USVA Year-long Review: Part 3 Progressivism through WWII

Question 1

In this act, President Roosevelt loaned and rented military equipment and supplies to Britain?

Accepted Answer

The Lend-Lease Act

Question 2

Queen Liluokalani was overthrown in this country and it was annexed by the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Hawaii

Question 3

The Maine explosion and the American feeling that colonies were exploited started this war?

Accepted Answer

The Spanish-American War

Question 4

President Franklin Roosevelt gave these on the radio to support his New Deal economics?

Accepted Answer

Fireside Chats

Question 5

This New Deal program paid farmers not to plant seeds in some fields?

Accepted Answer

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Question 6

Buying stocks on credit and over-speculation of returns on investment led to this?

Accepted Answer

Stock Market Crash of 1929

Question 7

This battle ended the threat to Hawaii?

Accepted Answer

Midway

Question 8

The progressive act gave women the right to vote?

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The 19th Amendment

Question 9

Reparations by Germany, and a German admission of war guilt, were two main ideas in?

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Treaty of Versailles

Question 10

Who said, "Dec. 7, 1941, a day which will live in infamy?"

Accepted Answer

President Franklin Roosevelt

Question 11

This group failed to prevent the collapse of the banking industry in the late 1920s and 1930s.

Accepted Answer

Federal Reserve

Question 12

Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam were annexed to the U.S. from this country?

Accepted Answer

Spain

Question 13

The organized effort to reform economic, political, and social systems in the United States is?

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The Progressive Movement

Question 14

This progressive legislation outlawed monopolies?

Accepted Answer

The Sherman Anti-trust Act

Question 15

This program insures our deposits in the bank?

Accepted Answer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Question 16

America's first stance toward World War I was?

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Neutrality

Question 17

D-day took place first on the beaches here?

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Normandy

Question 18

The effort in the early 20th century of getting China to trade with the U.S. was called?

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The Open Door Policy

Question 19

Overproduction in these two areas also caused the Great Depression?

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Farming and Industry

Question 20

This group came up with an unbreakable U.S. code during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Navajo Indians

Question 21

During WWI, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were members of this?

Accepted Answer

Central Powers

Question 22

What event started World War II?

Accepted Answer

Germany's Invasion of Poland

Question 23

This expanded our role in the Monroe Doctrine by calling on the U.S. to police the Western Hem.

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The Roosevelt Corollary

Question 24

Japanese Prime Minister and the voice of the Emperor?

Accepted Answer

Hideki Tojo

Question 25

The big U.S. general in the European theater was?

Accepted Answer

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 26

This event drew the U.S. into World War II?

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The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 27

This strategy was used to prevent casualties among U.S. soldiers in World War II?

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Dropping two nuclear bombs in Japan

Question 28

This government group constructed buildings and roads during the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Question 29

In mid-1941, Hitler betrayed which country and attacked them?

Accepted Answer

The Soviet Union

Question 30

The British Prime Minister and key ally of the U.S. during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchhill

Question 31

Who said that World War I was to "make the world safe for democracy?"

Accepted Answer

President Woodrow Wilson

Question 32

The name for investigative journalists during the Progressive Era?

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Muckrakers

Question 33

The main U.S. strategy in World War II was?

Accepted Answer

Defeat Hitler First

Question 34

The Muckraker who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company?

Accepted Answer

Ida Tarbell

Question 35

Why did the Senate prevent the United States from joining The League of Nations?

Accepted Answer

To protect its ability to declare war

Question 36

This structure was a result of the idea to connect the Atlantic and Pacific in a shortcut?

Accepted Answer

The Panama Canal

Question 37

Self-determination, a League of Nations, and freedom of the seas was proposed in?

Accepted Answer

Wilson's 14 Points

Question 38

The Germans called their plan to exterminate the Jews this?

Accepted Answer

The Final Solution

USVA Year-long Review: Part 3 Progressivism through WWII

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USVA Year-long Review: Part 3 Progressivism through WWII

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