Exam 3 review Flashcards by Kyle Ronn

Stock markets completely collapsed on Black ________________ on October ___, 1929, heralding the start of the Great Depression

Tuesday; 29

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By 1932 one out of every ____ Americans were unemployed.

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Shanty towns that popped up on the edge of cities were known as __________________.

Hoovervilles

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In spring 1932 the Bonus Army marched on Washington D.C. demanding ________________________________

Payment for WWII services

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President Hoover believed the best way to help the needy during the Great Depression was through __________________________

voluntary cooperation

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Hoover was President of the __________________ Party

Republican

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On March 9, 1933, the _______________________ Act was passed, allowing only the strongest banks to reopen with federal support

Emergency Banking Act

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Fireside chats were

Chats by President Roosevelt by radio to give the public hope

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The ________________ was designed to bring electricity and jobs to the Tennessee Valley

Tennessee Valley Authority

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The purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corp was to __________________________________

Guarantee a wage of $30 a month for working outside the city

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The ______________________ Act of May 1933 was designed to alleviate the suffering of farmers

Agricultural Adjustment Act

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The Louisiana native known as “Kingfish” who criticized President Roosevelt was ________________

Huey Long

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Francis Townsend, another demagogue of the era, sought to alleviate the suffering of ______________ with his plan

old people

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The Wagner Act of 1935 allowed _____________________________________

Unions to organize

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The ____________________________ Act of 1935 sought to protect the elderly and disabled

Social Security act

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FDR’s “court packing” plan involved _________________________________________ to make it easier for him to pass his New Deal legislation

Retiring Judges over 70; 15 judges instead of 9

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The ___________________________ Act of 1938 set a minimum wage and abolished child labor

Fair Labor Standards Act

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The English economist ______________________ wrote “The General Theory of Employment” in 1936, in which he spoke of the importance of government deficit spending during tough economic times

John Maynard Keynes

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The _______________________ Pact of 1928 called for the elimination of war as a tool of foreign policy

Kellogg Briand Pact

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On the eve of World War Two the European countries of ______________ and ______________ embraced fascism

Germany and Italy

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Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931 because ___________________________

they wanted access to new materials

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World War Two started when _____________________________

Hitler invaded Poland

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The ____________________ Committee suggested money helped to influence the outbreak of World War One

NYE

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In 1937 FDR announced that if a nation wanted to purchase weaponry from the United States it would have to do so on a ________ and _______ basis

cash and carry

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The United States officially entered the war a day after the Japanese attack at ________________

Pearl Harbor

The _____________________ was responsible for the conversion of U.S. industries to wartime production

War Production Board

The number of federal workers during the war rose from 1 million to ____ million

FDR signed Executive Order 9066 to ______________________________

expel all Japanese from West Coast

Korematsu vs U.S. was a Supreme Court case that ruled ____________________ was justified during wartime

Japanese internment camps

The Allied invasion of Europe across the English Channel was known as Operation ____________________

overlord/ D-Day

What did Hitler do before Germany surrendered to the Allies? _____________________

Suicide

At the Battle of ___________ the threat of Japan seizing Australia was ended

Coral Sea

After the Battle of _____________ the Japanese fleet in the Pacific was decimated, placing them on the defensive for the rest of the war

Midway

The first atomic bomb was dropped on _____________________

Hiroshima

When FDR died in office he was succeeded by __________________________

Harry Truman

The final "Big Three" meeting took place at __________________, near Berlin in July 1945.

Postdom

The "Big Three" were ____________________, _______________________ and ___________________

Russia, England, and The USA

Winston Churchill described the division of Europe as an ________________

Iron Curtain

Written by _________________, an official at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, his "Long Telegram" introduced the term "containment" when dealing with the Soviets

George Keenan

The Truman Doctrine called for _____________________________

open ended assistance to nations opposed to communism

Truman's Secretary of State who called for the rebuilding of Europe was __________________________

George Marshall

Name the nations that controlled a portion of Germany after WWII. __________________________________________________________

USA, England, Russia, and France

What does NATO mean? ____________________________________

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Joseph Stalin imposed a_______________________________________ to try to get the United States out of West Berlin

Blockaide

The U.S. response was to carry out the _____________________ for eleven months until the Soviets backed down

Shipments through air

With the passage of the _________________ Act in 1947 the Department of Defense unified its armed forces

National Security Act

NSC-68 described the Cold War as an epic struggle between the idea of ______________ and the idea of ______________

Freedom and slavery

During the Chinese civil war of 1949 the communist faction was led by _____________________

Mao Zedong

The man in charge of overseeing Japan's transition to constitutional democracy was General ______________

MacArther

During the Korean War _______________ supplied weapons to the North and ______________ supplied weapons to the South

Soviets and USA

After the United Nations got too close to the North Korean northern border the nation of _____________ launched a massive military attack on them forcing them back across the 38th parallel

China

Truman's domestic policy was called ___________________

Fair Deal

The _______ Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in February 1951, meaning that _________________________________________

22nd, A President could only serve 2 terms

Because of his behavior President Truman fired _____________________ from his military position during the Korean War

MacArther

The House Un-American Activities Committee believed _______________ in California was full of communist sympathizers

Hollywood

_____________________ is best associated with the Second Red Scare's hunt for communists

McCarthyism

The 1952 presidential election pitted ________________________, the Democratic governor of Illinois, against Republican _____________________, a military hero from World War Two

Adlai Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower

In 1961 the outgoing president warned the nation of an ____________________ Complex, which was _____________________________

Military-Industrial Complex

By 1960, ___% of the American people enjoyed a middle class lifestyle. Also by 1960, the poverty rate stood at _____%

60%, 22%

By 1960 _____million people (one-third of Americans) lived in the suburbs

Because of the baby boom the U.S. population increased by ____% between 1950-1960

19%

______________ used mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes on a large scale

Levitowns

The sputnik was ___________________

Soviet Satellite

During the 1950s this counter culture movement _________________ became disenchanted with the era's crass consumerism

Beatnicks

In his novel _______________, Jack Kerouac bemoaned the moral bankruptcy of popular culture

On the Road

Truman used his executive power in 1948 to desegregate the armed forces. Which branch of the military refused to desegregate until the Korean War?

Army

The head of the NAACP Thurgood Marshall was adamantly opposed to the idea of separate but ___________, especially when it came to schools

Equal

Brown vs. Board of Education ruled that _______________________________

Schools should be desegregated ASAP

The first major test of Brown vs. Board of Education came in 1957 when 9 black students attempted to enroll in Central High School in _____________________, Arkansas

Little Rock

Arkansas' governor, ______________ called out the National Guard to prevent the black students from entering the school

Orval Faubus

In December 1955, _______________, an African American seamstress refused to give up her seat on a city bus

Rosa Parks

The city of Montgomery's black population instigated a _________ of the bus system in response to her arrest

Boycott

The president of the Montgomery Improvement Association was 26 year old pastor _____________

Martin Luther King

In June 1956 the Montgomery Federal Court ruled that bus segregation violated the _____th Amendment to the Constitution

14th

On February 1st 1960 the first sit-in took place in ___________________ to protest segregation laws

Woolworth, North Carolina

The S.N.C.C. stood for _________________________

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee