American Foundations 2011 Final Review
Match the president with events that occurred during his presidency. Names can be used more than once!!!
A. Herbert Hoover
B. Franklin Roosevelt
C. Harry Truman
D. Woodrow Wilson
E. John F. Kennedy
F. Lyndon Johnson
G. Richard Nixon
____ 1. President who made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb.
____ 2. He was only president for a little over two years.
____ 3. He was president when the Great Depression started and was blamed for it.
____ 4. This president is credited with pulling the U.S. out of the Vietnam War.
____ 5. He became president aboard Air Force One.
_____ 6. This president was paralyzed from the waist down from polio.
____ 7. He was president during WWI
____ 8. He was the president who handled the Cuban Missile Crisis.
____ 9. President who escalated the war in Vietnam.
____ 10. His “New Deal” programs were set up to help pull the U.S. out of the
Depression.
____ 11. He was president when Pearl Harbor was bombed. He called that day a “Date
which will live in infamy”.
____ 12. He said “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for
your country.
____ 13. This president proposed the League of Nations that eventually became the basis
for the United Nations we have today.
____ 14. He was the youngest president ever elected to office.
____ 15. Modern presidents follow many of the examples set by this man.
Civil War and Reconstruction and Industry
1. Led a failed raid on Harper’s Ferry VA in an attempt to arm slaves and start and uprising:
2. Commander of the Confederate Army
3. Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
4. Union general that forced Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse VA.
5. He sued for his freedom but was told that he was property and had no rights.
6. He replaced Lincoln as president after he was killed.
7. Shot Lincoln
8. President of the Confederacy
9. Owned large number of high tech steel mills in the late 1800s and early 1900s
10. He owned most of the oil refineries in the U.S. with his company Standard Oil.
11. Someone who opposes slavery because they believe it is morally wrong is known as an ___________________.
12. The _______________ ________________ Act allowed southern slave owners to capture their runaways in the North
13. __________ _____________ was president when the Confederate states started breaking away.
14. The 1st state to break away form the Union was _________________________.
15. The first shots of the Civil War were fired ______________ _________________.
16. The first major battle of the Civil War was:
17. The largest battle ever on American soil was:
18. How did Lincoln treat the Confederacy after the war?
19. The time period after the Civil War is known as:
WWI
How do the following people relate to WWI?
- Gavrillo Princip
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Big Four
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Vladimir Lenin
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Franz Ferdinand
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John J. Pershing
Letter sent from Germany asking Mexico to declare war on the U.S. is the _________________ note.
This ship was sunk off the coast of Ireland. It was one of the reasons that the U.S. entered WWI.____________
Larger country taking over smaller countries and making them colonies is known as __________________.
The belief that your country needs a strong and powerful military is _____________________.
- Who were the main allied countries during WWI?
- Who were the main Central Power countries during WWI?
- What is an armistice?
- Why were U.S. industries short on labor during WWI?
- To help conserve food Americans planted __________________ gardens.
- The ____________ and ___________________ Acts made it a crime to say or print anything disloyal or unpatriotic.
- Veterans day is always November _____th because this is the date that WWII ended.
- The name given to all American troops fighting in WWI was the __________?
- The international organization set up at the end of WWI to promote peace is the ____________ of _________.
Great Depression
- The Share Our Wealth plan proposed taking money from the _____________ and giving it to the poor. It was proposed
by Louisiana governor _____________ ______________
What was Black Tuesday? Date?
What was the name given to shantytowns during the Depression?
How high did the unemployment rate in the U.S. get during the Great Depression?
Why did the stock market crash cause banks to fail?
What is a hobo?
How were Herbert Hoover and FDR’s ideas of government involvement different?
FDRs group of advisors that came up with ideas for the New Deal Programs were called the ________ _____?
The _________ did projects in forests and parks like Blue Knob and Trough Creek?
Where does the money to pay for Social Security come from? Who does it help?
The __________ insures your money in banks today.
WWI vets who were attacked and had their shanty town burned by the U.S. army were the ____________ Army
Auctions of foreclosed farms where neighbors would buy the farm cheap and give it back to its owner is called a
__________________ auction.
What problems did midwestern farmers face during the Great Depression?
How did FDR try to pull the country out of the Great Depression?
WWII
Explain how the following people relate to WWII
- Adolph Hitler
- Benito Mussolini
- Winston Churchill
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Douglas McArthur
- Dwight Eisenhower
- George S. Patton
- Harry Truman
- Albert Einstein
- Robert Oppenhimer
What does isolationism mean?
What does appeasement mean (used when dealing with Hitler)?
The _____________ Pact was an agreement between Hitler and Stalin not to attack each other?
What did the Lend-Lease Act do?
WWII began when ____________ was invaded?
What was the biggest advantage the U.S. had in WWII?
What event brought the U.S. into World War Two?
Why was Japan trying to expand its empire during WWII?
What were the main Allied Countries during WWII?
What were the main Axis Countries during WWII?
Pearl Harbor
- location
- date
- What was Japan trying to do?
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What did FDR call that day?
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What did we know before the attack happened?
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How many waves of attacks did the Japanese launch?
D-Day
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location
date
beaches
What was the final German offensive of WWII?
What group of Americans was interned in camps inside the United States during WWII?
All black unit of fighter pilots in WWII was the _________________ airmen.
What was the name given to this woman?
Atomic Bomb
- name of the project
- name of the bombs
- name of the plane
- cities dropped on?
- Why did Truman decide to use it on Japan?
How did the U.S. treat Germany and Japan after WWII was over?
Cold War and Kennedy
What was the Cold War?
If you compared Eastern and Western Europe 15 years after WWII ended, which would have a higher standard of living
and better economy?
Why did we fight the Korean and Vietnam Wars?
Who won the Korean War?
Who aided the South Koreans in fighting the Korean War?
Who aided the North Koreans in fighting the Korean War?
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
What affect did the fear of a nuclear attack have on religion in the U.S.?
What was the name given to the search for Communists in the U.S. government? Many of these people weren’t even
communists.
What country launched the first satellite into space?
The first satellite ever launched was called ___________________.
What was the space program set up by JFK with the goal of reaching the moon?
Who was the Soviet leader that Kennedy had a showdown with during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the reason for building the Berlin Wall?
What did the U.S. launch the Berlin Airlift?
Why are Cuban cigars illegal?
Why did Kennedy’s assassin not stand trial?
Who was President Kennedy’s closest advisor?
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Cuban Missile Crisis
- What was it?
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How did we know that the USSR was planning on placing missiles on Cuba?
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How did we try to stop them from doing it?
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What was the outcome?
What group investigated the JFK assassination?
Civil Rights
- This said segregation was legal as long as facilities were separate but equal.
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This forbade segregation in public schools:
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This was when northerners came into the south to register black voters in Mississippi.
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This was the name given to the people who rode into the south on Greyhound busses to expose segregation
violations.
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Explain what Sit-Ins were.
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How did the SNCC, SCLC, and CORE differ from the Black Panthers?
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In what ways did southern states try to prevent blacks from voting
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Why did the murders of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner get so much attention?
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What was needed for Civil Rights Protests to be successful?
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Know the following people: Rosa Parks, MLK, Malcom X, Thurgood Marshall, Coretta Scott, James Earl
Ray, James Meredith,
Vietnam
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Who were the VC?
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What happened at home during the war?
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How did it affect voting?
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What president pulled us out?
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Why do we consider it a loss?
- What was the Domino Theory?
- What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
- What was the Tet Offensive?
- How did the media affect the war?
- What happened at Kent State?