FREE SOCIAL STUDIES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH

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FREE SOCIAL STUDIES AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH

CHAPTERS 24-26 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Atlantic Charter

Answer:

agreement signed by FDR and Churchill that promoted freedom of the seas and self-determination

Question 2: China

Answer:

after the Japanese invaded this nation, the U.S. broke diplomatic relations with Japan

Question 3: Pearl Harbor

Answer:

event that radically changed public opinion on U.S. intervention in the war

Question 4: Marshall Plan

Answer:

U.S. program that provided financial aid to Western Europe, hoping to make communism less appealing

Question 5: Senator McCarthy

Answer:

made accusations of communist subversion, including accusations about the U.S. Army

Question 6: Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer:

international crisis that began when the Soviets placed missiles in Cuba, the U.S. blockaded Cuba, the closest the U.S. came to nuclear war

Question 7: cash and carry program

Answer:

the U.S. could sell defense articles to nations at war if they paid in cash and transported on their own ships

Question 8: Beatniks

Answer:

artists and writers who celebrated spontaneity and freedom, and criticized conformity and materialism

Question 9: Fascism

Answer:

extremely nationalistic, authoritarian form of government

Question 10: Korean War

Answer:

conflict where the U.S. attempted to stop the spread of communism in Asia, a police action since Congress didn't declare war

Question 11: Berlin Airlift

Answer:

U.S. response to the Soviet blockade of Berlin in an attempt to stop the population drain from East Berlin

Question 12: GI Bill

Answer:

provided loans to veterans to buy homes and paid college tuition

Question 13: Final Solution

Answer:

Nazi plan to strip Jews of their civil rights and send them to concentration & extermination camps

Question 14: Levittown

Answer:

site of mass produced, affordable homes

Question 15: 17th Parallel

Answer:

temporary dividing line between North and South Vietnam

Question 16: Sputnik

Answer:

led to increased funding for math and science in schools and the start of the U.S. space program

Question 17: Manhattan Project

Answer:

secret project to develop and test the atomic bomb

Question 18: Stimson Doctrine

Answer:

stated the U.S. would not recognize any territory taken by force, issued after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Question 19: homemaker

Answer:

role women were expected to fulfill during the 1950s

Question 20: postwar America

Answer:

prosperous era marked by an increase in homeownership and a higher standard of living

Question 21: Stalingrad

Answer:

turning point in the European theater of the war

Question 22: Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Answer:

two Japanese industrial cities that were chosen as the U.S. as sites to drop the atomic bomb

Question 23: Rosie the Riveter

Answer:

symbol of women who worked in wartime factories

Question 24: Truman

Answer:

secret project to develop and test the atomic bomb

Question 25: The Other America

Answer:

non fiction piece describing poverty during the postwar period

Question 26: Midway

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turning point in the Pacific theater of the war

Question 27: America First Committee

Answer:

group that supported U.S. intervention in WWII

Question 28: Popular Front

Answer:

group that preferred an isolationist stance in foreign policy