Study+Guide+for+Pretty+in+Polka+Dots

= =  =**1929 to Present **=


 * 1) **World War II**
 * 2) **The Great Depression**
 * 3) **Rise of the KKK**
 * 4) **Atomic Bomb**
 * 5) **Presidents (Roosevelt, Bush, Clinton, ect.)**
 * 6) ** Court Cases (ie. Korematsu v. U.S.) **

***These are just the major events that are covered. However, there will be more topics covered throughout this time period.***

1. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established to ...
 * __Questions__**
 * make loans to businesses, banks, and state and local governments.**

2. The two political issues that most concerned the Counterculture Movement of the 19603 were...
 * U.S. involvement in Vietnam and the Civil Rights Movement.**

3. The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington, D.C,, in 1932 to demand...
 * immediate full payment of bonus payments promised to WWI veterans.**

4. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution ...
 * gave the executive broad powers to wage war.**

5. One of the dangerous consequences of the transformation of the American family was...
 * the rearing of children by institutional parent-substitutes or television.**

6. Conservative Democrats who helped Ronald Reagan pass his budget and tax-cutting legislation were called...
 * boll weevils**

7. In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt and Britain's Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a document which outlined a plan for...
 * a post-war world based on collective security.**

8. That preference in the admission policies of institutions of higher education could not be based on ethnic or racial identity alone was the Supreme Court decision in...
 * The Bakke case.**

9. Which of the following was not a cause of the income gap in the US? B. the shrinkage in manufacturing jobs for unskilled and semi-skilled labor. C. the decline of labor unions. D. the weakening of family structure
 * A. Intensifying global economic competition.**

10. Despite his fiscal conservatism, Eisenhower actually outdid the New Deal with his massive federal spending on...
 * a continental interstate highway system.**

11. The deepest problem caused by federal programs like Social Security and Medicare in the 21st Century will likely be...
 * that the higher taxes necessary to support benefits would create a generational war with younger workers.**

12. President Hoover's public image was severely damaged by his...
 * handling of the dispersal of the Bonus Army.**

13. President Truman's containment policy was first tested in...
 * Greece.**

14. What best summarizes the United States's primary reason for participating in the war in Vietnam?
 * American foreign policy experts believed that, without intervention, communism would spread throughout Southeast Asia.**

15. The dismal plight of the "{Dust Bowl" refugees was captured in...
 * John Steinbeck's //The Grapes of Wrath.//**

16. What is true about the internment of those Japanese living in the US during WWII?
 * The majority of those confined were native-born Americans.**

17. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 because Japanese Americans...
 * were believed to be loyal to Japan instead of the US.**

18. Jack Kerouac's //On the Road// and //The Dharma Burns// articulated the ideals of...
 * the Beat generation.**

19. Legislation and executive orders associated with the Great Society didn't create the...
 * WPA.**

20. In response to several unfavorable Supreme Court rulings concerning New Deal programs, Franklin Roosevelt...
 * proposed legislation that would allow him to appoint new federal and Supreme Cout judges.**

21. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, in 1961, was carried out by...
 * Cuban exiles trained by the CIA.**

22. Wartime America during WWII didn't experience...
 * lack of overall support for the war effort.**

23. Tensions arose between the "Big Three" at Potsdam with regard to...
 * post-war Eastern Europe and Germany.**

24. In //Korematsu v. U.S.,// the Supreme Court decided that...
 * the internment of Japanese Americans was justified.**

25. Dr. Artin Luther King, Jr. advocated the tactic of...
 * nonviolent resistance.**

26. Demographic shifts in the US have not impacted...
 * Social Security.**

27. The Supreme Court ruling in //Baker v. UC// Regents limited...
 * affirmative action.**

28. President George H. W. Bush didn't struggle with the issue of..
 * the invasion of Grenada**.

29. What did not occur in the year 1968?
 * Separation of church and state and honesty in Government.**

30. What is and unlikely factor in the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
 * Hope that a quick victory in the Pacific would hasten and Allied victory in Europe.**

31. What was not a major contributing factor in the onset of the Great Depression?
 * The federal government interfered too frequently with the economy, causing investors to lose confidence.**

32. With reguard to domestic issues, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson can be characterized as...
 * able to secure support for a wide range of social programs.**

33. Theevents surrounding the Watergate scandal signaled...
 * that the executive branch was not above the law.**

34, The Civil Rights Movement gained its greatest success...
 * enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.**

35. Prior to the Korean conflict, Truman's insistence on increased military spending was boosted by...
 * the release of NSC-68.**

36//.// Detente was Nixon's attempt at...
 * softening the relationship between the US, USSR, and China.**

37. The violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention...
 * occurred because of provocation of local law enforcement.**

38. Conformity was aided by...
 * shared affluence of Americans.**

40. Corporate America altered the job market as...
 * more white collar jobs were created.**

41. The Beatniks challenged the conformity of the 1950s society by...
 * writing poetry and novels.**

42. Senator Joseph McCarthy gained publicity by...
 * alleging that communists were still working for the state department.**

43. In response to the League of Nations' investigation into Japan's invasion and occupation of Manchuria...
 * Japan left the league.**

44. What didn't contribute to the spirit of isolationism in the US during the 1930s?
 * A universal lack of awareness of the goals of the Third Reich**

45. The "alphabetical agency" set up under Hoover's dministration to provide aid to business and local governments was the...
 * Reconstruction Finance Corporation**

46. President Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to...
 * offer federal assistance to businesses and banks but not individuals.**

47. President Truman justified the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan by...
 * estimating loss of American life in the millions in Japan was invaded.**

48. What is true about Watergate?
 * It led to the resignation of President Nixon.**

49. The North American Free Trade Agreement was supported by... \ 50. Sunbelt states will not by impacted by...
 * large business owners.**
 * declining school enrollment.**