American History Review Part 2

What happened on December 7, 1941?

What was the treaty that followed WWI?

Which of the following had the goal of containing communism?

As far as leaders of the Soviet Union go, what was different about Mikhail Gorbachev?

What was the name of Johnson's program to end poverty, racism, and equal opportunity?

What was the US position prior to their entry into WWII?

Which of the following best describes what was happening in America’s economy in the 1970's?

What did Richard Nixon become the first President of the United States to do on August 9, 1974?

Which label would you give to a person's activities if they were making unfounded accusations?

Which of the follow is a monopoly?

Which early Civil Rights leader proposed vocational training for African Americans?

Why did Eisenhower send troops to Little Rock, Arkansas?

What did Gerald Ford do once he became president concerning the Watergate issue?

What major North Vietnamese and Vietcong offensive in South Vietnam began on January 30,1968?

The Red Scare was a period in which rights were violated of those under suspicion of being

What country used the island-hopping strategy in the Pacific Theater of World War II?

Why would an industrial worker in the Gilded Age tolerate poor working conditions?

Which was a negative side-effect for the US of President Reagan’s economic policies?

What did the Homestead Act do?

The Zimmerman Telegram proposed a secret alliance between Germany and

What was the significance of Wounded Knee?

Whichof the following have made globalization possible and occur more rapidly thelast 20 years?

Which of the following benefits was offered by the GI Bill?

What did the Bonus Army consist of?

Why did the United States enter World War I?

What do the Battle of Midway and the Invasion of Normandy have in common?

What was a result between the '95 standoff between Clinton and Congress?

Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was meant to

Term for journalism that attempted to expose corruption during the Gilded Age.

During the 1920s, how did advertising and installment buying change American purchase habits?

Which of the following inventions ended the Open Range?

What characterizes the cultural changes taking place in the 20th Century?

What event occurred on July 20, 1969 that brought the nation together for a little while?

What presidential precedent was set with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

Which early Civil Rights leader proposed liberal arts education & legal action for blacks-NAACP

Name the trail that winded through Indochina which the North Vietnamese used as a supply route?

Who became theleader of the Civil Rights Movement, after organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Which of the following did the U.S. accuse of orchestrating the attacks on September 11, 2001?

What happened on November 22, 1963?

In exchange for housing and provisions, what did political machines receive from immigrants?

What was the cause of the Great Migration?

What was the name of the scandal during the Reagan Era that blemished his presidency?

A movement in which African-Americans developed a unique black artistic culture

Which industry took advantage of farmers?

What was President Roosevelt’s plan to end the depression in the United States called?

What group planned and led the attacks on September 11, 2001?

What term describes the turning over fighting responsibilities to the South Vietnamese Army?

What caused Operation Desert Storm?

What was Reagan’s economic policies of combining monetarism and supply-side economics?

The 38th Parallel divided

A failed constitutional amendment meant to lower crime rates, but raised them instead?

What event and date was the symbolic end to communism in Eastern Europe?

Why didn't the US Senate approve the League of Nations?

What event happened in November 1979 that basically ended Carter’s bid to be re-elected?

Who were the Little Rock Nine?

Which president famously said "Read my lips: No New Taxes!"

According to the political cartoon below, who controlled the Senate?

Which of these is not an example of Detente?

InAugust of 1990, what country invaded Kuwait because of its oil and access tothe Persian Gulf?

What happened on June 6, 1944 (Hint: D-Day)?

Which group wanted to help USA adapt to the social & economic changes from industrialization?

Why wouldn't Nixon turn over the Watergate tapes?

Name the South Vietnamese who supported Ho Chi Minh and the communist North Vietnamese.

Which of the following was NOT a reason for Imperialism?

From 1865-1900, which side of a strike did the government typically support?

Who was the king of Rock and Roll in the 1950s?

What was the act called that allowed the U.S. to become the "arsenal of democracy"?

Why were five men arrested at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. in 1972?

Someone who believed that immigrants were damaging the American economy were known as:

What was the goal of rationing and conservation?

What country did the United States invade in response to the attacks on September 11, 2001?

The Equal Pay Act, the ERA and Title IX were passed to improve the rights of

The Freedom Rides were organized to test

What was the effect of of the marches in Birmingham?

What was the “war” between the USSR and the US in which there was no direct warfare called?

What was the significance of the 1960 debate between Nixon and Kennedy?

The Patriot Act allowed the government to

What was the result of the economic boom of the 1990s?

What strategy did the US-led coalition forces us the first six weeks of Operation Desert Storm?

What type of warfare caused the fighting in World War I to come to a standstill?

During the 1920s, immigration

Which of these was NOT a result of the Vietnam War?

What did Americans on the home front do to help the war effort during World War II?

Which law was designed to limit the power of monopolies?

Where did American businessmen overthrow the established government?

What was Clinton's impeachment charge?

In the 1950s, where were most new homes built?

The invasion of which of the following countries on September 1, 1939, started World War II?

What U.S. Supreme Court case overturned Plessy v. Ferguson?

How did SNCC work to end segregation in diners and restaurants?

Which group faced the most significance racial prejudice in the US during WWII?

Which of the following court cases said that segregated facilities were unconstitutional?

The launch of what satellite by which country ignited the “Space Race?”

Why did the government sell weapons to Iran during the Iran-Contra crisis?

Which of the following occurred on September 11, 2001?

What type of warfare did the Vietcong (South Vietnamese communist sympathizers) use?

What event in the 1960's brought the US and the USSR to the brink of all out nuclear war?

The United States and its allies found WMDs (weapons of mass destruction) in Iraq in 2004.

Freedom Riders were never attacked as they tried to integrate bus terminals in the South.

What idea did "The White Man's Burden" support?

Which term best represents the American way of life in the 1950s?

What did U.S. officials, including President Bush, think that Saddam Hussein was after?

What event prompted US entry into the WWII?

Which of these was NOT a cause of the Spanish American War?

Which of these was NOT a cause of WWI?

What was Saddam Hussein accused of possessing that prompted the US to invade Iraq?

What was the purpose of a settlement house?

Which is one reason that the presidential election of 2008 was an historic election?

What event prompted Congress to give President Lyndon Johnson the power to wage war in Vietnam?

How did the U.S. military try to remove the Vietcong’s ability to hide in jungle and tunnels?

What method was used by MLK?

Which of the following is an example of something the Voting Rights Act of 1965 help stop?

Which of the following term describes an authoritative rule with extreme nationalism?

The 1920s was a period of

How did the Americans respond to the Soviet's blockade of Berlin?

What was the determination of the Warren Commission?

Which candidate ran under the "Progressive" or "Bull Moose Party" in 1912?

Which of these did NOT result from Prohibition?

Which of these established the US as the "policeman of the Western Hemisphere"?

Where did the deaths of 4 anti-war college students at the hands of National Guardsmen occur?

The taking of which territory was nicknamed Seward's Folly?

Which decision was made by Truman in an attempt to save thousands of American lives?

What event signaled the beginning of the Great Depression in the United States?

President Obama authorized the killing of which of the following terrorist leaders?

Which of the following nations fought on the side of the Communists during the Korean War?

Which major JFK bill did Lyndon Johnson get passed that was part of the Civil Rights Movement?