MUSH Fall Final Review (CC)

Kennedy convinced Congress to invest more funds in 

During the Great Depression, when a bank collapsed, 

Truman said the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan were essential for

Warren G. Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans’ desire to

During the Depression, many state governors declared “bank holidays” to

The Nye Committee report created the impression that America’s entry into WWI was influenced by

Framers of the Social Security Act saw it primarily as

One purpose of the Townsend plan was to

Popular support for Joseph McCarthy began to fade when

Newly homeless people put up communities of shacks that they called

Who was the first American to orbit Earth?

The cost-plus system sped up war production by

To regulate the stock market, Congress created the

Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because 

The Truman Doctrine resulted in

In the case Korematsu v. US, the Supreme Court ruled that relocation of Japanese Americans was

Period of time in 1933 when newly elected FDR sent bill after bill to Congress was called the

To pay for New Deal programs, FDR began using 

During WWII, Americans bought over $150 billion worth of war bonds to

Attorney General Daugherty resigned after being investigated for taking bribes and allowing

The Ohio Gang was a

The Bataan Death March occurred in

Calvin Coolidge became president when

NATO formed for the purpose of

Buying on margin was a method of buying stocks

Thousands of World War I veterans came to Washington in 1932 to lobby Congress to

Japan’s goal in attacking Midway was to

The “Double V” campaign meant victory

Oct. 1962, JFK said American spy planes had aerial photos of Soviet long-range missiles in  

In the 1920s, the Federal Reserve contributed to weaknesses in the stock market by

On  April 17, 1961, armed Cuban exiles landed on the south coast of Cuba at

The Declaration of Liberated Europe said that the people of Europe have the right to

Migrant farm workers became an important part of the Southwest’s agricultural system due to

Truman fired MacArthur because

Nearly one-third of all military equipment made during the war was manufactured by the

A long period of rising stock prices is known as a

Farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops during the Depression because

The Neutrality Act of 1935 made it illegal for

Sputnik was a 

Blue points and red points were a system for

The Long Telegram resulted in

To inform and reassure citizens, FDR addressed them directly by radio in what were called

The original purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was to

To fight the Depression, the first thing Roosevelt set out to do was to

During the Depression, charities set up _______________to give poor people a meal.

At Yalta, the leaders agreed to

In the Teapot Dome scandal, Albert B. Fall received bribes for

United Nations troops in Korea were driven back across the 38th parallel in an attack by

The flowering of African American arts in the 1920s became known as the

When the US, Britain, and France merged their zones in Germany, the Soviet Union responded by

The purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

Joseph McCarthy created the media frenzy that began his witch hunt by

President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur because MacArthur 

Stock prices first began to decline in late 1929 because

Franklin Roosevelt’s policies for ending the Depression became known as the

Most economists agree that a key cause of the Depression was

At first, Britain and France gave in to Hitler’s demands, a policy known as

The Korean War began when 

After World War I, most Americans wanted to avoid future wars by

The U.S. caused massive fires in Tokyo by dropping bombs filled with

At Yalta, leaders agreed to recognize the Polish gov't the Soviets set up if Stalin agreed to

President Hoover hoped that public works would

Attacks on American cargo ships by German submarines led to the development of the

President Hoover opposed direct federal relief to the unemployed because he believed that

During the space race, Kennedy’s goal for America was to be the first to