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1. People overextended their use of credit in the stock market during the late 1920s because they believed they would
make quick profits and be able to repay their debts.
2. One cause of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed was that speculators had
purchased shares of stock on margin with borrowed funds.
3. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal was an attempt to end the Great Depression and restore a sound
economy.
4. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is the New Deal agency that continues to protect against the loss of
savings in personal accounts.
5. The Social Security Administration is the New Deal agency that established a pension program that contributes to
the income of retired workers.
6. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s resulted from severe drought and poor agricultural practices.
7. The year 1929 is significant in U.S. history because it marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
8. The growth of communities of homeless people living in makeshift shelters called Hoovervilles was a direct result
of the Great Depression.
9. The Tennessee Valley Authority was the New Deal agency created to control flooding and to provide economic
development in a poor region.
10. The Securities and Exchange Commission is a New Deal program designed to correct abuses in the stock market.
11. The United States remained neutral in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II.
12. The significance of the Battle of Midway was that it ended Japan’s naval superiority in the Pacific.
13. Military production during World War II created jobs which best explains how economic growth during the
war helped end the Great Depression.
14. The attack on Pearl Harbor caused the United States to immediately abandon neutrality during World War II.
15. During World War II, the United States became an ally with European dictator Joseph Stalin.
16. U.S. citizens at home were directly affected during World War II by the government rationing of essential
goods.
17. During World War II, geographic factors such as strong currents, poor weather conditions, and inadequate harbors
led Germany to believe that the invasion of Europe would not take place at Normandy.
18. The effects of the harsh Russian winter was instrumental in halting the German advance across the Soviet Union
during World War II.
19. During World War I and World War II, American women replaced many men in the civilian workforce.
20. Island chains played a big role in U.S. military strategy in the Pacific during World War II.
21. Japanese Americans were held in internment camps during World War II because they were labeled a threat to
U.S. security.
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22. The atomic bomb developed as a result of the Manhattan Project.
23. The United States formed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in response to the Soviet
Union’s launch of Sputnik I.
24. U.S. involvement in Korea and Vietnam reflected the U.S. government’s policy of preventing the spread of
communism after World War II. The Truman Doctrine established this U.S. policy.
25. A cause of the Korean War was North Korea wanted to unify the peninsula under a communist regime.
26. Air pollution increased in the 1950s due to growing use of automobiles resulting from the development of
suburbs.
27. A purpose of the G.I. Bill, which was passed by the U.S. government during World War II, was to provide
educational opportunities to returning veterans.
28. Public support for U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War declined during the late 1960s largely because of graphic
television news coverage of the war.
29. In October 1962 President John F. Kennedy announced that the Soviet Union was building nuclear missile bases in
Cuba. The United States responded to this threat by establishing a naval blockade around Cuba.
30. The 1968 Tet offensive in South Vietnam resulted in a loss of public confidence in the U.S. government.
31. The ratification of the 26th Amendment was prompted by the Vietnam War.
32. The immediate result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954 was
public schools were ordered to desegregate.
33. The main purpose of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution was to guarantee the rights of
newly freed slaves.
34. Dr. Hector P. García founded the American GI Forum to ensure that Hispanic veterans received the same benefits
provided to other veterans.
35. César Chávez organized the United Farm Workers to improve working conditions for migrant farm laborers.
36. The 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota was one of several civil rights protests led by the
American Indian Movement.
37. The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was an influential book in the 1960s because it energized a new
women’s rights movement.
38. The accomplishments of the women’s suffrage movement had the greatest impact on the role of women in U.S.
politics?
39. The term Great Society was used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to describe his efforts to end poverty and
discrimination in the United States.
40. A major reason President Lyndon B. Johnson decided not to run for reelection in 1968 was because the Vietnam
War had reduced his popularity with voters.
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41. The primary purpose of President Richard Nixon’s policy of détente was to ease tensions between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
42. President Nixon resigned due to the Watergate scandal.
43. In the Camp David Accords (1978), President Jimmy Carter succeeded in providing a foundation for a peace
treaty between Egypt and Israel.
44. According to the supply-side economics principles promoted by President Ronald Reagan, economic growth would
occur when corporate business taxes were reduced.
45. In 1991, one of the reasons President George H. W. Bush committed United States troops to the Persian Gulf War
was to assure the flow of Middle East oil to the United States and its allies.
46. One direct result of the Persian Gulf War was that the United States liberated Kuwait from Iraqi control.
47. The main reason that the United States sent troops to Bosnia in 1995 was to try to bring a peaceful end to a civil
war
48. When Nixon famously said, “I am not a crook,” it was most closely associated with the Watergate controversy.
49. The terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon occurred on September 11, 2001.
50. Barack Obama made history when he became the first black president of the United States after winning the
election of 2008.
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