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US History S2 Part 2
Chapters 16-29
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Roosevelt used the saying, "Walk softly and carry a big stick" to describe his policy about | Police power in Latin America |
| The Allied Powers consisted of | Great Britain, France, Serbia, Russia |
| What is another name for a u-boat? | Submarine |
| What was a common item in homes during the 1920s on which they could listen to news and entertainment? | Radio |
| What crashed in October of 1929? | Stock Market |
| What does women's suffrage mean? | Women's right to vote |
| Bootleggers in the 1920s sold | Alcohol |
| Unemployment was high due to no jobs during the | Depression |
| What did Roosevelt promise Americans? | A New Deal |
| What act in 1935 created programs to help the elderly, unemployed, and disabled? | Social Security |
| Factors that caused the Great Depression were | Stock market crashed, drop in stock prices, overproduction of consumer goods, drop in farm prices, high unemployement |
| Who took power in Germany in the 1930s that led to WWII? | Adolf Hitler |
| What happened on December 7, 1941? | Japanese attacked Americans at Pearl Harbor |
| What happened on June 6, 1944: | Allied invasion of France began |
| What was June 6, 1944 known as? | D-day |
| Winston Churchill described the division between Eastern and Western Europe as the | Iron curtain |
| The leader of the Soviet Union was | Joseph Stalin |
| Who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped spark the civil rights movement? | Rosa Parks |
| In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that schools must end | Segregation |
| President Kennedy started the | Peace Corps |
| The Baby Boom helped the population grown in the US after | WWII |
| The Cuban missile crisis allowed President Johnson to send combat troops to | Vietnam |
| What important factor was key in deciding the presidential election in 1960? | Cold War |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. was a strong leader for African-American | Civil Rights |
| What was the name of the scandal that involved a break-in at the Democratic party's main office? | Watergate |
| Who resigned from office to avoid being impeached in the 1970s? | Richard Nixon |
| What were the effects of the Vietnam War on the American people? | 58,000 people died, 3000,000 wounded, cost US $150 billion, caused confusion about America's role in world affairs |
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