Unit 13
The defining economic feature of the Great Depression.
What is high UE?
This event brought the US into WW2.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This nation competed with the USA as the other world super power after WW2.
What is the USSR?
What industry heavily declined in the United States since the 1950's?
What is manufacturing?
Al-Qaeda carried out this attack on the United States World Trade Centers and The Pentagon.
What is 9/11?
FDR's radio talks with the public about policy.
What are fireside chats?
The United States entered WW2 in the Atlantic Theater here because it would be easier to land and gain experience.
What is North Africa?
This proxy war was a UN Peace Keeping mission.
What is the Korean War?
This was the controlling party that passed the Civil Rights Act.
What is the Democratic Party?
The issuing of mortgages to people without good credit came to be known as ________ mortgages.
What is Subprime?
The key economist during the Great Depression that advocated for government spending.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
This Pacific War strategy focused on attacking weaker Japanese forces and avoiding stronger forces.
What is Island Hopping?
This man lead the Red Scare of the 1950's with the HUAC.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
This man believed the government was not the solution to our problems, but was itself the problem.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
What institution declared the results of the 2000 presidential election?
What is the Supreme Court?
The economic hardship in the plains region made worse with severe drought and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The policy that lead to Hitler's growing power and ability to take control of Central Europe.
What is appeasement?
This President avoid nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is JFK?
This case made it illegal for states to make laws barring interracial marriage.
What is Loving v Virginia?
Operation Desert Storm took place during this war.
What is the Gulf War?
This tariff made the Great Depression even worse.
What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff?
Hitler's last major offensive in WW2?
What is the Battle of the Bulge?
This policy focused on the idea of containment.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The Watergate Scandal lead to the resignation of this President.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The current president of China.
Who is Xi Jinping?