Review Final Exam 24

Which program, part of the New Deal, provided retirement income for millions of Americans?

Which of the following best describes the "trickle-down" theory related to Reaganomics?

 What term was used to describe the makeshift towns where homeless people lived during the Great Depression?

The Vietnam War led to the rise of the "Hawks" and "Doves." What did these terms represent?

Did the Bay of Pigs blow up in President Johnsons face?

What was the main focus of the HUAC during the Cold War era?

How did the Battle of the Bulge get its name?

What is the main goal of Reaganomics?

What major event followed the Stock Market crash of 1929?

The "Domino Theory" was a major justification for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. What did it suggest?

Who was the Attorney General notorious for leading the Palmer Raids during the first Red Scare?

What was the main consequence of the attack on Pearl Harbor?

Where was the Dustbowl?

 Which famous music festival epitomized the counterculture movement and took place in 1969?

The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote.

What was the primary goal of the counterculture movement?

What event is considered the start of the Great Depression in the United States?

Leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He used poetry to celebrate the African American culture.

LBJ sent troops into Cuba to put an end to a Communist threat in 1965.

Who launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space?

Who were the two journalists who investigated the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post?

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______ Established the League of Nations and would end secret treaties after WW1.

What could have been prevented to lessen the dust storms during the Dustbowl.

What president helped pave the way for the Civil rights movement and was elected in 1961

Who was the Communist Prime minister in Cuba who the US failed to overthrow on numerous different attempts

The Space Race led to America spending more money on what?

America tried everything in their power to stay _______ from/In WW2.

During the battle Of Midway how did the Americans gain leverage on the Japanese and surprise them at Midway?

What does the Acronym MAD stand for?

What day did the stock Market Crash?

Richard Nixon was the only President to _______

The Lend Lease Act helped the Axis powers fight the Allies

Rosa Parks' arrest sparked off Martin Luther King Jr.'s involvement in the civil rights movement?

Isolationism was an American policy before WW2 and in response America had created the Lend Lease Act.

Who was the president of the United States during the Watergate scandal?

What was the issue for Conservatives regarding the New Deal?

Which activist is famous for his role in the Indian independence movement through non-violent civil disobedience?

Prohibited anti-government speech and targeted socialists, pacifists, and critics.

What was the main goal of the Marshall Plan?

Which event triggered the significant escalation of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War?

Failed 1961 invasion of Cuba. Involved CIA-trained Cuban exiles.

What is one goal of non-violent civil disobedience?

 What was the main fear driving the Red Scare in the United States?

In response to the attacks, the United States enacted which major piece of legislation to combat terrorism?

 The policy of “Trickle Down” Economics is associated with

What was Lyndon B. Johnson's famous social program aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice called?

MAD aimed to start nuclear attacks and relied on balance of nuclear arsenals.

What is the 18th Amendment

What does HUAC stand for?

_____ prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school that receives funding from the federal government.

In the Plessy v. Ferguson case, what doctrine was established as a result of the Supreme Court's decision?

 Following the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, how were public schools supposed to proceed with desegregation?

Proponent of the 1st Amendment rights to free speech & freedom of assembly. Leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Why was Iwo Jima strategically important during World War II?