Harding/Coolidge/Hoover
During the _______ and __________ administrations, domestic policy returned to favoring big business.
Coolidge, Harding
T or F: FDR's main goals during the Great Depression were:
1) Relief
2) Recovery
3) Restoration
F - relief, recovery, reform
Churchill, Hitler, Czechoslovakia.
The Supreme Court case __________ _ __________ upheld the constitutionality of Japanese internment during WWII.
Korematsu v United States
T or F: In justifying Japanese internment during WWII, Justice Frank Murphy argued that there were significant military dangers that justified the exclusion order. He argued that the military authorities feared an invasion, the emergency was urgent, and Congress had given the military the authority to make a judgement in such circumstances.
F - Hugo Black
During the Harding presidency the US hosted the _____________ _____________ __________ Conference in 1922.
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference
The New Deal attempted to address the problems of the Great Depression by creating the _____________ Adjustment ____, the ____________ _____________ Authority, and the Public ________ ____________.
Agricultural Adjustment Act, Tennessee Valley Authority, Pubic Works Administration.
T or F: Churchill suggested that there has never been a case where progress has been made by submitting to violence and that the glory of the west was built on resistance to tyranny and the idea that individuals have rights. He also urged the US to get involved in the war before Japan launched an attack.
F - he urges the US not to keep out of the fight until they are the last country standing
T or F: The Allies turned the tide against the Axis powers because:
1) They had a Europe first strategy
2) US became the Arsenal of Democracy
3) They cracked the Enigma code which helped them turn the tide the Pacific
F - cracking the Enigma code helped them turn the tide in the Atlantic
T or F: Germany surrendered on the same day that Hitler committed suicide: April 30, 1945.
F - it was on May 7, 1945
T or F: During the Harding and Coolidge presidencies the US returned to a strictly isolationist stance.
F - the US was more isolationist but not fully.
The US supported the Kellog- Briand Pact in 1928 and the financed the Dawes Plan which loaned $ to Germany who used the $ to pay off war reparations to France and Britain who then could pay off their war debts to the US.
After FDR won __ (how many) elections the ____ amendment was passed, limiting a president to a maximum of ___ years in office.
4
22nd amendment.
10
The following events exacerbated tensions between Japan and the US prior to WWII.
1) the settlement of the _______ ____________ war
2) the US blocked Japanese _________ to the US
3) the US blocked a racial equality clause in the __________ ___________.
4) limitations placed on Japanese navy due to the __________ ______________ _____________ ________ .
Russo - Japanese war
immigration
Versailles Treaty
Washington Naval Disarmament Conference
The Allies turned the tide against the Axis power because
1) the Russian defeated the Germans at _______________.
2) the US and UK drive the Axis powers out of ________ __________ before invading ___________ after the successfully fooling the Axis powers through Operation ______________.
3) The Battle of ___________ turned the tide in the Pacific. __________ (how many) Japanese aircraft carriers survived the battle.
Stalingrad,
North Africa, Sicily, Operation Mincemeat
Midway, 0
As part of their island hopping strategy to defeat Japan, the US liberated ____________.
the Philippines.
In Herbert Hoover’s Principles and Ideals of the United States Government speech, he argued that ____ ______ is at risk if the government controls industry since the government will be forced to protect itself from the political consequences of bad decisions.
Free speech
FDR attempted to reform the banking sector by passing the ___________ _____________ ______________ _______________.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which provided insurance for deposits to prevent runs on banks.
Talks between Russia and Japan in 1905 at the end of the war between them were mediated by ____________ ____________
Theodore Roosevelt
T or F: During 1944 and 1945:
1) the Allies attack 5 beaches in Normandy on D-Day
2) liberated Paris
3) successfully counter attacked against Germany at the Battle of the Bulge
4) defeated Japan at Midway
5) carpet bombed Dresden and Berlin
6) defeated Japan at Okinawa
F - the Battle of Midway was in 1942
In the Pacific, the US faced fierce fighting on the islands of ______ __________ and ___________. They carpet bombed _____________. The war finally ended after atomic bombs were dropped on _______________ and ____________ and Emperor _____________ agreed to surrender.
Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Hirohito
T or F: In Herbert Hoover’s Principles and Ideals of the United States Government speech, he argued that:
1) The American system of self government prioritizes local responsibility and is founded on liberty, freedom, and equal opportunity which bring about progress.
2) While during WWI, the country temporarily resorted to a centralized despotism, we cannot continue down that path. Rather we should return to the rugged individualism of the American system.
3) It would be a mistake for the federal government to involve itself in business as that would undermine liberty and the local governments might succeed where the federal government would fail because the federal government is too occupied taking care of other business.
F - Hoover said it would be a mistake for the federal government to involve itself in business as that would undermine liberty and the local governments might succeed where the federal government would fail, given local government’s proximity to the people.
T or F: The New Deal changed the economic and political landscape of the Unites States for future generations by:
1) creating the New Deal coalition of southern whites, northern blue collar workers, midwestern farmers, African Americans, and northern businessmen - this coalition gave the Democrats control of Congress for decades.
2) the size and scope of the federal government expanded and the basis of the welfare state was created.
F - northern business men were not part of the New Deal coalition.
Prior to the Japanese attack on the US, Japan was running low on fuel. They decided to attack the _______ _________ ____________ to take the oil fields there. Before they did so, they needed to cripple the US fleet stationed at _________ __________. The Japanese attacked on __________ (month) _______ (day) ______________ (year). The US responded by declaring war on Japan with _____ members in the HoR voting for war.
Dutch East Indies, Pearl Harbor, december 7, 1941, 388
The Allied plan to build up forces and supplies in England prior to the cross channel invasion was called_______________ _____________.
Operation Bolero
in Korematsu v United States, Justice Robert Jackson argued that the exclusion order violated the ___________ _______________ ____________ of the ______ amendment.
due process clause, 5th