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• 4. Shanty towns that were high in crime and poverty

were called:• Hoovervilles

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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