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Spring US History Final Exam Flashcards

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What was the name of the mission to land a man on the moon?

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Apollo

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What was the name of the group of Cuban rebels backed by the CIA?

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La Brigada

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Who was the local night club owner who would kill JFK’s killer?

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Jack Ruby

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What stood as a symbol of Cold War divisions?

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Berlin Wall

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What was the name of the commission who would investigate the assassination of JFK?

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Warren Commission

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Who was the first man on the moon for the United States?

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Neil Armstrong

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What case ruled that a defendant in a state court has the right to a lawyer regardless of his/her ability to pay?

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Gideon v. Wainwright

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Who was the name of the assassin who supposedly killed JFK?

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Who was the first African American to serve in a presidential cabinet?

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Robert Weaver

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Where was the Cuban rebels suppose to land their invasion in Cuba?

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Bay of Pigs

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Where was the first Special Olympics held?

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Chicago

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The __________ of 1964 outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

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Civil Rights Act

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On October 22, Kennedy announced that the Soviet Union had placed long-range nuclear missiles in Cuba helping to spark the _________.

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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JFK’s legislative agenda was known as _______________.

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New Frontier

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Who was the first American to orbit Earth?

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John Glenn

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What Supreme Court case would require authorities to inform suspects of their right to remain silent.

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Miranda v. Arizona

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What was the name of the lunar module that landed on the moon?

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Eagle

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What was the name of LBJ’s legislative agenda?

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Great Society

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__________, ruled that states could not compose official prayers and require those prayers be recited in public schools.

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Engel v. Vitale

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The ___________ of 1965 protected voters from racial discrimination in both voting practices and those practices that aimed to bar people from voting.

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Voting Rights Act

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Who became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1956?

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Who established a communist regime in Cuba?

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Fidel Castro

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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.

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Berlin Airlift

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What American general would be fired in 1951?

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Douglas MacArthur

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Senator McCarthy’s tactic of damaging reputations with vague, unfounded charges became known as ________.

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McCarthyism

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_____________ is the practice of pushing a dangerous situation to limit to force an opponent to back down.

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Brinkmanship

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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.

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Yalta

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

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Marshall Plan

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The ___________ separated Eastern Europe from Western Europe

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Iron Curtain

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

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Red Scare

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

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Warsaw Pact

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The five permanent members of the UN share what power?

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Veto Power

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

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Potsdam Conference

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What was the United State’s policy in the Cold War?

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Containment

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___________ is to express a formal disapproval of an action.

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Censure

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What two nations were involved mainly in the Cold War?

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Soviet Union and United States

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Who became president after Franklin Roosevelt’s death?

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Harry S. Truman

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38
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What separates North and South Korea?

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38th Parallel

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What was the name of the world’s first space satellite?

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Sputnik

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Who was the director of the FBI?

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J. Edgar Hoover

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The ___________ is a measure of the value of leading industrial companies.

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Industrial Index

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What were the three causes of the Great Depression?

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Loss of Export Sales, Mistakes by the Federal Reserve, and Uneven Distribution of Income

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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 given to Dust Storms of the Midwest?

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Black Blizzards or Black Rollers

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Who was behind the organization of the “hunger marches” in the United States?

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American Communist Party

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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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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 in known as a ______________.

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Bear Market

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The __________ created a pool of money that allowed troubled banks to continue lending money in their communities.

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National Credit Corporation

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What was the first Disney movie created during the Great Depression?

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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October 24, 1929, was known as?

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Black Thursday

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What was the first movie in color?

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The Wizard of Oz

59
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Who was in command of the army who cleared out the marchers from Washington, D.C.?

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Douglas MacArthur

60
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What was the name of Grant Wood’s Famous painting?

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American Gothic

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What was the name of FDR’s wife?

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Eleanor Roosevelt

62
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The ____________ built dams to control floods, conserve forestlands, and bring electricity to the middle and rural south.

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Tennessee Valley Authority

63
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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

65
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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

66
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What was the name of the Louisiana governor who championed the poor?

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Huey Long

67
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The ____________ was created to regulate the stock market and stop fraud.

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Securities and Exchange Commission

68
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The ___________ separated commercial banking from investment banking.

A

Glass-Steagall Act

69
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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

70
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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

71
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What was the most controversial program of all of Roosevelt’s programs that put artists, musicians, writers, and theater people to work on the government payroll?

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Federal Number One

72
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The __________ was the largest public works program of the Great Depression.

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Works Progress Administration

73
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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

74
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The __________ provides government insurance for bank deposits.

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Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation

75
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__________ holds that government should spend heavily in a recession to jump start the economy.

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Keynesian economics

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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

77
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What act guaranteed workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively?

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Wagner Act/National Labor Relations Act

78
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The first 15 major programs passed during the Great Depression under President Roosevelt became known as the __________.

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New Deal

79
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Who proposed that the federal government pay citizens over age 60 with a pension of $200 a month?

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Francis Townsend

80
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____________ was a process in which a neutral party hears arguments from two opposing sides and makes a decision that both must accept.

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Binding arbitration

81
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Who was known as Il Duce?

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Benito Mussolini

82
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On January 20, 1942, Nazi leaders met at the _____________ to coordinate the “final solution of the Jewish question.”

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Wannsee Conference

83
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Who was the Der Fuhrer?

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Adolf Hitler

84
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What was the name of the German Airforce?

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Luftwaffe

85
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What does USSR stand for?

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

86
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What was the name of the US territory, later a state, attacked by the Japanese?

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Hawaii

87
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The _________ declared that the entire western half of the Atlantic was part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral?

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Hemispheric Defense Zone

88
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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.

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Lend-Lease

89
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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.

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Atlantic Charter

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The Fascist militia that supported Mussolini was known as the ________________.

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Black shirts

91
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In his book, Adolf Hitler claimed that blond, blue-eyed Germans were descendants of a “master race” called ___________.

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Aryans

92
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___________,____________, and _______________ were known as the Axis Powers during World War II.

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Germany, Italy, Japan

93
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Who was the leader of the USSR?

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Joseph Stalin

94
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____________ were camps where men, women, and children were sent to be executed.

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Extermination camps

95
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Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on what date?

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December 7, 1941

96
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What was the name of the event where the Japanese army swept through China Killing 300,000 of its residents?

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Rape of Nanking

97
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Who was the Minister of War for Japan?

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Hediki Tojo

98
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___________ took citizenship away from Jewish Germans and banned marriage between Jews and other Germans.

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Nuremberg Laws

99
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What piece of technology gave Britain the air advantage over Germany which forced Hitler to cancel his plan to invade Britain?

A

Radar

100
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____________ means lightning warfare.

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Blitzkrieg

101
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The ________________ was the mass extermination of million of European Jews.

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Holocaust

102
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_____________ was the idea that trade between nations helped to create prosperity and prevent war.

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Internationalism

103
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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

104
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Once Hitler began to rebuild his military, he violated the ________________, which also ended World War I.

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Treaty of Versailles

105
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What served as the first peacetime draft in American history?

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Selective Service and Training Act

106
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What was the name of the German troops in North Africa?

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Afrika Korps

107
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What part of present day France did the D-Day invasion occur?

A

Normandy

108
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What was the actual launch date of the D-Day invasion?

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June 6, 1944

109
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The Airforce created its first African American Unit, the 99th pursuit squadron, the pilots would be known as the ___________.

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Tuskegee Airmen

110
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Who created the Liberty ship?

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Henry Kaiser

111
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The __________ was the largest naval battle in history.

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Battle of Leyte Gulf

112
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What plane dropped “Fat Man”?

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Bockscar

113
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___________ was the first scientist to suggest that splitting the uranium atom might release enormous energy.

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Leo Szilard

114
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What two Japanese cities would ultimately feel the wrath of the United States atomic bombs?

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

115
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The Pittsburgh Courier launched the ____________ campaign to stop the racism at home and Hitler’s racism abroad.

A

Double V

116
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What was the name of the project to build the atomic bomb?

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Manhattan Project

117
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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

118
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The ___________ was a system in which merchant ships travel with naval vessels for protection.

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Convoy system

119
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After the defeat of the Germans in North Africa, Roosevelt and Churchill met at the __________ to discuss the next stage of the war.

A

Casablanca Conference

120
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What plane dropped “Little Boy”?

A

Enola Gay

121
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Who created the B-24 Bomber?

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Henry Ford

122
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The great symbol of the campaign to hire women was ___________, a character from a popular song by the Four Vagabonds.

A

Rosie the Riveter

123
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The ________ put the Germans on the defensive in terms of its war with the USSR.

A

Stalingrad

124
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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

125
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Twenty-two German leaders were prosecuted for war crimes at the ___________.

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Nuremberg Trials

126
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Who was the commander of the United States Navy in the Pacific?

A

Chester Nimitz

127
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What type of bomb was used in the firebombing of Tokyo?

A

Napalm

128
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What finally ended the Great Depression?

A

World War II

129
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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

130
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Physicist __________ led the team on July 16, 1945 that would test the first atomic bomb at the Proving Grounds of New Mexico.

A

J. Robert Oppenheimer

131
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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

132
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FDR created the ___________ to direct priorities and production goals for military factories during World War II.

A

War Production Board

133
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What was the name of the German’s last offensive of World War II?

A

Battle of the Bulge

134
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What type of people were recruited to be “code-talkers” for the U.S. Marines?

A

Navajo Indians

135
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The turning point of the war in the Pacific was _________.

A

Battle of Midway

136
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Who was the general nicknamed the “Desert Fox”?

A

Erwin Rommel

137
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Who was in command of the US forces at D-Day?

A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

138
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In 1942 FDR created the ____________, who’s role was to improve the public’s understanding of the war and to act as a liaison office with the various media outlets.

A

Office of War Information

139
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What was the name of the 4000 mile stretch of beach defenses that Hitler requested built to protect against an allied invasion.

A

Atlantic Wall

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