Final For Whole Year

Question 1

The author and the book was called….

Answer 1

Rachel Carson and Silent Spring

Question 2

The Democrats wanted someone who was untouched by the recent scandals.

Answer 2

Carter as President

Question 3

Cater invited Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin to the presidential retreat.

Answer 3

Camp David Accords

Question 4

This theory calls for sharp tax cuts with the goal of increasing the amount of money people and businesses have to invest.

Answer 4

Supply-side economics

Question 5

Became the new Soviet Union leader

Answer 5

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 6

She became the first women to serve as a Supreme Court Justice

Answer 6

Sandra Day O’Connor

Question 7

Nixon’s foreign policy decisions would be based on practical American interests, not on moral or political ideals

Answer 7

Realpolitik

Question 8

After Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. Nixon appointed Michigan congressman as Vice President.

Answer 8

Gerald Ford

Question 9

The economic condition of combined stagnant economic growth and high inflation

Answer 9

Stagflation

Question 10

This group worked to control the production and sale of oil to keep prices high.

Answer 10

OPEC

Question 11

These talks led to a treaty limiting each country’s nuclear weapons

Answer 11

SALT

Question 12

Freedom from punishment

Answer 12

Pardon

Question 13

In congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. A majority of 270 electoral votes is required to elect the President.

Answer 13

Electoral College

Question 14

American, British, and Canadian troops invaded France on June 6,1944

Answer 14

D-day

Question 15

Nurses,factories,flew test flights and ferried planes

Answer 15

Women’s roles in WW2

Question 16

Members of the Executive branch

Answer 16

President and Vice President

Question 17

Members of Legislative branch

Answer 17

Congress and Senate

Question 18

Members of the Judicial branch

Answer 18

Supreme Court Judges

Question 19

How many Supreme Court judges

Answer 19

(9)

Question 20

Am overwhelming majority of votes for one party in an election

Answer 20

Landslide

Question 21

Most people have jobs providing services,such as medical care or entertainment, rather than providing goods

Answer 21

Service economy

Question 22

Growing connections among economies and cultures all over the world

Answer 22

Globalization

Question 23

• humor *exaggerated *caricature

Answer 23

Political cartoon

Question 24

Because of totalitarianism, Germany wanted more living space, and Japan attacked Pearl Harbor

Answer 24

World War 2

Question 25

WAAC, WASP, Rosie the Riveter, and women in factories, or noses at the battle field

Answer 25

Women in WW2

Question 26

A program of mass murder. Hitler and the Nazis had attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe in the name of Aryan supremacy

Answer 26

Holocaust victims

Question 27

During the Vietnam War the New York Times published secret government documents.

Answer 27

Pentagon Papers

Question 28

Requires the President to get congressional approval before committing U.S. troops to an armed struggle

Answer 28

War Power Act

Question 29

Nixon started it and what started it was the seemingly minor break-in exploded into massive political scandal

Answer 29

Watergate Scandal

Question 30

Reagan’s economic policies

Answer 30

Reagonomics

Question 31

Nikita Khrushchev demanded that the border be closed

Answer 31

Cold War dissolved this country

Question 32

Nixon abused presidential powers

Answer 32

Executive branch

Question 33

Was one of the many Hispanic Americans who worked to improve conditions. He formed the United Farm Workers

Answer 33

Cesar Chavez

Question 33

A system of laws requiring racial segregation

Answer 33

Apartheid

Question 34

Computers and the internet made it easier and faster for people at home, work, and school to access and share information

Answer 34

Information revolution

Question 35

People who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property

Answer 35

Communists

Question 36

It was to increase involvement (cut in lower taxes)

Answer 36

Johnson’s policy of escalation

Question 37

Berlin Wall location and removal

Answer 37

East Berlin and West Berlin and November 9, 1981

Question 38

North Vietnams Communist dictatorship was him. He introduced land redistribution plans.

Answer 38

Ho Chi Minh

Question 39

Early 1950’s, five segregation cases Delaware, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., came together

Answer 39

Brown vs. Board of Education