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Trans. U.S. Final Review

Trans. U.S. Final Review. Questions:. 1. What date did the stock market crash? October 29, 1929 2. This date became known as: Black Tuesday 3. The three presidents of the 1920’s were all from which political party? Republican

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Trans. U.S. Final Review

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  1. Trans. U.S. Final Review

  2. Questions: • 1. What date did the stock market crash? • October 29, 1929 • 2. This date became known as: • Black Tuesday • 3. The three presidents of the 1920’s were all from which political party? • Republican • 4. Shanty towns that were high in crime and poverty were called: • Hoovervilles

  3. Questions: • 5. Who was elected president in 1932? • Franklin D. Roosevelt • 6. What political party was he from? • Democrat • 7. What was the name of the programs he tried to have to help with the Depression? • New Deal • 8. What were the three R’s? • Relief, Recovery, Reform

  4. Questions: • 9. Which New Deal Program helped the elderly and retired? • Social Security • 10. How were banks effected by the depression? • Bank runs-people took their money out, people could not pay back loans • 11. If you were young and unmarried during the depression what New Deal program helped you? • CCC-Civilian Conservation Corps.

  5. Questions: • 12.What happened at the Bonus March with the Bonus Army under President Hoover? • The president called out the army and violence erupted • 13.What did the FDIC do? • It insured bank deposits up to $5000 to get people to trust banks • 14.How did the Great Depression affect women and African Americans? • Increased discrimination, accused women of taking jobs form men

  6. Questions: • 15.What battle is shown in this picture? • Iwo Jima • 16.Who was the fascist leader of Italy during WWII? • Mussolini • 17.What role did Spain play in WWII? • Neutral • 18.Why? • They were fighting a civil war

  7. Questions: • 19.Who is represented in this picture? • Rosie the Riveter • 20.What date did Pearl Harbor happened? • Dec. 7, 1941 • 21.What was the battle to free France? • D-day, Normandy, Operation Overlord • 22.After D-day, the Germans had a counterattack at: • The Battle of the Bulge • 23.What were conditions like at the Battle of the Bulge? • Cold, snowy

  8. Questions: • 24.What are three ways U.S. citizens at the home front can help the war effort? • Ration, join military, grow victory gardens, do scrap metal or fat collections, buy bonds • 25.Japanese suicide bombers who flew their planes into ships were called: • Kamikazes • 26.Who was the emperor of Japan? • Hirohito

  9. Questions: • 27.Who was the leader of Germany during WWII? • Hitler • 28.Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain? • Winston Churchill • 29.Who was the U.S. president until his death in 1945? • FDR • 30.Which president had to make the decision to drop the bomb on Japan? • Truman

  10. Questions: • 31.True/False • African Americans were allowed to fight alongside whites in WWII. • False • 32.True/False • Women were allowed to fight in combat in WWII. • False

  11. Questions: • 33.What groups of Americans were put in internment camps during WWII? • Japanese Americans • 34.Why? • Fear of sabotage/spies/loyalty to Japan • 35.What happened to Mussolini? • He was captured by the people trying to escape from jail, was killed and hang by his feet from a gas station

  12. Questions: • 36.What happened to Hitler at the end of the war? • He committed suicide by shooting himself • 37.The political policy of putting the nation over the individual in which a country often has a salute, symbol and title for their leader is called: • Fascism • 38.The policy of not getting involved in the affairs of other countries is called: • Isolationism • 39.In the beginning, France and Great Britain practiced a policy of _______________ in which they gave into Hitler’s demands. • Appeasement

  13. Questions: • 40.The killing of 6 million Jews during WWII is called the: • Holocaust • 41.Name three groups that Hitler targeted during WWII. • Jews, gypsies, handicap, homosexuals • 42.The Allied strategy against the Japanese was called: • Island hopping • 43.The code name for the building of the atomic bomb was called: • Manhattan Project

  14. Questions: • 44.Why did the U.S. drop the bomb on Japan? • To shorten the war and save American lives • 45.What was the affect of dropping the atomic bomb? • Destroyed building, killed 10,000’s of people, people also died later of radiation poisoning/got cancers/birth defects

  15. Questions: • 46.What year did the war end? • 1945 • 47.WWII started with the invasion of what country? • Poland • 48.Name four Axis Powers. • Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania • 49.Name five Allied Powers. • France, Great Britain, U.S., China, Soviet Union

  16. Questions: • 50.The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities? • Hiroshima and Nagasaki • 51.The German strategy of bombing an area with sudden attacks by air and land is called: • Blitzkrieg • 52.Name three items that were rationed during WWII. • Nylon, rubber, metal, wood, gas, red meat, canned items, sugar, coffee

  17. Questions: • 53.What role did women play in the 1950’s? • Housewives • 54.What impact did Joe McCarthy have on society in the 1950’s? • He spread the fear of communism • 55.What was the result of the Korean War? • Korea stayed divided almost exactly where it had been

  18. Questions: • 56.What parallel divided North and South Korea? • 38th • 57.What country launched the first satellite successfully into space? What was its name? • Soviet Union/Sputnik • 58.What were three factors that led to suburban growth in the 1950’s? • GI Bill, affordable housing like Levittowns, baby boom • 59.Who said “An Iron Curtain has descended across Europe”? • Winston Churchill

  19. Questions: • 60.The fear of one country falling to communism and then its neighbor is called: • Domino Theory • 61.Name three countries who were part of the Warsaw Pact. • Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany • 62.Which part of the country in the 1950’s had Jim Crow Laws? • South • 63.Which group did Caesar Chavez help fight for rights? • Migrant farm workers

  20. Questions: • 64.Who was Jackie Robinson? • First African American baseball player in major leagues • 65.Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam in the 1960’s? • Ho Chi Minh • 66.What was the capital of South Vietnam? • Saigon • 67.What amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote? • 26th

  21. Questions: • 68.Why did the U.S. invade Iraq in 2003? • We thought Iraq had weapons of mass destruction • 69.Who was the mastermind of the 9/11 attack? • Osama bin Laden • 70.Why was Nixon forced to resign? • Watergate Scandal • 71.Which Supreme Court case legalized abortion? • Roe v. Wade

  22. Questions: • 72.How did t.v. change American’s view of the Vietnam War? • They became more critical of it • 73.Which president escalated the Vietnam War? • L.B.J. • 74.Law gave equal rights to girls sports teams in schools in the 1970’s? • Title IX • 75.Why did the US invade Iraq during Operation desert Storm in 1991? • Because Iraq invaded its neighboring country of Kuwait • 76.Why is the U.S. interested in the Middle East? • oil

  23. Questions: • 77.What did OPEC do to the US in the 1970’s? • Put an embargo on oil and caused an oil crisis • 78.What was SALT? • It was an agreement between the U.S. and the Soviets to limit arms testing • 79. The Camp David Accords involved negotiating peace between which two countries? • Israel and Egypt • 80.Who was president at the time? • Carter

  24. Questions: • 81. What disease became an epidemic in the 1980’s? • AIDS • 82. What was Woodstock? • A peaceful concert in NY for hippies • 83. Who killed J.F.K? • Lee Harvey Oswald • 84. What did Eisenhower do in response to Little Rock Nine? • He called out the U.S. army to escort the nine students into school

  25. Questions: • 85. What is Vietnamization? • The policy under Nixon to pull U.S. troops out of Vietnam • 86. What impact did Tet Offensive have on the Vietnam War? • Americans became more critical of the war and thought we couldn’t win

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