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| Which act provided low-cost home loans and free college tuition to World War II veterans? | the G.I. bill |
| What term is used to describe the large generation of Americans born in the decade after World War II? | Baby boomers |
| The Levittown approach of mass produced housing and the construction of interstate highways in the '50s caused Americans to move to what locations? | suburbs |
| What international organization was established after World War II to maintain world peace? | United Nations |
| What strategy did Martin Luther King Jr. use? | non-violence; civil disobedience |
| What was the long period of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union called after World War II? | the Cold War |
| Which plan was developed to provide aid for rebuilding Europe after World War II? | the Marshall plan |
| What strategy was used by the Truman administration to stop the spread of communism? | containment |
| What was the Truman administration's goal in the Korean War? | containment |
| Which government agency was used by Eisenhower to improve U.S. efforts to collect information and conduct covert operations in the Cold War? | CIA |
| Which incident damaged President Eisenhower's opportunity to improve U.S. relations with the Soviet Union? | U-2 incident |
| Which event damaged the Kennedy administration's attempt to contain communism during the Cold War? | Bay of Pigs |
| Which event nearly resulted in the Kennedy administration's use of force against the Soviet Union during the Cold War? | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| What symbolized Soviet communist control in Berlin during the Cold War? | Berlin Wall |
| Which conflict was an example of a UN police action to contain communism? | Korean War |
| What international alliance was created during the Cold War to defend western Europe against Soviet aggression? | N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| What was the result of the investigations done by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) during the Red Scare? | Hollywood blacklists |
| What was the goal of President Truman's "Fair Deal"? | progressive reforms---national healthcare, federal support for education, civil rights |
| Which act was passed to limit strikes and weaken labor unions like the AFL-CIO? | Taft-Hartley Act |
| What event resulted in new legislation to improve science and math education for national defense during the Cold War? | Sputnik |
| What technology had the greatest impact on American social life during the 1950s? | television and automobiles |
| What action was led by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. to protest segregated busing? | Montgomery bus boycott |
| What ended segregation in public schools? | Brown v. Board of Education (1954) |
| Which group's action resulted in the Eisenhower administration's use of troops to integrate the public schools? | the Little Rock Nine |
| How did the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (S.N.C.C.) protest segregation in restaurants and lunch-counters? | sit-ins |
| What was the goal of the "Freedom Riders"? | end segregation in interstate busing |
| The "March on Washington" was an event to support which cause? | civil rights for African-Americans |
| What was the foreign policy of the United States when World War II began in the 1930s? | neutrality |
| What acts allowed the United States to aid Britain with military supplies? | Lend-Lease |
| What event brought the U.S. into World War II? | Pearl Harbor |
| Which battle was the turning point that stopped Japanese expansion in the Pacific during World War II? | Midway |
| Which military campaign was the turning point that resulted in the Allies' invasion of France during World War II? | D-Day (Operation Overlord) |
| What scientific project resulted in the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II? | Manhattan Project |
| What did President Truman do during World War II to force Japan's unconditional surrender? | atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| Who won the presidential election of 1912? | Woodrow Wilson (Dem.) |
| What laws were passed in Southern states to discriminate against African-Americans? | Jim Crow |
| What practice was supported by the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson? | segregation |
| What was a major economic goal of Progressives? | regulating big business, "busting" trusts |
| Which event led to the Spanish-American War? | explosion of the U.S.S. Maine |
| What was President Theodore Roosevelt's use of power in foreign affairs called? | "Big stick" diplomacy |
| What role did the U.S. take in Latin America as a result of the Roosevelt Corollary? | international police power |
| What territories did the U.S. acquire as a result of the Spanish-American War? | Phillippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico |
| What tactic did the American Federation of Labor (AFL) use achieve their goals? | strikes and collective bargaining |
| What were the organizations that controlled local and state political parties in the late-1800s called? | political machines |
| What were the reasons for U.S. entry into World War I? | unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman telegram |
| What progressive reform was a result of women's efforts during World War I? | 19th Amendment/suffrage |
| What was a result of the Treaty of Versailles? | punishment of Germany; League of Nations |
| Why did the U.S. Senate refuse to ratify the Treaty of Versailles? | opposed military involvement in the the League of Nations; wanted to stay neutral |
| What was the lasting effect of Roosevelt's New Deal? | increased government involvement |
| What was a cause of the Great Depression? | bank failures |
