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US history Final Exa
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the causes of WWI | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism |
| What was the Lend-Lease Act? | Act that let America sent weapons to England & the Soviet Union to help during WWII |
| What was Executive Order 9066 | 2/19/42; 112,000 Japanese-Americans forced into camps causing loss of homes & businesses, 600K more renounced citizenship; demonstrated fear of Japanese invasion |
| What was the Truman Doctrine | President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology |
| What is NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |
| What is rationing | A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use |
| What was the New Deal | A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. |
| What was the US involvement in WWI | Originally vowed isolationism, and tried to bring peace. Germany made deal with Mexico to ally their countries if U.S. entered war. Germany sank 7 U.S. merchant ships in a violation of international law. U.S. declares war and sends munitions and soldiers. |
| What was the Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952) |
| What were the Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans |
| What was the Spanish-American War | In 1898, a conflict between the United States and Spain, in which the U.S. supported the Cubans' fight for independence |
| Immigration 1890-1920 | Beginning in the 1890s, the majority of arrivals were from Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. In that decade alone, some 600,000 Italians migrated to America, and by 1920 more than 4 million had entered the United States. |
| Why did the Policy of Neutrality came to be strained between 1914 and 1916 | as more and more exports and relief were sent overseas, mostly to Britain. |
| What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts | two laws, enacted in 1917 and 1918, that imposed harsh penalties on anyone interfering with or speaking against U.S. participation in WWI |
| What are the Benefits of Marshall Plan | It stabilised the economies and political systems in several European nations bordering the Soviet sphere of influence? |
| Who is Samuel Gompers? | leader of the American Federation of Labor |
| American Federation of Labor | 1886; founded by Samuel Gompers; sought better wages, hrs, working conditions; skilled laborers, arose out of dissatisfaction with the Knights of Labor, rejected socialist and communist ideas, non-violent. |
| Technology of the 1920s | Motion pictures, phonographs and radio |
| Harlem Renaissance | A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished |
| Social Security Act | created a tax on workers and employers. That money provided monthly pensions for retired people. |
| What was Propaganda purpous | To get men to enlist and for everyone to support the war. This was done often through bonds. |
| What/Who is Rosie the Riveter? | The wars We Can Do It symbol. Women took over many jobs done by men. |
| What is the NAACP? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| Overproduction/Underconsumption | Making too much of something that no one is going to buy |
| Korean War (1950-1953) | North Korea (aided by SU) fighting to take over South Korea (Aided by US) |
| 38th Parallel | Dividing line between North and South Korea |
| African Americans roles in WWI | They fought in that mf lool |
| What is the Hull House? | the name of the settlement house started in Chicago in 1889 by Jane Addams. It became a model for the creation of settlement houses in many other cities. |
| Settlement Houses | institutions that provided educational and social services to poor people |
| Who is Jacob Riis and why was he important? | A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses of the big cities where immigrants lived during the late 1800s. He wrote How The Other Half Lives in 1890. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force |
| What was Island Hopping | A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others |
| Consumerism in the 1920s | Americans were fascinated with new consumer products in the 1920s and began overspending and borrowing on credit. Would later lead to causes of the Great Depression |
| What is Brinkmanship | A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression. |
| What/Who were the Anti-Imperialist League | objected to the annexation of the Philippines and the building of an American empire. Idealism, self-interest, racism, constitutionalism, and other reasons motivated them, but they failed to make their case; the Philippines were annexed in 1900 |
| What is the FDIC? | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)-this act insured bank deposits up to $5, 000. |
| Buying on Credit | people would purchase things and make partial payments on set intervals: installment plans, led to a lot of debt |
| What is Inflation | A general and progressive increase in prices |
| National Origins Act of 1924 | Act which restricted immigration from any one nation to two percent of the number of people already in the U.S. of that national origin in 1890. Severely restricted immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe, and excluded Asians entirely |
| Civil Rights Act of 1964 | outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin |
| McCarthyism | The term associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy who led the search for communists in America during the early 1950s through his leadership in the House Un-American Activities Committee. |
| USA Patriot Act | law passed due to 9/11 attacks; sought to prevent further terrorist attacks by allowing greater government access to electronic communications and other information; criticized by some as violating civil liberties |
| Johnson's Great Society | set of programs proposed by President Johnson to eliminiate poverty and racial injustice. |
| Domino Theory | A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. |
| War Powers Act | Act that grants emergency executive powers to president to run war effort |
| Election of 2008 | Barack Obama vs. John McCain. 365 electoral votes to Obama, 173 electoral votes to McCain |
| Cesar Chavez | 1927-1993. Farm worker, labor leader, and civil-rights activist who helped form the National Farm Workers Association, later the United Farm Workers. |
| Martin Luther King | U.S. Baptist minister and civil rights leader. A noted orator, he opposed discrimination against blacks by organizing nonviolent resistance and peaceful mass demonstrations. He was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Nobel Peace Prize (1964) |
| Silent Spring | A book written to voice the concerns of environmentalists. Launched the environmentalist movement by pointing out the effects of civilization development. |
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