US History Final Review

Who was the Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Where did Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategy of non-violent protest come from?

What laws segregated Jewish people and forced them to wear the Yellow Star of David?

T/F - Internment camps were used in the US to hold Japanese citizens

Who caught the assassination of John F. Kennedy on film?

Which Supreme Court Case said that “separate cannot be equal in public schools

What term is used to describe prejudice/racism against Jewish people?

Who won the election of 1968 by a slim margin?

T/F - Jim Crow Laws were laws that restored equal rights the African Americans

The theory of govt where the economic, social, and cultural aspects of lives are all controlled

T/F - Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Texas School Book Depository when he allegedly shot JFK.

Who is the man held responsible for the death of Martin Luther King Jr?

Who was the communist leader of Russia before he died in 1924?

What happened in 1960 for the 1^st time which helped JFK win the presidential election?

Who organized the attack on Pearl Harbor?

On what date did Japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

In result of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a “hot line” telephone system was installed between?

Who did the Warren Commission claim assassinated John F. Kennedy?

Who was a fascist dictator whose followers were known as Black Shirts?

Who became President as a result of the John F. Kennedy assassination?

Who was the African American boy whose murder helped spark the Civil Rights Movement?

Who replaced Neville Chamberlain as the British Prime Minister?

T/F - Japanese kamikazes were guerrilla fighters who hid in caves on the Pacific islands

What were Communist forces that were fighting the United States commonly called?

Who was the President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

T/F - The HUAC charged numerous Hollywood figures with being sympathetic to Communist ideas

What was FDR's bundle of laws & programs to get the US out of the Great Depression?

T/F - Satellite Nations were border nations between the USSR and the west.

During the Cold War, what was a major policy in the United States?

What was FDR's response to the attack on Peal Harbor?

Who urged the US that they should be placed on a state of alert before Pearl Harbor?

Who was the Police Commissioner in Birmingham who encouraged police violence towards marchers?

T/F - The Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan.

What was the environmental disaster during the Great Depression?

How many people are estimated to have died in the Holocaust?

What gave govt grants to veterans who wanted to return to school after the war?

Where was Robert Kennedy when he was assassinated?

What did the Soviet Union form in response to the NATO?

In Hitler's book Mein Kampf, he blames Germany's defeat in WWI on who?

What was Hitler's Final Solution?

What did most New Deal programs target?

Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953?

T/F - After the Korean War Korea was unified under a Communist government

Who was known as Fuhrer and was the highest ranking Nazi?

Who was the President who pushed for Civil Rights Legislation before he was assassinated.

Who was the President when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed?

What ship still lies at the bottom of Pearl Harbor today?

What were the years between 1945-1957 called where the population increased drastically?

Which amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age?

What was the name of the time period that came after the 1929 stock market crash?

Who was the attorney for the NAACP in the Brown Case who later became a Supreme Court Justice.

T/F - Lee Harvey Oswald is the man responsible for the death of JFK

Where was Robert Kennedy the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated?

Who was the Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations?

What did FDR do during his first 100 days in office?

Causes of the Great Depression included…

What strategy did the US use in the Pacific to reduce American causalities?

T/F - The Federal Deposite Insurance Company helped restore the public's confidence in banks

Who was the 32nd President of the US?

What was the name of Germany's democratic republic that struggled economically?

T/F - the U.S. used Agent Orange to expose Viet Cong hiding spots

Who was the Emperor of Japan?

T/F - The two cities that the US dropped atomic bombs on where Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Who was the British Prime Minister who attended the Munich Conference?

What was at 25% - its highest percentage in history - during the Great Depression?

What is the name of the competition that developed between the US and Soviet Union after WWII?

The War Powers Act said the Pres ust inform Congress within __ that he sent troops into action

What was the Berlin Airlift in response to?

What did the Truman Doctrine promise?

What did the Social Security Act establish?

What did the Doolittle Raid accomplish?