FINAL EXAM

Question 1

drought, wind, poor farming technique

Answer 1

Dust Bowl

Question 2

many dust bowl victims moved to

Answer 2

California

Question 3

Written by John Steinbeck, it depicts the grim lives of Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl

Answer 3

Grapes of Wrath

Question 4

Black Tuesday 1929

Answer 4

Stock Market Crash

Question 5

putting down of payment and borrowing the rest

Answer 5

stock on margin

Question 6

Causes of the Great Depression

Answer 6

• decreased demand for industrial gods
• Americans living on credit
• unregulated stock market and banking systems

Question 7

Initially believed the economy would “fix itself”

Answer 7

President Nixon

Question 8

Boulder Dam

Answer 8

provided jobs & water for California agriculture

Question 9

Hoovervilles

Answer 9

homeless communities, people conveyed their disgust with hoveer

Question 10

Movies

Answer 10

served as an escape from Depression in the 1930s

Question 11

President Roosevelt & New Deal

Answer 11

domestic reform plan to fix the economy

Question 12

Fireside Chats

Answer 12

most Americans during the 1930s got their news from the radio

Question 13

FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

Answer 13

protects saving your money in case of bank failure

Question 14

WPA (Works Progress Administration)

Answer 14

work program also hired artists, musicians, actors

Question 15

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

Answer 15

regional development in severely depressed area, built and renovated 25 dams

Question 16

Social Security

Answer 16

pensions fro retired workers also provided assistance for children and the disabled

Question 17

federal deficit

Answer 17

-federal government debt
-government is spending more than it’s taking in
-amount of federal debt added in a fiscal year

Question 18

Supplying WWII finally ended

Answer 18

the Great Depression

Question 19

Despite the rise of militarists and dictators in Japan, Germany, and Italy

Answer 19

US decided tried to remain isolated from European conflicts

Question 20

Atlantic Charter

Answer 20

meeting between Churchill and Roosevelt where they outlined peace goals for the post-war world

Question 21

agreement between germany and the soviet union that led to the invasion & division of poland

Answer 21

non-agression pact

Question 22

attacked by japan, dec. 7, 1941, “a date that will live in infamy”

Answer 22

Pearl Harbor

Question 23

confined internment camps for no crime, american citizens were denied due process of law

Answer 23

Japanese american internment

Question 24

once the US entered the war with the Allies the first priority was

Answer 24

Winning the war in europe 1st

Question 25

supreme commander of US forces in europe

Answer 25

Eisenhower

Question 26

sea battle in the pacific, between u.s. and Japan, was a turning point in the war, heavy japanese loses allowed the allies to begin to retake pacific islands

Answer 26

Battle of Midway

Question 27

U.S strategy of moving from island to island

Answer 27

Island Hopping

Question 28

they distinguished themselves during WWII by using their language as a code the Japanese could not break

Answer 28

Navajo Code Talkers

Question 29

decorated african american pilots who flew in the European theater

Answer 29

Tuskegee Airmen

Question 30

worked in the defense industries doing the same jobs as men but they were paid less

Answer 30

american women

Question 31

scarce goods such as shoes, sugar, and gas underwent

Answer 31

rationing

Question 32

first dropped in Hiroshima, the development of this changed the world the most after WWII

Answer 32

Atomic Bomb

Question 33

cold war super powers

Answer 33

United States & Soviet Union

Question 34

metaphorical division of western democratic nations and eastern communist nations

Answer 34

Iron Curtain

Question 35

eastern european countries controlled by the soviet union

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satellite nations

Question 36

response to when the Soviets blockaded West Berlin in 1948

Answer 36

Berlin Airlift

Question 37

U.S and Western European nations formed a military alliance in opposition to the soviet union

Answer 37

NATO

Question 38

military alliance between the soviet union and its allies

Answer 38

Warsaw Pact

Question 39

Mao Zedong and the communists win in 1950

Answer 39

Chinese Civil War

Question 40

after wwii Korea was divided at the 38th parallel, communist north Korea and non communist south Korea are still divided today

Answer 40

Korean War

Question 41

President Eisenhower's policy in which the US would go to the brink of war before backing down

Answer 41

Brinkmanship

Question 42

USSR removes its missiles from Cuba

Answer 42

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 43

Soviet Union launches first satellite into space

Answer 43

sputnik

Question 44

first man in space

Answer 44

Yuri Gargarin

Question 45

Moon Landing

Answer 45

US is the first nation to land on the moon in 1969

Question 46

communist takeover of CHina, Berlin blockade, alger hiss and other spies

Answer 46

second red scare

Question 47

actors, writers, and directors who did not cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in its search for communists

Answer 47

Hollywood 10

Question 48

large number of babies born after WWII

Answer 48

baby boom

Question 49

white middle class americans move to the suburbs

Answer 49

White FLight

Question 50

president johnson's domestic reform plan

Answer 50

Great Society