GLUSH Unit 3 Exam

Despite FDR boasting we would build 50,000 planes in four years, how many did we really build?

Which of the following was NOT one of FDRs universal freedoms?

In the 1920s, what was the largest industry in America?

What did FDR implement that signaled to everyone we would probably join the fight in World War II?

The “shanty towns” that sprang up all over the country became known as what?

Despite the issues around prohibition, what was the real problem with it?

Who won the 1920 election for president?

Which of the following was NOT a reason for the economic boom in the 1920s?

What did FDR call his regular communication with citizens through the radio?

What percentage of Japanese-Americans detained in the internment camps were American citizens?

What happened to Warren G. Harding two years into his presidency?

What event saw the Japanese military marching American and Filipino POWs virtually to their deaths?

What is a “flapper”?

Who replaced Warren G. Harding?

What event did A. Philip Randolph use to guilt white Americans into supporting Civil Rights?

What do many historians place blame on for Hoover’s mistakes in office?

According to your teacher, what was the central cause of the Great Depression?

What two cities did the United States decide to bomb?

What event pulled the United States into World War II?

Which of the following was NOT one of the countries FDR labeled “enemies of Democracy”?

________________ hurt first, and worst.

What notorious gangster spread terror over the streets of Chicago?

What did FDR do that has drawn a great deal of historical criticism?

After Midway, what strategy did the United States use against the Japanese?

Due to the Depression, what creeping political force did the United States fail to keep in check?

What percentage of Americans owned a car by 1929?

What was the main reason that Herbert Hoover did very little to stop the economic crisis in the 1930s?

Aside from winning World War II, what did your teacher say was the crowning achievement of FDR?

When we entered World War II, where did our military rank in relation to other countries?

Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Marshall Plan?

Prohibition was a movement largely led by what demographic?

What did your teacher say the Japanese failed to destroy, that would come back to haunt them?

What was the only real advantage that the United States had over the Japanese during World War II?

What did Harry Truman once call Eleanor Roosevelt?

The invasion of Normandy in northern France was nicknamed what?

What are the three “R’s” that made up FDR’s economic policy and philosophy?

What infamous hate group came to prominence during the 1920s?

What two reports did Harry Truman receive regarding the invasion of Tokyo?

The drought in the Midwest during the Great Depression became known as what?

What is considered the battle that swung the Pacific theater of World War II in America’s favor?

What is the main reason that the film industry boomed in the 1920s?

Despite the court decision, what was the ultimate significance of the Scopes trial?

What did your teacher say was NOT the cause of the depression, but was actually a symptom?

At the height of World War II, how often did the American economy build an airplane?

What is the very controversial calculated total loss of life during World War II?

Which of the following was NOT an early warning sign that trouble was ahead in the 1920s?

What was the name of Franklin Roosevelt’s package of legislation meant to fight the depression?

What did your teacher say has become the defining legislation of the 1920s?

What was the most successful way that the NRA attempted to create jobs?

According to your teacher, why did Harry Truman decide to drop the Atomic Bomb?

By 1929, what percentage of all the world’s product was made in the United States?

What did your teacher say was Harry Truman’s greatest achievement?

Starting at 25% during the Great Depression, what was the unemployment rate by 1943?

Which of the following was NOT a reason that FDR campaigned to end prohibition?

Frustrated by bad law enforcement, what did Carrie Nation do to stop saloons from selling alcohol?

What was the Nazis’ goal for the Battle of the Bulge?

To prevent another World War, what did Harry Truman implement?

What was the NRA?

The attack on “Little Africa” in what city has become an infamous example of white backlash?

Where could someone easily get their hands on alcohol and cigarettes during the 1920s?

Before Social Security, how many American elderly died in poverty?

After World War I, what foreign policy did the United States attempt to reassert?

What nickname was given to Navajo radio men?

What was the “Harlem Renaissance”?

The Scopes-Monkey trial represented a perceived clash between what two ideas?

What was Calvin Coolidge’s philosophy when it came to the American economy?

During the Great Depression, what was the unemployment rate?