Midterm

Question 1

A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced

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Recession

Question 2

Why did the Japanese finally surrender on September 2, 1945?

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US forces dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki

Question 3

Which group suffered the most in the Dust Bowl?

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Farmers

Question 4

The Soviets fought to hold on to Stalingrad even after Stalin told them to abandon the city

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False

Question 5

What was one way in which many families coped with the Great Depression?

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Split up & some members roamed the country in search of work

Question 6

What is one way that World War II affected the American economy?

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Factories ran 24 hours a day producing military supplies

Question 7

The FIRST atomic bomb was exploded over Nagasaki in August 1945

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False

Question 8

What caused the sharp rise in unemployment after World War I?

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Gov cancelled contracts so factories cut back production

Question 9

The New Deal created jobs by giving federal money to businesses so they could hire workers

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False

Question 10

One of the major causes of the Great Depression was the _______ of goods

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Overproduction

Question 11

Pearl Harbor was said to have been "partially avenged" after this battle...

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Battle of Midway

Question 12

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed

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War

Question 13

What was the outcome of D-Day?

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All 5 beaches in France were secured by the Allies

Question 14

The Battle of Stalingrad affected the rest of World War II by...

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Causing the Axis powers to retreat from the Soviet Union

Question 15

Why was D-Day so important?

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Once French beaches were secure troops marched to Germany

Question 16

Successful in material terms; flourishing financially

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Prosperous

Question 17

What created the Dust Bowl?

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A severe drought that lasted almost 10 years

Question 18

What was the Holocaust?

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The Nazis' attempt to exterminate all Jews from Europe

Question 19

A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money

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Inflation

Question 20

During the Holocaust, the Germans forced many Jews into urban centers called ghettos

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True

Question 21

Immediately following the attacks of December 7, 1941, congress...

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Voted to declare war on Japan and enter WW II

Question 22

How did the rise of the auto industry affect the American economy in the 1920's?

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Workers took jobs making steel, rubber and glass for cars

Question 23

The 20's were known as the Roaring Twenties because of the thousands of new cars on the road

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False

Question 24

What inspired the creation of blues music?

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African American suffering during slavery

Question 25

The US was expected to be responsible for postwar rebuilding because the US...

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Escaped much destruction and was the strongest in the world

Question 26

Hitler was determined to hold on to _____, resulting in months of fighting and a lot of deaths

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Stalingrad

Question 27

Hitler violently overthrew the elected German chancellor and seized all government power

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False

Question 28

The effects of Prohibition included...

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increased government corruption

Question 29

"Buying on margin" means buying stocks...

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With borrowed money, which must be repaid with interest

Question 30

The _____ were African-American pilots who flew combat missions in N. Africa and Italy

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Tuskegee Airmen

Question 31

Totalitarianism is a political system in which the government...

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Controls every aspect of citizens' lives

Question 32

For what reason did Amelia Earhart become famous in 1927?

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First woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean

Question 33

Why did Great Britain and France finally declare war on Germany in September 1939?

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They had pledged to defend Poland against Hitler

Question 34

How did the stock market crash cause a business crisis?

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Businesses lost their savings and had to close or cut back

Question 35

Hopeful and confident about the future

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Optimistic

Question 36

On margin...

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How people purchased stocks when they couldn't afford them, Buying on credit

Question 37

When President Roosevelt died in April 1945, who became President?

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Harry S. Truman

Question 38

Britain and France pledged to defend Poland if Germany attacked it in 1939

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True

Question 39

Recession...

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Period of temporary economic decline, One of the major causes of the Great Depression

Question 40

How was Henry Ford able to make his Model T's affordable for most Americans?

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Invented an assembly line which produced cars quickly

Question 41

On which point about the New Deal would people today agree?

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It greatly expanded the role of the American government

Question 42

Why did trade with Europe increase under Pres Coolidge despite higher tariffs on foreign goods?

Accepted Answer

Europe needed to rebuild its economy after the war

Question 43

Why was Joseph Stalin angry with Allied forces in July 1942?

Accepted Answer

Allies didn't help the Soviets enough in fighting Germany

Question 44

The policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving into its demands is called...

Accepted Answer

Appeasement

Question 45

The 18th Amendment put an end to the prohibition era

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False

Question 46

Of or relating to money

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Monetary

Question 47

A loan taken to purchase property

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Mortgage

Question 48

Kamikaze pilots were different from other military pilots in that they...

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Purposefully crashed their planes into enemy ships

Question 49

Why did the drop in stock prices in Oct 1929 ultimately lead the stock market to crash?

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Investors panicked and sold off all their stocks

Question 50

The 1920's were referred to as the Roaring Twenties because of the...

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Booming economy and exciting forms of entertainment

Question 51

US General MacArthur fled the Philippine islands while over 70,000 soldiers were taken prisoner

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True

Question 52

Hitler's rebuilding of the German military violated the...

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Treaty of Versailles

Question 53

Whom did the government tax in order to pay for the Social Security Act?

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Workers and employers

Question 54

The Red Scare of the 1920's was fueled by the fear that...

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Communist ideas might spread in the US

Question 55

The banking system collapsed as an effect of the stock market crash because banks...

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Ran out of money to pay investors after the crash

Question 56

Installment plans...

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Let people buy expensive items without having to save up, Are loans that need to be repaid

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