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What was the Age of Consumerism?

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It was a time when people starting buying more things.

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What was the Scopes Monkey Trial?

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Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee’s butler act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution. Scopes was guilty and was fined.

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

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African Americans are fighting for a change.

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Who was Langston Hughes?

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Celebrated black life and culture. His literary work helped shape American literature and politics.

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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?

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Were charged with murder because they were Italian

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Who was Marcus Garvey?

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Wanted races to be separate, he wasn’t racist. African American nationalist

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Define Facism

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Authorial and government

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Who benefited from the New Deal?

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Women,Unemployed, elderly

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Why did the economy collapse?

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People wanted money from banks at the same time, and banks didn’t have all the peoples money because it was invested in stock. Bank failure led to depression

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Who is Father Coughlin?

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raw deal, nationalizing industry, anti-Jew

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Who was Huey Long?

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wanted to tax the rich to give money to the poor, share the wealth

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Similarities between Father Coughlin and Huey Long?

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both thought there was an unbalance distribution of power and wealth, both formed national organization to promote their causes

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What issues did the common man face during the 1930’s?

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no job, not enough money to support family, bad living conditions, not enough food

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What was the Federal Arts Project?

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Provided work relief for artists in various media-painters, sculptors, muralists and graphic artists.

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What is Fair Labor Standards Act?

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40 hour work week, National minimum wage, Prohibited most employment of minors

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What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?

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Federal government guarantees $250,000 back if the bank doesn’t have your money

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Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?

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Nuclear weapon scientist accused of being spies, put in electric chair

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What is the Truman Doctrine?

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US is going to support countries who are threatened by the Soviets.

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Impact of Korean War

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It’s the war that never ended, Neither country stopped fighting

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Countries in Warsaw

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Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany ,Albania

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Countries in NATO

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Belgium, Canada, Denmark, United Kingdom, United States, West germany

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What was the Red Scare?

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A Red Scare is the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism

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Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism

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He spread the word about the rise of communism. McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

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What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?

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A speech he gave saying a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.

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Impact of Space Race?
The race to space between US and Soviet Union. Still use the technology that was used in Space Race
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What was the American Dream?
Living in the suburbs, parents and 2 kids
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Who was Dr.Spock?
Wrote a book about parenting, and how it is ok to spoil your kids which was a new concept
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Countries in Allied Forces
Soviet Union, China, Poland, Indonesia, India, France , United Kingdom, United States,Greece
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Countries in Axis
Germany, Japan, Romania, Hungary, Italy
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Define Text
literal text
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Define subtext
an underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or conversation.
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Define context
Background information
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What is a speakeasies?
is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverages.
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What is the prosperity of 1920’s?
People were happy
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Who created the New Deal?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Theme of New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression
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Who created the "Great Society"?
Lyndon B Johnson
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Theme of Great Society?
main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice.
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Who did the KKK dislike?
Jews, Blacks, Catholics
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Who was the common thread between Huey Long and Father Coughlin?
They used a radio to get their word out
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Define Appeasement
Avoiding conflict and finding peace
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What were women excepted to do in WW2?
Make sure everything was ok at home
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What was excepted from every American?
Put all effort towards the war
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African Americans role in Homefront during WW2?
They fought in the war.
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What was D-Day?
turning point on western front, storming beaches of Normandy, France.
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What was Stalingrad?
Eastern front soviets vs. Nazis. turning point on eastern front
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Which country had the most casualties both civilian and soldiers”
Soviet Union
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Where was the atomic bomb dropped?
Hiroshima, Japan
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What was the Iron Curtain?
was the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991
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What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
In 1896, made African Americans considered property.
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What was Brown vs. Board of Education?
Created separate but equal
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What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
got rid of voting rights restrictions
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race
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What was Freedom Riders?
were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
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What caused the formation of the Berlin Wall?
Berlin Crisis
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Was the Bay of Pigs a success or failure?
Failure
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Who was involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
US, USSR, Cuba
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Which was not a cause of Vietnam war?
religion of vietnamese
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Who encouraged the Red Scare?
Joe McCarthy
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Who won the Korean war?
No one
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Who was the Berlin Airlift supposed to help?
Citizens in West Berlin receiving goods
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Who was the Marshall Plan supposed to help?
Western Europe after WWII
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What was added to the pledge in the 1950s?
Under God
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In what decade were people conformists?
1950s
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Example of non-conformists?
Beatniks
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Example of conformists?
Beatles
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What did consumerism impact?
public interest and the economy
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What is Counter Culture?
Counter culture is the rejection of societal standards
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What was not a technological advance of WW2?
radio
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What was not a key battle of WW2?
Madrid
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Actions on the homefront did not include?
Anti-War movements
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Similarities between Japanese and Jews?
Went through similar situations, and had challenging times
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How did Hitler implement his plans?
Slowly
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How did politicians act in the 1920s?
Selfish and dishonest
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When did the age of consumerism occur?
1920s
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Who used violent forms of protesting?
Malcom X
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During which period did consumers spend the most?
1920s or 1930s
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The civil rights act of 1968 banned discrimination in which activity?
prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
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All of the following are part of the American Dream EXCEPT?
a. house in the suburbs b. better life than my parents c. new car d. better life for my kids
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Why are the 1920s sometimes called the roaring twenties?
“roaring” because of the exuberant, freewheeling popular culture of the decade.
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Which of the following best describes Herbert Hoover’s plan to end the Depression?
give money to charities, hoover dam, reconstruction finance corporation
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Which of the following actions by Britain and France would be as a policy of appeasement?
turned a blind eye to hitler or tested armed forces in the spanish civil war
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US President’s policy to assist countries who were struggling with communism?
Truman Doctrine

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