AMStud Spring Semester Exam

Who were the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials?

Author who named the 1920s the "Jazz Age" and authored The Great Gatsby

LBJ announce N. Vietnamese torpedo boats fire on 2 US ships here? Vietnam War cranks up!

Helped break up WWI Bonus Army, ordered to leave the Philippines in WWII, Korean War hero

This song epitomized the struggles of the_______

The Chinese fought with the N Koreans when US/S. Korean troops reached the_____River.

Put thousands of young men to work in parks, building roads, & planting trees:  

Children's author/cartoonist, he was an early advocate of the US getting into WWII!

Jazz pianist and great American composer?

During the Great Depression, the overall unemployment rate was about:

Site of the Korean DMZ still today?

The White House/presidency was dominated by________in the 1920s.

Two Cold War policies/strategeries guiding US policy throughout the 1950s-1970s?

What was the first major action Roosevelt took as president?  

1920s comedic silent film star, his nickname was the "Little Tramp"

Process of making S Vietnam assume more of the fighting by withdrawing US troops, it failed!

Great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, #3 for the NY Yankees, greatest baseball player of all time

US Gen MacArthur led a daring & surprise invasion at this location to turn tide of Korean War?

These 2 groups were disproportionately drafted for service in combat units in Vietnam?

Quickly created lots of jobs, construction, to symphony/theater to artists & post office murals

The height of the Cold War in the fall of 1962, the USSR put nukes in_____?

One our most beloved and first modern First Ladies and "conscience of the New Deal"

In 1949, this country became a communist nation under Mao Zedong?

Benito Mussolini (which does NOT apply)

Powerful democratic mayor of Chicago during 1968 Democratic National Convention

Membership in this organization increased in 1920s as part of Red Scare

Admiral Chester Nimitz is often credited with this strategy of fighting Japanese in the Pacific

Policy of abstaining from involvement in world affairs?

Provided for an old-age insurance program or a pension for the elderly?  

President Hoover's measures to help big banks, railroads, big business & not the common man

JFKs domestic program as POTUS?

jellied gasoline that explodes on contact, used to burn off jungle. Forrest barely escapes it!

John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law by teaching:

Who is this future Civics students?

South Vietnamese Communist or the enemies of US troops in Vietnam

They made up the Bonus Army marching on Washington DC during the Depression?  

What is this?

US president most responsible for escalating the war in Vietnam?

Started in the SNCC but embraced Black Power movement & became leader in California

Emancipated young women of the 1920s who embraced new fashions & urban attitudes?

Generally referred to as the first "talkie" film, stars Al Jolson in "blackface" in 1927

President Truman's goal in deciding to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?

Nation of Islam, salvation in prison, he was considered militant by some, assassinated in 1965

Group greatly impacted by "first to fire, last to hire," during the Great Depression?

wound thru jungles of Cambodia/Laos, supplied the Vietcong while being out of reach of the US

Last ditch German offensive in December of 1944?

horrible French defeat in Vietnam occurs in 1954, leads to their withdraw

Who knew Forrest Gump began this scandal leading to the resignation of President Nixon!

May of 1970, this image won a Pulitzer Prize

A celebration of African-American culture of literature and the arts:

chemical that strips leaves & shrubs, used as defoliant in Vietnam. Health issues for vets

Who is this future Civics students?

Hard fought battle in the Pacific and site of famous flag raising on Mt Suribachi

The "Iron Horse," record consecutive games played streak, and #4 for the NY Yankees

Small-town pilot who made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic?

Small Vietnam village, site of massacre led by Lt William Calley