What prevented the US from relaxing immigration standards in order to grant asylum to a large number of Jewish refugees in the early 30s and 40s?
Immigration laws preventing people from the Eastern side of Europe because there were too many people coming over during the WWI/Great Depression time period. Jewish people kept coming from that area. Congress was anti-semetic
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In 1934, the Nye Committee’s report concluded that:
American war profiteers were pushing us to war.
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What is the most decisive American factor in determining the outcome of WWII?
We could produce a lot of weapons at a really fast rate.
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The ruling of the 1896 Supreme Court Case (Plessey v. Furguson) established the idea of what?
Separate but equal
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What is the Nazi’s final solution?
To execute an entire race of people
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Which justice lead the supreme court as it shifted toward adovcacy of civil rights and civil liberties after ‘54?
Earl Warren
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What was the principle reason Harry Truman and his adivsors decided to use the atomic bomb against Japan?
They wanted to minimize American casualties
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What was President Roosevelt’s executive order 9066?
Japanese Americans, especially on the coast, could be taken to concentration camps
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How did the Kennedy Administration respond to the freedom rides of 1961?
He sends troops and martials down to protect them
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Near the beginning of the Cold War, the US formed ____,__ an alliance with European allies, to which the Soviets responded by forming __ with satellite nations.
NATO and The Warsaw Pact
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Describe the American Policy of containment.
Minimize or stop the spread of communism
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Why was the Battle of Midway such a turning point in WWII?
US was able to take out a lot of important Japanese ships and it was a surprise attack on them after Pearl Harbor. The Japanese started retreating. Placed Japan in a defensive position.
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Why was the German strategy of Blitzkreig so successful?
It was a lot all at once and is difficult to handle in the defensive position.
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President Eisenhower’s military approach focuses on stockpiling big weapons which ties his administration policy to the idea of what?
Massive Retaliation
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Regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis, secretary of state, Dean Rust, told reporter “Remember, when you record this, the eyeball-eyeball, they blinked first”
USSR shot first
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In March of 1965, the efforts to pass the Voting Rights Act made instance after what event occurred?
MLK march from Selma to Montgomery
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From ‘41-’43, Stalin was most interested in securing a guarantee that Britain and the US would do what?
Wanted to have us open a second front
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When the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin in ‘48, how did the US respond?
The Berlin airlift released airlift supplies
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 aimed at:
A. Bussing with school integration
B. Ending legal discrimination against Black people
C. Racial integration of the armed forces
D. Equal pay for equal work
E. One man one vote
B. Ending legal discrimination against Black people
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Eisenhower firmly believed in this theory. He stated that if one country falls to communism, then all others will fall as well.
Domino Theory
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The GI Bill of Rights provided for what?
College education, mortgage, business loan, pension, medical care, etc. for veterans
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What is the purpose of the Gulf of Tonkin resolution to the Vietnam War?
Open checkbook
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The integration of Central High School in lower Arkansas followed which landmark Supreme Court case?
Brown vs. Topeka
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Why was the Ted Offensive such an important turning point in the Vietnam War?
North Vietnamese started their offensive push to put the US and South Vietnamese on their heels and it caught them off guard.
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What did President FDR refer to as “the date will live in infamy”
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