US History II Second Semester Exam Review

in 1911 a group of Chinese students formed what type of party

President Truman banned discrimination in

_____ proposed a social program called Share-Our-Wealth instead of New Deal reforms.

UN General Assembly focuses on

The offering of military aid to any Middle East nation seeking help in resisting communist aggression came from the

Roosevelt wanted to reform the Supreme Court because he believed the nine justices were...

Which of the following dates will "live in infamy"?

the FBI director who attempted to “disrupt” and “discredit” black nationalists and various civil rights organizations?

Which Supreme Court case established the legality of "seperate but equal" education facilities?

Why was the National Women’s Political Caucus founded?

The federal program that provides free health care to the poor is

Many urban areas in the 1950s increasingly became characterized by ___.

President Truman did not run for re-election in 1952 because

Who did Hitler blame for Germany's loss in WW1?

The United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war because of the

Germany’s final counterattack was

When Democrats adopted the civil rights plank at the 1948 Democratic Convention

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats were

Who was the leader of the Southern Leadership Christian Conference?

The 1954 Supreme Court case that banned racial segregation in public schools was ....

Which nation violated the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1931? 

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972

A pivotal reason for which Kennedy defeated Nixon in the 1960 election was that

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made several landmark decisions that

The primary focus of the Mexican American Youth Organization (MAYO) was

Along with technology, what else did the Eisenhower administration consider crucial to ending communist expansion?

On D-Day, the Allies landed at

After World War II many European Jews moved to

SC case granted the accused the right to have a lawyer present during police investigations?

What was the name of the settlement constructed to draw attention to African American poverty?

Who was given command of all U.S. Army units in the Pacific?

Twenty-second Amendment

It became a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting after passage of the

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East was established to try suspected war criminals from the war in the

The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union was known as

Limited Test Ban Treaty

Flexible Response =

Great Britain and France declared war when Germany attacked

The Dust Bowl occurred in what region of the United States?

Food and supplies were delivered to people in West Berlin during what?

Soviet forces fought the Axis Powers and, in late January 1943, won the

Betty Friedan’s research led her to conclude that

What did the Kerner Commission conclude?

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring showed the ways in which Americans were poisoning their environment with

Which of the following 1968 events was disrupted by feminists?

The Atlantic Charter stated that the United States and Britain would NOT

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Kennedy's presidency was dominated by ___.

 The site of a 1970 tragedy in which four students were killed by National Guard troops was the

Roe v. Wade dealt with what?

In 1946 Congress placed nuclear weapons research under civilian control with the passage of

To enforce the desegregation law at a school in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957

From which jail did MLK write a famous letter in 1963?

Which of these nations did not join NATO and pledge to defend other member nations in the case of an outside attack?

Which U.S. agency was established to advise the president on strategic matters?

Which country launched Sputnik?

Which group’s actions led to the integration of many southern restaurants?

Who founded the American Indian Defense Association?

The person responsible for a mass murder in California in 1969 was

The Civilian Conservation Corps did all of the following EXCEPT

What does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?

What artist created art using soup cans and comic book drawings?

Many urban areas in the 1950s increasingly became characterized by ___.

Which Supreme Court decision struck down the quota system?

What was the goal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

The Soviet Union’s powerful army was called the

Which of these did NOT contribute to suburban growth in the 1950s?

Medicare is a federal health insurance program for :

The NAACP and the Montgomery Improvement Association challenged racial segregation of public transportation by

Which of these things had the most influence over advertising after World War II?

The U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor was bombed by

Satellite Nations were countries under the control of

Defoliants were used in Vietnam to

The Tennessee Valley authority did all of the following except

What was the meaning behind Ho Chi Minh's chosen name, "Ho Chi Minh"?

members of the National Liberation Front

Who promised to put the political and economic system “at the service of the people”?

Which nation had a secret organization called the Resistance?

In the first year of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, he showed that

The director of the Division of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration was

The famous line, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” was spoken by

The line of defenses along the French border with Germany was called the

The theories of which of the following people influenced many New Deal recovery programs?

When Roosevelt first proposed his New Deal, _________

After wartime price controls were lifted in 1946, the cost of goods

in 1935 Italy invaded the African nation of

Which Supreme Court case ruled that the segregation of Mexican American children in a Texas school district was illegal?

The policy the United States followed in the 1920s and 1930s was called

The UN Security Council addresses

An important Allied victory that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia was the

It became a federal crime to prevent qualified persons from voting after passage of the

Some economists felt the depression was caused by

Among the most popular films of the Depression era were