US History Final Exam Review

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  1. 2. This bill provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government. The act also provided federal loan guarantees to veterans buying homes or farms or starting new businesses. Also known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act.
  2. 4. This act had three major parts: old-age insurance for retirees 85 or older and their spouses, unemployment compensation system, aid to families with dependent children and the disabled
  3. 5. Harnessed water power to generate electricity and to help prevent disastrous floods in the Tennessee Valley.
  4. 6. The joint declaration of war aims in which both Roosevelt and Churchill pledged the following: collective security, disarmament, self-determination, economic cooperation, and freedom of the seas.
  5. 7. The logic behind Roosevelt's decision to send lend-lease supplies to the Soviet Union when Hitler broke the agreement he had made in 1939 with Stalin not to go to war and invaded the Soviet Union.
  6. 8. An unprovoked air raid by the Japanese on this US naval base killed 2,403 Americas and wounded 1,178 more, sunk or damaged 21 ships, and severely damaged or destroyed more than 300 aircrafts. This surprise raid led to the US declaring war against Japan and joining WWII.
  7. 9. More than 7,600 Americans died and 110,000 Japanese died defending this city. The battle here was a chilling foretaste of what the Allies imaged the invasion of Japan’s home islands would be.
  8. 13. Acronym for the association whose goal was to create as many jobs as possible - from construction jobs to positions in symphony orchestras. Headed by Harry Hopkins.
  9. 17. The agency that supervised the stock market and eliminated dishonest practices; it monitors the stock market and enforces laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds.
  10. 19. Acronym for the agency designed to insure loans for building and repairing homes; created by the 1934 National Housing Act.
  11. 20. The code name for the research work to develop an atomic bomb that extended across the country.
  12. 22. Code name for the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, leveling half the city.
  13. 23. Acronym for the agency designed to regulate banking and investment activities; shored up the banking system by reassuring individual depositors that their savings are protected against loss in the event of a bank failure.
  14. 24. One of FDR’s “Three R’s” - economic ___.
  15. 25. One of FDR’s “Three R’s” - financial ___.
  16. 26. The mutual defense treaty signed by the Axis Powers to keep the United States out of the War.
  17. 27. An interracial organization whose goal was to confront urban segregation in the North.
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  1. 1. Sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which the government achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unseeded.
  2. 3. These informal talks made Americans feel as if the president were talking directly to them.
  3. 10. The Jewish American scientist that directed the research for the development of the atomic bomb.
  4. 11. A thermonuclear weapon even more destructive than the atomic bomb, with an estimated force of 1 million tons of TNT (67 times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima).
  5. 12. The 1941 act that Roosevelt compared to lending a garden hose to a neighbor whose house as on fire, asserting that this was the only sensible thing to do to prevent the fire from spreading to your own property.
  6. 14. This plan involved two main stages: Operation Olympic, an assault on Kyushu in November 1945, and Operation Coronet, a landing on Honshu in March 1946.
  7. 15. President Roosevelt’s team of carefully picked advisors - a select group of professors, lawyers, and journalists.
  8. 16. President Roosevelt's order to the navy to shoot German submarines on sight after a German submarine fired on U.S. destroyer Greer in the Atlantic on September 4, 1941
  9. 18. One of FDR’s “Three R’s” - ___ for the needy.
  10. 21. This act defined unfair labor practices and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to settle disputes between employers and employees.