Review for Final Exam US History B
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Why was the NAACP founded?
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Describe how electricity affected industry in the early 1900s
How did mass production techniques change industry in the early 1900s?
How did mass production help automobile sales?
How did the landscape of America change by 1930?
What is urban sprawl?
What is the Electoral College?
What were the Palmer Raids?
What part of the country supported Prohibition?
What topics did the Harlem Renaissance authors write about?
How did the Harlem Renaissance affect white society?
During the 1920s what type of artistic expression brought most white people to Harlem?
When was the Harlem Renaissance?
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
How did U.S. tariffs affect the economy during the 1920s?
What was life like for farmers during the 1920s?
Describe how wealth was distributed during the 1920s.
How did Harding/Coolidge/Hoover feel about high tariffs?
Financially speaking, what was life like for most Americans?
What is the ACLU?
Describe the 1920s KKK.
Why does buying slow by the end of the 1920s?
What was the Volstead Act?
What are speakeasies and bootleggers? Why were they so powerful?
What were arguments against Prohibition?
What is the 21st Amendment?
Why were large radio networks like NBC and CBS formed?
How did people react to “talkies”?
How did radio and movies help establish a national popular culture?
What was President Hoover’s first reaction to the Depression?
What did Hoover believe the government should do to solve the Depression?
What was the reaction of President Hoover and Congress when the Great Depression first began?
Describe the human toll of the Great Depression? Who suffered during the Great Depression?
Name some of the programs that show that Roosevelt believed in creating government jobs to get people back to work?
How did President Roosevelt help farmers during the Great Depression?
New Deal farm programs were designed to reduce supply and raise prices. Why did opponents object?
What caused the dust bowl?
Where did most victims of the Dust Bowl move?
How did the New Deal affect minority groups?
How did the New Deal interact with organized labor?
How did the New Deal affect government’s role in the economy?
What is Social Security?
Describe the critics of the New Deal.
Before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt did everything he could to support democratic nations. (freebie)
What is cash-and-carry?
How did the U.S. respond to the rise of militarists and dictators in Japan, Germany, and Italy before 1937?
How did Americans feel about serving in the military during World War II?
Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States and Japan were doing what?
What is the impact of the Atlantic Charter of 1941?
What was the Four Freedoms speech?
Review for Final Exam US History B
53. How are the Four Freedoms speech and the Atlantic Charter related?
54. What was communication like for soldiers and the home front during World War II?
55. How did Navajos help the war effort during World War II?
56. How did the United States handle the need for goods such as shoes, sugar, and gasoline during World War II?
57. How were American women during World War II paid as compared to men doing the same job?
58. What Supreme Court decision declared the internment of Japanese Americans to be legal as a matter of military necessity?
59. How did industry in the United States change during WWII?
60. What is the Purple Heart?
61. How did African Americans gain more access to defense industry jobs during World War II?
62. During the World War II in what ways did African Americans demonstrate their bravery?
63. What did African-American and Hispanic-American experiences during World War II have in common?
64. When does the military become integrated?
65. Why did Roosevelt accept some of Stalin’s ideas during the Yalta Conference?
66. Which is an argument for using the atomic bomb?
67. Which is an argument against using the atomic bomb?
68. President’s Truman’s view on the atomic bomb?
69. Instead of dropping the atomic bomb, there were discussions about invading Japan. Why was this idea rejected?
70. What describes the consequences of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the end of 1945?
71. How did the united states continue to influence Japan after the war?
72. What was the Marshall Plan?
73. Why did we provide aid through the Marshall Plan?
74. How did assistance to Europe after World War II help the U.S. economy?
75. What is the policy of containment?
76. When did Korea become a divided nation?
77. Who was president at the start of the Korean War?
78. What world peacekeeping organization that tried unsuccessfully to prevent the Korean War?
79. What event started the Korean War?
80. The government of North Korea was/is controlled by?
81. Who were the freedom riders?
82. Describe MLK’s tactics.
83. What was the purpose of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
84. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
85. Who was the unpopular ruler of South Vietnam who the Viet Cong reveled against in 1957?
86. Where were US air strikes carried out during the Vietnam War?
87. Why didn’t the U.S. win the Vietnam War?
88. Which country established the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply the Viet Cong and later sent troops to the south?
89. What was President Lyndon B. Johnson’s reaction to the passing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
90. How did Americans react to nightly news coverage of the Vietnam War?
91. Which country provided North Vietnam with war materials?
92. What is Vietnamization? And whose policy was it?
93. When was the treaty ending the Vietnam War signed?
94. What communist nation was formed soon after the Vietnam War?
95. Which amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18?
96. What is Watergate?
97. What were the Watergate tapes?
98. What were the long-term results of Watergate?
99. Name the presidents who were impeached.
100. Why did Vice President Spiro Agnew resign?