USH Final Exam

What is de jure segregration?

All Americans must be treated equally in voting, education, employment, and public space use.

Paying a fraction of a stock price and borrowing the rest from brokers

After the Stock Market Crash of 1929, Americans

This term refers to guerilla fighters who farmed by day and were soldiers by night.

Senator Joseph McCarthy is best known for his involvement in —

This is the name for the Nazi effort to exterminate (kill) all of Europe's Jews:

Students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school in this incident

Civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States

Which is a lasting legacy of FDR's New Deal?

October 29, 1929 was known as

The strategy called _____ was aimed at ending American involvement in the Vietnam War.

This political organization promoted socialism and black power.

This Supreme Court decision ruled "separate but equal".

A bus company almost went bankrupt in this Albama city when blacks refused to ride the bus.

What Japanese city was the atomic bomb first dropped on?

This law removed the poll tax and literacy test required for voting.

Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression?

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Japan was part of the...

Nickname of the 1920s

Holocaust is a word that (since the 18th century) refers to...

What is the name of the gas that was commonly used in the Nazi gas chambers?

The leader of the Civil Rights Movement who encouraged peaceful protesting.

True or False: Anti-Semitism was a relatively new movement and had not existed before the Holocaust

What were the shantytowns called that sprung up during the Great Depression?

Which Nazi group executed Jews one-by-one after a German army invasion?

President Truman's policy was to

This Supreme Court decision ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.

North Vietnam staged a major attack against US troops and US beats back the NVA in what event?

Which was the largest of the death camps?

How many Jews died during the Holocaust?

True or False: Jewish ghettos were located in certain cities in Poland.

What was the nickname of the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki?

The event where four black students were refused service at a Woolworth's lunch counter

Which of the following is not one of the goals of FDR's New Deal?

Which term, named after a USA senator, is also used to describe the "Red Scare".

Which option did JFK choose to solve the missile problem in Cuba?

Jews were scapegoated and blamed for Germany's suffering under what agreement?

What is Agent Orange

If one land in a region came under the influence of communism then other countries

What was the My Lai massacre

Rebellious girls of the era

According to the Warren Commission who shot JFK?

What is de facto segregation?

European Jews were required to live in these places, before being sent to concentration camps

The imaginary line that split the West European from the East European countries after WW2 was

what was the Marshall Plan?

Where was the first atomic bomb exploded?

Where were Japanese Americans forcibly relocated to following Pearl Harbor?

What was the final stage of the "Final Solution"?

Who did the Nazis blame for Germany's defeat in World War I?

Laws or practices that discriminated against blacks were referred to as:

What did the freedom rides do?

What is the name for the set of laws that excluded Jews from German citizenship?

The Japanese chose to attack specifically on a Sunday because...

U.S. code name for the invasion of Normandy (D-Day)

LBJ's policy to help poor Americans was called

How did the United States react to the attack on Pearl Harbor?