Social Studies Final

Question 1

established trade between US and Japan; presented letter calling for Japan to grant trading rights to Americans

Answer 1

Perry’s trip to Japan

Question 2

US bought Alaska; his purchase was looked at as a frozen wasteland

Answer 2

Seward’s Folly

Question 3

Cleveland rejected a proposal to annex; argued vote had been illegal and was not supported by the people of the islands

Answer 3

President Cleveland and the annexation of Hawaii

Question 4

Congress voted to make it a territory of the United States under McKinley

Answer 4

vote to annex Hawaii

Question 5

wanted to guarantee the rights of all nations to guarantee the rights of China on an equal basis; helped protect the US right to trade with China

Answer 5

The Open Door Policy

Question 6

sinking led to war between US and Spain, explosion, killed 260, Spain was blamed, one of the causes of the Spanish American war

Answer 6

The Battleship Maine

Question 7

war between Spain and US, US declared war on Spain, 4/11/1898, nine days later Congress agreed, under McKinley

Answer 7

Spanish American War

Question 8

Panama was Province of Columbia, Roosevelt wanted to give Columbia 10 MIL up front and 250K a year to rent and build Panama Canal

Answer 8

Columbia and the Panama Canal

Question 9

gave US permanent use and control of the ten mile across the Isthmus

Answer 9

the signing of the canal treaty

Question 10

Monroe asserts US will NOT permit European nations to interfere with the free nations of Latin America

Answer 10

The Monroe Doctrine

Question 11

Taft policy protects US economic investments in Latin America and in other regions; urges US bankers to invest heavily in Latin America and Asia

Answer 11

Dollar Diplomacy

Question 12

tensions erupt in Europe; imperialism, nationalism, militarism were all causes; competing for trade and territory in Africa Asia and the Pacific

Answer 12

The start of WW1

Question 13

military defeats; food shortages, uprising, czar overthrown, new govt vows to keep Russia in war

Answer 13

Russia in March 1917

Question 14

380,000 men, opportunities restricted, widespread racism, still encouraged by African civil rights leaders to support the war; only 10 percent were sent to combat

Answer 14

African American troops in WW1

Question 15

headed to run new food administration, hoover had directed relief in Belgium, now job to assure adequate food supply for civilians and troops

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Herbert Hoover in WW1

Question 16

encouraged to spy on your neighbors; opened mail, tapped phones, pry into medical records

Answer 16

American Protection League

Question 17

SHe had a victory garden which was part of something Hoover urged. Garden was on WHite House Lawn

Answer 17

President’s Wilson’s wife

Question 18

American troops in Europe

Answer 18

The American Expeditionary Force

Question 19

Germans pulled back from Paris France, at first they continued to fight despite lots of losses over 800k

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Germans reaction to American troops joining the war

Question 20

prevent future wares

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Wilson’s goal at the peace conference in Paris

Question 21

the big 4, France, Britain, Italy and US

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Paris Peace Conference - countries involved

Question 22

toward the end of the war, troop movements contributed to worldwide epidemic, killed more people than 4 years of war

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influenza

Question 23

soldiers came home to seek jobs, prices rising, stiff resistance management to unions, led to strikes

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soldiers returning from the war

Question 24

devotion to the interests of one’s own country; pride in one’s nation or ethnic group

Answer 24

nationalism

Question 25

government took stern meaures to suppress criticism of the war; under acts closed newspapers and jailed individuals for expressing anti war moves

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espionage and sedition acts

Question 26

under Lenin, seized govt in 1917 wanted to set Russia on Road to COmmunism

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Bolsheviks

Question 27

made alliance with France, fought to push Germany out of France

Answer 27

How the US got involved in WW1

Question 28

France, Britain, Russia

Answer 28

WW1 the three top European allies

Question 29

Wilson's idealistic plan to prevent future wars, first five points dealt with factor that had led to war, the 6th thru 13th dealt wih territorial issues from war, the 14th and most important set up international organization and associatin of neighbors to guarantee world peace

Answer 29

Wilson's 14 points

Question 30

Technological advances made the war more lethal biplanes flew overhead and observed battleground and airplanes had machine guns and engaged in 1 on 1 dog fights

Answer 30

Airplanes in WW1

Question 31

biggest scandal settled o Teapot DOme Wyoming a govt pwned oil reserve; rep secretly leased land and reserve in return for bribe; FZall was sentenced and sent to prison

Answer 31

Teapot Dome

Question 32

post war economy had rebounded; economy roared

Answer 32

American Economy in the mid 1920's

Question 33

Coolidge sent troops to represent American business interests there in 1926 - property, lives, interest

Answer 33

Coolidge and Nicaragua

Question 34

new limits do not apply to people from the Americas, limited immigration into the US; limited numbers admitted from Eastern and Southern Europe; completely prohibited immigration from Asia

Answer 34

1920s Immigration laws

Question 35

prohibited making selling transporting of alcohol

Answer 35

18th Amendment

Question 36

total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol

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Prohibition

Question 37

reduced time in makin cars from 12 to 1; middle class families could now afford to buy a car since prices dropped

Answer 37

THe assembly line

Question 38

buying on credit

Answer 38

Installment buying

Question 39

more people chose to invest; people could afford, more money in, prices kept rising, called a bull market

Answer 39

booming stock market in the 1920s

Question 40

during this scare, thousands of anarchists and communists/reds were arrested, deported and expelled

Answer 40

red scare

Question 41

two italian immigrants arrested and charged with robbing and murdering two payroll in Massachusetts; little evidence was presented; prosecution focused on that they were foreigners and anarchists; they were convicted and executed.

Answer 41

sacco and vanzetti

Question 42

a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage

Answer 42

Herbert hoover campaign slogan

Question 43

caused by the stock market crash in 10/29/29 known as Black Tuesday. It was a 12 year economic and social disaster

Answer 43

The Great Depression

Question 44

in june 1932 a protest began that will seal president's fate; bonus of 100 for every veteran; was not supposed to be paid til 1945 angry vets demanded pay now; 20k veterans marched and camped out; 2k remained in tents and abandoned buildings; tear gas and tanks used; killed 1 vet injured 100 and left tent city in ruin; americans were outraged at the firing on unarmed vets

Answer 44

Bonus Army

Question 45

FDR vs Hoover. FDR won

Answer 45

1932 presidential election

Question 46

advisors to FDR during his administration, this brain trust speech writer (Rosenman) suggested Academic team to advise in 1932 Columbia Law professors helped shape the policies of the first New Deal

Answer 46

brain trust

Question 47

federal deposit insurance corporation created in 1933 to protect bank depositors

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FDIC

Question 48

support for needy, retiree pension, support for needy children under FDR in 1935 because of suffering through no fault of their own

Answer 48

Social security

Question 49

war quickly ended it; jobs opened up in factories even for minority workers

Answer 49

end of the great depression

Question 50

October 29, 1929 the day the stock market crashed

Answer 50

black Tuesday

Question 51

He declared a bank holiday

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Roosevelt and the day after he was inaugurated

Question 52

had been hit hard; suffered more from homelessness, illness, hunger

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African Americans and the Great Depression

Question 53

tents because no one could afford homes, shanty towns built by homeless people named after the president and who they blamed for it

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Homerville AKA Hooverville

Question 54

germany

Answer 54

Who paid reparations after WW1

Question 55

signed a nonaggression pact at he beginning of ww2

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hitler and stalin

Question 56

Germany decided to invade the soviet union and then the soviets joined Britain in fighting after Germany joined the fighting

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Germany and the soviet union

Question 57

tide began to turn with the historic naval battle in the Pacific; American and Japanese navies wage new warfare; lanes began taking off decks and attack ships form miles away

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the coral sea and the Midway

Question 58

Truman dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagaski

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atomic bombs

Question 59

Germany invaded Poland and france, Britain decided to intervene

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how did ww11 start

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leader of Russia; signed nonaggression pact with hitler; when hitler broke it he joined forces with allied

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josef stalin

Question 61

a day that will live in infamy; pearl harbor; japan attacks on US soil

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december 7 1941

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holocaust

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"final solution to the Jewish problem"

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difference among war time allies; churchill, stalin, rosevelt, stalin promised to hold free elections in the parts under his control, Truman tried to stop expansion of communism. communist led revolt broke out in Greece, soviets started to threaten turkey

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Cold war beginnings

Question 64

provided funds for a vast system of freeways to link all parts of the UNited States

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interstate highway act

Question 65

N Korea was trying to invade s korea and make it one whole communist country

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Korean war

Question 66

macarthur said we could win in korea onl if we fought in china and bombed ther supply bases; Truman was more cautious and thought this would start a whole new world war

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truman and macarthur

Question 67

10/1957 soviet launched sputnik started race between US and soviet union

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first human made satellite

Question 68

north korea and south korea set up this to separate the two area from which military forces are prohibited

Answer 68

demilitarized zone

Question 69

In the South, these laws separated races in schools theaters, restaurants, transportation

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Jim crow laws

Question 70

Rosa Parks not moving from her seat

Answer 70

Montgomery bus boycott

Question 71

Banned discrimination in employment and public facilities

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The civil rights act of 1964

Question 72

missile treaty signed by Nixon and Soviet leaders

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SALT

Question 73

Ford became president as a result of Nixon resigning because of the Watergate scandal

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President Ford and WAtergate

Question 74

Vietnam declared independence from France after WW2

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Vietnam and France

Question 75

CHemical weapons used in Vietnam

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Napalm and Agent Orange

Question 76

US bombed in an effort to pressure North Vietnam in negotiating peace

Answer 76

United States and Cambodia

Question 77

Nixon won against Humphrey

Answer 77

1968 Presidential Election

Question 78

South Vietnam surrendered after the loss of Saigon

Answer 78

Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war