history final

In the 1920s, the middle class: 

Grew in size and buying power

The Black Tuesday Crash of the stock market in 1929: 

Did not immediately lead to the Great Depression, but started the process

__________________ led to an aviation revival in the U.S. after he flew alone across the Atlantic. 

Charles Lindbergh

Why did union support and immigration decline in the 1920s?  

Due to fear of communist threats

The writers known as the Lost Generation:

Were jaded with the world after World War 1

The Harding Presidency: 

Was quite corrupt

What was the prevalent economic trend of the 1920s? 

A rise in mass consumerism and credit

In regards to farming, innovations in the 1920: 

Made farming less labor-intensive as machinery did more work

The Scopes Monkey trial

Revealed the divide between fundamentalism and modernism in America

The National Origins Act of 1924: 

Placed limits on most groups of immigrants to the U.S.

The U.S. invaded Nicaragua in the 1920s over: 

Bananas

Hoover's ideals for business and government: 

Was for business to voluntarily do as government asked

In the 1920s, the heart of the American auto industry was

Near the Great Lakes

Flappers

Were women in the 1920s who wanted to live less domestic lives

Jobs that were typically intended for women in the 1920s were called

 Pink collar

Paid vacations, retirement pensions, and shorter work weeks were all a part of Progressive industrial reforms in the 1920s that focused on valuing the employee as a form of: 

Welfare capitalism

In the 1920s, American ideology toward other countries: 

Became more isolationist

Because of Prohibition, alcohol production

Was typically run by gangs and the mob

The Teapot Dome

Involved selling mineral access of public land

The Wets versus Drys debate of the 1920s centered around religion and ___________________. 

Prohibition

The African-American-focused writing and music of the 1920s was called: 

Harlem Renaissance

One new form of technology that shaped American culture in the 1920s was: 

Broadcast radio

The 1920s was economically a bright spot for most in the U.S. except for farmers because: 

new farming techniques produced an over-abundance of food driving down prices

Manufacturing in the 1920s led to a rise in ______________________,  products like washing machines and vacuum cleaners. 

durable goods

Blues and Jazz were new forms of American music in the 1920s that were unique in that:

African Americans performed for diverse audiences

During the 1920s, the Dawes Plan

Circulated money to Europe and back to the U.S.

In what was way the KKK of the 1920s different than that of the late 1860s? 

It focused their hatred on Jews, Catholics, and Communists also

The automobile industry in the 1920s also:

led to the growth of rubber, glass, and oil industries

In the 1920s, religious fundamentalism began to grow leading to: 

A divide between more liberal urban areas and conservative rural ones

Because of Prohibition, _______________ found a market for their illegal whiskey. 

Moonshiners

Calvin Coolidge: 

Believed that government should be "hands-off"

In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact sought to make war illegal. It's results were:

A failure as there was no way to enforce preventing war

Although the U.S. was primarily not involved in many international conflicts after World War 1, the country does get involved in Nicaragua in 1924 because: 

it wants to protect investments in bananas

Because most investing in the 1920s was focused on the stock market: 

the lack of diversification caused massive losses in investment

Hoovervilles and the ________________ both were symbolic of the failures of Hoover's policies to combat the Great Depression.

The Bonus Army

The 21st Amendment is unique in that it: 

repeals a previous amendment

The Great Depression officially came to an end when

World War II started

The Smoot-Hawley tariffs: 

decreased international trade

Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court's relationship in the early part of the New Deal: 

was contentious as the court kept ruling his plans as unconstitutional

At the start of the Great Depression, deflation: 

Meant that producers were making less for the same product

Even before the stock market crash of 1929, some places in America were already suffering economically like the Mississippi Delta because

The 1927 Flood ruined the entire growing season

The lack of regulation of investments in the 1920s: 

Led to a significant number of loans to be given out for stock market investments

Because of the growth of the ___________________ industry in the 1920s and 1930s, Southern California became the place where such media were produced. 

movie

Comitern tried to stave of Germany in the early 1930s with help from the U.S.: 

but was unsuccessful because of the Red Scare in the U.S

In response to the Great Depression, we see the United States turn on _________________ and attempt to blame and restrict them to access to the remaining jobs. 

minorities

The sit-down strike: 

was a new peaceful form of protest that succeeded in getting changes

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program: 

did provide some relief in electricity to Tennessee and insurance for banks

The Liberty League, Charles Coughlin, and Huey Long: 

all opposed Roosevelt's New Deal in one form or another

At the start of the Great Depression, Hoover's voluntary requests of businesses to not lay people off:

were a complete failure

The 1929 Black Tuesday crash of the stock market: 

Led to long-term effects that eventually caused the Great Depression

One reason for the Great Depression was durable goods, so that by 1930: 

most Americans possessed these goods and did not need to replace them

A principle of Keynesian economics is: 

federal investments keep the economy moving

In addition to the Great Depression and the flood of the Mississippi, farmers in ________________ also suffered hardships due to the Dust Bowl. 

the Great Plains

During World War II, the "Race to Berlin" was important because; 

it was a competition to see if the Americans or the Soviets would liberate Germany first

African Americans were empowered during World War II with the _____________ campaign for equality at home and wins against the Nazis and Japanese. 

Double V

The first American invasion of Europe during World War II was in: 

Italy

On December 7th 1941: 

Japan attacked American bases in Hawaii and the Philippines

Prior to the Japanese invasion of China, the United States: 

sold oil and gas to the Japanese

The American government response to the Japanese attack on the U.S. was to: 

imprison Japanese Americans who lived in the U.S

Germany and Italy diplomatically united before World War II: 

In united opposition to the Soviet Union

The ___________________ was the American program that developed atomic weapons. 

Manhattan Project

The Atlantic Charter prior to World War II: 

Provided naval support for shipments across the Atlantic against U-boats

Operation Torch in North Africa

Was part of British plan to protect Egypt and North Africa

The end of World War II: 

starts the Cold War

One of the reasons the U.S. was able to produce so much military material was because: 

it had a lot of people available to work

The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway

began to turn the tide against the Japanese in the Pacific

Just before World War II, American international policy was one of: 

Isolationism

At the end of World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt:

died before it ended

In World War II, women

were in more industrial jobs because men were at war

Before the United States entered World War II

It loaned military weaponry to the British

The Latino population of the United States grew during World War II due to: 

the Bracero Program

The American policy in Europe after World War II to prevent countries from falling to Communism was __________________________.  

The Marshall Plan

McCarthyism was a new form of ______________________ where politicians sought out Communists who were ruining the United States.

Red scare

In 1959, Cuba overthrew its government that was friendly to the United States and: 

replaced it with a Communist-backed dictator named Fidel Castro

Arkansas Governor Faubus resisted the Supreme Court ruling to integrate public schools in his state: 

but federal troops protected nine students who integrated schools in Little Rock

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg:

were convicted of epionage

The murder of ___________________ is typically regarded as the start of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. 

Emmett Till

One of the largest pieces of legislation from Eisenhower's presidency was _________________ that revolutionized the American landscape and changed transportation in the country.   

Federal Highway Act

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

was a military alliance created to defend Europe

Who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott? 

rosa parks

Why was the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union referred to as "Cold War"? 

the two countries never fought each other directly

The U.S. became involved in the Korean War because: 

North Korea was invading South Korea

The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine 

to contain the spread of communism

The U.S. and other Western countries responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by: 

airlifting supplies into the isolated city

The 1950s change musically with the birth of __________________ a muscial style pioneered by Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. 

Rock-N-Roll

Unlike the League of Nations, the United Nations was a multi-national organization but it also had: 

the power of military force

In the 1950s and 1960s, Massive Resistance:  

was Southern opposition to integration of public facilities

The rise in births immediately after World War II is referred to as: 

The Baby Boom

President Truman removed ______________________ from military leadership in Korea due to insubordination. 

General McArthur

Because President Truman attempted to end racial discrimination in federal hiring and the military, some Southern leaders formed the _________________. 

Dixiecrat Party

The 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka:  

declared segregated schools to be unequal and led to integrated schools

The 23rd Amendment provides representation for who in the United States? 

Residents of Washington D.C

On Bloody Sunday marchers from Selma, Alabama, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge as part of a protest to demand:  

voting rights

The ____________________ gave the president of the U.S. the authority to officially intervene in Vietnam.  

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

The resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that

Soviets agreed not to place nuclear weapons in Cuba

The Civil Rights Movement was successful in bringing national attention to Birmingham by televising:  

the violence in Birmingham

The Supreme Court through most of the 1960s: 

supported individual rights and protected rights to protest and freedom of speech

The 22nd Amendment restricts the term of one serving as __________________ in the United States government. 

President

The 25th Amendment lays out the _______________ in United States government. 

the line of who takes office if the President is unable to do so

The 1964 Civil Rights Act- 

Gave power to the federal government to enforce integration of public facilities