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3915B- US Basic
Final Review Flash Cards for 3915B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the issue in the Teapot Dome Scandal? | oil |
| What was a flapper? | a woman |
| What was a speakeasie? | illegal bars |
| What year did the stock market crash? | 1929 |
| What was the name given to the administration of Franklin Roosevelt? | New Deal |
| What government program was passed to help the elderly in the 1930s | Social Security Act |
| What group opposed the reforms of Franklin Roosevelt? | Supreme Court |
| What was the name of the political party of Benito Mussolini? | Fascist |
| What was the name given to Adolf Hitler that meant "leader"? | Fuehrer |
| What group was murdered in the Holocaust? | Jews |
| What country was invaded by Germany to officially start World War II? | Poland |
| What is the name give to the type of warfare of Germany in World War II? | blitzkrieg |
| What countries comprised the Axis Powers? | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| What place was bombed on December 7, 1941? | Hawaii |
| What is the name given to June 6, 1944? | D- Day |
| What agreement discussed post war plans for the world in 1946? Where did the meeting take place? | Yalta |
| What two cities were attacked with atomic bombs? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| What year saw an end to World War II? | 1945 |
| What was the name of the third party running for presidency in 1948? | Dixiecrats |
| What was meant by the term "Iron Curtain"? | the military weapons of the Soviet Union |
| What was the Marshall Plan? | The rebuilding of Europe after WWII |
| What city was saved from takeover by the Soviet Union in 1948? | Berlin |
| What American general was in charge of the U. N. forces in the Korean War? | Douglas MacArthur |
| What is the name of the first satellite? | Sputnik |
| What was the final outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis? | missiles being removed from Cuba |
| What happened to the Kennedy brothers and Martin L. King? | They were assissinated |
| What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? | It allowed President Lyndon Johnson to send troops to South Vietnam. |
| What group hoped to benefit by the Equal Rights Amendment? | women |
| What year did Neil Armstrong land on the moon? | 1969 |
| What two major countries were visited by President Richard Nixon? | China and Soviet Union |
| What was the Watergate Scandal? | the break-in of the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington D. C. |
| What was the greatest accomplishment of President Jimmy Carter? | The Camp David Treaty |
| What country kept 52 American hostages for over a year in the 1970s? | Iran |
| What president used the term "New Federalism"? | Ronald Reagan |
| What two countries were parts of the Iran-Contra Scandal? | Nicaragua and Iran |
| What country was attacked in "Operation Desert Storm"? | Iraq |
| What future president was implicated in the Whitewater Affair? | Bill Clinton |
| What was the key state in the 2000 presidential election? | Florida |
| Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean? | Charles Lindbergh |
| Who was the president when the stock market crashed? | Herbert Hoover |
| Who refused to give up her seat in the white section of a bus? | Rosa Parks |
| Who did John Kennedy defeat for the presidency in 1960? | Richard Nixon |
| Who were the three candidates for the presidency in 1968? | Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace and Richard Nixon |
| Who was the first woman on the Supreme Court? | Sandra Day O'Connor |
| Who signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty for the Soviet Union? | Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Who was the second president to be put on trial for crimes? | Bill Clinton |
| Who did George Bush defeat for the presidency in 2000? | Al Gore |
| Who was the first American to orbit the earth? | John Glenn |
| Where is the Sudetenland? | Czechoslovakia |
| Where were four students murdered for protesting the Vietnam War? | Kent State |
| When did the Great Depression begin? | 1929 |
| What was the name of the program put into place during the Great Depression to help the elderly? | Social Security Act |
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