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US History Review
Review over WW1 till present time
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President Roosevelt stepped up his support for great Britain by providing them with weapons & equipment only if they promised to pay them after the war through his ____ _____ Act of 1940 | Lend lease |
| Charles Lindbergh became a famous face of the America First Committee, a(n) ______ group that vocalized its opinion about WWII | Isolationist |
| In July 1940, Roosevelt signed the Export Control Act; this allowed Franklin Roosevelt to restrict the sale of: | Strategic Materials to Japan |
| franklin Roosevelt responded to the Pearl harbor assault with the following phrase: "yesterday, December 7, _____--a date which will live in _____-- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of _____" | 1941, infamy, japan |
| The attack on pearl harbor, Hawaii killed just over _____ Americans and injures 1,178 | 2,403 |
| Pearl Harbor seemed an unlikely target to the Japanese navy because of its: | extreme distance from Japan |
| The "Night of broken glass", or in German called _____, was a night of state-sponsored violence against German property owners & citizens of Jewish ancestry on November 9, 1938 | Kristallnacht |
| A decree that took citizenship away from Jewish Germans is one example of the _____ ______ of September 1935 | Nuremberg Laws |
| The saga of the S.S. St Louis best discriminates how: | Other countries failed Germany's Jews |
| Camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka served the purpose of ______ camps during WWII | Extermination |
| Giant sets of ovens were built at the extermination camps specifically to: | Dispose of the bodies of gassed prisoners |
| One of the world's most famous accounts of a family's struggle to hide from the Nazi's in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands was written in the diary of a teenaged-girl named | Anne Frank |
| Roosevelt supported _______, he idea that trade between nations creates prosperity an helps to prevent war | Internationalism |
| The countries of ___, ___ and ___ formed the axis powers starting in 1936 and more formally in 1940 | Germany, Italy and Japan |
| Adolf Hitler was strongly nationalist in his beliefs and definitely anti- _____ when it came to the Soviet Union | Communist |
| Adolf Hitler wrote a famous book, _____ _____ while serving in prison | Mein Kampf |
| The policy of giving concessions in exchange for peace was called _____. Unfortunately, Britain & France believed that this would satisfy Adolf Hitler | Appeasement |
| The German combined arms approach to warfare came to be known as "Lightning War", or ______ | Blitzkrieg |
| The French thought that their massive line of fortifications on the German Border, the ____ ____, would thwart any German invasion | Maginot Line |
| New piece of warning technology was called _____ | Radar |
| The _____ Act of July 1935 gave unions the right to organize without inference from employers; this paved the way for allowing the organizing of factory elections by the National Labor Relations Board | Wagner |
| Roosevelt's most serious threat was from a fellow democrat and senator from Louisiana named ____ _____ whose followers formed "share your wealth" clubs around the nation | Huey Long |
| an era of confrontation and competition between the US and the Soviet Union that lasted from about 1945 to 1991 is called the _____ _____ | Cold war |
| Eastern European nations had to remain Communist and friendly to the Soviet Union were called _____ ______ | Satellite Nations |
| Located near berlin, Truman and Stalin met to work out a deal on Germany at _____ | Potsdom |
| Issued by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin (the big three), the _____ __ _____ _____ declared "the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they will live". | Declaration of Liberated Europe |
| The ___ ____ separated the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the West; The world war II era had come to an end. | Iron Curtin |
| about 20% of American Combat deaths in Vietnam were ______-______ soldiers, a rate that was twice their proportion of the population in the United States | African American |
| Those who believed that the US should stay and fight in Vietnam came to be known as _____ | Hawk |
| the 26th amendment gave all citizens age ___ and older the right to vote in all state and federal elections | 18 |
| In 1968, republican candidate ______ _____ promised America "law & order" as well as an end to the Vietnam war. He got elected to president as a result | Richard Nixon |
| Four students were killed and nine others were wounded at ____ _____ University on May 4, 1970 during a protest of Nixon's widening of the Vietnam War | Kent State |
| Nixon's program to cut back the number of American Troops in Vietnam was known as _____ | Vietnamization |
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