HST 318 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
New Deal
Originally Boulder Dam
Colorado River - Lake Mead - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hoover Dam
New Deal
Created to regulate distribution of water and electricity
Built 20+ dams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
Wide margin between urban and rural areas access to electricity
Installation of electrical distribution systems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rural Electrification
Administration
New Deal
Columbia River - Pacific NW - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Grand Coulee Dam
New Deal
Unemployment Relief
Employed 3 million young men - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Civilian Conservation Corps
81 army vehicles from DC to San Francisco - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First Transcontinental Motor Convoy
Start of defense contracts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Eli Whitney
Identical parts that can be mass produced and replaced - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Interchangeable Parts
Thomas Edison helped to create
, Coordinates inventive activity for the military
Few ideas - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Naval Consulting Board
Headed by Vannevar Bush
Massive Budget and reported only to the president
Oversaw many projects; Including the Manhattan Project - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Office of Scientific
Research and Development
Developed by the British
Shared with the Americans
US research at MIT Rad Lab - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Radar
Worlds first computer
Calculated artillery firing tables - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅ENIAC
Project too big for one organization alone
Eisenhower worried about people making money from war
Never cut spending - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Military Industrial Complex
Universe of atoms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Democritus
Discovered electrons - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅JJ Thomson
First to understand theoretical possibility of atomic bomb
Asked Einstein for help - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Leo Szilard
Created worlds first nuclear reactor at University of Chicago - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enrico Fermi
New Deal
Originally Boulder Dam
Colorado River - Lake Mead - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hoover Dam
New Deal
Created to regulate distribution of water and electricity
Built 20+ dams - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
Wide margin between urban and rural areas access to electricity
Installation of electrical distribution systems - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rural Electrification
Administration
New Deal
Columbia River - Pacific NW - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Grand Coulee Dam
New Deal
Unemployment Relief
Employed 3 million young men - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Civilian Conservation Corps
81 army vehicles from DC to San Francisco - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅First Transcontinental Motor Convoy
Start of defense contracts - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Eli Whitney
Identical parts that can be mass produced and replaced - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Interchangeable Parts
Thomas Edison helped to create
, Coordinates inventive activity for the military
Few ideas - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Naval Consulting Board
Headed by Vannevar Bush
Massive Budget and reported only to the president
Oversaw many projects; Including the Manhattan Project - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Office of Scientific
Research and Development
Developed by the British
Shared with the Americans
US research at MIT Rad Lab - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Radar
Worlds first computer
Calculated artillery firing tables - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅ENIAC
Project too big for one organization alone
Eisenhower worried about people making money from war
Never cut spending - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Military Industrial Complex
Universe of atoms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Democritus
Discovered electrons - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅JJ Thomson
First to understand theoretical possibility of atomic bomb
Asked Einstein for help - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Leo Szilard
Created worlds first nuclear reactor at University of Chicago - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Enrico Fermi
