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What were the names given to bars and clubs that sold illegal alcoholic beverages?

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speakeasies

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In 1921, President Harding signed the ___________ which restricted the annual admission to the US by ethnic group.

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National Origins Act

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__________ is a style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound.

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Blues

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Who was the teacher who was tried and fined for teaching the theory of evolution?

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John T. Scopes

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What was the name of the trial where John T. Scopes was fined for teaching the theory of evolution?

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Scopes Monkey Trial

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__________ was an American style of music that developed from ragtime and that used a syncopated rhythms and improvisation?

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jazz

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Who wrote the Great Gatsby?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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What amendment instituted prohibition?

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18th

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Who wrote A Farewell to Arms?

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Earnest Hemingway

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Artistic development, racial pride, and political organization combined in a flower of African American arts known the ____________.

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Harlem Renaissance

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Who was the man that promoted “Negro Nationalism”?

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Marcus Garvey

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__________ is the belief that God created the world and everything in it, usually the way the Bible described it.

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Creationism

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What was the name of Ford’s first car?

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Model T

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Who invented a special circuit that made it practical to transmit sound via long-range radio?

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Edwin Armstrong

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_______ believed that the Bible was literally true and without error.

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Fundamentalist

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Who founded the American Birth Control League in 1921?

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Margaret Sanger

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What amendment appealed prohibition?

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21st

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What does CBS stand for?

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Columbia Broadcasting System

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The Volstead Act gave who the power to enforce prohibition?

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US Treasury Department

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Who was the former circuit-riding Methodist preacher who founded the new KKK in 1925?

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William Simmons

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A ___________ is a slowdown in economic activity over the course of a normal business cycle.

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Recession

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The __________ was the first federal agency created to stimulate the economy during peacetime?

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Reconstruction Finance Company

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What was the name of Dorothea Lange’s most famous photo of the Great Depression?

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Migrant Mother

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Who was the president in 1928?

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Herbert Hoover

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The __________ raised the average tariff rate to the highest level in American history.

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff

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What were the nicknames of shantytowns?

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Hoovervilles

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A long period of rising stocks is known as a _________.

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Bull Market

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A _______________is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies.

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Depression

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The Guiding Light was the nation’s first __________.

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Soap Opera

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What was the name of the marchers who marched from Oregon to Washington, D.C., in 1932?

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Bonus Army

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When stocks made their steepest dive on October 29, 1929, the media would coin this day as _________.

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Black Tuesday

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A market condition in which prices of securities are falling, thus causing pessimism in the market is known as a __________.

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Bear Market

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Who was the folk music singer who wrote songs about the dust storms?

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Woody Guthrie

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A ___________ is caused by persistent and heavy demands by a bank’s depositors, creditors, or customers to withdraw money.

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Bank Run

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Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?

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John Steinbeck

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What ecological disaster struck the Great Plains in the 1930s?

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Dust Bowl

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__________ is the act of buying stocks at a great risk with the anticipation that the prices will rise.

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Speculation

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What was the first movie in color?

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The Wizard of Oz

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People who “rode the rails” were known as __________.

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Hoboes

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__________ is a demand by a broker that investors pay back loans made for stocks purchased.

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Margin Call

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In January 1936, the Supreme Court declared the _________ unconstitutional.

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AAA

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The _____________ built dams to control floods, conserve forestland, and bring electricity to the middle and rural south.

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TVA

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Between March 9 and June 16, 1933 became known as the ___________ of FDR’s presidency.

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Hundred Days

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What paralyzing disease did FDR contract in 1921?

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Polio

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What was the name of the Catholic priest and radio host who turned his back on Roosevelt’s programs?

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Father Charles Coughlin

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What was the name of the Louisiana governor who championed the poor?

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Huey Long

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The ___________ was created to regulate the stock market and stop fraud.

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SEC

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What name was provided to Roosevelt’s conversations he had with the nation on the radio?

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Fireside chats

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__________ is a governmental practice of spending borrowed money rather than raising taxes, usually in an attempt to boost the economy.

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Deficit spending

50
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What was the most controversial program of all of Roosevelt’s programs that put to work artists, musicians, writers, and theater people on the government payroll?

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Federal Number One

51
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Once elected, people feared that Roosevelt would abandon the ________ and reduce the value of the dollar to fight the Depression.

A

Gold Standard

52
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Who was put in charge of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?

A

Harry Hopkins

53
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The __________ was the largest public works program of the Great Depression.

A

WPA

54
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What organization employed young men from ages 18-25 under the direction of the forestry service?

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CCC

55
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The core of ___________ was the monthly retirement benefit, which people collected when they stopped working at age 65.

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Social Security

56
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The ___________ provides government insurance for bank deposits.

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FDIC

57
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The 15 major programs that were passed became known as the _________.

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New Deal

58
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______________ holds that government should spend heavily in a recession to jump start the economy.

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Keynesian economics

59
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Who proposed that the federal government pay citizens over age 60 a pension of $200 a month?

A

Francis Townsend

60
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A ____________ is the act of closing remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business.

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Bank Holiday

61
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Once Hitler began to rebuild his military, he violated the ____________, which also ended World War I.

A

Treaty of Versailles

62
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Even more Americans turned to isolationism with the European refusal to repay their loans and the findings of the _________________ Committee, which documented the huge profits that arms factories had made during World War I.

A

Nye

63
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Hitler demanded the return of ______________, a Baltic Sea port that had been separated from Germany and added to Poland at the end of World War I.

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Danzig

64
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________________ was the idea that trade between nations helped to create prosperity and prevent war.

A

Internationalism

65
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The _________ was the mass extermination of million of European Jews.

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Holocaust

66
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___________ means lightning warfare.

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Blitzkrieg

67
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____________ took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans.

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Nuremberg Laws

68
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Who was the Minister of War for Japan?

A

Hediki Tojo

69
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Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on what date?

A

December 7, 1941

70
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_________ were camps where men, women, and children were sent to be executed.

A

Extermination camps

71
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Who was the leader of the USSR?

A

Joseph Stalin

72
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In his book, Adolf Hitler claimed that blond, blue-eyed Germans were descendants of a “master race” called _________.

A

Aryans

73
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____________, _____________, and ________ were known as the Axis Powers during World War II.

A

Germany, Italy, Japan

74
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Talks between Roosevelt and Churchill on ships near Newfoundland in 1941 resulted in the __________, which committed the two leaders to a postwar world of democracy, non-aggression, and free trade.

A

Atlantic Charter

75
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While in jail, what was the name of the book Hitler wrote?

A

Mein Kampf

76
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The ___________ Act allowed the United States to send weapons to Britain if Britain promised to return them or pay rent for them when the war ended.

A

Lend-Lease

77
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What was the name of the US territory, later a state, attacked by the Japanese?

A

Hawaii

78
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What does USSR stand for?

A

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

79
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On September 29, 1938, at the _____________, Britain and France agreed to Hitler’s demands in a policy that became known as appeasement.

A

Munich Conference

80
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On January 20, 1942, Nazi leaders met at the ____________ to coordinate the “final solution of the Jewish question.”

A

Wannsee conference

81
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What served as the first peacetime draft in American history?

A

Selective Training and Service Act

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What was the name of the German troops in North Africa?

A

Afrika Korps

83
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What part of present day France did the D-Day invasion take place?

A

Normandy

84
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What was the actual launch date of the D-Day invasion?

A

June 6, 1944

85
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The Air Force created its first African American Unit, the 99th pursuit squadron, the pilots would be known as the _______.

A

Tuskegee Airmen

86
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The first bombing of Tokyo was known as the ___________.

A

Doolittle Raids

87
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What two Japanese cities would ultimately feel the wrath of the United States atomic bombs?

A

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

88
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The Pittsburgh Courier launched the _________ campaign to stop the racism at home and Hitler’s racism abroad.

A

Double V

89
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What was the name of the project to build the atomic bomb?

A

Manhattan Project

90
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The forced march of 78,000 Americans 65 miles to a Japanese prison camp was known as the __________.

A

Bataan Death March

91
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What plane dropped “Little Boy”?

A

Enola Gay

92
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The great symbol of the campaign to higher women was ________, a character from a popular song by the Four Vagabonds.

A

Rosie the Riveter

93
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In 1943, Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt met at the ________ to discuss the USSR’s involvement in the war.

A

Tehran Conference

94
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The growth of southern California and the cities in the Deep South created a new industrial region known as the _______.

A

Sunbelt

95
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Twenty-tow German leaders were prosecuted for war crimes at the _________.

A

Nuremberg Trials

96
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FDR issued __________ which stated “there shall be no discrimination in the employment of workers in defense industries or government because of race, creed, color, or national origin.”

A

Executive Order 8802

97
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_________ is a government contract to pay a manufacturer the cost to produce an item plus a guaranteed percentage of profit.

A

Cost-plus contract

98
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The turning point of the war in the Pacific was _________.

A

Midway

99
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Who was in command of the US forces at D-Day?

A

Dwight Eisenhower

100
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What was the name of the 4000 mile stretch of beach defenses that Hitler requested built to protect an allied invasion?

A

Atlantic Wall

101
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In April 1949, the ______________ was founded as a mutual defense alliance.

A

NATO

102
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What was the name of the Soviet’s military alliance in Eastern Europe?

A

Warsaw Pact

103
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The ________ would give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies.

A

Marshall Plan

104
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Who was the first US delegate to the UN?

A

Eleanor Roosevelt

105
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The _______, was an era of confrontation and competition between nations that lasted from about 1946 to 1990.

A

Cold War

106
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In February 1945, FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met at ________- a Soviet resort on the Black Sea- to plan the postwar world.

A

Yalta

107
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Who became president after Roosevelt’s death?

A

Harry S. Truman

108
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Who was the head of the Screen Actors Guild in 1947 and testified that there were Communists in Hollywood?

A

Ronald Reagan

109
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The __________ began in June 1948 and continued through the spring of 1949, bringing in more than two million tons of supplies to West Berlin.

A

Berlin Airlift

110
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What American general would be fired in 1951?

A

MacArthur

111
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What two nations were involved mainly in the Cold War?

A

Soviet Union and United States

112
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To what present day country did the Nationalist’s of the Chinese civil war flee?

A

Taiwan

113
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Who coined the term that would separate Eastern Europe from Western Europe?

A

Winston Churchill

114
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What separates North and South Korea?

A

38th parallel

115
Q

What began that would grip the American public in September 1945?

A

Red Scare

116
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The purpose of the ___________ was to help countries resist being taken over by Communist forces.

A

Truman Doctrine

117
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At what conference did Truman learn of the first successful U.S. atomic bomb test?

A

Potsdam Conference

118
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________ is a systematic attempt to overthrow a government by using persons working secretly from within.

A

Subversion

119
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Who was the director of the FBI?

A

J. Edgar Hoover

120
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Senator McCarthy’s tactic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded chargers became known as __________.

A

McCarthyism

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