U.S. History Final Review - Part I

The construction of the Panama canal was a product of American imperialism because it demonstrated

• The United States' willingness to make cultural connections abroad

• The United States' interest in establishing faster trade routes

• The United States' humanitarian goals across the globe

• The United States' economic policy of creating foreign markets

During the Progressive Era, muckrakers like Jacob Riis exposed society ills through journalism to achieve what goal?

• To win a Pulitzer Prize

• To establish a political platform so they could run for office

• To provide businesses with incentives to be more charitable

• To shock the public and bring attention to the issues so the government would reform unsafe and unjust practices

Which of the following was NOT an underlying cause of the Great Depression?

• Wealth was unevenly distributed

• An increase in personal savings

• Banks were giving risky loans and people were buying on credit

• Over speculation in the stock market

Which statement about Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program is most accurate?

• Government regulation of business increased

• Social welfare programs were reduced

• Government support of environmental conservation ended

• The number of unemployed workers rose through the program

In the years leading up to World War II, many Italians and Germans supported fascism before it

• Was the only political party

• Pledged to unite Italy and Germany

• Ended the influence of the Church

• Promised to improve the economy

What event pushed the U.S. into World War II after decades of neutrality?

• Germany's invasion of Poland

• Rumors of the Holocaust

• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor

• Italy's invasion of Ethiopia

Reduction of the loss of American lives in the Pacific was a primary consideration in

• relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps

• Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb

• rationing food and critical materials on the home front

• forming the United Nations

Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a turning point in World War II?

• The battle involved fierce, block-by-block fighting.

• The battle was the first time that the Allies had combined forces to fight the Germans.

• The Soviet Union lost and the Axis Powers took Russia

• The battle ended Hitler's hopes of dominating all of Europe and put Germany on the defensive.

What was the Holocaust?

• the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by the United States

• Russia's loss of 1,250,000 soldiers and civilians at Stalingrad

• Japan's destruction of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor

• Germany's mass murder (genocide) of Jews and other people deemed by the Nazis as inferior across Europe.

The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences during and after World War II divided Germany into four zones? What was another effect of the conferences?

• The U.S. and Soviet Union established a network of trade

• The U.S. and Soviet Union conflicted on policies for reparations and other issues, so tensions between the two countries rose.

• The U.S. and Soviet Union grew closer as allies.

• The U.S. and Soviet Union settled their disputes at the battle of Poland.