2nd semester final review

Who served as the President of the United Sates from 2009-2017?

In the years following the 9/11 attacks the United States went to war in what two countries:

What Supreme Court case in 1954 essentially overturned this ruling in question above?

Nixon was the first president to be removed from office by Congress.

Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring was a persuasive attack on the leftist tendencies of the Environmental movement.

What incident sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

President Obama celebrated the legalization of homosexual marriage in what supreme Court case?

Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated in what year:

Who was the controversial Conservative African American that Bush appointed to the Supreme Court?

Nixon called the moderate (non-hippie) Americans the __________ __________?

This man organized Latino Farm workers to unionize and gain better pay and treatment?

Which of these is NOT a Jazz Musician of the 1920s?

President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency.

Which of these is NOT true of the Equal Rights Amendment?

Robert Kennedy was the Democratic Party’s Dove candidate in 1968, but was assassinated.

This term is associated with Jerry Falwell and conservative Christian voters in the 1980s:

Carter pardoned Richard Nixon of all wrong doing in the Watergate crisis.

Bill Clinton was Republican.

President Johnson’s programs designed to make a more equitable nation were called:

Which of these is NOT a classic film from the 1930s:

This American led operation Torch and was Supreme Commander of the Allied forces:

This man led the Nationalist government of China and fled to Taiwan

This “Silent” 1920s President said, “The Business of America is Business:”

Who served as the President of the United Sates from 1993 to 2001?

Which of the following is true of Presidents Harding and Coolidge?

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the conservative tide of the 1980s?

This is the name of the surprise Allied invasion of Normandy:

Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of England during WWII.

Carter gave the US built Panama Canal to the Country of Panama.

The First major Southern City to integrate was:

Which Supreme Court Chief Justice led the Court to promote individual rights over strict constitutionalism.

What was the failed invasion to overthrow Castro’s Cuba called?

Rapid suburbanization in the 1950s was the result of all the following EXCEPT:

The Red Scare in the United States (1918-1920) was a reaction to what event overseas?

Roosevelt’s “Fireside Chats” were his means of:

Which of the following is NOT true of the Scopes Trial?

Who became President following Kennedy’s assassination?

Which of the following created hydroelectric dams in the South that gave the area jobs, flood control, and electricity.

Franklin Roosevelt is the only president to serve more than two terms.

Nixon’s Southern Strategy was an attempt to expand Civil Rights in the South.

Douglas MacArthur was fired after his public disagreement with Truman over taking the Korean War into this Country:

This Segregationist split the Democratic Party in 1968 by winning several Southern states.

Which country was forced to accept war guilt and pay reparations as a result of World War I?

Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader of North Vietnam.

This was an ethically “German” Area that Hitler annexed peacefully before World War II:

Which of the following New Deal programs was directly responsible for creating new jobs?

This college student led a movement of students to continue the Freedom Rides after a bus in Anniston, AL was bombed?

This Senator claimed before Congress that he had a list of 205 people that were Communist in the State Department.

This is the term for Communist insurgents in South Vietnam?

During the Obama administration which of these significantly was reformed (changed):

Which of the following of Roosevelt’s ideas failed to become law?

The belief that Countries on the brink of Communism would fall to communism if Vietnam fell was the ________ theory?

This General led Allied troops in the Pacific, retreated from the Philippines, but kept his promised to return.

Bill Clinton was impeached for:

During the Bush (W's) administration which of these significantly was reformed (changed):

This black man won a federal court case allowing him to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962?

In the Iran-Contra scandal the United states sold weapons to Iran to fund:

During the Watergate scandal, the Nixon administration mysteriously “lost” 18 ½ minutes of subpoenaed audio tape.

Which of these is NOT a famous author of the 1920s?

Gerald Ford became president after Nixon’s downfall.

This program provided money for retirement and disability:

This chemical destroyed foliage in Vietnam in an effort to the expose the enemy?

What is the Congressional Resolution that gave Johnson the authority to escalate the number of troops in Vietnam?

The Beat Movement was a artistic movement that celebrated the suburban values of the 1950s.

During the Clinton administration which of these significantly was reformed (changed):

Nixon was the first President to visit Russia and China while in office.

The Truman Doctrine advocated sending troops into to support democracy over communism in all of the following EXCEPT:

Unemployment during the Depression was around: 50% 2% 25% 10%

Hoover responded to the Great Depression in all of the following ways EXCEPT

Who served as the President of the United Sates from 2001 - 2009?

Who served as the President of the United Sates from 1993 to 2001?

What militant Islamic group took power in Iraq and Syria after the withdrawal of US troops in 2012 and 2013?

Franklin Roosevelt consistently disagreed with Economist John Maynard Keynes about deficit spending.

Francisco Franco was the Fascist leader if Italy during WWII.

Chamberlain was the British Prime Minister known for his policy of appeasing Hitler’s desire for more land.

WWII boosted America's economy and brought it out of the Great Depression.

Martin Luther King Jr. drew inspiration for his ideas of protest from all of the following EXCEPT:

The New Deal successfully ended the Great Depression.

Which of the following reached a new high during Roosevelt’s presidency?

Which of these is NOT true of the Reagan’s administration?

Mr. Lytle is a great history teacher.

Which of the following was responsible for lowering production and killing livestock.

Who won the Election of 1932?

Truman’s ambitious economic program was called:

Which of these was NOT a celebrity in the 1920s?

Adolph Hitler was the Communist leader of the Soviet Union during World War II:

A conglomerate is a large corporation that owns and operates many different types of businesses

In what Supreme Court case did the Court decide to apply the bill of rights to matters of local law enforcement?

Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika meant:

Hoover and Congress responded to the financial crisis by:

What Supreme Court case in 1896 established racial segregation all over the South?

Approximately when did the Great Recession (housing market collapse) happen?

This black man led the NAACP to many legal victories challenging segregation in the 1950s and 60s:

Which of these was an attempt to Reform the economy by instilling confidence in the Nation's Banks.

During George H. W. Bush’s presidency the US went to war to remove the Iraqi Army from:

Which of the following is NOT true of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti:

Tensions between the US and the Soviet Union became icy at this conference at the end of World War II:

The Dust Bowl was a series of storms in the Great Plains caused by a combination of:

What Great Society Program provides medical assistance for the poor?

Vietnam gained its independence from China.