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WorksheetsSemester #2 Final Overview and Preparation
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is the Bessemer process of steel manufacturing?
Blowing air through molten iron to remove carbon and other impurities
Blowing air through molten iron to remove oxygen and other impurities
Blowing carbon through molten iron to remove air and other impurities
Blowing nitrogen through molten iron to remove oxygen and carbon
Which of the following is an example of horizontal integration?
Verizon buys out competing companies of T-Mobile and AT&T
Microsoft buys factories and mines to produce the new Xbox
Standard Oil enters into a price-fixing arrangement for gasoline with BP Amoco
Carnegie Steel sells the majority of its' product to one consumer, being reliant on them to stay profitable
Which of the following statements best defines vertical integration?
Sprint and T-Mobile decide to merge their companies into one new massive company
Google splits into several different companies and divisions
McDonalds buys several farms and trucking lines to control costs of their food
Motorola goes out of business due to not having enough stock on the Stock Exchange
Ideology that favored governmental regulation or oversight of business/property and advocated for equal distribution of wealth
Communism
Capitalism
Nationalism
Socialism
Labor riots where several policemen were killed by a bomb thrown by an anarchist; resulted in decreased support of labor unions
Stonewall Riots
Haymarket Affair
Homestead Strike
1968 DNC Riots
Organized a civilian government in Puerto Rico with the oversight of the United States
Platt Amendment
Foraker Act
Insular Cases
Teller Amendment
Called for the United States to use military force in Latin America if its' economic interests were threatened
Teller Amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Bush Doctrine
Platt Proposal
Intercepted telegram from Germany to Mexico, asking Mexico to invade the southeastern United States
Lusitania Letters
De Lome Letter
Zimmermann Note
Open Door Notes
Why did the Fourteen Points fail to be adopted by the United States and the Allied Powers at the end of WWI?
Didn't acknowledge the anger felt by the Allies toward Germany
Lack of popular support of President Wilson
Hyperinflation and unstable political situation in Germany
Distrust of the United States
Punished Germany unfairly for its' aggressor status during World War I
Yalta Conference
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
Paris Peace Accords
Aimed to arrest and deport communists, socialists, and anarchists living in the United States after WWI
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Palmer Raids
Black Tuesday
Volstead Acts
Bob takes out a $20,000 loan from the bank in order to buy shares of stock to play the stock market
Speculation
Buying on margin
Margin trading
Insider trading
All of the following were underlying causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT...
Availability of easy credit for Americans
Income inequalities and disparities between Americans
Tariffs and war debt policies that cooled European demand for U.S. goods
Widespread corruption in business and insider trading
Insured deposits in American banks to restore citizens' confidence in the banking system and created the FDIC
Glass-Steagall Act
National Recovery Administration
Social Security Act
Agricultural Investment Act
Group of WWI veterans that marched on Washington DC to demand early payment of their promised prize from their military service
Bonus Army
Selective Service Force
National Recovery Army
Reward Reserve
All of the following are basic political principles followed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis EXCEPT...
Intense nationalism
Racial supremacy of the Aryan race
Expansion of national boundaries
Intense anti-semitism and anti-communism
Event that draws the United States into fighting in World War II.
Pearl Harbor
Normandy
Midway
Stalingrad
What did Allied leadership decide during the Casablanca Conference?
Accept only unconditional surrender from the Axis Powers
Focus on taking out Japan before Germany
Develop the atomic bomb to use against Nazi Germany
Provide industrial support for the Soviet Union
Supreme Court's verdict in Korematsu v. United States.
Internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional on basis of national defense and security
Internment of Japanese Americans was unconstitutional due to violation of 1st Amendment protections
Segregation was constitutional as long as facilities for all races were of equal function
Segregation was unconstitutional due to violating the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause
What was the justification of the United States on using the atomic bomb against Japan at the end of WWII?
Massive loss of lives on both sides, as evidenced from Okinawa and Iwo Jima
Cost and casualties of developing the atomic bomb
Intimidate the Soviet Union into non-aggression against American interests in Southeast Asia
Curiosity on the atomic bomb's impact against a city
Prevent the spread of communism and Soviet influence by confronting the spread of communism in other countries quickly and aggressively
Containment
Domino theory
Mutually assured destruction
Escalation
Practice of making vicious accusations without any proof
McCarthyism
Escalation
Red Scare
Intimidation
Ruled that segregation was legal as long as facilities were of equal function; seen as an extension of Jim Crow segregation and discrimination
Brown v. Board of Education
Plessy v. Ferguson
Korematsu v. United States
Marbury v. Madison
Ruled that segregation in schools violated the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
Korematsu v. United States
Marbury v. Madison
Caused Americans to turn against the Vietnam War, as they were being told for years that the war was close to being won.
Credibility gap
Tet Offensive
Gulf of Tonkin
1968 DNC Riots
What was the Moral Majority?
Conservative religious group that financed candidates who ran against liberal members of Congress
Liberal religious group that financed candidates who ran against conservative members of Congress
Republican religious group that financed candidates who ran against conservative members of Congress
Democratic religious group that financed candidates who ran against liberal members of Congress
What was the Strategic Defense Initiative proposed by President Reagan?
System of laser and particle beams to shoot down incoming missiles
Flying aircraft carriers to patrol U.S. airspace
Use of mobile military forces to protect the borders
None of the above
What caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Gorbachev's attempted reforms of glasnost and perestroika
Revelations of corruption during the Chernobyl incident of senior leadership
Declaration of independence from several Soviet republics
Bankruptcy and insolvency of the Soviet Union
What caused the Persian Gulf War?
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, threatening U.S. oil imports of Middle Eastern oil
Allegations that Iraq was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction
Taliban's harboring of Al-Qaeda and bin Laden after 9/11 attacks
Allegations of genocide by Iraqi forces to Kurds
Why are the Stonewall Riots significant?
Considered the start of the modern LGBTQ movement in the United States
Brought issues of police brutality into the public conciousness
Led to passage of significant civil rights reforms in southern states
Marked a period of sustained violence in New York City for over 2 weeks
