Social Studies Milestones Review Week 1 (Friday)

The Korean War began when

• Joseph Stalin decided to blockade Berlin

• Castro allowed the Soviet Union to put missiles in his country

• President Lyndon Johnson sent more troops to this region

• North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th parallel

The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that many feared could lead to a nuclear war was called the

• cold war

• arms race

• iron curtain

• Berlin airlift

The imaginary line that separated free Western Europe from Communist Eastern Europe was known as the

• communist shield

• capitalist-communist divide

• iron curtain

• steel door

Rosie the Riveter symbolized

• women in armed forces during WWII

• rationing

• women who went to work to support the war effort

• the suffering of US citizens forced to live in internment camps

Joseph Stalin was a leader in

• Germany

• Italy

• Great Berlin

• the Soviet Union

The United States entered World War II in response to

• Hitler seizing power in Germany.

• Hitler's Troops invading Poland.

• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

• Japan and Germany signing an alliance.

Duke Ellington is remembered for his accomplishments in

• track and field

• boxing

• acting

• jazz/music

Which of the following BEST describes President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal?

• a company in which investors buy stock

• government programs designed to ease economic hardship

• a power company supplying much of southern Appalachia with electricity

• strategy for improving national parks and forests

In 1933, a farmer with a family of five in Oklahoma would have been MOST DIRECTLY affected by the

• CCC

• Dust Bowl

• TVA

• stock market crash

Louis Armstrong was a

• famous African American writer

• great jazz musician

• baseball hero of the 1920s

• heroic pilot