US History Final Exam Review #1

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Across
  1. 1. The bombing of __________ Harbor made the United States finally enter into World War II
  2. 2. Anti-War protests on college campuses and the Hippie Counterculture were examples of youth rebelling against society in the 1960s
  3. 4. The US policy of trying to stop the spread of communism was known as _____________________
  4. 8. The ideas of recall, ______________ and initiative gave citizens more control over government
  5. 10. The big rival of the United States during the Cold War was the _____________ Union
  6. 11. The ___________ East became globally more important because of the oil that began to be produced there in the 1950s
  7. 13. The US got involved in the Vietnam War as a part of the Containment Policy and the fear of the Domino Effect
  8. 15. President Hoover's ________________ style of politics led him to not take much action to help end the Great Depression
  9. 16. The biggest US disaster of the Cold War was the Bay of ______ invasion of Cuba
  10. 18. Cesar Chavez helped poor ___________ farm workers fight for their rights and against bad working conditions
  11. 19. NATO, or the North _______________ Treaty Organization was a military alliance to counter Soviet military strength in Eastern Europe
  12. 20. The Great _____________ is not considered to have ended until the beginning of World War II
  13. 23. If the US failed to contain the spread of communism lots of countries would fall one after another. This was known as the _____________ Effect
  14. 25. ____________ the Riveter was a symbol for the female factory workers who helped the US win the war
  15. 26. Before schools were desegregated President ____________ integrated the U.S. military
  16. 28. Dr. Martin Luther King led ________________ protests to fight for civil rights
  17. 29. FDR's fireside chats were broadcast over the ____________ as TV was not invented yet
  18. 32. The ____________ Airlift was an example of the US besting the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  19. 33. The federal budget deficit (what the countries owes)_________ dramatically during the 1980s under President Reagan
  20. 34. The ____________-Americans were rounded up and put in camps during WWII, a clear violation of their civil rights!
Down
  1. 1. FDR got a lot of bad press for the Court ____________ Scandal when he tried to add more Justices to the Supreme Court so he could get his way
  2. 3. Presidents Lyndon Johnson and FDR both created major social ___________ programs to help the poor in our country
  3. 5. The major cause of the collapse of the Stock Market in 1929 was ______________________
  4. 6. The Camp _______ Accords were Pr. Jimmy Carter's attempt at brokering a peace deal between Egypt and Israel
  5. 7. At the beginning of WWI and WWII the United States tried to stay out of the conflict by remaing _____________ and not taking sides
  6. 9. After the Watergate Scandal President Richard Nixon was forced to _____________ from office (the only president to do so)
  7. 12. Brown vs. Board of Ed made segregation of schools _______________ in 1954
  8. 14. FDR tried to improve the US relationship with Latin American countries by instituting the Good _____________ Policy
  9. 17. The invasion of _________ by Iraq lead to the start of the first Persian Gulf War
  10. 21. The Black __________ Party was a black nationalist group who called for a violent overthrow of the US government
  11. 22. Truman chose to use the Atomic Bomb so the war would end quickly and many American lives would be _____________
  12. 24. The Red Scare was a period in American history where there was a panic over the spread of _________________ in the USA
  13. 27. The Cuban Missile crisis showed Cold War tensions between the US and the Soviet _____________
  14. 30. The Social Security Act gave _____________ older workers who retired from their jobs
  15. 31. Chief Justice Thorgood ________ was the first African American on the Supreme Court