World History Important Events (Modern Era)

This is an image of the USS Arizona going down in flames on December 7, 1941. What is the name of the attack in which it sunk?

• The Attack of Midway

• The Attack on Pearl Harbor

• The Attack on Hiroshima

• The Attack of Hawaii

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the (a)   .

The Iron Curtain was ________________.

• a metal sheet bordering East and West Berlin.

• a heavy curtain used to block out sunlight.

• an imaginary border surrounding the Soviet Union.

• a line between two kinds of countries: the free ones of the West and the dictatorships of the East in Europe.

These laws were part of a racist system designed to ensure that whites got the best of everything and blacks got the worst under the "separate but equal" policy.

(a)  

A time when paranoid Americans looked for communists behind every rock is called the ______________.

• Red Scare

• Communist Fear

• Espionage

• Red Paranoia

This Treaty was used to punish Germany for World War I.

• Treaty of Vermont

• Treaty of Germany

• Treaty of World War I

• Treaty of Versailles

About 6 million Jews died in the (a)   , Hitler's "Final Solution" for the Jews.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed several kinds of discrimination EXCEPT ...

• government must treat blacks and whites equally when they registered to vote.

• "separate but equal" was finished. All government schools, parks and so on must be open to both blacks and whites.

• reading tests, knowledge tests, character tests and the poll tax for black voters.

• all hotels, restaurants, theaters and so on must treat blacks and whites equally.

This space mission hosted the first school teacher, Christa McAuliffe.

• Columbia

• Challenger

• Apollo 11

• Kennedy

Sixty Americans became hostages during the ___________.

• Iraqi Hostage Crisis

• Operation Eagle Claw

• 444 Days a Hostage

• Iran Hostage Crisis