US History Semester 2 Final Exam

Vietnam Conflict begins

10. 1955

Cold War Begins

9. 1947

WWII officially ends

8. 1945

The Great Depression Begins

7. 1929

Women granted the right to vote

6. 1920

WWI Begins

5. 1914

Teddy Roosevelt Elected president

4. 1904

Spanish American War ends

3. 1898

The high point of the Indian Wars

2. 1865-1890

The Monroe Doctrine is established

1. 1823

The Iran-Contra scandal involved all of the following actions on the part of the Reagan administration except

declaring war on Iraq

The event that triggered the Watergate scandal was

the discovery that Nixon campaign workers had broken into and bugged Democratic Party headquarters in Washington

The Tet Offensive was an important turning point for President Lyndon Johnson because

it underscored the credibility gap between official statements and the war's actual progress

During the Tet Offensive of January 1968

The objective of the Bay of Pigs invasion was to

oust the government of Cuban nationalist Fidel Castro

Stagflation describes an economy that combines

no growth with inflation

According to the Warren Commission

In January 1957

back clergy from across the south had chosen King to head

The Supreme Courts' decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned the doctrine of

separate but equal established in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Anti-Communist zealot Senator Joseph McCarty was finally discredited when he

charged that there were Communists in the U.S. army

The event that triggered U.S. military action in Korea in 1950 was

the invasion of South Korea by troops from Communist North Korea

The most infamous crusader against communism after World War II was

Joseph R. McCarthy

President Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948 and 1949 by

airlifting more than two million tons of good to West Berliners

By 1947

the intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States was being called

June 6

1944

Hitler's final solution was

the extermination of Jews and other "undesirables"

The Double V campaign called for both victory in the war and victory for

African Americans over racial prejudice at home

An imediate consequence of the Nazi-Soviet treaty of nonaggression in August 1939 was

Hitler's invasion of Poland

In his book

The General Theory of Employment

The FDIC

guaranteed bank customers that the federal government would reimburse them for deposits if their bank failed

President Roosevelt's signature program was called

the New Deal

The members of the Bonus Army who gather in Washington

D.C.

The highly publicized Scopes trial

concerned the teaching of the theory of evolution

In 1927

Charles Lindbergh became the first person to

The outpouring of African American literature and art in New York City in the 1920s was

known as the Harlem Renaissance

The Dawes Plan

halved Germany's annual reparations payments and initiated American loans to Germany

The Germans were outraged by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles because

they had agreed to an armistice based on Wilson's Fourteen Points

U.S women finally got the vote when

congress passed the Nineteenth Amendment

The Zimmermann telegram

promised Mexico its former territories in the United States if it would declare war on its northern neighbor

A complex web of European military and diplomatic alliances determined the scope of World War I

but the event that triggered the war was

The fundamental difference in the philosophies of Booker T. Washing and W.E.B. Du Bois was that Washington

focused on education and economic progress

The efforts of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were instrumental in

securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

set up the United States as the police power in the Western Hemisphere

To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal

the United States

As a result of the Spanish-American War

the "most famous man in America " was

America's entrance into the Spanish-American War was a direct result of

pressure by the press and the sinking of the Maine

The Boxer Rebellion in China was aimed at

missionaries and other symbols of foreign colonialism

The eloquent plea for free silver -- "Do not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold" --- was made in 1896 by

William Jennings Bryan

New York City's Central Park was planned as

a retreat from the bustle of the city

The Haymarket affair of 1886

began as a rally of laborers organized by radicals

In his best-selling

How the Other Half Lives (1890)