5.4 Part Four  The United States during and after the two World Wars

Part Four   The United States during and after the two World Wars

Exercises

I. fill in the blanks

1. The young      is considered as the representative of the new culture in the early years of the 20th century.

2.The United States followed a     policy during the first years of World War I.

3. As a result of the influence of the new culture,the 1920s become known as the ___in American history.

4. Disillusionment with social reality caused the appearance of the ____ in America after World War I.

5.The    reflected the attempt of the conservative to curb the democraticdevelopment.

6. During the prohibition   in America ,illicit bars were known as ____.

7. The new culture was based on     and characterized by advertising and     .

8. The Russian Communist Revolution of 1917 terrified conservatives in the United States and caused the     .

9. President Roosevelt's program to overcome problems of the Great Depression was known as    .

10. It was during this economic crisis that     was elected president in 1932.

11. The     led by Hitler rose to power by making use of the public resentment toward the Versailles Treaty.

12. In Italy ,Mussolini   outlawed opposition parties and established the     regime.

13. Japan refused to give up its adventurism and fabricated the     in 1937 to enlarge its aggression into North China.

14. On September 1,1939, one week after      and Germany signed their     , the Second Word War broke out with the Germany invasion of Poland.

15. President Roosevelt compared the       Bill to lending a gardon hose to a neighbor whose house is on fire.

16. The Huron Statement advocated         in America.

17. Japanese bombers, on the morning of December7,1941,suddenly showered bombs on the American fleet and military installations at      , Hawaii.

18. Counterculture in 1960s was a movement of ________ against the moral values, the aesthetic _______ and the personal behavior.

19.On December 15, 1978, the two governments announced that the United States would establish diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China at _______ level on January 1, 1979.

20._____, also known as the Oil War, is an ongoing conflict which began on March 20, 2003.

21.After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some American people supported ________ and opposed to provide help for “international freedom”, including economic and military aid to other nations.

22.Bush’s main policies have largely focused on _______ and the _________.

23.______ became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, and is known as the first Baby Boomer President.

Ⅱ.Define the following terms.

The Lost Generation

Black Thursday

the Peace Conference

The Great Depression

Four Freedoms

Ⅲ.Multiple choice.

1、American women did not have voting right until the adoption of the 19^th amendment     .

A.in the late 19^th century

B.under President Wilson

C.under President Theodore Roosevelt

D.in the 1920s under President Harding

was the only American president who was re-elected three times in succession.

A.Theodore Roosevelt     B.George Washington

C.Franklin                 D.Thomas Jefferson

The goal of Roosevelt’s New Deal was     .

A.to save the American economic and political system

B.to change the American economic system

C.to weaken monopoly interests in America

D.to nationalize banks and financial institutions in America

As a result of World War I,     was not one of the defeated nations.

A. Germany    B. Austro-Hungary

C. Ottoman    D. Russia

After a period of prosperity (1920—1929), government involvement in the economy increased     .

A.during the Great Depression

B.after the World War I

C.after the World War II

D.during the Cold War

In 1918 President     issued the “Fourteen Points”.

A. Woodrow Wilson    B. William H. Taft

C. Theodore Roosevelt    D. Warren G. Harding

Which statement is NOT true about the Great Depression in the 1930s?

A.Billions of dollars of paper profits were wiped out within a few   days.

B.Misery and personal sufferings were widespread.

C.Many lost their land and other properties because of foreclosures.

D.The stock market crash was the beginning of long economic recovery.

A typical example of American intolerant nationalism from 1919 to 1920 was    

that exaggerated the danger of Communism.

A. McCarthyism    B. the Ku Klux Klan

C. the Red Scare    D. Desegregation

The New Frontier and War on Poverty were put forward respectively by     .

A.Eisenhower and Kennedy

B.Johnson and Nixon

C.Johnson and Kennedy

D.Kennedy and Johnson

President Nixon decided to resign because he     .

A.refused to hand over the White House tapes to court

B.was tired of political struggle in Washington D.C.

C.came to see that most probably he would be impeached

D.was deserted by the Republican Party

In 1972, U.S. President     visited China, which led to the establishment of diplomatic relations with China in January 1979.

A. Ronald Reagan    B. Richard Nixon

C. Jimmy Carter    D. Gerald Ford

The best-known speech made by Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is     .

A.“Guess who?”

B.“I have a dream”

C.“United we stand, divided we fall”

D.“First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen”

During World War II, the Axis powers were mainly made up by .

A.Germany, France and Japan

B.France, Japan and Britain

C.Germany, Italy and Britain

D.German, Italy and Japan

        was an actor before he became the President.

A.Ronald Reagan      B.Abraham Lincoln   C.Herbert Hoover      D. Jimmy Carter   

        countries attended the conference of the foundling of the United Nations.

A. 48        B. 47    C. 45      D. 46

16.The two fighting sides in World War II were     .

A.the Allies and the Axis (powers)

B.the Axis and Holy Alliance

C.the Central Powers and the Allies

The program of 1947 that America would offer its money supplies and machinery to any European nation that wished to participate in was called     .

A.Eisenhower Doctrine    B. Marshall Plan   

C. Truman Doctrine        D.McCarthyism

Ⅳ. Translate the following terms into English

1.《移民配额法》

2.大萧条

3.《凡尔赛条约》4.马其诺防线

5.飞虎队

6.雅尔塔会议

7.马歇尔计划

8.国际联盟

9.红色恐怖

10.俄国十月革命

11.禁酒令

12.华盛顿会议

13.北大西洋公约组织

14.古巴导弹危机

15.水门事件

16.越南战争

17.冷战

Ⅴ.Translate the following terms into Chinese

1. flapper

2. Zimmerman note

3. gangland money

4. Flaming Youth

5. New Deal

6. the Truth in securities Act

7. fundamentalists

8. Munich Agreement

9. pre-emptive strike

10. withdrawal from Dunkirk

11. Atlantic Charter

12. participator democracy

13. Truman Doctrine

14. North Atlantic Treaty Organization

15. Great Society

16. Watergate affair

Ⅵ.Answer the following questions in a few sentences

1.What are Roosevelt's four freedoms?

2.What is McCarthy Era?

3. What's the main content of Johnson's “Great Society” program?

4.List some factors contributed to the appearance of the Lost Generation.

5.What was the policy pursued by the American government at the beginning of World War I?

6.What were the contents of the New Deal?

7.What contributed to the emergence of the new culture?

8.What impact did the Vietnam War have on American society?

9.What is the main content of Johnson’s “Great Society” program?