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what is neurasthenia?

a condition w symptoms such as hysteria and depression, often diagnosed by male physicians to force women back into the cult of domesticity

53.President Wilson's response to the sinking of the Lusitania:

"a series of notes demanding that Germany stop such actions and pay reparations" bc he was trying to stay neutral

How did Eisenhower describe his domestic policy of dynamic conservatism?

"being conservative when it comes to money and being liberal when it comes to human beings"

what is something Boss Tweed would say

"immigrants arrive in American cities poor and frightened. they are helped to find jobs or housing. these new comers should show their gratitude at voting time."

37.General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz developed the ________ strategy to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific war

"leapfrogging" or "island hopping" strategy • they liberated the most important islands and bypassed the others, leaving isolated Japanese bases to "wither on the vines" ** quiz answer "island hopping"

What did the Works Progress Administration do?

"managed a wide array of jobs and became the nations largest employer" employed men, women, young, and old. • built schools, libraries an roads but also employed the "artists" like actors and singers. • the gov them put on plays and musicals so the artists could be payed as well • put historians to work by interviewing the former slaves to get first hand point of views of what slavery was like

.After April 1970, American troops entered ________ to "clean out" hidden Communist military bases, thereby extending the Vietnam War.

"neutral" cambodia

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the caseBrown v. Board of Education?

"separate but equal" has no place in the field of education

Which of the following did Nixon's policy of "Vietnamization" involve?

"the equipping and training of south Vietnamese soldiers and pilots to assume the burden of combat. nixon began withdrawing USA troops while expanding the bombing of north vietnam to buy time for the transition • nixon established a draft lottery system where every 19 year old male was assigned a number and those with the lowest number had to go to war • draft system ended an all volunteer military was made

35. Though Johnson believed the United States had an obligation to keep its promises to South Vietnam, another reason why he committed American forces to combat

"to leave vietnam to its fate would shake the confidence of all these people in the value of american commitment" • he dreaded being blamed for losing vietnam to communist • military advisers also believed that the US military force would defeat the Viet cong • usa was not fighting to win but to prevent north Vietnamese and Viet long from winning and eventually force them to sign a negotiated settlement • this meant the usa would have to fight as long as the enemy retained the will to fight

Who were the Marx Brothers?

a family of comedians from the 1930's they came from Germany

who were the mugwumps

a group of republicans against James Gillespie Blaine who believed in reform and building honest government

the Yalta pledges of democratic elections in Eastern Europe were

a lie • stalin promised to allow open elections in the nations controlled by soviet armies but he lied

32.What occurred during the presidential election of 1944? (Who won?)

(democrat) roosevelt won another term by a major landslide defeating Thomas Dewey (republican) • his health was failing but the public did not know (a doc said he would not survive another 4 years)

***what was the significance of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath?

***quiz answer: it centered on the experiences of the dust bowl and demonstrated the solidarity of struggling people during the depression

***What was the goal of the Social Security Act of 1935? or what is true of social security act

**quiz answer: it was a federal retirement fund for people over 65 and was meant to supplement other sources of income

What did Roosevelt do at the outset of his presidency to deal with the banking crisis?

1. provided short-term emergency relief for the jobless 2. encourage agreements between management and unions to keep businesses from failing 3. raise depressed commodity prices (corn, cotton, wheat, beef, pork)by paying farmers subsidies to reduce the size of their crops and herds so that prices would rise and thereby increase farm income over time, even if it meant higher food prices for consumers (first new deal)

in 1933, President Roosevelt confronted what issues in America?

1. reliving the widespread human misery (people lived in Hooverville and had lost their lives savings 2. securing employment for the 25% of Americans out of work 3. reviving the economy (4 out of 5 of the nations banks were closed) 4. defending the country against the threat of Bolsheviks and bombs 5. helping a lost generation, who had lost their moral foundations

62.What was the Great Migration? What was the relationship between the Great War and the great migration

1/2 million southern blacks move to the north to take factory and mill jobs during the Great War many people moved from the south to the north where the factories were to get factory jobs.

27.What occurred during the coal strike of 1902?

100,000 members of the united mine workers labor union walked off the job in pennsylvania and west virginia. the minners were seeking a wage increase and a shorter work day. the union sought official recognition by the mine owners, who refused to negotiate and instead chose to shut the coal mines down. roosevelt brought both sides to the whitehouse and the miners won a 9 hour work day and a 10% wage increase

The United States mobilized 4,000,000 military personnel in the Great War and suffered________ deaths.

110,000

29.What was a result of the Brownsville Riot in 1906?

12 black solders killed several white men but no one knew which blacks did it an no one would talk so president roosevelt dishonorably discharged the entire regiment of soldiers (167 soldiers) which caused riots but he would not let up. 6 years later their charges were removed

Mississippi Plan

1890 - In order to vote in Mississippi, citizens had to display the receipt which proved they had paid the poll tax and pass a literacy test by reading and interpreting a selection from the Constitution. Prevented blacks, who were generally poor and uneducated, from voting.

82. What was the KKK in the 1920s? What event sparked the revival of the Ku Klux Klan?

a nationwide organization w millions of members, they were dedicated to white supremacists and "100 percent americanism" the release of "the birth of a nation sparked the revival of the KKK

5. The ________ amendment to the Constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment and resulted in ________. What was one of the factors that contributed to the passage of the Prohibition amendment? Which amendment to the Constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment?

18th amendment

What amendment was the result of the WCTU's efforts?

18th amendment for prohibition

36.What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve Act?

1913. established the federal reserve system as the central bank of the USA to provide the nation with a safer more flexible and more stable monetary and financial system

progressive america

1914-1941

the Great War and post war America: the progressive era

1914-1941

what was the "yellow peril"

a radically charge description of a perceived threat from japan

what did later investigations determine was the cause of the explosion on the battle ship maine

a self inflicted explosion in the coal rooms

17. What protest tactic did black students in Greensboro, North Carolina initiate?

a sit in, they sat in a whites only diner bc they could work there but could not eat there

What were the causes behind the rise of a Native American rights movement in the late 1960s?

2 reasons: 1. many whites felt guilty for the destructive actions of their ancestors towards a People who had after all been here first 2. Indian unemployment was 10 times the national rate, life expectancy was twenty years lower then the national average, and suicide rate was a 100 times higher than the rate for whites

What was the state of car ownership in America by 1955?

90% of people owned a car

25. What type of leader did Lyndon Johnson what to be recognized as?

a transformational leader

28. Michael Harrington's book The Other America influenced President Johnson to declare war on

a war on poverty in America

What limitations did the Congress in 1996, pass regarding the welfare-reform measure known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (PRWOA)?

abolished the aid to families with dependent children program and replaced it with the temporary assistant for needy families programs which limited the duration of welfare payments to two years in an effort to encourage unemployed people to report that the PROWOA had "worked much as its designers had hoped"

Within a few weeks of the September 11 attacks, U.S. forces led an invasion of

Afghanistan

18.Who sent "silent sentinels" to picket the White House for 18 months?

Alice Paul

which of the following was a result of Japans show of strength in the Russo Japanese war

Americans began to doubt the security of the Philippines

What had happened in South Vietnam by the end of 1975 following the Paris Peace Accords?

Americans watched on tv as north Vietnamese tanks rolled into Saigon soon to be rented ho chi ming city and military helicopters airlifted us embassy and south Vietnamese officials and their families to warships offshore

in 1993, Clinton was able to preside over the signing of a peace agreement between the leaders of Israel and

Arabs and Israelis (Israel and Palestine)

What led to the Great War?

Archduke Ferdinand (the next emperor) was assassinated

6.What nation was known as the "powder keg of Europe" because of its internal tensions and ethnic diversity?

Balkans

19. In what city did police chief "Bull" Connor order officers to unleash their dogs and clubs on civil rights demonstrators?

Birmingham Alabama

13.What describes the German blitzkrieg?

Blitzkrieg "lightning war" focused on speed: tanks, motorized artillery, truck infantry, warplanes, and paratroopers moved so fast that they stunned their opponents.

77.What riot inadvertently made Calvin Coolidge a national hero?

Boston Police Strike

what was one of the main reasons for McKinley's presidential victory

Bryan received little support from factory workers in the cities and did not have the support of the wealthy monopolies

84. The statement "Three generations of imbeciles are enough" relates to what case?

Buck vs. Bell

42. What was the result of the Second World War?

allies won Results and Aftermath of World War II. After the end of the war, a conference was held in Potsdam, Germany, to set up peace treaties . The countries that fought with Hitler lost territory and had to pay reparations to the Allies . Germany and its capital Berlin were divided into four parts. ******* quiz answer "the depression ends"

Grandfather Clause

allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction

What provoked Iranian militants to seize the American embassy in Tehran and take sixty-six Americans hostage?

Carter allows the Shah to come to America for cancer treatment and this enraged the Iranian revolutionaries.

What was one reason why the Iranian hostage question was significant?

Carter froze Iranian assets and asked Europe to join a trade embargo on Iran but american allies were not willing to lose access to Iranian oil • gas prices rose to record levels

What was among Carter's goals as president?

Carter had no "vision" but he wanted to restrain big government spending • he highlighted americas limitations rather then its potential • Carter wanted to be a strong aggressive president, an incorruptible outsider who would make the federal government run more smoothly as a lower cost • however Carter could not inspire people at all

which of the following statements accurately describes the Sherman anti trust act

although largely for show, it banned the practice of powerful corporations plotting to establish monopolies or hold back trade in their business

20.What did the 19th amendment allow?

american women could vote

What was the stance of the Dixiecrats in the 1948 campaign?

Dixiecrats were white suprimicists who did not want race reform • in theory the Dixiecrats made black voters turn out in record numbers to vote for Truman

.What recommendation was suggested to Wilson as a Fifteenth Point but went ignored?

an end to racial discrimination

To what did Winston Churchill compare the boundary between Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe and Western Europe?

an iron curtain (Churchill said it was an iron curtain because they had no clue what was going on in the Soviet Union

5.What did the youths of the counterculture focus on?

an unorganized rebellion against mainstream institutions, values, and behavior that focused more on cultural change than political activism. • hippies strove to exceed limits, trespass across boundaries, and heighten sensibilities. they rejected the pursuit of wealth and careers and embraced plain living, authenticity, friendships, peace, and especially freedom.

like Theodore Roosevelt and John fiske, many Americans in the late nineteenth century believed that the _______________ race was superior

anglo-saxon

****which of the following statements accurately describes the political climate as the 1948 election approached

answer on quiz: Truman had not yet successfully cast away the widespread impression that he was not up to the role of president and most political analysts assumed he would lose the election

***What was the role of the Truman Doctrine?

answer on quiz: it committed the use to help "free peoples" facing pressure from communism

***Who was the first country to recognize Israel's founding in 1948?

answer on quiz: use became the first country to recognize the jewish state

A person with an "I Like Ike" bump sticker would have most likely voted for whom in the 1952 presidential elections?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

what was one of the downsides of the state of the railroad industry?

as the railroad industry was experiencing a boom, companies often cared more about money than preventing dangerous work conditions for their laborers

Where in Central America was the Reagan administration seriously concerned that Communist-backed revolutionaries might take over, spurring a new "domino" theory?

El Salvador

by the 1880s, it was believed that the Indians needed to be

assimilated or americanized

On March 12, in the first of his radio broadcasts "fireside chats," the president:

assured the 60 million Americans listening that it was safer to "keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress"

Why was the summit between Gorbachev and Reagan at Reykjavik significant?

at one point they said they were fine with elimination of nuclear weapons but they could not come to an agreement because Regan would not give up SDI or star wars

****what is true of the 1936 presidential election?

FDR defeated Alfred M. Landon in a landslide, carrying almost every state

President Roosevelt did not want to give people cash (called a "dole") but he insisted that ..

FDR did not just want to give people money, he wanted to give them jobs so that they could earn a wage

What was the role of the federal government under Roosevelt?

FDR expanded the role of the federal government through programs designed ti restore public confidence and provide jobs

During the Depression, Charles Coughlin's radio broadcasts increasingly became hostile toward not only ________ but also ________.

FDR; Jews

Although there were many factors that contributed to the Great Depression worsening, what combination of factors led to a growing recession in the months before the 1929 Great Crash?

Four major causes of the Great Depression were the stock market crash in 1929, bank failures, over-production and drought.

21. The governor of Alabama who stood in the door to prevent black students from entering, proclaiming "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" was

George wallace

Who was the reform-minded Soviet premier who emerged in the mid-1980s and sought to restructure the economy through perestroika?

Gorbachev

95. What led voters to elect Warren G. Harding as president in 1920?

Harding emerged as a compromise candidate between the conservative and progressive wings of the party, and he clinched his nomination on the tenth ballot of the 1920 Republican National Convention. ... Harding all but ignored Cox in the race and essentially campaigned against Wilson by calling for a "return to normalcy".

56.How did Wilson justify the war to Congress during one of his famous speeches?

He described it as a war to make the world safe for democracy. it shifted him from a peace time president to a wartime president

105. Describes Roosevelt's approach to confronting the issues of the time upon taking office

He took an active approach, trying out a series of "experiments"

102. What president is blamed for the Great Depression?

Herbert Hoover

What president refused to apply for a Social Security card?

Herbert Hoover

7. How did Hitler and Mussolini help the uprising led by nationalist Francisco Franco

Hitler and Mussolini rushed German and Italian troops, warplanes, military, and financial support to help Franco

What contributed to Hitler's rise to power?

Hitlers Nazi police employed tyranny, terrorism, propaganda, and censorship to impose absolute control over German

Encouraged by American propaganda broadcasts through Radio Free Europe, ________ nationalists rebelled against occupying Communist troops in 1956

Hungarian

87. What did conservatives think of the flappers?

I don't think they liked them

what happen in Korea (Asia) with the end of the Second World War?

In Asia however, the situation remained turbulent. communists had gained control of the mainland of china and were threatening to destroy the Chinese nationalists who had taken refuge on the island of Taiwan

83. What did Supreme Court rule in Buck v Bell?

In Buck v. Bell, decided on May 2, 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court, by a vote of 8 to 1, affirmed the constitutionality of Virginia's law allowing state-enforced sterilization. After being raised by foster parents and allegedly raped by their nephew, the appellant, Carrie Buck, was deemed feebleminded and promiscuous, In 1927, the US Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell set a legal precedent that states may sterilize inmates of public institutions. Bell determined that compulsory sterilization laws did not violate due process awarded by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

who liberated women with his invention

Isaac Singer

What was the Christian Coalition?It replaced the Moral Majority as a major political force in the 1990s on issues such as school prayer.

It replaced the Moral Majority as a major political force in the 1990s on issues such as school prayer.

what was the purpose of the Dawes severalty act?

It sought to "Americanize" Indians by forcing them to become self reliant farmers that individually owned their own land

9. What was John F. Kennedy's stance on civil rights?

JFK celebrated racial equality but did little to promote it until forced to do so • MLK said that JFK had great political skill but no moral passion about the need to end racial injustice

Baseball was integrated in 1947 when ________ played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Jackie Robinson

5. Who used his camera to expose show how the other half lived?

Jacob Riis

15.Which of the following was true of the leaders of the settlement house movement?

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star founded Hull House to address the needs of the unskilled working poor, especially newly arrived European immigrants

17.What significant objective motivated Japanese expansion into Southeast Asia and the Pacific during 1940-1941? (Why did the Japanese expand into Southeast Asia?)

Japan expanded into southeast asia bc china was weak and they had natural resources that the US would not give them

36.From late 1941 into early 1942, the Second World War in the Pacific included a succession of victories for whom?

Japan, they captured numbers territories in Asia

28.What were "war relocation camps"?

Japs were not wanted in USA so the government forced them to move to 10 "relocation camps" where we could watch them.

89. What was Jazz music?

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime

the founder of standard oil, best known for horizontal integration and business monopoly was...

John D. Rockefeller

Essential to breaking the Watergate case was the 1973 testimony before the Ervin committee of White House legal counsel John Dean. What did he testify?

John dean told the ervin committee that there had been a White House coverup approved by the president himself

36. By 1968, how did Johnson see his position in relation to the Vietnam War?

Johnson appeared on tv to announce a limited halt to the bombing of north vietnam to enable a cease fire with the communists • he then said he would not seek or accept his party's nomination for the next election and his daughter explained "the agony of vietnam" had engulfed her father

16. What describes the state of South Vietnam in the weeks before John F. Kennedy's assassination?

Kennedy said that if south vietnam fell to communism then the rest of Southeast Asia would fall to communism as well. he stressed that "we should stay in south vietnam. we should use our influence in as effective a way as we can but we should not withdraw."

37. What was one impact of the Tet offensive?

LBJ did not run for a second term. tried to negotiate a cease fire

What group became the country's largest minority group between the years 1970 and 2019?

Latino Americas

38. In 1968, James Earl Ray assassinated the famed civil rights leader ________ outside of a hotel in Memphis, resulting in rioting in many major American cities.

MLK Jr.

22. What resulted from the Warren court do in its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision?

Miranda rights were created. the court ordered that an accused person in police custody must be informed of certain basic rights.

In May 2017, Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller III special counsel to investigate

Mueller was asked to lead a criminal investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign

authored by Paul Nitze, ________ endorsed a massive militarized version of containment that guided American foreign policy for decades.

NSC-68

Who was a muckraker that spent time in a Mad House?

Nellie Bly

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were organized by

Osama Bin Laden

By the 1990s, who had become the MOST dangerous enemies of the United States?

Osama Bin Laden leader of Al Qaeda (14 of the terroists were from Saudi Arabia)

in 1916, ___________________ led a force north from the United States and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico in an attempt to provoke an american intervention south of the border

Panch Villa

Henry Ford

Payed his workers $5/day instead of the average $2.34

What contributed to Clinton's election to the presidency?

Perot's (texas billionaire who own museum in Dallas) on again, off again candidacy helped elect bill Clinton by drawing republican votes away from bush

12.Germany's invasion of what country triggered the beginning of the Second World War in europe

Poland

To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed to be a(n)

Reagan was a hero to Christian rights

What was one major factor working in Reagan's favor in his 1984 reelection bid?

Reagans supply side economics was finally working

35.Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?

Roosevelt

the founder of the American federation of labor who united craft unions and promoted strikes was

Samuel Gompers

Which of the progressive presidents eventually became chief justice of the Supreme Court?

Taft

28.This president is associated with the Rough Riders, trust busting, and the Panama canal

Teddy Roosevelt

What was the event that triggered World War I in Europe?

because Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated, Austria declares war on Serbia in 1914

What novel described the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry?

The Jungle

Elvis was controversial at the time because of his

because of how he danced "Elvis the pelvis" some saw it as a communist plot and others thought it was ungodly

8. Winston Churchill, who would become the British prime minister in 1940, predicted that what agreement would not end Hitler's assaults, saying that, "This is only the beginning of the reckoning."

The Munich Pact

What about Woodrow Wilson's background made him the most "educated" president?

before being president he was a lawyer, history professor, and president of a university. he became governor of new jersey.

. What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930s?

both has established totalitarian forms of government

The conventional view of cold war history holds whom or what MOST responsible for beginning this conflict?

The debate is between the USA and Soviet Union. • they hold the Soviet Union more responsible because the soviets set out to dominate the globe after 1945 and they say the USA had no choice but to defend democratic capitalists values

American Federation of Labor

The first federation of labor unions in the United States. Founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886

88. How did the rise of advertising in the 1920s contributed to a new consumer culture?

The prosperity of the 1920s led to new patterns of consumption, or purchasing consumer goods like radios, cars, vacuums, beauty products or clothing. ... With so many new products and so many Americans eager to purchase them, advertisingbecame a central institution in this new consumer economy.

94. The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to the...

The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to: the fact that Americans in the 1920's were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble. Which amendment to the constitution is known as the Prohibition amendment?

71.What did Wilson refer when he spoke of "the heart of the League"?

To what did Wilson refer when he spoke of "the heart of the League?" Article X, which would pledge members to consult on military and economic sanctions against aggressors. had to compromise his principle self-determination. reparations for the entire war.

Truman's response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 was to

Truman said "we stay in Berlin, period." the USA announced an embargo against all goods exported from soviet controlled germany and began organizing a massive airlift to provide food and supplies to west Berliners

Senator Joseph McCarthy's power began to unravel when he made reckless charges about Communist influence in what branch of the military?

US army

What did the bipartisan task force known as the Iraq Study Group conclude?

US combat troops should be withdrawn gradually from Iraq by the spring of 2008

What was one way in which the intervention of the United States in Iran in the 1950s was significant?

USA CIA paid 150 liberators to force Arbenz Guzman into exile in Mexico. the USA then installed a new ruler in guetamala who eliminated all political opposition. by overthrowing elected governments to ensure that they did not join the soviet bloc, the CIA destabilized Iran and Guatemala and created resentments in the Middle East and Central America that would come back to haunt the United States

41.Following the conclusion of the Second World War, the two most powerful nations in the world were...

USA and Soviet Union USSR

91. What was the result of trying to defy prohibition?

USA lost $11 billion in tax revenue an spent $300 million trying to enforce it

Cesar Chavez became famous for his leadership in what organization?

United Farm Workers (UFW)

. Who would advise you not to eat the Gilded Age meat?

Upton Sinclair and his book "The Jungle"

who was the co-founder of the NAACP and rejected booker t Washington's Atlanta compromise

WEB DeBois

What was the MOST important of all the federal mobilization agencies because it had the unprecedented authority to ration raw materials, construct factories, and set prices?

War Industries Board

22.Which agency was created to direct industrial conversion to war production?

War Production Board

30.What president was so large that he supposedly got stuck in the White House bathtub

William Howard Taft

What role did Wilson's health play in winning public support for the Treaty of Versailles?

Wilson's fading health eliminated the possibility of making a strong personal appeal on behalf of the treaty.

98. Why did farm prices drop so drastically in the 1920s?

With heavy debts to pay and improved farming practices and equipment making it easier to work more land, farmers found it hard to reduce production. The resulting large surpluses caused farm prices to plummet. From 1919 to 1920, corn tumbled from $1.30 per bushel to forty-seven cents, a drop of more than 63 percent.

The president that was associated with New Freedom progressivism, the Federal Reserve, United States entry into World War I, and the 14 Points was:

Woodrow Wilson

What was the first place in the United States to extend equal voting rights to women, underscoring how the larger region to which it belonged was the most supportive of women's rights?

Wyoming Territory in 1890 was the first state to give voting rights to women

a believer in social darwinism would agree with which of the following

a "hands off" government policy in regard to business intended to protect a free, competitive marketplace

Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

a New York couple who were part of the communist party. they were part of the soviet spying ring. their claims of innocence were undercut by Ethels brother who admitted he was a spy along with his sister and brother-in- law

Roosevelt's plan involving the Supreme Court in 1937 became unnecessary when...

a Supreme Court justice resigned and FDR got to assign a new one.

97. What was the Teapot Dome Affair?

a bribery scandal involving the administration of Warren G. Harding from 1921-1923. convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Albert Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison; no one was convicted of paying the bribes

66.What was a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia?

a communist state in Russia and this contributed to the red scare of 1919-1920 in the USA

A huge demographic factor behind Reagan's electoral success was

• migration of people especially older Americans to the conservative sun belt states were shifting political balance of power. 90% of the nations population growth during the 1980's occurred in southern or western sun belt states.

27.What describes the Native American experience in the armed forces during the Second World War?

• navajo code talkers helped up take back the war • a third of all eligible Indians fought in the war and were in white regiments • many felt they had no choice but to fight in the war bc of war mobilization which ended many of the new deal programs which employed them *** answer on quiz "Native American servicemen were integrated into regular units"

31.In what way was Operation Overlord a turning point in the war?

• operation overload was the greatest seaborne invasion in the history of warfare it surprised the germans, the US an Britian released to the public where they would attack but they actually attacked another area ****** quiz answer " it opened a western front in the war around the same time the soviets advanced on germany from the east"

What was one of the long-termeffects of the Watergate scandal?

• passage of the war powers act • set a new ceiling on political campaign contributiuios and spending

What impact did Phyllis Schlafly have on the equal-rights amendment?

• she stopped the equal rights amendment from passing • she said it would allow husbands to abandon their wives, force women to go to war, and give "gay perverts" the right to marry • she grew support of anti abortion movements

What describes the experiences of Mexican Americans following the Second World War?

• still faced ethnic prejudice • the Mexicans were segregated from whites • thought fighting in the war would end this but it did not so they were upset • denied access to education, medical, and housing benefits available to white veterans • Dr. Hector Perez Garcia a US army man organized the GI Forum in Texas in 1948 • Garcia's GI Forum led to equal treatment of all Mexicans over time

What was one of President Jimmy Carter's early successes?

• symbolically: He sold the presidential yacht, cut White House staff by a third, told cabinet members to give up their government cars, installed solar panels on the White House in order to draw attention to becoming energy independent • his administration had more African Americans and women then any before • he gave amnesty (forgiveness) to the men who fled the country draft during vietnam • he reorganized the executive branch and reduced government bureaucracy • pushed environmental initiatives: stricter controls on coal shipping, created a $1.6 billion superfund to clean up toxic chemicals, and a bill to protect 100 million acres of Alaska land, took regulations off trucking, airline, and financial industries to restore competition ••• after 100 days in office he had a 75% public approval rating

20.Why was the attack on Pearl Harbor significant?

• the US declared a "state of war" bc of it Pearl Harbor made America enter the war bc it destroyed the american isolation movement

When concert promoters tried to emulate the spirit of Woodstock at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival near San Francisco in 1969, what happen in front of the stage?

• the counterculture fell victim to criminal culture • The Rolling Stones hired the hells angels motorcycle gang to provide security at the concert and during the performance a drunk hells angel stabbed to death a black 18 year old who had a gun and three others died

49.What were innovations that changed warfare in World War I? (what was new?)

• trench warfare • machine guns • land mines • large scale use of chemical warfare (mustard gas) • German U-boats (submarine) • large scale use of airplanes

55.What was the primary purpose of the Revenue Act of 1916?

• used to help pay war expenses, Congress responded to this need by passing an initial Revenue Act in 1916, raising the lowest tax rate from 1 percent to 2 percent; those with incomes above $1.5 million were taxed at 15 percent. The act also imposed new taxes on estates and excess business profits.

What was the significance of the birth-control pill in the 1960s?

• widespread access to the pill gave women a greater sense of sexual freedom and led to more open discussion of brith control, reproduction, and sexuality in general • caused a rise in STD's • many women viewed it as an inexpensive nonintrusive way to gain better control over their bodies, careers, and their futures

7.Who were the Yippies?

• yippies were countercultural comedians bent on thumbing their noses at the "absurdity" of conventional laws and behavior and mocking capitalism and the consumer culture • they wanted "to offer the people an alternative lifestyle. something to do other than conform or die" " a whole bunch of people living together having children none of them married"

6. What was one of John F. Kennedy's shortcomings?

• youngest president & first Roman Catholic president • super sick ( he looked healthy but he was very sick, he suffered from Addison's disease, venereal disease, chronic back pain, and fierce fevers. he took powerful prescription medicines or injections daily to help his bone disease, allergies, and help sleep. he was so tan because it was a side effect of all the medicine he was taking) • he also had many sexual affairs in the White House, with Marilyn Monroe, and a girlfriend of a mob boss

Who carried a hatchet into saloons?

carrie amelia nation

What did the Hart-Celler Act change in terms of immigration?

changed preference quotas it helped redress the wrong done to those from southern and Eastern Europe and the developing continent of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

where did the boxer republican take place

china

67.What was a significant turning point for the Allies during the Great War?

choctaw Indians code talkers , now germans can't intercept our codes

Who was the LEAST likely to serve in the Vietnam War?

college students or the rich African Americans and latinos were twice as likely to be drafted than whites

The Screen Actors Guild president testified to the House of Un-American Affairs Committee that Hollywood was full of...

communists

The Progressive Era saw remarkable social activism because...

compelling public issues forced profound changes in the role of government and presidential leadership.

What was at the heart of Roosevelt's Square Deal? (what are the three components)

conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protections

59.Under the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917 and 1918 criticism of American government...

criticism of the US government was illegal, The Sedition Act made the language of the Espionage Act more specific by making it illegal to use disloyal, profane, or abusive language to criticize the U.S. Constitution, the government, the military, the flag, or the uniform.

why has the Spanish american war been renamed the war of 1898

cubans, puerto ricans, and filipinos also engaged in the fighting

As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by

cutting taxes

Economists coined the term "stagflation" in the early 1970s to describe

describe the simultaneous problems of stalled economic growth (stagnation), rising inflation, and high unemployment

.During the 1980s, the U.S. economy shifted from being ________ to being increasingly ________.

done in America to being increasingly overseas •• from industrial base to a more services oriented approach

one of the most important reasons that voter turnout was so high during the gilded age was

due to patronage and corruption by political machines, jobs were subject to the results of the latest election

What was the state of the American economy after the Gulf War, and what was one way it was significant?

economy was depressed, approval rating of bushes economy plummeted to 18% • let to Bill Clinton (democrat) being elected in 1992

In early 1937, Roosevelt proposed to reform the Supreme Court by..

enlarging it, he wanted to increase the number of Supreme Court justices in order to pack the courts

What was the significance of the events at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911?

eventually led to safety protections across the nation

what groups of people were prominent in the west during the late nineteenth century?

exodusters, indians, orphans, cowboys

What was the significance of the events in the village of Mai Lai in 1968? My Lai

exposed the tale of William L. "Rusty" Calley, a 26 year old army lieutenant who ordered the massacre of 347 Vietnamese civilians in the village of My Lai in 1969 • "point blank murder and I was standing there watching it" described one soldier

t or f? later investigations confirmed that the Spanish deliberately destroyed the battleship Maine

false

t or f? like the AFL, the knights of labor admitted only skilled workers

false

Ultimately, the outcome of the 2000 election depended upon the final result in

florida

as part of the crop lien system, which of the following services did "crossroads" merchants provide in exchange for the pledge of a portion of participants future crops

food, clothing, seed, and other items "on credit"

what was the significance of the dukes family tobacco business

forming a modern cigarette factory producing large quantities of tobacco, it contributed to the dramatic rise of the tobacco industry in the post civil was south

22.What field was Gifford Pinchot an expert in and passionate about?

forrest manager. head of department of agriculture's division of forestry. environmental preservation

101. What was part of the reason for the stock market crash?

frightened sellers

80. The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s favored immigrants...

from northern and Western Europe

btwn 1880 and 1890 the traditional pattern of immigration changed in that most new immigrants were

from southern and eastern Europe

26. President Johnson's first priority on the domestic front was to

get Kennedys legislative program through congress

What was glasnost?

glasnost (openness), a radical reappraisal of the soviet system that allowed for open debate and shared information. in the end however the forces of modernization that Gorbachev helped unleash would end up dismantling the Soviet Union

29.In early 1942, the biggest challenge the United States faced in the Atlantic was...

great Britain really needed food an military supplies from USA but germany submarines were sinking British ships faster then shipyards could replace them *** quiz answer "German submarine warfare"

30. What did President Johnson label his overall program of domestic reform?

great society

The energy crisis of the early 1970s increased support for

greater federal environmental protections

After Hurricane Katrina, Bush's presidency was marked by

growing public disapproval and democrats took house and senate

27. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

guaranteed equal treatment for all Americans and outlawed discrimination in public places on the basis of race, sex, or national origin. it prohibited discrimination in the buying, selling, and renting of houses as well as in the hiring and firing of employees

What was the purpose of the Wagner Act?

guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and bargain directly w management about wages and other issues. it also created a national labor relations board to oversee union activities and ensure that management bargained with them in good faith

37.What did the Seventeenth Amendment do?

guarantees the right to vote regardless of sex

According to the advertisements in popular magazines at the time, the ideal woman of the mid-1950s was

happily bound to the house, at work in the kitchen in dresses adorned with jewelry, and high heels, conversing with children, serving dinner, cleaning, and otherwise displaying the joy of a clean home or the latest kitchen appliance

.What was the role State Department official George Kennan played in the onset of the cold war?

he analyzed the Soviet Union for the USA state department • he predicted the Soviet Union would never embrace a "permanent happy coexistence" of the socialist and capitalist worlds • he advised that we start to try and contain the Soviet Union

What did Reagan accomplish as president that was likely to please his more conservative supporters at the time?

he appointed a number of conservative judges to the federal court system

In The Affluent Society, John Kenneth Galbraith pointed out the

he attacked the prevailing notion that sustained economic growth was solving social problems. he reminded readers that the nation had yet to eradicate poverty, especially among minorities in inner cities, female led households, Mexican american immigrant workers , ect...

which of the following is true of Herbert spencer

he coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" and held ideas at odds with those of Charles Darwin

104. In 1933, President Roosevelt confronted all the following...

he did not address defending the country against communism

What nearly cost Clinton his presidency was

he had a sexual affair with an unpaid, 22 year old White House intern Monica Lewinsky, he also pressured her to lie under oath about the affair. he said "I did not have sexual relations wit that woman"

0.What belief did Wilson hope would be achieved with his 14 Points? What was he trying to make sure did not happen again in the future?

he hoped to use them to create peace and to make sure there was never another world war

3. What was Richard Nixon's stance on communism in the years leading up to the 1960 presidential election?

he led the anti-communist hearings in congress during the McCarthy hysteria

.What tactic did Martin Luther King Jr. and the activists who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott follow in their protest?

he preached nonviolent civil disobedience the tactic of defying unjust laws through peaceful actions, but he also valued militancy for without crisis and confrontation there would be no progress

In pledging to "make America great again," one of the items Donald Trump promised was to

he promised to end Obamacare, cut taxes, abandon the "unfair" NAFTA and TPP trade deals, reverse the Obama administrations environmental protections, and increase funding for the military. he also promised to be strict on illegal immigrants and to build an amazing wall and make Mexico may for it.

What did Carter blame Americans for in his 1979 Crisis of Confidence speech?

he said America had become rudderless, with no "sense of purpose" other than "to worship self indulgence and consumption". he blamed Americans for the nations problems. "all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America" he said Americans had become preoccupied with "owning and consuming things" at the expense of "hard work, strong families, and faith in God"

29. What was Republican nominee Barry Goldwater stance on bombing North Vietnam during the 1964 campaign?

he urged (wanted) the whole sale bombing of north vietnam and suggested the use of atomic weapons

Why did the Supreme Court order the dissolution of Standard Oil? (What had Rockefeller violated?)

he was charged for using unethical practices such as predatory pricing and colluding with railroads to eliminate his competitors in order to gain a monopoly in the industry. and in 1911 the US supreme court found standard oil in violation of anti trust laws and ordered it to dissolve

What was the result of Carter's management of the economy?

his actions helped generate new Jobs but also caused a spike in consumer prices from 5% to 13% during the 1980's. the result was a deepening recession and rising unemployment

7. What personal struggle did John F. Kennedy carefully conceal from the public during the 1960 campaign?

his bad health issues

By the end of 1970, the unemployment rate in the United States

hit 6%

What program helped people refinance their mortgages at lower interest rates so as to avoid bankruptcy?

home owners loan corporation act

who tested the legality of the Louisiana Jim Crow laws by riding in a whites only railroad car

homer plessy

What was Levittown?

identical mass produced houses in Levittown, New York and other suburbs across the country provided veterans and their families with affordable homes

which of the following did nativists beleive

immigrants were a threat to their jobs and way of life

79. The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the...

impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of a "lunatic fringe" in the United States

18. During the summer of 1941, the United States attempted to restrain Japanese expansion by...

implemented a trade embargo on Japan *** quiz answer "restricting oil exports to Japan and freezing Japanese assets in the USA

What was the fundamental source of instability in the Balkans in the 1990s?

in 1991, Yugoslavia had disintegrated into ethnic warfare as four of its six multiethnic republics declared their independence

The first step in Egyptian General Gamal Abdel Nasser's bid to become the leader of the Arab world was

in order to take control Nasser promised to destroy the new Israeli nation, created in 1948 and to end British and French imperialism in the region. he first sought to take control of the Suez Canal, the Internationally managed waterway in Egypt connecting the mediteranian to the Red Sea and Indian Ocean

23. What did the events in the neighborhood of Watts reveal about the state of the civil rights movement in 1965?

in the largest black neighborhood in los Angelas, rioting and looting broke out. • it revealed the growing civil war within the civil rights movement. • "we are tired of praying and marching and thinking and learning/ brothers want to start cutting and shooting and stealing and burning" • black power was created

What trend (an increase or decrease) did home ownership tend to follow between 1945 and 1960?

increase

Arguably the MOST controversial element of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the element upon which most debate centered was

individual mandate which required uninsured adults to purchase an approved private insurance policy through state run exchanges.

9. What was the role of the Nye Committee?

investigated and criticized the role that bankers and mutition makers played in americas entry into the Great War

What was the effect of the availability of air conditioning during the postwar years?

it allowed people to want to live in warmer climates, it was the first time that people were moving into the south instead of out of the south

why was the Chinese exclusion act of 1882 significant in American immigration history

it barred Chinese laborers from entering the country becoming the first federal law to restrict immigration on the basis of race and class

What did Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 do?

it barred gender discrimination in any "education program or activity receiving financial assistance" • mainly applied to athletics • title IX spurred female participation in high school sports to increase nearly tenfold and to almost double at the college level

What was the significance of the Federal-Aid Highway Act (1956)?

it created a network of interstate highways to serve the needs of commerce and defense as well as the piblic • $32 billion interstate highway system • funded by gasoline tax • took 25 years to construct and was the largest federal project in history • stretched 47,000 miles and required 55,000 bridges

40.What was the role of the Potsdam Declaration?

it demanded that Japan surrender by August 3rd or face "prompt and utter destruction" by atomic bombs

***What was one drawback of the Tennessee Valley Authority?

it displaced thousands from their homes and villages that were destroyed to make way for the progress (huge dams and and lakes) **** QUIZ ANSWER: it forced people to move if their land was needed for dams and lakes

How did the Soviets respond to Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative?

it forced the soviets to launch a expensive research and development effort of their own which helped bankrupt their economy. a soviet foreign minister later mentioned Regans commitment to SDI "made us realize we were in a very dangerous spot"

What role did Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique play in American history?

it helped launch the second phase of the feminist movement • it forever changed American society by defining "the problem that has no name." she inspired many well educated unfulfilled middle and upper class white women who felt trapped by household drudgery

what was the guiding philosophy behind the ladies home journal

it promoted domestic middle class values of the time and encouraged women to have a healthy diet, simple, serviceable clothing, a clean healthy dwelling place, open air exercise, and good reading

what is "yellow journalism"

it refers to sensationalist news coverage that was designed to sell papers and manipulate public opinion

proponents of creating a "new south" argued that the confederacy lost the civil war bc

it relied too much upon king cotton

what was the effect of the great railroad strike of 1877?

it revealed how polarizing the relationship between the working poor and executives had become and ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work

what was the purpose of the platt amendment

it sharply restricted the independence of Cubas new government

What was a result of the Hiss-Chambers case?

it showed that 11 top leaders of the communist party of the United States were convicted under the smith act of 1940 which outlawed any conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government. the Supreme Court upheld the law under doctrine of a "clear and present danger" which overrode the right to free speech

What did the Montgomery Bus Boycott show about well-coordained and nonviolent activism?

it showed the peaceful protest works

what was the purpose of Roosevelts gentlemen agreements

it stopped the flow Japanese immigrants to america

52.What was the significance of the ship Lusitania?

it was a British passenger ship secretly carrying US ammunition, and its sinking by German Uboats caused many civilian deaths, including those of Americans, and sparked an outcry in the USA

39.What happen at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911?

it was a fire at the triangle shirtwaist factory that killed 146 workers which were mostly young immigrant women, who were trapped behind locked doors with no way to escape. this event forced changes in safety protections in new york state and then the nation

10. How was Kennedy's handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion viewed by the public?

it was a huge embarrassment to JFK and to America "looked like fools to our friends, rascals to out enemies, and incompetents to the rest."

26.What occurred as a result of the bracero program in 1942?

it was a program btwn USA an Mexico, Mexico agreed to provide 70,000 seasonal farmworkers on year-long contracts btwn 1942-1945. they were not immigrants, when their contract was over they were supposed to go back to Mexico

13.Why was the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) significant to American foreign policy?

it was an agreement btwn 12 countries to agree to stop further expansion of communism into Western Europe • NATO is the largest defensive alliance in the world, it declared that an attack against any of the members would be an attack against all, it was to contain soviet expansion. By joining NATO the USA committed to go to war on behalf of its allies, isolationism was dead

Why did Bill Clinton's plan for universal medical coverage get shot down?

it was doomed because the president opposed any changes to it and because one of Hillary Clintons aids confessed the "ludicrously complex report... had something in it to piss everybody off. so by the time it goes up to the hill, its dead on arrival."

38.What was the significance of the Battle of Okinawa?

it was strategically important bc it would serve as the planned allied invasion of Japan.

Why did Obama endorse marriage equality?

it was the "right" thing to do he said

15.What was the result of the Battle of Britain in 1940?

it was the first battle hitler ever lost. he stopped invading Britain and started to invade the Soviet Union

57.When Wilson asked for congressional resolution for war, was it unanimous or was there much division over declaring war?

it was unanimous, everyone agreed with it

What was the idea behind the New Frontier according to John F. Kennedy?

jfk said "we stand today on the edge of a new frontier, the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils. a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats" he wanted Americans to explore "science" and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus.

With whom did Trump hold a summit meeting in Singapore in 2018 in an effort to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula?

kim jong un of North Korea

By 2019, what was the fastest-growing group in the United States?

latino

in 2005, what group replaced African Americans as the nation's largest minority group?

latinos

14.Through the Lend-Lease bill, passed in January 1941, what could "any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States" receive

let the US provide more aid to Britain but many said it basically declared war for the US

Lips that touch ______shall not touch ours!

liquor

By 1960, which American city had the largest concentration of Mexican Americans?

los Angeles

during the gilded age, the rich were getting richer and

many other people were at least better off

1. Johnson's Medicare program provided medical benefits to

medicare helped the elderly medicaid help all poor people medically

What key invention led to computers becoming smaller and more common in American households in the 1980s?

microprocessor

What type of Republican would Dwight D. Eisenhower label himself as?

moderate republicanism

the fight for survival in the trans-mississippi west made men and women

more equal partners than were easters counterparts as farming required a lot of help

In 2017, Trump issued an executive order banning immigrants or refugees from seven countries from entering the United States. These countries had in common a large population of what group?

muslim/ terrorists

Was the Progressive movement restricted to just urban reformers or was it a national movement with people from different backgrounds?

nationwide

What was the basic diplomatic stance of Woodrow Wilson and William Jennings Bryan, his secretary of state?

neutral

Who were the burglars arrested at the Watergate apartment complex connected to?

nixon all of the burglars were CIA agents

The figure who MOST influenced Nixon's foreign policy was

nixon picked only white cabinet members • his closest adviser was John Mitchell the gruff attorney general

Nixon's new relationship with China was made possible by

nixon sent Henry Kissinger on a secret trip to Beijing to explore the possibility of US recognition of communist china • nixon said it would "discombobulate" the "damded liberals" • he also believed it would give them leverage with the Soviet Union which was understandably nervous about a us-china alliance

40. What did Richard Nixon do in order to undermine the Democrats and increase his own chances of winning the election in 1968?

nixon violated the Logan act which prohibits private citizens from communicating with foreign governments about controversial issues. Johnson found out through the CIA that nixon had effects to subvert the negotiations in vietnam to negotiate a deal to end the war before the election. (tried to keep the country in war until after the elections so he could get credit for it)

5. What role did the African American votes in a few key states play in the outcome of the 1960 election?

nixon won more states but JFK captured 70 percent of the black vote, which proved to be decisive in at least three key states

20. In Martin Luther King Jr.'s"Letter from Birmingham Jail,"hedeclaredhis reference for what type of disobedience?

nonviolent civil disobedience

what was the Kaymarket Riot of 1886?

occurring amid a strike in favor of the eight hour workday, it was what journalist called americas first terrorist bombing and was blamed on anarchist leaders despite a lack of evidence

Why did Truman fire General MacArthur?

on April 5th congress received a letter from MacArthur which criticized Truman saying "there is so substitution for victory" and this made Truman fire MacArthur

Nixon's Watergate-related resignation came with the revelation that he had

ordered a coverup of the original Watergate break in

baseball could lay claim to being the most democratic sport in nineteenth century because

people of all social classes attend the games

How was America more "connected" than ever before during the first of the 20th century?

phones, Henry fords cars, Charles Lindbergh's planes, ocean liners

The 1896 supreme court decision in ______________________ legitimized segregation as constitutional by affirming the idea of "separate but equal"

poesy v. ferguson

before becoming president, Eisenhower was MOST shaped by his experience in

president of Columbia university and supreme commander of NATO forces in Europe

11.What did the Neutrality Act of 1935 forbid?

prohibited american manufactures from selling weapons to nations at war, banned citizens from traveling on ships owned by nations at war, and banned loans to warring nations but it allowed "cash-and-carry" for nonmilitary supplies

What was one of the main purposes of the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933?

prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business

what did the policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) provide?

provided temporary relief from deportation to undocumented immigrants brought to the usa as children • let 800,000 young adults work, attend school • did not provide permanent legal status, has to be renewed every 2 years

34.The Nazis practiced genocide toward whom?

quiz answer "communists, gypsies, "undesirables", and Jews

which of the following statements accurately describes the purpose of the neutrality act of 1935

quiz answer "it forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations"

****The long -term impact of the New Deal was that Americans...

quiz answer: Americans look to the federal government to serve economic problems

*****The new tactic of the "sit-down strike" was used successfully in 1937 by ________ and inspired other workers to ________.

quiz answer: automobile workers; join unions

****The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through...

quiz answer: cutbacks in production • lower supply so demand increases and the prices raise

***one of Trumans strengths as he assumed the presidency was

quiz answer: genuine demeanor and ability to arise above his limitations

****What was Roosevelt's approach to confronting the issues of the time upon taking office?

quiz answer: he took an active approach, trying out a series of "experiments" with eh guidance of specialists such as professors, economists, and social workers

****What permanently disabled Franklin D Roosevelt, how did it affect his presidency?

quiz answer: he was permanently disabled after contracting polio, which enhanced his ability to identify with people struggling through difficult times

16.In June 1941, Germany widened the war by ________ as part of Operation Barbarossa. invading the Soviet Union

quiz answer: invading the Soviet Union

*****What did the Farm Security Administration do?

quiz answer: it offered loans to farmers so that they could avoid falling into bankruptcy, as well as to tenant farmers so that they could purchase their own farms

* ***How successful was the Indian Reorganization Act in bringing New Deal-style programs to Native Americans?

quiz answer: it was a partial success in that although only a weakened form of it passed congress, it encouraged native groups to revise their own constitutions to give women more political power

****Why was the episode surrounding the "Court-packing" plan significant?

quiz answer: its was among Roosevelts most humiliating moments and fractured the Democratic Party

****Which of the following eventually proved the MOST effective answer to the sluggish economy, unemployment, and the plight of farmers?

quiz answer: national mobilization for the Second World WAR

****Which of the following did the Supreme Court do in the case of Norris v. Alabama?

quiz answer: ruled that the systematic exclusion of African Americans from Alabama juries had denied the scottsboro defendants equal protection under the law

*** in 1933, president Roosevelt confronted all of the following challenges except...

quiz answer: securing the vote for American women

**What did the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set the minimum wage at?

quiz answer: set minimum wage at ¢40 an hour

***Eleanor Roosevelt was especially supportive of...

quiz answer: she was especially supportive of women, African Americans, and the youth

***The Tennessee Valley Authority employed thousands in order...

quiz answer: to produce cheap electric power

***What was the main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps

quiz answer: to provide work relief to young men through the preservation of national resources f

***What was the significance of the Securities and Exchange Commission?

quiz answer: whereas there had been little government oversight of the stocks and bonds industry prior to the great crash of 1929, the securities and exchange commission was one of the first major pieces of federal legislation involving governance of the issuance and trading of stocks and bonds

***when confronted with strikes in the coal and railroad industry in 1946 president Trumans response was to

quiz: temporarily seize those industries

5. In 1935, Hitler, in flagrant violation of the Versailles Treaty, began rebuilding...

rebuilding germanys armed forces/ military

Jazz music became a national favorite and resulted in what household item being purchased in America?

records

Senator McCarthy was very effective in doing what to the public fears?

red scare he was good at "exploiting fears of the communist party" he "surfaced as the most ruthless manipulator of anti-communist anxieties"

4.According to Theodore Roosevelt, government had an obligation to ______big business on behalf of the public.

regulate

Who or what needed to be regulated according to the Progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses in America?

regulate big business

What role did Roosevelt play in the presidential election of 1912? (What party did he represent?)

republican. he dismissed the second rate taft as a hopeless fathead and flubdub who had sold the suare deal down the river.

23.As a result of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906...

required the makers of prepared food and medicine to host government inspectors- and label the ingredients in their products

What style of music did Elvis Presley's record?

rock-n'roll

What did the Bush Doctrine emphasize?

said that growing menace posed by "shadowy networks" of terrorist groups and unstable rogue nations with "weapons of mass destruction" required the United States at times to use preemptive military action and to act unilaterally if necessary to defuse threats. it promised to "extend the benefits of freedom across the globe... for all people everywhere"

Mitchel Palmer

sent dangerous (communists) people back to Russia

60.What happen to Socialist leader Eugene Debs when he violated the Espionage Act?

sentenced to 10 years in jail

which of the following statements accurately describes the role of queen Liliuokalani in the interactions btwn the native Hawaiian population and Americans

she opposed the attempted to restrict the growing political power of american planters in Hawaii

what did Mary Elizebeth Lease promote

she told farmers to raise more hell and less crops

6. Ida M. Tarbell is best known for her investigation of...

she wrote about the illegal and unethical means that Rockefeller built his gigantic standard oil trust

what groups of people were NOT prominent in the west during the late nineteenth century?

slaves

Charles Lingbergh

son was kidnapped for ransom

14. John F. Kennedy described which country as the "cornerstone of the free world in Southeast Asia"?

south vietnam

11. In 1961, how did Nikita Khrushchev response to John F. Kennedy's decision to send members of the Army Reserve and National Guard to protect West Berlin?

soviets stopped all traffic between east and west Berlin and began erecting the 27 mile long Berlin Wall to separate east Berlin from West Berlin

6. The Spanish Civil War began when ...

spanish troops (nationalists) and the Roman Catholic Church revolted against the fragile New Democratic government (the republicans)

what was the significance of the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade?

struck down laws forbidding abortion during the first three months • gave women the right to choose what to do with their own body

Journalists nicknamed Reagan's economic plan "Reaganomics." What technical term, however, did economists use for it?

supply-side economics

What was President Bush's response to the financial crisis?

support a federal bailout of the banking industry

The marine lieutenant colonel at the center of the Iran-Contra affair, Oliver North, was using profits from the sale of arms to Iran to

support the contra rebels in Nicaragua at a time when congress had banned such aid

In January 2009, conservative activists coalesced into a decentralized nationwide protest movement challenging the growth of government and federal spending. What was the name of this movement?

tea party movement

30. What occurred during the Tehran Conference where Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt all met together for the first time?

the 3 leaders agreed to create the United Nations in order to maintain peace after the war. •••real quiz answer "they discussed the planned invasion of France and Russian offenses across Eastern Europe as well as made early plans fro the United Nations"

One of the factors that contributed to religion's growing appeal in the 1950s was

the Cold War provided a stimulant to christian evangelism. a godly nation it was assumed would better withstand the march of godless communism eisenhower even added the phrase "under God to the money

8.On November 9, 1918, after the German Kaiser resigns, what is formed in Germany?

the German republic

What was the role of the GI Bill? What did the GI Bill provide

the Servicemen's readjustment act of 1944 know as the GI bill made the federal government provide $13 billion for veterans to use for education, vocational training, medical treatment, unemployment insurance, and loans for building houses and starting new businesses. • it allowed veterans to return to college, jobs, wives or husbands, and babies. marriage rates soared. population growth boom and that's why we have baby boomers

What was the lethal menace that Americans faced in the postwar period that caused more casualties than the war itself?

the Spanish Flu

What act provided a "cooling off" period during major strikes?

the Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1947

What was the result of the Grenada invasion during Reagan's presidency?

the UN general assembly condemned the US invasion but the local Grenada citizens like it so much they made that day a national holiday • the decisive move served as a notice to Latin American revolutionaries that Reagan might use military power elsewhere in the region

24.An irony of the Second World War was that while the United States fought against racism abroad, the United States...

the US was fighting racism overseas but was tolerating it in America with blacks

19.By November 1941, the United States insisted it would reopen trade with Japan only after...

the US would lift its embargo only after Japan removed its troops from China

One major reason that the Second World War inspired postwar changes in race relations in the United States was the

the USA had to do something about race relations after the war because when many of the black soldiers came home from war they were faced with extreme racism but they fought for the country and did not feel like putting up with it anymore • ex: "one decorated black veteran arrived home in uniform and a neighbor said 'don't you forget.. that you're still a n*gger" textbook page 1125

What did advocates of the social gospel believe?

the belief that religious institutions and individual Christians must help bring about "the kingdom of God" on earth

The Dust Bowl can be associated with...

the blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil

Was Truman's Fair Deal proposals an extension or enlargement of the New Deal and were they easily passed by the conservative coalition in Congress?

the fair deal was an extension or enlargement of the New Deal programs • included: higher minimum wage, expansion of social security coverage to 10 million workers not included in the original 1935 bill, and a larger slum-clearance and public housing program • it was not easily passed by conservatives in congress (it did not pass but it laid the foundation for programs that the next generation of reformers would promote)

***In 1947, President Truman took actions to banish Communists from ________ by issuing an executive order known as the Loyalty Order

the federal government

25.Who were the Tuskegee Airmen during the Second World War?

the first African American military pilots

41.How did most Progressives think modern problems could be solved?

the government

An important reason for passage of the GI Bill was to

the government feared that a sudden influx of veterans into the workforce would produce widespread unemployment

74.The German delegation at Versailles objected most bitterly to:

the guilt clause having to pay all of the war debt (took them 92 years to pay their debts)

What part of the Versailles negotiations contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party?

the guilt clause (paying back debts)

What was a major factor in the Republican takeover after the 1994 midterm election? the health care bill disaster

the health care disaster and the growing federal deficit

What was the state of the hippie movement at the very end of the 1960s?

the hippie phenomenon began to fade as the spirit of the liberation ran up against the hard realities of poverty, drug addiction, crime, and mental and physical illness among the flower children.

Although white, middle-class Americans enjoyed unprecedented economic growth, the image of America was much more complicated. What problems or fears lurked behind the idealized image of America in the 1950s?

the idealized image of America in the 50's as an innocent, prosperous nation awash in good times and enlivened by teenage energies contains a kernel of truth. but life was actually much more complicated- even contradictory and hypocritical at times

which of the following statements accurately describes the significance of pose-civil war inventions to women in particular?

the invention of the typewriter and sewing machine opened up new employment possibilities to many women, although often on the basis of the idea that women would work for lower pay

What was the result of the efforts of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to prevent the presidency of Salvador Allende in Chile?

the leader killed himself and the ruthless dictator supposedly friendly to the usa general named Augusto Pinochet took over the government. within a few months he took over dozens of american businesses in Chile and executed thousands of political opponents. Kissinger now Secretary of State told nixon that the CIA "didn't do it," but "we helped" put Pinochet in office by creating the conditions that made the coup possible

92. A post-World War I generation, according to F. Scott Fitzgerald was...

the lost generation, Lost Generation, a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term is also used more generally to refer to the post-World War I generation.

Which of the following statements accurately characterizes the decade between the end of the Great War and the onset of the Great Depression?

the lost generations

What happened to the U.S. marriage rate during the fifties?

the marriage rate reached an all-time high and teenager girls were encouraged to marry young

What was the role of the Marshall Plan?

the marshal plan was intended to reconstruct foreign markets for us products. it was more than economics, it was apart of Trumans effort to contain the Soviet Union by reestablishing a strong Western Europe anchored in american values

Ellis island was constructed outside the port of New York City in response to

the massive influx of immigrants

Who were known as the "great silent majority"?

the middle class Americans that had propelled nixon to victory in 1968 • middle America voters fed up with liberal politics, hippies, radical feminism, gay and lesbian rights, and affirmative action programs that gave preferential treatment to people of color and women to atone fro past injustices

What was a way the Chinese civil war proved significant for the cold war?

the nationalists were fighting against the communist but the communist won the nationalists fled to Taiwan and the USA recognized the nationalist government in Taiwan as the official government of china for 30 years

In retrospect, what appears to have led to the cold war in retrospect?

the onset of the Cold War seems to have been unavoidable result of the ideological competition btwn capitalism and communism and their opposing views of what the postwar world should become

what did the Pentagon Papers reveal about the Johnson administration?

the pentagon papers revealed that the american people and congress had not got the whole story about the gulf of Tonkin. • plans for the us entry into the war were being drawn up even as president Johnson was promising that combat troops would never be sent to Vietnam

the major motivation behind the "Saturday Night Massacre" was Nixon's desire to

the person who was supposed to fire cox resigned instead of firing him. then congress called for nixon ro resign or be impeached

which of the following happened as a result of the election of 1896

the populists party disintegrated but later reformers would elect many of its ideas

In 1957, nine African American students attended Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas for the first time. What actions were taken by Eisenhowerat Central High?

the school used the stated national guard to prevent 9 black students from enrolling at central high school

What did the Baby Boom reinforce?

the soaring birthrate reinforced that a woman's place was in the home

what brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war?

the soviets out nukes in Cuba and USA put nukes in turkey

In his Wheeling speech, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed to have a list of Communists in what department of the government.

the state department

The postwar era witnessed its most dramatic population growth in

the sunbelt states and southeast (texas, California, Florida, Arizona)

By the late nineteenth century, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians believed:

the time had come to stop fighting and put a stop to his peoples needless deaths

96. Harding's administration is MOST remembered for what?

the unfolding of the teapot dome scandal

What characterizes the 1970s in the United States?

the usa lost much of its self confidence as it confronted difficult lessons about the limits of its power and financial resources and the pitfalls of greed and corruption. the failed vietnam war, Watergate, spike in oil prices, interest rates, and consumer prices frustrated Americans. people were downsizing their expectations of the american dream

33. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ensure?

the voting rights act ensured all citizens the right to vote and authorized the attorney general to send federal officials to register voters in areas that had long experienced racial discrimination. • banned literacy tests

What was a result of the 1991 First Gulf War?

the war was a triumph without victory. hussein had been defeated but he escaped and remained in power. • Arabs were humiliated by the american triumph and so they began plotting what would spiral into new war of terrorism

33.What was Hitler's "Final Solution"?

the wholesale extermination of 6 million jews and nonjews in gas chambers and and death camps

2.What did the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s challenge?

their goal was to quit reading history in order to make history, and to remake the United States into a more democratic society

. What assumption did progressives share?

they believed government must exercise greater power on behalf of society in regulating the welfare of the people

At the settlement ending the Vietnam War, known as the Paris Peace Accords what did Nixon and Kissinger claim, what was the reality?What actually

they claimed that the bombings had brought north vietnam t its senses in truth the north Vietnamese never altered their basic stance; they kept 150,000 troops in south vietnam and remained committed to the reunification of Vietnam under one government. what had changed was the willingness of negotiation to accept the agreement on the basis of Nixons personal promise that the United States would respond with "with full force" to any communist violation of the agreement

What did the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) do to punish the United States for supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War?

they convinced the group to cut off oil shipments to the USA

interconnected transportation and communication networks were essential to the organs of the second industrial revolution in the United States becuase

they facilitated the emergence of a national and even international markets for American goods and services

Describes the state of Latino rights in the 1960s and early 1970s?

they formed their own civil rights organizations (united farm workers UFW)

how did most farmers respond to falling crop prices

they grew more crops in order to make ends meet, tragically lowering the price of crops even more by increasing the supply

how did most farmers respond to falling crop prices at the end of the nineteenth century

they grew more crops in order to make ends meet, tragically lowering the price of crops even more by increasing the supply

61.What effect did the Great War have on the lives of American women?

they had to take jobs that were normally men jobs like working in factories

4.What was the result of the Columbia University student protest in 1968?

they occupied the college presidents office and classroom building, they renamed the administration building "Malcolm x hall" • they could not negotiate a deal and so the college president canceled classes and called in the New York City police. 100 students were injured, 700 were arrested, and the leaders of the uprising were expelled. nixon declared that the rebellion was the "first major skirmish in a revolutionary struggle to seize the universities" • the events at Columbia inspired similar clashed as Harvard, Cornell, and san Fransisco state, Vice President Spiro Agnew dismissed the militants as "impudent snobs who characterized themselves as intellectuals" and condemned the "circuit riding, Hanoi visiting caterwauling riot inciting burn America down" anti war protesters whom he labeled "thieves and traitors" and "nattering nabobs of negativism"

The Tower Commission report blamed much of the Iran-Contra scandal on

they placed much of the blame on Reagans loose management style • only John pointdexter received a jail sentence

23.What was the role of the Office of Price Administration?

they set price ceilings bc the military need a ton of food, gas, coffee, tires, and meat for the soldiers so the prices froze and rations began

nixon's trip to the Soviet Union resulted in

they signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treats (SALT I) the agreement did not end the nuclear arms race but it did limit the number if missiles with nuclear warheads and prohibited the construction of missle defense systems • also produced a new trade agreement which made the USA sell a quarter of its wheat crops to the soviet union at a favorable price

What did Nixon and Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev achieve by signing the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)?

they signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treats (SALT I) the agreement did not end the nuclear arms race but it did limit the number if missiles with nuclear warheads and prohibited the construction of missle defense systems • also produced a new trade agreement which made the USA sell a quarter of its wheat crops to the soviet union at a favorable price *** they dramatically eased tension btwn the two. over time the Soviet Union would help end the Cold War by lowering soviet hostility to western influences, which in turn slowly eroded communist rule from the inside

Bush's stated rationale for attacking Iraq in 2003 was

they urged the president to reshape the world in americas image they convinced bush that the doctoral Iraqi regime of Saddam hussien represented a "grave and gathering danger" because of its supposed possession of biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction

What was Nixon's position regarding Vietnam policy?

they wanted to end the war. but people did not buy it until all the troops were home the usa needed to withdraw from the war in a way that upheld the credibility of its military alliances around the world

Native American activists ultimately discovered that their most effective tactic for bringing about change was

they went into federal courts armed with copies of old treaties and demanded that the documents become the basis for financial restitution for the lands taken from them

1. What is one thing John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy all had in common, and what does this suggest about the 1960s?

they were all assassinated

4. The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

they were americas first investigative journalists who often helped the progressives

which of the following statements accurately describes tenement houses in New York City during the gilded age

they were crammed together and often housed 24-32 families

"exodusters" migrated to the west often bc

they were making their exodus from the south in search of a place devoid of racism and poverty

81. What did the Immigration Act of 1920s do or what were they trying to achieve?

they were trying to limit the number of southern and Eastern Europeans entering the country

why did congress pass the homestead act

to encourage settlement of the western lands

63.What was the purpose behind the Food Administration?

to increase agricultural production while reducing civilian food consumption. they taught Americans to play victory gardens and to use leftovers wisely

The single most important stimulant to the postwar economy was

to the construction of new housing and the manufacture of mass produced consumer goods

Drawing on the assumptions of the "domino theory," Truman believed the Soviet and Communist activities in Greece would

topple the other nations of eastern mediteranian, then Western Europe to prevent such a catastrophe, he said the United States much "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjection by armed minorities or by outside pressure"

Economic distress in the 1930s fed the growth of what type of regime in Europe?

totalitarianism

50.What gave the Great War its lasting character?

trench warfare and powerful new weapons

t or f? booker t Washington argued that the black community needed to focus on establishing an economic foundation before agitating for political and social equality

true

t or f? despite the growth of industry in the postwar south, in 1900 it was still the least educated and urban region of the United States

true

t or f? during the Spanish American war, more American soldiers died from disease than battle

true

The Soviet acquisition of the atomic bomb in 1949 inspired Truman to

truman asked the national security council to assess Americas readiness to contain communism the council submitted a top-secret report called "NSC-68" • caused the USA to build up the military a lot • said that communists were reckless and had the atomic bomb and could destroy America

On the domestic front, President Truman soon made clear his intention to do what to the New Deal?

truman was distracted from domestic issues because of the global concerns

The DREAM Act of 2012 centered on what issue?

undocumented immigrants

18. Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrateat what school?

university of Mississippi in Oxford

54.What did the Zimmermann telegram offer?

urged alliance btwn Germany and Mexico. told Mexico to invade the USA and it offers generous financial support and help re-conquering texas, New Mexico, and arizona

In 2014, President Obama announced that the United States and Cuba were going to

usa and Cuba would restore normal relations after more than 50 years of hostility.

what is NOT a factor of economic growth after the civil war?

use of prison labor by railroad companies

64.What was the purpose of the Committee on Public Information?

used propaganda to shape public perceptions about the war to generate support for the American war effort

26.What did the Hepburn Act of 1906 authorize?

used the interstate commerce commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods

34. The guerilla fighters in South Vietnam who sought to overthrow the U.S.-backed government were known as the

viet cong

24. What did Malcolm X promote?

violence

Irving Berlin

was a Russian immigrant that wrote "God Bless America"

Woodrow Wilson

was associated with new freedom progressivism, the federal reserve, United States entry into world war 1, and the 14 points

the great railroad strike of 1877

was blamed on the "long haired, wild eyed, bad smelling atheistic reckless foreigners"

10.What best describes American's approach to events happening in Europe in the 1930's

we wanted to stay neutral or join the alliance

why was Lester frank wards dynamic sociology considered a challenge to William grahams summers social Darwinism

whereas ward believed intellect, informed by science, gave humans the ability to shape social change, sumner believed society functioned according to natural selection

41. Richard Nixon's victory in the election of 1968 was made possible by what shift in voting behaviors?

white wage workers, the backbone of the democrat party since FDR and the new deal, were shifting to the republicans

the sandlot incident refers to

white workers attacking a group of Chinese workers

. What was the major purpose of the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?

with Canada and Mexico. make North America the largest free trade zone in the world. opponents feared it would cause the textile mills to lose business and millions of jobs to "cheap labor" countries (and it did)qq

With the end of the Second World War, women workers who had taken on traditionally male jobs during the war were encouraged to

women were encourages/forced to go back into traditional homemaking roles and stop working male jobs

86. Describe the "new women" of the 1920s such as flappers?

women who defied traditional standards for women with a carefree, self-indulgent rebelliousness

. The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution granted ____the right to vote. What did the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution accomplish?

women. ended womens suffrage

WCTU stood for...

womens christian temperance union

Nikola Tesla

won the current war with alternating current

mother jones promoted

workers rights and unions

which of the following describes the experiences of industrial workers in gilded age America

working and living conditions remained dangerous

58.Did men initially rushed to enlist before being drafted? Did a significant percentage of immigrants enlist?

yes men rushed to enlist. and yes many of them were immigrants

1. By 1960-1961, a number of students had become inspired to become social reform activists by the

young people decided they could no longer ignore the widespread injustice and inequality staining the American dream

21.Describe wartime opportunities of American women during the Second World War?

• 350,000 women enlisted in the Women's Army Corps (marine corps, coast guard, and army Air Force) • 8 million women entered civilian workforce • rosie the riveter

What described Lebanon by the early 1980s?

• French, Italian, and american forces moved into Lebanon as "peace keepers" but in such small numbers that they became targets themselves • american warships responded by bombing muslim positions in the highlands behind Beirut

39.What was the reasoning behind the decision-making process behind the use of atomic bombs against Japan?

• General Eisenhower said "we faced half a million casualties trying to take Japan by land. it was either that or the atomic bomb, and I didn't hesitate a minute, and I've never loss any sleep over it since." • the scientist also underestimated the power of the bomb, they thought it would kill 20,000 but it killed over 140,000.

6.Why by the spring of 1945, was the United States and Britain were becoming deeply concerned over Soviet actions in Eastern Europe

• Soviet Union systematically imprisoned half the European continent and installed puppet governments across central and Eastern Europe • soviets eliminated all political parties except the communist, created secret police, took control of intellectual and cultural life, took control of media, organized a process of ethnic cleaning where they relocated 12 million germans, poles, and Hungarians to prisons. • anyone who opposed the soviet installed regimes was exiled, silenced, executed, or imprisoned.

What were among the main U.S. foreign policy concerns following the Second World War and why?

• Truman pursued a confrontational foreign policy that focused on stoping the spread of communism, the policy only aggravated tensions. • the USA even secretly intervened in elections in France and Italy, we donated money, campaign advisers, and threatened to cut the countries off financially if the communists won.

What characterizes the economy during the Clinton presidency?

• budget surpluses due to the new tech industry • tech industry caused low inflation, low unemployment, and personal fortunes • economy was growing and growing but would soon crash

What was the Moral Majority?

• campaigned for the Political and social goals of christian rights: banning abortion, bring prayer back in school, etc..

What was the main reason the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba?

• challenge president Kennedy • to protect communist Cuba • to show that the soviets were not afraid of the Americans

What had Reagan achieved by the end of his presidency?

• ended the cold war • Reagan set events in place that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union

35.What did American soldiers discover upon reaching the interior of Germany in 1945?

• extermination camps were 24,000 jews were killed per day • bodies pilled high as buildings • survivors were living skeletons *** quiz answer " concentration camps where the nazis systemically murdered millions of jews"

.What was the site of an amphibious landing by General MacArthur; was this a turning point of the Korean War?

• general MacArthur staged a surprise amphibious landing behind the North Korean lines at inchon, the port city for Seoul, some 150 miles north of Pusan. UN troops drove a wedge through the North Korean army. days later, South Korean troops recaptured Seoul. • this was a turning point for the war, before it we were loosing and after we were starting to win. • this let us label n Korea as a red menace and we expanded the war into china

President Carter's greatest foreign policy success was

• he facilitated a 1978 peace agreement between prime minister Menachem Begin of Isreal and president Anwar Sadat of Egypt. the parties signed two treaties known as "Camp David Accords"

The hippie movement sought to

• hippies strove to exceed limits, trespass across boundaries, and heighten sensibilities. they rejected the pursuit of wealth and careers and embraced plain living, authenticity, friendships, peace, and especially freedom

. How did developments in Germany and Japan compare leading up to the Second World War?

• in germany and Japan they believe they are both the "master race" germany had a dictatorship and Japan had an emperor/dictator (they think they are god)

what were the factors that helped accelerate economic growth after the civil war?

• involved, bold leadership from entrepreneurs • the abundance of natural resources in the US • a supply of immigrants seeking work

Why was the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (1987) significant?

• it was an agreement btwn usa and soviets to eliminate intermediate range (300-3000 mile) misses. the treaty marked the first time that the two nations had agreed to destroy a whole class of weapon systems and produced the most sweeping cuts in nuclear weaponry in history

4. What was one way in which the televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon was significant?

• it was the first ever televised presidential debate • nixon was sick and looked ill and JFK was young, smart, and good looking and this caused JFK's approval rating to skyrocket the next day

What was one way in which the 1957 Soviet launch of Sputnikwas significant?

• it was the launch of the first communications satellite from the soviets • Americans panicked bc they thought if the soviets could put a satellite into orbit then they could also fire a rocket with a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and detonate it on the west coast •It felt with a severe blow to the prestige of american science and technology and changed the military balance of power • led the USA to increase defense spending and enhance science education • led USA to create NASA • led USA to create the "national defense education act NDEA

39. Which of the following statements accurately describes the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago?

• its where the nations social unrest came to a head • they gathered to nominate LBJ's Vice President named Hurbert Humphrey to be the party nomination • outside 20,000 cops and national guard soldiers confronted thousands of anti-war protesters • riots broke out and it was all recorded and put on tv