THE EXECUTIVE POWER · QUESTIONS

The Executive Branch · Questions to the text

1. What is the President of the USA responsible for?

2. Who does he appoint?

3. What is the Cabinet responsible for?

4. How many people does the Executive Branch employ?

5. The President of the USA is the head of what two things?

6. What other executive agencies complement the Cabinet?

7. What powers has the President?

8. What responsibilities has the President?

9. What 3 requirements must a person fulfill to be President of the USA?

10.     Where does the President live?

11.     Where does the President have an office?

12.     What 3 transport means are designated for him?

13.     What responsibilities has the Vicepresident?

14.     What does also the Vicepresident preside?

15.     In what two places does the Vicepresident have an office?

16.     Where does he reside?

17.     What 3 transport means are designated for the Vicepresident?

18.     How many members has the Cabinet?

19.     How are they called?

You can find answers to these questions visiting the website of the 

WHITE HOUSE

ROARING TWENTIES QUESTIONS (Illustrated History of USA pg 93-96 )

1. Why were the USA rich during the Roaring 20s?
2. What were the busiest factories?
3. What other important industries were there at the time?
4. The USA were the 1^st in what?
5. Why were many Americans well-off?
6. Explain ‘Installment Plan’
7. Who became heroes? Give an example
8. What did the Republican Party believe?
9. What did the Government do to help American businessmen?
10. What percentage of Americans were poor?
11. Who worked in the North? And in the South?
12. Who were the sharecroppers?
13. Why did the farmers in the West have problems?
14. Who looked to the future with more optimism?
15. Which president was elected in 1928?
16. What year did the ‘Prohibition’ (Dry Law) start in?
17. What were the ‘Speakeasies’?
18. Whom did the Speakeasies obtain alcohol from?
19. What was the name of the bands formed by the bootleggers?
20. What was Al Capone’s nickname?
21. Why was bootlegging a dangerous business?
22. When did the Prohibition end?
23. Why was the Prohibition harmful for America in the end?

TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICANS: QUESTIONS (An Illustrated History of USA pg 88-91)

1.    When did World War I start?

2.    What two sides were fighting and which countries did each one include?

3.    What was the Americans’ attitude at first about WWI?

4.    Name a reason that made the Americans difficult to stay impartial at first?

5.    Did the USA trade with the Germans? Why?

6.    Did the USA trade with the Allies? What did it consist of mainly?

7.    What did the Germans do to prevent this trade?

8.    Did the sinking of the Lusitania make the Americans enter the war?

9.    What made the Americans enter the war?

10. When did the USA declare war on Germany?

11. How long did it take the USA to have a big army?

12. When did WWI finish?

13. What differences were there between the USA and the European Allies when signing the peace treaty?

14. What was the name of the peace treaty? When and where was it signed?

15. Why was Wilson disappointed with it?

16. What plan did President Wislon have?

17. What was it for?

18. Why did it fail?

19. What happened with the Zimmermman telegram?

20. What were Wilson’s 14 Points?

21. Give three examples of these points.

2º Bach Sección · A Balance of Terror · QUESTIONS (Ilustrated History USA, pg 120- 123)

             

1. Who made the 1^st H-bomb and when? 
2. What does H-bomb and  A-bomb mean? Which is more destructive? 
3. What countries could afford to go on making H-bombs?
4. Who was the Secretary of State under Eisenhower’s presidency?
5. What is a Secretary of State?
6. What did this  Secretary of State think about how Truman dealt with the Russians?
7. How did he change this attitude later and why?
8. What was “brinkmanship”?
9. What was the threat of “massive retaliation”?
10. Were the Americans worried by the Sputnik? What worried them and why?
11. What were the nuclear missiles?
12.  What was The Polaris?
13. Explain “balance of terror”.
14. Explain Khrushchev’s concept “peace of coexistence”.
15. Why didn’t the Paris summit take place?

SPACE RACE

16. Name the two reasons for the Space Race between the USA & the USSR.
17. What is the name of the mission to put the 1^st man on the Moon?
18. How many men were in this mission? How many stepped down on the Moon’s surface?

BERLIN WALL

19. When was the Berlin Wall built? Why?
20. When was the Berlin Wall destroyed?

CRISIS OVER CUBA

21. How did Fidel Castro start the revolution in Cuba?
22. What happened in the Bay of Pigs?
23. Why did the Russians help Cuba?
24. What did Kennedy do to stop the Russians?
25. Why was the world horrified in October 1962?
26. What did the two superpowers do to reach an agreement? 

VIDEO COMPREHENSION: America the Story of Us: Superpower

Part 1 (min 0 – 22)

Questions:

1-      What natural resources had the USA in big quantities in 1945 ? And what population?

2-      How much more does the average American family earn than the European?

3-      What was the biggest threat to America’s development? 

4-      What were the first American highways?

5-      What vehicle was used for transport on them?

6-      What was the biggest engineer project in American history?

7-      What did Americans spend $65 billion on?

8-      What percentage of the world’s automobiles did America manufacture?

9-      What were the disadvantages and advantages of the Interstate Highways?

10-   What does the American Dream mean?

11-   How & why did the Suburbia phenomenon start?

12-   What was America massproducing in the 50s?

13-   What percentage of the Americans owned a house in the 1940s? And in the 60s?

14-   What technological invention let the American population grow in the southern states?

15-   The Spaceprogram , what was it based on?

Part 2 (min 22 – 44 )

16-   What did 400,000 people work  directly in?

17-    In 1969, a bad and a good event took place. What were they?

18-   When did the first African Americans arrive in Virginia?

19-   After the Civil War ended in 1864 slavery ended, but what problem did still exist?

20-   Where was not there segregation? What did it mean?

21-   What did the Civil Rights Movement achieve?

22-   What was the problem with the Soviet Union?

23-   How much money did the USA spend on nuclear weapons between 1940 and 1996 per American?

24-   What was made in 1959?

25-   What was the biggest inconvinient of a nuclear war?

26-   What was the U2 incident in 1960?

27-   What happened in 1962? What did it consist of?

28-   What was the interior threat  ?

29-   Name three differences between American and Sovietic mentality

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USA STATE CAPITAL CITIES

The capital cities of the States of the United States are not usually the biggest cities. For instance, the capital of California is not Los Angeles, but Sacramento; or the capital of the state of New York is not New York City, but Albany.

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