US History II Final Review

Which civil rights organization won important court cases against segregation in the 1950's?

Provided education and employment aid to WWII veterans returning home

1973 law passed by Congress restricting the President’s war-making powers.

The turning point in the Pacific for the U.S. in WWII

What three nations made up the Allies during WWII

The principle that stated the United States are the policemen of the Western Hemisphere

What was a result of Nixon’s resignation?

What were the environmental views of Theodore Roosevelt

What was the goal of muckrakers during the progressive era?

What was the major cause of the migration of many African Americans to the North in the 1920's?

Strategy of only attacking and seizing certain Japanese islands in Pacific

The USA Patriot Act of 2001 and the creation of the DHS reflect the determination of the U.S to

This 1973 photograph of cars lined up at a gas station shows a situation directly related to

What was an important consequence of the Iran hostage crisis?

Why did the USA actively pursue imperialism?

Meeting attended by the U.S., Britain, and Soviet Union for Germany’s postwar status

What happened to the US economy after WWI

What was Hoover's attitude in dealing with the Great Depression?

The Neutrality Acts passed by Congress in the mid-1930s were efforts to

What three nations made up the Axis Powers during WWII

Why did American farmers fail to share in the general economic growth of the United States?

President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were based on the belief that

What did President Kennedy’s domestic agenda primarily fight?

What was Theodore Roosevelt's attitude towards business?

Policy of avoiding to pick sides or alliances

In the United States, the decade of the 1920’s was characterized by

American soldiers used Agent Orange to

What was the purpose of Antitrust legislation?

What were Jim Crow laws?

President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points were intended to

Why did the USA become isolationist before and after WWI

How did women gain support for suffrage during WWI

What reason was given in using the Atomic Bombs on Japan during 1945?

What did the Marshall Plan give to Western European countries?

What three countries were part of the Central Powers during WWI?

A period of anti-Communist hysteria

Which city did President Eisenhower send federal troops to protect African American students?

What does the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII demonstrate?

Protest by African Americans against racial segregation on buses

Yellow journalists created support for the Spanish-American war by writing about

What region of the USA supported women's suffrage the most?

While the U.S and the UN backed South Korea, North Korean forces were supplied and backed by

Nixon believed that executive privilege:

The following poster of Rosie the Riveter was used to

Lightning War

Quote used as a ruling from Brown v. Board of Education

Supreme Court ruled that segregation was constitutional if facilities were “separate but equal”

While in prison, Malcolm X became a convert to:

How did the Truman Doctrine set a new course for American foreign policy?

How did the Black Panthers exemplify the idea of “black power”?

The right of people to govern themselves

African Americans moving from the South to the North for work

Convictions of war criminals by courts at Tokyo and Nuremberg following WWII showed that

A proposed alliance between Germany and Mexico

World War I and World War II brought about changes for minorities and women because of

Payment for war damages

What was the impact Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle had in the USA?

The Ku Klux Klan:

In order to try to gain control over West Berlin, the Soviet Union

What three countries were part of the Allied Powers during WWI?

One of the bloodiest battles of WWII in the Pacific

Which two nations emerged as the strongest following World War II?

This sneak attack caused the United States to enter WWII

All of the following events led to the collapse of the Soviet Union EXCEPT:

Which statement best describes Theodore Roosevelt's attitude in Latin America?

In the 1930’s, the enactment of New Deal programs demonstrated a belief that

What is an important result of US participation in the Spanish-American War?

Government agency that insures bank deposits and guarantees money is safe

Act enacted by Congress that established unemployment compensation & retirement

A result of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's was the