semester 2 final

Question 1

The _________________ helped cause WWII because people were anxious to find leaders who would help them return to work and to feed their families

Answer 1

Great Depression

Question 2

December 7, 1941

Answer 2

Pearl Harbor

Question 3

June 6, 1944

Answer 3

D-Day Invasion

Question 4

Why did the Allies invade Normandy

Answer 4

to take back France

Question 5

Which president decided to use the atomic bombs in WWII?

Answer 5

Harry Truman

Question 6

__________ are acts committed with intent to destroy a whole national, ethnic, racial, or religious group

Answer 6

genocide

Question 7

How did Hitler explain his views on the Jewish people before he came to power?

Answer 7

they were the cause of all issues

Question 8

ghetto

Answer 8

enclosed forced living quarters for Jews

Question 9

Which death camp is known for killing the most people during the Holocaust?

Answer 9

Auschwitz

Question 10

what two countries were specifically aided by the Truman Doctrine

Answer 10

Greece and Turkey

Question 11

what laws was signed by President Lyndon Johnson that banned segregation in all public places

Answer 11

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 12

What was Emmitt Till’s contribution to the Civil Rights Movement?

Answer 12

sparked national outrage

Question 13

What did Jim Crow Laws do and provide examples?

Answer 13

segregated public facilities

ie bathrooms, education, transportation

Question 14

Which civil rights event used the tactic of overcrowding jails

Answer 14

Birmingham marches

Question 15

Under the Treaty of Versailles, _______ was blamed for causing WWI and was made to pay ____________________

Answer 15

Germany; $33 billion in reparations for damage caused during the war

Question 16

Under _______________’s military leadership, Japan searched for more land for its expanding popultion and natural resources like rubber and oil.

Answer 16

Hideki Tojo

Question 17

Under the policy of appeasement, Britain and France allowed ____________ to seize part of ___________ known as the __________ in the hope that this would satisfy his urge to control more territory

Answer 17

Adolf Hitler; Czechoslovakia; Sudetenland

Question 18

Benito Mussolini founded the National Fascist Party in Italy and won popular support amongst _______

Answer 18

fascists, Italians

Question 19

_______ was the leader of Germany that rose to power in the late ’20s and early ’30s

Answer 19

Adolf Hitler

Question 20

giving Hitler a region of Czechoslovakia in order to avoid war was known as __________

Answer 20

appeasement

Question 21

what happened to the economy of the world before WWII?

Answer 21

depression

Question 22

Axis Powers

Answer 22

Germany, Italy, Japan

Question 23

Allied Powers

Answer 23

UK, US, Soviet Union

Question 24

“Lighting War” tactic used by the Germans

Answer 24

Blitzkrieg

Question 25

how did the Germans attack in the Battle of Britain?

Answer 25

Luftwaffe

Question 26

Which cities were destroyed by atomic bombs in WWII?

Answer 26

Hiroshima and Hagasaki

Question 27

the campaign of terror in Germany in which 10,000 shops owned by Jews were looted, burned, and destroyed

Answer 27

Kristallnacht Pogrom

Question 28

Cold War

Answer 28

a 40-year standoff between the Soviet Union and the US that resulted in the space race, arms race, and intense competition from both global superpowers

Question 29

the buildup of nuclear weapons on each side of the Iron Curtain

Answer 29

arms race

Question 30

38th parallel

Answer 30

divided North and South Korea

Question 31

political figure that used the communist scare to help gain and increase political power

Answer 31

Joseph McCarthy

Question 32

political figure that brought communism to Cuba

Answer 32

Fidel Castro

Question 33

why did the US blockade around Cuba

Answer 33

Soviet buildup of nuclear missile bases

Question 34

Why was the US worried about nuclear weapons in Cuba?

Answer 34

Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida

Question 35

which political figure controlled North Vietnam after it gains independence from France?

Answer 35

Ho Chi Minh

Question 36

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Answer 36

transport supplies and troops from North Vietnam to aid the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong fighting in the South

Question 37

what countries did the Ho Chi Minh Trail go through

Answer 37

Cambodia and Laos

Question 38

Nixon’s plan to turn ground fighting over the South Vietnamese

Answer 38

Vietnamization

Question 39

Sputnik

Answer 39

first man-made satellite by the Soviet Union

Question 40

Supreme Court Case that integrated public schools in the US

Answer 40

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 41

Differences between MLK and Malcolm X’s views on the use of violence

Answer 41

MLK used peaceful protests

Malcolm X thought violence was fine in promoting civil rights

Question 42

the African-American students who integrated Little Rock’s Central High school

Answer 42

Little Rock 9