Semester Two Review Flashcards
A country has intense loyalty and think they are the number one country
Nationalism
A country being bully tries to get as many colonies as possible
Imperialism
Wwii allied powers were Great Britain France and what other country from beginning
Russia
Major reason us entered wwi
U boats attacking us
Sussex and Lusitania
. Political groups want gov. to own industry think everyone should get payed the sme
Socialism
President led us through wwi
Woodrow Wilson
At end of wwi plan what most important of fourteen points
League of Nations
During roaring twenties who most notorious gangster
Al Capone
Where could you go to get illegal alcohol
Speakeasy
.Women in twenties given name
Flappers
Who revolutionized flight and made it possible
Lindbergh
What is one thing in twenties that made advertising so big.
Radio
Jazz singer first what type of movie
Talkie
In twenties if u wanted to keep up w/ jones did what
Installment plan
.Three targets of KKK
Jews, blacks, Catholics
Three causes of stock market crash
Buying on margin bear market installment
Name of Roosevelt’s plan to end the Great Depression
New deal
Farmers were payed not to grow crops under new deal
Aaa agricultural adjustment act
Government agency provides money taken out retirement money
Social security
. Most sensational court case of thirties
Lindbergh kidnapping case
June sixth 1994 is dday what is code name
Operation overlord
Turning point battle in wwii in Europe
Stalingrad
Italy fascist dictator
Mussolini
Name of battle plan to win war in pacific
Island hopping
Last major German offensive in wwii
Battle of the bulge
Famous plane piloted by tibbets dropped atomic bomb
Enola gay
Japan emperor during wwii
Hirohito
Made final desicion for dday invasion
Eisenhower
Major way we financed WWII
War bonds
Wwi started when this man assassinated
Arch duke Ferdinand
What was the name of Germany plan to systematically kill all of the Jews in Europe
Final solution
Turning point battle in pacific
Midway
When hitler was imprisoned wrote what book
Mein Kampf
Who ruled mother Russia during WWII
Stalin
What was the first big test for the United Nations
Korean War
First person to use phrase iron curtain
Winston Churchill
What is the one word used in terms of stopping communism
Containment
What were people of fifties called
Silent generation
Doctor developed cure for polio in 1955
Jonas Salk
Cuba became communist country under what ruler
Fidel Castro
Which president came up with dominos theory about communism
Eisenhower
Beatnik/hippie who wrote book about them
Jack Kerouac
Who were big four in Cold War
Russia US Britain France
First black person to attend ole miss
James Meredith
Who were two central characters in Cuban missile crisis
Kennedy and kruscheu
Who wrote the feminine mystic
Betty Friedan
What tactic did African Americans use to protest treatment in southern businesses in sixties
Sit ins
Turning point battle in Vietnam war
Tet offensive
What city in LA had terrible riots in sixties
Watts
Most powerful leader in civil rights
Stokely charmichael
What university was the site of a peace demonstration protesting Vietnam war killed four where did this take place
Kent state
Where was music festival
Woodstock
What did they call it a plan for the elderlys health care
Medicare
Government program responsible for baby boomers
GI Bill
In charge of crab grass frontier
William Levitt
What is the name given to the Korean War
The forgotten war
In 1948 Truman supposed to lose election who did he upset when he won
Thomas Dewey
Ended segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
Highschool in little rock scene of racial tension
Central
When women returned to homemaker
Affluent era
Name the three cities JFK visited prior to assassination
San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth
Name of man who drove Oswald to work
Leslie Frazier
From what floor were fatal shots fired
Sixth floor
Who was the police officer killed by lee Harvey Oswald during his escape
Tippets
Who was the eye witness who saw shots fired from book depository
Howard Brenan
Where was Oswald captured
Texas theater
Where is JFK buried
Arlington national cemetery
Quaker woman who lived with Oswald and his wife
Ruth Payne
Who killed lee Harvey Oswald
Jack ruby
Exact time and date of Kennedy assassination
12:30 November 22, 1963
