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18 Cards in this Set
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What group of American Indians assisted in the war effort by relaying secret messages in their native tongue? |
Navajo Code Talkers |
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What was issued to call the Japanese to unconditionally surrender? |
Potsdam Declaration |
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Who wrote the play "Life with Father"? |
Clarence Day |
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Who wrote "Grapes of Wrath"? |
John Steinbeck |
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Who was the first woman to be appointed to a cabinet position? |
Frances Perkins |
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What was the most far reaching of all the New Deal's undertaking? |
TVA |
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What were President Roosevelt's three r's? |
Recovery, Reform, Relief |
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What act established government funding for unemployment and old age insurance? |
Social Security Act |
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With what country did the United States renew diplomatic relations in 1933? |
Russia |
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Who wrote "Gone with the Wind"? |
Margaret Mitchell |
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Which nation began the wave of aggression that plunged the world into World War 2? |
Japan |
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Which was the first European nation to be absorbed by Nazi Germany? |
Austria |
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Which European nation was robbed of the rich Sutenland by the Munich Pact? |
Czechoslovakia |
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What nation assisted Germany with the conquest of Poland? |
Soviet Union |
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What nation did Hitler invade in 1941 after he failed to conquer Great Britain? |
Soviet Union |
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What was the nickname of the first squadron of black American fighter pilots ever to fly for the U.S. armed forces? |
Fighting Red Pilots |
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Where were Nazi leaders put on trial after the war to account for their war crimes? |
Nuremburg, Germany |
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What act of the U.S. Congress established the "cash and carry" principle for dealing with warring nation? |
Neutrality Act of 1937 |
