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The Food Administration

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Taught Americans to plant victory gardens and to use left overs wisely

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The most important of all the mobilization agencies was the

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War Industries Board

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Despite the fact that the Great War generated many changes in female employment, these changes were

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Limited and brief

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What was the major cause of the St. Louis riot in 1917

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Racial tension over employment in a defense factory sparked the riot

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For violating the Espionage Act, Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs

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received a ten- year prison term

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The French Premier during World War I was

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Georges Clemencaeau

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The U.S. Military effort in France

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Helped turn back several German offenses

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The turning point in France came at the Second battle of

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The Marne

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As a result of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia

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Lenin concluded a separate peace with Germany

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In the midterm election of 1918

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The Democrats lost control of both houses of Congress

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In negotiating with the Big Four over many post war territorial issues, President Wilson

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Had to comprise his principle self determination

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Why did Wilson travel around the country giving speeches in 1919

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He wanted to drum up support for his version f the war treaty

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The Spanish Flu epidemic

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Killed nearly seven times the number of Americans as dies of combat in France

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The most celebrated postwar labor confrontation

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Boston Police strike of 1919

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The Red Scare of 1919-1920 reflected the

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Impact of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the actions of militants in the United States

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Part if the reason for the Sock Market crash was

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The buying of great amounts of stock on margin

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How many people were out of work in early 1933

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13 million

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Herbert Hoover while attempting to shore up the economy through economic policy, considered _______ to be the thing americans needed most at the time

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Confidence

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In the election of 1930

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Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives

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The Bonus Expeditionary Force

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Marched on Washington in an attempt to get immediate payment of a veterans bonus the Congress had voted in 1924

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In response to the Bonus Army marchers, Herbert Hoover

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Sent the U.S. Army to evict them from their Hooverville

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Was permanently disable after contracting polio

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Whose campaign song was “Happy Days are Here Again”

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Just before his election to the presidency in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was

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Governor of New York

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FDR says that “ the only thing we have to fear is

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Fear itself

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At the outset of his presidency, to deal with the banking crisis, Roosevelt

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Declared a bank holiday, shutting the baks down briefly

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The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to

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Provide work relief for young men

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All of the following are true of the National Youth administration

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  • provided part time employment to students
  • it was part of the WPA
  • It se up technical training programs
  • It provided nixon with a job
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The goal of the Agriculture Adjustment act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through

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Cutbacks in production

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To earn the federal payments for reducing crops

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Farmers often starved because they were not allowed to grow even small vegetable gardens

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What organization sought to set workplace standards such as child labor restrictions

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NRA

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The fair practices codes of the NRA did all of the following

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-Prohibit child labor
-establish minimum wages of $13 per week
-set a forty-hour work week
Establish minimum wage of $12 per week in the south

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Because the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee River became

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The “Great Lakes of the South”

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The dust bowl can be associated with

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The blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil

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The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the depression was “The Grapes of Wrath” by

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John Steinbeck

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Was especially supportive of women, blacks, and organized labor

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Huey Long

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Developed a program called Share the Wealth

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Charles E Coughlin

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Was the “radio priest”

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He was the California doctor who called for old age pension from the government

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Francis Townsend

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In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. The US, the supreme court

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Overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act

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The National Labor Relations Act

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Was often called the Wagner Act

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What is true about social security

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It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes.

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The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act)

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Raised taxes on incomes above $50,000

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In the presidential election of 1936

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Republicans hoped that third party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election

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What is true about the 1936 Presidential election

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FDR defeated Alfred M. London in a landslide

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In early 1937 FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by

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Adding up to six additional members

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Roosevelt’s court- packing scheme became unnecessary when

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The supreme court began reversing previous judgements and upholding the New Deal

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The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by

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A sharp decrease in government spending

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The farm Security Administration

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Offered loans to marginal farmers (so they could avoid falling into tenancy)

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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

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Set a minimum wage of forty cents an hour

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In the elections of 1938

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Roosevelt’s attempt to “purge” the Democratic Party were largely unsuccessful

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During the 1931-1932, Japan invaded and conquered what territory in East Asia

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Manchuria

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What did the governments of Italy and Germany have in common by the 1930’s

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Both had established fascist forms of governments

54
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The Marco Polo Bridge Incident brought Japan to war against what country

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China

55
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During the Spanish Civil War

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Hitler and Mussolini helped the armed uprising led by Francisco Franco

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The invasion of. What country provoked England and France to declare war on Germany

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Poland

57
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The Neutrality act of 1935

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Forbade the sale of arms and munitions to warring nations

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The 1939 Neutrality Act’s “cash and carry” provision

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Permitted the US to sell arms to Britain and France if the paid up front and carried their purchases on their own ships

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All are true about the German blitzkrieg of spring 1940

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  • it followed the long lull in the European fighting after the invasion of Poland
  • Germany defeated France in just over two months
  • it involved German attacks on France, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands
  • German troops cut off British troops and prevented them from providing assistance
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In the battle of Britain during 1940

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The British turned back a massive German air attack and forced Germany to postpone its invasion plans

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In the late summer of 1940, President Roosevelt agreed to send fifty “overaged” destroyers to Britain in return for

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Ninety-nine year leases on a series of British naval and air bases in the Western Hemisphere

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What statements can be made about the 1940 presidential election

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FDR won his third term as president

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The passage of the lend-lease bill in 1941 signaled what about American opinion

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Isolationist strength was weakening

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What is true about the European War between June 1940 and June 1941

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The Nazi juggernaut appeared unstoppable

65
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Italy’s offensives launched in 1940 against Greece and British forces in Egypt

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Required german assistance to succeed

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In June 1941 Germany widened the war by

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Invading the soviet union

67
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The Atlantic Charter

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Was a joint British American Statement of anti Axis was aims

68
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In November 1941

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Congress removed the ban on arming merchant ships

69
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What significant objective motivated Japanese expansion during 1940-1941

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This expansion provided access to vital strategic material

70
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During the summer of 1941, the US attempted to restrain Japanese expansion by

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Restricting oil exports to Japan and freezing Japanese assets in the US

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as US-Japanese tensions heightened in the summer and autumn of 1941, the US insisted it would reopen trade with Japan only after that country

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Withdrew from French Indochina and China

72
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From late 1941 into early 1942, during WWII in the Pacific

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There was a succession of Japanese victories that saw numerous Allied outpost fall

73
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Following the declaration of war

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Men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five were drafted

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A significant economic problem during the war was

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Find enough workers for the essential war time industries

75
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The Office of Price Administration

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Set price ceilings on highly demanded items like tires, sugar, ad gasoline

76
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During the war, domestic politics was marked by

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A growing conservation

77
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What statement best describes the Native American experience in the armed forces during WWII

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Indian servicemen were integrated into regular units

78
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War relocation camps

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Housed more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war

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When Roosevelt and Churchill met to draft a joint war plan in early 1942, they agreed

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That something needed to be done to relieve the pressure along the Russian front

80
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British and American differences over where to attack Germany forst was resolved with the decision to launch an offensive where

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In North Africa

81
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At the Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt and Churchill agreed to what

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  • demand for the “unconditional surrender” of their enemies
  • the stepped-up bombing of Germany
  • an assault on Sicily and Italy
  • increased shipments of military supplies to the Soviet Union
82
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What best describes the Allied invasion against Sicily in July 1943

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Sicily fell quickly after the Allied surprise landing

83
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How did Germany respond to Italy’s decision to switch sides in September 1943

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Germany slowed the Allied advance by pouring its own reinforcements into Italy

84
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D-Day refers to the

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Allied invasion at Normandy

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the main purpose of the 1943 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Tehran was

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To plan the invasion of France and the Russian offensive across eastern Europe

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All the following Pacific engagements helped turn the tide of the war against Japan in 1943 and 1944

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  • Battle of Leyte Gulf
  • Battle of the Philippine Sea
  • Battle of the Bismarck Sea
  • securing of New Guinea and the Marianas
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What was the most significant consequence of the Battle of Leyte Gulf

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The Japanese lost their remaining sea power and ability to defend the Philippines

88
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In the presidential election of 1944

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Franklin Roosevelt won a fourth term as president

89
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At the Battle of the Bulge

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Germany’s advances against the allies ultimately stalled and was reversed

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At the Yalta Conference of 1945 the Allies did what

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  • Call for a conference to create a new world security organization
  • agree to Soviet territorial demands in eastern Europe
  • make arrangements for the postwar governance of Germany
  • reaffirm, the principle of the Atlantic charter
91
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Less that a month before the surrender of Germany

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President Roosevelt died in office

92
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Following the defeat of Germany

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Came the shocking realization of the full extent of the Holocaust

93
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The American assault on Okinawa

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Was a success but with the tremendous loss of life for both the US and Japan

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The Potsdam Declaration

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Demanded that Japan surrender or face “prompt and utter destruction”

95
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What significance did the use of the Atomic bombs against Japan have

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They allowed the Americans to avoid an amphibious invasion of Japan

96
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The country that suffered the most deaths in the fighting of WWII was

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The Soviet Union

97
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Richard Nixon

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Had a reputation for hard- line anti- communism and rough campaign tactics

98
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In the 1960 presidential race, JFK

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Promised to pursue a “new frontier”

99
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President Kennedy’s cabinet was dominated by

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men with new ideas and good minds

100
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Kennedy’s legislative program

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Was largely blocked by conservations in Congress

101
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In its controversial Miranda v Arizona decision, the Warren Court

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Requires that an accused person be informed of certain basic rights

102
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Violence Erupted in 1962 when James Meredith attempted to integrate

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The University of Mississippi

103
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In his letter from Birmingham City Jail, MLK

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Declared his willingness to break unjust law

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The person most persuasive in getting President JFK to endorse civil right would have been

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His brother Robert

105
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The Bay of Pigs invasion

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Was thoroughly bungled by the CIA

106
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The major purpose of the Soviet missiles place in Cuba was to

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Deter another American- supported invasion of Cuba

107
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The Cuban missile crisis

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Brought the US and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war

108
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In south Vietnam in the early 1960’s

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Kennedy was increasing the number of American military advisers

109
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The strongest and most visible opposition to Diem’s government was led by

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Buddhists

110
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What was true about JFK’s assassination

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  • the primary suspect was Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Jack Ruby shot and killed the suspected assassin
  • it occurred in Dallas on November 22, 1963
  • many of the related events were watched on TV
111
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The civil rights act of 1964

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Outlawed segregation in public facilities

112
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President Johnson labeled his overall program of domestic reform the

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Great Society

113
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Beginnin with Watt’s, the major race riots of 1965 and 1966

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Occurred largely outside the South

114
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By 1966, black leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H Rap Brown were proponents of what the termed

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Black power

115
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The Tonkin Gulf resolution

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Allowed Johnson to escalate the war

116
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The Tet offensive of early 1968

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Dramatically affected pubic support for Johnson’s war policy

117
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On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot and killed

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MLK

118
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In regard to Vietnam policy, Nixon

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Insisted that he would pursue “peace with honor”

119
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In April 1970, Nixon extended the war when he sent troops into

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Cambodia

120
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Shocking events at Kent State University involved

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The killing of four students by the National Guard

121
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The Pentagon Papers

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Revealed that the Johnson administration had deceived the public in regard to war policy

122
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The Vietnam settlement signed on January 27, 1973

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Left 150,000 Communist troops in South Vietnam

123
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As the 1972 election approached, the biggest threat to Nixon’s reelection seemed to be

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George Wallace’s potential to drain away conservative votes from the Republicans

124
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The burglars arrested at the Watergate apartment complex

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Had connections to the Nixon reelection campaign

125
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essential to breaking the Watergate case was the testimony before the Ervin committee of White House legal counsel

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John Dean

126
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Nixon’s Watergate- related resignation came with the revelation that he had

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Ordered a cover- up of the original Watergate break- in

127
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Gerald Ford suffered terrible political damage when he

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Pardoned Nixon

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