Final Exam Review One

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  1. 3. Often known as retirement today, the Social Security Act gave workers _____________ when the were old or could not work anymore
  2. 6. When you get older and need medical insurance you can go to the government and sign up for _______________
  3. 9. FDR's attempt to make the Supreme Court rule more in his favor was known as _________________ because it increased the number of Justices on the bench
  4. 13. The United States and the Soviet Union were both considered ___________________ after WW2 and during the Cold War
  5. 14. The _________________ Act helped encourage settlers to move west
  6. 20. The Brown vs. BOE case ruled that segregating students and schools by race was ________________________
  7. 22. The Middle East became very important to the United States because we needed ________________ to the oil produced in the region
  8. 23. The growth of the ______________ is the result of the expansion of the interstate highway system in the 1950s and 1960s and resulted in a major population shift away from cities
  9. 26. When wholesale prices rise over time this is known as _____________
  10. 27. The North Atlantic Treat Organization was an alliance of western European nations and the United States known as _______________
  11. 28. The USA was isolationist prior to WW1 and WW2 meaning we tried to stay out of way by remaining _____________ and not choosing sides
  12. 29. The main reason Truman decided to use the Atomic Bomb on Japan was because it would save American ___________ as opposed to a ground invasion
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  1. 1. The first presidential election influenced by _______________ was the 1960 election between Kennedy and Nixon (Kennedy won)
  2. 2. The Cuban ___________ Crisis is as close as the world has ever come to nuclear war and was between the United States and Soviet Union
  3. 4. FDR tried to improve relationships with Latin American countries by implementing The Good ________________ policy
  4. 5. Lyndon Johnson and FDR did more for the poor by creating the most social ______________ programs
  5. 7. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation in public ___________________ illegal like in restaurants, theaters and public places
  6. 8. In the Supreme Court case Gideon vs Wainwright the law requires that you be provided with a ______________ even if you cannot afford one
  7. 10. Rosie the Riveter became a national icon as she represented all the ___________ working in factories while the nation's men were away at war
  8. 11. In the 1970s attempts were made to make the US more _________________ in energy by lower the speed limit and raising taxes on oil
  9. 12. In the United States a fear of _______________ bordered on hysteria during the Cold War
  10. 15. The main rival of the United States during the Cold Was was the ___________ Union
  11. 16. ___________________ was a major cause of the stock market crash in 1929
  12. 17. The infamous period in the 1950s where the fear of communists in government, Hollywood and Academics was also known as _________________
  13. 18. Harry Truman ______________ the Armed Forces after WW2 meaning the military was no longer segregated by race
  14. 19. The __________________ Policy was introduced by Truman to help stop the spread of communism around the world
  15. 21. The ____________ Theory stated that when one country falls to communism then so will their neighbors (Vietnam War)
  16. 24. Another word for the 1960s rebel youth known as the Counter Culture was the _____________
  17. 25. The first African American Supreme Court Justice was Thurgood _____________, a Baltimore native and graduate of the Baltimore School of Law