CR US Hist Sem I Final Review

What was the most important effects of the D-Day invasion?

Scopes Trial: a teacher was accused of teaching ____ in school. (illegal)

What country did the Allies invade during D-Day?

What did it mean to "Ride the Rails"?

What was a major result of Prohibition?

What event caused World War II to officially begin in Europe?

What two nations emerged as the strongest (superpowers) after World War II?

payment for war damages

Code-name used for the building of the atomic bomb

In 1929, the stock market crashed because

Escapism during the Great Depression can be described as the way people...

Which reform did the Nineteenth Amendment put into place?

crudely built tin and cardboard makeshift camps lived in by the homeless

Organized Crime is when criminal activities are organized by...

young, carefree women who rejected traditional roles for women

World War ONE took place during which of the following years?

President Truman's chief priority in using the atomic bomb against Japan was to

November 11, 1918 is an important date in WWI because it is when

biased information, intended to promote a particular view

Name of peace agreement formed at the end of WWI and set out Germany's punishment?

What caused the U.S. to join World War TWO on the Allies side?

Law that ends prohibition and makes alcohol legal again.

What did WWII END in the United States?

constant night-time bombing raids on English cities, like London, by Germany

Leader of Great Britain during World War II

Nazis were prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the

What was the final event that caused World War I to break out?

forcibly controlling other nations for own personal gain

What person did many people blame for the Great Depression?

Leader of Italy during World War II

What nation became the most powerful and industrialized after WWI?

Program created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to help with the depression

Henry Fords use of the Assembly Line caused cars to:

Time Period when alcohol was outlawed (illegal in the U.S.)

sudden, concentrated attack; described as lightning war

When blacks were inspired to celebrate/share their culture through literature and music

What was the result (outcome) of Bank Runs in the early 1930s?

Organization created after World War TWO that encouraged cooperation to stop future conflict

As American forces approached Japan towards the end of the war, Japanese forces

What was the first film to have spoken dialogue? (the first "talkie")

Policy Britain and France used to avoid war each time Hitler seized more and more territory.

Josef Stalin was the leader of...

Some opponents of the New Deal believed that it:

What ends the Great Depression in the United States?

Term to describe people buying more and more WANTS instead of NEEDS

What TWO cities did the U.S. drop atomic bombs?

Buildup of Germany army was an example of which of the M.A.I.N causes of WWI?

New Deal Program that brought power to isolated rural areas

President Franklin Roosevelt explained his new policies by the use of radio speeches called:

Fighting during WWI was dominated MAINLY by the use of:

Which of the following occurred during the 1920s and helped lead to the Great Depression?

The forced, 63 mile relocation of US POWs by the Japanese troops was called?

The theory of government in which one person or party controls all aspects of life

Major Allied Powers during World War ONE were:

rule that one should never surrender; it is not honorable

term to describe the area in the U.S. that went through an extreme drought

During WWI Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire were known as the

Someone who illegally creates, smuggles, or sells alcohol

space between two opposing sides trenches

Which are two MAJOR reasons why the U.S. joined WWI on the Allies side?

Who was the President during World War I?

The Social Security Act MAINLY helps

After the U.S. declared war on Japan, Japanese-Americans were...

During the "Roarin' 20s" the U.S. economy experienced: