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Buying stocks on ________ was one of the causes
of the stock market crash of 1929.
Margin
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Most economists agree that a
key cause of the ____________ was overproduction and speculation.
Great Depression
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To fight the Depression, ____________ believed
the first thing to do was to restore confidence in the banks.
FDR Roosevelt
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The ___________ changed American political
thinking because it was based on the principle that the federal government
should attempt to solve social and economic problems.
New Deal
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All of the following were
provisions of the ________________
-Unemployment insurance
-Pension for retired workers
-Aid to the handicapped
Social Security Acts
-
The ___________________ of
the 1930s reflect the efforts of Congress to avoid foreign policy mistakes that
led to the country into Word War I.
Neutrality Acts
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During World War II, _______
and ___________ made economic gains mainly because a shortage of traditional
labor created new opportunities in the workplace.
Women, Minorities
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The main purpose of the ____________________
was to support those nations fighting Axis aggression.
Lend-Lease Act
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Women played a major role on the ______________
during World War II by taking jobs in the defense industry.
Home Front
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The United States
became involved in World War II primarily because the Japanese attack on
________________.
Pearl Harbor
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During World War II, the need of the United States
for more war materials resulted in the ______________ of some consumer goods.
Rationing
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President Truman’s decision to the drop the
atomic bomb on ________ was based on saving American lives by ending the war
quickly.
Japan
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President Abraham Lincoln’s
suspension of habeas corpus and FDR’s executive order forcing Japanese
Americans into internment camps both demonstrate __________________ can be
limited during times of war.
Constitutional Rights
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The _______________ held at
the conclusion of WWII added to international law by establishing that high
officials and individuals are responsible for their wartime actions.
Nuremburg Trials
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In the years immediately
following WWII, the U.S.
foreign policy was primarily focused on containing the spread of _____________.
Communism
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President Truman changed the United States military after World
War II by banning racial _____________ in the military.
Segregation
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The primary purpose of the creation of the
______________ was to promote peace through international agreements
United Nations
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One result of the ____________ was that millions
of veterans received a college education.
G.I. Bill
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__________ and ____________ attracted public
attention by investigating allegations of communist influences in government.
Senator McCarthy, HUAC
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The ___________ was used to rebuild
European nations after WWII.
Marshall plan
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The ____________ after WWII
led directly to an increased demand for housing.
Baby Boom
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The United States
committed to a Cold War policy of mutual defense when it joined _________.
NATO
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The major reason the United States became involved in
the Korean War was the threat of communism spreading throughout _______.
East Asia
-
All of the following
contributed to a more conforming __________ during the 1950s
-Television programming
-Building of the Interstate Highway System
-Growth of suburbs
Culture
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The _____________________ limited union powers.
Taft-Hartley Act
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The Hungarian upraising of 1956, the U-2
incident, and the Cuban missile crisis led to increased tensions between the United States
and the ________________.
Soviet Union
-
The ___________ missile crisis was effectively
ended when the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw weapons from Cuba.
Cuban
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President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas,
in 1957 to enforce school _______________.
Desegregation/Intergration
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During the 1950s, the main
goal of the _____________ movement was to eliminate legal segregation from
American life.
Civil Rights
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The United States ______________ under
Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969) made several landmark decisions that
increased the rights of individuals.
Supreme Court
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All of the following are
facts of __________death
-He was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson his Vice President
-It happen in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963
-It came almost 1,000 days of his presidency
JFK's Kennedy
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The decade of the _______ was
characterized by all of following
-Protest against
the war in Vietnam
-Youth rebellion
in politics and music, and in dress and appearance
-Great strides in
civil rights for minorities
1960s
-
Escalation of the war in _________ began with
passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
Vietnam
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These Headlines refer to the
____________.
-“Security Council Approves Use of Force Against Communist
Invaders”
-“President Truman Fires General MacArthur”
-“Armistice Divides Nation at 38th Parallel”
Korean War
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The _________________ abolished the national
orginis quota system.
Immigration Act of 1965
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The North Vietnamese ____________________ was
significant turning point in the Vietnam War because the American public became
convinced the war was unwinnable.
Tet Offensive
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_______________ book, The Feminine Mystique, argued that many
women could not have fulfilling lives if limited to a traditional role in the
home.
Betty Freidan
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A main goal of President
_______________ policy of détente was to reduce tensions between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
Nixon's
-
The 1973 ___________________
required the president to report to Congress any commitment of American troops.
War Powers Act
-
President Nixon’s policy of
“__________________” of the war in Vietnam called for gradual withdrawal of all
American armed forces from Vietnam.
Vietnamization
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One of President ____________
high priorities in international affairs was attending to human rights violations
around the world.
Carter's
-
The 1978 settlement between
Egypt and Isreal resulted in the first peace between Arab nations and Isreal.
This settlement was called ___________________.
Camp David Accords
-
President Reagan used supply-side economics or
“_______________” to guide his economic program because he believed the
following scenario would occur: lower taxes, increase consumer spending,
balance the budget.
Reagonomics
-
President ________________ new “Star Wars”
program altered the decades long trend in thinking about nuclear weapons
because it emphasized defense against a nuclear attack as the most effective
form of nuclear capability.
Ronald Reagan's
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To President Reagan, “the focus of the evil in
the modern world” was the ______________.
Soviet Union
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