OKLAHOMA HISTORY

CHAPTER 16

STUDY GUIDE

1) THE EVENT THAT CAUSED THE U.S. TO ENTER WWII WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR. 2) THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WWII WAS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. 3) JAPAN WAS FINALLY DEFEATED IN WWII WHEN THE U.S. DROPPED ATOMIC BOMB ON JAPAN. 4) WOMEN WHO WORKED IN THE FACTORIES AND DEFENSE PLANTS DURING WWII WERE CALLED ROSIES. 5) GERMAN POW CAMPS WERE LOCATED AT ALL THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS, ALVA, WAYNOKA, AND FORT RENO. 6) THE G.I. BILL PROVIDED VETERANS ALL THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS, EDUCATION AND TRAINING,UNEMPLOYMENT PAY AND JOB ASSISTANCE, AND HOME AND BUSINESS LOANS. 7) A RESIDENTIAL AREA OUTSIDE A CITY LIMITS IS CALLED A SUBURB. 8) THE NAME FOR THE GENERATION OF CHILDREN BORN IN POST- WWII AMERICA WAS BABY BOOMERS. 9) THE TITLE SONG THAT GAVE OKLAHOMA ITS STATE SONGS WAS FROM A MUSICAL WRITTEN BY RICHARD RODGERS AND OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN. 10)ALL THE FOLLOWING WERE AMUSEMENT PARKS IN OKLAHOMA DURING THE 1950s, FRONTIER CITY, SPRING LAKE, AND WEDGEWOOD. 11)THE 1947 TORNADO IN WOODWARD, OKLAHOMA, KILLED APPROXIMATELY 100 PEOPLE. 12)OKLAHOMAʼS FIRST NATIVE-BORN GOVERNOR AND LATER A FAMOUS SENATOR WAS ROBERT S. KERR. 13)WHEN ADA LOIS SIPUEL WAS DENIED ADMISSION TO THE UIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT THE STATE HAD TO PROVIDE AN EQUAL EDUCATION TO BLACKS, EVEN IF IT WERE SEPERATE. 14)WHEN GEORGE W. McLAURIN FOUGHT SEGREATION AT THE , THE SUPREME COURT RULED BLACK STUDENTS MUST BE TREATED THE SAME AS WHITE STUDENTS AND THE SCHOOLS CANNOT BE SEPARATED. 15)THE NAACP LAWYER WHO ASSISTED SIPUEL AND LATER BECAME A JUSTICE OF THE U.S. SUPREME COURT WAS . 16)THE LONG-TIME STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE U.S. AND THE SOVIET UNION WAS CALLED THE COLD WAR. 17)DURING THE 1950s THE U.S. WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR IN KOREA. 18)DURING JOHNSON MURRAYʼS TERM AS GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA, THE COMMUNIST SCARE MEANT THAT ALL STATE EMPLOYEES WERE FORCED TO TAKE A LOYALTY OATH TO THE GOVERNMENT. 19)THE INCIDENT THAT STARTED THE “SPACE RACE” BETWEEN THE SOVIET UNION AND THE U.S. WAS THE LAUNCH OF SPUTNIK BY THE SOVIET UNION. 20)ONE OF THE SEVEN ASTRONAUTS IN NASA ʻs FIRST MAN-IN- SPACE PROGRAM WAS FROM OKLAHOMA HIS NAME IS GORDON COOPER. 21)CHURCHILL WAS THE LEADER OF GREAT BRITAIN. 22)HITLER WAS THE LEADER OF GERMANY. 23)MUSSOLINI WAS THE LEADER OF ITALY. 24)HIROHITO/TOJO WERE THE LEADERS OF JAPAN. 25)ROOSEVELT WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S. 26)PHILLIPS/KERR WERE THE GOVENOR OF OKLAHOMA. 27)NANCY RANDOLPH DAVIS ENROLLED AT OKLAHOMA A&M (OSU) BUT WAS FORCED TO SIT AT BACK OF CLASSROOMS UNTIL OTHER STUDENTS DEMANDED EQUAL TREATMENT. 28)CLARA LUPER CONDUCTED THE FIRST SIT-IN IN THE U.S. AT KATZ DRUG STORE IN . 29)THURGOOD MARSHALL WAS LAWYER FOR SIPUEL WHO LATER BECAME A U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. 30)GEORGE W. MCLAURIN APPLIED FOR AND WAS REFUSED ENTRANCE TO THE UNIVERISITY OF OKLAHOMA, CAUSING THE SUPREME COURT TO RULE AGAINST EDUCATION.