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- This assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime production and distributing raw materials to key industries.
- defendants at the Nuremberg trials
- Except for evanagelism, _____ caused child abuse, crime, and urban slums according to most fundamentalists.
- What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in the Roosevelt administration?
- Between 1944 and 1947, ______ ruled in the southern and eastern regions of China.
- This U-2 pilot was convicted of espionage after his plane was shot down and he was forced to parachute into Soviet-controlled territory.
- commanded the Allied forces in the Philippines
- led the Third Army into Paris to liberate the city from German occupation.
- This required corporations to provide complete, truthful information on all stock offerings.
- ___ claimed that the New Deal policies were inadequate and proposed a social program called Share-Our-Wealth.
- The Senate eventually condemned ___ for improper conduct that tended “to bring the Senate into disrepute.”
- made the vow, “I shall return.”
- The ___ were defeated in the civil war in China despite 2 billion dollars in aid sent to them from the United States.
- This was someone who provided illegal alcohol.
- This group’s covert actions helped to topple governments in Iran and Guatemala.
- This reduced the flow of goods into the United States and prevented other countries from earning American currency to buy American exports.
- Which candidates ran for president in 1932?
- The law establishing this gave its members official status and salary, and, a year later, granted them full U.S. Army benefits.
- The NAACP fought for legislation to protect African-American rights under the leadership of ___.
- This actor, director, producer, and writer created one of the most famous radio broadcasts of all time, “The War of the Worlds,” and directed the movie classic, Citizen Kane.
- winner of Nobel Prize in literature
- Accusations that communism was widely present in the U.S. government and military were made by
- This was created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation.
- Who wrote the novel The Grapes of Wrath about the grim lives of Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the Depression?
- Created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, this shored up the banking system by protecting people’s savings against loss in the event of a bank failure.
- Among the founders of this association was W. E. B. Du Bois.
- Convoys, sonar, and radar helped the Allies to win this battle.
- This term specifically refers to paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest.
- His famous painting, American Gothic, depicts two stern-faced farmers standing stiffly in front of their farmhouse.
- When an armistice was signed ending the Korean War, North and South Korea were still divided along the
- Roosevelt’s decision to remove people of Japanese ancestry to internment camps was a response to
- Nisei who lived on the West Coast were subjected to ___ during the war.
- This black nationalist association was founded by Marcus Garvey.
- This Republican won the presidential election of 1928.
- This rebuilt dams and provided hydroelectric power to an impoverished region.
- Pollution was an unfortunate result of this program to promote flood control and build hydroelectric power plants.
- ___ increased during the 1920s.
- Wounded in World War I, this writer criticized the glorification of war and introduced a tough, simplified style of writing that set a new literary standard.
- urged separate African American society
- In an effort to curb the financial loss farmers were suffering, Congress tried to pass the McNary-Haugen bill, which would have mandated this on key crops.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald described the 1920s as the
- Chinese Nationalists forced to retreat to
- The main goal of the ___ was to stop the spread of communism.
- This was responsible for improvements in radar and sonar and the development of “wonder drugs” such as penicillin that saved countless lives.
- Japanese Americans born to parents who emigrated from Japan
- This protected the right of workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes between employers and employees.
- An example of the psychological stress caused by the Great Depression was the rise in the number of people who committed
- By decreasing farm surpluses, New Deal policies helped to raise the ___ of farm goods .
- How many states were part of the Dust Bowl?
- This U.S. policy required greater dependence on nuclear weapons and the airplanes that delivered them.
- He led the nation that developed the first hydrogen bomb.
- refers to stricter social and moral standards for women than for men in the 1920s.
- The people who most strongly supported prohibition tended to live in
- The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was to restrict the spread of
- The ______ of 1910–1920 refers to the movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities.
- directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work
- In a _______ system, private citizens control economic activity.
- ___ had the biggest long-term impact on the American economy.
- This provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the Depression—the unemployed, the aged, and the ill.
- _______________, an African-American educator, was appointed head of the Division of Negro Affairs. She helped to organize a “Black Cabinet” of influential African Americans to advise the Roosevelt administration on racial issues.
- The GI Bill of Rights made it possible for _____ to attend college for free.
- He was Roosevelt’s vice-president.
- This jazz pianist and composer won fame as one of America’s greatest composers.
- made first nonstop flight across Atlantic
- The American public perceived many characteristics in President Roosevelt, but ___ was probably not one of them.
- The failure of ______ forces in the Chinese Civil War can largely be blamed on his weak and corrupt leadership.
- This term is the name of the most widely used measure of the stock market’s health.
- The Soviet Union set up the ___ in response to efforts from the West to reunify Germany.
- The initial success of this German offensive battle was due mainly to the Allies’ being caught off guard.
- This term refers to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929.
- Both the United States and the Soviet Union joined this organization after World War II.
- Jazz music was born in New Orleans and was spread to the North by such musicians as
- Claiming to be persecuted for being Jewish and holding radical beliefs, ___ pleaded not guilty to the crime of espionage.
- Buying stocks on the chance of a quick profit without considering risks is known as
- belief in literal interpretation of the Bible
- This action provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.
- The Soviet _____ of West Berlin was a response to efforts by Western nations to reunify Germany.
- This put hundreds of thousands of young, single men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil erosion and flood-control projects.
- The nation that was defeated in the Battle of Midway
- Which of the following reached a new high during Roosevelt’s first term as president?
- As Secretary of State, he proposed that the United States declare its intention to use massive retaliation against any aggression.
- a goal of the New Deal
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- One long-range effect of the Great Depression was that many people developed habits of____________ .
- Germany’s goal in the Battle of the Atlantic was to keep ____ from reaching Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
- He arranged for about 400 million dollars in aid to be sent to postwar Turkey and Greece.
- What increased in the 1920s?
- John T. Scopes challenged a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of
- Who was the first woman to serve in the cabinet?
- This is the code name for the atomic bomb program.
- During the Great Depression, the overall unemployment rate was about
- What name was given to the men and boys who rode the rails as they searched for work?
- Concert music composer ___ was influenced by both the music of Louis Armstrong and traditional music.
- fought on the side of the Communists during the Korean war
- In This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, this novelist portrayed wealthy people leading hopelessly empty lives.
- The Battle of the Bulge was significant because it marked the
- This aid program was directed “not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”
- After the stock market crash, President Hoover tried to help the economy by asking business not to ______ employees.
- The ______ was organized in an attempt to unionize both skilled and unskilled laborers.
- This is the period from 1924 to 1940 in which the economy plummeted and unemployment skyrocketed.
- This was created to reform, and to restore confidence in, the stock market by providing a means to monitor the market and to enforce laws regarding the sales of stocks and bonds.
- When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb, the United States responded by intensifying efforts to develop a
- Truman’s aim in deciding to drop the atomic bomb was to ___.
- The Allied invasion of ___ was given the code name D-Day.
- could only be charged with perjury, not espionage, because too many years had passed since the spying had taken place.
- Sinclair Lewis the first American to win a Nobel Prize in literature, wrote the novel
- is best known for investigating communism in the film industry.
- The Supreme Commander of U.S. forces in Europe was
- V-E Day, or May 8, 1945, was the day when ___.
- The general who led Allied troops in battles on the islands of Bataan, Leyte, and Iwo Jima was
- organized a march on Washington on July 1, 1941
- was the leader of the Communists in China.
- This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime.
- Which of the following describes a government system for giving payments or food to the poor?
- This set a national minimum hourly wage and prohibited factory labor for children under sixteen years of age.
- Mary McLeod Bethune helped organize the “_______,” a group of influential African Americans who advised the Roosevelt administration on racial issues.
- flowering of African-American culture
- In calling shantytowns “_______,” people conveyed their distrust in Hoover.
- ___ were least likely to be a part of the New Deal coalition.
- This writer’s poems celebrated youth and a life of independence and freedom from traditional restraints.
- An outstanding blues singer, who eventually became the highest paid black artist in the world.
- One of the most popular movies of all time, this sweeping drama about life among Southern plantation owners during the Civil War starred Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.
- Within a few years, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act led to a dramatic drop in __________ .
- appeared to be winning the Korean War until China actively entered the conflict.
- This was the method used to decrease the use of scarce and essential wartime goods.
- Created under the Wagner Act, this continues to act as a mediator in disputes between unions and employers.
- The ___ decided not to cooperate with the investigation into whether the American film industry had been influenced by Communists.
- This death camp was the first liberated by the Allies.
- This general commanded Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Europe.
- An example of racial tensions during the war years is the ______ riots in Los Angeles.
- Who made up the Bonus Army that marched on Washington?
- This day marked the end of the war in Europe.
- argued that the Korean War should extend into China.
- This general led the American troops that liberated Paris from German occupation.
- underground saloons and nightclubs
- The first major action Roosevelt took as president was that he closed all of the ______ and ordered inspections
- This was the code name for the invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa.
- He believed that the best way to avoid a third world war was to create a new world order in which all nations had the right of selfdetermination.
- WHAT DOES BUYING A STOCK ON MARGIN MEAN
- His classic novel, Native Son, depicts the difficulties faced by a young man trying to survive in a racist world.
- ___ used music to express the hardships of American life during the Depression.
- With respect to finding better jobs, the war years marked a period of ___ for African Americans.
- This provided for bank inspections by the Treasury Department and a means for making federal loans to solid banks.
- The Soviet Union did not vote to defend South Korea at the UN Security Council because the Soviets were _______ the UN over the presence of Taiwan.
- The 38th parallel became an important dividing line between
- This Army Chief of Staff pushed for the formation of a Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.
- This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system.
- This describes the era after the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect.
- The United States responded to fear of Soviet military action in the Middle East by issuing the
- During the war, women in the______ served as nurses and radio operators.
- The aim of the__________ was to prevent farmers and homeowners from losing their property.
- emancipated young women who embraced new fashions and urban attitudes of the day.
- The Supreme Court ruled that the ___ was unconstitutional on the grounds that its provisions were local matters and should be regulated by the states.
- To label someone’s activities as ___ would be to suggest that the person is making unsupported accusations.
- was a prominent 1920s painter who sought to capture the grandeur of New York.
- This increased during the Roosevelt administration as the federal government expected reforms to stabilize the economy.
- This term refers to the indirect but hostile conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end of World War II.
- This Democrat lost the presidential election of 1928.
- This group consisted of Eastern European nations that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
- Although Mao Zedong won the hearts of the Chinese peasants, he failed to win American support because he was a
- The ______ was an alignment of various groups dedicated to supporting the Democratic Party.
- General Douglas MacArthur commanded U.S. forces in
- The American Civil Liberties Union hired him to represent John T. Scopes.
- This is an arrangement in which consumers agree to buy now and pay later for purchases, often on an installment plan that includes interest charges.
- The satellite nations of the Soviet Union were members of this military alliance.
- This event led Khrushchev to call off a summit conference he and Eisenhower were going to hold.
- the main objective of the Agricultural Adjustment Act was to _____ PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS
- Causes of the farming crisis of the 1920s included the fact that demand for crops ____ after World War I.
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