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| Who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court? | Sandra Day O’Connor |
| What did the Marshall Plan do in 1947? | Provided help to European nations to rebuild after WW II |
| What was Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique about? | Women’s dissatisfaction with their place in society |
| What were the writers of the late 19th century called? (They exposed the evils of society) | Muckrakers |
| What was the revival of African-American art, literature, and music in the 1920s called? | Harlem Renaissance |
| What did Executive Order 9066 do during WWII? | Placed over 120,000 Japanese-Americans in internment camps. |
| What was the immediate cause of the US entry into WW I? | Zimmerman letter |
| What one word described American foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s? | Isolationism |
| What hurt the Midwestern farmer in the 1930s? | Drought and wind storms (the dust bowl) |
| What amendment lowered the voting age to 18? | 26th |
| What was the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam called? | Vietnamization |
| What organization formed an alliance between western democracies, the US, and Canada? | NATO |
| What part of the Fifth Amendment allows government to take private/ public property? | Eminent Domain |
| What amendment gave women suffrage (right to vote0? | 19th |
| What allowed for the settlement of the Great Plains? | Homestead Act |
| What amendment amendment calls for the direct election of senators by the voters? | 17th |
| What amendment defined a citizen as a person born in the U.S.? | 14th |
| What amendment gave the federal government the power to tax income? | 16th |
| What amendment probated the sale of alcohol? | 18th |
| What amendment repealed prohibition? | 21st |
| What 3rd party was formed with the support of farmers, miners, and factory workers? | Populist |
| What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do? | banned immigration from China for 10 years |
| Who did the “Good Neighbor” policy apply to? (FDR) | Latin America |
| What British passenger liner was sunk of the coast of Ireland in 1915? | Lusitania |
| What was the most important of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points? | League of Nations |
| What happened on October 29, 1929? | Stock Market Crash |
| What was the fear of Communism after WW I called? | Red Scare |
| What FDR s domestic program to get America out of the Great Depression called? | New Deal |
| What was the idea that Andrew Carnegie used to advocate “giving back” to society? | Gospel of Wealth |
| What theory of Eisenhower’s held that one country after another would fall to communism? | Domino |
| What battle was the “turning point” in WW II in the Pacific? | Midway |
| Who used civil disobedience in the 1950s? | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Who developed the assembly line for automobiles? | Henry Ford |
| Who said the influences of Sea Power was the key to success? | Alfred t. Mahan |
| What organization took a broader base in the 1920s against immigrants, Catholics, as well as African-Americans? | KKK |
| What did FDR do to try and protect his New Deal legislation? | Pack the Court (increase the number of Supreme Court Justices) |
| Who opposed the League of Nations? | Henry Cabot Lodge |
| What acts were passed in 1935 and 1937 in an effort to keep the US out of WW II? | Neutrality Acts |
| What was the invasion of Normandy on June 6 1944 called? | D-Day |
| The women working in industrial jobs during WW II were nicknamed what? | Rosie the Riveter |
| What was the immediate cause of the US entry into WW II? | Japan's attack of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
| What system in our constitution ensures that no one branch of government gains too much power? | Checks and Balances |
| What civil rights leader of the 1960s was a part of the Black Muslims? | Malcolm X |
| What idea advocated “survival of the fittest?” | Social Darwinism |
| What was the idea of preventing the spread of communism called? | Containment |
| What was LBJ’s domestic policy to end poverty called? | Great Society |
| Who did most of the work on the railroad? | Irish and Chinese |
| What court case legalized “separate but equal?” | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| What event badly hurt the reputation of the Knights of Labor and was a setback to the labor union movement? | Haymarket Riot |
| What country was forced to accept the “war guilt clause” after WW I? | Germany |
| Who escalated U.S. troops during the Vietnam war | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| What organization was formed in 1973 by oil producing countries? | OPEC |
| What president stood for deficit spending, tax cuts, cuts in social programs, and increasing military spending? | Ronald Reagan |
| What court case established “Judicial Review?” | Marbury v. Madison |
| What act did Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" help create? | Meat Inspection Act |
| Who did the Open Door Notes deal with? | China |
| What was the movement of blacks to the North after WW I called? | Great Migration |
| What idea of the late 1800’s advocated US expansion? | Imperialism |
| What was the immediate cause of WW I in Europe? | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| What two major parts of FDR’s New Deal are still around today? | FDIC and Social Security |
| What did the New Deal do in terms of the government’s power? | Strengthened it |
| What were Britain and France doing when they allowed Hitler to take the Rhineland and later the Sudetenland? | Appeasement |
| What strategy did Germany use in fighting WW II? | Blitzkrieg |
| In what two ways did the US fund WW II? | Taxes and War Bonds |
| What led to the nuclear arms race? | The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| What court case ended segregation in schools? | Brown v. Board of Education |
| Who led the anti-communist campaign after WW II? | Senator Joseph McCarthy |
| What president started the Peace Corp? | John F. Kennedy |
| What group in the 1960’s advocated a way of life different from the majority? | Hippies |
| How did television affect the Vietnam War? | By helping create the “credibility gap” |
| What idea did Nixon, Ford, and Reagan have in common? | Conservatism |
| What event saw the Soviets back down after the US blockaded Cuba in 1962? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Who as a group of African American fighting pilots during WWII? | Tuskegee Airmen |
| What was created to maintain Americans informed during WWII? | Office of War Information |
