Mr. Veazey's 1st Sem. Warrior Exam - Vocabulary Edition

Question 1

A govt. scandal where a former Navy oil reserve in WY was leased to a private oil company.

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Teapot Dome Scandal

Question 2

1925 court case in which the issue of teaching evolution in public schools was debated.

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Scopes Trial

Question 3

rapid manufacture of large numbers of products

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mass production

Question 4

Allowed investors to buy stock for only a fraction of its price and borrow the rest

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buying on margin

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a person whose moral or religious views forbid participation in war

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Conscientious objector

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policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace

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appeasement

Question 7

Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought in 1930 lasting for a decade

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Dust Bowl

Question 8

Believed every important moral and scientific answer was in the Bible.

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fundamentalism

Question 9

line of people waiting for food handouts from charities or public agencies

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bread lines

Question 10

A German Submarine

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U-Boat

Question 11

The "eyes and ears" of her husband's presidency; 1st chair of the UN Council on Human Rights.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 12

date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression

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Black Tuesday

Question 13

father of modern assembly lines, and inventor credited with 161 patents.

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Henry Ford

Question 14

raised taxes on foreign imports but made farmers unable to sell to other countries

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 15

English passenger ship sunk by as German U-boat, killing American civilians

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Lusitania

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one of FDR's strongest critics; attracted millions of listeners to his weekly radio show

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Charles Coughlin

Question 17

payments for war damages

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reparations

Question 18

A military strategy that involved attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others

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island hopping

Question 19

Dust bowl refugees

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Okies

Question 20

1919 amendment imposing the federal prohibition of alcohol.

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18th Amendment

Question 21

volunteer organization of all women that provided truck drivers and lab technicians during WWII

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WAC

Question 22

general who served as commander of United States army forces in Asia

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Douglas MacArthur

Question 23

People who produced, smuggled, or sold alcohol illegally during the era of Prohibition

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bootleggers

Question 24

Russian leader who was known as the great terror and responsible for 7 million deaths.

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Joseph Stalin

Question 25

A prolonged period of rising stock prices and a general feeling of investor optimism

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bull market

Question 26

a glorification of the military

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Militarism

Question 27

a U.S. executive agency to aid civilian victims of the Nazi and Axis powers.

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War Refugee Board

Question 28

rising prices

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inflation

Question 29

Japanese troops forces sick POWs to walk more than 60 miles to prison camps in the Philippines

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Bataan Death March

Question 30

a quiet, honest, and frugal person who became President in 1923.

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Calvin Coolidge

Question 31

Wilson's plan for lasting peace through international openness and cooperation

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14 Points

Question 32

the virus, which caused a deadly epidemic in 1918

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influenza

Question 33

established key role of aircraft carriers and fighter planes in the war in the Pacific.

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Battle of the Coral Sea

Question 34

insured bank deposits up to $5000

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FDIC

Question 35

A govt. where a single party/leader controls the economic, social, cultural lines of its people

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totalitarianism

Question 36

the battlefield between the Allies and the central powers in Western Europe

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Western Front

Question 37

German dictator who wanted to unify all German people under one state

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Adolf Hitler

Question 38

Prisons where Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

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concentration camps

Question 39

served as the commander of the American Forces on the Western Front in World War I

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John J. Pershing

Question 40

ran against FDR; New Deal critic; known for speeches and his "Share Your Wealth" program.

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Huey Long

Question 41

the movement of more than 1.2 million African Americans from South to Northern cities

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The Great Migration

Question 42

Provided flood control, electricity and economic development to parts of the rural southeast.

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TVA

Question 43

makeshift shantytowns that sprung up during the Great Depression

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Hoovervilles

Question 44

site in Hawaii of the United States Navy's main Pacific base

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Pearl Harbor

Question 45

a product goes from worker to worker, with each person doing a single task to make the product.

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assembly line

Question 46

President whom favored a laissez-faire approach to business with less regulation by government.

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Herbert Hoover

Question 47

Japanese general and prime minister during World War 2

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Hideki Tojo

Question 48

world organization created after World War I to promote peaceful cooperation between countries

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League of Nations

Question 49

antisemitic and racial laws in Nazi Germany

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Nuremberg Laws

Question 50

Italian leader who founded the fascist party

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Benito Mussolini

Question 51

The period when the sale of alcohol was prohibited in the US by a constitutional amendment.

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prohibition

Question 52

Period of contraction in money supply, a Stock market crash, Bank failures, and unemployment.

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Great Depression

Question 53

prejudiced against Jewish people

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antisemitic

Question 54

November 9, 1938; when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews.

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Kristallnacht

Question 55

a theory using efficiency experts to find ways to minimize the time needed to complete tasks

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scientific management

Question 56

Efforts made by governments to get Mexican immigrants and their children to return to Mexico

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repatriation

Question 57

law that established a military draft

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Selective Service Act

Question 58

paying for goods by promising to pay small, regular amounts over a period of time

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installment buying

Question 59

a telegram in which the German foreign minister proposed an alliance with mexico against U.S.

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Zimmerman Note

Question 60

a radical communist leader who took over Russia in March 1917

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Vladamir Lenin

Question 61

Farmers that worked for bigger landowners rather than themselves

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tenant farmers

Question 62

President from 1932 - 1945.

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Franklin Roosevelt

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