Shared Flashcard Set

Details

American History Final
Exam
125
History
11th Grade
05/17/2011

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
For what reason was it difficult to enforce Prohibition?
Definition
There wasn't enough money to enforce the law.
Term
This group believed that the bible should be taken literally.
Definition
Fundamentalists.
Term
They went "unerground" to these hidden night clubs to obtain liquor?
Definition
Speakeaies.
Term
He challenged a Tennese law that forba the teaching of evolution.
Definition
John T. Scopes.
Term
Most like the Women's Chritian Temperance Union, organized crime and residents of the rural south would have approved of what law in 1920's?
Definition
Anti-Saloon League; Prohibition Amendment.
Term
This event highlighted the strugle between science and religion in American school in the 1920's?
Definition
Scopes Trial.
Term
According to the fundamentalists, urban slum, crime and child abue were cause by?
Definition
Alchol.
Term
This lawyer was hire by the ACLU to defend John T. Scopes.
Definition
Clarence Darrow.
Term
This term describes the era or time period of the 18th amendment.
Definition
Prohibition.
Term
Someone who provided illegal alchol was known as?
Definition
Bootlegger.
Term
A famed politician and expert on the bible defended fundamentalism an tetified at the Scopes Monkey trial.
Definition
Bryan.
Term
Not enough money or manpower as provided by the government to enforce thi.
Definition
Prohibition.
Term
This refers to stricter social and moral standards for woman than for men.
Definition
Double-Standards.
Term
She opened the firt birth control clinic in the United States in 1916.
Definition
Margaret Sanger.
Term
What were 3 technological innovations that simplified household labor and family life?
Definition
Ready made clothes, sliced bread, and canned food.
Term
What were 3 professions available to women as a result of the new technology of the 1920's?
Definition
Typits, Filing Clerks, and Secretaries.
Term
The writer who coine the phrase "the jazz age"?
Definition
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Term
Thee famous writers of the 1920' expressed critical views of American culture and society?
Definition
Edna St. Vincent Millay an Ernest Hemingway.
Term
Was th author of "The Sun also Rises", introduced a simplified style of writing and critized the glorification of war?
Definition
Ernest Hemingway.
Term
The two boxers that took part in the event calle the "fight of the century".
Definition
Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey.
Term
A small town pilot, who at one time delivery U.s. mail airplane, flew nonstop solo across the Atlantic.
Definition
Charle A. Lindbergh.
Term
A composer that merge traditional elements of music with Jazz.
Definition
George Gershwin.
Term
This artist prouced intensely colored pictures that captured the grandeur of New York.
Definition
Georgia O'Keefe.
Term
First American o win the Noble Prize for literature used the character "Babbitt" to mock Americans for their materialism.
Definition
Sinclair Lewis.
Term
Author of "This si of paradise" and the "great gatsby", h portrayed wealthy people of leading hopelessly empty livs.
Definition
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Term
This celebration of African-American Culture in literature and art.
Definition
Harlem Renassance.
Term
The goal of this prganizaion was to fight for legislation to protect the rights of African-Americans?
Definition
NAACP.
Term
The mass movement of African-Amricans from the rural south to Northern cities during the 1920's was known as?
Definition
Great Migration.
Term
Was a Jazz pianist and composer who was considered one of America's greatest composers?
Definition
Eward Kenney 'Duke' Ellington.
Term
She portrayed lives of poor, unschooled Southern African Amercans?
Definition
Zora Neale Hurston.
Term
This singer became the highest paid black artist in the world.
Definition
Bessie Smith.
Term
He founded a black nationalist association that advocated a "back to Africa movement" or separate society.
Definition
Marcus Garvey.
Term
He was the movements best known popet, describing the difficult lives of working class African-Americans?
Definition
Langton Hughes.
Term
What event alowed the militarist leader to gain control of the Japanes government?
Definition
Attack on Manchura.
Term
His goal wa to transform the Soviet Union from a rural nation into a industrial power?
Definition
Joseph Stalin.
Term
In the returning of Germany, what did Hitler oppos an violate?
Definition
He dismantled the Democratice Republic.
Term
Prior to the start of WWII, what happened too many democrasis created at the end of WWI?
Definition
Democracis collapsed and Dictators were able to seize power.
Term
He was the fascist leader of Italy?
Definition
Mussolini.
Term
His totalitarian regime was based on a communit philosophy?
Definition
Adolph Hitler.
Term
What policy did the leader of Britain and Franc follow when they submitte to Hitlr's demands?
Definition
No shot were to be made.
Term
THe British leader ho signed the Munch agreement?
Definition
Neville Chamberlain.
Term
What nations signed a non-aggresion pact?
Definition
Germany and russia.
Term
What British leader opposed the Munich agreement?
Definition
Churchill.
Term
What nation was invaded in 1939 that forced France and Britain to declare war on Germany?
Definition
Czechoslovakia (Poland)
Term
Germany's 2 month attempt to bomb Britain into submission is know as?
Definition
The Battle of Britain.
Term
What is the term given to Germany's military strategy of surpise and overwhelming force hen attacking countries?
Definition
Blitzrieg.
Term
Became known as the "night of the Broken glass"?
Definition
Nov. 9-10th, 1938
(Kristallnacht)
Term
These laws stripped the Jews of their citiznship, jobs, and property?
Definition
Nuremburg Laws.
Term
The term use to define the deliberate extermination of a specific group of people?
Definition
Genocide.
Term
These were the segregated Jewish areas of cities here the Nazis forcibility relocated thousands of Jews.
Definition
Ghetto's
Term
FDR referred to them as the "rattlesnakes of the Atlantic"?
Definition
German Submarines.
(U-Boats)
Term
This was FDR's policy of provid arms to foreign countries fighting Nazis aggression?
Definition
Lend-Lease Act.
Term
This was drawn up by FDR and Churchill in a meeting an board the U.S.S. Augusta?
Definition
Atlantic Charter.
Term
The Japanese that ordered the Japanese navy to prepare an attack on the U.S.?
Definition
Tojo.
Term
This was created for th first during peacetine in the United States?
Definition
Selectiv training and service Act.
Term
What country finally forced the United States to enter World War II?
Definition
Japan.
Term
What three steps did the U.S. government take to combat wartime inflation?
Definition
IDK
Term
Woman who serve in the WAACs, serve as?
Definition
Nurses, ambulance drivers, and electricians.
Term
This was created to deal with the problem of inflation?
Definition
OPA
Term
He organized the march on Washington to protest discrimination?
Definition
A. Philip Randolph
Term
Created by FDR to bring into and organize scientist for the war effort?
Definition
OSRD
Term
This method was used to decrease the se of scarce wartime goods.
Definition
Rationing
Term
This department was responsible for converting industry from peace time to war time production and distribution.
Definition
WPB
Term
Job opportunities for what minority in the U.S. improved during the war?
Definition
Women and African American
Term
The use of convoys, sonar and radar helped the Allies win what battle?
Definition
The Battle of the Atlantic.
Term
Who was the General that commanded Operation Overload, the Allied invasion of Europe.
Definition
Eisenhower.
Term
What was Germany's goal in the Battle of the Atlantic?
Definition
To prevent food and war materials from reaching Great Britian and the Soviot Union.
Term
What 3 factors contributed to the Soviet victory at Stalingrad?
Definition
IDK
Term
The supreme Commander of Allied troops in Europe was?
Definition
Eisenhower
Term
Who was the American General that led the Third Army into Paris to liberate the city?
Definition
George patton
Term
What was the significance of the Battle of the Bulge?
Definition
Ended the war.
Term
What was the day, May 8th called when Germany surrendered to the Allies?
Definition
V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day)
Term
Who were the defendents at the Nuremberg trials?
Definition
Hitlers most trusted army officials, government ministers, military leaders, and powerful industrialists.
Term
What was the Manhattan project?
Definition
Atomic bomb.
Term
On what two targets did the united states drop the Atomic bomb on?
Definition
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Term
Who were the 3 Allied leaders attended the Yalta conference?
Definition
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
Term
What was Truman's main goal in using the atomic bomb on Japan
Definition
avoiding an invasion of Japan and to get them to wsurrenender.
Term
The commander of U.S. troops in 1941, in the Philippines?
Definition
Term
After Pearl Harbor, these west coast inhabitants were forcibly moved to interment camps by the government?
Definition
Japanese Americans
Term
This was to provide an increase in the standard of living, loans for college education, starting a business and buying a house for service men.?
Definition
GI Bill of Rights
Term
What was the U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled in favor of the government's internment of Jaanese-Americans?
Definition
Koremtsu V. United States.
Term
This organization pushed the U.s. government to compensate Japanese Americans for their lost property?
Definition
JACL
Term
What influenced FDR in his decision to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps?
Definition
The Military
Term
He was the Democratic nominee from Massachusetts for President in 1960?
Definition
John Kennedy
Term
What were two obstacles for Kennedy in the 1960 Presidential election?
Definition
Many felt that he was too inexperienced and also worried about him being Roman Catholic.
Term
What post did JFK appoint his brother to?
Definition
Attorney general
Term
This military strategy was intended to modernize America's military to fight a non-nuclear war?
Definition
Flexible response.
Term
This involved the invasion of Cuba in 1960?
Definition
Openly communist, Cuba was lead by Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro who welcomed aid from the USSR.
Term
What was established in 1963 connecting Moscow to Washington D.C.?
Definition
Hot line.
Term
He was the Leader of the Soviet Union?
Definition
Fidel Castro.
Term
This was a program of volunteer assistance for developing nations established by Kennedy?
Definition
Peace Corps.
Term
Who did the Warren committee conclude was responsible for the assassination of Kennedy?
Definition
Oswald
Term
This was Kennedy's military strategy that would enable to the U.S. to fight limited wars around the world?
Definition
Flexible Response.
Term
What promises did the U.S. make that contributed to the end of the Cuban missile crisis?
Definition
-U.S. would not talerate nuclear weapons in Cuba.
-U.S. would respond to any attack from Cuba with an all out nuclear retaliation against the soviets.
Term
What was initiatives in Kennedy's New Frontier?
Definition
Provide medical care for the aged, rebuild blighted Urban Areas, and aid education.
Term
How did Americans respond to the news that the soviets had put the first man in Space?
Definition
They took it as a challenge
Term
A Supreme Court ruling that all suspects must be read their rights before questioning.
Definition
Miranda V. Arizona 1966.
Term
This Act provide funds to help Public and Parochial schools to purchase textbooks and library materials.
Definition
Elementary and Secondarfy Education.
Term
Supreme Cout ruling that required free legal counsel to those arrested, who could afford it.
Definition
Gideon V. Wainwright 1963
Term
The name of legislative program described President's Johnson vision for America?
Definition
Great Society
Term
This court case established the principle of "one person, one vote".
Definition
Baker V. Carr
Term
This ruling banned prayer in public schools.
Definition
Warren Court
Term
What Economic/Social groups were intended to benefit the most from the Great Society programs?
Definition
Lower Class
Term
What played a major role in Johnson's landslide wictory over Senator Goldwater in the 1964 election?
Definition
Massive Tax Cuts.
Term
What was a political result of Johnson's Great Society initatives?
Definition
End poverty and recial injustice.
Term
What court ruling made racial segregation legal and allowed for the passing of Jim Crow laws?
Definition
Plessy V. Ferguson.
Term
What type of pressure was exerted by the montgomery improvement association due to segregation on the buses?
Definition
They didn't make enough money.
Term
What did Brown V. Board of Education find unconstitutional?
Definition
Unconstitutional violation of the 14th amendment.
Term
To use mo0re young civil rights workers on a national level this was founded in 1960?
Definition
Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee (SNCC)
Term
She was arrested in 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus?
Definition
Rosa Parks.
Term
This organization was founded in 1957, to carry out non-viol3ent compaigns against segregation and racism?
Definition
Southen Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Term
What struck down the "Separate, but equal" doctrine?
Definition
Brown V. Board of Education.
Term
These people tested the court decision making segregation on interstate bus routes and facilities illegal?
Definition
Freedom Riders.
Term
He led the Freedom Summer project in Mississippi?
Definition
James Farmer.
Term
The President that passed the Civil Rights Act of 1965?
Definition
Johnson.
Term
This Act eliminated Literacy test and allowed Federal examiners to enrolled previously denied voters?
Definition
Voteing Rights Act of 1965.
Term
He was the first African American Student to attend the University of Mississippi?
Definition
James Meredith.
Term
Where did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 make Segregation Illegal?
Definition
It gave all citizens rights to enter libraries , parks, washroons, and other public accomedations.
Term
What is segregation that exists by the law?
Definition
De jure segregation.
Term
What is an example of de facto segregation?
Definition
Segregation that exists by practice and custom.
Term
He was the former minister of the Nation of Islam was assassinated while giving a speech in Harlem?
Definition
Malcolm X
Term
What type of segregation was addressed by the3 Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Definition
Voting
Term
What organization was referred to as Black Muslims and preached a doctrine of separatism and hate?
Definition
Nation of Islams.
Term
This African American group preached a militant approach to Civil Rights?
Definition
Stokely Carmichael.
Term
What is one legacy of the civil rights movement that has been challenged in recent years as being counter productive?
Definition
Afftermative Action.
Supporting users have an ad free experience!