United States History
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United States History
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• Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington were artists of what period?
• Harlem Renaissance
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• What were the assembly lines, invented by Henry Ford, powered by?
• electricity
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• What was the main cause of the Great Depression?
• Stock Market crash
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• The day the stock market crashed in 1929 is referred to as what?
• Black Tuesday
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• What were the programs called that FDR instituted to combat the Great Depression?
• The New Deal
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• What were shantytowns and Hoovervilles??• Tent cities that popped up during the
Depression for people who lost their homes
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• Why did the US enter WWII?• Bombing of Pearl Harbor
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• What group of people were put in internment camps in the US during WWII?
• Japanese Americans
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• What 2 cities were attacked with an atomic bomb by the US?
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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• What happened on D-Day?• Allied invasion of France – turning point in the
war
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• What was the main goal of the US in Vietnam?• Stop the spread of communism
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• What is the significance of the Tet offensive?• Turning point in Vietnam war, not an easy win
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• What two countries aided North Korea?• China and Russia
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• Why did the US support South Korea?• Stop spread of communism
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• The US emerged as a super power after the fall of what wall?
• Berlin
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• If one country falls to communism, then others will follow is an example of what theory?
• Domino theory
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• The Marshall plan was to give US aid to build up what war torn part of the world?
• Europe
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• What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?• Take supplies to West Berlin, who was cut off
by Russia after WWII
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• What was the main goal of McCarthyism’s?• To expose communists in America, specifically
the government
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• What were the Hollywood 10 accused of?• Being communists and influencing society
with movies
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• What inspired the American’s rush to get to the moon?
• The Russian launch of Sputnik
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• The Cuban Missile Crisis was a standoff between what two countries ?
• Russia and the US
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• What invention increased consumerism?• Television
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What was the symbol of the American Dream?Owning your own home, the growth of suburbs
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What movement in the 1950’s put poetry to music to protest conventional society ?
The beat movement
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What musical genre began in the 1960’s with the “British invasion” of the Beatles ?Rock n’ roll
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• Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a Dream speech at what event ?
• March on Washington•
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• What court case overturned Plessy v Ferguson and outlawed segregation of schools?
• Brown v Board of Education
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• What concert in NY was the end of the rise of the hippie movement?
• Woodstock.
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• Who organized the migrant farm workers into unions?
• Cesar Chavez
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• The Watergate scandal led to the resignation what president ?
• Nixon
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Roe v Wade made what practice legal?• Abortion
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• The equal rights amendment in the 1970’s tried to gain equal rights for whom ?
• Women
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• What happened at Three Mile Island?• Nuclear reactor meltdown
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• What agency is responsible for policies on global warming, oil spills etc . . .?
• The Environmental Protection Agency
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• Who was president during the Iran Hostage Crisis?
• Carter
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• What was President Clintons policy about gays in the military?
• Don’t ask don’t tell
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• Why did the US get involved in Desert Storm?
• Iraq invaded Kuwait and prevented oil trade
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• What was President Reagan’s economic policy ?
• Reaganomics – cut taxes, cut government spending, increase defense spending
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• Who claimed responsibility for the 911 attacks?
• Osama Bin Ladin (Al-qaeda)
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• What government program provided a pension for retirees because many were living in poverty?
• Social Security
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• What agreement reduced tariffs between the US and Mexico and Canada?
• NAFTA
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• When did the internet become common in the home?
• 1990’s
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• What invention expanded research, entertainment, communication, information availability ?
• Internet (world wide web)
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• How is nuclear energy used today?• Electricity, clean energy
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• Why did Iran take 66 American hostages?• Because the US allowed the deposed Shah to
come to America for medical treatment
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• Why did many Americans oppose nuclear energy?
• Three Mile Island meltdown
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• What gave Roosevelt authority to sell, or provide aid to the allies prior to our joining WWII?
• Lend-lease Act
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• Congress enacted reforms to restore public confidence in government after what scandal?
• Watergate
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• What was the cause of the Dust Bowl?• Drought, new farming methods
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• What was the purpose of Medicare, in Johnson’s Great Society ?
• To provide medical care for those who could not afford it