Cold War
What was the Berlin Airlift?
After the Soviets blockaded West Berlin so no food could go in or out, the US and allies airlifted food in to them
What were the tenement homes?
They're going to get this right
Who was the president who didn't want the government to do anything at the start of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
What is the process plants use to make food using sunlight?
Photosynthesis
What organ pumps blood throughout the human body?
The heart
Where did Truman send money in Europe to keep them from becoming communist?
Turkey and Greece
Who did the government side with in the Gilded Age: labor unions or Robber Barons?
Robber Barons
What body system includes the brain and spinal cord?
Nervous System
This organelle is called the “powerhouse of the cell.”
Mitochondria
What process occurs when one cell divides into two identical daughter cells?
Mitosis
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created this military alliance with its Eastern European allies.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Explain how Upton Sinclair led to the Pure Food and Drug Act
Sinclair investigated meatpacking factories and wrote a book called The Jungle which exposed their unsanitary conditions; people were disgusted and campaigned for laws that would ensure food safety
Yellow journalists accused Spain of blowing up the USS Maine.
Organisms that make their own food are called this.
autotrophs
In genetics, different forms of the same gene are called these.
Alleles
Why was the first debate between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960 famous?
First televised debate.
What was the positive name for Robber Barons, used by people who believed they helped society?
Captains of Industry
A population of bacteria survives antibiotic treatment because resistant bacteria reproduce and pass on their traits. This is an example of this process.
Natural selection
This process moves water across a selectively permeable membrane from high to low concentration.
Osmosis
The movement of molecules from an area of high concentration to low concentration is called this.
Diffusion
What laws did Lyndon B Johnson pass as part of the civil rights movement?
List 4+ Progressive Reforms
Secret Ballot, Direct Election of Senators, Direct Primary
Referedum, Initiative, Sherman Anti-trust act
What was the US imperialist policy that they would get involved in Latin/Central Americainn 'flagrant cases of such wrongdoing" or bad governence, as well as to "protect" from Europeans.
The Roosevelt Corrollary
During cellular respiration, most ATP is produced in this stage.
electron transport chain
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