U.S. History B Topic 5: America during and after WW2

What is the importance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the civil rights movement?

• It demonstrated that African Americans could force change through peaceful protest.

  
  

• It illustrated differences of opinion that prevented the African American community from coming together.

  
  

• It showed that African American ministers were conservative and often opposed desegregation.

  
  

• It served as an important lesson despite the boycott failing to enact change.

  
  

Which BEST describes the outcome of attempts to contain German expansion in Europe under Hitler?

• British and French demands carried the authority of military might.

  
  

• The policy of appeasement failed to limit further expansion.

  
  

• International agencies successfully limited growth.

  
  

• Germany abided by agreed upon territorial rights.

  
  

Which strategy did General MacArthur use in the Pacific theater of World War II?

• American soldiers fought a guerrilla war until Nazi Germany was defeated.

  
  

• American marines occupied strategic islands to disrupt Japanese military operations.

  
  

• American forces fought for control of every Japanese occupied island.

  
  

• The American military used its overwhelming force to attack the Japanese mainland.

  
  

Rosa Parks’s arrest led to a boycott of the bus system in which city?

• Montgomery

• Atlanta

• Birmingham

• Washinton D.C.

World War II began in September 1939 when Germany invaded:

• Soviet Union

• Poland

• France

• England

Which countries experienced the greatest changes in political borders due to World War II?

• Norway and Iceland

• Germany and Soviet Union

• United Kingdom and Switzerland

• Spain and Portugal

The Truman administration tried to help Europe recover from World War II with the:

• Economic Development Bank

  
  

• The Marshall Plan

• Byrnes Budget

  
  

• Atlantic Free Trade Zone

  
  

What was the significance of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling?

• The court ruled that racial segregation in public facilities was unconstitutional.

  
  

• The court ruled that poll taxes were unconstitutional.

  
  

  
  

• The court ruled that prayer in public schools was a violation of the separation of church and state.

  
  

• all of these

  
  

Which president decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

• Roosevelt

• Truman

• Eisenhower

• Hoover

Why was the U.S. not truly isolationist during the 1930s?

• The U.S. supported Allies with military supplies and aid.

  
  

• The U.S. had joined the League of Nations after WWI.

  
  

• The U.S. refused to sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

  
  

• all of these