1. Fourth Nine Weeks Benchmark Review

2. Who are the great totalitarian dictators of the 1930’s?
Hitler
Mussolini
Stalin

3. Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb on Japan ?
To save lives of American soldiers
It was thought that if we invaded the country of Japan the losses would have been in the thousands on our side and many more on theirs

4. Who are the Axis powers?
Germany, Italy, Japan

5. Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 Invasion of Panama in 1989
Give examples of how the USA tried to eliminate unfriendly governments close to the USA’s borders
Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961
Invasion of Panama in 1989

6. What are the three parts of the Great Society program?
Medicare
Medicaid
Anti-poverty programs

7. How and when did the cold war end?
It ended with the fall of communism in the (USSR) United Soviet Socialist Republic in the 1990’s

8. How did the USA try to stop the spread of communism after WWII?
Giving countries military and economic ($) aide to help them remain non-communist

9. How was Gerald Ford different from all other presidents and vice presidents?
He was not elected to either the Presidency or the Vice Presidency

10. What did the Great Society programs try to end in America?
attempted to eliminate poverty

11. In the case of impeachment of a President, what role does the House of Representatives take on?
House of Representatives role is to investigate and bring charges against the President

12. What is internment and who was interned in America during WWII?
Being held against your will
Japanese –American citizens

13. What did Brown vs. Board of Education make illegal?
Segregation in schools

14. What are Soviet satellites?
Countries near the USSR in Eastern Europe that the USSR took over or controlled

15. What is an example of the containment policy during the Cold War era?
The Korean War

16. They were never legally declared wars by Congress
What was unique about the Korean war and Vietnam war as far as what type of war they were?
They were never legally declared wars by Congress

17. The Korean War and Persian Gulf war are similar in that they both?
They both involved unilateral
(not a cooperative or bilateral war with the help of other countries) military action by the USA

18. What legislation eliminated white only public facilities?
Civil Rights Act of 1964

19. What act provided aid to Great Britain and the Soviet Union against Nazi aggression?
Lend-Lease Act

20. What President did the most for Civil Rights in the modern age?
Lyndon Johnson

21. The economic aid package to Europe after WWII was called what?
Marshall Plan

22. The first major American offensive in WWII took place where?
North Africa

23. Define the “cold war”?
A power struggle between Communism and democracy, the USA and the USSR
A war of threats and intimidation, no atomic action, spies

24. Where did the event that caused America to enter WWII occur?
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

25. The Japanese attacked America on what date?
December 7, 1941

26. The fear of communism in 1950’s America was symbolized by what?
McCarthyism and the Red Scare

27. What event sparked American fears that the Soviet Union was technologically superior to us?
The USSR launched the first man made object (called sputnik) into space

28. What economic theory did Presidents Reagan and Bush believe in?
Supply side economics

29. What does supply side economic theory believe in?
Limited or smaller government, lower taxes, less government programs
Government providing help or incentives for business to grow

30. What treaty did Nazi Germany violate or break at the beginning of WWII?
Versailles treaty of 1919

31. How did Truman end the Soviet blockade of Berlin?
The airlift

32. What is a major long term affect of the Vietnam War?
Unwillingness by the American people to send United States troops for military action outside of the USA.

33. Why did the USA get involved in the Vietnam War?
to stop the spread of Communism in Asia because of the
domino theory

34. Why did some people in the USA oppose the Vietnam War?
They did not think we should be the police of the world

35. The war powers act of 1973 allowed for what?
We could go to war without immediate congressional approval in case of sneak attack
Allowed for a quicker response to military attack

36. The Watergate scandal that caused President Nixon to resign
Executive privilege and power, in the 1970’s, was weakened by what Presidential controversy?
The Watergate scandal that caused President Nixon to resign

37. Main Causes of the Great Depression are
excessive borrowing 
excessive speculation in the Stock Market
uneven distribution of income
a decline in the business cycle
Large unemployment
inflation

38. What project created the atomic bomb and where?
Manhattan Project at Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico

39. What Presidential wannabe coined the phrase “Share the Wealth”
Huey Long, governor of Louisiana during the depression
Enemy of FDR

40. What did the TVA do? Tennessee Valley Authority dam
Provide electricity to areas of the Southeast such as North Georgia

41. The Wagner Act and NIRA were about what issue?
The rights of laborers (workers)

42. What is a sputnik and how did Americans react to it?
A Soviet man made space satellite
It scared Americans into thinking the USSR had the lead on them

43. What did the bonus army do? How did their attempts end?
Demanded their pensions (bonuses) from WWI during the Depression in the 1930’s
Marched to Washington DC to get said bonuses
Were driven from their camps by Federal troops and did not get the bonuses until they came due some years later

44. The iron curtain divided Europe into what?
Divided Europe into communist and non-communist areas

45. Examples of the policy of containment
Korean War

46. The End