Final

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

The treaty that ended World War 1. President Wilson negotiated the treaty. He wanted “peace without victory” and illustrated Fourteen Points to end the war.

Question 2

Genocide and Final Solution

Answer 2

By Hitler, extermination of all Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and everyone who didn’t agree with Nazism.

Question 3

War Refugee Board

Answer 3

Established by FDR to give European Jews shelter from Nazism. It helped more than 200,000 Jews escape from the Holocaust.

Question 4

Cèsar Chàvez

Answer 4

fought for worker’s rights and created an organization called the United Farm Workers of Americans to request pay and safe working conditions.

Question 5

Iranian Hostage Crisis

Answer 5

Iranians held 50+ Americans in hostage at the US Embassy. Shah tried to westernize Iran, but was overthrown and he flees to the US. Reagan released the hostage 444 days later.

Question 6

McCarthyism

Answer 6

Joseph McCarthy produce a series of investigations and hearings during the time of the Cold War to expose supposed communist infiltration.

Question 7

Hollywood Ten

Answer 7

HUAC felt some Hollywood films are pro-communist and Hollywood must be overfilling with communist. The ten writers were accused of being communists, and was arrested and blacklisted.

Question 8

HUAC

Answer 8

The House Un-American Activities Committee is a committee of the U.S. who invested allegations of communist activity in the U.S. during the years of the Cold War.

Question 9

Karl Marx

Answer 9

Believed that communism would replace capitalism as it replaced feudalism. He wrote “communist manifesto”.

Question 10

Yalta Conference

Answer 10

FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta. Russia agreed to declare war on Japan after the surrender of Germany. In return, FDR and Churchill promised the USSA concession in Manchuria and the territories it lost in the Russo-Japanese War.

Question 11

Result of Korean War

Answer 11

North Korea remains communist and remains above the 38th parallel. South Korea started to become a developed nation and North Korea becomes a closed off Communist country that is isolated from the rest of the world.

Question 12

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 12

13 day political standoff. US had nukes in Turkey and Russia had nukes in Cuba. A deal was made that there will be no nuclear war if the US leaves Cuba alone. Russia removed missles from Cuba and US removed missles from Turkey.

Question 13

Mendez v. Westminster

Answer 13

California State Supreme Court ruling it is unconstitutional to segregate children of Mexican descent.
East Asian children were still allowed to be segregated.

Question 14

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 14

Overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson case. It made segregated public facilities unconstitutional because it violated the 14th amendment. It marked the end of legal segregation.

Question 15

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 15

Ruled that racially segregated public facilities were legal, as long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal and not inferior in anyway.

Question 16

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 16

Leader of SCLC. I had a dream speech. He organized the Montgomery bus boycott. He led the march on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He promoted peace, but will not obey radical laws from the whites.

Question 17

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Answer 17

After Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a city bus, Martin L. King led a boycott of city busses. 11 months later, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation is illegal.

Question 18

American Indian Movement

Answer 18

A Native American organization which protested government policies and injustices suffered by Native Americans.

Question 19

Little Rock Nine

Answer 19

It was a group of 9 african american students enrolled in Little Rock High School in 1957.

Question 20

Civil Rights Act (’64)

Answer 20

Outlawed segregation in public areas. It also created Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prevent discrimination in the work place.

Question 21

Voting Rights Act (’65)

Answer 21

Banned uses of any test or devices to deny voting rights and authorized federal examiners to register voters in states that had disenfranchised blacks since more blacks are becoming politically active.

Question 22

Watergate

Answer 22

The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement. President Nixon resigned before he was impeached.

Question 23

Phyllis Schlafly

Answer 23

New right activist that protested the women’s rights acts and movements to defy tradition and natural gender division of labor.

Question 24

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Answer 24

Authority granted by congress to President Johnson in 1964 to approve and support “to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the US”

Question 25

Tet Offensive

Answer 25

A series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War. Embassy were attacked.

Question 26

My Lai

Answer 26

American troops has killed unarmed innocent women and children in the village of My Lai. The story was covered up for a year till it was spoken of in the press. After that, more anti-war sentiments became apparent.

Question 27

Election of 1980

Answer 27

Ronald Reagan won over Jimmy Carter because of the Iranian hostage crisis and America’s stagflation.

Question 28

NOW

Answer 28

(National Organization of Women), ran by Betty Friedan who persuade the EEOC to end sex discrimination.

Question 29

The Feminine Mystique(1963)

Answer 29

An article discussing how unsatisfied some women were only being a mother and housewife. They wanted the opportunity to further their education and apply it in the workplace or anywhere useful.

Question 30

Stonewall riot

Answer 30

A pivotal event in 1969 where the gays fought back against the violence of the police since the gays were facing physical and legal discrimination, especially police brutality towards homosexuals.

Question 31

Harvey Milk

Answer 31

Gay rights leader, inspired by the Stonewall and other movements, who focused on discrimination towards gays as well as fight for other minority group rights and elderly rights. He inspired other gays to “come out of the closet”

Question 32

Immigration Act 1965

Answer 32

Abolished the National Origins system. It doubled the number of immigrants allowed to enter annual, and also limits the immigrants from the Western Hemisphere.

Question 33

Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)

Answer 33

Issued hundreds of thousands of visas to undocumented immigrants, making them legal migrants.

Question 34

National Origins Act

Answer 34

It limited the amount of immigrants entering the United States per year, but had no effect on immigrants in the western hemisphere, such as Canada or Mexico

Question 35

Reaganomics

Answer 35

Supply-side Tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. It’s goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth.

Question 36

Iran-Contra Affair

Answer 36

Reagan administration scandal in which the United States secretly sold arms to Iran to help release the American Hostage. The profit made from selling arms was used to finance the contras in Nicaragua.

Question 37

Patriot Act

Answer 37

Signed by Bush to punish any terrorist acts.

Question 38

Battle of Stalingrad

Answer 38

Soviet forces stopped German advance outside Stalingard, resulting in the Soviets pushing Germany out of Soviet Union by early 1944.

Question 39

Battle of Britain

Answer 39

An air battle. Hitler tried to invade Britain, but Britain fought off the German attack and was considered the first major allied victory and a turning point in the war.

Question 40

How did LULAC place Mexican-Americans in regards to race?

Answer 40

They placed them as Caucasian or white, not a race of their own. The Mexicans born in the US are Americans and nothing different.

Question 41

On the U.S. home front, what were the reasons for opposing the Vietnam War?

Answer 41

There was no clear objective in Vietnam. There was also no declaration of war. Religious pacifist. People believed the war was unbeatable.

Question 42

Why did Johnson decide not to run for reelection in 1968?

Answer 42

Johnson was suffering at the American causalities. He was more of an sentimental person and anti-war. He wanted to stop sending troops to Vietnam and not be re-elected.

Question 43

Who ran and who won the Election of 1968?

Answer 43

Nixon (republican) won against Hubert Humphrey (democrat) and third party George C. Wallace who wanted to bomb the Vietnamese to death.

Question 44

What are the various occupations of the recent immigrants? How does this compare to immigrants from 100 years ago?

Answer 44

The role of immigrants and the process of immigration are similar today. Republicans were divided 100 years ago over the immigration and are still divided today. Some republicans wanted cheap labor while other republicans wanted to limited the amount of immigrants and even stop immigration all together.