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ProgressivismReview For Final

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• A change made for the better is known as what?

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• Because of major reforms to working hours for children, name one reform that occurred in education.

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• This is a word meaning that a person is able to read and write.

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• To lessen corruption in government, this amendment to the Constitution was passed, requiring Senators to be elected directly by the people instead of by lawmakers.

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Using the chart below and a little bit of math, by how much did illiteracy rates decrease from 1870 – 1920?

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• In which areas of the United States did most immigrants settle?

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• How do monopolies deal with businesses that attempt to compete with them?

The Competition

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• What is a synonym (another word) for a city area?

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• What is a synonym for a farming area?

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• Why did many cities grow in terms of population in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s?

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List two negative aspect of urbanization in the U.S.

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Hi, I owned an oil monopoly in the early 1900’s! Who am I?

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• Why was Teddy Roosevelt already a hero before he became President of the United States?

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• What other government positions did Teddy Roosevelt have before he became President of the United States?

President McKinley

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• Immigrants that came to America in the late 1800’s who were educated, spoke English, and were from Western European countries were known as the “_____ immigrants”

• Multiple Choice – New – Old

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• Immigrants that came to America in the early 1900’s who were not educated, did not speak English, and were from Eastern European countries were known as the “_____ immigration”

• Multiple Choice – New – Old

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• I am the man who had a steel monopoly. I gave a lot of the money I made back to the city of Pittsburgh to make libraries, theaters, and museums.

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• Hi, I’m Upton Sinclair, I wrote a book on the horrors of the meatpacking industry. What was the name of my book?

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In which state did I do the

research for my book?

In which state did I do the

research for my book?

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• Why was Plessy vs. Ferguson an important court case in the United States?

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• Name for a journalist who exposes the corruption in any area of society through writing books or articles about the corruption.

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I demanded equality for all African Americans

at once!!!!!!

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• Name for the term used to describe a business that controls all means of producing or selling a product or service. Carnegie and Rockefeller both had these in their industries.

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White people liked me more than Du Bois b/c I did not

directly challenge their domination

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What is the policy Booker T. Washington used in which he

advocated African Americans working harder to earn acceptance by the

whites in the U.S.?

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Reason why Wilson was able to win the 1912

election

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WWI Review for Final

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What were the 4 MAIN causes of WWI?

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• What was Wilson’s successful campaign slogan in the Election of 1916? “ He kept us ______ ___ _____”

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• Name for the term in which 2 countries agree to come to each other’s aid in times of need.

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• Name of the following alliance in WWI :– Great Britain– France – Russia

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• What was the primary form of warfare in WWI?

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• Name for the infection that would occur in the trenches due to soldiers not having fresh pairs of socks.

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• What event sparked the powder keg of Europe to start WWI?

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• Name of the following alliance:– Austria-Hungary– Germany – Ottoman Empire

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• Most Americans wanted to stay out of the battles occurring in Europe. What is this policy known as where a country does not pick a side?

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• What is information used to sway people to think or act in a certain way?

• Example

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• What ship was sunk by a German submarine?

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• What was the name of the telegram sent by Germany to Mexico asking the Mexicans to fight America in return for the lands Mexico lost in the Mexican- American War.

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• What was the name of the Treaty that was signed after WWI?

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• Name for the term used to describe a war in which a country puts all of its resources towards the war effort.

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• According to the treaty signed after WWI, which country was held solely responsible for the war?

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• Someone who opposes a war based on morals is known as this:

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• Name for the area in between enemy trenches.

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Preparing for war

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• This treaty punished Germany pretty harshly for starting WWI and made them accept a War-Guilt clause for starting the war.

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• Name for a German submarine.

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• This treaty ended Russian involvement in the war. It came at about the same time that the United States entered the war.

• Hint: (Get your minds out of the gutter!)

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How did the US pay for WWI?

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• The term used to describe buying less or limiting the use of a product in order to conserve that product is known as ……..

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• After signing the treaty ending WWI, the Germans were forced to pay $33 billion to make up for damages during the war. What are these payments known as?

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• What 2 countries never joined the League of Nations?

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• President Wilson came up with 14 ideas meant to achieve a lasting peace in the world for years to come. These were known as Wilson’s

____ _______

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• What peacekeeping organization did the U.S. Senate reject due to the belief that America should stay out of European affairs?

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• Name one military restriction that was placed against Germany’s army after WWI.

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• Hi, I am the man that was arrested for speaking out against the war effort. I should have just kept my mouth shut.

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ROARING 20’s REVIEW FOR THE

FINAL

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• What is the name of the pact that made war illegal?

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• Another name for the right to vote

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• Besides the information in this poster, what other reasons did men give for not wanting women to vote?

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• What was the amendment that gave women the right to vote?

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• Term used to describe reducing or eliminating a country’s weapons or

military

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• What was the amendment that made drinking alcoholic beverages illegal?

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• This President forced the police of Boston back to work stating that it was “illegal to strike against the safety of Americans”

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• Programs set up by business owners which gave workers higher wages and better working conditions to discourage workers from joining unions.

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• What is the term used to describe the illegalization of alcohol

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• Hi! I was the largest producer of automobiles in the 1920’s. I doubled my workers salaries to $5.00 but they had to go through the Americanization program and speak English.

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• Location where the first automobile plant was created.

38.

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The people in the U.S. were afraid of this government system because the system went

against American values.

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• I flew the first flight from New York to Paris across the Atlantic Ocean

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Fear of strangers is known as this term:

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The fear of communists in the U.S. was known as this:

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• Who is this sports icon from the 1920’s? What team did he play most of his career for?

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This organization wanted a return to the past, limits placed on immigration, and

discriminated against blacks, Jews, and anyone that was not Protestant.

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Term used to describe someone that believes that all forms of government

should be abolished. (Sacco and Vanzetti believed in this.)

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• Theory of survival of the fittest

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• What were the raids led by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer known as? What/who were they trying to find?

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Location where the Scopes trial occurred

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• What was the trial involving the teaching of evolution in public schools?

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• Hi, I’m the defense attorney who argued that the theory of evolution should be allowed to be taught in public schools. I was the man who defended John

Scopes during the Scopes Trial.

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• Who was the prosecutor in the Scopes Trial who argued that evolution should NOT be taught in public schools.

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• This plan prevented war because the US provided loans to Germany so that they could pay $ back to Great Britain and France.

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• Scandal in which a former U.S. Navy oil reserve in east-central Wyoming was secretly leased to Harry F. Sinclair's oil company by Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. It became a symbol of the governmental scandals of the Harding administration.

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• What was the largest industry in America during the 1920’s

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• What were the illegal bars that were frequented during the 1920’s known as?

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• What method did Americans use to pay for all the new products now offered to them in the 1920’s?

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Term used to describe preferring people born in the USA to immigrants from other

countries

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• What was the name of the movement of blacks from the southern United States to areas in the northern United States?

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• What new music was brought from New Orleans to the north in the 1920’s?

52.

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• Hi, I am the guy that led the “Back to Africa” movement. Basically I wanted all the blacks in America to move back to Africa and form our own country.

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This act limited the amount of immigrants that could enter the United States during

the 1920’s

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GREAT DEPRESSION REVIEW FOR

FINAL

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• Location where the stock market crash occurred

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• Phrase used to describe buying a stock using borrowed money from a broker. Brokers in the 1920’s expected investors to pay this money back, but after the stock crash, that wasn’t happening.

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• Hi, I’m the President who encouraged people to work themselves out of the depression by themselves.

• I also had towns and newspapers nicknamed after me

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• My belief was that the American people should not rely on the government for aid. Instead they should pick themselves up and work harder. What was my philosophy known as?

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I made up a whole bunch of government

programs to help solve the Great Depression by putting Americans back to work, helping

farmers, the unemployed and the elderly. What were

these programs known as?

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Hi, we’re the guys that wanted our WWI bonus a little earlier. We weren’t given this bonus and

were kicked out of Washington D.C.

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• Hi, I’m the guy that replaced Hoover. I made up a program in which the government created jobs to help spur the economy. I also was the president when the U.S. entered WWII.

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• A series of informal radio addresses given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. He sought to explain his policies to the American public and to calm fears about the Great Depression.

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Which of the following candidates won the election of 1932?

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• 3 R’s of FDR’s New Deal program?

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After coming to office, FDR closed these institutions until they could prove that they

could function properly again. What were they?

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• Controversy in which FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court with judges that would support his NEW DEAL programs

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• A long economic slump which is characterized by high unemployment

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• What did farmers do as a result of low prices?

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This New Deal act provided farmers with subsidies if they slaughtered their cattle

and destroyed their crops.

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Someone who uses lies or half-truths to gain attention or power. Huey P. Long and Father Coughlin were considered these types of people. Hitler was one of them as well.

FDR will Ruin this Country!!!He stinks like bad cheese.

FDR will Ruin this Country!!!He stinks like bad cheese.

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- She’s smiling cuz her check is on the way!

• Act passed by FDR which gave the elderly a weekly check after they had retired.

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• Many people criticized FDR’s New Deal. Why did business leaders criticize it?

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• Nickname given to citizens of Okalahoma who left their farms and headed to California

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• Nickname given to the Okalahoma area in the 1930’s due to overproduction of crops.

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REVIEW FOR FINAL ON WWII

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• What were the acts called which prohibited the United States from giving aid to any country at war? It also prohibited US citizens from riding a ship from a country that was at war.

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• Peacetime military draft which required all men ages 21 – 30 to enlist for the US army.

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• Executive order that required all people, including American citizens of Asian decent to be rounded up and taken to camps away from the west coast. This was due to American fear of the Japanese from the attack on Pearl Harbor

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What was the Court case that upheld Japanese internment camps during WWII?

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• This act allowed the US to lend or lease weapons or battleships to any country vital to United States defense. This did not include any members of the Axis powers.

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• Name of the battle in which the Germans attacked the USSR and the Germans were forced to retreat due to the Russian winter.

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What is the Alliance, and who were the 3

leaders of these countries? • Japan • Italy • Germany

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From left to right below, who were the 3 Allied leaders during WWII?

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• Event that brought the United States into WWII. It was a “day which will live in infamy!” 73.

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• Nickname for the German style of fighting during WWII. It involved fast moving armies, tanks, and planes, and in English, the name literally means “lightning war”

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• Code name for the Allied invasion of the shores of Normandy, France. It was a huge success in gaining an Allied foothold in Western Europe.

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• Name for the man that led the Allied invasion of Normandy, France.

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Fighting the Japanese in WWII was:

a) Extremely easy

b) Extremely bloody

c) Extremely boring

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• Name of the A-bomb dropped on Hiroshima

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How did the US pay for WWII?

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• Hi, I’m the guy that replaced FDR at the end of WWII, I had to make an “explosive” decision early on in my administration. Who am I?

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List one negative aspect of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.

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• Name of the A-bomb that was dropped upon Nagasaki

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List one positive aspect of dropping the bomb on Japan.

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• What similar situations did minorities such as Hispanics and African Americans have while fighting in WWII?

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• At the Munich Conference the leaders of GB and France agreed to give Hitler the Sudetenland if he promised to stop all territorial gains in Europe. What is this policy, of making an aggressor happy, known as?

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This U.S. athlete embarrassed Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Germany proving that a

black man could defeat Hitler’s perfect Aryan race.

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• When men left for war, who took over many of their jobs in the factories?

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• What battle in the pacific did this occur at?

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This battle saw the first use of Kamikaze pilots

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• This was the name of Germany’s air force

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Event in which American and Filipino soldiers were forced by gunpoint to march 65 miles

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• The reason that the League of Nations failed as a peacekeeping force is because they lacked this…..

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• Location of Pearl Harbor

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• What is the nickname of this woman?

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• Because so many people were able to gain jobs due to the weapons, uniforms, and artillery needed for war, it helped the US to end what major event in US history.

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• Secret project held in Los Alamos, New Mexico in which leading scientists developed the first nuclear weapon.

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• Name for the U.S strategy of conquering one Pacific island at a time such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa in order to get closer so that airstrikes of Japan would be possible

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COLD WAR REVIEW

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The A-bomb was used on this country to

save American lives, end the war quickly, and destroy the war

making capabilities of this country.

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To remove weapons or

decrease the number of troops

in the military

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Economic system based upon the equal distribution of

wealth. All businesses

and capital are owned and

controlled by the

government.

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• Who was President during most of the 50’s?

• Vice President?

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Economic system based

upon profit

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• What President changed the look of

the military by reducing the number

of soldiers and increasing the

number of bombs and planes?

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• What plan provided aid in the form of money and supplies to W. Europe to stop the spread of communism? 95.

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- Name for the military defense alliance between non-communist countries

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• Name for the alliance that was formed in response to NATO. It included many communist countries.

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• Name for the policy set forward by President Truman in which he stated that it was the responsibility of the United States to prevent the spread of communism.

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• Korea was divided after WWII due to the fact that the country that controlled it lost WWII to the Allies. What country is this?

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• On what line was Korea divided after WWII?

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• What was the official policy the US had in preventing the spread of communism?

Communism

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• This war began when the Northern, communist side of this country invaded the Southern, democratic side.

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• At the end of the Korean War, how much had the borders of communism and democracy changed in the country?

• Hint

Before

After

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• What major Asian nation became communist after WWII?

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• Hi, I’m the guy that got fired by Truman because I wanted to open up a new front in the Korean War and attack China. Earlier in my career I was responsible for fighting the Japanese in the Pacific Theater. Even earlier in my career I tear gassed the Bonus Army.

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• Hi, I make a beeping sound and float around the Earth. I was the first satellite to be sent into space

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• When the Soviet union sent a satellite into space, what subjects did the U.S. believe needed to be stressed more in public schools?