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• Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington were artists of what period?

• Harlem Renaissance

• What were the assembly lines, invented by Henry Ford, powered by?

• electricity

• What was the main cause of the Great Depression?

• Stock Market crash

• The day the stock market crashed in 1929 is referred to as what?

• Black Tuesday

• What were the programs called that FDR instituted to combat the Great Depression?

• The New Deal

• What were shantytowns and Hoovervilles??• Tent cities that popped up during the

Depression for people who lost their homes

• Why did the US enter WWII?• Bombing of Pearl Harbor

• What group of people were put in internment camps in the US during WWII?

• Japanese Americans

• What 2 cities were attacked with an atomic bomb by the US?

• Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• What happened on D-Day?• Allied invasion of France – turning point in the

war

• What was the main goal of the US in Vietnam?• Stop the spread of communism

• What is the significance of the Tet offensive?• Turning point in Vietnam war, not an easy win

• What two countries aided North Korea?• China and Russia

• Why did the US support South Korea?• Stop spread of communism

• The US emerged as a super power after the fall of what wall?

• Berlin

• If one country falls to communism, then others will follow is an example of what theory?

• Domino theory

• The Marshall plan was to give US aid to build up what war torn part of the world?

• Europe

• What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?• Take supplies to West Berlin, who was cut off

by Russia after WWII

• What was the main goal of McCarthyism’s?• To expose communists in America, specifically

the government

• What were the Hollywood 10 accused of?• Being communists and influencing society

with movies

• What inspired the American’s rush to get to the moon?

• The Russian launch of Sputnik

• The Cuban Missile Crisis was a standoff between what two countries ?

• Russia and the US

• What invention increased consumerism?• Television

What was the symbol of the American Dream?Owning your own home, the growth of suburbs

What movement in the 1950’s put poetry to music to protest conventional society ?

The beat movement

What musical genre began in the 1960’s with the “British invasion” of the Beatles ?Rock n’ roll

• Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a Dream speech at what event ?

• March on Washington•

• What court case overturned Plessy v Ferguson and outlawed segregation of schools?

• Brown v Board of Education

• What concert in NY was the end of the rise of the hippie movement?

• Woodstock.

• Who organized the migrant farm workers into unions?

• Cesar Chavez

• The Watergate scandal led to the resignation what president ?

• Nixon

Roe v Wade made what practice legal?• Abortion

• The equal rights amendment in the 1970’s tried to gain equal rights for whom ?

• Women

• What happened at Three Mile Island?• Nuclear reactor meltdown

• What agency is responsible for policies on global warming, oil spills etc . . .?

• The Environmental Protection Agency

• Who was president during the Iran Hostage Crisis?

• Carter

• What was President Clintons policy about gays in the military?

• Don’t ask don’t tell

• Why did the US get involved in Desert Storm?

• Iraq invaded Kuwait and prevented oil trade

• What was President Reagan’s economic policy ?

• Reaganomics – cut taxes, cut government spending, increase defense spending

• Who claimed responsibility for the 911 attacks?

• Osama Bin Ladin (Al-qaeda)

• What government program provided a pension for retirees because many were living in poverty?

• Social Security

• What agreement reduced tariffs between the US and Mexico and Canada?

• NAFTA

• When did the internet become common in the home?

• 1990’s

• What invention expanded research, entertainment, communication, information availability ?

• Internet (world wide web)

• How is nuclear energy used today?• Electricity, clean energy

• Why did Iran take 66 American hostages?• Because the US allowed the deposed Shah to

come to America for medical treatment

• Why did many Americans oppose nuclear energy?

• Three Mile Island meltdown

• What gave Roosevelt authority to sell, or provide aid to the allies prior to our joining WWII?

• Lend-lease Act

• Congress enacted reforms to restore public confidence in government after what scandal?

• Watergate

• What was the cause of the Dust Bowl?• Drought, new farming methods

• What was the purpose of Medicare, in Johnson’s Great Society ?

• To provide medical care for those who could not afford it