US History 2007 Fall Final Terms
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- African Americans during WWI?
- African American troops were segregated and rarely allowed to fight
- African Americans during WWII?
- fought in segregated units
- October 29, 1929
- Black Tuesday
- Carpet bombing
- technique by which planes scattered large number of bombs
- Why was much of Europe drawn into WWI?
- because of a network of alliances
- What led US to intern Japanese-Americans during WWII?
- prejudice & fear
- After WWII, women were expected to?
- leave their jobs and return home
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 34th president
- The US built a canal across Panama to?
- cut travel time between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
- US broke off relations with Germany during WWI when?
- Germany violated the Sussex pledge
- Result of the Spanish-American War
- Puerto Rico became an unincorporated territory of the US
- Island hopping
- offensive strategy of American admirals to beat the Japanese in the Pacific
- Winston Churchill
- British Prime Minister during WWII
- Joseph Stalin
- leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
- What did Germany have to do under the peace treaty from WWII?
- pay reparations to the Allies
- Sussex Pledge
- Germany's promise that its U-boats would warn ships before attacking
- D-Day
- effort launched to invade Western Europe
- Sedition
- speech or actions that encourage rebellion
- Ronald Reagan
- 40th president
- George W. Bush
- 43rd president
- Adolf Hitler
- leader of the Nazi Party of Germany
- Hooverville
- shanty towns built by the homeless during the Great Depression
- The Sedition Act made it illegal to?
- discuss anything negative about the government, the Constitution, the army, or the navy
- Monroe Doctrine & social Darwinism contributed to this?
- American expansionism
- Bill Clinton
- 42nd president
- Open Door Policy
- arrangement providing the United States equal access to China's consumers
- What was a major factor in the US entering WWI?
- Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare
- One goal of the repeal fo Prohibition?
- to curb gangsters
- Gerald R. Ford
- 38th president
- What did anti-imperialist fear?
- the costs of expansion & large standing armies
- annex
- to join a new territory to an existing country
- Goal of the Manhattan Project?
- develop an atomic bomb
- 21st amendment
- repeal of Prohibition
- Jimmy Carter
- 39th president
- Allies
- countries that fought against Germany and Austria-Hungary during WWI
- Jingoism
- aggressive foreign policy influenced by intense national pride
- Genocide
- organized killing of an entire people
- Kamikaze
- suicide plane
- Nazism
- extreme form of fascism
- GI
- referred to U.S. servicemen (government issue)
- A major environmental crisis during the 1930s?
- Dust Bowl
- Fundamental disagreement between the Presidential candidates in 1932?
- if the federal government should try to fix people's problems
- What ended WWII?
- dropping of atomic bombs by US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Purpose of the convoy system?
- to transport troops safely across the Atlantic
- George H. W. Bush
- 41st president
- Richard M. Nixon
- 37th president
- Why did US annex Hawaii?
- the US needed naval stations in the Pacific
- Reparations
- payment from one nation to another for economic injury suffered during the war
- Anti-imperialists feared?
- large standing armies, cost of expansion
- Which event sparked World War I?
- The assissination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
- Great White Fleet
- white ships of the United States Navy
- The Selective Service Act did what?
- drafted young men for the military forces
- Code Talkers
- Navajo radio operators who helped secure communications in the Pacific
- John F. Kennedy
- 35th president
- Benito Mussolini
- Fascist Party leader who became dictator of Italy
- What was the response to the Selective Service Act?
- enthusiasm
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- 36th president
- Imperialism
- policy under which stronger nations attempt to create empires by dominating weaker nations
- Arbitration
- settlement of a dispute by a person or panel chosen to listen to both sides and come to a decision