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Final Exam
Global Citizenship
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| this document establishes our desire to no longer be a colony | declaration of independence |
| a written plan of government | constitution |
| an addition to this document | amendment |
| the number of amendments on the original constitution | 0 |
| the name for the first ten amendments | bill of rights |
| the total number of amendments in the constitution | 27 |
| america's political system | democracy |
| america's economic system | capitalism |
| this term means government should stay out of the economy | laissez-faire |
| the first three words of the constitution | we the people |
| the opening paragraph of the constitution | preamble |
| the branch that makes the law | legislative |
| the branch that carries out or executes the law | executive |
| the branch that interprets the law | judicial |
| the highest person in the executive branch | president |
| highest body in the legislative branch | congress |
| the highest body in the judiciary | Supreme Court |
| the five rights of the first amendment | religion speech press assembly petition |
| the belief that it is america's obvious fate to be a world power | manifest destiny |
| america's greatest inventor | Thomas Edison |
| the oil baron who controlled 90% of the oil | rockefeller |
| the name of his oil company | standard oil |
| this president expanded the power of the office of the president | T Roosevelt |
| famous muckraker book about the meatpacking industry | The Jungle |
| journalism that distorts the truth | yellow journalism |
| deep parallel defensive ditches that are the symbol of ww1 fighting | trench warfare |
| wilson's plan to end the great war | 14 points |
| the treaty to end ww1 | treaty of versaii |
| the first man to fly alone across the atlantic | charles Lindbergh |
| the name of his plane | spirit |
| henry ford's popular car | model T |
| the abolition of alcohol is known as | prohibition |
| this type of music dominates the twenties | jazz |
| the historic significance of October 29th, 1929 | wall Street crash |
| the only president to serve more than two terms | F Roosevelt |
| his plan to end the depression | new deal |
| the three goals of his plan | relief recovery reform |
| the name of his radio addresses | fireside chats |
| the nickname for the drought stricken great plains | dust bowl |
| the dictator of germany of ww2 | Adolf Hitler |
| his political party | nazi |
| his lightening war | blitzkrieg |
| the historic significance of Dec 7, 1941 | pearl harbor attack |
| the naval base attacked to get the US into WWII | pearl harbor |
| the Supreme allied commander in the European theater of operation | eisenhower |
| the massive allied invasion of the beaches of France | d-day |
| the codename for this operation | operation overload |
| the name for the genocide of the Jews | holocaust |
| the code name for america's research on an atomic weapon | manhattan project |
| the first city in the world to suffer an atomic attack | Hiroshima |
| the second city to suffer an atomic attack | Nagasaki |
| the international peace keeping organization formed after WWII | United nations |
| three privileges of the allies in this organization | Permanent members veto power military action |
| the increase of births from 1946 to 1964 | baby boom |
| the 45 year rivalry between the US and USSR | cold war |
| the leader of the UN forces in Korea before he was fired | Douglas macarthur |
| the first satellite | Sputnik |
| the belief that communism must not be allowed to spread | domino effect |
| this woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus | Rosa parks |
| this Court case desegregates schools | brown v board of education |
| de jure segregation is also called | Jim crow |
| the American civil rights leader who believed in peaceful protest | Martin Luther King |
| the name of his legendary speech | I have a dream |
| this term means massive peaceful protest of an unjust law | Civil disobedience |
| the Indian leader who initiated this strategy | ghandi |
| the historic significance of Nov 22 1963 | Kennedy assassination |
| the most famous black power leader | Malcolm x |
| the spy plane shot down over the USSR | U-2 |
| the disastrous plan to overthrow Castro | bay of pigs |
| america's naval blockade response to Soviet missiles in Cuba | cuban missile crisis |
| this man shot jfk | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| the commission that investigates the shooting | warren commission |
| this president is blamed for getting us into Vietnam | Johnson |
| this president is credited with getting us out of Vietnam | Nixon |
| this is the name of lbj domestic plan | great society |
| the first man on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| the rock festival that draws half a million hippies | Woodstock |
| south vietnamese communists | viet Cong |
| this couple was executed for selling atomic secrets | Rosenbergs |
| segregation by custom or fact | de facto |
| segregation by law | de jure |
| the turning point of the war in Vietnam | tet |
| nixon's plan to end the war in Vietnam | vietnamization |
| the election scandal that ruined Nixon | Watergate |
| the evidence that proves what nixon knew | tapes |
| the reason Nixon never stands trial for his crimes | pardoned |
| america's worst nuclear disaster | 3 mile island |
| the economic combo of stagnant economy & inflation | stagflation |
| the only president to resign | nixon |
| the second president to be impeached | Clinton |
| the nickname for reagan's supply side economics | reaganomics |
| this space shuttle explodes in 1986 with a civilian | challenger |
| the code name for the Persian gulf war | desert storm |
| free trade agreement with Canada, US, mexico | NAFTA |
| location of america's worst domestic terrorist attack | Oklahoma city |
| the three targets on September 11th 2001 in america's deadliest foreign terror attack | north tower south tower pentagon |
| the hurricane that devastated New Orleans | Katrina |
| location of deadly elementary school shooting 2012 | sandy hook |
| the first African American president | Obama |
| the third president to be impeached | trump |
| post 9/11 this cabinet position consolidated Intel | homeland security |
| the most violent current terrorist organization | isis |
| recent international space success | international space station |
| new federal holiday recognizes date all slaves freed | Juneteenth |
| global pandemic creating worldwide isolation | COVID 19 |
| national movement for greater concern black lives | black lives matter |
| massive oil spill off coast of Alaska | Valdez |
| massive oil spill in gulf of Mexico | deep water horizon |
| president Obama's massive healthcare reform | obamacare |
| landmark legislation to protect the differently abled | ada |
| the date of a chaotic deadly breach of the capitol | Jan 6 2021 |