Final Exam Flashcards
(121 cards)
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1.Where did a majority of the U.S. population live in the 1920s?
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Urban Areas
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2.What movie star captured the attention of the American public more than
any other during the 1920s?
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Charlie Chaplin
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When was the first movie shot in Hollywood?
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1910
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4.What was the most significant innovation of the 1920s?
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Henry Ford’s Model-T
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5.Who put to rest doubts about the ability of the airplane to fly overseas?
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Charles Lindbergh
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What impact did the radio have on the United States?
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Smoothed…
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7.What sports stars of the 1920s became the most famous of all according to
your book?
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Babe Ruth
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8.The trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti sparked an increase in
backlash in what group of people within the United States?
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Immigrants
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9.Upton Sinclair’s novel Boston was based on the trial of whom?
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The trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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10.According to your textbook, what ultimately put and end to the Ku Klux
Klan?
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The Great Depression
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11.What was at the core of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
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The teaching of evolution in schools
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12.How was Aimee Semple McPherson different from other preachers of her day?
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The way she dressed (tight fitting clothes, makeup, etc.)
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13.Jazz was born out of what American community?
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African-American
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14.What writer did not follow the norm in comparison to other “Lost Generation” writers?
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Sinclair Lewis
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15.What factors prevented Alfred Smith from winning the 1928 election?
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He was very flamboyant and outspoken, which did not go over well with many Americans
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What would be the ultimate legacy of Herbert Hoover as president?
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His failure to address the nation’s hardships during the Great Depression
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What was Herbert Hoover’s philosophy about the American people?
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He believed in American individualism
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What led to the Stock Market Crash?
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Reckless Investments
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What were Americans saying immediately after the Stock Market Crash?
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Hoover did not want to cause panic;
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How did the Great Depression impact families?
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Women who sought work outside the home faced opposition from different avenues
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Where did Americans turn to for aid during the administration of Herbert Hoover?
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Churches
22
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Why did President Hoover never issue a stern warning to stem the
investment tide in the United States despite the fact that he knew it was not
good for the country?
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He did not want to cause a panic
23
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What was the goal of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation signed into
law in 1932 by Herbert Hoover?
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The goal was to boost confidence in the nation’s financial institutions by ensuring that they were on
Solid footing
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What was the outcome of the 1932 strike at a Ford Motor Company near Detroit?
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Four died in the strike leading to the cries of police brutality
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What was the result of the Bonus Expeditionary Force march on Washington in 1932?
The result of the march was that Herbert Hoover had become a defeated man
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By the end of 1932, how many Americans were impacted by the Great Depression?
60 million
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As late as 1939, what percentage of farm families were considered impoverished?
82%
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What was the outcome of the Scottsboro Case?
Most of the accused received lengthy prison terms
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How did the Great Depression impact farmers?
Exacerbating the plight of the farmer was a massive drought that began in 1931
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What was the Clark Memorandum? Who included this in his foreign policy?
Greater assistance to Latin American; Herbert Hoover
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The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 signaled what?
A permanent shift in the role of the federal government in guiding the economy and providing a direct assistance to the people
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Historians identified the election of FDR as the beginning of what?
A new Democratic coalition
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Who was mentioned in your textbook as being a part of FDR's "Brains Trust?"
Rexford Tugwell
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What did the American people come to believe at President Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s inauguration?
They believed in hope for a better day in the U.S. and were impressed with FDR
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Did the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 help banks rebound from the Great
Depression?
Yes, 70% of banks were declared solvent and allowed to reopen by March 15, 1933
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What piece of legislation created the United States Employment Service?
The Wagner-Peyser Act
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What was the most important part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Southern farmers were paid to reduce their production
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How was the National Recovery Administration connected to minimum
wage and work hours?
It mandated that businesses accept a code that included minimum wage and maximum work hours
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Was there an educational component to the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Yes-Roosevelt envisioned it as a template for regional development for the rest of the nation
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Who criticized FDR for the New Deal?
Both conservatives and liberals
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What was Huey Long’s financial plan called? Who did he campaign against?
Share Our Wealth Plan-He campaigned against FDR
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What New Deal organization collected oral histories of former slaves?
The Works Progress Administration
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Who was not helped by the initial social security system?
Many women and African Americans
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How did FDR’s Court Packing Plan impact his legacy?
It left a stain on Roosevelt’s legacy
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How did the New Deal impact African Americans?
The WPA eventually employed 350,000 African Americans annually, accounting for nearly 15% of its
workforce
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How did the New Deal impact African Americans?
The WPA eventually employed 350,000 African Americans annually, accounting for nearly 15% of its
workforce
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What awakened the United States from the Great Depression?
World War II
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In August of 1939, Germany and Russia agreed to divide what nation among them?
Poland
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What were the major agreements made between FDR and Winston Churchill
in the Atlantic Charter?
The U.S. and Britain sought no territory from the conflict
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How did Lend Lease affect American neutrality in World War II? Who
received benefits from Lend Lease? When did it go into effect?
It effectively ended the policy of nonintervention and dissolved America’s pretense of being a neutral nation
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Why did the Japanese really attack Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese wanted to remove the ability of the U.S. to defend the Dutch East Indies
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What prepared the United States for the coming of World War II? Hint: It was a policy
The Cash and Carry Policy
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How did the United States government secure business participation in
making ammunition and weapons for World War II?
The government agreed to assume all costs of development and production, and also guarantee a profit on the sale of what was produced
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What nationality within the Native American community served as code
talkers during World War II according to the textbook?
Navajo
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Who was promoted from a one-star general to a four-star general and given
the responsibility of serving as Army Chief of Staff on the very same day
that Germany invaded Poland in 1939?
George C. Marshall
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Who was appointed commander of the General European Theater of
Operations in June 1942?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What came about as a result of Executive Order 9066?
People of Japanese ancestry were forced to relocate and often placed within internment camps
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Why Franklin D. Roosevelt support Europe's first strategy in World War II?
He viewed Germany as the greatest threat
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What agreements were reached at the Casablanca Conference that took place
in January 1943?
Churchill conceived Roosevelt to delay an invasion of France in favor of an invasion of Sicily
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At which of the following battles did the Japanese suffer their first defeat
since the 19th century?
The Battle of Midway
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What happened to Korea after the Japanese surrendered in World War II?
It was divided along the 38th parallel
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Well before the end of the World War II, Congress had passed one of the
most significant and far-reaching pieces of legislation to ease veterans’
transition into civilian life. This legislation was known as what?
The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
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What did the policy of containment say about the Soviet Union and who
created this policy?
It formed the basis for U.S. policy and military decision making for over 30 years - The policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries
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What was the Truman Doctrine and how did it impact U.S. involvement
around the world?
It offered to support Turkey and Greece in the form of financial assistance, weaponry, and troops to help train their militaries and bolster their governments against communism
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What was the purpose behind the Marshall Plan? How did the Soviets react to the plan?
It aimed at stopping communism in Italy and France
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How did the United States respond to the Soviet blockade of the western
zones in Berlin in June 1948?
Supplies were airlifted into western Berlin
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What theme appeared in many of the early rock and roll songs?
Rebellion against authority
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Many television shows in the 1950s reinforced what values in the face of
communism?
Individualism and family
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Jackie Robinson was instrumental in breaking the color barrier in which of
the following sports?
Baseball
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Who successfully argued the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas before the U.S. Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl
Warren?
Thurgood Marshall
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Who as governor of Arkansas, resisted integration of schools in Little Rock?
Orval Faubus
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What was The Southern Manifesto?
96 members of congress accused the U.S. Supreme Court of misusing its power and violating the principles of states’ rights by enforcing segregation
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The death of whom inspired Rosa Parks and her protest of racially
segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama?
Emmett Till
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What was it about John F. Kennedy that appealed to Americans?
His sense of optimism and youthfulness
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Why did John F. Kennedy hesitate to propose new civil rights legislation?
His domestic reform plans remained hampered
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What was the motive behind the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba?
To remove Fidel Castro from power
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What action did President Truman take in 1950 regarding Vietnam?
He sent a small military advisory group to Vietnam and provided financial aid to help France defeat the Viet Minh
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When President Kennedy took office, what role did the United States take in Vietnam?
Continuing the policies of the Eisenhower administration, Kennedy supplies Ngo Dinh Diem with money and military advisors to prop up his government
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What characterized the Great Society legislation?
Medicare was created
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What was the purpose of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?
To pressure President Kennedy to act on his promises regarding civil rights
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What was the theme of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from a Birmingham Jail?"
Americans had waited patiently for more than 300 years to be given the rights that all human beings deserved; the time for waiting was over
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The death of whom led to massive rioting by African Americans in
Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968?
Martin Luther King Jr.
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In which of the following cases, did the Supreme Court rule that segregating
children of Hispanic descent was unconstitutional?
Mendez v. Westminster
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What were baby boomers looking for when they attended universities?
To "find" themselves
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Who wrote The Feminine Mystique in which she contested the post-World
War II belief that it was women’s destiny to marry and bear children?
Betty Friedan
85
The three-day, rainy event characterized by thirty-two acts of musicians
performed for a crowd that partook freely of marijuana, LSD, and alcohol is
known as what?
Woodstock
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The first postwar organization for homosexual civil rights, the Mattachine
Society, was launched in what American city in 1950?
Los Angeles
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Who the first Asian American woman elected to Congress and co-author of
the Education Amendments Act of 1972, Title IX of which prohibits sex
discrimination in education?
Patsy Mink
88
Richard Nixon's greatest area of triumph was in what area?
Foreign Policy
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Richard Nixon courted the silent majority. Who was he referencing?
Blue Collar Workers
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According to your book, why did Richard Nixon begin to slow the progress
of the civil rights movement after he was elected president?
He saw that restricting African American activity was a way of undercutting a source of votes for the
Democratic Party
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To which nation did Nixon abruptly reverse two decades of U.S. diplomatic
sanctions and hostility when he traveled there in February of 1972?
China
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The treaty in which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to deploy
only two antiballistic missile systems is known as what?
The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)
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Several people were killed at Kent State and Jackson State colleges in 1970.
Students at both schools had been protesting what?
The invasion of Cambodia
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Who signed an accord with Le Duc Tho, the chief negotiator for the North
Vietnamese, ending American participation in the Vietnam War?
Henry Kissinger
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What was the ultimate outcome of the investigations surrounding the
Watergate Scandal?
Richard Nixon resigned and the scandal showed that the government could not be trusted to protect the interest of the people or tell the truth
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According to your textbook, which of the following was the most important
of Jimmy Carter's campaign pledges?
To never lie
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How did Ronald Reagan win the White House according to the textbook?
By citing big government and attempts at social reform as the problem, not the solution
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What was the goal of the Parents Music Resource Center?
To limit the ability of children to listen to music with violent content
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To which country did Ronald Reagan refer to as the evil empire?
The Soviet Union
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What took place on October 23, 1983 in Beirut?
More than two hundred American soldiers were killed when their barracks were attacked
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With what Soviet leader did Ronald Reagan have success in reducing
nuclear armaments?
Mikhail Gorbachev
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What did George H.W. Bush promise at the 1988 Republican National
Convention?
No new taxes
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What major historical event occurred in 1989?
The Berlin Wall was torn down by peaceful protesters
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How did President George H.W. Bush break new ground in the arena of civil
rights?
His support of the Americans with Disabilities Act
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In 1994, the Clinton administration became the first to do which of the
following?
To launch a website
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Who was appointed by Bill Clinton to head his Task Force on National
Health Care Reform in 1993?
Hillary Clinton
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Who blew up a Federal Building in Oklahoma City to spark a revolution
against government control?
Timothy McVeigh
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What allowed Bill Clinton to see foreign crisis for what they were?
The end of the Soviet problem
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What was the stated cause engaging in military action against Iraq on March
19, 2003?
The U.S. believed that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction
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What was the ruling in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld?
The military tribunals that tried Guantanamo prisoners violated both U.S. federal law and the Geneva
Conventions
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According to your textbook, what served as the basis of President George
W. Bush's education reform?
He believed in self-regulatory powers of competition
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Who ran against George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election?
John Kerry
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What federal agency failed to adequately assist with Hurricane Katrina?
FEMA
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Who became the first female Speaker of the House in January of 2007?
Nancy Pelosi
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In 2003 what was revealed about the corporate culture of the United States?
That many corporate offices were engaged in falsifying the true economic status of their companies
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What state became the first to allow same-sex couples to marry?
Massachusetts
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Who was Barack Obama's opponent in 2008?
John Mccain
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Why did Barack Obama choose Joe Biden as running mate for the 2008
election?
To offset Obama's lack of experience in foreign affairs
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Why was President Obama's decision to give $80 billion to help Chrysler
and General Motors controversial?
It was controversial in that some it as a foreshadowing of a government takeover
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When did President Obama announced that, for the most part, combat actions in Afghanistan were
essentially over?
May of 2014
