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Allied Powers |
Woodrow Wilson |
Germany's growing nationalism |
The Great War |
Assassination of Ferdinand |
Austria-Hungary |
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. |
Declared war on Serbia |
Nationalism |
Imperialism |
Belgium |
1910s |
To balance political power across countries |
Putting your own country's needs and interests before that of other countries |
Black Hand |
Britain and France |
Lusitania |
Liberty bonds |
Other countries preferred to punish the Central Powers for their part in World War I. |
Reparation |
True |
Germany |
The Bolshevik Revolution |
Pass the Selective Service Act |
Germans were now able to surge forward on the western fronts, and so they launched several attacks. |
False |
Armistice |
Britain |
Trench warfare |
To prevent future wars from happening as the result of continued disputes |
Germany |
False |
False |
Imperialism |
Battle of Verdun |
Breaking of the Sussex Pledge and the Zimmerman Note |
False |
Prevent any one country from dominating political affairs |
Militarism |
True |
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
Wilson |
True |
To prepare a country for war |
True |
Militarism |
Germany's plan to take France quickly and move on to Russia |
The Second Battle of the Marne |
France |
No man's land |
League of Nations |
Total warfare |
Nationalism |
Central Powers |
Garvey Race Riot |
Red Scare |
Demobilization |
Communist Manifesto |
True |
Sacco and Vanzetti |
True |
True |
Henry Ford |
Chicago Race Riot |
Anyone who does not believe in governmental authority |
Elaine Race Riot |
False |
It eliminated prohibition. |
They challenged and often worked against the social norms of the time. |
Warren G. Harding |
Teapot Dome Scandal |
Return-to-normalcy platform |
A bill aimed at reducing taxes for the richest in the country |
Calvin Coolidge |
False |
Harlem Renaissance |
False |
False |
True |
True |
Billy Sunday |
Herbert Hoover |
Mellon Plan |
Aimee Semple |
John Scopes |
Hoover |
Emergency Quota Act |
False |
Immigration Act of 1924 |
Aimee Semple |
Harding |
Bolshevik Revolution |
Xenophobia |
It made household appliances more affordable. |
Marcus Garvey |
False |
False |
A clash between urban and country values |
Bootlegging |
Supporting fundamentalist beliefs |
True |
Assembly line |
Hoover |
Hoover |
William Joseph Simmons |
Mitchell Palmer |
Harding |
True |
Businesses can sell stock to increase their funding, allowing for growth and expansion. |
False |
Stock |
Social Security Act |
The GNP increases. |
True |
The stock market was becoming more and more available and therefore more popular. |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
Economy would fail |
lost money and closed. |
True |
Start of World War II |
New Deal |
True |
Lower class citizens took advantage of the welfare system, resulting in a false distribution of money. |
True |
Bank runs |
It is sent to the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank. |
True |
True |
Americans believed that the good times would never end. |
False |
True |
Stocks would decrease. |
True |
False |
Society was setting itself up for a dramatic economic fall, but, due to a general unawareness, optimism remained high. |
Civil Works Administration |
Increase in gross national product |
Federal Emergency Relief Administration |
Hoover did nothing in response to the steep rise in unemployment. |
Consumers relied too much on the use of credit, so they overspent. |
Severe lack of rainfall |
Banks |
Buying on margin |
More than 60% of farmers lost their farms. |
True |
True |
False |
Sudetenland |
Benito Mussolini |
Adolf Hitler |
False |
Adolf Hitler |
Adolf Hitler |
He entered a non-agression treaty with some countries that let each of them invade other countries. |
Munich Conference |
He felt it would lead to the Axis domination of Western Europe. |
Appeasement |
False |
Churchill |
American public opinion was firmly against joining the war. |
False |
Lend-Lease |
Harry Truman |
Bataan Death March |
Holocaust |
Hideki |
General Douglas MacArthur |
False |
Concentration Camps |
December 7, 1941 |
Victory at home and victory abroad |
Neuremberg |
Production of military supplies increased dramatically. |
Battle of the Coral Sea |
Josef Stalin |
He knew that the American people did not want to get involved in the war. |
Genocide |
Neutrality Acts |
Guadalcanal |
Battle of the Coral Sea |
False |
Benito Mussolini |
Josef Stalin |
Germany |
Josef Stalin |
False |
They had been devastated by World War I and prefered to appease rather than fight Hitler, believing it would forever satisfy his imperialist desires. |
England |
December 7, 1941 |
Churchill |
Japanese Americans were relocated to internment camps. |
American public opinion was firmly against joining the war. |
False |
False |
Adolf Hitler |
True |
True |
Their language couldn't be deciphered by the enemy. |
Island hopping |
To implement democracy in the country |
Marshall Plan |
United Nations |
Russia |
True |
. Turkey and Greece |
Communist rule |
Truman Doctrine |
The 38th parallel |
psychological |
He considered the United State's association with Great Britain to be a potential future threat to the security of his country. Question Number 14 |
The Iron Curtain speech |
$400,000,000 |
True |
The Rosenbergs |
False |
The blacklisting initiated by the Soviet Union |
MacArthur wanted total warfare against the North Koreans, even to the point of using nuclear weapons if possible, but Truman wanted to limit warfare. |
Red Scare |
An official cease fire was declared so there was no real winner. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Stalemate |
False |
They wanted to join the two halves together again to return to being one country. |
Woodrow Wilson |
False |
To root out communists in American society |
Nuremberg Trials |
Atrocities of the holocaust |
To counter what they believed was the Soviet Unions' influence on and attempt to spread communism throughout Korea |
The 38th parallel |
Because the Soviet Union's blockade was preventing food and supplies from reaching the city. |
Chang Kai-Shek |
False |
Forming of the Warsaw Pact |
False |
Senator Joseph McCarthy |
Mao Tse-tung |
They feared that a nuclear bomb could be sent to the U.S. via a rocket, the same thing which put the satellite into orbit. |
Sputnik |
Democracy |
False |
Communism |
False |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
Federal Republic of Germany |
House on Un-American Activities Committee |
The Un-American Activities Committee activation |
He brought it to the forefront by accusing many politicians of being communists and homosexuals, adding to the nation's fear. |
False |
Clarence Darrow |
Businesses can sell stock to increase their funding, allowing for growth and expansion. |
Neuremberg |
A psychological rather than physical battle |
The English were able to evacuate their troops who were trapped. |
Allied Powers |
Start of World War II |
Warren G. Harding |
Stock market |
Her courage and determination was a morale boost for the English people. |
MacArthur wanted total warfare against the North Koreans, even to the point of using nuclear weapons if possible, but Truman wanted to limit warfare. |
Assassination of Ferdinand |
People lost money when banks closed; they couldn’t find jobs and many resorted to eating out of garbage cans. |
Their language couldn't be deciphered by the enemy. |
Germany |
Totalitarian |
European countries were still recovering from WWI and were unable to help. |
He entered a non-agression treaty with some countries that let each of them invade other countries. |
December 7, 1941 |
The Iron Curtain speech |
To prevent future wars from happening as the result of continued disputes |
Neutrality Acts |
Austria-Hungary |
Trench warfare |
Speakeasy |
Henry Ford |
The U.S. suffered no civilian casualties. |
He considered the United States' association with Great Britain to be a potential future threat to the security of his country. |
Warren G. Harding |
The Un-American Activities Committee activation |
Marcus Garvey |
Chicago Race Riot |
Sudentenland |
Stock |
The Bolshevik Revolution |
To help foreigners assimilate into the U.S. mainstream or culture |
Social Security Act |
Other countries preferred to punish the Central Powers for their part in World War I. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
False |
HUD |
Barry S. Goldwater |
Targeted housing issues |
Richard M. Nixon |
The commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
Housing Act and Peace Corp |
False |
Peace Corps |
Medicare |
False |
False |
False |
True |
False |
To send troops to West Berlin |
False |
It stopped the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere. |
Soviet Union's promise not to invade Turkey |
True |
The proximity (closeness) of those missiles to the U.S. |
Medicaid |
Alliance between southern Democrats and communists to assassinate Kennedy |
False |
Dr. King's arrest and subsequent eight month stint in jail |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
False |
False |
Earl Warren |
They recruited students to ride across the country with them to bring attention to discrimination in the South. |
Orval Faubus |
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth |
False |
Eugene Connor |
False |
False |
True |
True |
Separate but equal laws |
True |
True |
Many Southern businesses chose to integrate as a result of what the students did. |
Alabama |
Civil rights leaders thought it was the best way to show their discontent for the lack of government action towards civil rights for African Americans. |
Wallace |
True |
True |
South Vietnam |
False |
True |
South Vietnam |
President Nixon |
Wrote a memo asking President Truman to build up U.S. military force |
Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam |
NSC-68 |
True |
Like dominoes knock themselves over, countries are falling one after another to communism. |
Counterculture |
60 to 90 days |
False |
False |
False |
True |
Socialist Republic of Vietnam |
True |
France |
Americanization |
True |
False |
To end all military actions against your opponent |
Tet, Vietnamese New Year |
Libya |
True |
4 years |
America supported the ailing Shah of Iran and didn't support the new Iranian government. |
Reagan's sense of humor and charm |
False |
Bill Clinton |
Hitler |
Gerald Ford |
Kennedy |
True |
False |
True |
True |
Arms for hostages |
False |
False |
True |
Gerald Ford |
Peace through strength |
Committee to Re-Elect the President |
Reagan |
Carter |
False |
American troops ceased operations, allowing Hussein to stay in power. |
False |
Europe |
Familiar foods and customs |
George W. Bush |
Al Gore |
False |
Al Gore |
Globalization |
Land-owning male citizens |
It seemed unecessary after the fall of the Soviet Union. |
Information technology |
Afghanistan |
Scandal over personal involvement with an intern |
GATT |
False |
To free Iraq from the rule of Saddam Hussein |
Terrorist |
Asia |
True |
True |
To increase trade with Canada and Mexico |
Al Qaeda |
Iraq may have had access to weapons of mass destruction. |
Afghanistan |