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Spring Semester 8th Grade History
Amendments
Question: Prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages.
Answer: 18th Amendment
Question: Authorized a Federal Income Tax
Answer: 16th Amendment
Question: Gave women the right to vote
Answer: 19th Amendment
Question: Set up guidelines for Senate elections.
Answer: 17th Amendment
Question: Changed the Presidential Inauguration from March 4th to January 20th.
Answer: 20th Amendment
Also Known As
Question: The Roaring Twenties
Answer: The Jazz Age
Question: A period of anti-Communism in the United States
Answer: The Red Scare
Question: Nazi
Answer: National Socialist German Worker's Party
Question: Benito Mussolini
Answer: Il Duce
Question: Adolf Hitler
Answer: Der Fuhrer
Countries
Question: Which Country helped Lenin return to Russia?
Answer: Germany
Question: Which nation was the first to declare war in WWI?
Answer: Austria-Hungary on Serbia
Question: Why did the US cut off oil exports to Japan?
Answer: They occupied Indochina.
Question: Which countries emerged from WWII as the world's leading powers?
Answer: United States and Russia
Question: Benito Mussolini was the dictator of what country?
Answer: Italy
Legislative Decisions
Question: Why was the Immigration Act of 1924 passed?
Answer: To limit the number of immigrants allowed into the United States.
Question: What was the result of the passage of the 21st amendment?
Answer: Prohibition was abolished.
Question: What was the purpose of the first Neutrality Act?
Answer: The US was banned from furnishing weapons or supplies to any warring nations.
Question: What was the Marshall plan?
Answer: a plan to help war-torn European countries rebuild their economies. USSR didn't participate and forbid eastern European countries from participating.
Question: What was the Truman Doctrine?
Answer: A doctrine of international resistance to communist aggression.
What Was This?
Question: Black Tuesday
Answer: Oct 29, 1929 the stock market crashed and the Great Depression began.
Question: New Deal
Answer: Roosevelt's plan to balance the budget and provide jobs to help the economy.
Question: Four
Answer: The number of zones Germany was divided into after the war.
Question: Central High School
Answer: The high school in Little Rock which needed government intervention in order to become desegregated.
Question: Explorer I
Answer: The first US satellite to be launched into orbit.