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Stock markets completely collapsed on Black ________________ on October ___, 1929, heralding the start of the Great Depression

A

Tuesday; 29

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By 1932 one out of every ____ Americans were unemployed.

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4

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Shanty towns that popped up on the edge of cities were known as __________________.

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Hoovervilles

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In spring 1932 the Bonus Army marched on Washington D.C. demanding ________________________________

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Payment for WWII services

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President Hoover believed the best way to help the needy during the Great Depression was through __________________________

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voluntary cooperation

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Hoover was President of the __________________ Party

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Republican

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On March 9, 1933, the _______________________ Act was passed, allowing only the strongest banks to reopen with federal support

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Emergency Banking Act

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Fireside chats were

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Chats by President Roosevelt by radio to give the public hope

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The ________________ was designed to bring electricity and jobs to the Tennessee Valley

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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The purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corp was to __________________________________

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Guarantee a wage of $30 a month for working outside the city

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The ______________________ Act of May 1933 was designed to alleviate the suffering of farmers

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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12
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The Louisiana native known as “Kingfish” who criticized President Roosevelt was ________________

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Huey Long

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Francis Townsend, another demagogue of the era, sought to alleviate the suffering of ______________ with his plan

A

old people

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14
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The Wagner Act of 1935 allowed _____________________________________

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Unions to organize

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The ____________________________ Act of 1935 sought to protect the elderly and disabled

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Social Security act

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FDR’s “court packing” plan involved _________________________________________ to make it easier for him to pass his New Deal legislation

A

Retiring Judges over 70; 15 judges instead of 9

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The ___________________________ Act of 1938 set a minimum wage and abolished child labor

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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The English economist ______________________ wrote “The General Theory of Employment” in 1936, in which he spoke of the importance of government deficit spending during tough economic times

A

John Maynard Keynes

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The _______________________ Pact of 1928 called for the elimination of war as a tool of foreign policy

A

Kellogg Briand Pact

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On the eve of World War Two the European countries of ______________ and ______________ embraced fascism

A

Germany and Italy

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Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria in 1931 because ___________________________

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they wanted access to new materials

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22
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World War Two started when _____________________________

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Hitler invaded Poland

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23
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The ____________________ Committee suggested money helped to influence the outbreak of World War One

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NYE

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24
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In 1937 FDR announced that if a nation wanted to purchase weaponry from the United States it would have to do so on a ________ and _______ basis

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cash and carry

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25
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The United States officially entered the war a day after the Japanese attack at ________________

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Pearl Harbor

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The _____________________ was responsible for the conversion of U.S. industries to wartime production

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War Production Board

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The number of federal workers during the war rose from 1 million to ____ million

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4

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28
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FDR signed Executive Order 9066 to ______________________________

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expel all Japanese from West Coast

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Korematsu vs U.S. was a Supreme Court case that ruled ____________________ was justified during wartime

A

Japanese internment camps

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30
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The Allied invasion of Europe across the English Channel was known as Operation ____________________

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overlord/ D-Day

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31
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What did Hitler do before Germany surrendered to the Allies? _____________________

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Suicide

32
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At the Battle of ___________ the threat of Japan seizing Australia was ended

A

Coral Sea

33
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After the Battle of _____________ the Japanese fleet in the Pacific was decimated, placing them on the defensive for the rest of the war

A

Midway

34
Q

The first atomic bomb was dropped on _____________________

A

Hiroshima

35
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When FDR died in office he was succeeded by __________________________

A

Harry Truman

36
Q

The final “Big Three” meeting took place at __________________, near Berlin in July 1945.

A

Postdom

37
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The “Big Three” were ____________________, _______________________ and ___________________

A

Russia, England, and The USA

38
Q

Winston Churchill described the division of Europe as an ________________

A

Iron Curtain

39
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Written by _________________, an official at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, his “Long Telegram” introduced the term “containment” when dealing with the Soviets

A

George Keenan

40
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The Truman Doctrine called for _____________________________

A

open ended assistance to nations opposed to communism

41
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Truman’s Secretary of State who called for the rebuilding of Europe was __________________________

A

George Marshall

42
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Name the nations that controlled a portion of Germany after WWII. __________________________________________________________

A

USA, England, Russia, and France

43
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What does NATO mean? ____________________________________

A

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

44
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Joseph Stalin imposed a_______________________________________ to try to get the United States out of West Berlin

A

Blockaide

45
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The U.S. response was to carry out the _____________________ for eleven months until the Soviets backed down

A

Shipments through air

46
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With the passage of the _________________ Act in 1947 the Department of Defense unified its armed forces

A

National Security Act

47
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NSC-68 described the Cold War as an epic struggle between the idea of ______________ and the idea of ______________

A

Freedom and slavery

48
Q

During the Chinese civil war of 1949 the communist faction was led by _____________________

A

Mao Zedong

49
Q

The man in charge of overseeing Japan’s transition to constitutional democracy was General ______________

A

MacArther

50
Q

During the Korean War _______________ supplied weapons to the North and ______________ supplied weapons to the South

A

Soviets and USA

51
Q

After the United Nations got too close to the North Korean northern border the nation of _____________ launched a massive military attack on them forcing them back across the 38th parallel

A

China

52
Q

Truman’s domestic policy was called ___________________

A

Fair Deal

53
Q

The _______ Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in February 1951, meaning that _________________________________________

A

22nd, A President could only serve 2 terms

54
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Because of his behavior President Truman fired _____________________ from his military position during the Korean War

A

MacArther

55
Q

The House Un-American Activities Committee believed _______________ in California was full of communist sympathizers

A

Hollywood

56
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_____________________ is best associated with the Second Red Scare’s hunt for communists

A

McCarthyism

57
Q

The 1952 presidential election pitted ________________________, the Democratic governor of Illinois, against Republican _____________________, a military hero from World War Two

A

Adlai Stevenson, Dwight D. Eisenhower

58
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In 1961 the outgoing president warned the nation of an ____________________ Complex, which was _____________________________

A

Military-Industrial Complex

59
Q

By 1960, ___% of the American people enjoyed a middle class lifestyle. Also by 1960, the poverty rate stood at _____%

A

60%, 22%

60
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By 1960 _____million people (one-third of Americans) lived in the suburbs

A

60

61
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Because of the baby boom the U.S. population increased by ____% between 1950-1960

A

19%

62
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______________ used mass production techniques to build inexpensive homes on a large scale

A

Levitowns

63
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The sputnik was ___________________

A

Soviet Satellite

64
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During the 1950s this counter culture movement _________________ became disenchanted with the era’s crass consumerism

A

Beatnicks

65
Q

In his novel _______________, Jack Kerouac bemoaned the moral bankruptcy of popular culture

A

On the Road

66
Q

Truman used his executive power in 1948 to desegregate the armed forces. Which branch of the military refused to desegregate until the Korean War?

A

Army

67
Q

The head of the NAACP Thurgood Marshall was adamantly opposed to the idea of separate but ___________, especially when it came to schools

A

Equal

68
Q

Brown vs. Board of Education ruled that _______________________________

A

Schools should be desegregated ASAP

69
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The first major test of Brown vs. Board of Education came in 1957 when 9 black students attempted to enroll in Central High School in _____________________, Arkansas

A

Little Rock

70
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Arkansas’ governor, ______________ called out the National Guard to prevent the black students from entering the school

A

Orval Faubus

71
Q

In December 1955, _______________, an African American seamstress refused to give up her seat on a city bus

A

Rosa Parks

72
Q

The city of Montgomery’s black population instigated a _________ of the bus system in response to her arrest

A

Boycott

73
Q

The president of the Montgomery Improvement Association was 26 year old pastor _____________

A

Martin Luther King

74
Q

In June 1956 the Montgomery Federal Court ruled that bus segregation violated the _____th Amendment to the Constitution

A

14th

75
Q

On February 1st 1960 the first sit-in took place in ___________________ to protest segregation laws

A

Woolworth, North Carolina

76
Q

The S.N.C.C. stood for _________________________

A

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

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