U.S. History Spring Semester Exam
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- Macarthur's famous quote
- "I shall return"
- Bobby Jones
- won "Grand Slam" in golf
- 3 new weapons of WWI
- machine guns, tanks, and airplanes
- example of K.K.K.'s power
- controlled Indiana Legislature
- Earl Warren
- Chief Justice of S.C. in 1953
- 2 things Henry Ford did to produce Model T's
- 1. $5.00 wages 2. moving assembly line
- Abe Saperstein
- founded Harlem Globe Trotters
- Edward R. Murrow
- CBS news correspondent who covered "Battle of Britain"
- British Palestine
- area where Israel was created out of
- Johnny Weismuller
- Olympic swimmer who became Tarzan
- Bill Tilden
- Tennis great
- Atlantic Charter
- F.D.R. and Churchill agree to a lasting friendship and cooperation
- Second Battle of the Marne
- turning point in WWI
- Babe Ruth
- hit 60 homeruns in 1927
- Bear market
- stock prices decline
- Aryans
- German race
- Grapes of Wrath
- Steinbeck's novel about Dust Bowl
- date U.S. entered WWII
- Dec. 7, 1941
- "Brain Trust"
- experts who helped the gov't created organizations and programs
- basic principle of totalitarian state
- individual exists for state
- United Fruit Company
- U.S. company that had big inflluence on C. America and Caribbean
- Nikita Khrushchev
- replaced Stalin as S.U. leader
- Stepin Fetch
- created negative stereotype for Af. Amer.
- 2 radio shows from G.D.
- "The Shadow" and "The Lone Ranger"
- Admiral Chester Nimite
- U.S. navy commander
- Eliot Ness
- federal agent who went after Chicago gangsters
- Political party that opposed WWI
- Socialist Party- Eugene Debs
- slogan of Warren G. Harding
- "a return to normalcy"
- phrase to justify Mussolini
- "the train runs on time"
- 2 things negotiated at peace talks of WWI
- 1. Germany blamed for war 2. Germany pay 56+ billion $ for war
- A.C.L.U.
- organization that defended Sacco and Vanzetti
- N.A.Z.I.
- hitler's political party
- Maginot Line
- French fortified defenses on German border
- Haile Selassie
- the leader of Ethiopa
- 2 Key Battles of WWI
- Somme and Verdun
- Biggest break at Pearl Harbor
- no aircraft carriers were sunk
- Trench warfare
- stretched from Switzerland to North Sea and formed "Western Front" where both sides faced each other
- Bernard Montgomery
- most famous British general
- Georgia O'Keefe
- painter of Western scenes
- Truman Doctrine
- gave foreign aid to countries that threatened to become communist
- African American vote in 1930s
- shift from Rep. to Dem. b/c of F.D.R.'s programs
- Marshall Plan
- SOS G. marshall proposed foreign aid to Europe to rebuild economy
- Al Capone
- gangster in Chicago
- 2 major causes of Great Depression
- 1.overproduction in declining market 2.global trade problems and high tariffs
- 1915 event that almost got U.S. into war
- sinking of British liner Lusitania by Germans
- N.A.T.O.
- protection for Western Europe in case of communist attack
- April 12, 1945
- F.D.R. died
- 2 provisions of Wilson's plan for peace
- 1. no secret treaties or alliances 2. create League of Nations
- Sputnik
- first man-made object to orbit Earth. initiated "space race"
- "wolf packs"
- groups of german U-boats
- Sussex Pledge
- Germany promised not to sink merchant ships w/o warning
- M.A.D. principle
- if we were under attack by S.U. then we would fire all of our missiles and both sides would be destroyed
- 2 Writes during G.D.
- John Dos Passos and Thorton Wilder
- William Faulkner
- wrote The Sound of Fury
- Marcus Garvey
- founded Universal Negro Improvement Asssociation
- 21st amendment
- only amendment to repeal another amendment
- "march on rome"
- Mussolini came to power
- USS Missouri
- place where Japanese surrendered
- Churchill comment on Italy
- "soft underbelly of Europe"
- 2 people with "Harlem Renaissance"
- Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson
- 2 ways automobiles contributed to economic boom
- 1. created new industries 2. increased tourism
- "Doughboys"
- nickname of American soldiers
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- architect
- 1933 "Bank Holiday"
- banks closed to give congress time to pass legislation to restore confidence
- Erwin Rommel
- German general
- Huey's Long "Share the Wealth" plan
- Every family receives $2500 a year from money confiscated from wealthy
- Reason fo steelworkers strike in 1916
- wanted the right to form and join unions
- Jack Dempsey
- Notre Dame football coach
- Alger Hiss
- accused and convicted of giving State Department papers to Soviets
- Kristalnacht
- Nazis destroy Jewish synagogues and buisnesses
- Daisy Bates
- mentored the 9 Black students attempting to attend Central
- National Recovery Administration
- Tried to prevent buisness failures by creating codes of fair competition
- Charles Lindhberg
- led isolationist "America First" movement
- main charge in War Crimes trials
- "crimes against humanity"
- Battle of Midway
- turning point in Pacific
- "Cold War"
- ideologic struggle between capitalistic democracy and communism that lasted 40 years
- Nuremburg, Germany
- headquarter of the Nazis
- Agriculture Adjustment Act
- paid farmers to reduce acreage
- "Divine Wind"
- Japanese suicide pilots
- Phillip Randolph
- Af. Amer. who threatened to march in Wash. D.C. for unfair labor treatment. F.D.R. banned discrimination in war factories.
- status of labor unions during G.D.
- they were legalized and became very powerful
- Flu Epidemic of 1918-1919
- killed more people than WWI
- Frances Perkins
- first female cabinet member
- "Policy of Containment"
- build up military and contain communism
- G.I. Bill of Rights
- privledges offered to retired soldiers 1. money for books and college tuition 2. low cost home loans
- P. Eisenhower bills
- 1. include more workers under Social Security 2. raised minimum wage
- What happened to Wilson during tour?
- He suffered a massive stroke
- public sector
- gov't- not equipped to help
- "hoover blankets"
- newspapers to sleep under
- "Good Neighbor" policy
- cancelled Platt amendment and stopped most military incursions
- 2 ways immigration was a threat
- 1. stole jobs 2. spoke, dressed, and worshipped differently
- Mary Pickford
- "America's Sweetheart"
- Joe McCarthy
- senator who initiated hearings of accused communists. resulted in ant-communist hysteria
- famous picture of WWII
- soldiers raising flag on Mt. Suribachi
- Douglas Macarthur
- U.S. commander of Phillipines
- Babe Didrikson
- golfer and track star
- Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
- couple who was accused of giving atomic bomb secrets to Soviets and were executed for treason
- "New Deal"
- alphabet soup of gov't programs
- blitzkrieg
- Germans mechanize units with air support
- Civilian Consveration Corps
- hire young men to work on gov't projects
- Saint Mihiel
- battle that Americans played a significant role
- Britain's "Balance of Power" foreign policy
- they would oppose strongest nation in Europe at the time
- Maurice "Footsie" Britt
- second most decorated soldier of the war
- "Little Red Book"
- collection of sayings from Mao Zedong
- Bataan
- U.S. soldiers were captured and forced to march 80 miles to prison camp
- 2 things about coming of radio
- 1. created advertising industry 2. started many beginnings of t.v. shows
- President Wilson's 1916 campaign slogan
- "He Kept Us Out of War"
- George Gipp
- Notre Dame football player
- Volstead Act
- created enforcement and punishment for 18th amendment
- Elvis Pressly
- first major "crossover" performer
- 2 problems of President Hoover
- 1. encouraged voluntary help from privat sect. 2. believed gov't shouldn't be under pressure during hard times
- R.A.F.
- Royal Air Force- saved Britiain from German Luftwaffe
- Ernie Pyle
- killed in Pacific
- 3 criticsims of New Deal
- 1.gave too much power to gov't 2. buisness leaders called it socialism 3. S.C. ruled parts of it unconstitutional
- W. Churchill quote
- "Blood, tears, toil, and sweat"
- Harold Lloyd
- death-defying comedian
- John L. Lewis
- United Mine Worker who clashed with Truman
- Hitler's book and concept
- Meinkampf- WWI defeat blamed on communist and Jews
- How did Wilson convince Americans about treaty?
- He went on a national speaking tour
- Margaret Bourke-White
- photo-journalist
- USS Arizona
- most famous ship sunk at Pearl Harbor
- Levittown
- first suburb after WWII
- 2 people associated with peace movement
- Andrew Carnegie and Henry Ford
- Bill Mauldin
- political cartoonist
- deficit spending
- spending more than you take in to get economy moving
- Chamberlain's quote
- "We will have Peace in our time"
- unusual thing about 1920 election
- women could vote
- Coolidge quote about buisness
- "the buisness of America is buisness"
- "police action"
- official term for fighting in Korea by Truman
- Lewd-Lease Act
- helped britain before U.S. entered war
- withholding taxes
- gov't withheld taxes from paychecks to use money for war
- Kellogg-Briand pact
- outlawed war
- Head of Food Adminstration and his phrases
- Herbert Hoover- "Meatless Mondays" and "Wheatless Wednesdays"
- First Battle of the Marne
- ended with both armies facing each other on Western front
- reparations
- payment for damages
- "buying on margin"
- people buy stocks with loans from bank
- private sector
- non-gov't- created soup kitchens and bread lines
- "bootleggers"
- people who sold alchol
- "Zoot Suit" Riots
- riots against mexicans in L.A.
- Washington Disarmament Conference
- agreed to take a 10 year "holiday" from building battleships
- date of armistice signed
- 11:00, 11th day, 11th month
- Walter Cronkite
- flew missions over Germany
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- build river dam on T. river to create electricity
- Rudolph Valentino
- heartthrob
- 2 groups that benefited from WWI
- farmers and laborers
- Yalta Conference
- U.S. wanted the S.U. to declare war on Japan
- Wilson's peace plan
- the 14 points
- Quote at grave of French General
- "Lafayette, We are here"
- George Patton
- took command of forces in North Africa
- "beat generation"
- non-conformist term coined by Jack Kerouac
- Social Security
- percentage of money is taken out of worker's paycheck and saved until they retire
- "Dust Bowl"
- drought in 1930's that blew away top soil
- Warsaw Pact
- eastern bloc nations' response to N.A.T.O
- Versaille Palace
- where peace talks were held in WWI
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Supreme Commander of Allies in Europe
- "nationalize an industry"
- the gov't siezes private company
- Isadora Duncan
- associated with free-form dance
- date of beginning of WWII
- Sep. 1, 1939
- Andrew Mellon
- Secretary of Treasury under Coolidge
- Inchon
- D. MacArthur landed behind enemy lines
- Prohibition
- 18th amendment- banned use and sale of alchol
- F. Scot Fitzgerald
- wrote The Great Gatsby
- Catcher in the Rye
- Salinger's book about teenage angst
- "fireside chats"
- weekly radio addresses by F.D.R.
- Hoover's opponet in 1928 election
- Al Smith, catholic
- Appeasement Policy
- let hilter have his way to avoid war
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Sec. of Interior transferred oil shares from Elk city and Teapot Dome, Wyoming from Fed. reserve to treasury. Accepted bribes from 2 oil companies to lease oil.
- Red Grange
- U. of Illinois football player
- bull market
- stock prices rise
- Spark that set off WWI
- the assasination of Archdue Ferdinand, the heir to the Austria-Hungary empire
- Guernica
- famous Picasso painting
- When did U.S. approve WWI treaty?
- We never did
- Battle of Stalingrad
- turning point in war between Germany and Russia in WWII
- John Pershun
- headed A.E.F.
- Arthur Vandenberg
- head of U.S. delegation
- "Rosie the Riveter"
- generic term for women working in defense plants
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- led the opposition of WWI treaty in Senate
- "Hundred Days"
- Roosevelt called Congress into special session
- 2 performers during Jazz Age
- Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith
- 2 things under Sedition Act of 1918
- 1. could not refuse draft 2. could not speak out against war
- Charlie Chaplin
- "Little Tramp" persona
- Eva Braun
- Hitler's suicide partner
- "troubled youth" genre
- James Dean- "Rebel w/o a Cause"
- Mary Mcleod Bethune
- appointed head of Minority Affairs
- Taft Hartley Act
- 1. outlawed "closed shops and required union leaders to sign loyalty oath 2. required 80 day cooling off period before strike
- 2 painters during G.D.
- Grandma Moses and Grant Wood
- Ernest Hemingway
- wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 2 members of "Big Four"
- Lloyd George and Vitorio Orlando
- Flappers
- women who smoke and drank and didn't care about social convention
- Democratic theme song at 1932 convention
- "Happy Days are Here Again"
- "Iron Curtain"
- seperation between Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe
- 2 singers from G.D.
- Benny Goodman and Count Basie
- Paul von Hindenberg
- chancellor of Germany
- Jesse Owens
- won Olympic Gold Medal
- Reason for Selective Service Act
- not enough men to fight a modern war
- 2 main causes why U.S. entered WWI
- 1. Germany broke Sussex Pledge 2. Zimmerman Note- Germany sent coded message to Mexico asking to enter war against U.S. and get U.S. territory in return
- famous F.D.R. quote
- "A date what will live in infamy"
- Reason for Germany and S.U. non-aggression pact
- wanted to make sure S.U. wouldn't attack when they invaded Poland
- Albert Einstein
- most famous Jew to flee from Germany
- "moonshiners"
- people who made alchol
- "Red Scare"
- fear of immigrants, communists, anarchists- destroyed "American" way of life