Vocab Quiz Part 2 Unit 7B

Question 1

Red scare

Answer 1

Post world war 1 public hysteria over Bolshevik influence in the U.S. directed against labor activism, radical dissenters, and some ethnic groups

Question 2

Open shop

Answer 2

Factory or business employing workers whether or not they are union members; in practice, such a business usually refuses to hire union members and follows antiunion policies

Question 3

Volstead Act

Answer 3

The 1920 law defining the liquor forbidden under the 18th amendment and giving enforcement responsibilities to the Prohibition Bureau of the Department of the Treasury

Question 4

Immigration act

Answer 4

1921 act setting a max of 357,000 new immigrants each year

Question 5

League of Women Voters

Answer 5

League formed in 1920 advocating for women’s rights, among them the right for women to serve on juries and pay equal laws

Question 6

Great Depression

Answer 6

The nation’s worst economic crisis, extending through the 1930s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse

Question 7

Bonus Army

Answer 7

Unemployed veterans of WWI gathering in Washington in 1933 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945

Question 8

New Deal

Answer 8

The economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration of the 1930s

Question 9

Fireside chat

Answer 9

Speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which FDR explained complex issues and programs in plan language, as though his listeners were gathered around the fireside with him

Question 10

Emergency banking act

Answer 10

The 1933 act that gave the president broad discretionary powers over all banking transactions and foreign exchange

Question 11

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Answer 11

Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and encourage economic development in seven southern states

Question 12

National Industrial Recovery Act

Answer 12

1933 act that was meant to be a systematic plan for economic recovery

Question 13

Social Security Act of 1935

Answer 13

Act established federal old age pensions and unemployment insurance

Question 14

National Labor Relations Act

Answer 14

Act establishing federal guarantee of the right to organize trade unions and collective bargaining

Question 15

Congress of Industrial Organizations

Answer 15

An alliance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930s organizational drive among the mass production industries

Question 16

New deal coalition

Answer 16

Coalition that included traditional-minded white southern Democrats, big city political machines, industrial workers of all races, trade unionists, and many Depression-hit farmers

Question 17

Court Packing

Answer 17

The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (frequently called the “court-packing plan”) was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Question 18

1938 Fair Labor Standards Act

Answer 18

Minimum wage, etc.

Question 19

Blitzkrieg

Answer 19

German war tactic in WWII (lightning war) involving the concentration of air and armored firepower to punch and exploit holes in opposing defensive lines

Question 20

Neutrality Act of 1939

Answer 20

Permitted the sale of arms to Britain, France and China

Question 21

Axis powers

Answer 21

The opponents of the United States and its allies in WW2

Question 22

Lend-lease act

Answer 22

An arrangement for the transfer or war supplies, including food, machinery, and services to nations whose defense was considered vital to the defense of the U.S. in WWII

Question 23

Atlantic Charter

Answer 23

Statement of common principles and war aims developed by President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister W. Churchill at a meeting in August 1941

Question 24

War Powers Act

Answer 24

Act that gave US president the power to reorganize the federal govt and create new agencies; to establish programs censoring news, info, and abridging civil liberties; to seize foreign-owned property; and award government contracts without bidding

Question 25

Operation Torch

Answer 25

The Allied invasion of Axis-held North Africa in 1942

Question 26

Operation Overlord

Answer 26

U.S. and British invasion of France in June 1944 during WWII

Question 27

D-Day

Answer 27

June 6,1944 the day of the first paratroop drops and amphibious landings on the coast of Normandy, France in the first stage of Operation Overlord during WWII

Question 28

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 28

German offensive in December 1944 that penetrated deep into Belgium. Allied forces, while outnumbered, attacked from the north and the south. By January 1945, the German forces were destroyed or routes, but not without some 77,000 Allied casualties.

Question 29

Eastern Front

Answer 29

The area of military operations in WWII located east of Germany in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Question 30

Island hopping

Answer 30

The Pacific campaigns of 1944 that were the American naval versions of the Blitzkreig

Question 31

Yalta Conference

Answer 31

Meeting of FDR, Churchill, and Stalin held in 1945 to plan the final stages of WWII and post war arrangements

Question 32

Versailles Treaty

Answer 32

The treaty ending WW1 and creating the League of Nations