Semester 2 Final Review Davis Benchmark

The Dust Bowl caused laborers to lose jobs and forced them to do what?

Which type of music was common in the 1920s and the Harlem Renaissance?

Political philosophy that exalts nation and often race above the individual.

What was the reason for US involvement in the Korean War?

This allowed the US to supply their allies prior to them entering WWII.

This case eliminated segragation in schools.

This case was brought against a high school teacher for teaching evolution to his students.

The idea that the US would provide political, military and economic help to democratic nations.

This was the Cold War event where the US and USSR fought to be the first into outer space.

Sports, jazz music, dancing and other leisure activities of the 1920s because people had more..

Focus to eliminate poverty and racial injustice were reforms in his Great Society?

This event drew the US into WWII on Dec 7, 1941

Event where the USSR placed nuclear weapons on a nearby island.

Which is NOT a peaceful use of nuclear abilities?

Book written by John Steinbeck that tells the story of a dust bowl family?

Act approved 41,000 miles of road in 1956 to help with evacuation of cities and unsafe roads.

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

Fear of this caused people to build shelters and create escape plans.

This was Roosevelt's plan to pull the US out of the Great Depression.

This program was created during the Great Depression to pay retirement to workers at age 65.

What was the US policy towards WWI in the beginning?

Pres. Truman decided to do what in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Groups such as SCLC, NAACP, SNCC and CORE were all associated with what movement?

Rosa Parks was part of which Civil Rights event?

What group of people were placed in internment camps during WWII because of fears of spies?

What method did Henry Ford introduce that revolutionized production?

Movement of a group of authors who wrote anti-conformist works that influenced the 50s and 60s.

Labor term that describes negotiations of wages and conditions by an organized group.

This said that a country could request assistance from the U.S. if they felt threatened.

Who was the Wisconsin senator who alleged that communists had infiltrated the state department?

LBJs Great Society health care program was what?

Operation Overlord the campaign to retake Europe by landing in France is better known as?

Hoover's response to the Great Depression can be described as?

This was an alphabet agency under the New Deal that provided electricity to a certain area.

The change in the workforce during WWII is characterized by which group getting more involved?

This was the idea to help Western Europe rebuild after WWII so it wouldn't fall to communists.

What was the chief goal of US involvement in Vietnam?

The idea that if you work hard and determination you can gain prosperity is known as the _____.

The movement in the 1960s ran against the regular norms (hippies).

What is a reason the US opposed the League of Nations?

Kennedy's presidency was described as?

If you were born after WWII you may be considered

Which of the following is not a reason for the United States entering WW1?

Women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz music where called?

This invention in the 1950 drastically influenced news, pop culture and changed American life.

This happened on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929.

Hoovervilles describe what during the Great Depression?

This idea was that if one country in an area fell to communism they all would.

In 1920 this amendment was added to the constitution giving women the right to vote - suffrage?