US history final exam

Like WWI the US wanted to stay out of a World War but then this country attacked Pearl Harbor and gave us no choice but to enter the war.

• Japan

• Germany

• Russia

• Italy

What was the secret project to create an atomic bomb?

• Broadway Project

• California Project

• Manhattan Project

• Corona Project

Why call it the Cold War Era?

• Chillin Out With Everyone = COLD

• It was cold blooded the things people did.

• It was mostly fought in northern cooler climates.

• The two main combatants never directly engaged with each other.

What was the first Cold War conflict that followed WWII

• War in Afghanistan

• Panamanian War

• Vietnam War

• Korean War

Who was the US President in conflict with Cuba and Fidel Castro (faced the Cuban Missile Crisis) and was later assassinated.

• JFK

• LBJ

• Nixon

• FDR

This war created a lot of protests in the US and was a "black eye" for America, LBJ and Nixon.

• Vietnam

• Korea

• Cuba

• Afghanistan

Which president was related to the Watergate scandal and ultimately resigned?

• Carter

• Nixon

• Ford

• Bush

What foreign policy did the U.S. employ in the 1920's whereby we wanted to avoid interaction and war with foreign countries?

• Isolationism
• Expansionism
• Imperialism
• Big Stick Diplomacy

Henry Ford's most noteworthy contribution to industry is the

• invention of the computer

• invention of buying cars on credit

• innovation of "interchangeable parts."

• perfection of the assembly line process of production

One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-

• more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems

• unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs

• able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office

• opposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions