3rd CRT Review

1. Isolationism
2. Why did Neville Chamberlain suggest appeasement when it came to
German aggression?
3. When did the cash and carry authorization happen that allowed Allied
nations to purchase weapons?
4. During WWII, what year did the USA give the most aid to the British
Empire and Soviet Union?
5. According to Samuel Elliot Morison, what was the significance of the Battle
of Midway?
6. Why did Truman decide to use the atomic bomb?
7. The Soviet testing of an atomic weapon, and Communists gaining control
of China in 1949 led to what scare in America?
8. The Berlin Blockade caused what organization to form?
9. In the Truman Doctrine, why did Truman want to give financial aid to
Greece and Turkey?
10.Mobilization
11.What was the main purpose for WWII propaganda in the US?
12.What caused Japanese Americans to be relocated from the West Coast?
13.According to Gen Eisenhower, what did he believe was the purpose of the
D-Day attack?
14.What were some sacrifices made by civilians on the home front during
WWII?
15.Describe the changing role of women during WWII.
16.What action by the United State government was declared constitutional
by the Supreme Court in 1944?
17.What were some fears about the Soviet Union that many Americans held
after WWII?
18.When President FDR said December 7, 1941, a date which will live in
infamy to what event was he referring?
19.Arsenal of Democracy
20.What was the name of the military alliance formed between the US and
Western European nations to oppose Soviet domination of Eastern Europe?
21.What were some effects of the Marshall plan?
22.Why did the United States support South Korea in the early 1950s?
23.What was one of Senator McCarthys main goals during the Cold War?
24.Who were the Rosenbergs?
25.What term did Winston Churchill coin?
26.What organization was created at the end of WWII with the intent of
preventing future wars?
27.The Iron Curtain
28.The era of high tension and bitter rivalry between the United States and
the Soviet Union was known as what?
29.What event led to the creation of NASA?
30.Arms Race
31.What bill caused an increase in homeownership after WWII?
32.What was the Soviet response to NATO?
33.In the years following WWII, Soviet influence took hold in which part of the
world?
34.Brinkmanship
35.Mutually Assured Destruction
36.Why did the US launch a naval blockade of Cuba?
37.How would the Great Society end racial injustice in America?
38.Between 1960 and 1970, what happened to the percentage of Americans
living in poverty?
39.What year did the Little Rock Nine attend Central High School, in Little
Rock, Arkansas?
40.In the South, what were the state laws regarding segregation in public
schools prior to Brown v. Board of Education?
41.How did the Supreme Court sift its ruling starting with Plessy v. Ferguson
to Brown v. Board of Education?
42.What inspired the organizers of the March on Washington for Jobs and
Freedom?
43.What were some of the effects of the State Highway System?
44.What act can best explain the rise of African American Voter registration in
the South?