Dual Credit History Test
Levittown; segregated
" _______ " were planned communities in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. While developers offered few floor plans, they included televisions as an appliance. These communities were also ______.
April 17, 1913
"Mr. Sam" becomes a congressman
April 7th, 1913
"Mr. Sam" becomes a congressman
Langston Hughes
"The Weary Blues"
the secret plan;
"_________ ___________ _________," or the plan to remove the United States from Vietnam called for the ____________ reduction of troops in Vietnam, while building up the ________ Vietnamese armed forces at the same time.
red herring
A "____" is something intended to divert attention from the real problem or the matter at hand.
Chamber; Hiss; microfilm
A former Soviet spy, Whittaker _______ told the HUAC that Alger ____ had given him secret State Department papers in 1938 and produced ___ of the said documents.
Consumer Goods
A great industrial boom resulted from the emerging______ economy of the twenties.
Eagel Claw; failed; helicopters
A mission to authorized by President Carter to save the American hostages in Iran in 1979, Operation _________ __________ resulted in a ___________mission and the loss of American lives after the _____________ broke down.
silent; Vietnam; flood of letters
According to President Richard Nixon, the "_________ majority" agreed with his policies on ___________. This opinions was based on the ___________ ____ __________ and telegrams that he had received at the White House.
George Brown Tindall
According to historian _______ _____ ______, the AAA: B. Pumped more New Deal dollars into the South than any other program
Life expectancy was 20 years lower the national average. The suicide rate was 100 times higher as the rate for whites. Unemployment was 10 times the national rate
According to the packet, what was true about the Native American community?
A- Versailles Treaty B- communists C- Jews
Adolf Hitler, who seized control of Germany in 1933, blamed three things for Germany's problems. What were they?
Jackson
After a tussle with the police, a student demonstration that protested President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia at _____________ State University resulted in four deaths.
was gunned down in Harlem by assassins
After publishing his Autobiography , Malcolm X:
Germany; Italy; Hitler's
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, ______ and _____ declared war on the USA. This is ______ third mistake as it brought the USA directly into the war in Europe.
Germany
After the United States declared war on Japan, who declared war on the United States? This move was a key to the Allies' strategy for fighting World War II.
Black Panther Party
Along with Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, Stokely Carmichael helped found the:
wealthy businessmen
Although former Democratic presidential candidates John Davis and Al Smith served on its executive committee, the Liberty League was mostly composed of:
Allies; isolationist sentiment
Although most Americans supported the ______ by 1940, _______ _________ was still strong in the United States.
How did Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union "stun" the world on August 23, 1939?
Although they were traditional enemies, they announced the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression pact
bad
American support of the Diem regime made the USA look _________ to the rest of the world.
The "Baby Boom"
Americans started families in large numbers during and after World War II. The phenomenon has been called:
Liddy; CREEP
Among the "plumbers" caught by Watergate security was G. Gordon __________ , who had ties to the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or __________ .
"a good ol' boy"
Another way to describe Harding is:
trusted
Any government that was not connected to the United States or any of its allies, or any government that that did not allow USA interventions was not ____.
100,000 people
Approximately how many Japanese-Americans were placed into internment camps in the United States?
Southern; slowing down
As employed by the Nixon campaign staff, the _____________ Strategy was meant to draw Republican votes from the South in exchange for a "__________ __________" of Civil Rights Enforcement.
April 9, 1965
Astros meet Yankees to inaugurate domed stadium
April 9th, 1965
Astros meet Yankees to inaugurate domed stadium
FDR
At his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, who said: "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a New Deal for the American people."
secret; Winston Churchill; first
At the _____ Conference, FDR and British Prime Minister _______ agreed that Germany needed to be defeated _______.
Yalta Conference
At what conference (in February 1945) did the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, & Joseph Stalin) decide to divide Germany into four occupation zones following the war?
federal emergency relief association (FERA)
Authorized the _____ _____ _____ _____ to give money to the states to give to people
Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini
By the end of the decade, whom did Father Charles Coughlin praise on his radio program for their efforts in getting their nations out of the Great Depression?
Northern; Southern
By the twenties, immigration patterns had shifted from _____ and Western Europe to ______ and Eastern Europe
to achieve equality by any means necessary
By this point, you should be able to answer this question: Martin Luther King's philosophy included all of the following, EXCEPT what?
Congress represented the will of the people
Calvin Coolidge's political philosophy was what
Jean Toomer
Cane
spheres; influence
Churchill believed that " _____ of _______ " would develop between the two "Superpowers."
Martin Luther King ; non-violent ; Thoreau
Dr. ___, Jr. based the Montgomery Bus Boycott on the ___-___ actions of Henry David ___.
blackballed
During the Second Red Scare, famous actors and actresses, such as Arthur Miller, were "____" by Hollywood under the suspicion of Communist activity.
isolationism
During the Twenties, the majority of Americans returned to the nation of __________, in terms of foreign policy.
Denison, TX; Abilene, Kansas; state
Dwight D. Eisenhower was born in _____, but spent his childhood in ______. No single ____ can claim Ike as a "favorite son."
Eisenhower; nuclear
Dwight D. ____ helped bring about an armistice in Korea by threatening the Communists with ___ weapons.
war; three; island
Even though President Carter called for a greater use __________ of energy, a malfunctioning reactor at ___________ Mile ____________, a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania convinced many people to be skeptical of nuclear energy.
Self-help and Charity
Ever the humanitarian, Hoover believed in ______.
third; Europe
FDR ran for a ______ presidential term in 1940 because he, and the rest of the nation, were concerned about the war in ______.
New Deal programs
FDR used his weekly radio program or" Fireside chats" to reassure Americans about his _____ _____ _______
why; Allies; enter
FDR used the Four Freedoms to explain _____ the United States needed to support the ______, and possibly ______ World War II.
infamy
FDR: "Sunday, December 7, 1941, a day that will live in _______."
April 2 1969
Famous horse wins at Aqueduct on the eve of his trainers death
April 14th, 1935
Fearful Dust Storm Inspires Songwriter
April 14, 1935
Fearful dust storm inspires songwriter
March 27 1912
First Lady Plants Cherry Trees along the Potomac
April 2 1902
First Movie theater opens in Los Angeles
Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows
Revoluton; family; normalcy
President Nixon's New American __________ tried to revive traditional values such as __________ and home, but it was not as catchy as the term "____________."
resignation; order
President Nixon's _____________ came with the revelation that he had _________ a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in.
March 30 2009
President Obama Announces AUto Industry Shake up
straight; colorful
President Truman was known for his ______ talking and sometimes ______ language.
Harry S. TRuman
President ___ desegregated the U.S. military in 1948 with Executive Order #9981, thus resulting in desegregated units fighting in the Korean Conflict.
disarmament; reducing
Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover seek to make the world "safe" in the Twenties by utilizing the policies of ________. This meant that they committed to _______ the size of the U.S. Navy through agreements made at the Washington Armaments Conference.
rose; slowed; slowed; negative; wavering
Stock speculators ignored the following economic indicators, which resulted in the Stock Market Crash: A. Inventories (supply) _____ B. Purchasing (demand) _____ C. Housing construction and automobile sales ______ D. Too _____ much consumer credit E.______ stock market prices
April 26, 1968
Texan earn Medal of Honor for heroism
Greatest; leadership
The " _____________ Generation," meaning those who had fought, and won, World War II, were poised to take over the ____________ of the United States.
Johnson Treatment
The "___" literally meant bullying political opponents into submission.
okies
The "_______ " were those individuals who left the Dust Bowl in the southern Plains to seek their fortune in California.
Rape of Nanking; American; war
The "_______" was a seven week rampage by the Japanese in December 1937. The incident solidified ________ opinion against Japan and caused FDR to think about ______.
Americanism
The (second) Ku Klux Klan supported 100% _____, which was just another way to say "nativism"
A "dark horse" candidate, Will Rogers, took the election from the incumbent, Calvin Coolidge.
The 1924 Presidential Campaign was just the opposite of the 1912 Presidential Campaign because:
Montgomery ; segregation ; non-violent
The 1955-1956 ___ bus boycott focused the nation's attention on ___, set the tone for the Civil Rights Movement, and showed that ___-___ protest actions could work.
security; General Assembly; Security Council; Veto
The United Nations, founded in 1945 was built on the concept of collective _____ . Within the organization, there is a _____ and a _____, where five permanent members hold ____ power over proposals.
Freedom ; murders
The ___ Summer Project was an attempt to register African American voters, but is best remembered for the ___ of three civil rights workers.
Teapot Dome Scandal
The ___ involved Harding's Secretary of Interior, Albert Fall, and his acceptance of bribes from oil companies
Voting Rights Act ; states
The ___ of 1965 gave the federal government to right to protect voting power in the ___.
SCLC ; register
The ___ organized the Selma-to-Montgomery Marches, which were meant to spotlight the struggle to ___ African American voters.
bus rides
The ___ were sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE).
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
The ____ ______ ______ drafted a set of codes for over 500 industries, which then in turn, set prices.
Immigration Act of 1924
The ____ favored "old" immigration from Northern and Western Europe and discouraged "new" immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
twentieth; January
The _____ Amendment moved Inauguration Day to ______ 20th.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
The _____ _____ _____ provided abundant electrical power in the South, which opened the way for the wartime development of southern industry
public works administration (PWA)
The _____ _____ ______ provided $3.3 billion for public buildings, highways, flood control, bridges,tunnels, and aircraft carriers (important for World War II).
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The _____ sought to end racial discrimination by supporting legal actions based on Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
League of Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
The _____ was a civil rights organization created for Mexican Americans.
Scopes "Monkey" Trial
The ______ (July 10-20, 1925) tested a Tennessee state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.
Eisenhower; containment
The ______ Doctrine amounted to little more than a restatement of the ____ policy.
Harlem Renaissance
The ______ is the first literary movement that featured African Americans.
The Great Migration
The ______ is the movement of African AMericans from the South to the North and West.
interregnum
The ______ is the period of time between the close of the sovereign's reign and the ascension of the next legitimate successor.
Dawes Plan
The ______ renegotiated World War I reparations to a more realistic level, but these gains were wiped out by the Great Depression.
Truman; free
The _______ Doctrine stated that: "it must be the policy of the United States to support ______ peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."
Munich; Chamberlain
The _______ Pact, negotiated by France and Great Britain, basically endorsed Germany's actions in Czechoslovakia. When he announced this pact, British Prime Minister Neville ________ said: "I believe there is peace in our time."
Anschluss; Sudetenland
The _______ unified Germany and Austria. Then, Germany's annexation of the ______ from Czechoslovakia triggered an international crisis.
Neutrality Acts; cash; carry
The _________ forbid the sale of war material to warring countries, and by 1937, forced exports to warring countries placed on a ____ " and "_______" basis.
Kellogg- Briand Pact
The __________ (1928) was more noble than practical, and useless in preventing war.
"Stab in the Back"
The ___________ was the Weimar Republic's acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles.
Republicans; Democrats
The ______________ won the 1968 Presidential Election because they offered a vision of stability and order, while the _____________ demonstrated chaos at their convention in Chicago.
united
The attack on Pearl Harbor _________ the United States for war more than any other event in 1941.
expansionism; Time
The basis thesis of containment was that the West must keep the Soviet Union from ______. ______, not military action, would work against the Soviet Union.
Conservative philosophies resonate with voters
The best example that politics in the twenties was a reaction to the progressive movement is that:
$3 billion; Vietnam
The biggest problem with the Great Society was that the program cost ____________- and the ____________ Conflict was becoming expensive.
Planned Obsolescence
The concept of " _________ " is building products to fail after a certain period of time.
Conformity
The concept of _______________ meant that everything, from the houses to the television programs looked the same. ,
tremendous optimism; doubt
The decade of the Sixties (1960s) began with ____________ ____________ and ended in _________.
everyone
The economic expansion lifted _____________.
Saturday; Cox; watergate
The event that was at the center of President Nixon's "_____________ Night Massacre" was the firing of Archibald ________ , special prosecutor for the ____________ investigation.
League of Nations
The failure of the United States to join the _________ greatly weakened the organization.
Atlantic; Wilson's
The goals stated in the ______ Charter were originally stated in President_______ "Fourteen Points.
Marcus Gravy
The hero of Black Nationalism, ______, founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
Sputnik; Space
The launch of _____ by the Soviet Union in 1957 "launched" the "____ Race" with the United States.
sit-ins
The lunch counter ___-___ became the first mass movement in African American history.
economic; interest; reduce
The main problem with the economy in the Seventies was that _____________ measures such as tax cuts, public works projects, and the Federal Reserve's management of the ______________ rate did not help __________ inflation brought about by rising oil prices.
Off duty sailors, soldiers, and whites rampaged through downtown Los Angeles and Chavez Ravine, assaulting Hispanics, African Americans, and Filipinos
What happened in the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943?
It demonstrated that the "talkie" film could be commercially successful
What is the significance of the Warner Brothers' motion picture "The Jazz Singer"?
An overall desire for change from the Great Depression generation to the World War II generation
What issue dominated the 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon?
The Fair Employment Act
What law banned racial discrimination in hiring in any factory holding defense contracts?
The victims brought violence and destruction upon themselves
What made the Watts riots different from riots in the past?
The Soviet Union
What nation paid the greatest price to fight World War II?
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
What organization was created during the New Deal to regulate mortgage interest rates, and then after World War II, to provide low-cost mortgage loans to families?
"You can have a car in any color you like, as long as that color is black"
What quote is attributed to Henry Ford?
Mobilization - unemployment rate went way down
What specifically ended the Great Depression? Hint: It is NOT the New Deal!
"silent"
What term is given to those motions pictures whose action was broken up by screens of written dialogue?
University of North Texas
What university does Dr. Adrian Lewis represent in Transforming America: Road to War ?
Defeat Germany first
What was Franklin Roosevelt's and Winston Churchill's strategy for fighting World War II?
He allowed the British to evacuate Dunkirk, France, in June 1940
What was Hitler's first "strategic mistake" of World War II?
"The buck stops here."
What was President Truman's favorite saying?
"Blitzkrieg"
What was the German method of war that included the use of tanks and dive bombers in"quick movements"?
The Camp David Accords
What was the arrangement of peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978, called? It is considered to be President Carter's "crowning foreign policy achievement."
That the United States "lent" war material to the United Kingdom, with the expectation that the UK would "lease" these war materials until the WWII was over
What was the concept behind the Lend-Lease Act of 1941?
To lend their language to secret intelligence codes
What was the mission of the "code talkers"?
The "Island Hopping" Campaign
What was the name of the American strategy in the Pacific Theater?
The Battle of Britain
What was the name of the air battle that Germany waged with Great Britain over the summer of 1940?
Double Victory
What was the name of the campaign that African Americans conducted for Civil Rights during World War II?
The "Double V" Campaign
What was the name of the campaign that African Americans conducted for Civil Rights during World War II?
The United States
What was the only nation better off economically after fighting World War II?
President Truman was re-elected, despite losing two factions of his party.
What was the significance of the 1948 presidential campaign?
"Steamboat Willie"
What was the title of the first Walt Disney cartoon that featured "Mickey Mouse"?
Stalingrad
What was the turning point of the war in the European Theater?
November 9-10, 1938
When was Kristallnacht or the "Night of Broken Glass?"
Beaches of Normandy
Where did the events of D-Day begin?
Omaha Beach
Where was the worst fighting of D-Day?
Richard M. Nixon
Which one of the following presidents was NOT impeached?
Thurgood Marshall
While working for the NAACP, who represented plaintiffs before the Supreme Court in the three cases named above, and became the first African American to be appointed Supreme Court Justice in October 1967.
"Deep Throat"
Who aided Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's investigation of the Watergate break-in for the Washington Post ?
Richard Nixon
Who became famous as a result of the Alger Hiss case?
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Who comprehensive domestic program revived the New Deal and created the modern welfare state in the USA?
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Who conducted a series of high-profile, often televised meetings with the purpose of uncovering subversives in the government?
David Sarnoff
Who developed the concept of "programming" for the radio?
Winston Churchill
Who did King George VI (star of The King's Speech and Queen Elizabeth II's father) ask to form a new government for Great Britain after the Chamberlain government fell?
"Mr. Nobody"
Who did most people prefer in the 1976 Presidential Campaign, based on their voting patterns?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Who forced RCA to spin off the "blue" network in 1945, which then became ABC?
Joseph McCarthy
Who had a reputation for claiming there were Communists in the government and conducted Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings with a confrontational demeanor that witnesses often seemed to be guilty until proven innocent?
Bill Haley and his Comets
Who had the first #1 hit of the "Rock n Roll" era?
Dr. Vannevar Bush
Who headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development?
Orville and Wilbur Wright of Dayton, Ohio
Who invented the airplane?
Adolf Hitler
Who is the "Wolf" in the cartoon to the right?
Theodore Geisel aka "Dr Seuss"
Who is the cartoonist for this anti "America First"political cartoon?
Harry Truman
Who knew more about the Atomic Bomb project?
Dwight Eisenhower
Who led the Allied forces on D-Day?
Henry Ford
Who mechanized the assembly line in order to produce inexpensive automobiles?
The Office of Scientific Research and Development
Who mobilized thousands of scientists on research projects to yield improvements to radar and sonar, bazookas, proximity fuses, and the Manhattan Project?
Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana
Who opposed FDR's New Deal from the "political left," claiming that the New Deal did not go"far enough" in redistributing personal wealth?
The War Production Board
Who oversaw the conversion of civilian industry to war production?
Winston Churchill
Who proclaimed the United States to be "at the summit of the world?"
Tommie Smith and John Carlos
Who raised their fists in the air as a sign of "Black Power" at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City?
George Wallace
Who ran an independent campaign for president in 1968?
Edward Morrow
Who reported on the Holocaust for CBS News?
George Kennan
Who resigned over the shift of policy presented by NSC-68?
Dr. Adrian Lewis
Who said that "World War II created the world we live in now?"
Ronald Reagan
Who said: "Are you better off now than four years ago?"
Rosa Parks
Who said: "People always say I didn't give up my seat (on the bus) because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. . . . No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
The Office of Price Administration
Who set maximum prices on consumer goods and food, administered rationing, established wage and price controls, and encouraged conservation?
Father Charles Coughlin
Who was a radio priest from Chicago and opposed FDR's New Deal from the "political right," claiming that the New Deal was too "liberal"for the United States?
Winston Churchill
Who was the British Prime Minister that allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia? He said "I believe there is peace in our time."
Adlai Stevenson
Who was the Democratic candidate for President in 1952 and 1956, and was the "darling" of liberals and intellectuals?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who was the first United States Ambassador to the United Nations?
Hubert H. Humphrey
Who won the Democratic nomination for president in 1968?
Richard Nixon
Who won the Republican nomination for president in 1968?
Paul Nitze
Who wrote NSC-68?
Japan wanted raw materials
Why did Japan go to war with the world?
Johnson saw the election as a referendum on his leadership in the Vietnam Conflict
Why did President Johnson decide not to run for reelection in 1968?
One Supreme Court Justice retired and the Court started ruling in favor of New Deal programs
Why did the "court-packing" scheme become unnecessary?
The Soviets wanted to deter a second American-supported invasion of Cuba
Why did the Soviet Union place missiles in Cuba in 1962?
The United States needed workers, and Mexico desired to reduce its unemployment rate
Why did the United States and Mexico enter into a labor agreement in 1942?
His army proved that it could not overcome the Russian winter
Why do historians consider Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union to be Hitler's second mistake?
New forms of transportation moved people faster to more precise locations
Why had the "age of the railroad" ended in the twenties?
iron curtain
Winston Churchill coined the term " _______ " to describe the way Eastern Europe had become walled off from the world and dominated by the Soviets.
Summit
Winston Churchill: "The United States stands at the "______ of the world."
accomodation
With regards to Asia and Africa, the Carter administration emphasized _______________, or the expanding of economic and cultural relations with those two continents.
Franklin Roosevelt; Adolf Hitler
Within days of each other in April 1945, _____________ died and ___________ committed suicide. Both of these men had come to power in their respective countries within days of each other in 1933.
Reaction
World War 1 ended the progressive movement at the national level and launched a ______ movement to it in the twenties.
March 17, 1884
World-famous animal trapper born in Texas
William Jennings Bryan
_______ led the prosecution and pitied the BIble against science in the courtroom.
Dorothy Parker
_______ lost a bet that she could be Coolidge "to say more than two words" to her t a White House dinner.
Japan; united
_______ misjudged the American spirit, as "nothing ______ the United States for war as Pearl Harbor did," according to Dr. Lewis.
Ronald Reagan
_______ was an admirer of Coolidge's economic policies and implemented them in his presidential administration.
containment
________ guided USA foreign policy from 1947 to 1972, and from 1981 to 1993.
Collective Security
________ is a security arrangement in which each member accepts that the security of one is the concern of all, and agrees to join in a collective response to threats to, and breaches of the peace.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Warsaw; 12
________ was a mutual defense pact signed by twelve nations, including the United States, in 1949. The ______ Pact was a mutual defense pact signed by the Soviet Union & all of its " ______" nations in 1955.
The Manhattan Project
__________ _____________ ____________was the codename for the atomic bomb project.
operation downfall
High estimates of _____________ ____________, the plan to invade Japan, claimed that the operation would cost over a half million casualties.
uncertainty; Rosevelt
Historian John Garraty wrote that perhaps Nixon's problem lay in his own unwillingness to admit his own _____________, which is something that Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. ____________ had no problem doing
"The Reign of Big Business"
Historians describe the Coolidge Administration as:
space; race
Hitler based his foreign policy on "______"(the concept that more land was needed for German growth) and "______" (the concept that the Germans were superior to their neighbors).
Jews; communism
Hitler blamed the ______ for all of Germany's economic problems and connected them to _______.
rights; Germans
Hitler want to deprive the Jews of their ____________ as _______________.
Minh; United States; French
Ho Chi _________ was a Vietnamese nationalist who received American aid to fight the Japanese during World War II, but turned to the ____________ to help Vietnam achieve its independence as the United States backed _________ rule in Vietnam after World War II.
reassurance; charitable; local
Hoover offered _________, but believed relief could best be delivered by _______ organizations and _______ governments. The problem with this strategy is that these to entities are to the first to run out of funding during time of crises.
economy
Hoover's relief efforts did not help the _______ at all.
They used the automobile
How did Americans move from the inner cities into "suburbia"?
He had no desire to placate or "appease" the desires of Nazi Germany to prevent war
How did Churchill approach the aggressiveness of Nazi Germany?
six new justices to the bench
How did FDR plan to counteract the decisions made by the Supreme Court regarding the New Deal? He proposed adding ___ _____ _____ ____ ____ _____, thus bringing the size of the Supreme Court to fifteen justices
D. All of the above
How did FDR plan to get around Great Britain's credit problems? A. He convinced Congress to give Great Britain war material; in exchange, the USA received military bases in Canada, India, and South Africa B. He convinced Congress to pass the Lend-Lease Act in January 1941 C. He allowed Great Britain to carry away in war material that that they purchased with cash D. All of the above
They invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa
How did Nazi Germany surprise the world on June 22, 1941?
A. By flying planes through open air paths
How did the Allies respond to the Soviet Union's restriction of traffic into West Berlin in 1948?
Strategically
How did the Allies win World War II, according to Dr. Lewis?
Zero
How many Communist agents did Joseph McCarthy find in the government?
General Douglas MacArthur
I said that "These proceedings are closed" after the Japanese surrendered. Who am I?
"Rosie the Riveter"
I was the famous wartime image that symbolized the"new importance of the female industrial worker during World War II.
Health; Welfare; interstate
Ike created the Department of ______, Education, and _____. He also started the ____ highway system.
delegated
Ike ran his administration like his military staff, he _____.
Ida B. Wells
In 1781, DuBois' grandmother, ______, sued the state of Massachusetts for her freedom and won her case.
Mercer
In 1918, FDR had an affair with Lucy ______
Roosevelt; Wilsonian; conservative; progressive
In 1932, President Hoover said: "I am so tired that every bone in my body aches. I can't be a Theodore_____ . I have no ______qualities." This reflects Hoover's outlook on the Great Depression as he confirms that he is a _______ and not a ______.
increased
In 1940, the United States ________ the size of its armed forces.
Smith vs. Allwright
In 1944, the Supreme Court declared the all-white primary illegal in their decision on the case ___ vs. ___.
China; Communists in China; Contained
In 1949, Mao Tse Tung defeated Chaing Kai Shek in ____. The success of the _______- seemed to confirm Americans' worst fears about the Cold War, as Communism had not been "____ " in this case.
Sweatt vs. Painter
In 1950, the Supreme Court declared that graduate schools in Texas were indeed separate, but not equal in their decision on the case ___ vs. ___.
Ngo Dinh Diem
In 1954, the French lost any hope of recreating a Vietnamese colony after getting defeated at:
Brown vs. The Board of Education
In 1954, the Supreme Court effectively reversed the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson by outlawing racial segregation in public schools in their decision on the case ___ vs. ___ of ___.
support ; buses
In 1956, the Supreme Court voted 9-0 to ___ the Civil Rights position calling for an end to racial segregation on public ___.
student
In 1960, ___ activists formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Advisors
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy sent "Military _________" to to support the Diem regime in South Vietnam.
Carmichael ; Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee ; militant
In 1966, Stokely ______ became the head of _____ and placed the organization onto a more ______ course.
kissinger; China
In 1972, Nixon and his foreign policy advisor, Henry _kissinger___________ opened diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of _________ .
oil; dependent
In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) resolved to use its huge ______ supply as a political weapon and economic weapon. The end result for Americans was long lines at the gas station as the American economy was _________ on foreign oil.
The Gramm-Leach-Billey Act
In 1999, which of the following laws repealed the Glass Steagall Act of 1933?
polio; tenaciousness; creative
In August 1921, FDR contracted _____. Although many advised him to give up politics, he refused and continued his career, despite his illness. Many historians believe that FDR's disability contributed greatly to his ______, and his desire to employ _______ solutions to end the Great Depression.
TET; the capitol of Saigon
In February 1968, the __________ Offensive marked a turning point in public support for the Vietnam Conflict, after the Communist insurgents attacked nearly all of South Vietnam's major cities, including ___________ .
Sandinista; republicans; communism
In Nicaragua, the ____________ Movement toppled the regime of Anastasio Somoza, whom the USA had supported. Because of this, _____________ in Congress charged that President Carter's policies in Central America had given a "green light" to ______________.
fear
In his first inaugural speech, FDR said: "The only thing we have to ___fear___, is _____, itself."
Keynes; correcting; deficit
In his influential book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money , John M. ______ stated that capitalist economies are not always self -_______, so the government step in and boost the economy with ______ spending.
Christmas; North
In response to the " ______________ Bombings" of 1972, the ___________ Vietnamese appeared more flexible at the negotiating table.
Macarthur; burn the shack
In response to the Bonus Army's "overextended" stay in Washington, DC, President Hoover ordered General Douglas ________ to ____ ____ _____ veterans who were living on public property.
grain; olympic; moscow
In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Carter halted _________ exports to the USSR and organized a boycott of the 1980 Summer __________ games, held in ___________.
new deal; business
In the 1936 Presidential election, Republican candidate Alf Landon supported the ______, but considered it too hostile to ________.
Goldwater
In the 1964 Presidential Election, the nation went "all the way with " as he trounced the Republican candidate, Barry ____________ at the polls.
Robert Bork
In the Eighties, who was denied an appointment to the Supreme Court, in part because of his role in the Saturday Night Massacre?
.Civil War
In the Twenties, China was in the throes of a _________ between democratic nationalists and communists
civillian standards of living
In the United States, World War II also raised the ___________ ____________ _____ ___________ at home.
My Lai
In the ________ ________ incident in 1968, an American military unit massacred children in a Vietnamese hamlet.
Earned an advanced degree in geology and then fled to South America
In the aftermath of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial, Darrow retired, Bryan died, and Scopes:
bluffing
In the long run, the tactic of "______" defined Cold War tactics from both the United States and the Soviet Union.
Nativists
In the political cartoon above, Uncle Sam best demonstrates the attitudes of the _____
army
McCarthy looked like a fool after he accused Robert Stevens, Eisenhower's Secretary of the ______, of concealing espionage activities within the organization.
Latin Americans
Meanwhile, _____ enjoyed unrestricted immigration and quickly became the largest growing ethnic group in the United States
blue eagle
Merchants who participated in the NRA displayed a in their shop windows to show support.
March 14, 1990
Mikhail Gorbachev elected Soviet Union president
Ghandi
Mohandas ___ used non-violent means of protest to bring about the independence of India from Great Britain in 1948.
college-age
Most Freedom Riders were northern ___ - ___ men
ignored
Most nations ________ the League of Nations and pursued their own interests.
March 18, 1937
Nearly three hundred die in New London school explosion
relief; recovery; reform
New Deal Program Categories: __________ programs (ease the depression now) _________ programs (bring the nation out of the depression for good) ________ programs(ensure the depression never happens again)
Brezhnev; limitation
Nixon's meeting with Leonid _____________ of the Soviet Union resulted in the Strategic Arms _____________ Treaty or SALT.
inexperience in washington politics
Nominated for his _______________ _____ ____________ ___________, James E. "Jimmy" Carter revived the New Deal Coalition.
Automobiles
Of all of the inventions of the Twenties, which one had the most influence of the advertising, finance, and tourism industries?
Radios
Of all of the inventions of the Twenties, which one most enchanted American consumers?
It brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war
Of the following statements which one best describes the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Watts ; rioting
On August 11, 1965, the ______neighborhood of Los Angeles exploded in a frenzy of _______ and looting.
die
On August 2, 1923, Harding became the fifth president to ___ while in office.
Nagasaki
On August 9, 1945, the American bombing attack on this Japanese city left over 100,000people dead.
North; South; invaded; immediate; veto
On June 25, 1950, ______ Korea invaded _______. In response, the United States sought ______ action through the United Nations and received it after the Soviet Union failed to ____ the American motion in the Security Council.
Sirhan; Los Angeles; Palestine
On June 5, 1968, Sirhan ___________ assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy in _______ __________, California, because RFK opposed a self-governing state of ___________.
Eleanor; Theodore Roosevelt
On March 17, 1905, Franklin D. Roosevelt married _____ Roosevelt; they were cousins. ______ gave away the bride.
Oswald; Dallas; motive; Ruby; WFAA
On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey __________ assassinated President Kennedy in __________, TX, and was never given a chance to explain his _________ after Jack __________ shot him in the basement of the jail. The second shooting was captured live on ___________ news.
Iran
On November 4, 1979, about 400 armed Muslim militants broke into the American embassy in Tehran, ________ , and took everyone captive.
quarantine
On October 22, 1962, President Kennedy announced a naval "______________" of Cuba, which is nothing more than a blockade.
Black; spiral
On October 29, 1929, the index of the New York Stock Exchange lost 13 percent of it's value in an event known as " _____ Tuesday." This event began the massive "downward economic "______" of the Great Depression
Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and LBJ ; Cold War
On the national level, the ___ saw the Civil Rights Movement as an impediment to fighting the ___.
June 6, 1944
On what day did the events of D-Day begin?
Billy Joel
One famous resident of Levittown, New York:
tv; Kennedy
One highlight of the 1960 presidential election was the Nixon Kennedy debate, broadcast on __________. ____________'s performance at this event helped him win the election.
Hitler; dictator
One month before FDR took office as president, Adolf _________ became Chancellor of Germany, and by April 1933, he was a ________.
amnesty; energy; environmental
President Carter offered ____________ to draft-dodgers, created the Department of _________, and started several ___________________ initiatives.
waterway
President Carter secured treaties that granted the nation of Panama with more authority over the ______________ , culminating in the full transfer of management in the year 2000.
reputation; complicated; fanfare
President Carter's administration developed a _____________ for submitting _____________ proposals to Congress with great _____________ and then failing to follow up on them.
defense of basic human rights
President Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on the concept that the United States made decisions based on the " ____________ ______ _________ ___________ __________."
tough
President Lyndon B. Johnson believed he was doing what Kennedy would have done in Vietnam - be " __________ " on Communism.
reduce; Federalism
President Nixon hoped to _________ the federal government's control over people's lives in his New ___________ domestic program.
"Wets"
wanted to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment.
NRA
who set national standards for: Minimum Pay The 40 hour work week The elimination of child labor
unemployment
By March 1933, ______ (counting those without a job and actively seeking work) had risen to 25 percent.
Germany
By October 1941, there was an "undeclared" naval war between the United States and ______
Memphis ; Ray
Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in ________, Tennessee, by James Earl _____.
poll
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment outlawed ___ taxes and other means of disfranchisement.
voting age
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowered the ___ from 21 to 18
WWII; New Deal
______, not the _______, ended the the Great Depression in the United States.
April 27, 1895
'Rolling Stone' rolls no more
Hoover's demonstrations of humanitarianism
-Directed relief efforts during the 1927 Mississippi River Flood -Directed relief efforts in Belgium during World War 1 -Led the Food Administration during World War 1 -Spearheaded efforts to relieve a famine in the USSR -Wrote Fishing For Fun and to Wash Your Soul
The Klu Klux Klan's reaction
-declining influence of the protestant church -shifting moral standards -open mindedness of city dwellers and college students
Political Leverage
By concentrating in large cities in states with many electoral votes, African Americans gained ______.
Hoovervilles; Hoover blankets; Hoover hogs
10) "________" were shanty towns constructed by the homeless on public Property ."________" were newspapers used by the homeless to keep Warm. "______" were rabbits or armadillos used for food by the homeless in Texas.
after Senator Long
34 After which historical figure did Huey P. Newton's parents name him?
To take greater pride in their racial heritage
38 The "Black Power" philosophy motivated African Americans:
The plight of poverty, regardless of race
39 After 1965, Dr. King shifted his efforts from Civil Rights and Voting to:
A. Women had lost ground in the workplace after World War II and B. There was a propaganda campaign engineered by "mad men" to foster "blissful domesticity"
41 According to Betty Frieden's The Feminine Mystique:
women ; gender
42 The National Organization for _____ (NOW) sought to end discrimination on the basis of ______.
Title XI
43 Under ______ of the Education Amendments of 1972, colleges are required to institute "affirmative action" programs to ensure equal opportunities for women.
Susan B. Anthony
44 Who was the first African American women elected to Congress?
equal ; congress
45 Once considered a "slam dunk" for ratification, the ______Rights Amendment (ERA) stymied in state legislatures before ______ in 1982.
abortions ; Roe vs. Wade ; Dallas
46 On January 23, 1973, the Supreme Court struck down laws forbidding ______ in the first three months of pregnancy in the case ______. The case originated in _______, Texas.
Roman Catholic and fundamentalist Protestant voters
47 Who launched a "right to life" campaign in the Eighties?
To heighten a sense of American identity among Hispanic Americans
48 World War II served:
Brown Berets
49 The _______ promoted self-reliance and local involvement in Mexican American neighborhoods, and demanded improvements in neighborhood schools.
Cesar Chavez ; farm ; immigrant
50 _______, shown above with New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy, created the United _______ Workers (UFW), an effective labor union of largely _______interment farmworkers.
President Lyndon B. Johnson
52 Who tried to funnel anti-poverty dollars to reservations, but could not "get it there fast enough"?
George Mitchell and Dennis Banks
53 Who founded the American Indian Movement (AIM) to promote "red power"?
Indian ; wounded knee ; poverty
54 The American _______ Movement (AIM) "occupied" the village of _______ , South Dakota, in 1973 because AIM hoped to draw attention to the ______ of Native Americans.
Mankiller
55 Wilma _______ was elected Chief of the Cherokee Nation in 1985.
Stonewall ; identity
56 In 1969, the ______ Riots forged a new sense of ______for the Gay and Lesbian community.
Gay Liberation Front
57 One of the main tactics of the ______was to encourage gays to make their homosexuality public.
television
58 What technological advancement helped African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement?
employment; prosperity
According to Ike, more (monetary) inflation meant more ____ and more employment meant continued economic ______.
Humphrey; McCarthy; War; Wallace; Kennedy; new
A. Labor unions and city bosses endorsed Vice-President Hubert H._____________ . B. College students and intellectuals supported Eugene _____________. This is the anti-_______ faction. C. The "Dixiecrats," or those who opposed racial desegregation endorsed Alabama Governor George ___________. D. Roman Catholics, African Americans, and Hispanics rallied behind New York Senator Robert F. ____________. These are your "_______" members of the Democratic Party - those voters that are encouraged by civil rights legislation.
care; aid; Public; job; Housing
A. Medi-_______ and Medic ________ B. __________ Broadcasting (PBS) C. The _________Corps D. The Department of __________ and Development
tactical; operational; failure
According to Dr. Adrian Lewis of the University of Kansas, "the attack on Pearl Harbor was a _______ success for the Japanese, but an ________ and a strategic ______."
The Russians had: manpower The Americans had: industrial might The British had: control of the seas
According to Dr. Christman, the Allies' war strategy had the following advantages:
They fought three separate wars
According to Dr. Lewis, how did Germany, Italy, and Japan fight World War II?
great; operational; strategically
According to Dr. Lewis, the attack on Pearl Harbor was a ____________ success for the Japanese, but a _____________ failure and a ____________ failure for them as well.
Air Power
According to Dr. Lewis, this was an unproven form of war. What was it?
Midway
According to Dr. Lewis, what battle in June 1942 marked the turning point of the war in the Pacific Theater?
jobless; homeless; hopeless
By 1931, entire families were ______, _______, and _______.
conservatives; government; agree
By 1979, ______________ in Congress seemed to blame the weak economy on excessive ______________ spending, and President Carter seemed to _________.
runs
Bank _______ were events to that saw people withdraw their life savings from the bank before it went out of business.
fragging
Between 1969 and 1971, there were 730 reported ____________ incidents or efforts by troops to kill or injure their own officers.
"Rock n Roll"
Coined by Cleveland, OH, radio disc jockey Alan Freed, the term ________ described a new type of music that featured guitars and drums, not conductors and orchestras.
"America First"
Committee Wealthy Americans created the _______ that was dedicated to the cause of isolationism. In recent years, the phrase has regained popularity.
Elvis Presley
Conformists in the Fifties feared the "King of Rock n Roll" the most. Who is he?
Sigon; respect
Consequences of the Vietnam War: A. The city of _________ fell to the Communists and became Ho Chi Minh City. B. Many young Americans questioned the value of ____________ service following the Conflict C. 58,000 Americans died.
"Silent Cal"
Coolidge was best known by his nickname _______
Andrew Mellon
Coolidge's Secretary of the Treasury, __________, was also the third richest person in the United States at the time.
Benefited the wealthy
Coolidge's government:
desegregated
Despite Nixon's efforts, more schools were ______________ during his administration than either Kennedy or Johnson.
No, for America "loved Lucy"
Did America care that the HUAC investigated comedienne Lucille Ball (pictured with actress Vivian Vance)?
superpowers
Following the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were known collectively as the " _____."
inflation
Ford wanted Americans to "Whip __________ Now" or "WIN," but did not force them to do it.
December 7, 1941
Franklin Roosevelt said that this date "would live in infamy" after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. What date is it?
March 17, 1905
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt wed
appointed; 25
Gerald R. Ford was _____________ President, not elected President or Vice-President, as a result of the ______th Amendment that addressed presidential succession.
March 30, 1912
German Author of Wild West fiction dies
Treaty of Versailles
Germany blamed the __________ for its economic problems.
April 2 1995
Golf Guru dies
increased
Inflated retail prices ______ stock prices
March 11, 1918
Influenza epidemic begins in Kansas
Satan; american
Iran's leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, called the United States "The Great _________" and seized the __________ embassy when President Carter allowed the to enter the United States.
March 14th, 1964
Jack Ruby found guilty
Chaney ; Schwerner ; Goodman
James ___, Michael ___, and Andrew ___ were murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.
self-sufficient; lack of natural resources
Japan announced the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in order to create a _________ economic zone in Asia. In reality, this was an effort by the Japanese to address their own ______ __ __________ __________.
French; British; Dutch
Japan preyed on the misfortunes of the______, the _______, and the______ by taking their colonies in the Pacific.
Reluctant
John T. Scopes was a local math and science teacher who was ____ to get involved in the evolution discussion.
April 25, 1964
Johnson announces appointment of Westmoreland
Stalin; not
Joseph ______ thought that the Marshall Plan was an "imperialist" scheme, so the Soviets did ________ participate.
April 21, 1906
Legendary lawman joins the Texas Rangers
military; Military Industry Complex
Lessons of the Korean Conflict: A. The United States needed a _____ presence throughout the world. B. The ____ describes the relationship between the federal defense spending and large corporations.
March 29 1951
Mad Bomber Strikes New York City Again
April 11th, 1921
Majestic Theatre opens in Dallas
April 11, 1921
Majestic theatre opens in Dallas
weak
Originally conceived by the Central Intelligence Agency, the of Invasion was an attempt to remove Fidel Castro from . It was bungled by President Kennedy and made him look "___________" on Communism and "inept" in foreign affairs.
war of the worlds
Orson Welles scared the nation with his "___ ____ ____ _____" radio radio broadcast on October 30, 1938.
Emergency Banking Act
Passed by Congress in seven hours, the ______ ______ _______of 1933 audited the nation's banks and propped up weaker banks.
April 26, 1954
Polio vaccine trials begin
Reagan's
Ronald _____________ sunny disposition and emerging style helped him defeat President Carter in the presidential election.
LULAC's strategy
Pursue actions designed to bring the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to life
largest
Railroads were included because they were still the nation's _____ employer.
second; Long
Senator Robert F. Kennedy became the __________ sitting U.S. Senator to be assassinated while in office. Who was the first? Huey P __________.
support; Cronkite; stalemate
The TET Offensive also undermined American public ___________ for the Vietnam Conflict, and led CBS news anchor Walter __________ to declare "We are mired in__________ ."
Lafollette
Some historians claim that Robert _____ Jr. committed suicide out of fear of being accused of being a Communist.
Berlin Wall; Germany
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev "heated up" Cold War tensions with the United States in 1961 by erecting the _________ _________, thus keeping East __________ from defecting to the West.
speculation; margin; margin calls
Stock "________" is investing money with the expectation that its value would increase. Buying "On the _______" is borrowing money to invest in the stock market. "_______" is the act of selling stock by the broker once the value of the stock had declined below to value of the amount owed.
women; regulars; war; welfare; peacekeeper
The 1972 Presidential Campaign was "an exercise of futility" for George McGovern and the Democrats because: A. Although McGovern appealed to ___________, African Americans, and other minorities, he alienated Democratic Party ____________. B. Voters did not care for McGovern's stands on anti- ________ principles and progressive social __________ programs. C. Nixon called himself a "global _________________ " and campaigned on the triumphs in foreign policy with China and the USSR.
the populists
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was aimed at helping farmers by paying them subsidies to not grow crops, or to store crops already harvested. This idea is reminiscent of the old "Sub-Treasury Plan" of the:
Aircraft Carriers
The Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942 was the first battle that featured:
Atlantic
The Battle of the ________ refers to the continuing efforts by the United States to support the Allies via the Atlantic Ocean.
Thomas E. Dewey; Strom Thurmond; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman
The Candidates in 1948 *The Republican nominee was: _______ *The State Rights or "Dixiecrats" nominees was: _____ *The Progressive nominee was: ______ *The Democratic nominee was: _______
outlawed ; racial Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ___ discrimination in public places, education, education, employment, and voting. It also outlawed ___ discrimination and created the ___ (EEOC)
tapes; executive provleges
The Congressional inquiry into the Watergate break-in centered on "the __________ ," a set of recorded conservations that Nixon claimed were " ___________ ____________."
He was a Roman Catholic and "wet" regarding the Eighteenth Amendment
The Democratic candidate in 1928, Al Smith, suffered in the campaign because
foreclosures
The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act and the Home Owners Loan Act were designed to prevent, or defaulting on promissory note agreements made with financial institutions.
*Provided a wider variety of products than ever before *Created a group of consumers who were more than ready to spend
The End of World War II:
Hiroshima
The Enola Gay bombed this Japanese city on August 6,1945, and killed over 80,000 people.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The Federal Securities Act of 1934 created the:
beatnik
The Fifties created the counter-culture of the "_________ " that considered actor James Dean and poet Alan Ginsburg in its ranks.
Freedom of: speech Freedom of: worship Freedom from: want Freedom from: fear
The Four Freedoms, as outlined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
hhh
The Four Freedoms: A. Freedom of ______ and ________ B. Freedom of ________ C. Freedom from ____ D. Freedom from _____
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 created the:
stabilize; jobs; relief
The Goals of the New Deal: A. ________ the economy B.create ______ C. bolster ____ programs
wages; costs; prices
The Great Crash occurred because companies held down _____ and _____, while raising retail _____ .
systematic
The Holocaust was the ______________ execution of Jews, Gypsies, and Homosexuals.
Sunday, December 07, 1941.
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on ________
right
The Liberty League attacked the New Deal from the political:
Central ; white ; voilence
The Little Rock ___ High School crisis of 1957-59 set the stage for ___ protests in the Sixties, as events in the Civil Rights Movement were met with ___.
Washington
The March on ___ for Jobs and Freedom was meant to draw attention for the need for a civil rights act.
Martin Luther King
The March was highlighted by who's "I Have a Dream" speech.
Marshall
The Marshall Plan, devised by Secretary of State George C. _______, offered technical and financial aid to companies in participating European countries following World War II.
anything; appeasement
The Munich Conference proved that Great Britain and France would do almost _____ to prevent war, and that ______ did not work.
government sanction; bargain with their employers
The National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, gave official ______ ________ to labor unions and guaranteed the rights of workers to collectively _____ _____ _____ _______.
Willkie, businessman
The Republican candidate for president in 1940, Wendell ______, was a _________ who had no political experience.
"Dry"; "Wonder-Boy"
The Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover, was ____ regarding the Eighteenth Amendment, and was dubbed _____ by President Coolidge
Axis; facist; Japan
The Rome-Berlin _______ (1936) established a treaty of friendship between Nazi Germany and _____ Italy. The Anti-Comintern treaty (1936) established a mutual defense pact between Germany and ______.
To be conducted specifically for publicity, advertising, and tourism
The Scopes Monkey Trial pitted the Bible against science in the public arena, and it was the first court case:
peacetime
The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 instituted the first ________ draft in United States history.
Malcom X
The most articulate spokesman for black power was ____
Ohio Gang
The press named Harding's personal friends (and poker buddies) in official positions in the administration the
civilian conservation corps (CCC)
The provided jobs for unemployed men aged 18-25 in a variety of jobs in national forests, parks, recreation areas, and soil conservation projects.
The G.I. Bill [of Rights]
The provided vocational job training and financial assistance for college.
Birmingham ; segregation ; violence
The purpose of the ___ Demonstrations, directed by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), in 1963, was to draw attention to the civic and economic ___, as well as ___ toward Civil Rights workers.
Fair`
The significance of President Truman's ______ Deal was that the United States was too conservative to accepts its ideas in 1949.
watergate; Vietnam
The significance of the 1976 presidential campaign is that after ____________ and ___________, there was an overall distrust of all politics.
Emergency Banking Act
The significance of the _______ _______ _______ of 1933 is that it best demonstrates that FDR was not a "radical" when approaching the problems of the Great Depression.
Eugenics
The study of _____ produced racist pseudo-scientific studies that made connections between new immigrants and socialists
alphabet soup
The term "______ ______" is used to collectively describe New Deal programs because people referenced the programs by their acronyms.
stagflation; recession and inflation
The term "_____________" was coined by economists after they noticed that the American economy was suffering from both a ____________ _______ _________ the same time.
detente; Soviet Union; China
The term ____________ is used to describe President Nixon's methods of easing tensions between the USA and the ___________ ___________ and between the USA and the People's Republic of _____________ .
containment; Kennan
The word _______ best describes President Truman's post-World War II foreign policy, which was based on an idea put forth by a diplomat at the Moscow embassy, George F. _______ .
Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Dr. Seuss
Theodore Geisel, or "________" drew the anti-Nazi cartoon to the right.
witch hunts
These hearings were considered to be "____ " .
The bombing of industry
This military campaign got the United States into the war (European Theater), but did little to release the pressure on the Soviets. What was it called?
Chicago; The World is Watching; TV
Thousands of young activists gathered in __________ to protest the Vietnam Conflict. As the police brutally beat anti-war protesters in the streets, protesters chanted "_______ _________ ____ ___________." This confrontation covered on ________.
appease
To "________" is to buy off a challenger by making concessions, usually at the cost of one's own principles.
"Suburbanization"
To solve the housing shortage following World War II, developers began building home at the edge of American cities. This is known as:
March 12, 1947
Truman Doctrine is announced
April 25, 1947
Truman inagurates White House bowling alley
March 19, 2003
U.S. and Coalition Initiate War in Iraq
Manchuria; The League of Nations
Violating treaty obligations, Japan invaded Chinese _______ in 1931. _______ condemned the Japanese occupation, but could do nothing about it.
the works progress administration (WPA)
What New Deal Program provided make-shift jobs for the unemployed?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What action by Congress allowed President Lyndon B. Johnson to escalate American troop levels in the Vietnam Conflict without asking Congress for a declaration of war?
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
What agency did Congress create in 1932 to grant emergency loans to banks, insurance companies,and railroads?
World War II
What brought tremendous changes to American culture, from housing to education to entertainment?
It restricted the office of president to two terms for any individual person
What change did the Twenty-Second Amendment make to the Constitution?
It allowed the District of Columbia to vote for president
What change did the Twenty-Third Amendment make to the Constitution?
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
What company was created by the Radio Corporation of America in 1926 to manage two radio programming systems, the "red" network and the "blue" network?
The Iran Hostage Crisis
What crisis ended on Tuesday, January 20, 1981, the same day that Reagan was inaugurated president?
social security
What current government program, influenced by Dr. Francis Townshend, establishes a government pension for Americans over the age of 65?
September 1, 1939
What date does World War II began in Europe?
They wanted victory over the dictators abroad. They wanted victory over Jim Crow segregation at home
What did African American leaders mean by fighting a "Double V Campaign" during World War II?
"share our wealth"
What did Huey Long call his program of wealth redistribution?
They proved that they could stay in the war, albeit without any allies
What did the British prove to the world by winning the "Battle of Britain" in October 1940?
Blitzkrieg
What do historians call Germany's tactic for conducting war?
The Atlantic Charter
What document outlined the American & British goals for fighting World War II?
National Security Council Paper (NSC) - 68
What document presented a more proactive view of Containment, as it warned the United States to not negotiate with the Communists?
World War in the 1940s
What ended the Great Depression in the United States?
Japanese Americans
What ethnic group was placed into relocation camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland
What event marked the beginning of World War II in Europe, on September 1, 1939?
the supreme court
What government organization had ruled against FDR's New Deal programs in seven cases,and even went so far as to declare the National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA) and the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) unconstitutional?
The Tuskegee Airmen
What group, trained at a school in Alabama, became one the best units in World War II?
Clarence Darrow
_______ defended Scopes after he was accused of teaching evolution at the high school in Dayton, TN.
Warren G Harding
___ defeated James Cox in the 1920 presidential campaign.
Normalcy
___ was Warren Harding's term for a return to conservative policies in national politics.
Martin Luther King ; Burmingham
___ wrote the "Letter from ___ Jail" to address his critics who did not understand his tactics?
Fundamentalism
____ divided as a hostile reaction to the theories of Darwinism and Evolution.
W.E.B. Du Bois
_____ advocated the tactics of "ceaseless activism" to challenge racial segregation in the South.
Nativism
_____ is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of first-generation immigrants
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
_____ were Italian immigrants who were accused and convicted of murder at the Merrill Shoe Factory in Massachusetts. Their legal case demonstrated nativism at it's worst
William Jennings Bryan
_____Wanted to prohibit Darwinism teaching in public schools.
Black Nationalism
______ emphasized black cultural expression and black exclusiveness.
Japan; raw materials; imperialism
______ went to war with China and everyone else in the Pacific Ocean in order to obtain _______ for its industries. In another era, this would have been called ________.
What are three agreement that FDR pushed through congress to help Great Britain in 1940's?
cash and carry lend or leade armaments U.S. would give weapons to England with their promise to return or pay for them.
"Drys"
supported the Eighteenth Amendment
$250,000
the FDIC insures your bank account up to:
21st
what amendment Repealed the 18th Amendment that forbade the manufacture and sale of most forms of alcohol
