AH2 Monster Semester Review

What president practiced "Dollar Diplomacy"?

On what premise did the U.S. preemptively attack Iraq during

In Nixon's "southern strategy", he brought white southerners into the Republican party by

What amendment failed to pass by 1979, thanks to opposition from women like Phyllis Schafly?

What happened with tariffs in the 1920s?

What was one military battle the natives won?

What problem plagued farmers in the 1920s and contributed to the Great Depression?

Corrupt officials who controlled city and state governments in the time period were called . .

What are two other words for voting?

How long did these wars last?

The growing violence

Who won the election of 1896?

What did the 24th amendment to the Constitution ban?

In what way was Korea a "limited war"?

With the Cold War over

How did the U.S. insure that Ngo Diem's leadership would not last long?

After the TET Offensive, this official resigned, declaring the war "unwinnable".

What is a problem that arises if capitalism remains unregulated?

What law is passed (if not enforced) to allow federal oversight of railroads?

How many terms did Bill Clinton serve?

What caused the need for a bank bailout that cost over $120 billion dollars in the 90s?

Why was the War Production Board necessary during WWII?

The GI Bill provided returning veterans from WWII all of the following EXCEPT?

What major accomplishment did the Clinton administration ach

What was the Philippine reaction to our taking them as a colony?

Why didn't Huey Long defeat FDR in the election of 1936?

As a part of this flexible response strategy, what special forces branch was founded ?

To what degree did the airlift succeed in halting the takeover of W. Berlin by communism?

How did poor people want the tariff to change in the Gilded Age?

Which of the following was NOT part of Admiral Alfred Mahan's plan for American imperialism?

As a result of the "Great Society" programs, business regulation became

What invention led to the end of the cowboy era?

JFK and Nixon were the first candidates to do this on television

Why were the Hollywood Ten jailed?

52 Americans were taken hostage in Iran because they wanted us to return

Who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic?

Who was the most famous political boss of NY City?

In what type of economic system does the government take over and run some major industries?

What were countercultural youth of the late 1960s called?

What was the US response when the USSR cut off the 80 mile road between W. Germany & Berlin?

What unexpected event hampered Wilson's ability to lobby for the treaty?

Inspired by realpolitik, Nixon recognized and visited this country.

Vietnam Vets might have been stereotyped "baby killers" because of this massacre.

What controversial decision did Ford make in the early days of his presidency?

What terrorist group sponsored the attacks on the World Trad

The slaughter of what resource led to the decline of native power?

Who used trusts to gain control of the oil industry?

Did the deficit rise or fall as a result of economic policie

What domestic aawaraa did Reagan and Bush pursue?

Your family is an example of what type of economic unit?

After the passage of the Nuremberg Laws, what groups lost their civil rights in Germany?

What country signed a nonaggression pact with Hitler to divide up Poland?

What group served in the armed forces for the first time in WWII?

What president is most credited for getting the Panama Canal built?

In what two countries was the Spanish American War fought?

What was the goal of the Freedom Rides?

What was the goal of substances such as napalm and agent orange?

What strike happened in Carnegie's PA steel mill and broke the steel union for 45 years?

This was the first country Italy's Mussolini decided to invade?

What black leader founded Tuskegee Institute which taught farming and domestic service?

In 1988, who was elected president?

Who were the "little people" that supported Populism?

What is it called when you ally with others, price fix, and drive out your competition?

Who became president when FDR died of natural causes?

What agency paid farmers to not plant?

What group of people made up the "Bonus Army"?

In what type of houses did frontier families often live?

Two years after being elected

Under Nixon's "revenue sharing" plan, more discretionary money would flow from the feds to

In 2014 President Obama decided to normalize diplomatic rel

Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court in the1960s that protected the poor and accused?

What third party did Roosevelt help found?

What was the most radical union for the poorest workers?

Who was the first man to integrate professional baseball?

The TET Offensive resulted in the simultaneous attack on 100+ ________ in South Vietnam.

In what city was the "Children's March" held to desegregate the entire city?

After we withdrew from S. Vietnam, it eventually became a __________    __________.  

Confusing ballots cast in what state made it unclear who won

What amendment banned alcohol in the US?

What was the goal of the Office of Price Administration?

What was the ruling in the US v. Nixon case?

For what is Kent State University infamous?

Journalists who exposed what was wrong in society during the Progressive era were called . . .

Who was the leader of South Vietnam that we at first supported despite his corruption?

What was the goal of the Dawes Act?

What institutions did FDR close and then reopen after their "holiday"?

Groups like the Moral Majority were _________ and essential to the coalition electing Reagan.

After characterizing them as "the evil empire", Reagan actually struck up a friendship with 

White southerners formed this party when it became Truman was for black civil rights

Who did the US support in the Chinese Civil War with money but not troops?

Which one of Wilson's Fourteen Points made it into the Treaty of Versailles?

U.S operations to find and cut off supply lines to our enemies in Vietnam called

What was the main immigration station on the West coast?

Who wrote "rags to riches" tales that supported the Social Darwinist point of view?

What president then proposed a federal Civil Rights Act to end segregation nationwide?

Was Saddam Hussein overthrown?

What growing popularity of what invention led to urban sprawl?

Who decides to run for President in 1968 but is shot and killed?

Who was the NAACP lawyer that went on to become the first black justice on the Supreme Court?

What were  stereotypically urban women of the 1920s called?

What major domestic reform did Clinton fail to achieve

What was the main immigration station on the East coast?

These laws prevented the U.S. from trading with any nations at war.

Nixon's compilation of people and groups he considered to be a threat were described as

What did the 17th amendment say?

What political party did "the little people" form?

What two nations became one again during George H.W. Bush's administration?

What agency encouraged businesses to form government approved trusts?

When rationing ended, prices went up and prices stayed the same, causing

Hitler's final counteroffensive, which failed, was called

The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand led what country to come to the defense of the Serbs?

In the Zimmerman Note, Germany proposed an alliance with ___________ against the United States.

What two problems did the farmers in this era have?

Was he found guilty or did he get to keep his job?

What was the name of the health care program LBJ passed for poor low income people?

Why was war never declared in Vietnam?

During the "Red Scare", we feared 

For what is Joseph McCarthy infamous?

When the House Republicans and President Clinton could not a

Whose presidency was tainted by the Teapot Dome Scandal?

Why was Reagan insistent that we aid a group called "the Contras"

What do Sand Creek and Wounded Knee have in common?

Soviet troops and a lack of elections in this part of the world fueled Cold War tensions 

The Social Gospel said Christians must do what to be like Jesus?

How did Teddy Roosevelt stop a coal strike and get owners to negotiate with unions?

The Soviets wanted to make sure that Eastern Europe was

How did the Korean War start?

What was the long-term way for American investors in Hawaii to avoid the tariff?

What two New Deal agencies were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

What ethnic group was "trapped" in Austria-Hungary and wanted to have their own nation?

What war tactic led to a stalemate on the Western front?

What invention fueled an economic boom during the Clinton ye

What effect did our NATO -supported invasion of Afghanistan

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII?

Once the Underwood Tariff significantly lowered tariffs, how did the government get $ to run?

What was the goal of the convoy system?

Reagan's claim that we would develop a space-based nuclear had what surprising outcome?

Who did Attorney Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer raid (and in some cases deport) in the Palmer Raids?

Imperialist nations hope to get what type of goods from their colonies?

What did Edwin Drake invent to help us access one of those?

How did Adolf Hitler die?

Was Saddam Hussein (the leader of Iraq) overthrown?

The "hot line" connected the White House with __________

Reagan sharply increased spending in what area?

What did US imperialists assume about our culture compared to the cultures in poorer nations?

People in the Reagan administration hatched a plan to sell weapons to _____ to raise the money.

A flowering and celebration of black culture in urban areas became known as . . .

In the INF Treaty with the Soviets, _________ were added to the arms reduction plan.

What country had Europe divided into "sphere of influence"  - areas ruled by them?

After Pearl Harbor, we (with our allies) decided to first focus on defeating this country.

Sixty + nations eventually agreed to the Kellogg Briand Pact, which tried to outlaw ____.

What one building project did Hoover fund to create jobs?

What charismatic black leader advocated that blacks go "Back to Africa"?

What one direction did Wilson give Pershing about his conduct of the war?

What is it called when people suggest laws to be passed?

Who was the most famous sports icon of the 1920s?

Reagan characterized ________ as "the problem" when he took office in the 1980s.

What decision did the Carter administration make regarding the Panama Canal?

Where did the US Army seek to move Plains Indians in this time period?

What agency would increasingly do covert operations to achieve our foreign policy aims?

What governmental system puts government needs above individual rights?

What were some ways political machines got money?

As a result of the Baker v. Carr ruling during the Warren Court era

The purpose of the Selma Campaign was to bring attention to this issue

How did Wilson finally solve the money supply problem that had plagued the nation since 1789?

What charismatic person and critic of the New Deal started the "Share the Wealth" movement?

How did we pay for the war?

Who used holding companies to gain monopolies and bought US Steel from Carnegie?

The American Indian Movement took over what federal land / property in protest?

What event led the US to enter the war on the side of Britain and the USSR?

In a laissez-faire economy

After 1890, most European immigrants came from

What was the "turning point" battle in the Pacific?

What did bootleggers do?

To what cause were Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt dedicated?

What nations allied as the Triple Entente?

Kennedy's "flexible response" plan refers to his strategy to diversify

Which trusts did Teddy Roosevelt bust?

What was George W. Bushaas initiative related to taxes?

What was the first country Germany "took over" by a treaty?

What agency created jobs for young men in outdoor projects?

What was completed at Promontory Point

The 1970s was plagued by what economic problem

"White flight" was used to describe the movement of white people to

What was the goal of the Emergency Quota Act?

Who were the Vietcong?

What black militant organization was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale?

What was Wilson's Plan for postwar peace called?

What economic system does not allow for private ownership of businesses?

When official government sources and investigative journalists' stories differ, this leads to

Who wrote "The Feminine Mystique", credited with awakening the feminist movement?

The rest of this Quiz is unfinished . . . . What country did Iraq invade during Bush's admin?

All of the following countries are on the Security Council EXCEPT

What organization did college students form to oppose the war?

In this "deal", US investors loaned Germany $, who paid Britain and France, who paid the US.

What Senator led the opposition to the treaty once Wilson sought approval?

What vague law was passed during this time saying you could not "restrain trade"?

What organization flourished in the 1920s and expanded its target to include Jews & Catholics?

What two conflicting ideas clashed in the Scopes Trial in Dayton, TN?

The 1954 Geneva Accords divided Vietnam temporarily into a _______ north and a _______ south.

After growing frustrated with the failure to conquer Britain, Hitler foolishly attacked

How did Pres. Eisenhower deal with Gov. Faubus's attempt to block integration?

The Credit Mobilier was a scam in what industry?

Under the Loyalty Review Board, who had to swear they were not communists?

Laws like the Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Board indicate support for 

How was the election decided?

This military alliance formed in 1949 in case communists attacked the US or our allies.

What act encouraged westward expansion by giving away 160 acres of free land?

Which of the following was more common for an urban woman in the 1920s ?

Who did Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation give money to?

Who was the most important military commander during the Vietnam War?

Instead of race, what "categories" did Europeans use for social / political organization?

A state of heightened tensions with the USSR without actual fighting was known as . . .

In a socialist economy, can you own your own business and have private property?

At the Yalta conference during the war, what did the Allied decide to do with Germany post-war?

What was Wilson's response to the Zimmerman Note?

Who was elected in 1932 and three more times after that?

Our inability to aid young revolutionaries in this country showed the limitations of US policy

What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas?

Who won the Chinese Civil War?

The state of high tension / hysteria that resulted from massive retaliation policy was called

What was the goal of the War Labor Board?

What groups controlled the illegal alcohol trade?

For what was Bill Clinton impeached?

Did the US ever sign the treaty or join the League of Nations?

What was the slogan of the Clinton campaign to keep them foc

Through our victory at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, we regained what territory?

Realpolitik also led us to experience an easing of tensions with the Soviet Union called

The Allied victory Battle of Coral Sea prevented Japan from taking over what continent?

The presence of troops from what country led Truman to decide to fight a limited war?

The U.S. strategy to take key islands in the Pacific to get close enough to invade Japan was

A scramble for colonies in Africa and Asia led to tensions on this continent

Who won the election with his promise of "New Freedom"?

What is it called when you gain a monopoly by buying your suppliers?

What is it called when stronger nations control weaker ones ?

What was the goal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act?

Who revolutionized the auto industry with the assembly line?

Who was President during World War I?

This law said the president must get Congress's approval if deploying troops more than 60 days.

Who was the leader of the Socialist party during the early 1900s?

What was the name of the cavalry regiment Teddy Roosevelt led in Cuba?

A Stalwart shot what president over civil service reform?

How did he decide to end the war with Japan?

How many seats did each country get in the general assembly?

What is the goal of a blockade?

What was Kennedy's response to evidence that the Soviets were putting nukes in Cuba?

Which group of immigrants was targeted with nativist laws like an Exclusion Act?

In what city and state was the most famous sit-in held?

What was the name given nonconformists and critics of the 1950s?

Which of the following did Reagan do?

Why is this called the "Gilded Age"?

How did government officials involved in the Iran Contra scandal avoid prosecution?

All of the following are colonies we won in the Spanish American War EXCEPT?

Nixon's "realpolitik" philosophy said this should be the primary concern of our foreign policy:

What group did the House on Un American Activities (HUAC) target as possible communists?

Why did Nixon's "Committee to Re-elect the President" plan a break in at the Watergate complex?

What two immigrant groups are most credited with building it?

Name two ways we funded the war effort.

Which U.S. president announced to the U.S. that a U.S. ship was attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin?

What shocking tactics did police then use that gained international attention?

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent to speed communication?

How did Truman deal with striking workers?

Which if the following accurately characterizes the outcome of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

What black leader led the Niagara Movement to establish the NAACP?

What president was most responsible for escalating our involvement in Vietnam?

Nixon promised to shrink the war, but he expanded it by bombing supply lines in this country

What agency was founded to solve this war production problem?

What did Spanish Minister DeLome do that led to anti-Spanish feelings in the US?

The explosion of what ship led us to declare war on Spain?

What natural resources do we have that allowed us to become an industrial giant?

What new forms of transportation became available in the Gilded Age?

The 1968 Democratic convention in this city broke out in controversy inside and violence out?

What was the goal of the Committee on Public Information?

Why did the Nation of Islam assassinate Malcolm X in 1965?

Where did we attack on D-Day and who was the overall commander of the mission?

What is it called when all the people vote on a law?

What did they want from the government?

This theory justified our involvement in Vietnam; we feared the spread of communism

What was the goal of The March on Washington?

128 Americans died when what British ship was sunk by u-boats?

What was the general attitude towards unions and strikes in the 1920s?

Why was FDR unwilling to challenge segregation or pass an anti-lynching law?

Who was the most famous white silent film star of the era?

Who did a James Earl Ray shoot and kill in Memphis Tennessee in 1968?

What new way to borrow money became available in the 1950s?

All of the following were part of the Great Society programs EXCEPT

What did Teddy Roosevelt want to conserve?

What young minister became the recognized leader of the 385 day bus boycott?

Reagan believed in deregulation. What does that mean?

In his "Gospel of Wealth" Carnegie said rich people should not do this with their $ upon death:

Who was Nixon's National Security Adviser he entrusted to bring a diplomatic end to the war?

What were countercultural youths of this era called?

This agency brought electrical power and jobs to the Appalachian region

What was banned by the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

What was the name of the health care program LBJ passed for elderly people?

Who was fired by Truman when they criticized his position to the press?

The Soviet invasion of what nation led the US to boycott the Moscow Olympics?

What caused global trade to slow in the 1920s?

What president promised the American people a "square deal"?

To what general destination did cowboys drive cattle?

Did we ever find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

What American colony had been taken over by the Japanese by May of 1942?

What was the name of the group that opposed civil service reform?

In what area did Taft exceed Teddy Roosevelt in being progressive?

Both the Reagan and Bush administrations were criticized for

How did FDR explain his programs and their rationale to the American people?

It was clear Truman was committed to black civil rights when he integrated

Where did Chiang Kai Shek flee (and we pretended that place was the "real" China)?

What did the Supreme Court rule in the court case Korematsu v. U.S.?

At the Yalta conference, what did they decide to do with defeated Nazi leaders?

In the election of 1912, what two men split the Republican vote, allowing a Democrat to win?

What international organization was set up to replace the League of Nations?

How could lower income people afford all the new products in the 1920s?

Desperate to aid Britain and the USSR when they had run out of cash, we passed this law

Where did we first fight in Europe?

Who was president when the Great Depression started?

What does buying stock "on margin" mean?

Through what country did we "wear out our welcome"?

Where is the United Nations located?

Where did 30,000 draft dodgers go to avoid prosecution?

What political party won majority control in Germany in the 1930s?

One major reform the Republicans and Clinton could agree on

The goal of much of our post WWII foreign aid, like the Marshall Plan, was

What type of economy has the United States always had?

What did the Warren Commission conclude about the assassination of John Kennedy?

Garfield's VP became president, and achieved civil service reform by getting what law passed?

What philosophy said poor people are poor because they aren't adapting to their environment?

All of the following were famous black poets or writers of the 1920s EXCEPT

The problem with Keynesian economics is that it can result in

This "second" new deal agency created jobs in construction and arts.

All of the following were famous musicians of the 1920s EXCEPT

What was the goal of the Selective Service Act?

What federal agency infiltrated the Black Panthers and contributed to their demise?

The policy that if the US or USSR used nukes it would lead to our own destruction was called

Who won the Spanish American War?

Who made up FDR's "Brain Trust"?

After WWII, why did we oppose turning Vietnam over to Ho Chi Minh, our former ally?

What is another word for the spoils system that starts with "P"?

Why did Kennedy visit West Berlin in 1961?

What president tried to insure the spread of democracy through his "Missionary Diplomacy"?

What major European nation was conquered by Germany in WWII that was not conquered in WWI?

The movement of blacks to Northern cities was called what?

Why was the original Selma to Montgomery 50 mile march for voting rights stopped?

Which president of the 20s famously said "The business of America is Business"?

What was Congress's  response to FDR's "courtpacking plan"?

This successful Soviet project led us to overhaul our education system

The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a subset of what larger organization?

The Selective Service Act provided _________ for the war effort?

What did his philosophy of "rugged individualism" mean?

What "accidental" president would accomplish much of what the Populists wanted?

Who were the Little Rock Nine?

What happened at speakeasies?

Two years after the Geneva Accords, why did we refuse to hold elections to unify the country?

Kennedy founded this agency to help raise the standard of living worldwide

Who founded a settlement house in Chicago?

By the 1920s, half the US population lived here for the first time.

What union welcomed both genders & all skill levels but died out after the Haymarket bombing?

Who led the United Farm Workers & raised awareness about low pay and bad working conditions?

How receptive were our allies to his peaceful vision for the postwar world?

The Clayton Antitrust Act said that the Sherman Antitrust Act could not be used to bust _____.

What president said "speak softly but carry a big stick"?

Who did Japan and Russia ask to come settle a war they were engaged in?

What was new in advertising in the 1920s?

Most railroads run between states and so can only be regulated by . . . 

Which president was elected in 1920?

Who left the SNCC and ultimately joined the Black Panthers?

Civil Service reformers wanted what?

How did FDR try to defend against a hostile Supreme Court?

What pledge did George H.W. Bush break in order to help brin

What was the turning point battle victory in the USSR that used the scorched earth policy?

The invasion (using "blitzkrieg") of this country led to the formal start of WWII.

Who wrote "The Great Gatsby" in the 1920s?

What monopolist controlled the steel industry?

The Limited Test Ban Treaty signed during the Kennedy administration ended

If murder is illegal everywhere, why did the NAACP want an anti-lynching law in the 1920s?

What did the 19th amendment say?

What did the Fair Labor Standards Act provide?

In the court case Munn v. Illinois, the ruling said states can regulate which railroads?

In the Camp David Accords, Israel gave land back to _________in return for national recognition

"Reaganomics" biggest flaw was

What art form did adults see as a threat during this time period?

What was the name of the other alliance that opposed the Triple Entente?

Before the 1890s, most immigrants came from what parts of Europe?

All the following were laws Teddy Roosevelt passed to protect consumers EXCEPT

What policy did we declare to make sure China didn't "carved up" as African had been?

Whenever communism is attempted on a societal level it requires this type of government:

What cartoonist exposed him to the public?

Did Taft's Payne Aldrich tariff significantly lower the tariff?

What Supreme Court ruling said that women have a right to an abortion in their first trimester?

From 1914 - 1917, what side did the US fight on in WWI?

All of the following showed that the Roosevelts cared about black people EXCEPT

When Nixon resigned, ____ became president, having only recently been appointed Vice President.

What president passed a large number of laws known as the Great Society programs?

Carter's main foreign policy objective was to expand what?

Who was the Populist candidate in 1896 that gave the "Cross of Gold" speech?

What is it called when everyone in a political party picks a candidate?

What group was lynched for not upholding rules of "etiquette"?

What "first" did Francis Perkins achieve,  with FDR's help?

What did Thomas Edison perfect that led to expanded business hours and new entertainment?

The Espionage and Sedition Acts made it illegal to do what?

What did they want the government to do about railroads?

What did Christopher Sholes invent to standardize and speed communication?

Where did Jose Marti lead a revolution that was supported by some Americans?

Our war aims, in the Atlantic Charter, were eerily similar to what  former president's plan?

The Bessemer process allowed _____to be mass produced and led to a 2nd industrial revolution

How long did the ground war last? Was Kuwait freed?

Did we have NATO support in that effort?

Which president supported scaling down US involvement in the war through "Vietnamization"?

What political outsider was elected president in 1976?

What major infrastructure improvement did Eisenhower approve?

Migration and immigration led to the growth of cities, also known as

Decisions passed in the general assembly go to what body for final approval?

We supported Panama in rebelling against what country so we could build it?

For what historical feat are Orville and Wilbur Wright famous?

Why was "Rosie the Riveter" a startling icon from the period?

This made sure that privileged families did not have to worry about their kids getting drafted

Who was the American commander during WWI?

What is anarchy?

What groups were most negatively affected by Reagan's spending cuts?

The Elkins and Hepburn acts regulated what industry?

Who did Roosevelt "hand pick" to be his successor?