EOC practice #5

Which headline describes an event that resulted from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001? 

• Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations Resume
• Debt Crisis Shakes European Union
• Russia Increases Petroleum Exports
• Troops Deployed to Afghanistan

Upon entering World War I, the United States enlarged its military by-

• creating the Veterans Administration
• passing the Selective Service Act
• enacting the GI Bill
• establishing the Marine Corps

Senator Joseph McCarthy is best known for his involvement in-

• the war effort of the 1940s
• the Red Scare of the 1950s 
• the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s
• the political scandals of the 1970s

One way the development of the Internet has improved the quality of life in the United States is by-

• decreasing the influence of advertisers on consumers
• increasing the ease of obtaining information
• improving privacy protection for individuals
• increasing the reliability of available information

These American Indians were recruited by the military to encode, transmit, and decode messages; the Navajo language was used to develop a code that was not broken by the enemy in WWII

• Cherokee

• Navajo

• Apache

• Sioux

Determined young men who enlisted to become America's first black military aviators at a time when the U.S. military still practiced racial segregation. They participated in over 15,000 sorties and earned over 100 Flying Crosses.

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

• Charles Lindbergh

• Black Panthers

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty and property?

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesquieu

1. What did many American colonists use Thomas Paine's Common Sense to justify?

• A. Acts of sabotage against British merchants

• B. Declaring independence from Britain

• C. Joining the army instead of the militia

• D.A. Supporting the British monarchy

The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are known as

• A. The bill of rights

• B. The Declaration of rights

• C. Virginia Declaration of rights

• D. Constitutional rights

What was the United States' approach to fighting communism in the late 1940s called?

• detente

• containment

• dollar diplomacy

• limited war