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Who was the vice presidential candidate for Democrat James Cox in 1920?

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Franklin Roosevelt

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Alfred E. Smith was controversial because of what?

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He was Catholic

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The reparations and war debt payments that Germany had been required to pay were eventually?

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Cancelled

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What farm pricing system did the McNairy-Haugen Bill Propose?

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A parity pricing system

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What was “the noble experiment”?

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Prohibition

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During the 1920s, immigration into the United States was what?

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Severely restricted

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What group to help blacks was founded in 1910?

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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What group’s rebirth troubled blacks, Jews, Catholics, and other minorities?

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The Ku Klux Klan

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What treaty was a pledge to abstain from war?

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The Kellogg-Briand Pact (or the Treaty of Paris)

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On what did President Hoover blame the Depression?

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On international economic conditions

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What fraction of the nation’s workers were unemployed at the worst point of the Depression?

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1/4

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Franklin Roosevelt was governor of what state before being elected President?

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New York

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What was the overall name for FDR’s program?

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The New Deal

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What employed 500,000 men between ages 18 and 25 in two thousand work camps across the country to clear forests and build state parks and dams?

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The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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What step did Roosevelt take with regard to gold?

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He decided to take the country’s currency off the gold standard

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What program was a new experiment in unified planning for an entire region?

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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What did Social Security provide?

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Unemployment and retirement benefits

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Who was the “Kingfish,” the boss of Louisiana politics?

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Huey Long

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What region of the United States was known as the Dust Bowl during the Depression?

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Western Kansas and Oklahoma areas

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To what state did many people from the Dust Bowl move?

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California

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What humorist was a star of stage and screen in the early 1930s?

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Will Rogers

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What significant diplomatic recognition was extended by the Roosevelt Administration in 1933?

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The official recognition of the Communist government of the Soviet Union

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What policy was urged by Neville Chamberlain?

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Appeasing Germany

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Who were some dictators that came to power between the wars?

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Benito Mussolini of Italy, Adolph Hitler of Germany, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union

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What event is seen as beginning WWII in Europe?
When Britain and France declared war on Germany after Germany launched an invasion in Poland
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What was the series of defensive forts that France had built along its border with Germany?
Maginot Line
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From what French coastal city did England evacuate its troops?
Dunkirk
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What was the battle that comprised of a German air attack on Britain, RAF defense?
Battle of Britain
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What was the U.S. offer to help nations resisting Axis aggression?
Lend-Lease
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What was the document issued from a meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt that stated shared principles?
The Atlantic Charter
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On what day was Pearl Harbor attacked?
December 7, 1941
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What did General Douglas MacArthur say when he left the Philippines?
"I shall return"
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Where did the Allies attack after taking Africa?
Sicily and Italy
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Where did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet for the first time?
Tehran, Iran
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What is the name given to the massive Allied invasion of northern France at Normandy?
D-Day
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What was the name of the American project to develop an atomic bomb?
The Manhattan Project
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What two cities in Japan were hit by atomic bombs?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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What island only 750 miles from Japan was taken at a cost of 7,000 American lives?
Iwo Jima
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Where did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin meet in February of 1945?
Yalta on the Crimean Sea
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What was the breakthrough of German forces in Belgium in December of 1944?
The Battle of the Bulge
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What was the largest naval battle of the war?
The Battle of Leyte Gulf
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What happened to about 100,000 Japanese-Americans during the war?
They were interned in relocation camps
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What was the name given to May 8, the end of the war in Europe?
V-E Day
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What two naval battles stopped the Japanese advance in the Pacific?
The battle in the Coral Sea and the battle at Midway Island
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What part of the U.N. holds the real power in making decisions?
The Security Council
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The mutual defense organization of the U.S. and European countries is called what?
NATO
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What plan helped European nations rebuild after World War II?
The Marshall Plan
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The Communist attempt to cut off supplies to West Berlin was defeated by what?
The Berlin Airlift
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When did the Korean War begin?
When North Korea invaded South Korea
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Who accused Alger Hiss of being a Communist?
Whittaker Chambers
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Who was the commander of the U.S. and U.N. forces?
Douglas MacArthur
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Who were the Hollywood Ten?
Ten Hollywood actors who were suspected of being Communists
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What law of 1944 benefited veterans returning from World War II?
The Veterans Readjustment Act (also called the GI Bill or the GI Bill of Rights)
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Who was the first black player in Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
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How did Truman further civil rights for blacks?
He ordered the desegregation of the military
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What did Truman call Congress in the 1948 campaign?
The "Do-Nothing Congress"
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Who became leader of the Soviet Union after Jospeh Stalin?
Nikita Khrushchev
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Who was the Communist leader that declared a new government in North Vietnam in 1945?
Ho Chi Minh
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What was the name of the event when U.S.S.R. shot down U.S. spy plane?
U-2 incident
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Who was the 1952 Democratic presidential nominee?
Adlai Stevenson
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What was the transportation system begun by Eisenhower?
The Interstate Highway system
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The Kefauver Committee did what?
Investigated organized crime
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Who seized power in Cuba in 1959 with cautious support from the United States?
Fidel Castro
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What was the main issue that the Federal civil rights laws of 1957 and 1960 addressed?
The right of blacks to vote
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What did the governor of Arkansas do in 1957 to prevent the integration of Central High School in Little Rock?
He called the National Guard to prevent black enrollment from taking place
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What Middle Eastern country was the focus of a conflict in 1956 regarding the Suez Canal?
Egypt
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What did the *Brown v. Board of Education* decision say about separate but equal?
That separate educational facilities are unequal
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What new government agency assumed control of the American space program from the military?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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What two labor organizations merged in 1955?
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
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People in what European country attempted to revolt against Soviet domination in 1956?
Hungary
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What area of American life received increased Federal funding in response to the space race?
Education
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What does ICBM stand for?
Inter-continental ballistic missiles
73
List the first 34 Presidents of the United States in order
(1) George Washington, (2) John Adams, (3) Thomas Jefferson, (4) James Madison, (5) James Monroe, (6) John Quincy Adams, (7) Andrew Jackson, (8) Martin Van Buren, (9) William Henry Harrison, (10) John Tyler, (11) James K. Polk, (12) Zachary Taylor, (13) Millard Fillmore, (14) Franklin Pierce, (15) James Buchanan, (16) Abraham Lincoln, (17) Andrew Johnson (18) Ulysses S. Grant, (19) Rutherford B. Hayes, (20) James A. Garfield, (21) Chester A. Arthur, (22) Grover Cleveland, (23) Benjamin Harrison, (24) Grover Cleveland, (25) William McKinley, (26) Theodore Roosevelt, (27) William Howard Taft, (28) Woodrow Wilson, (29) Warren G. Harding, (30) Calvin Coolidge, (31) Herbert Hoover, (32) Franklin D. Roosevelt, (33) Harry S. Truman, (34) Dwight D. Eisenhower

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