STAAR REVIEW QUIZ

- Europeans seek industrial jobs in the United States.

- World War I begins.

- Nativism resurges in the United States.

What was one way the US government responded to this combination of events?

• Made labor unions illegal.

• Passed immigration restrictions.

• Implemented a military draft.

• Established a federal income tax.

What was the most significant result of the 1957 launch of Sputnik?

• US military troops were deployed to Korea.

• The United States ended its involvement in the Vietnam War.

• A space race between the United States and the Soviet Union began.

• The US government implemented the Marshall Plan.

Which phrase best defines the Holocaust?

• The US plan to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps.

• The Allied plan to liberate concentration camps in Eastern Europe.

• The Nazi campaign to use genocide to eliminate European Jews.

• The Japanese military strategy to destroy US aircraft carriers.

What was the main purpose of this World War II poster?

• To persuade citizens to enlist in the armed forces.

• To inform citizens about the wartime dangers facing the nation.

• To encourage citizens to volunteer to help support the war.

• To notify citizens of mandatory programs for national security.

During the Cold War, President Eisenhower and the US were concerned about -

• A trade imbalance with Asia.

• The spread of communism in Asia.

• The educational opportunities available in Asia.

• An environmental disaster in Asia.

Which event prompted the United States to enter World War II?

• The German annexation of Austria.

• The Soviet occupation of Germany.

• The landing of Allied soldiers on Normandy Beach.

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

This photograph best illustrates the need in 1943 to -

• maintain the country's military and industrial production levels

• increase the regulatory power of the War Production Board

• outlaw closed-shop and collective-bargaining practices by labor union

• increase federal funding for the Manhattan Project

What was the purpose of this World War II poster?

• To persuade women to purchase food ration coupons

• To encourage families to put more money into bank savings account

• To encourage citizens to help pay for the costs of the war

• To persuade women to pay for the release of prisoners of war

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

• Containment

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine

Idea that people/countries who are desperate might fall to Communism, so U.S. would provide financial aid to war-torn nations(after WWII) of Europe to help rebuild their economies and infrastructure.

• Containment

• Iron Curtain

• Marshall Plan

• Truman Doctrine