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US History Semester 2 Final Part 2
US History Semester 2 Final Part 2
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The 20's and World War II questions to review for the Final
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1
Factors in the cause of the Great Depression include all the following except
Issues with American investment in Europe
The gap between rich and poor people
Workers being paid too well by businesses
The decline of farms
2
Name the Chinese-American group who protested police brutality and hosted a brunch for elderly
Red Guard
Red Panthers
Yellow Panthers
Yellow Peril
3
Ways women asserted their independence in the 20's include all the following except:
Drinking and Smoking in public
Dancing and going on dates
Cutting their hair short
Growing their hair very long
4
The FDIC
Protected deposits made by average people in banks
Was a pension program for elderly Americans
Guaranteed banks would never fail
Paid out unemployment to injured workers
5
Prohibition was the period where the
Making, buying and drinking of alcohol was illegal
Selling, making and transportation of alcohol was illegal
6
The stock market crashed in 1929 because
All of the above
Stockbrokers were often dishonest
People began selling stock afraid it would go down
People who couldn't afford stock bought it on margin
7
The government "interned" Japanese American Civilians because they claimed
No Japanese people had signed up to fight in the army
None of the above
Japanese people didn't matter
Japanese Americans could not be trusted if Cali were invaded
8
The Japanese attacking China resulted in all of the following atrocities except
The beheading, bayonetting & murder of thousands of Chinese
The rape of thousands of women and children
Organized death camps that gassed Chinese to death
People being fed to attack dogs
9
During prohibition people got bootleg alcohol in all the following ways except
Setting up fake churches, because church wine was exempt
Smuggling it in from other countries
Buying it in speakeasies
Making it at home with industrial alcohol
10
The Impact of the Battle of Stalingrad is that
Poland is back in Soviet Control
Both Diamond and Circle (Blue and Yellow)
It's the turning point in the War against the Germans
The Germans are pushed back slowly hundreds of miles
11
Women continued to deal with discrimination including all the following except
Women were paid less than men in all professions
The double standard: men can be promiscuous but they cannot
Women were not able to become CEOs of big companies
Women were not able to become lawyers or doctors
12
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance included all of the following EXCEPT:
Zora Neale Hurston
Scott Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
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The impact of the Battle of the Bulge was
The end of serious Japanese resistance
The liberation of Paris
The end of serious German Resistance
Russia is able to push the Germans back hundreds of miles
14
The Harlem Renaissance was
Both Triangle and Circle (Red and Yellow)
Writers disillusioned with America's values after WWI
A celebration of Black Pride, Art, Culture and Writing
Writers who used stream of consciousness to modernize lit
15
FDR's policies, which most economists believe helped reverse the Great Depression were called
The New Freedom
The Great Society
The New Deal
The Square Deal
16
What eventually led to the end of the Great Depression?
Government spending on defense during WWII
The New Deal
The 2nd New Deal
The treatment of the Bonus Army
17
The majority of women still got married in the 20's, but some attitudes changed including
Women's husbands were now chosen by their parents
More men seeing marriage as an equal partnership
Men did all the housework
Some men stayed home with the children while women worked
18
The Battle that drew America into the War was
Midway
Pearl Harbor
D-Day
The Bataan Death March
19
When America soldiers stormed the beaches at Normandy, the army also
Dropped paratroopers behind German Lines
Dropped Paratroopers behind Japanese Lines
Dropped Paratroopers behind Russian Lines
Began the Island Hopping Campaign
20
Approximately what percentage of American Prisoners of War died in Japanese POW camps?
27%
7%
19%
42%
21
Anarchists wanted
fairer distribution of wealth/gov controls some industries
equal distribution of wealth/gov controls the economy
A government without the influence of the wealthy
No government
22
Internationally the impact of World War II includes all the following except
The Cold War began
America and Russia replaced Old Europe as the superpowers
Colonies in Latin America gained independence
Colonies in Africa and Asia gained independence
23
The impact of World War II on American life includes all the following except
Veterans were more accepting of religious differences
America became isolationist and stayed out of world affairs
America went into an Economic Boom
Veterans of color came home and fought for Civil Rights
24
D-Day was the
The Liberation of Paris
The last real offensive launched by the Germans
First use of paratroopers in the War
Storming of the beaches at Normandy
25
The main reason the KKK revived in the 1920s was
The Great Migration of African Americans to the North
Because of a wave of Catholic and Jewish immigrants
People were just racist
The movie The Birth of a Nation featuring the Klan as heroes
26
Communists wanted
No government
A government without the influence of the wealthy
fairer distribution of wealth/gov controls some industries
equal distribution of wealth/gov controls the economy
27
The Great Depression lasted from approximately
1945 to 1950
1929 to 1933
1929 to 1941
1919 to 1929
28
The unemployment rate is the
The amount of open jobs
The percentage of jobs taken in the last 5 years
Percentage of people who are not employed
percentage of people who were are employed
29
Improvements in the lives of average women included
Time-saving appliances
None of the above
All of the above
a demand for typists, secretaries and other admininstrators
30
The Battle of the Bulge was when
The Americans were stopped in Italy at Monte Cassino
When the Russians were stopped at the gates of Berlin
When Americans were assaulted by Germans in Belgium
When the Americans were stopped at the Rhine River
31
The battle of Stalingrad involved
Germans and Polish struggling for control of a Polish city
Americans and Germans struggling for control of aGerman City
Germans and Russians struggling for control of a German City
Germans and Russians struggling for control of aRussian City
32
One of the worst defeats in American History was
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of Midway
Pearl Harbor
33
When many Filipino and American soldiers were killed on a forced walk it was called
The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Beijing
The Bataan Death March
The Leyte Death March
34
Social Security
Was a pension program for elderly Americans
Guaranteed banks would never fail
Protected deposits made by average people in banks
Paid out unemployment to injured workers
35
The birth of the Asian American movement was inspired mostly by
The Vietnam War
The Korean War
The rise of Mao in China
Malcolm X's Black Nationalism
