Wars in U.S. History

What battle ended Lee's second attempt to invade the North and marked a major turning point in the Civil War?

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• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Vicksburg

• Appomattox

Which event was a direct result of the Manhattan Project?

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• D-Day

• Stalin's decision to try to force Western nations out of Berlin

• Hitler's decision to persecute the Jewish people

• dropping the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Read the letter below, and answer the following question.

"Dearest Olivia,

I miss you with all my heart. The cold is so bitter that I cannot feel my own fingers as I write. I did not know the devil could make such suffering. Some of my fellow Patriots cook and eat their own shoes, we are so hungry. Others lie sick and dying in the snow. Pray for me. Pray also for the general [Washington]. I have not ever known such a brave soul, and I cannot begin to imagine the agony of watching his army dwindle before the elements and desertions. I pray our cause will be enough to keep us hanging on. Kiss little Mary for me. God willing, I will return soon."

The above letter was MOST likely written by

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• A Confederate soldier at Antietam

• A Union soldier at Gettysburg

• A Continental soldier at Valley Forge

• a U.S. soldier on D-Day

Which of the following did Woodrow Wilson propose following WWI?

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• issuing the the Zimmermann telegram

• acquiring new territories from a defeated Germany

• the League of Nations

• a "peace without victory" in which both the victors and the defeated had a voice

What was the purpose of U.S. internment camps?

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• to protect Japanese, German, and Italian American citizens from racists who might harm them

• to provide a place to train soldiers to fight in WWII

• to allow a secluded place for scientists to work on the atomic bomb

• to keep a close eye on Japanese American citizens who might be a threat to the U.S. war effort

The United States wanted to win the space race because it

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• wanted to start a colony on the moon to deal with the earth's overpopulation

• wanted to start a colony on the moon that U.S. citizens could relocate to in the event of a nuclear war

• feared that the USSR would use its space technology to develop nuclear weapons capable of destroying the United States

• hoped to fulfill Kennedy's dream of developing a satellite shield capable of destroying Soviet missiles

When Franklin D. Roosevelt used the analogy of giving a hose to a neighbor whose house is on fire, rather than selling it to him, he was promoting what policy?

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• the Neutrality Act

• Lend-Lease Act

• the New Deal

• declaration of war with Japan

Which of the following is an example of tensions caused by "sectionalism"

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• western frontiersmen fighting over land

• southerners disagreeing over whether or not to secede from the Union

• disputes between the northerners and southerners over slavery

• Nativists in New York City attacking immigrants from Europe

Read the following quote, and answer the following question

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives: yesterday, December 7, 1941- a day which will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... I ask that Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese Empire."

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

speech before Congress, December 8, 1941

The speech quoted above was made in response to

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• Japan's invasion of the Philippines

• the attack on Pearl Harbor

• the battle of Midway

• Japan's decision to take Germany's side in WWII

What became of the region depicted in the map above, after the Spanish-American War?

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• It became a U.S. state

• It remained part of Spain

• It entered a period of civil war before eventually becoming an unorganized territory of the United States and, eventually, an independent nation

• It entered a time of civil war, before eventually becoming an independent state and, eventually, part of Japan