Domain #4: WWI, Great Depression, WW2

President Franklin Roosevelt established the Tennessee Valley Authority in order to

• build railroads, renovate cities, and improve schools in the Southeast

• tear down rich forests and use their lumber to fund welfare programs.

• provide employment, cheap electricity, and flood control in the South.

• put down civil unrest in the Southern states with a military presence

What effect did the Battle of Midway have?

• It prompted Hitler to commit suicide.
• It enabled the Allies to finally open a second front in Western Europe.
• It turned the tide of the war in the Pacific in the United States’ favor.
• It gave Japan the upper hand, but only briefly.

In Operation Overlord (D-Day), June 6, 1944, the Allies in World War II successfully

• launched an air assault on German cities.
• liberated the Nazi’s concentration camps.
• overthrew Mussolini and made Italy an ally.
• invaded Nazi-occupied France at Normandy.

What was the significance of Eugene Debs?

• Was arrested for violating the Espionage Act by criticizing America's entry into WW1.

• Was arrested for violating Habeas Corpus and served 10 years in jail

• Was arrested for breaking into the Watergate office complex and spent 10 years in jail

• Was arrested for dodging the Vietnam Draft and sent to Vietnam to fight anyway

What was the purpose of the 18th Amendment?

• To give women the right to vote

• To give African Americans the right to vote

• To prohibit the sale or manufacture of guns in the US

• To prohibit the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the US

What was the purpose of the 19th Amendment?

• To prohibit the sale and manufacture of guns in the US

• To prohibit the sale and manufacture of alcohol in the US

• To give women the right to vote

• To give African Americans the right to vote

What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance?

• It was the rebirth of African American Culture especially in Northern cities as a result of the Great Migration

• It was the rebirth of Western culture caused by the Dust Bowl

• It was the spreading of American culture by the radio and car.

• It was a massive economic downturn in the late 1920s.

Which of the following were the three benefits of the Social Security Act?

• Old Age insurance for people over 65, unemployment compensation, and aid for the disabled

• Assistance with medical costs for low income families, assistance with medical costs for the elderly, and public broadcasting

• Affirmative action, Miranda Rights, and old age insurance

• Old age insurance, Medical assistance for low income families, and reading programs for the underprivledged

The Red Scare following World War I was caused primarily by

• an outbreak of infectious diseases

• General Palmer's raids

• fear of Communism spreading into the US

• an invasion of very aggressive fire ants

Why was the U.S. so afraid to agree to the Treaty of Versailles and embrace the proposed League of Nations?

• they felt that it wasn't strong enough
• they felt that they didn't answer to the Nazis
• we were in debt
• they feared that they would be drawn into a foreign war