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Mansfield Gray EOC
EOC terms and subjects
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WW II leader of Germany | Hitler |
| WW II leader of Italy | Mussolini |
| WW II leader of Soviet Union | Stalin |
| WW II Prime Minister of Britain | Churchill |
| US policy of "loaning" out war supplies during WW II | lend lease |
| Event that prompted the US entry in to WW II | Bombing of Pearl Harbor |
| What was the one area that U.S. continually fought against throughout the Cold War | spread of communism |
| What is the period known as Reconstruction? | Rebuilding of America after the Civil War. |
| Of the three branches of government, whose power cannot be checked through checks and balances? | U.S. supreme court |
| How did buying Alaska help the U.S. economy? | Rich in timber, gold, and oil. |
| Who were the main supporters of the Populist Party? | Farmers from the Midwest |
| Provide two countries where the U.S. actively fought against communism. | Korea and Vietnam |
| What is assimilation? | Attempt to get immigrants to "fit in" to American culture. |
| What major change was there to voting and political participation in the 1970's? | Voting age lowered to 18 |
| Which New Deal program was the largest? | WPA |
| What was the D-Day invasion? | Allied invasion in to France from Britain to begin pushing Germany back and defeating them. |
| Who were the world's two major superpowers after WW II? | U.S. and Soviet Union |
| Who won the Korean War? | Nobody, it was a stalemate |
| Who won the Vietnam War? | North Vietnam, U.S. helped South Vietnamese and lost |
| What president's programs were known as the "Great Society"? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What documents aim was to ensure communism did not spread to Greece and Turkey? | Truman Doctrine |
| In the late 1900's factories and industry in general started closing in the North. What was this region called? | Rust Belt |
| What three progressive era reforms expanded participation in the country's political process? | direct election of U.S. senators, initiative referendum recall, direct primary |
| What act provided 160 acres of land to farmers if they could live on the land and make something of it for 5 years? | Homestead Act |
| What are civil rights? | Push for equal rights for African Americans |
| How did Britain use the policy of appeasement toward Germany in WW II? | Gave in to Hitler in the hopes of avoiding war. |
| The Red Scare is a scare of what in America? | communism |
| Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools. | Brown V Board of Education |
| Who has the power to declare war in the U.S. government? | Congress |
| Top secret program that developed the atom bomb in the U.S.during the 1930's and 1940's. | Manhattan Project |
| What group of people was Jane Addams attempting to help through her settlement houses? | Immigrants |
| At what government level did political machines and their bosses operate? | local level (cities) |
| Which act established the draft during WW I? | selective service act |
| Populist Party candidate that gave famous "Cross of Gold" speech and fought against evolution in schools | William Jennings Bryan |
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