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Final @ college
College final material for tuesday
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What year did the great depression start? | 1929 |
| What is the dust bowl? | Farmers not plowing there fields creating particles to blow to many areas across the United States, more in mid western states such as; okalahoma & arkansas. |
| Who wrote "Grapes of Wrath?" | John Steinbeck |
| What was "Grapes of Wrath" about? | The dust bowl |
| Who was the president during the great depression? | Herbert Hoover |
| What is the bonus army? | World War I veterans protesting in Washingtion D.C. |
| What is a hooverville? | Poor people setting up hundreds of tents to sleep in. |
| Who were the midwestern robin hoods? | John Dillinger; Bonnie & Clyde |
| What did the midwesteren robin hoods do? | Rob banks then give the money to help out poor people. |
| Who is Machine Gun Kelly? | A bank robber. |
| Who was elected president of the United States of America in 1932? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Who was elected president of the United States of America in 1928? | Herbert Hoover |
| Who started the first new deal? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| What are the 3 R's | Recovery, Relief & Reform. |
| What are the fireside chats? | The president giving speeches on the radio. |
| Which President did fireside chats? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| What is the Bank Holiday? | When F.D.R shut down banks for 5 days. |
| What was the Bank Holiday used for? | To restore confidence to the american people. |
| What does the FDIC stand for and what does it do? | Federal Desposit Insurance CorporationIt requires all banks to have insurance if they go under. |
| What does PWA stand for and what does it do? | Public Workers AdministrationIt helped build tunnels, bridges & dams. |
| What does NRA stand for and what does it do? | National Recovery AssociationMinimum wage. |
| What does AAA stand for and what does it do? | Agriculture Adjustment AdministrationIt limited agriculture volume to make the prices go up. |
| What does TVA stand for and what does it do? | Tennesse Valley AuthorityIt built dams and was used for electricity & flow control. |
| What does CCC stand for and what does it do? | Civilian Conservation CorporationHired people age 18 to 25 to plant trees, fire lookouts, campgrounds. |
| What does WPA stand for and what does it do? | Works Progress AssociationPaid people to write books and play music. |
| What does NYA stand for and what does it do? | National Youth AssociationHelpes teenageers to get jobs at libraries, cafeterias. Started work study too. |
| What years did the first new deal start and end? | 1933-1935 |
| What years did the second new deal start and end? | 1935-1938 |
| What did William Foster do? | He wrote a book called "Toward Soviet America." |
| Who was Norman Thomas? | A socialist. |
| What party gained strength during the great depression? | The socialist party. |
| Who is Huey Long? | A Lousiana governor who was communist. |
| Who started the Share-Our-Wealth Club? | Huey Long |
| Who is Dr. Francis Townsend? | He started the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan. |
| What did the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan want to do? | Give people age 60 and above $200 a month until they died. |
| What replaced the idea of the Townsend Old Age Pension Plan? | Social Security. |
| What is the Wagner Act? | Labor Relations. It allowed people to be in a union to make a bargain. |
| What is the Fair Labor Standard Act | The official minimum wage. 40 cents an hour |
| What was the court packing plan? | A threat to raise the number of justices if they didnt pass a bill. It made the justices back down and not interfere with the process! |
| What did the new deal end up doing? | It saved the party. |
| What ended the depression? | World War II |
| What is "Fasces?" | A symbol of power. |
| What is the Anti-Comitern Pact? | A treaty against communism. |
| What is the Nye Committee? | They wanted to make weapons for war to make $ |
| What is the Quarentine Speech? | Roosevelt wanted to presude congress to quarentine US and to not trade weapons with the countries that were involved in World War 2 |
| What is Cash-and-Carry? | Sell weapons to other countries and not get involved in the war. |
| What is the Lend Lease program? | Let countries fighting in the war borrow weapons and they can pay us back later. |
| What is the Atlantic Charter? | Winston Churchill & Roosevelt meet and agree to help each other in world war II. |
| What happened to the 'USS Reuben James' ship? | It sank because the germans torpedoed it. |
| When did Pearl Harbor happen? | Dec 7 1941 |
| What is the Bataan Death March? | In the Phillipines US soldiers were forced to march when they got weak they were shot :( |
| Who is Henry Kaiser? | He started Kaiser Aluminum during WW II |
| What is midway island? | An island between Hawaii and Japan that Japan took over at one point during WW2. |
| What was the Japanese plan for winning WW2? | Fight until the end. |
| Who led D-Day? | Gen. Douglas MacArthur & Gen. Dwight Eisenhower |
| What is D-Day? | When we landed in Normandy, France and pushed the Germans out in 1944 |
| What made the Germans surrender? | Hitler committing sucide. |
| What is Kamikaze? | Japanese loading airplanes with explosives and crashing on american ships. |
| What is the Manhatten Project? | The research done before the United States used the atomic warfare in Japan. |
| Who led the Manhatten Project? | Gen Leslie Groves (military leader) & J. Robert Oppenheimer (top scientist) |
| Who was the father of the nuclear bomb? | J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| Where is Los Alamos? | in new mexico |
| What happended in Los Alamos? | The first nuclear bomb was tested |
| What is the Enola Gay? | The airplane used to carry the atomic bomb to Hiroshima & Nagasaki. |
| What did the GI Bill of Rights & the Servicemen's Readjustment Act do? | It gave the soldiers free college after World War II. |
| Which President did the Fair Deal? | Harry Truman |
| Who was elected President in 1944? | Harry Truman. |
| Who is Thomas Dewey? | Harry Truman's republican opponet in the election of 1944 |
| Who is Boss Tom Pendergrass? | He helped get Harry Truman in for Senate and he eventually worked his way up to President of the United States. |
| Who was an accidental President? | Harry Truman |
| What 4 things were in Truman's fair deal plan? | Social Security, Minimum Wage, Public Housing & Civil Rights |
| What is the 52-20 Club? | People who collect $20 checks each week from the govt and dont go to college or look for a job. |
| Who implemented the GI Bill of Rights & the Servicemen's Readjustment Act? | Harry Truman |
| What are Dixiecrats? | Southerners who support slavery who created there own political party. |
| Who was the Dixiecrat nomminee? | Strom Thurmond |
| When the Dixiecrat party died which party did they switch to? | Republican party. |
| What is Integration? | Don't discriminate against blacks in the military. |
| Where was the Potsdam Conference? | Germany |
| What three people met for the Potsdam Conference? | Joesph Stalin & Harry Truman & Winston Churchill |
| What 5 countries are in the United Nations? | United States, Britain, China, Russia & France |
| Where was the Yalta Conference? | Russia |
| What is the United Nations modeled after? | League of Nations |
| Who started the iron curtain? | Winston Churchill |
| What is the iron curtain? | Claiming to "not know whats going on" |
| Who is George Kennan? | He started the containment policy NSC-68. |
| What is the containment policy? | If you come here I will block you. |
| What does NATO stand for? | National Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Who started NATO? | George Marshall |
| What does NATO do? | Helps other countries rebuild. Creates allies. |
| What years was the Korean War? | 1950-1953 |
| Who are the communist leaders in Korea? | Kim Il-Sung & Syngman Rhee |
| What peral did they separate North & South Korea by? | 38th Peral! |
| Who started the second red scare? | Joeseph McCarthy |
| What does HUAC stand for? | House on Unamerican Activities Committee |
| Who were the two communust members that were spies during the manhatten project? | Julius & Ethel Rosenberg |
| What decade was called the golden age? | 1950's |
| Who is Adlai Stevens? | He was the democratic opponnet who ran against Dwight Eisenhower. |
| What year did they limit the presidency to only 2 terms? | 1951 |
| What amendment says that a president can only be elected for two terms? | 22nd Amendment |
| After which President did the two term limit go into effect after? | Truman |
| Which President started the Dept of Health, Dept of Education, Dept of Welfare & Food Stamps? | Dwight Eisenhower |
| What years was the baby boomer generation? | 1945-1960 |
| Who is William Levitt? | He started Levittown's. They were small and affordable houses. |
| Who started the Interstate Highway Act? | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Who wrote the book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Childcare?" | Dr. Benjamin Spock |
| What is Religiuos Revival? | One nation under god & In god we trust. |
| What is the second reconstruction? | Civil Rights Movement |
| What does NAACP stand for? | National Advancement of Colored People |
| What does CORE stand for? | Congress of Racial Equality |
| What year did Brown vs Board of Education happen? | 1954 |
| What is the Little Rock Crisis? | When the whites blocked all the doors so that the blacks could not enter the school. |
| What does SCLC stand for? | Southern Christain Leadership Conference |
| Who led the SCLC? | Martin Luther King. |
| What is a sit-in? | Where blacks would go in a restaurant and take up every seat so that whites couldnt sit down. |
| Where did the freedom ride start and end? | Washington DC to New Orleans |
| What amendment is the voting rights for blacks? | 24th amendment |
| Who was Malcom X? | He was a black muslim that killed police men |
| Who did J.F Kennedy run against in 1960? | Richard Nixon |
| Who wrote the book "Profiles of Courage?" | J.F Kennedy |
| Which President started the Peace Corp? | J.F Kennedy |
| What is the Peace Corp? | College students could go to poor countries to help them and they got college schlorships in return! |
| What country launced the first satellite? What was the satellites called? | Russia; Sputnick |
| What does NASA stand for? | National Aeronatical and Space Administration |
| Who is Fidel Castro? | The communist leader of Cuba. |
| What was the United States invasion of Cuba called? | Bay of Pigs |
| What date was J.F Kennedy killed? | Nov 22nd 1963 |
| What city and state was J.F Kennedy killed? | Dallas, TX |
| Who shot J.F Kennedy? | Lee Harvey Oswald. |
| Which President was the director of the NYA(national youth association?) | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Who is Michael Harrington? | He wrote "The Other America" |
| What was the book "The Other America" about? | Poverty in America |
| What does VISTA stand for? | Volunteers in Service to America |
| What does CAP stand for? | Community Action Program |
| Who started VISTA & CAP? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What was VISTA & CAP meant to do? | Help poverty in america |
| Who won the election of 1964? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Who started medicare & medicaid? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Which President wanted a program called "great society?" | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What does HUD stand for? | Housing Urban Development |
| What was HUD meant to do? | help lower income families |
| What did the immigration reform do? | It gave more visas to third world countries. |
| Who wrote the book called "Unsafe at any Speed?" | Ralph Nader |
| What was the book "Unsafe at any Speed" about? | How the car companies spend very little on safety features in cars compared to how much they profit. |
| What did the Highway Safety Act do? | Made laws that cars had to have seatbelts & redesigned highways and the signs. |
| Where did the Highway Beatification Act start? | Texas |
| What does NEA & NEH stand for? | National Endowment of ArtNational Endowment of Humanity |
| What does PBS stand for? | Public Broadcasting System |
| What years was the Vietnam War? | 1964-1975 |
| Who was the leader of China & Vietnam at the time of the Vietnam War? | Ho Chi Minh. |
| What was the Vietcong? | A gorilla group who caused trouble in Vietnam during the war. |
| What happend at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu? | The north and south korea are divided at the 17th peral. |
| What incident made LBJ declare war on Vietnam? | The Tonkin Gulf Incident |
| What happend at the Tonkin Gulf Incident? | Two ships were attacked by Vietnam. |
| Who ordered Operation Rolling Thunder during the Vietnam War? | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What Gen was in charge of the Operation Rolling Thunder? | Gen. William Westmoreland |
| What strategy did the United States use during the Vietnam War? | Strategy of Attrition |
| What was Tet Offensive? | When vietnam took over a united states embassy for a short time. |
| Who is Walter Crokite? | A NBC news anchor |
| What did Walter Crokite say? | "We can't win vietnam!" |
| What is fragging? | When soldiers killed there own officer or general! |
| Who signed the Paris Agreement? | Richard Nixon |
| What did the Paris Agreement do? | It was the end of the Vietnam War and we got POW's back. |
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