Semester 2 Final Review

This photograph shows an example of...

• US citizens contributing to the war effort

• the effects of trade sanctions on enemy nations

• US citizens attempting to follow new dietary guidelines

• the effects of allowing farmland to go unused while farmers were at war

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In 1932 farmers on the Great Plains began to lose their crops because

• the soil became more fertile

• frequent rains eroded the soil

• a wheat fungus devastated the fields

• frequent drought and overproduction

Which two Japanese cities were attacked by the U.S. dropping an Atomic Bomb during WWII?

• Pearl Harbor & Midway

• Manhattan & Berlin

• Nagasaki & Hiroshima

• Normandy & Berlin

a time of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union when the United States threatened to use force to remove Soviet guided missiles from Cuba. The Soviets finally agreed to remove the missiles

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Civil Defense

• Berlin Airlift

Which of the following statements best describes what happened on Black Tuesday (Oct. 29, 1929)?

• Stock prices fell and the stock market crashed.

• Bank runs forced many banks to close their doors.

• Federal troops attacked the Bonus Army marchers.

• The Supreme Court ruled that the NRA was unconstitutional.

In the 1920s, a combination of overproduction, falling prices, and rising unemployment combined to cause decline in which industry?

• Agriculture

• Fishing

• Mining

• Technology

a term which referred to the figurative divide between the Soviet Union and the countries it dominated and Western Society. This divide began to disappear starting in 1989

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

• Berlin Wall

The day the stock market collapsed is often referred to as...

• Black Friday

• Black Sunday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Monday

What is pensions for retirees, single mothers, and those not ABLE to work called?

• Medicaid

• Medicare

• Social Security

• Welfare

Why did the United States decide to drop the bomb rather than invade Japan with soldiers?

• wanted to see if the bomb worked
•  did not think they could defeat the Japanese
• did not have the soldiers or weapons left to attack Japan
• They estimated that 500,000 to 1 million Allied soldiers would die in an invasion