to "tune in, turn on, drop out"
False
Richard J. Daley urged people to "tune in, turn on, drop out."
False
Ronald Reagan led the crusade to find a cure for AIDS.
False
Ronald Reagan led the crusade to find a cure for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS.)
False
The "Hundred Days" refers to the long waiting period between FDR's election and his inauguration.
False
The "Hundred Days" refers to the long waiting period between Roosevelt's election and his inauguration
False
The "Hundred Days" refers to the long waiting period between Roosevelt's election and his inauguration.
False
The 1968 Republican convention in Chicago was the scene of tumultuous riots
False
The 1968 Republican convention in Chicago was the scene of tumultuous riots.
False
The American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee in 1973 to show its support for the desegregation of schools.
False
The Boston police strike of 1919 helped launch Warren G. Harding's political career.
False
The Carter administration supported a fundamentalist Muslim leader in Iran against the westernized shah of Persia.
False
The Contract with America was Bill Clinton's domestic program.
False
The Dixiecrats were followers of Henry Wallace who were scared by Truman's confrontational attitude toward the Soviet Union.
False
The GI Bill guaranteed every former soldier a job.
False
The GI Bill helped eliminate differences in the opportunities for blacks and whites in higher education.
False
The Iran-Contra affair involved using Sandinistas to fight Saddam Hussein.
False
The Korean War was conducted by the United States against China.
False
The Ku Klux Klan targeted blacks, Jews, and Catholics.
False
The New Deal's programs ended the Great Depression.
False
The Nixon administration's most innovative domestic proposal was the use of busing for school integration.
False
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation assisted farmers, homeowners, and labor unions.
False
The Scottsboro case in 1931 involved efforts to organize workers in the Southwest.
False
The Truman Doctrine aided in the rebuilding of Japan after World War II.
False
The War Refugee Board was amazingly successful at rescuing Jews from Europe.
False
The Yalta agreements succeeded in establishing free governments in Eastern Europe
False
The Yalta agreements succeeded in establishing free governments in Eastern Europe.
False
The Zimmerman telegram revealed Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
False
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a complete success for the Japanese.
False
The baby boom began in the late 1950's.
False
The baby boom began in the late 1950s.
False
The contract with America was Bill Clinton's domestic program
False
The end of World War II led to another period of isolationism in the United States.
False
The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese island of Okinawa
False
The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
False
The ideal woman in 1956 according to Life magazine was one who balanced home and career.
False
The ideal woman in 1956, according to Life magazine, was one who balanced home and career.
False
The invasion of Sicily came only six weeks after the Normandy invasion.
False
The largest naval battle in history occurred at the Coral Sea.
False
The largest naval battle in history occurred at the coral sea
False
The leader of the South Vietnamese was Ho Chi Minh
False
The leader of the South Vietnamese was Ho Chi Minh.
False
The most popular household product after World War II was the air conditioner.
False
The outcome of the 2004 presidential election depended on Florida
False
The sinking of the Titanic off Ireland by U-boats made many Americans anti-German.
False
The stock market crash caused the Great Depression.
False
Truman coined the phrase "iron curtain."
False
Two years after the Vietnam War ended, South Vietnam took control of the North
False
Two years after the Vietnam War ended, South Vietnam took control of the North.
False
Upon becoming president, Bill Clinton quickly developed a strong foreign policy that reflected his lifelong interest in global affairs.
False
Wilson thought Germany's admission of war guilt was the most necessary part of the peace negotiations.
False
During World War II, the fastest rate of urban growth occurred in the
Far West
What was a major reason American farmers failed to obtain a fair share of the economic prosperity of the 1920s?
Farm crops were overproduced
The Yalta Conference takes place.
February 1945
April 1945
Fifty nations at war with the Axis Powers sign the United Nations Charter
Berkeley Free Speech movement
First major campus protest. A coalition of student groups insisted on the right to campus political activity.
National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) party
Founded in the 1920s, this party gained control over Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler in 1933 and continued in power until Germany's defeat at the end of the Second World War. It advocated a violent anti-Semitic, anti-Marxist, pan-German ideology. The Nazi party systematically murdered some 6 million Jews along with more than a million others.
April 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; Hitler commits suicide
The Stonewall riots sparked a movement for
Gay rights
George C. Marshall
George Catlett Marshall, Jr. was an American statesman and soldier, famous for his leadership roles during World War II and the Cold War.
George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat, political scientist, and historian. He was known best as an advocate of a policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War on which he later reversed himself.
In the Sussex Pledge, the Germans promised what?
German U-boats would not fire merchant of passenger ships
September 1939
German troops invade Poland
Roosevelt decided Hitler had to be stopped after
Germany occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939.
September 1940
Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
I have a Dream speech
Given August 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2008
Global financial markets collapse
2008
Global financial markets collapse.
Governor George Wallace
Governor of Alabama; pledged to oppose integration and to prevent enrollment of blacks at state university;; won popularity for his views.
Orval Faubus
Governor of Arkansas in 1957 resisted enrollment of "Little Rock Nine." Said no schools would mix races while he was governor. Defied a Supreme Court order and challenged authority of Federal government by calling Arkansas National Guard to prevent "Little Rock Nine" from attending the school. Closed all of Little Rock's high schools and built private schools so African Americans couldn't attend.
Freedom Summer
In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and led a massive drive to register blacks to vote.
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans.
Josip Broz
Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and political leader, serving in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980
A joint resolution of Congress officially ends the war among the United States, Germany, and Austria-Hungary.
July 1921
Allied forces land on Sicily.
July 1943
Truman issues an executive order ending segregation in the U.S. armed forces.
July 1948
Armistice is reached in Korea.
July 1953
The Geneva Accords are adopted.
July 1954
The Battle of Midway occurs.
June 1942
Robert Kennedy is assassinated.
June 1968
D-day occurs.
June 6, 1944
1942
June: Battle of Midway
Philippine-American War
Lasted from June 2nd, 1899 - July 4th 1902. Resulted in an United States Victory and occupation of the Philippines, and the Philippines becomes an unincorporated territory of the United States.
In 1960 election, JFK chose his running mate, this powerful Senate majority leader & his opponent for Presidential Nomination...
Lindon Johnson (LBJ)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after serving as the 37th Vice President of the United States under President John F. Kennedy, from 1961 to 1963.
1965
Malcolm X is assassinated by the rival group of black Muslims
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
Port Huron Statement
Manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, which criticized the federal government for racial inequality, poverty, and also the Cold War and international peace.
Okinawa
Okinawa is a Japanese prefecture comprising more than 150 islands in the East China Sea between Taiwan and Japan's mainland. It's known for its tropical climate
Rosa Parks
On Dec. 1, 1955 this African American woman refused to give her seat on the bus to a white man and was arrested and sent to jail for violating Montgomery's segregation laws
Dwight D. Eisenhower
On November 8, 1942, British and American forces commanded by U.S. general Dwight D. Eisenhower landed in Morocco and Algeria on the North African coast.
"Little Rock Nine"
On Sept. 23rd the first nine African Americans who went into a white school (Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas)
Nazi-Soviet Pact
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the Nazi-Soviet Pact, the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact or the Nazi German-Soviet Pact of Aggression, was a neutrality pact
Munich Pact
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined
Rape of Nanjing (Nanking)
The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, starting Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II
Bobby Seale
Organized the militant group the Black Panthers & Hugh Newton wanted black rights through violence.
The leader of a major Islamic terrorist network, who was killed in 2011, was
Osama bin Laden
The leader of a major Islamic terrorist network, who was killed in 2011, was
Osama bin Laden.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed discrimination in public accommodations and employment.
Which statement most accurately describes conditions of American farmers during the economic boom of the mid-1920s?
Overproduction helped keep farmers from participating in the prosperity of the times
The George H. W. Bush administration sent American troops into
Panama
The Bush administration sent American troops into
Panama.
The George H. W. Bush administration sent American troops into
Panama.
1937
Panay incident
Tonkin Gulf resolution
Passes by Congress in reaction to supposedly unprovoked attacks on American warships off the coast of North Vietnam; it gave the president unlimited authority to defend U.S. forces and members of SEATO.
Senator Joseph McCarthy went too far when he
charged that the army was "soft" on communism.
Agent Orange
chemical that kills plants; used in Vietnam to expose Viet Cong hideouts
In 1882, Congress passed legislation to exclude immigrants from
china
After World War II, a significant migration occurred from
cities to suburbs.
In 1933, two days after he took office, President Roosevelt
closed all banks
A major cause of the 2008 economic collapse was the
collapse of the housing market from unreal prices and irresponsible mortgage practices
A major cause of the 2008 economic collapse was
collapse of the housing market from unreal prices and irresponsible mortgage practices.
The Hungarian revolt of 1956 was a victory for
communism.
Causes of the economic malaise of the 1970s included
competition in international markets.
Causes of the economic malaise of the 1970s include
competition in the international markets
All of the following factors were causes of the great depression Except
conservative banking polices that restricted the availability of loans
Young Americans for Freedom
conservative new right; youth organization critical of liberal public policy, gvt. economic involvement, changes in social mores, and containment foreign policy
In the 1930's, industrial unionism was
considerably strengthened by the New Deal Legislation
As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he
considered the country to have bright economic future
Critics charged that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices was clearly in conflict with the
constitutional principle of checks and balances
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan had
control of Manchuria, Shanghai, and French Indochina
James Earl Ray
convicted of killing Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and sentenced to 99 years in jail
Kerner Commission
created in July, 1967 by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States
The Civilian Conservation Corps
created jobs for unemployed men aged eighteen to twenty-five.
counterculture
cultural patterns that strongly oppose those widely accepted within a society
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 dealt with
curbing the power of labor unions
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 dealt with
curbing the power of labor unions.
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon
cut taxes on the wealthy.
One reason Operation Overlord succeeded was
d. Eisenhower surprised Germans by attacking at Normandy
Roosevelt decided Hitler had to be stopped after
d. Germany occupied Czechoslovakia
When it came to financing the war, the federal government resorted to
d. all of these
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
d. missed vital shore installations and oil tanks
"Anschluss" refers to
d. the German annexation of Austria
Put the following events in the correct chronological order.
de lome letter, sinking of the maine, teller amendment, battles around santiago
In the late 1920's, the European demand for agriculture and manufacturing goods from the US was
declining
After World War I, the Senate
defeated the Treaty of Versailles.
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. preached a philosophy of nonviolent disobedience, which meant
defying unjust laws through peaceful actions.
Reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Empire included all of the following, except
demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.
The main purpose of New Deal measures such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was to
develop rules to limit speculation and safeguard savings
The economic boom of the 1920s was primarily caused by
development of new consumer goods industries
Nixon's freeze of wages and prices in 1971
did little to reinvigorate the economy.
The Social Security Act of 1935
did not begin making payments to participants for years
In the American West, New Deal programs
disproportionately benefited the region in funding
Volunteers in Service to America
domestic version of the Peace Corps. Helped bring jobs to poor communities and performed community service.
In order to wage the Great War, the United States government did all of the following except
draft millions of young women
Enacted in 1944, The GI Bill of Rights provided
educational, job, and housing benefits for veterans.
Enacted in 1944, the GI Bill of Rights provided
educational, job, and housing benefits for veterans.
In 1987, Reagan signed a treaty with Gorbachev
eliminating intermediate-range nuclear weapons.
In 1987, Reagan signed a treaty with Mikhail Gorbachev
eliminating intermediate-range nuclear weapons.
In response to Truman's Fair Deal proposals, Congress
enlarged many New Deal programs.
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
established a national minimum wage
Which situation helped cause the stock market crash of 1929?
excessive speculation and buying on margin
A major result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was an
expansion of the power of the Federal Government
Bay of Pigs Invasion
failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs.
After the Civil War, population growth was stronger on the rural frontier than in the cities.
false
By 1920, both Cuba and the Philippines had gained complete independence from the United States.
false
Charles Darwin supported Herbert Spencer's application of his ideas regarding evolution to human social relations.
false
Cuba had been controlled by Spain for only a decade in 1898.
false
High tariffs on imported goods helped farmers by raising the price they received for their agriculture products.
false
Nativists believed that immigrants could, and should, be Americanized quickly.
false
The Open Door policy described America's approach to Cuba after 1900.
false
The Pendleton Act mandated that the federal government must buy silver for coins.
false
The Populist party fused with the Republicans during the election of 1896 in an attempt to gain free and unlimited coinage of silver.
false
Ceasar Chavez
farm worker who started the great boycott. started the United Farm Workers which is the union for farm workers
Which group of Americans generally failed to experience the economic prosperity of the 1920s?
farmers
Unlike today, citizens during the Gilded Age expected the ___________ to have little to no effect on their daily lives.
federal government
In response to President Roosevelt's first days in office, the American people
felt a mixture of relief and hope
Fear of foreign terrorists and radicalism led to the ______________ at the end of the 1910s.
first red scare
President Cleveland's decision to support the gold standard
fractured the democrat party into pro-gold, pro-silver wings
During the Great War, what countries made up the Allied Powers?
france, great britain, russia
How long did the conflict known as the Great War last?
from 1914 to 1918
In the trial of John T. Scopes in 1925,
fundamentalists won the conviction of Scopes.
During the period of postwar prosperity, the
gap between the average incomes for blacks and whites increased.
During the postwar prosperity, the
gap between the average incomes for blacks and whites increased.
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935
gave the government the authority to force employers to accept labor unions
The Stonewall riots sparked a movement for
gay rights
The Stonewall riots sparked a movement for
gay rights.
A major activity of Hispanic workers was a strike against
grape farmers in California
Although publicly President Wilson urged Americans to remain neutral regarding the Great War, he personally favored
great britain and france
One likely cause of juvenile delinquency during the 1950s was the
greater mobility provided by cars.
As the depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover
grew less willing to increase federal spending
In the 1930's the industrial union movement
grew more militant and powerful
In the 1930's, the Congress of Industrial Organization
grew out of a dispute within the American Federation of Labor
In 1935, Senator Huey Long
had a strong record of progressive accomplishments
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
had the support of President Eisenhower.
During the Great Depression, Asian Americans
had trouble competing got jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest
Because of President Arthur's reform programs
he was not chosen by the Republicans as their candidate for a second term
Stokely Carmichael
head of the SNCC making a separatist philosophy of black power as the official objective of the organization
March on Washington
held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress. Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream..." speech. 250,000 people attended the rally
In 1934, Dr. Francis Townsend attracted widespread national support for a plan that
helped pave the way for the Social Security system
Social Darwinism had its roots in the work of
herbert spencer
The concept of "survival of the fittest" being applied to human society was introduced by
herbert spencer
The direct descendants of the Beats were the
hippies
Reagan won the election of 1980 because of all of the following except
his deep intellectual abilities.
In 1937, President Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court came from
his desire to change the ideological balance of the court
Jimmy Carter's 1976 victory can be attributed to
his strong support among southern African Americans
Jimmy Carter's 1976 victory can be attributed to
his strong support among southern African Americans.
Fears of revolution were so widespread in post-war America that the U.S. attorney general created a government division to collect information on radicals headed by
hoover
What organization was formed to prevent the Anglo-Saxon "race" from being "contaminated"?
immigration restriction league
All of the following statements regarding the New Deal and women are true except
in general, women were major critics of the New Deal
William Jennings Bryan resigned as secretary of state
in the uproar after the sinking of the Lusitania.
Women fighting for equal rights focused on issues
in the workplace
The National Recovery Administration of 1933 did all of the following except
increase competition between companies
In the United States, the decade of the 1920's was characterized by
increased consumer borrowing and spending
The most serious economic problem that Truman faced was
inflation.
The economic boom and the financial speculation of the 1920's were caused in part by
installment buying and an unregulated stock market
Two monuments to the Eisenhower presidency were
interstate highways and the St. Lawrence Seaway.
One of the major effects the New Deal had on the United States was
it fostered stronger and more varied interest groups
By 1971, the New Left had declined as a political movement because
it had abandoned its democratic and pacifist principles.
A crucial factor in the 1960 presidential campaign involved the
jailing of Martin Luther King Jr.
Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet member in American history, was secretary of commerce
labor
President Wilson believed that the keystone to ensuring lasting world peace was
league of nations
American Indian Movement
led by Dennis Banks and Russell Means; purpose was to obtain equal rights for Native Americans; protested at the site of the Wounded Knee massacre
In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans
left the US entirely
After World War II, black Americans
left the rural South for the urban North.
_____________ led the ________________ a group of determined Communist revolutionaries in Russia in 1917.
lenin, bolsheviks
In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
lent funds only to financial institutions with sufficient collateral
During the Great War, Wilson's administration organized the sale of _________, which guaranteed a fixed rate of return to fund the war.
liberty bonds
The purpose of the 1924 immigration law was to
limit immigration from eastern and southern Europe.
During the 1930's, regarding radio
listening was often a community experience
The typical tenement apartment building
little or no natural light
In 1939, after the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with the Nazi Germany, the American Communist Party
lost a significant portion of its membership
On Oct. 29, 1929, the American stock market
lost all the gains of the previous year
In his impeachment proceedings, Bill Clinton was charged with
lying under oath to a grand jury
The main reason President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to increase the number of Justices on the United States Supreme Court was to
make the Court more supportive of New Deal programs
An early and major American victory in the Spanish-American War occurred at
manila bay
As a result of the dust storms on the plains,
many farmers could not pay their mortgages and lost their farms.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) led the campaign to organize workers in
mass-production industries.
The Spanish-American War occurred during the presidency of
mckinley
In the 1920's, the depressed situation of United States agriculture was chiefly caused by
mechanization and overproduction
The counterculture supporters were mainly
middle-class whites alienated by the Vietnam War and political corruption
The irreconcilables were primarily
midwestern and western progressives.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
missed vital shore installations and oil tanks.
In 2000, for the first time
most immigrants did not come from Europe
After World War II, the economy avoided severe dislocations due to demobilization because
pent-up demand for consumer goods spurred production.
The Platt Amendment
placed restrictions on the Cuban government's independence.
Until early 1918, U.S. forces in Europe
played only a token role.
Eugene Bull Connor
police commissioner personally supervised a brutal effort to break up the peaceful marches Martin Luther King Jr. led, arresting hundreds of demonstrators and using attack dogs, tear gas, electric cattle prods, and fire hoses, all in view of TV cameras.
La Raza Unida
political party started by Jose Angel Gutierrez, worked for better housing and jobs, and also backed latino political candidates
Cholera, typhoid fever, and yellow fever were often the result in urban areas of
poor sanitation
Norman Vincent Peale was a leading exponent of
positive thinking.
All of the following occurred as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority except
poverty in the region was significantly reduced
In political and economic matters, FDR was
pragmatic.
General Nguyen Van Thieu
president of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) from 1967 until the republic fell to the forces of North Vietnam in 1975.
The election of 1936
produced a new and enduring coalition of voters for the Democratic Party
Limited Test Ban Treaty
prohibits nuclear weapons tests "or any other nuclear explosion" in the atmosphere, in outer space, and under water
In 1968, Nixon's "southern strategy" involved
promising to go slowly on enforcing civil rights laws
In 1968, Nixon's "southern strategy" involved
promising to proceed slowly when enforcing civil rights laws.
In 1948, Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
proposed the governments to run the government more efficiently
The Economy Act of 1933
proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers salaries
In 1948, Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
proposed to run the government more efficiently.
During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, which situation was viewed by critics as a threat to the principle of separation of powers?
proposing the expansion of Supreme Court membership
In 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
protected the assets of small bank depositors
Immigrants who arrived before 1890 to the United States were primarily
protestant
During its first year, the Civil Works Administration
put four million people to work
The Civilian Conservation Corps
put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas
Harding was more progressive than Wilson in matters dealing with
race
In 1948, the States' Rights Democratic party stood for
racial segregation.
In 1931, the severity of the depression increased when the Federal Reserve Board
raised interest rates
When it came to financing the war the federal government resorted to
raising income tax rates, making most workers income taxpayers, and borrowing money mostly through selling bonds.
Under the New Deal, African Americans
received more sympathy than under most previous administrations
The Port Huron Statement
reflected the ideals of the New Left; was drafted by Tom Hayden; was influenced by African American activists in the South.
Because of the excesses of the Gilded Age, a major period of ________ occurred to _______ it.
reform, counter
After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the US
refused to alter the payment schedule of all debts owed by the European nations to America
During the 1937 sit down strike of General Motors, the federal government
refused to intervene in the dispute
Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration of 1933, Franklin Roosevelt
refused to make any deals with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover
After Democrats won control of the Congress in the 1930 elections, President Herbert Hoover
refused to support a more vigorous public spending program for relief
One of the main reasons why the Allies pushed for opening a second front in Western Europe was to
relieve pressure on the Soviet Union by forcing the Germans to fight on two fronts.
Wilson's Fourteen Points included all the following except freedom of the seas. Correct Response replacing the czar on the Russian throne. the League of Nations. an independent Poland.
replacing the czar on the Russian throne.
Which political party was associated with the temperance movement?
republican
the hawaiian ruler queen liluokalani tried to do what in the early 1890s
restrict the growing political power of america in the islands
What step did President Cleveland take to address the economic depression that began in 1893?
return to gold standard
Rock-and-roll music was directly related to
rhythm and blues.
Watts Riots
riot which lasted six days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California
The Treaty of Portsmouth resulted from American intervention in the
russo-jap war
Which president described himself, near the end of his term, as a president without a party?
rutherford b hayes
Republican Protestants during the Gilded Age had a tendency to consider __________ the central social evil in the United States.
saloons
What did one journalist call "the social and intellectual center of the neighborhood" during the Gilded Age in large cities?
saloons
Among the reasons the atomic bomb was used against Japan was the belief that it would
save the lives of American soldiers.
For women, the economic pressures caused by the Great Depression
saw men move to jobs traditionally held by women
Throughout 1928, the American stock market
saw the number of shares traded daily soar
In the 1952 campaign, Eisenhower promised to
secure peace in Korea.
As a result of the Great Depression, the social values in the US
seemed to change relatively little
The Iran-Contra affair involved
selling arms to Iran to secure the release of hostages; Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North; secretly supporting rebels in Nicaragua.
Mayor Richard J. Daley
served for 21 years as the mayor and undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses." He played a major role in the history of the Democratic Party, especially with his support of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and of Hubert Humphrey in 1968
Tom Hayden
set up the students for a Democratic Society SOS in 1960. This was a very liberal group. They set up the new left a political movement to chang poverty & racism by radical means.
In response to the weakening economy in 2001, President Bush
signed into law a massive tax cut.
Nixon sought to lessen criticism of the Vietnam War by
slowly reducing the number of American troops there; creating a lottery to determine who would be drafted; using more air strikes rather than ground warfare.
During the 1930's, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union
sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines
The Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933
sought to raise crop process by paying farmers not to plant
The faction of the Republican party during the Gilded Age that was not concerned with the excesses of the time was known as the
stalwarts
During the Watergate crisis Nixon was not accused of
stealing funds from his reelection campaign.
During the Watergate crisis, Nixon was NOT accused of
stealing funds from the reelection campaign
Which economic practice became significantly more widespread during the 1920s?
stock market speculation
The Tea Party movement
stood for limiting government and taxes
The Tea Party movement
stood for limiting government and taxes.
The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the war in the Pacific because it
stopped the eastward advance of the Japanese.
John Keats' The Crack in the Picture Window was a stinging critique of
suburban life.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia,
successfully invaded the Crimea, a disputed part of the Ukraine
Under President Reagan, organized labor
suffered from the defeat of the Air Traffic Controllers' Union.
Wartime rationing included
sugar, coffee, and gasoline
Wartime rationing included
sugar, coffee, and gasoline.
Demographic forces favorable to Reagan and conservatism included growth in the
sunbelt population.
By 1953, the United States involvement in Vietnam consisted of
supporting over two-thirds of the cost of the French war effort.
By 1953, the United States involvement in Vietnam consisted of
supporting two thirds of the cost of the French war effort.
After Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba, Eisenhower
suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Eleanor Roosevelt helped the president by
taking political risks by making alliances with black, labor, and women's groups.
In the 1930's, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People
taught that individual initiative could help people to restore themselves financially
Which of the following was not a reason to move to the cities during the Gilded Age?
tenant farming removed prime land from the agricultural economy, thus causing the loss of jobs
After the attack on 9/11, President Bush launched a war on
terror
In 1937, President Roosevelt decided
that he should try and balance the federal budget
Which of the following statement's regarding President Wilson's Fourteen Points is incorrect?
the 14 points called for racial equality
Cuban Missile Crisis
the 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba
The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with
the Agriculture Marketing Act
Germany lost the Battle of the Atlantic because
the Allies had broken the Germans' secret code
The many scandals in Harding's administration touched all of the following except the Veterans Administration. Teapot Dome. Correct Response the Bonus Army. the attorney general, Harry Daugherty.
the Bonus Army.
The greatest protests against Nixon's Vietnam policy came after
the Cambodian incursion.
The freedom rides were organized by
the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
President Truman's domestic program to initiate domestic reforms is known as
the Fair Deal
President Truman's domestic program to initiate domestic reforms is known as
the Fair Deal.
The Glass-Stegall Act of 1933 established
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
All of the following programs were a part of the "Second New Deal" except
the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
"Anschluss" refers to
the German annexation of Austria.
For Wilson, the most important part of the peace negotiations involved
the League of Nations.
Truman's program for the economic recovery of Europe was called
the Marshall Plan
Truman's program for the economic recovery of Europe was called
the Marshall Plan.
By the end of 1938
the New Deal had largely come to an end
The difference between the Old Left and New Left was that
the New Left's goal was to remake the United States into a more democratic society
Wilson's failure to take a major Republican to the postwar peace conference was a mistake because
the Republicans controlled Congress.
By December 1991,
the Soviet Union was no longer in existence; The United States was the only dominant military power in the world; Saddam Hussein still controlled Iraq.
From April 1948 to May 1949,
the Soviets blockaded Berlin
From April 1948 to May 1949,
the Soviets blockaded Berlin.
The "Abraham Lincoln Brigade" is associated with
the Spanish Civil War
In 1968 the correct order of events was
the Tet offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Democratic convention in Chicago
In 1968, the correct order of events was
the Tet offensive, LBJ's withdrawal from the presidential race, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Democratic convention in Chicago.
The Nye committee investigations concluded that
the United States allowed munitions manufacturers to make huge profits from WWI
The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) were all part of
the War on Poverty.
Which of these was an important manifestation of the counterculture?
the Woodstock music festival in 1969
Appeasement
the action or process of appeasing
All of the following statements regarding the 1932 "Bonus Army" are true except
the army demanded Congress create relief programs for WWI veterans
What invention did not ease the ability of people to live outside of major urban areas yet still work there?
the automobile
Black Power
the belief that blacks should fight back if attacked. it urged blacks to achieve economic independence by starting and supporting their own business.
Flexible response
the buildup of conventional troops and weapons to allow a nation to fight a limited war without using nuclear weapons
The first federal law passed to restrict immigration on the basis of race was
the chinese exclusion act
A major cause of the 2008 economic collapse was
the collapse of the housing market from unreal prices and irresponsible mortgage practices.
Eisenhower's farewell address dealt with
the dangers of a military-industrial complex.
Genocide
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation
One major effect of the GI Bill of Rights was
the democratization of higher education.
During the Great Depression
the divorce rate declined
In 1995, 60,000 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) peacekeeping troops were sent to maintain peace in
the former Yugoslavia
In 1995, 60,000 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) peacekeeping troops were sent to maintain peace in
the former Yugoslavia.
In 1937, regarding the organization of industrial labor
the great majority of strikes were settled in favor of the unions
The "Second New Deal" was launched in response to
the growth of popular protests across the nation
A key element in the postwar consumer revolution was
the increase in advertising, especially on television;the growth of consumer credit,the development of shopping as a form of recreation.
Racial conflict among Americans during and after World War I resulted from
the mass movement of southern blacks to northern cities.
Green Berets
the military branch created by President John Kennedy to be able to wage counter-insurgency campaigns better
The free-speech movement attacked
the modern university.
One long term consequence of the New Deal was
the national government assumed a responsibility for the basic welfare of the people
President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come" after
the passage of the Civil Right Act of 1964
President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come" after
the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
President Johnson said that "we have just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come" after
the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that
the policy of "separate but equal" in public education was unconstitutional.
Domino Theory
the political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control
Much of the economic growth of the 1920s was based on
the production of new consumer goods
Reagan won the election of 1980 because of all of the following except
the resurgence of Great Society liberalism.
The Fair Labor Standards Act provided for all of the following for interstate businesses except
the right of workers to form unions.
The Fair Labor Standards Act provided for all of the following for interstate businesses except a minimum wage. the prohibition of child labor. a maximum work week of forty hours. Correct Response the right of workers to form unions.
the right of workers to form unions.
In Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled on
the rights of a person accused of a crime.
______________ killed roughly 100 million people worldwide in 1918.
the spanish flu
In United States v. Butler, the Supreme Court overturned the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) because
the tax on food processors was unconstitutional.
Great Society
the term for the domestic programs of the Johnson administration
Lebensraum
the territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany
The Jobs Corps, Head Start, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) were all part of
the war on poverty.
"Big-Stick" diplomacy refers to
theodore roosevelt's foreign policy
As a result of the Great Recession
there was a sharp decline in Mexican immigration to the United States
How did the Wilson administration use women to aid the war effort?
they were told to take jobs previously held by men
Civil Rights Act of 1968
this law banned discrimination in housing, the segregation of education, transprotation, and employment, it helped African Americans gain their full votin rights.
Dr. Timothy Leary
this man popularized LSD in the 60's and said, "Tune in, turn on, drop out"
President Johnson decided to escalate the war in Vietnam
to contain communism in the Far East
President Johnson decided to escalate the war in Vietnam
to contain communism in the Far East.
To deal with labor strikes after World War II, Truman
took control of the coal mines.
A major catalyst for the Suez War in 1956 was the cancellation by the United States of a major dam project in Egypt.
true
After 1890, most immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe.
true
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a leading advocate of American sea power and imperialism.
true
By 1900, the United States had more saloons than grocery stores.
true
Emilio Aguinaldo at first aided George Dewey against the Spanish in the Philippines.
true
In 1890, 80 percent of New Yorkers were foreign born.
true
Lester F. Ward stressed humankind's basic compassion.
true
Support for civil service reform rose following the assassination of President James A. Garfield.
true
President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by
urging voluntary cooperation from business leaders
Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following except
vice president of the US
One of the ways politics in the Gilded Age was different than today was that
voters voted for the same parties regardless of candidate
The march from Selma to Montgomery emphasized
voting rights
The march from Selma to Montgomery emphasized
voting rights.
Michael Harrington's The Other America influenced the
war on poverty.
Charles de Gaulle
was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
was a boon to western states with silver mines
Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932
was a convincing mandate
Battle of Midway
was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
all of these is correct (was to provide federal loans to troubled banks and businesses, was created in the last year of Hoovers administration, included a $1.5 billion public works budget)
Rationing
allow each person to have only a fixed amount
Elijah Muhammed
an African American religious leader and activist and was the leader of the Nation of Islam organization
The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Presidency in 1932 reflected the desire of many Americans to have government take
an active role in solving economic problems
Turn on, Tune In, Drop Out
an album credited to Timothy Leary. It consists of a narrated meditation mixed with freeform psychedelic rock music.
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) involved
an anti-missile defense system.
For the first Bush administration, the major problem in the early 1990s was
an economic recession
Which of the following is true about the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
an effort to limit the size of business
The decisions made at the Yalta Conference did not include agreement that
c. both the Soviet Union and The United States would reduce their armaments by half after the war ended
One of the main reasons why the Allies pushed for an opening a second front in Western Europe was to
c. relieve pressure on the Soviet Union by forcing the Germans to fight on two fronts
Among the reasons the atomic bomb was used against Japan was the belief that it would
c. save the lives of American soldiers
The Geneva Accords involving Southeast Asia
called for elections to unify Vietnam.
Clinton's health-care initiative
called for large businesses to pay for the bulk of their employees' health insurance; was heavily influenced by his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton; was defeated in Congress.
With the Nixon Doctrine, the United States
called for revising the containment policy
Phyllis Schlafly was a leader in the
campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment.
In the Birmingham campaign in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., signaled a change in strategy from
changing southern white attitudes to confrontation and civil disobedience
In the Birmingham campaign in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. signaled a change in strategy from
changing southern white attitudes to confrontation and civil disobedience.
Much of Father Coughlin's outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration revolved around the issue of
changing the banking and currency system
What was an example of the new types of entertainment that became popular during the Gilded Age?
wild west traveling shows
In the 1930's, the New Deal generally gave
work relief to men and cash assistance to women
Hideki Tojo
was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 27th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II, from October 17, 1941, to July 22, 1944
During the 1930's the sit down strike
was a new and controversial labor tactic
In the 1930's, the Dust Bowl,
was a product of changing environmental conditions
Czechoslovakia
was a sovereign state in Central Europe
"Phony war"
was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operations on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district
The Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933
was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
In 1932, the Farmers Holiday Association
was essentially a farmers strike
President Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court
was eventually defeated in Congress
New Deal policy toward American Indians
was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism
The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933
was headed by former electricity magnate Samuel Insull
The Works Progress Administration of 1935
was much larger than previous programs of its kind
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey
was now the sole Democrat with the credentials to succeed Johnson. His campaign "Politics of Joy"
The New Deal's "cornerstone" and "supreme achievement," according to FDR,
was social security.
The practice by Republicans of reminding voters who caused the Civil War was known as
waving the bloody shirt
One of the Clinton administration's major legislative accomplishments was
welfare reform.
As a result of the Immigration Act of 1965, the majority of future immigrants
were Hispanics and Asians
African Americans employed by the New Deal relief programs
were among the first to be released when funds
Many of the reforms pushed by the Populists
were implemented by the progressives
Most women in the twenties
were not flappers.
"Massive resistance" is the term used for
white resistance to court-ordered integration of the schools.
Which economic trend of the 1920s helped cause the Great Depression?
widening income gap between the rich and the poor
The Supreme Court issues the Schenck v. United States decision.
1919
F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise is published
1920
Prohibition begins.
1920
Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize in physics.
1921
Congress passes the Emergency Immigration Act; representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan attend the Washington Naval Congress.
1921
The United States begins sending observers to the League of Nations; Benito Mussolini comes to power in Italy.
1922
The first radio commercial is aired.
1922
President Warren G. Harding dies in office.
1923
Congress passes the Immigration Act.
1924
The Scopes "monkey trial" tests the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools.
1925
Charles Lindbergh Jr. makes the first solo transatlantic flight.
1927
Herbert Hoover is elected president.
1928
Congress passes the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.
1930
The Bonus Expeditionary Force converges on Washington to demand payment of bonuses promised to war veterans.
1932
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany.
1933
Emergency Banking Act
1933
Hitler forces the Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany.
1938
The Soviet Union agrees to a nonaggression pact with Germany.
1939
The Battle of Britain takes place.
1940
Roosevelt and Churchill meet Stalin in Tehran.
1943
Congress passes the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights).
1944
Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Labor Act; the National Security Council (NSC) is established.
1947
China "falls" to communism; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created.
1949
The Communists gained control of China in
1949
The Communists gained control of China in
1949.
The United States and other UN members go to war in Korea.
1950
Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is published.
1952
The Supreme Court issues a ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
1954
The Hungarian revolt against the Warsaw Pact is quickly suppressed; in the Suez War, Israel, Britain, and France attack Egypt.
1956
Soviet Union launches Sputnik I; the baby boom peaks; Jack Kerouac's On the Road is published; federal troops are ordered to protect students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
1957
Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a sit-in to demand service at a "whites-only" lunch counter.
1960
The U-2 spy plane incident reveals that the United States is flying spy planes over the Soviet Union.
1960
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the birth control pill.
1960
Bay of Pigs fiasco takes place; the Soviets erect the Berlin Wall.
1961
Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique is published.
1963
Congress passes the Civil Rights Act.
1964
In the 1930s, prior to World War II, actual conflict broke out first in
Asia between Japan and China.
In 1939, the U.S. Army was the third largest in the world, behind only Germany and Russia.
False
Dollar Diplomacy
The use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.
Riots break out in the African American community of Watts, California; Malcolm X is assassinated by a rival group of black Muslims.
1965
During World War II, Congress readily renewed and extended such New Deal programs as the National Youth Administration.
False
Eisenhower always fought hard for civil rights causes.
False
Eisenhower failed in his objective to abolish the Social Security program.
False
Eisenhower failed in his objective to abolish the social security program.
False
Ford's full pardon of Nixon was a popular act that ended the nightmare of Watergate
False
General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. Military action in the Korean conflict until he was fired by president Dwight Eisenhower.
False
General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. military action in the Korean conflict until he was fired by President Eisenhower.
False
General Douglas MacArthur led the U.S. military action in the Korean conflict until he was fired by president Dwight Eisenhower.
False
George W. Bush received more popular votes than Al Gore in the 2000 election.
False
H. L. Mencken dubbed the twenties the "Jazz Age."
False
Ford Motor Company is founded; the Wright brothers fly the first airplane.
1903
Panamanians revolt against Colombia.
1903
The Russo-Japanese War begins.
1905
The first movie house opens.
1905
The Great White Fleet begins to circumnavigate the globe in a demonstration of America's rise to world-power status.
1907
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded.
1909
The Panama Canal opens.
1914
World War I begins in Europe.
1914
The British liner Lusitania, with Americans aboard, is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine.
1915
Congress passes the National Defense Act.
1916
Marcus Garvey brings the Universal Negro Improvement Association to New York.
1916
Woodstock '69
-1969 concert in upstate new york -3 days of peace and music -new style of being (Grateful Dead) -sign of cultural face of the 60s -a-political turning away, rebellion in lifestyle, ..., -1969 concert in upstate new york -3 days of peace and music -new style of being (Grateful Dead) -sign of cultural face of the 60s -a-political turning away, rebellion in lifestyle
1940
-Battle of Britain -September: Germany, Italy, & Japan sign the Tripartite Pact
1957
-Federal troops ordered to protect students attempting to integrate central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas - Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 - Jack Kerouac's On the Road is published - Baby boom peaks
1938
-Hitler forces the Anschluss (union) of Austria & Germany
1943
-January: Roosevelt, Churchill, & the combined chiefs of staff meet at Casablanca -July: Allied Forces land on Sicily -Roosevelt & Churchill meet Stalin in Tehran
1949
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created - China "falls" to communism
1939
-Soviet Union agrees to a nonaggression pact with Germany -September: German troops invade Poland
By the end of 2005, U.S. involvement in Iraq suffered from
1) guerilla attacks in Iraq. 2) revelations of torture and abuse of Iraqi prisoners. 3) the admission that weapons of mass destruction had not been found. 4) all of the answer choices are correct All of the above
During the Great Depression, in the rural US
1/3 of all farmers lost their land
In 1900 ______ of 82 million Americans lived in poverty.
10 million
Darwin's On the Origin of Species is published.
1859
The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) founded.
1867
San Francisco begins using cable cars for mass transit.
1873
Rutherford B. Hayes is inaugurated president.
1877
James A. Garfield is assassinated.
1881
Congress passes the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.
1883
The Supreme Court issues the decision in the case of Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois.
1886
The Interstate Commerce Commission is created.
1887
Otis Elevator Company installs the first electric elevator.
1889
Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and the McKinley Tariff.
1890
Economic panic begins the worst depression the nation had ever experienced.
1893
The Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed.
1894
The Cuban insurrection breaks out against Spanish rule.
1895
The U.S. battleship Maine explodes in Havana Harbor.
1898
The U.S. Senate ratifies the Treaty of Paris.
1899
Filipino insurgents resist U.S. domination.
1899-1902
An international alliance quells the Boxer Rebellion.
1900
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
A 26-year-old minister who graduated from Morehouse College. Outspoken supporter of the movement to win civil rights for African Americans. Believed in Nonviolent protests. President of MIA. Gave "I Have A Dream" speech which is a landmark of U.S history
Open Door Policy
A U.S. sponsored nonbinding international agreement that kept the Chinese market open to all foreign nations.
The Spanish-American War (1898)
A conflict between Spain and the United States, it was a result of the United States' intervention in the Cuban War of Independence, and a result of America's intervention with the Philippine's fight for independence from Spain. The United States officially entered the conflict with the Battleship Maine exploding in Havana harbor. Evidence points to poor engineering, but because of sensational media, and poor investigational techniques at the time they concluded that the Spanish planted a bomb in the ship. It only lasted three months due to the United States economic and technological advantage. It resulted in the Treaty of Paris and an American victory. April 25th - August 12th.
Thurgood Marshall
A lawyer who specialized in civil rights cases, hired by Oliver Brown. For over ten years, served as legal director of NAACP. Presented Brown v. Board of Education and argued the fact that a school was segregated meant it was unequal. Produced testimony from psychologists showing segregation lowered self-esteem of African Americans, and it violated 14th amendment. Won the case and changed american history.
Macolm X
A leader of the black power movement
Theodore Roosevelt maintained that Indians were
A lesser race
Senator Eugene McCarthy
A liberal senator; was a strong anti-war supporter and decided to challenge LBJ for the presidential nomination
Panama Canal
A manmade waterway through Panama completed in 1914 to link the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean.
black power movement
A more militant form of protest for civil rights that originated in urban communities, where nonviolent tactics were less effective than in the South. Black power encouraged African Americans to take pride in their racial heritage and forced black leaders and organizations to focus attention on the plight of poor inner-city blacks,
Rough Riders
A volunteer unit of cowboys, Ivy League athletes, city police officers, and Pawnee scouts led by Theodore Roosevelt that gained fame by charging up the San Juan Heights during the Spanish-American War.
What was not a problem that President Obama inherited when he was inaugurated?
A war in Libya
1959 Revolutionary that overthrew Cuban dictator?
A- Fidel Castro
22nd Amendment
A- Limited Presidents to two terms bc of FDR
1933
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler, "Fuhrer"
Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
The Works Progress Administration provided federal assistance to
All of these are correct (artist and sculptors, actors and directors, writers and musicians)
In response to the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover urged the American people to remain optimistic. signed into law the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. pushed Congress to pass the Revenue Act of 1932. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan stood for 100 percent Americanism. was prejudiced against Jews and Catholics. was a force in national politics. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
The National Industrial Recovery Act provided for $3.3 billion in spending through the Public Works Administration (PWA). codes of fair practice for industries. the right of workers to form unions. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
The Revenue Act of 1916 taxed excess profits of corporations. added a tax on munitions makers. doubled the basic income tax rate. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
The Warren Harding administration tried to overturn progressive reforms by appointing conservatives to the Supreme Court. following pro-business policies. reducing income taxes and raising tariffs. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
The suburbs boomed because of
All of these are correct.
The wartime Espionage and Sedition Acts were upheld by the Supreme Court. led to the persecution of more than 1,500 people. hit hard at socialists and radicals. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
When it came to financing the war the federal government resorted to raising income tax rates. making most workers income taxpayers. borrowing money mostly through selling bonds. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
Which of the following best describes how the outbreak of the Great War impacted the American people? The majority of white Americans supported the Allied Powers. The Allies need for food and other material led to an economic boom. American banks loans heavily favored Great Britain and France over Germany. Correct Response All of these are correct.
All of these are correct.
October 1948
Allied forces begin airlifting supplies to West Berlin
July 1943
Allied forces land on Sicily
Harry Belafonte
An African American Jazz and pop singer
Linda Brown
An African American third grader who had to walk almost a mile and take a dangerous route to get to her segregated school when a white school was only seven blocks from her house
16th Amendment provides for
An income tax
The Watergate was
An office building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 election, and a massive cover-up of break-in whereby it became clear that President Nixon was lying to the American people.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
An organization founded by MLK Jr., to direct the crusade against segregation. Its weapon was passive resistance that stressed nonviolence and love, and its tactic direct, though peaceful, confrontation.
Many Americans in the late 19th century assumed some races like __ were superior and other races like ___ were inferior
Anglo-saxon, Indians
Anschluss
Anschluss refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. The word's German spelling, until the German orthography reform of 1996, was Anschluß and it was also known as the Anschluss Österreichs
In the 1930's, all of the following books offered criticism of American society Except
Anthony Adverseby Hervy Allen
The United States enters the Great War.
April 1917
Fifty nations at war with the Axis Powers sign the United Nations Charter.
April 1945
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; Hitler commits suicide.
April 1945
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
April 1968
Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese.
April 1975
1975
April: Saigon falls to the North Vietnamese
Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940
General Douglas MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.
Tuskegee Airmen
During the Second World War, African Americans in the armed forces usually served in segregated units. African American pilots were trained at a separate flight school in Tuskegee, Alabama, and were known as Tuskegee Airmen.
Women's Army Corps (WAC)
During the Second World War, the increased demand for labor shook up old prejudices about gender roles in workplace and in the military. Nearly 200,000 women served in the Women's Army Corps or its naval equivalent, Women accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES)
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American Army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961
One reason Operation Overlord succeeded was
Eisenhower surprised the Germans by attacking at Normandy.
One reason Operation Overlord succeeded was that
Eisenhower surprised the Germans by attacking in Normandy
The election of 1952 was a turning point in politics because
Eisenhower won several southern states.
The most influential advocate for the African Americans was
Eleanor Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Elected president in 1960, he was interested in bringing new ideas to the White House. Despite the difficulties he had in getting his legislation through Congress, he did establish the Alliance for Progress programs to help Latin America, the Peace Corps, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and funding for urban renewal projects and the space program. He mistakenly proceeded with the Bay of Pigs invasion, but he successfully handled the Cuban missile crisis. In Indochina, his administration became increasingly involved in supporting local governments through aid, advisors, and covert operations. In 1963, he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
1991
Ethnic conflict explodes in Yugoslavia
1991
Ethnic conflict explodes in Yugoslavia.
"He kept us out of war" was the 1916 Republican campaign cry against Wilson.
False
"One nation under God" was added to all U.S. currency in 1955.
False
A great concern to the United States and Britain was the rise of China as a militaristic power.
False
Andrew W. Mellon said, "The chief business of the American people is business."
False
As head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, John Collier hoped to eliminate tribes and fully assimilate Native Americans into the national culture.
False
Basketball became the national sport in the 1920s.
False
Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler's troops invaded the Sudetenland
False
Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler's troops invaded the Sudetenland.
False
Buying stocks on margin helped restrain speculation in the stock market.
False
By 1942, the Axis Powers included the Soviet Union.
False
By 1942, the Axis powers included the Soviet Union
False
By 1966, participants in the black power movement demanded voting rights and declared they would burn the cities until that was accomplished.
False
Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act in only three days.
False
Douglas MacArthur believed fighting Red China would involve the United States "in the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time and with the wrong enemy."
False
In 1910, the largest group of "hyphenated" Americans was from Ireland.
False
Platt Amendment
Granted the United States the right to maintain a naval base at Guantanamo Bay, to intervene militarily in Cuban domestic affairs, and a privileged trading relationship with Cuba. The Cuban government also needed permission from the United States before entering into treaties with other nations.
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the United States had the support of troops from
Great Britain
RAF (Royal Air Force)
Great Britain's powerful airforce
In Operation Iraqi Freedom, the United States had the support of troops from
Great Britain.
Medicare / Medicaid
Great Society programs to have the government provide medical aid to the elderly (Medicare) and the poor (Medicaid).
Freedom Riders
Group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through southern states in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation
Indian Civil Rights Act
Guaranteed Indians the rights granted to other citizens in the Bill of Rights while at the same time recognizing the legitimacy of tribal laws.
Clinton's most successful departure in foreign policy was in
Haiti
Haight-Ashbury
Haven for young people seeking an alternative to the straight world in 1965. Was located in San Francisco
Jackie Robinson
He was signed to Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945. The first African American to play in Major League Baseball. Became first African American elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame (1962), and made a way for other African Americans to play in professional sports
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, and a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust
Napalm
Highly flammable chemical dropped from US planes in firebombing attacks during the Vietnam War.
Who developed President Clinton's health care plan?
Hillary Clinton
The 2008 election was historic for all of these reasons, except:
Hillary Clinton was the first woman to run for vice-president.
As a result of the Immigration Act of 1965, the majority of future immigrants were
Hispanics and Asians.
In the Hiss-Chambers case,
Hiss was convicted of perjury
In the Hiss-Chambers case,
Hiss was convicted of perjury.
1938
Hitler forces the Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany
Individuals labeled Mugwumps were best associated with which concept?
Honest government
The Share the Wealth program was proposed by
Huey P. Long.
2005
Hurricane Katrina hits.
Benito Mussolini
In 1922, the bombastic journalist Benito Mussolini had seized power in Italy.
freedom riders
In 1961, the Congress of Racial Equality had this group of black white demonstrators ride buses to test the federal court ruling that had banned segregation on buses and trains and in terminals. Despite being attacked, they never gave up. Their actions drew national attention and generated respect and support for their cause.
March on Washington
In August 1963, civil rights leaders organized a massive rally in Washington to urge passage of President Kennedy's civil rights bill. The high point came when MLK Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech to more than 200,000 marchers in front of the Lincoln Memorial.E
Dunkirk
In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk
John Collier is associated with New Deal
Indians policies
On March 19, 2003, the United States invaded
Iraq
2003
Iraq War begins with operation Iraqi Freedom
Weather Underground
Is a commercial weather service that provides real time weather inf.
November 1979
Islamic militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran and take more than fifty American hostages.
May 1948
Israel is proclaimed an independent nation
1982
Israeli troops invade Lebanon
1982
Israeli troops invade Lebanon.
Atlantic Charter
Issued August 12, 1941, following meetings in the Newfoundland between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the charter signaled the allies' cooperation and stated their war aims.
In the 1930's, all of following films offered social commentary on the US and the Great Depression Except
It Happened One Night
Nagasaki
It is synonymous with a key moment during World War II, after suffering an Allied nuclear attack in August 1945. The event is memorialized at the city's Atomic Bomb Museum and Peace Park
Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was an American Major League Baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era.
James Meredith
James Howard Meredith is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran.
Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points address.
January 1918
Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet at Casablanca.
January 1943
The Viet Cong stage the Tet offensive.
January 1968
In Paris, the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Viet Cong agree to restore peace in Vietnam.
January 1973
September 2, 1945
Japanese Surrender
Gentlemen's Agreement (1907-1908)
Japanese agreement to deny passports to Japanese workers intending to immigrate to the United States.
In the Panay incident in 1937,
Japanese airplanes sank an American warship
December 7, 1941
Japanese launch surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
November 1963
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
New Frontier
John F. Kennedy's program, stymied by a Republican Congress and his abbreviated; his successor Lyndol B. Johnson had greater success with many of the same concepts.
Open Door Policy
John hay
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong, commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the People's Republic of China
The Zimmermann telegram reveals that Germany is attempting to incite Mexico to enter the war against the United States.
March 1917
U.S. planes begin a fourteen-month-long bombing campaign aimed at Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
March 1969
August 1963
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
April 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
The Treaty of Versailles is presented to the Germans.
May 1919
Israel is proclaimed an independent nation.
May 1948
V-E day takes place.
May 8, 1945
Yalta Conference
Meeting of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at a Crimean resort to discuss the postwar world on February 4-11, 1945; Soviet leader Joseph Stalin claimed large areas in eastern Europe for soviet domination.
2007
Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives.
2007
Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female Speaker of the House of Reps
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People focused attention on integrating elementary, junior and high schools, and they fought legal segregation in educational institutions, They helped Oliver Brown sue Topeka Board of Education, but they lost. NAACP organized a one-day bus boycott of the city buses in Montgomery.
1947
National Security Council (NSC) is established
Luftwaffe
Nazi airforce
Blitzkrieg
Nazi bombing over France and Great Britain at night
Concentration camps
Nazi work camps for Jews and other enemies of Hitler. Torture and burning of the victims took place.
Kennedy called his political program the
New Frontier
Kennedy called his political program the
New Frontier.
Southern Strategy
Nixon's plan to persuade conservative southern white voters away from the Democratic party
During the 1930's, southern rural blacks who moved to northern urban areas
None of these answers are correct
Critics of conformity and complacency in the 1950s included
Norman Mailer
Critics of conformity and complacency in the 1950s included
Norman Mailer.
1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created
Representatives of warring nations sign an armistice.
November 11, 1918
Truman defeats Dewey in the presidential election.
November 1948
John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
November 1963
In 1998, President Clinton was impeached for
Obstructing Justice
Allied forces begin airlifting supplies to West Berlin.
October 1948
The Cuban missile crisis occurs.
October 1962
The stock market crashes.
October 29, 1929
1962
October: Cuban Missile Crisis
Security Council
The Security Council is the United Nations' most powerful body, with "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security." Five powerful countries sit as "permanent members" along with ten elected members who two-year terms.
In World War II, the greatest number of casualties were suffered by
The Soviet Union
By December 1991,
The Soviet Union was no longer in existence, The United States was the only dominant military power in the world, and Saddam Hussein still controlled Iraq.
Sudetenland
The Sudetenland is the name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans
2000
The Supreme Court issues the Bush v. Gore decision.
Robert McNamara
The US Secretary of Defense during the battles in Vietnam. He was the architech for the Vietnam war and promptly resigned after the US lost badly
Pearl Harbour
The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941
Consequence of the war of 1898 is most accurate
The boosted Americans confidence and reinforced racist attitudes
New Frontier
The campaign program advocated by JFK in the 1960 election. He promised to revitalize the stagnant economy and enact reform legislation in education, health care, and civil rights.
A key element in the postwar consumer revolution was
The development of shopping as a form of recreation, the growth of consumer credit, and the increase in advertising, especially on television.
Imperialism
The late nineteenth-century term for colonizing foreign nations and lands, relying primarily on business, political, and military structures rather than settlers to rule colonized people and exploit their resources.
Lend-Lease Program
The lend-lease policy, formally titled "An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States", was a program by which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China
1971
The microprocessor (computer chip) is invented.
October 1987
The stock market experiences Black Monday.
The long time censor of Hollywood films in the 1920's and 1930's was
Will Hays
The chief justice of the Supreme Court appointed by President Harding was
William Howard Taft.
"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns," said
William Jennings Bryan
What president was responsible for annexation of Hawaii
William McKinley
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, who would become the British prime minister in 1940, described the Munich Pact as "a defeat without a war."
"Sometimes people call me an idealist, but that's how I know I'm an American," declared
Woodrow Wilson
February 1945
Yalta Conference
Which of the following was not an example of a group created during the progressive era to promote social justice?
Young women's Christian association
The Watergate was
an office building in Washington, D.C; the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 election; a massive cover-up of break-in whereby it became clear that President Nixon was lying to the American people.
James Hosmer and John Fiske justified American imperialism by stressing
anglo-saxon superiority
Eisenhower said that the "biggest damn fool mistake I ever made" was
appointing Earl Warren chief justice of the Supreme Court.
At the conference in Casablanca, Churchill and Roosevelt decided to
assault Sicily and Italy
At the conference in Casablanca, Winston Churchill and Roosevelt decided to
assault Sicily and Italy
At the conference in Casablanca, Winston Churchill and Roosevelt decided to
assault Sicily and Italy.
A lasting result of the New Deal in the United States has been the
assumption by the Federal Government of greater responsibility for the nation's well-being
At the conference of Casablanca, Winston Churchill and Roosevelt decided to
b. assault Sicily and Italy
Wartime rationing included
b. sugar, coffee , and gasoline
Crucial ingredients of Reaganomics did not involve
balancing the budget.
Which of the following would favor the policy of sound money?
banker
The Troubled Asset Relief Program was aimed at assisting ailing
banks
During the "Second New Deal" President Roosevelt
became more willing to attack corporate interests only
Battleship Maine
because of the explosion of the Battleship Maine it caused many to have hatred towards the Spanish because we thought they planted a bomb in the USS Maine, due to the sensational press and poor investigation. The actual cause is thought to be because of poor engineering. A phrase that became popular was, "Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain!"
Lend-lease was part of the United States' policy aimed at
becoming the arsenal of democracy
The construction of the Panama Canal
began even as Congress still debated the US acquisition of the Canal Zone.
Admiral George Dewey
best known for his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay during Spanish-American War, where he didn't sustain a single death and destroyed Montojo's entire fleet of warships. He became a national hero after this event. He is also the only person in history of the United States to have attained the rank of Admiral of the Navy.
All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition except
big business owners
In 1931 Scottsboro court case saw
black teenager accused of rape by two white women
Operation Rolling Thunder
bombing campaign over North Vietnam, supposed to weaken enemy's ability and will to fight
The decisions made at the Yalta Conference did not include the agreement that
both the Soviet Union and the United States would reduce their armaments by half after the war ended
The decisions made at the Yalta Conference did not include agreement that
both the Soviet Union and the United States would reduce their armaments by half after the war ended.
In1934, the strong criticism of the New Deal came from
both the political far right and the political far left
Carter's most significant accomplishment in foreign policy was
brokering a treaty between Israel and Egypt.
In fighting Iraq in Desert Storm, the Bush administration
built an alliance of over thirty countries; fought a relatively short campaign of just six weeks; failed to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
In 1934,the American Liberty League was formed
by wealthy conservatives who strongly opposed the New Deal
In 1940, Roosevelt ran for president against
c. Wendell Willkie
All of the following statements about post-World War I America are correct except most working women kept their wartime industrial jobs. racial violence broke out in Chicago. the police went on strike in Boston. a Red Scare erupted against radicals.
most working women kept their wartime industrial jobs.
By 2000, immigration to the United States was
mostly from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The free-speech movement attacked
movie and book censorship
Bipartisan cooperation characterized relations between Congress and Truman on
national security.
For two years after the war began in Europe, the Wilson administration pursued a policy that stressed
neutrality.
As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover promoted
new markets for business.
New Left
new political movement of the late 1960s that called for radical changes to fight poverty and racism
The Hawley Smoot Tariff on 1930
none of these answers is correct
In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for America included a commitment to
none of these is correct (spend billions of dollars to assist in the economic recovery, provide relief jobs to millions of unemployed Americans, pass legislation establishing a nationwide program of social security)
In the 1880s, the source of foreign immigration to the United States shifted from
northwestern europe and southeastern europe
The Eisenhower administration's policy of brinksmanship called for reliance on
nuclear weapons.
In 1998, President Clinton was impeached for
obstructing justice.
During the 1930's, American literature
offered a greater degree of social commentary that did either radio or movies
When the United States entered the Great War, American troops were most needed
on the western front
In Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court
ordered Florida to halt its vote recount.
Walter Reuther was a leader in
organizing automobile workers.
Among other items, the Atlantic Charter of 1941
outlined the ideals of anti-Axis nations.
A major problem facing farmers in the late nineteenth century was
overpopulation of ag products and decline in commodity prices
Which combination of factors contributed most to the start of the Great Depression of the 1930's?
overproduction and the excessive use of credit
During the second half of the 1920s, which economic trend was a major cause of the Great Depression?
overproduction and under consumption
During most of the 1920s, which group experienced the most severe economic problems?
owners of small family farms
Perhaps Gerald Ford's most memorable act as president was
pardoning Richard Nixon
The peace negotiations to end the Great War were held in ______________ in ________________.
paris, 1919
After World War II, the economy avoided severe dislocation due to demobilization because
pent-up demand for consumer goods spurred production