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The immigration quota system did not apply to
CORRECT: Latin Americans and Canadians.
During the 1920s, the United States
CORRECT: intervened in Latin America.
Ch. 25
What was one effect of the wider use of automobiles?
CORRECT: A new national culture began to develop.
Once in office, President Harding
CORRECT: faced political scandals.
What happened to labor unions after the end of the war?.
CORRECT: Unions faced many setbacks.
Which of the following industries flourished during the 1920s?
CORRECT: automobile
The 1920s became known as the Roaring Twenties because
CORRECT: new fads and ways to have fun swept across the country.
Why was Charles A. Lindbergh considered the greatest hero of the decade?
CORRECT: He flew the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the goal of the League of Women Voters?
CORRECT: to educate voters
The immigration quota system
CORRECT: limited immigration.
During the 1920s, African Americans in northern cities
CORRECT: faced discrimination.
The Eighteenth Amendment
CORRECT: made it illegal to make or sell alcohol.
Which writer best captured the mood of the roaring twenties in The Great Gatsby?
CORRECT: F. Scott Fitzgerald
What contributed to a rapid economic growth in the 1920s?
CORRECT: Coolidge's pro-business policies
The Harlem Renaissance was a movement of African American artists
CORRECT: exploring their heritage.
Why was John Scopes arrested and tried in 1925?
CORRECT: He taught evolution to his class.
Under President Coolidge, the American stock market
CORRECT: grew in value.
During the 1920s, farmers
CORRECT: suffered an economic downturn.
Why did the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti create a furor across the nation?
CORRECT: Many felt that they did not receive a fair trial.
Flappers
CORRECT: rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting.
During the early years of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate
CORRECT: rose very high.
President Hoover reacted to the Great Depression with
CORRECT: caution.
What was the most expensively made and most popular movie of the 1930s?
CORRECT: Gone With the Wind
Which of the following statements about the depression is true?
CORRECT: It led to a worldwide economic collapse.
In the 1930s, Mexican Americans working in cities
CORRECT: faced discrimination.
Who was the first African American to head a government agency?
CORRECT: Mary McLeod Bethune
Which of the following was one of the goals of the New Deal?
CORRECT: reforms to prevent another depression
Roosevelt ended the banking crisis by
CORRECT: asking Congress to pass laws to strengthen the banks.
The Dust Bowl was an area in the
CORRECT: Great Plains.
During Roosevelt's time in office, labor unions were
CORRECT: strengthened.
Some critics opposed the New Deal because they felt it
CORRECT: interfered too much with business and with people's lives.
The Bonus Army consisted of
CORRECT: jobless veterans.
Which of the following statements about Eleanor Roosevelt is true?
CORRECT: She used her position to speak out about women's rights.
Congress of Industrial Organizations was created to benefit
CORRECT: unions.
The Social Security Act was designed to help
CORRECT: older people.
Ch. 26
What was one of the chief causes of the Great Depression?
CORRECT: overproduction by factories and farmers
One reason the stock market crashed was because people
CORRECT: panicked and tried to sell their stocks before prices fell even further.
Which event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
CORRECT: stock market crash
What was Roosevelt's first order of business as President?
CORRECT: to help banks recover
Which program hired people to build ports, schools, and aircraft carriers?
CORRECT: Public Works Administration
The Holocaust, one of the horrors of World War II, was the
CORRECT: slaughter of Europe's Jews by the Nazis.
Ch. 27
Which of the following countries remained neutral in 1942?
CORRECT: Turkey
In the 1930s, Germany became a totalitarian state under the control of the dictator
CORRECT: Adolph Hitler.
How did Japan try to improve their economic conditions after the Great Depression?
CORRECT: They expanded their territory into Asia.
During the war, Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were forced to
CORRECT: move to "relocation" camps.
Which battle severely hampered the Japanese offensive?
CORRECT: Battle of Midway
The totalitarian leaders in Germany and Italy were
CORRECT: Facists.
Although the United States remained neutral when World War II began, Roosevelt looked for
ways to.
CORRECT: help Great Britain and France.
The first series of Neutrality Acts passed by Congress in 1935
CORRECT: banned arms sales or loans to countries at war.
D-Day, the start of the Allied invasion of France, took place on
CORRECT: June 6, 1944.
The two main goals of the United States in the war in the Pacific were to invade Japan and.
CORRECT: regain the Philippines.
The most highly decorated military unit in United States history was comprised of
CORRECT: Japanese Americans.
Japan surrendered after the United States
CORRECT: dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities.
In 1939, Great Britain and France declared war after Germany
.
CORRECT: invaded Poland.
During World War II, African Americans
CORRECT: fought in segregated units.
The American victory at the Battle of Midway
CORRECT: was a turning point in the war in the Pacific.
Why did Britain and France agree that Germany should have the Sudetenland?
CORRECT: They wanted to avoid war.
During Hitler's reign as dictator, he unleashed a plan to persecute all
CORRECT: Jews.
Which of the following events finally caused the United States to enter World War II?
CORRECT: the attack on Pearl Harbor
When Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, other European countries considered it an act of
CORRECT: aggression.