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Citizenship Class Review Ch 10

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  • Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?
    the leader of the Allied forces and later became a U.S. President
  • What did FDR do?
    The New Deal
  • During the Cold War, what was the main concern of the United States?
    Communism
  • Who was the President during the Great Depression and World War 1?
    Woodrow Wilson
  • Before he was President, Eisenhower was a general. What war was he in?
    World War 2
  • Most Americans were farmers until
    The industrial revolution (factories)
  • What happened after/because of 9/11?
    Fight against terrorism, President George W. Bush ordered air attacks against Afghanistan
  • What wars were the US involved in to fight the spread of communism?
    The Korean War and The Vietnam War
  • When was the Persian Gulf War and why did it happen?
    1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait
  • Who was President during the Great Depression?
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
  • Who fought in WW2?
    US, UK, Russia and others (allied powers) against Japan, Germany, and Italy
  • What did the Labor Movement do?
    Labor Unions helped fight for better hours, better pay, and safer conditions
  • Name one war fought by the US in the 1900s
    World War 1, World War 2, Korean War, Vietnam War, Persian Gulf War
  • Why was the United Nations formed?
    After WW2 to promote world peace and security
  • What is the New Deal?
    Government jobs, government loans, social security
  • When did World War 1 start?
    1914
  • What did the Civil Rights Movement do?
    Fight for equal rights and end racial discrimination
  • When was the Civil Rights Movement?
    1950s and 1960s
  • What was the Cold War?
    Economic and political competition between the US and Soviet Union
  • Who did the US fight in World War 2
    Japan, Italy, and Germany
  • What did the US do in 1945?
    Dropped atomic bombs in Japan
  • What is Labor Day?
    A holiday the first Monday in September to celebrate US workers
  • Who was President during World War 2?
    FDR
  • When did the Cold War end?
    When the Soviet Union split into two independent states
  • When did the US enter World War 1?
    1917
  • What was the March on Washington?
    a demonstration of thousands of people in 1963 to support new civil rights laws
  • Why did immigration get so large in America?
    America needed factory workers in expanding cities
  • What was working in the factories like during the Industrial Revolution?
    Long hours, low pay, unsafe conditions
  • When was World War 2?
    1939-1945
  • In the 1900s, the United States began to limit _____
    immigration
  • When and why did the US join World War 2?
    1941 after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
  • What did Martin Luther King Jr. do?
    fought for civil rights, worked for equality for all Americans
  • What did Martin Luther King Jr. do?
    Leader of the Civil Rights Movement and led the March on Washington, gave the "I Have a Dream" speech
  • What happened on September 11th, 2001?
    Terrorist attack (planes were hijacked and crashed into the twin towers in NYC)
  • What caused the Great Depression?
    Europe didn't have money to buy American goods after WW1, people borrowed too much money, factories and farms produced too many goods
  • What was the Great Depression?
    American economic collapse after world war 1
  • The U.S. became a great _________ after World War 1
    world power
  • Which countries fought in World War 1?
    France, UK, Russia, US (allied powers) fought Germany and Austria-Hungary
  • What movement tried to end racial discrimination?
    The Civil Rights movement
  • Why did cities expand?
    Factories built and people were needed to work in them! People came from all over the world to work in factories
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