Period 7 Part 2 Review – Flashcards
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The open door policy in China called for which of the following?
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Equal commercial access by all nations to the existing spears of influence in China
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The purpose of the liberty loan campaign illustrated in the drawing above was to
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Finance American involvement in the First World War.
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The cartoon above portrays President Wilson trying to
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Arouse public support for the Treaty of Versailles
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The LEAST prosperous group in the 1920s consisted of
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Farmers in the Midwest and the south
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The purpose of the agricultural adjustment act
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Raise farm prices by limiting agricultural production
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When War broke out in Europe in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson establish a policy that called for
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Acknowledgement of American neutral rights on the high seas
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Which of the following aroused the greatest controversy in the United States at the end of the Spanish American war
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Acquisition of the Philippines
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Which of the following is true of the 1935 social security act
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It legislated attacks that transfers money from workers to pensioners
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The 1930s the great depression resulted in
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An Increase in the number of transient people searching for work
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The Flappers of the 1920s challenged traditional American attitudes about woman by supporting
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Greater freedom in manner of dress and moral behavior
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The Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe doctrine expanded America's role in
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Central and South America
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During the Great Depression, the federal government responded with force when
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The bonus expeditionary force encamped in Washington
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One means by which president Hoover attempted to fight the great depression was
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The establishment of the reconstruction finance corporate
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Wasn't 14 points incorporated all the following EXCEPT
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Closed diplomacy
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Woodrow Wilson hardened senate opposition to the Treaty if Versailles by his refusal to compromise the issue of
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The unconditional adherence of the US to the charter of the League of Nations.
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Which of the following describes the Harlem Renaissance
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It florist during the 1920s and it consisted of a period of Drammatic black intellectual and artistic creativity
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Which of the following statements about the Tennessee Valley Authority is correct
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It built dams that made rural electrification possible
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All the following concerns were addressed during the hundred days of the new deal EXCEPT
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Court restructuring
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To the following best characterizes the writers associated with the literacy flowering of the 1920s such a Sinclair Lewis and F Scott Gerald
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Criticsm of the middle class conformity and materialism
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Secretary of the treasury Andrew Melons policies did which of the following
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Reduced income tax rates for the wealthy to release money for the private investment
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President Herbert Hoover approach the task of caring for unemployed workers during the Great Depression by
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Emphasizing the importance of private charities
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The american home front in the second world war is best described as
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Economically invigorated by military spending
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Of the following have been cited as reasons for the dropping of the atomic bombs Japan in 1945 EXCEPT the need to
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Block a planned Japanese invasion of the US
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Which of the following best describes the experience of Americans of Japanese descent during the second world war
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They were forced from their homes and businesses on the west coast into detention camps
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Conscription policies in the first and second world war different significantly in that the second world war
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The draft began before the US enter the conflict
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An underlying cause of the Great Depression which began in 1929 was
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Overproduction in the manufacturing and farm sectors
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The purpose of the lend-lease act was to
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Make arms, munitions, and other supplies available to Britain.
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Short answer: Role of Woman in World War II
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-Baby boom
-social circle became more important
-sharing the responsibility of watching children with other mothers
-TV portrays housewives working from the home with their children
-while men were at war, they took jobs as nurses, factory workers, sports players, some even learned how to run anti ship and air craft guns in coastal city's.
-others were pilots delivering planes from factories to air fields.
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Short answer: Red scare post World War I and World War II
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Post WW1:
-Americans were afraid the US would become a communist nation
-Espionage Act
-Stemmed from Patriotism
Post WW2:
-fear of USSR spreading communism to other nations
-HUAC (investigated radical groups in America to find if they were loyal or not)
-McCarthy and McCarthyism
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Short answer: The New Deal
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President Franklin Roosevelt's precursor of the modern welfare state (1933-1939)
-programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insureance measures
-used government spending to stimulate the economy
-increased power of the state and the state's intervention in U.S. social and economic life.
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Short answer: Quarentine Speech impact/meaning on pre and post World War II world
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-The speech was an act of condemnation of Japan's invasion of China in 1937 and called for Japan to be quarantined.
-FDR backed off the aggressive stance after criticism, but it showed that he was moving the country slowly out of isolationism.
-An act of condemnation of Japan's invasion of China in 1937
-called for Japan to be quarantined.
-FDR backed off the aggressive stance after criticism
- but it showed that he was moving the country slowly out of isolationism.
-Following WWII, it would prove that America would never be isolated again.
