AMH2 NCFE Review #2 1920's-George W. Bush Admin

Question 1

sets maximum number of people who could enter U.S. fromany one foreign country.

Accepted Answer

EmergencyQuota Act of 1921

Question 2

This person claimed communists had infiltrated the State Department

Accepted Answer

Senator Joseph McCarthy

Question 3

communist forces allegedly attacked US naval vessels leading 2 increased involvement in Vietnam

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Gulf of TonkinIncident

Question 4

U.S. secretly sold weapons to Iran in order to helpfinance anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua.

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Iran-ContraIssue

Question 5

President who believed in directrelief programs for the peopleduring the great depression

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Franklin Roosevelt

Question 6

World War 2 Leader of Italy

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Stalin

Question 7

Germany's plan of attack meaning “LightningWarfare” – highly mechanized, fast moving attacks

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Blitzkrieg

Question 8

Scandal during President Harding's Administration where the US Navy oil reserves were leased

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TeapotDome Scandal

Question 9

64nations outlaw war as an offensive tool (only to be used for self-defense)

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

Question 10

Which of the following causes of the Great Depression led to the Stock Market Crash.

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Overspeculationdue to “buying on margin”

Question 11

Kennedy Administrations failedattempt to invade Cuba and create revolution against communists

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Bay of Pigs

Question 12

Celebrationof African American culture in art and literature (Increased black pride)

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 13

President wants federal gov't to help big business and banks not direct relief for the peole

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Herbert Hoover

Question 14

World War 2 Leader of Russia

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Mussolini

Question 15

Military actions against Iraq in 1991 to free Kuwait from dictator

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Operation DesertStorm

Question 16

benefits for veterans: such as money for college tuition, assistance in buying a house

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GI Bill

Question 17

Supreme Court said “separate but equal” wasunconstitutional, desegregated public schools.

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Brown v. Board ofEducation ofTopeka, Kansas

Question 18

As a result of the Red Scare the governmentsteps on citizen’s civil rights to round up radicals

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PalmerRaids

Question 19

Many banks are forced to close (People make“runs” on the banks) causing Roosevelt to declare

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a Bank Holiday

Question 20

Publicsupport for the war declined after this Holiday offensive by the Vietcong (turning point)

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Tet Offensive

Question 21

World War 2 Leader of the USA

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F. Roosevelt

Question 22

President who created the Department of Homeland Security after 9/11/01

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George W. Bush

Question 23

The Immediate cause of the United States entering WWII

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Bombing of Pearl Harbor

Question 24

FDR's New Deal Program that helps Build schools, libraries

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WorksProgress Administration (WPA)

Question 25

During the Cold War they were convictedof espionage, condemned, and then executed

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Ethel and JuliusRosenberg

Question 26

Court Case dealing with Evolutionvs. Fundamentalism (science vs. religion)

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Scopes Trial

Question 27

The following, victory gardens, buy war bonds, hold scrap drives, are all signs of

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U.S. patriotism

Question 28

New Deal Program that sets limits on farm production, pays farmers not togrow certain crops

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AgricultureAdjustment Act (AAA)

Question 29

Allied invasion at Normandy, France is also known as

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D-Day

Question 30

Scandal that included buggingof the Democratic headquarters

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Watergate

Question 31

Only the second President in History to ever be impeached. Is not Removed from office

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William JeffersonClinton

Question 32

U.S.would support free peoples who were resisting oppressiontoprevent a communist takeover

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Truman Doctrine

Question 33

Court Case from the 1920's showing fear and hatred towards immigrants

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Sacco & Vanzetti Trial

Question 34

Beliefthat if Vietnam fell to communism, surrounding nations would follow

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Domino Theory

Question 35

Resultof Russian Revolution, spreadsfear of communists, anarchists and socialists in U.S

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Red Scare

Question 36

President Eisenhower orders federal troops to protectblack high school students in Arkansas

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Little Rock 9

Question 37

World War 2 Leader of Germany

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Hitler

Question 38

sets terms for the surrender of the Axis powers

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Potsdam Conference

Question 39

New Deal Program that government insures bank deposits and savings

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FederalDeposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)

Question 40

policyfollowed by Britain & France to give Hitler what he wanted in hoping for less aggression

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Appeasement

Question 41

Civil Rights leader who believed in civildisobedience – nonviolent protest (inspired by

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MartinLuther King, Jr.

Question 42

Which of the following was not part of the time period known as the Harlem Renaissance

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Black Panthers: Malcom X

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