Final Examination Preparation

Question 1

Glass - Steagall Act

Answer 1

barred commercial banks from becoming involved in the buying and selling of stocks and established FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

Question 2

Francis Perkins

Answer 2

Secretary of Labor; supporter of the New Deal

Question 3

Wagner Act

Answer 3

“labor’s magna carta”; brought democracy to the American workplace by empowering the National Labor Relations Board to supervise elections in which employees voted on union representation; outlawed unfair labor practices

Question 4

World War II

Answer 4

the end of the Great Depression

Question 5

Benito Mussolini

Answer 5

founder of fascism

Question 6

Rosie the Riveter

Answer 6

the female industrial laborer depicted as a muscular and self-reliant in Norman Rockwell’s famous magazine cover

Question 7

GI Bill of Rights

Answer 7

unemployment pay and scholarship money for veterans

Question 8

Yalta Convention

Answer 8

the creation of the United Nations occurred here

Question 9

Truman Doctrine

Answer 9

fights communism worldwide

Question 10

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Answer 10

alliance between United States and Western European nations that pledged mutual defense against any further Soviet attack

Question 11

Taft - Hartley Act

Answer 11

contained provisions to weaken labor unions

Question 12

Operation Wetback

Answer 12

employed military personnel to invade Mexican - American neighbourhoods and deport illegal aliens

Question 13

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Answer 13

“put away fear of disorder and commit to racial justice”

Question 14

Golf of Tonkin resolution

Answer 14

authorized the president to take all necessary measures to repel armed attacks in Veitnam

Question 15

Feminine Mystique

Answer 15

focused on discontent of middle class women

Question 16

Cesar Chavez

Answer 16

rallied a series of nonviolent protests for farmworkers

Question 17

Roe v. Wade

Answer 17

legalized the right to have an abortion

Question 18

Veitnamization

Answer 18

new war policy implemented by Nixon stating that the amount of American troops fighting in the war will decrease as we continue to support the Vietnamese troops

Question 19

Stagflation

Answer 19

stagnant economic growth and high inflation

Question 20

Red Stockigs

Answer 20

radical feminist group of the 1980s

Question 21

Yuppie

Answer 21

young, urban professional

Question 22

Velvet Resolution

Answer 22

peaceful fall of communism in Eastern Europe; Berlin wall falls

Question 23

Hilary Clinton

Answer 23

head of healthcare reform

Question 24

Balkan Crisis

Answer 24

supported NATO; launched air strikes against Bosnian Serb and deployed over 20,000 troops as peacekeepers