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History Exam 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Famous case that established mandatory legal counsel in capital cases and outlawed an all white jury | Scotsboro boys case |
| Event that cemented FDR's win in the 1932 pres. election | Bonus army march on Washington and the resulting attack by the US military |
| 3 parts of FDR new deal | Relief Recovery Reform |
| In exchange for banks submitting to new rules and regulations this entity insures bank deposits for Americans up to a certain point | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FIDC) |
| Group that wanted US to either stay out of WWII or support Nazi Germany and bring facism to the US | The America First Committee |
| The three American presidents of the 1920s were | Harding Coolidge Hoover Were conservative republicans |
| Was never illegal to _ alcohol during prohibition | consume; just to manufacture, transport, or sell |
| Severely restricted immigration based on nation of origin (only wanted certain europeans) and extended the Chinese Exclusion Act to all Asian immigration | 1924 Johnson-Reid Immigration Act |
| Before 1918, birth control was | illegal |
| After 1918, birth control was | legal only for disease prevention purposes |
| Supreme court case that allowed states to permanently sterilize Americans against their will that is still on the books today | Buck v. Bell |
| Showed that 1950's Americans were sexual hypocrites | They Kinsey Reports |
| The Chennault Affair | Nixon's plan to sabotage the peace talks LBJ was making in an attempt to end the Vietnam war |
| Term for the disparity between official US gov claims vs the reality about the Vietnam War | Credibility Gap |
| Classified defense history of American involvement and actions in Vietnam | The Pentagon Papers |
| Longest retreat in American history | during the Korean war after China entered to prevent America from reaching the Chinese-Korean border |
| WWII battle with the largest armada the world had ever seen or assembled | D-day invasion of Normandy, France |
| _ segregated the Fed Gov and military and _ desegregated it | Dem. Woodrow Wilson, Dem. Harry Truman |
| What reason did Eisenhower give for signing the Federal-Aid-Highway Act | To help evacuate the cities in the case of a nuclear attack |
| Federal-Aid-Highway Act was the | largest public works project in American history |
| Vaccine successfully tested on the US military during WWII | The flu shot |
| EO9066 | Executive order after Pearl Harbor that forced millions of Japanese and Japanese-Americans to give up their jobs and possessions and be put into internment camps for the duration of WWII |
| Only expansion of US safety net after WWII was | GI bill, which gave healthcare and low-cost mortgages to veterans |
| Battle where allies inflicted irreparable damage onto Japan and sank 4/6 aircraft used in Pearl Harbor attack | Battle of Midway (known as revenge for Pearl Harbor) |
| Document that encouraged the US to 'roll back' Communism instead of just containing it | National Security Document 68 (NSC-68) |
| US effort to keep soviet and communist influence from spreading | Containment |
| Republican senator that led the 2nd Red Scare, using the excuse of "exposing communists" to ruin the lives and careers of liberals and opposers | Joseph McCarthy |
| American program that paid to rebuild most of capitalist Europe after WWII | The Marshall Plan |
| Supreme court case that challenged the "separate but equal" doctrine of Plessy v Furguson and led to the desegregation of American public schools | 1954 Brown v Board of Education |
| Supreme Court case that outlawed the all-white primary that prevented black people from voting in primary elections | Smith v Allwright |
| Helped create the segregated housing market in 20th century US | Fed Gov through the Redlining policies of the Federal Housing Administration and the Veteran's administration |
| Supreme Court case that allowed the use of birth control under married woman's right to privacy under the 14th amendment | (1965) Griswold v Connecticut |
| Congress gave LBJ permission to intervene in the Vietnam War through the | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| Kitchen Debate | Videotaped talk between Russia and Nixon in Moscow comparing standards of living after the cooling of the Cold War |
| 2nd Ku Klux Klan | Gained new life during/after WWII and during the 2nd Red Scare, expanding their targets of hatred to immigrants, Jews, communists, and other minorities, in addition to black people |
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