2nd Semester Exam Review

What happened to farmers debts in the 1920's?

What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?

NAACP lawyer who argued the Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court

Which group of people suffered 6 million deaths during the Holocaust?

What contributed to the end of the Cuban missile crisis?

What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in the Roosevelt administration?

How did the American public perceive President Roosevelt?

Expansionist, invaded Manchuria, power through acts of aggression, and pulled out of the League of Nations?

Who made the vow "I shall Return" when he was forced to abandon the Philippines?

this legislative program summed up President Johnson's vision for America

Because of psychological stress of the Great Depression what increased?term-5

Who was the leader of communist China?

What was the overall unemployment rate during the Great Depression?

these provided free or low cost medical insurance to welfare recipients and most Americans age 65 and older

Name 3 causes of the Dust Bowl.

Who was the leader of Spain during World War II?

Which nation was defeated at the Battle of Midway after its plans of attack were intercepted?

What were people saying by calling shantytowns "Hoovervilles"?

What did most Americans in the 1960's rely on as their primary source of entertainment an information?

What was one major goal of the New Deal?

What group benefitted most from the economy and culture of the 1950's?

Which New Deal policy had the biggest long-term impact on the American economy?

The actions of which country finally forced the United States to enter the war?

Name one legacy of the civil rights movement that has been challenged in recent years.

What 3 things contributed to the economic recovery after World War II?

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 enable federal officials to do?

Which doctrine relating to public education was overturned by the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

president who appointed a committee to study the causes of urban violence

What were the findings of the Warren Commission?

What does buying stock on margin mean?

Events such as ___________________________ helped set the stage for the civil rights movement.

Which program was most responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work?

Where did the United States drop the atomic bombs?

Name 3 effects of the Great Depression.

Where did Douglas MacArthur argue that the Korean War should be extended to?

D-Day was the code name given to the Allied invasion of which place?

What were the Beat Movement and Rock 'n' Roll viewed as in the 1950's?

activist whose protest helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott

Nationalist, wrote Mein Kampf, leader of National Socialist German Worker's Party, and militaristic expansionist?

When the Soviets exploded an atomic bomb, how did the U.S. respond?

What is the deliberate extermination of a specific group of people?

civil rights leader who became impatient with nonviolence and called for "Black Power"

Who made accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military?

What agency is best known for investigating communism in the film industry?

What group lost the civil war in China despite 2 billion dollars in aid sent from the U.S.?

What group was intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?

Why Roosevelt decide to remove people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps?

Who were the defendants at the Nuremberg trials?

Which politician was the first to use television skillfully?

Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath?

What was the main reason for the construction of the Berlin Wall?

What is buying stocks on the chance of a quick profit without considering risks?

Who was a founder and the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

Where were a vast majority of new homes in the 1950's built?

How did America react to news that the Soviet Union was the first to put a man in space?

Why was the Battle of the Bulge significant?

What was the Manhattan Project?

Who was a fascist, nationalist, militaristic expansionist, and launched an invasion of Ethiopia?

Who was the first women to serve in the cabinet?

What factor most contributed to the upset win of Truman in the 1948 election?

With respect to finding better jobs, the war years marked a period of ___________________ for African Americans.

The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warning to the Soviet Union against military action where?

Which country fought on the side of the communists during the Korean War?

In this case, the Supreme Court established the principle of "one person, one vote."

What happened to our national debt during Roosevelt's first term?

What name was given to men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work?

Why was Roosevelt reluctant to join World War II?

What 3 groups of people were most likely to be a part of the New Deal coalition?

Who was the Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe?

Name 3 early effects of the conversion from a wartime to a peacetime economy.

What leader transformed the Soviet Union from a rural nation into an industrial power?

this term refers to the way in which states redraw election districts based on the changing number of people in them

When did Britain and France adopt a policy of appeasement toward Germany?

What was the result of the treaty that ended the Korean War?

What did the GI Bill offer veterans?

What is a large corporation that owns a number of smaller term-59companies?

This created the Job Corps, VISTA, and Project Head Start.

Black Muslim leader who urged blacks to separate from white society

Name 3 causes of the Great Depression.

What was the first major action Roosevelt took as President?