It provided small gangs with a easy / in demand supply.
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When and how was prohibition repealed?
December 5, 1933; a new amendment (21st Amendment) ended the increasingly unpopular nationwide prohibition of alcohol
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Who was involved in Teapot Dome?
President Warren G. Harding
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How did Ford change industries?
assembly line
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What is buying on margin?
the purchasing of stocks by paying only a small percentage of the price and borrowing the rest
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What was the economy like in the 20s?
booming
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What was the Scope's Trial?
a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society
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Why did nativists oppose immigrants?
they wanted to keep things Americanized
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Rebirth of African American culture
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What was "The Bonus Army?"
WWI veterans who marched in DC to demand early payment of the bonus money promised them for their military service
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What was passed by FDR when he first entered office?
The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
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How many terms did FDR serve?
four
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How did The New Deal restore trust in capitalism?
by setting minimum wages, regulating working conditions, promoting labor unions, and bolstering retirement security
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What was happening in Germany and Japan during The Depression?
inflation; bad economy
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Why was an embargo placed on Japan?
to cut off Japan's access to US oil
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Why Pearl Harbor attacked and what was the result?
Japan believes that it can severely cripple the U.S fleet and buy them time in the Pacific and Southeast Asia.
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Why was there a Europe First approach in WWII?
the United States and the United Kingdom would use their resources to subdue Nazi Germany in Europe first.
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What was the result of the Battle of Stalingrad?
Germany was forced to retreat from the Soviet Union.
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What was the result of D-day?
An Allied victory, they had taken the beaches of Normandy and liberated France
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How did the Japanese fight as US forces neared the main land?
Kamikaze - would die for their country
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What was the Manhattan project?
a code name for atomic bomb research
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Who decided to drop the bomb?
Harry Truman
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What was discussed at Potsdam in regards to the future of Germany and Berlin?
to disarm and demilitarize Germany
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Who coined the term "iron curtain"?
Winston Churchill
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What was the Marshall Plan?
providing aid to all European countries that needed help
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What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
Military alliances, NATO (US) and Warsaw Pact (USSR) during the Cold War
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How MacArthur viewed after he was fired by Truman?
he was viewed as a hero
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What happened on September 2, 1949?
The Soviet Union tested an atomic bomb.
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Where did the Cold War get "hot"?
Korea and Vietnam
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Why were the Rosenbergs executed?
They were accused of passing military information to the Soviet Union. Jailed for lying under oath, and were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Russians since they were part of the American Communist Party. They were executed in 1953
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How did the increase in car culture change the landscape?
more roads
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How did TV impact the country?
It allowed Americans to see what was happening rather than just listening to the radio. Affected the JFK VS Nixon election.
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Who was the first major league baseball player to break the color barrier?
Jackie Robinson
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What was Jim Crow?
A series of laws that disenfranchised non-whites
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What organization fought for rights for African Americans?
NAACP
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What happened after MLK was assassinated?
Riots broke out
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Who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Lyndon B. Johnson
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What was the final outcome of The Warren Commission?
Lee Harvey Oswald worked alone to assassinate JFK
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What was the result of The Bay of Pigs invasion?
It failed miserably and made Kennedy look weak.
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How did the Cuban Missile Crisis come to end?
US promised Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev to not invade Cuba.
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How did the Cold War affect the Space Race?
US VS Soviet Union. Many space missions to fight for dominance.
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Why did the US fight in Vietnam?
LBJ was afraid of the domino theory
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What was The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Congressional authorization to increase the US military presence in Vietnam
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What was Operation Rolling Thunder?
America's first sustained bombing campaign of North Vietnam
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How did the Selective Service Act try to be fair to everyone?
They adopted a lottery system
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What was the Tet Offensive?
a massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968
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Who won the 1968 presidential election?
Richard Nixon
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What occurred at My Lai?
American soldiers killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians
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What was the result of the Vietnam War?
US pulled out and North (communist) took over entire nation and united it under communism
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