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Description:	2nd semester final exam
Category:	U.S. History
Created by:	droe on 2009-05-27

Question	Answer
helped to standardize middle class culture, change values and strengthen ethnic traditions	mass media
first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic	Charles Lindbergh
encouraged by easy credit plans, advertising, merchandising and installment buying	consumerism
new music style that influenced classical musicians, one of the most influential contributions by African American artists in the 1920's	Jazz
women of the 1920s who cut her hair, wore short dresses, drove and participated in sports	Flapper
caused bootlegging boom and deaths from alcohol related causes declined	Prohibition
was the fastest growing industry in the 1920s	Automobile industry
designing products to go out of style	Planned obsolescence
the fight to ban alcohol	Prohibition
teacher who’s trial exposed the division between religious and scientific values in American society during the 1920s	John Scopes
farmers from Oklahoma v	Okies
books to help people forget problems of the depression (like westerns or Orphan Annie)	Escapist novels
Roosevelt’s plan to turn around the Depression	New Deal
intended to stop bank withdrawals	Bank Holiday
said the New Deal was too costly, gave the gov. too much power and said the New Deal did not go far enough	Critics of New Deal
helped preserve cultural heritages	Native Americans and New Deal
FDR’s radiobroadcasts	Fireside Chats
Eleanor Roosevelt pulled her membership from the DAR after she was not allowed to sing at constitution hall	Marion Anderson
Hoover’s did little to end the problems caused by this	Depression
large-scale stock selling caused the market to crash on this day	Black Tuesday
caused by debt, global economic problems, and overuse of credit,mortgages	Great Depression
group of WWI vets that tried unsuccessfully to pass the Veterans Bonus Bill	Bonus Army
provided electricity, flood control and recreational facilities for the Tennessee River valley	TVA
extended power lines to isolated areas	REA
gave older Americans benefits so they could retire	Social Security Act
crucial to 1936 election of FDR	African American
gave jobs to young men, helped create parks, planted trees	CCC
many Americans wanted to make money from rising stock prices so invested in the	Stock Market
many lost their land during the depression due to lack of money to pay their	farmers
his belief in rugged individualism caused him to oppose direct federal relief	Herbert Hoover
Tenant farmer left land and headed west because of this	Dust Bowl
Roosevelt’s plan to add new justices over the age of 70.	Court packing
helped in many ways to ease the depression, saw the creation of shantytowns during the depression	urban communities
leader of the US during WWII	Franklin Roosevelt
Mexican Americans were victims of violence during these	Zoot Suits riots
systematic slaughter of European Jews by Germany	Holocaust
Dec. 7, 1941	Pearl Harbor
forced movement of US troops to prison camps in the Philippines	Bataan Death March
invasion of Australia was halted by this	Battle of the Coral Sea
after invasion of this island the US knew it could attack mainland Italy	Sicily
after the atomic bombs were dropped on these two cities WWII ended	Hiroshima and Nagasaki
One of several military organizations that accepted women volunteers for military duty during WWII.	WASP'S
1942 invasion of North Africa resulted in allied control of this area	Mediterranean
Giving into demands in an effort to avoid larger conflicts	Appeasement
policy of withdrawing from world affairs	Isolationism
marked allied invasion of France	D-Day
imprisonment of Japanese Americans	Internment
years US was involved in WWII	1941-1945
leader of all Allied troops in Europe	Dwight D. Eisenhower
another name for Germany’s quick attacks on Poland and France “lighting war”	Blitzkrieg
Japan violated all international agreements and invaded what area?	Manchuria
the most important consequence of WWII was the emergence of the US and USSR	Superpowers
systematic slaughter of European Jews	Holocaust
commander of US forces in the Pacific	Douglas MacArthur
strategy of attacking certain positions and bypassing others	Island Hopping
Selective training and service act, selling war bonds, hiring women were all part of	mobilization
codename of the atomic bomb project	Manhattan Project
required members of the US communist party to register with the Government	Internal Security Act
head of US forces that helped administer Japan after the war	Douglas MacArthur
under this veterans were given federal aid to buy homes, attend college and start businesses	GI Bill
provided Europe with financial aid to combat communism	Marshall Plan
began when North Korea invaded South Korea	Korean War
political party that split in 1948 over civil rights issues	Democratic Party
president who ended racial discrimination in the military	Truman
divided into four occupation zones, Berlin was jointly controlled, the Nazi party should be crushed here	Germany
countries under Soviet control	Satellite Nations
required member so the US communist party to register with the government	Internal Security Act
dividing line between North and South Korea	38th parallel
placed atomic energy under civilian control	Atomic Energy Act
policy of restricting the spread of communism	Containment
was divided after WWII because the Soviet Union and the US occupied the nations	North and South Korea
shows on this new medium of the 50’s often reinforced racial and ethnic stereotypes	television
showed that some southern whites were unwilling to accept Brown vs. Board	Little Rock Arkansas
gave teenagers of the 50’s an outlet for rebellion	Rock n Roll
established the segregation was illegal	Brown vs. Board
senator who tried to find communists in the US	Joseph McCarthy
started the civil rights movement by not giving up her seat on a bus	Rosa Parks
blockade of the Berlin was ended by the	Berlin Airlift
in response to NATO the soviets formed their own military alliance known as the	Warsaw Pact
increase in the number of births in the US	baby boom
the search for these created a climate of fear and suspicion	Communism
brought in the National Guard to keep schools segregated	Governor Faubus
agency developed as a direct result of Sputnik	NASA
after WWII people were moving where?	suburbs
arms-reduction talks were halted when this plane crashed	U-2 incident
Location of failed invasion by anti-Castro Cuban refugees.	Bay of Pigs
referred to the influence of English bands such as the Beatles.	British invasion
urged black to use “any means necessary” to fight for freedom	Malcolm X
led to a generation gap, experimentation with drugs	Counterculture
Supreme Court case that made police officers read everyone their rights	Miranda vs. Arizona
Marked the high point of the counterculture movement	Woodstock
program that sent volunteers to work for two years in developing countries	Peace Corps
Established that women and men holding the some job must receive the same pay	Equal Pay Act
Tactic used by early civil rights activists to fight for equal rights	Nonviolent resistance
resulted in the “hot line” removal of missile bases in Cuba and the limited nuclear test ban treaty	Cuban missile crisis
requires protesters to never resort to violence	nonviolent resistance
reflected the social changes of the time	Music of 1960’s
the most recognizable symbol of the cold war?	Berlin Wall
first president of South Vietnam	Ngo Dinh Diem
The process of relocating the inhabitants of and destroying South Vietnamese villages was called	Pacification
transportation and communications system used to move weapons and supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam, passed through Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos	Ho Chi Minh Trail
were conducted by US forces to flush Vietcong from hiding places	Search and destroy
if one country became communist all the rest would	Domino Theory
lowered voting age from 21 to 18	26th Amendment
believe all war is wrong, Vietnam was not important to the US, US involvement in Vietnam was against the wishes of most Vietnamese	Doves
site of one of the worst cases of US killing civilians during Vietnam	Mai Lai
as designed to limit the power of the President	War powers Act
this was supposed to result in gradual withdrawal of US troops, peace with honor, stable South Vietnam	Vietnamization
two years after US military forces left Vietnam	Saigon fell