USA Unit 1 - Changing Political Environment

Question 1

What date was the Korean war? (Start-end)

Answer 1

1950-53

Question 2

What was the space race?

Answer 2

The race in the cold war, where mainly the US and Russia competed to get things, into space.

Question 3

When was the Vietnam War?

Answer 3

1955-1975

Question 4

Who was in office at time of the whole Vietnam war?

Answer 4

Eisenhower
John F Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
G Ford

Question 5

What and when was the Emergency Quota Act?

Answer 5

19th May 1921 and it was an Act restricted large levels of immigration.

Question 6

What date was the Pearl Harbour attack?

Answer 6

7th December 1941

Question 7

When did USA join WW2?

Answer 7

8th December 1941

Question 8

What was the 18th Ammendment?

Answer 8

Introduction of Prohibition

Question 9

When was the Wall St. Crash?

Answer 9

29th October 1929

Question 10

When and What was the Truman Docterine?

Answer 10

12th March 1947 and it was Trumans idea that to restrict the rapid spread of communism he would need to be forceful and keep threats in Turkey and Greece.

Question 11

What defines a republican?

Answer 11

Associated with minimal government intervention, low taxes and conservative policies.

Question 12

What defines a democrat?

Answer 12

Associated with the ideas of civil rights and progressive reform with trade unions etc.

Question 13

What are the three sections to the Federal Government?

Answer 13

Legislature, Executive and Judiciary.

Question 14

What does the Legislature section do?

Answer 14

The Senate and House of representatives both pass laws and keep check on the president but each law has to cross both houses.

Question 15

What is the Exectutive Section?

Answer 15

President leads foreign policy and controls the Armed forces. The executive branch is made up of the cabinet and the vice president.

Question 16

What is the Judiciary system?

Answer 16

They apply and interpret laws. Made up of the district courts > Court of Appeals > Supreme Court.

Question 17

When was the first red scare?

Answer 17

1919-20

Question 18

When was the second red scare?

Answer 18

1947-50

Question 19

What emerged from the second red scare?

Answer 19

McCarthyism

Question 20

When was the moon landing?

Answer 20

20th July 1969

Question 21

Laissez-faire?

Answer 21

Let-do, a popular republican policy to leave the country to run itself.

Question 22

What was the Bonus Army?

Answer 22

Veterans were promised a bonus calculated on their years of service. As soon as the veteran came around many veterans asked for their money, as the government couldn’t afford to pay the veterans many protested in Washington.

Question 23

What was the New Deal and who brought it in?

Answer 23

Franklin D Roosevelt and it was a new democrat idea that the federal government will do whatever in their power to fix America after the great depression and get more rights to change America completely.

Question 24

What was the NRA?

Answer 24

National Recovery Administration

Question 25

What was the unemployment rate in 1930?

Answer 25

23%

Question 26

Between June 1947 and June 1948 there was a large arms race, what did the rising of atomic bombs in the US rise to in that year?

Answer 26

13 to 50

Question 27

What was the 1956 Interstate road act?

Answer 27

It prepared for the creation of evacuation interstates prepared if cities were bombed.

Question 28

What was a main negative quote, that described LBJ in the Vietnam war?

Answer 28

"Hey hey LBJ how many kids have you killed today?"

Question 29

What was the Watergate scandal and which president did it involve?

Answer 29

The Watergate scandal showed that President Nixon was not only guilty of burglary but also spying on political opponents.