• Embed Doc
  • Readcast
  • Collections
  • CommentGo Back
Download
 
HIST 1493 Guide for Test 3 Norton, Chapters 24-28Oates, VII-XI (pages 151-305)Lectures50 of these questions will appear on the test...1.About how many European lives were lostduring World War One?2.What was the biggest economic problem fothe nations of Eastern Europe after World War One?3.To which of the following nations did theAllies owe the greatest debt after World War One?4.What were the reasons American financialexperts favored lending massive internationalloans?5.Which body performed the executivefunction in the League of Nations?6.The Locarno Pacts grew out of _______fear that Germany would rise in belligerence again.7.What did Article III of the Covenant of theLeague declare was an important goal of the Leagueof Nations?8.What was the focus of the WashingtonConference?9.What were the consequences of the LocarnoPacts??10.What nation most greatly hindered attemptsat disarmament by the League of Nations?11.What were the causes of the GreatDepression?12.The Bonus Army” marched onWashington, D.C., to pressure Congress to...13.How did Herbert Hoover believe that theeconomy could be revived?14.Why did topsoil turn to a fine layer of infertile dust in the Dust Bowl region of the UnitedStates?15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a landslidevictory in 1932 because Americans16.What prompted the 1919–1920 Red Scare inthe United States?17.The Eighteenth Amendment ---18.In what year were were women first allowedto vote in a U.S. federal election?19.What did the Immigration Act of 1924 do?20.The Scopes "Monkey Trial" illustrated theheated debate between...21.What caused the so-called RooseveltRecession of 1937?22.What did the 1939 Hatch Act do?23.The Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922reflected...24.The Dawes Plan...25.Why did more and more Americans moveout of the cities and into the suburbs in the 1920s?26.Warren G. Hardings administration and personal reputation were tainted by27.The Twenty-First Amendment...28.What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff do?29.The tax on foreign goods under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 193030.Attacks from critics such as Huey P. Longand Father Charles Coughlin were partlyresponsible for...31.To which act was the Wagner Act mostsimilar?32.One unintended consequence of Prohibitionwas...33.What did Hoover’s Reconstruction FinanceCorporation do?34.The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934replaced...35.What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do?36.The Soil Conservation and DomesticAllotment Act subsidized farmers to...37.Economist John Maynard Keynes believedthat depressed economies could be jump-started by...38.Most New Deal legislation in the FirstHundred Days was passed to...39.Hoover’s attempts to end the depressiondiffered from Roosevelt’s methods in that...40.How did the New Deal assist farmers?41.What were the consequences of theTennessee Valley Authority?42.Congress passed or created all of thefollowing in 1933 as part of the First New Deal
 
thefollowing....43.Roosevelt reformed the banking andfinancial sectors of the economy by...44.Why did many Americans criticize theAgricultural Adjustment Administration?45.Buying stocks “on margin” refers to the practice of...46.What did the Glass-Steagall Act do?47.The Sacco-Vanzetti trial demonstrated...48.What were the factors which contributed tothe demise of the New Deal?49.What did Roosevelts “fireside chats” do?
 
50.What were the components of the Second New Deal?51.What was an effect of the RooseveltRecession?52.In the Four-Power Treaty of 1922, France,Britain, and the United States agreed...53.Which event is generally considered to bethe first belligerent act of World War II? 54.Which two countries were the first todeclare war on Germany? 55.Against which country did the Soviet Unioninstigate an armed conflict in late 1939? 56.What were the first two western Europeancountries that Germany invaded? 57.What best describes Germany’s standardinvasion strategy at the beginning of World War II? 58.What major mistake did the Allies make in preparing to defend against Germany’s attack onFrance? 59.What happened at Dunkirk in May 1940? 60.Where was the French surrender to Germanysigned? 61.Why did the British Royal Navy attack French warships at Mers-el-Kebir? 62.What was Germany’s initial strategy for conquering Britain? 63.What was the “London Blitz”? 64.Overall, the Battle of Britain is considered to be... 65.What was Italy’s primary role in the war? 66.What was Hitler’s primary justification for invading Russia? 67.What was the code name given toGermany’s plan to invade the USSR? 68.What happened to the Soviet air forceduring the opening days of the German invasion? 69.Which of the following was
not 
a part of theSoviet defense plan against Germany? 70.On which region of the Soviet Union didHitler place the highest priority? 71.Via what route did Russians manage to sendsome supplies to Leningrad during the Germansiege of the city? 72.Which country was the site of most of the Nazi extermination camps? 73.How did the Western Allies respond toGermany’s invasion of Russia? 74.What Japanese action created tension withthe United States? 75.What U.S. action created tension withJapan? 76.Who was the Japanese admiral behind thePearl Harbor attack? 77.What are the facts about the Pearl Harbor attack? 78.What was unique about the Doolittle Raid? 79.Which battle is considered to be the turning point for the war in the Pacific? 80.The Battle of the Coral Sea was a uniquenaval battle in that 81.During the Battle of Midway, Japan lost... 82.The Battle of Stalingrad was 83.Who met at Casablanca? 84.What was the focus of the TehranConference? 85.What was the significance of Guadalcanal toJapan? 86.Why was the Japanese capture of Rangoonsuch a bitter loss for the Allies? 87.What best characterizes the series of battlesin the Pacific following the Battle of Guadalcanal? 88.What was the significance of Mt. Suribachi?89.Which country instigated the conflict in North Africa? 90.Why did Allied forces invade Italy after ithad already surrendered? 91.What was Monte Cassino? 92.The Battle of Kursk is best described as 93.After the Battle of Kursk, German forces 94.What was the code name for the Alliedinvasion of Europe? 95.The Allied invasion of Europe was primarilydirected at 96.What was the location of the second major Allied assault into Europe in1945? 97.Why was the Luftwaffe so ineffective duringthe last part of the war? 98.Where did the Battle of the Bulge take place? 99.What were the V1 and V2? 100.Which Allied country’s forces arrived inBerlin first? 101.In the last six months of the war, what wasthe U.S. strategy for winning the conflict withJapan? 102.At what conference did the Allies set theterms for the Japanese surrender? 103.Joseph McCarthy’s political influencewaned after... 
 
104.In both the 1950s and 1960s, nationalincome approximately 105.What did the G.I. Bill do? 106.America’s postwar economic prosperity wasthe result of ... 107.Truman fired General MacArthur for... 108.What was the Marshall Plan intended to do? 109.Why did Truman ignore his advisors andofficially recognize Israel as a new and independentnation in 1948? 110.The imaginary line of secrecy and mistrustthat separated the USSR and Eastern Europe fromthe West was known as... 111.The United States and the USSR distrustedeach other after World War II for the followingreasons... 112.How did the Taft-Hartley Act hurt organizedlabor? 113.In which U.S. presidential election didtelevision first play a major role? 114.Kennedy’s doctrine of “flexible response”... 115.At which parallel did delegates at theGeneva Conference divide North and SouthVietnam? 116.The Soviet Union’s brutal response tothe 1956 Hungarian Revolution demonstrated theineffectiveness of the U.S. strategy of  117.The CIA orchestrated a coup against thegovernment of Iran and restored the pro-Americanruler in 1953 because of...118.Why did Great Britain, France, and Israellaunch a surprise attack on Egypt in 1956?119.Eisenhower cut many federally fundedgovernment programs in order to curb what hecalled 120.The fall of the French garrison at Dien BienPhu in 1954 prompted... 121.The United States tried unsuccessfully tounite pro-U.S. Southeast Asia together under whattreaty organization? 122.Which Kennedy initiative hoped to thwartCommunist insurgents in Latin America byreducing income inequality in the region? 123.What were the consequences of the Cubanmissile crisis? 124.The United States and the USSR cameclosest to nuclear war during ... 125.What did Kennedy’s New Frontier programseek to do? 126.The belief that the United States had to prevent the USSR from expanding and Communismfrom spreading was known as... 127.In which country or countries was theTruman Doctrine first put to the test in 1947? 128.Why did the USSR vehemently oppose theMarshall Plan? 129.NSC-68 proposed that the U.S. governmentshould... 130.Why did Truman veto the McCarran InternalSecurity Bill? 131.What did Republicans in the House of Representatives create in order to hunt for Communist spies? 132.Future president Richard Nixon becamenationally prominent in the late1940s when he... 133.The Red hunt and McCarthyism in theearly 1950s were prompted by ... 134.Why was NATO created? 135.The Warsaw Pact was signed... 136.What did the National Security Actof 1947 do? 137.Who said, “It must be the policy of theUnited States to support free peoples who areresisting attempted subjugation by armed minoritiesor by outside pressures”? 138.The Soviet satellite
Sputnik I 
scaredAmericans because they feared that the USSR... 139.What incident ruined the 1960 Paris summit between Eisenhower and Khrushchev? 140.The collapse of Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime inSouth Vietnam prompted Kennedy to... 141.The leader of nationalist, Communist forcesin Vietnam in the 1950s was 142.The Eisenhower Doctrine was aimed at bolstering key nations from Communist insurgentsin... 143.What did the Eisenhower Doctrinedemonstrate? 144.Why did Great Britain and France halt their attack on Egypt in 1956? 145.Julius and Ethel Rosenberg... 146.Truman’s liberal domestic policies werecollectively known as the... 147.Along with the United States and GreatBritain, which nations were given permanent seatson the powerful United Nations Security Council?148.Who constituted the bulk of the Bay of Pigsinvasion force? 
of 00

Leave a Comment

You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...
You must be to leave a comment.
Submit
Characters: ...