U.S. History - Part 2 (General Knowledge)

Which event/item helped lead to the U.S. declaring war on Spain in 1898?

• using submarines to sink U.S. ships heading to Europe

• argument over the Panama Canal

• Pearl Harbor Attack

• explosion of the U.S.S. Maine

Who is the only president to be president for more than 2 terms?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William McKinley

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

What event marked the official start of WWII?

• atomic bombings of Japan

• Battle of Iwo Jima

• Pearl Harbor Attack

• invasion of Poland

Lyndon Johnson's domestic program was known as ...

• The Great Society.

• The New Deal.

• The Fair Deal.

• The New Frontier

When did racial segregation in public facilities and accommodations become illegal in the U.S.?

• 1947

• 1954

• 1964

• 1968

The primary, most threatening adversary of the United States during the Cold War was ...

• Cuba.

• the Soviet Union.

• China.

• North Korea.

_____________ ________________ won a landslide victory in the 1984 U.S. presidential election.

• Richard Nixon

• Jimmy Carter

• Ronald Reagan

• George H.W. Bush

When did women get the right to vote in the U.S.?

• 1876

• 1900

• 1920

• 1925

Which of the following was considered a failure of President John F. Kennedy's presidency?

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• the March on Washington

• the U.S. space program

Why did the U.S. eventually enter World War One?

• the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine

• Japan's Attack on Midway Island

• the D-Day Invasion

• German use of unrestricted submarine warfare