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3. Question 1 - 10 Sit-Down Strike

4. Answer 1 – 10 a strike during which workers occupies their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.

5. Question 1 - 20 Smoot- Hawley Tariff

6. Answer 1 – 20 U.S. legislation (June 17, 1930) that raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers, adding considerable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression

7. Question 1 - 30 Social Security

8. Answer 1 – 30 a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups

9. Question 1 - 40 Speculation boom

10. Answer 1 – 40 an involvement in risky business transactions in an effort to make a quick or large profit

11. Question 1 - 50 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

12. Answer 1 – 50 tax on value added: a sales tax imposed by member nations of the Common Market on imports from the U.S. and other countries.

13. Question 2 - 10 Works Progress Administration (WPA)

14. Answer 2 – 10 Work Projects Administration: the former federal agency (1935–43) charged with instituting and administering public works in order to relieve national unemployment.

15. Question 2 - 20 53. Identify and/or evaluate the social, political, and economic causes or WWII

16. Answer 2 – 20 Social causes: Hitler caused many Germans to believe that they were superior to all other races. The Nazi’s and Hitler’s main goal was to exterminate all the Jews. Political Causes: Hitler and his Nazi Party came to power in Germany. The Allied countries were having a difficult time responding to Hitler’s aggressive style. Economic Causes: The biggest economic factor in WWII was the recession in Germany. When the Central Powers lost WWI, The Allies punished them harshly with the treaty of Versailles. One of the demands was that Germany pay heavy reparations for the war, and that put them in deep recession afterwards. Only someone like Hitler could pull Germany out of the deep hole they were in, Therefore, Germany put their full trust in Hitler.

17. Question 2 - 30 54. Identify and/or evaluate the causes and consequences of WWII both domestically and internationally.

18. Answer 2 – 30 The war was caused by the expansionist desires of dictators like Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese Imperialists. Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and Totalitarianism were rising and people like Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Tojo were growing Powerful. The treaty of Versailles treated Germany very harshly, causing them to pay $33 billion in reforms due to the war.

19. Question 2 - 40 55. Evaluate the significance of specific wartime events and actions both on the home front and on the progress of the war.

20. Answer 2 – 40 Hitler’s invasion of Poland led to Roosevelt revising the US Neutrality Act in 1935. Another event that shocked the US over seas was the formation of the Axis Powers, and it created the need for US spending to increase in its national defense. One of the most damaging attacks on the US occurred at Pearl Harbor. Japan dealt a blow more deadly to the US navy than in all of WWI. The US cried out for war and vengeance.

21. Question 2 - 50 56. Analyze the role played by individuals in the war effort, including the involvement of women and minority groups in the home from and over seas activities.

22. Answer 2 – 50 The involvement of women and minority groups helped significantly during WWII. Women helped in war efforts by taking over the men’s jobs while they were at war. Also, the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps was formed to allow women to server in noncombat positions.

23. Question 3 - 10 57. Identify and/or evaluate the role of technology in WWII and the political, economic, and social implications of the use of technology.

24. Answer 3 – 10 Technology played a huge role in WWII. With modern airplanes, for the first time, some battles were fought entirely in the air. Both sides continued U-boat (submarine) warfare, but development of sonar helped prevent sunken ships. Airplanes also allowed bombs to be dropped in places (London and Germany were heavily bombed, constantly). And last but not least, of course you have the atomic bomb which not only killed so many people (and continues to do so because of radiation), but it also sparked a long Cold War. In the political view it has changed many things with technology. It allowed for propaganda to expand and more rivalry against the politicians. In the economic view many factories went from making consumer good to war goods. The nation’s automobile plants had been retooled to produce tanks ,planes ,boats ,and command cars .A maker of mechanical pencils turned out bomb parts, a soft-drink company converted from filling bottles with liquid to filling shells with explosives. The sift into war production brought out many jobs, many held by women .People believed that women lacked the necessary stamina for factory work and were reluctant to hire them, but they proved that they could work better and more efficient.

25. Question 3 - 20 58. Evaluate the long-term influences of the war on both domestic and international affairs.

26. Answer 3 - 20 Alliances formed during WWII were not permanent. Though U.S relations were strengthened with France and Britain, and its influence grew with smaller nations in Europe. The United States also emerged as a rival super power to the Soviet Union, who shared no like for each other. This was due to several actions during the fighting in WWII. The Soviet Union had come under attack by Germany in Hitler's betrayal of their Nonaggression Pact. And the United States delayed giving them aid, however it was the Nonaggression Pact that resulted in the United States’ dislike of them. This feud would eventually develop into the Cold War, which sent waves rippling in the global pool for years to come

27. Question 3 – 30 Atlantic charter

28. Answer 3 - 30 was a pivotal policy statement first issued in August 1941 that early in World War II defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies.

29. Question 3 – 40 Coral Sea

30. Answer 3 - 40 is a marginal sea off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

31. Question 3 – 50 Final Solution

32. Answer 3 - 50 was Nazi Germany's plan during World War II to annihilate the Jewish people, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe.

33. Question 4 – 10 Hiroshima

34. Answer 4 - 10 is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It is best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II.

35. Question 4 – 20 Nagasak

36. Answer 4 - 20 is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

37. Question 4 – 30 Holocaust

38. Answer 4 - 30 was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programmer of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, throughout German-occupied territory.

39. Question 4 – 40 Home front

40. Answer 4 - 40 is the informal term for the civilian populace of the nation at war as an active support system of their military. Combat soldiers depend on "home front" civilian support services such as the factories that build materiel to support the "military front".

41. Question 4 – 50 Japanese-American Internment

42. Answer 4 - 50 was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about 110,000 people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States. The US government ordered the interment in 1942, shortly after the Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

43. Question 5 – 10 Land- Lease Act

44. Answer 5 - 10 was the law that started a program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the USSR, Republic of China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945. It was signed into law on March 11, 1941, a year and a half after the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939. This was nine months before the U.S. entered the war in December 1941.

45. Question 5 – 20 Loyalty review boards

46. Answer 5 - 20 Feeding into the atmosphere of distrust that was created by the red scare, was the executive order issued by Truman creating a Loyalty Review Board. The Loyalty Review Board investigated over 3 million employees of the Federal Government, delving into their past and present affiliations and actions in order to weed out those suspected of being communists or communist sympathizers. Over 200 were fired and thousands of others resigned, many in protest over the investigation and the secrecy surrounding the evidence being collected about them.

47. Question 5 – 30 Loyalty review program

48. Answer 5 - 30 In the federal government, President Harry Truman's Executive Order 9835 initiated a program of loyalty reviews for federal employees in 1947. This loyalty review program called for immediate dismissal if found to be 'disloyal' to the government.

49. Questiong 5 – 40 Mary McLeod Bethune

50. Answer 5 - 40 was an American educator and civil rights leader best known for starting a school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida, that eventually became Bethune-Cookman University and for being an advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.