Losasso Final Flashcards
From late 1941 into early 1942, during World War II in the Pacific:
There was a succession of Japanese victories that saw numerous Allied outposts fall
Following the declaration of war:
Men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted
A significant economic problem during the war was:
Finding enough workers for the essential war time industries
The Office of Price Administration:
Set price ceilings on highly demanded items like tires, sugar, and gasoline
During the war, domestic politics was marked by:
A growing conservatism
What statement best describes the Native American experience in the armed forces during World War II?
Indian servicemen were integrated into regular units
War relocation camps:
Housed more that 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war
When Roosevelt and Churchill met to draft a joint war plan in early 1942, they agreed:
That something needed to be done to relieve the pressure along the Russian front
British and American differences over where to attack Germany first was resolved with the decision to launch an offensive where?
In North Africa
At the Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to all of the following EXCEPT:
An immediate launching of a cross-channel invasion into France
Which statement best describes the Allied invasion against Sicily in July 1943?
Sicily fell quickly after the Allied surprise landing
How did Germany respond to Italy’s decision to switch sides in September 1943?
Germany slowed the Allied advance by pouring its own reinforcements into Italy.
D-day refers to the:
Allied invasion at Normandy
All the following Pacific engagements helped turn the tide of war against Japan in 1943 and 1944 EXCEPT:
Battle of the Bulge
What was the most significant consequence of the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
The Japanese lost their remaining sea power and abillity to defend the Philippines
In the presidential election of 1944:
Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term as president
At the Battle of the Bulge:
Germany’s advance against the Allies ultimately stalled and was reversed
At the Yalta Conference of 1945 the Allies did all the following EXCEPT:
Restore the original Polish government to power in Poland
Less than a month before the surrender of Germany:
President Roosevelt died in office
Following the defeat of Germany:
Came the shocking realization of the full extent of the Holocaust
The American assault on Okinawa:
Was a success but with tremendous loss of life for both the United States and Japan
The Potsdam Declaration:
Demanded that Japan surreneder or face “prompt and utter destruction”
What significance did the use of atomic bombs against Japan have?
They allowed the Americans to avoid an amphibious invasion of Japan
The country that suffered the most deaths in the fighting of World War II was:
The Soviet Union
The main purpose of the 1943 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Tehran was:
To plan an invasion of France and the Russian offensive across eastern Europe
Who pushed North Korea to attack South Korea?
Stalin and the Communists pushed North Korea to attack South Korea, telling them to “unify your nation”
What happened when the UN forces reached Yalu River
They got demolished by the North Koreans and the Chinese attack. This all happened becasue MacArthur did not listen to Truman.
Why did Truman fire MacArthur?
MacArthur did not listen too Truman (in the previous card), so Truman wanted to show both his civil authority and Presidential authority by firing him. He replace him with Ridgeway, who won them the war.
Truman Doctrine
Gave Greece and Turkey 400 million in aid to fight communism. Also gave aid to other countries struggling against communist states.
Fair Deal
Strengthened the New Deal and expanded new social reforms
Marshall Plan
Plan to give aid to European countries to help them recover
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Made up of 12 countries to fight communistic states. All helped each other, if one went to war, they all did.
G.I. Bill of Rights
Most returning veterans came back with no job and little education, so this gave them just that. It allowed them to get jobs (also gave them money) and it paid for an education. It gave them actual “rights” to help them when they came back, in fact it is still used today.
Why did North Korea and China ask for peace? Be specific and state the reason.
North Korea and China were losing way to many men, and were running out of people to have fight. The UN forces were jsut starting their main push when they asked for peace.
Richard Nixon:
Had a reputation for hard-line anti-communism and rough campaign tactics
In the 1960 presidential race, JFK:
Promised to pursue a ‘new fronteir”
President Kennedy’s cabinet was dominated by:
Men with new ideas and good minds
Kennedy’s legislative program:
Was largely blocked by conservatives in Congress
In its controversial Miranda v. Arizona decision, the Warren Court:
Required that an accused person be informed to certain basic rights
Violence erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate:
The University of Mississippi
In his letter from Birmingham City Jail, MLK Jr.:
Declared his willingness to break unjust laws
The person most persuasive in getting President Kennedy to endorse civil rights would have been:
His brother. Robert
The Bay of Pigs invasion:
Was thoroughly bungled by the CIA
The major purpose of the Soviet missiles placed in Cuba was to:
Deter another American-supported invasion of Cuba.
The Cuban missile crisis:
Brought the US and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war
In South Vietnam in the early 1960s:
Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers.
The strongest and most visible opposition in Diem’s government was led by:
Buddhists
All of the following are true of the Kennedy assassination EXCEPT:
The Warren Commission concluded there may have been multiple gunmen
The Civil Rights Act of 1964:
Outlawed segreation in public facilities
President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the:
Great Society
Beginning with Watts, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966:
Occured largely outside the South
By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown were proponents of what hey termed:
Black Power
Was a segregationist Alabama governor
George Wallace
Was secretary of state
Dean Rusk
Won Arizona in 1964 presidential race
Barry Goldwater
The first black student at University of Mississippi
James Meredith
Was elected VP in 1960
Lyndon Johnson
In regard to Vietnam policy, Nixon:
Insisted that he would pursue “peace with honor.”
In April 1970, Nixon extended the war when he sent troops into:
Cambodia
Shocking events at Kent State University involved:
The killing of four students by the National Guard
The Pentagon Papers:
Revealed that the Johnson administration had deceived the public in regard to war policy
The Vietnam settlement signed on January 27, 1973:
Left 150,000 Communist troops in South Vietnam
As the 1972 election approached, the biggest threat to Nixon’s reelection seemed to be:
George Wallace’s potential to drain away conservative votes from the Republicans
The burglars arrested at the Watergate apartment complex:
Had connections to the Nixon reelection campaign
Essential to breaking the Watergate case was teh testimony before the Ervin committee of White House legal counsel:
John Dean
Nixon’s Watergate-related resignation came with the revelation that he had:
Ordered a cover-up of the original Watergate break-in
Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he:
Pardoned Nixon
The figure who most influenced Nixon’s foreign policy was:
Henry Kissinger
Jimmy Carter’s victory in the 1976 election was aided by all of the following EXCEPT:
A huge voter turnout
On the domestic front, Carter’s most notable shortcoming was:
Failing to deal adequately with fuel shortages
A crisis is Iran involved all fof the following EXCEPT:
The takeover of Iran’s government by hard-line Communists
To many voters in 1980, Ronald Reagan, in contrast to Jimmy Carter, seemed:
Sunny and optimistic
Reagan first became a star in Republican politics when he:
Made a television speech for Goldwater in 1964
Most likely to support the Moral Majority would be:
Evangelical Christians
The Tonkin Gulf resolution:
Allowed Johnson to escalate the war
The TET Offensive of early 1968:
Dramatically affected pubic support for Johnson’s war policy
The religious right fervently supported Reagan because he:
Supported its conservative social values
As he campaigned for president in 1980, Reagan promised to restore prosperity by:
Cutting taxes
In 1971, in an effort to curb inflation, President Nixon:
Imposed a freeze on wages and prices
The Camp David Accords involved all of the following EXCEPT:
The creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank
Resigned as VP in 1973
Spiro Agnew
Leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times
Daniel Ellsberg
Gave testimony before Senate Committee that linked Nixon directly to Watergate cover-up
John Dean
Secretary of State in 1975
Henry Kissinger
Was shot and left paralyzed in 1972
George Wallace
By the end of his presidency, Reagan had:
Restored American confidence
Bush helped secure his victory in 1988 by:
Portraying the Democrat, Dukakis, as a liberal
Bush’s goal as president seemed to be to:
Consolidate Reagan’s policies and achievements
A change in the cold-war climate was indicated in early 1989, when Soviets troops left:
Afghanistan
The fall of the Berlin Wall was soon followed by:
Germany’s reunification
The crucial development in the Soviet Union in August 1991 was:
A failed Communist coup
By the fall of 1991, the most popular Soviet politician was:
Boris Yeltsin
By the end of 1991, the Soviet Union:
Had fallen apart
The Panamanian government of Manuel Noriega was at odds with the Bush administration because of its:
Involvement in the drug trade
Bush ultimately dealt with Noriega by:
Ordering a military invasion to arrest him
The Gulf War was triggered by Saddam Hussein’s invasion of:
Kuwait
Opposing Iran in the Gulf War was:
A coalition of over thirty nations
The 1991 Persian Gulf War resulted in:
Saddam Hussein remaining in power
As Bush prepared for the 1992 election, his greatest weakness became:
A major downturn in the economy
Bill Clinton’s emerging stategy in the 1992 election was to:
Take more centrist positions to win middle-class white votes
The major purpose of the passage of NAFTA was to:
Promote freeer trade with Canada and Mexico
One of the most powerful arguments in favor of health-care reform was:
The need to contain soaring medical costs
Clinton’s plan for universal medical coverage:
Was shot down in Congress
The politician who led the Republican takeover of Congree in the mid-1990s was:
Newt Gingrich
The Republican Contract with American:
Aimed to reduce big government and limit the welfare state
The welfare-reform measure passed by Congress in 1996:
Limited the amount of time one coudl receive welfare payments
All of the following were features of the economy during the Clinton years EXCEPT:
An increase in blue-collar jobs despite foreign competition
What nearly cost Clinton hist presidencey was:
Lying about his relationship with a White House intern
As a result of the Starr Report:
Clinton was impeached
In 1993, Clinton was able to preside over the signing of a peace agreement between the leaders of Israel and:
The PLO
The fundamental source of instability in the Balkans in the 1990s was:
The breakup of Yogoslavia in 1991
During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush:
Proposed to scale back military involvements overseas
Ultimately, the outcome of the 2000 election depened upon the final result in:
Florida
The No Child Left Behind legislation passed by Congress required:
Schools and districts to meet certain learning standards
By the 1990s, the most dangerous enemies of the US became:
Shadowy terrorist organizations
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, did all of the following EXCEPT:
Paralyze the US in fear and disunity
Within a few weeks of the September 11 attacks, US forces led an attak on:
Afghanistan
The Bush Doctrine emphasized:
Preemptive military action against terrorists and terrorist regimes
Bush’s stated rationale for attacking Iraq in 2003 was:
That country’s presumed threat to the US
In the war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the US was most closely supported by:
Great Britain
In the aftermath of Iraq’s defeat and occupation:
No weapons of mass destruction were found
Bush won a second term in 2004 by defeating:
John Kerry
Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, were:
Safely conservative
In 2005, Hurrican Katrina:
Destroyed much of New Orleans
The housing industry crash in 2007:
Froze up credit and provoked a recession
The most evident sign of the economic crisis by October 2008 was:
Plummeting stock prices
President Bush’s response to the financial crisis was to:
Support a federal bailout of the banking industry
As the 2008 presidential campaign started, the early front-runner for the Democratic nomination was:
Hillary Clinton
All of the following are true of Barack Obama EXCEPT that the:
Was born in Kenya
Republican candidate John McCain:
Was tortured in North Vietnam as a POW
The issue that dominated the last couple of months of the 2008 campaign was:
The economic crisis
Obama won large majorities among all the following groups of voters EXCEPT:
Those over sixty-five
