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WorksheetsContemporary Studies Review
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A club that sold illegal alcoholic beverages:
a)
Speakeasy
b)
Pool Hall
c)
Juke Joint
d)
Congress
2.
Policy of supporting any country fighting to stop the spread of communism:
a)
Oligarchy
b)
Truman Doctrine
c)
Marshall Plan
d)
Domino Theory
3.
A 1920s African American cultural movement:
a)
Marshall Plan
b)
Harlem Renaissance
c)
Bonus Army
d)
Warsaw Pact
4.
Roosevelt policies aimed to end the Great Depression:
a)
Fair Deal
b)
Big Deal
c)
New Deal
d)
Let's Make a Deal
5.
Primary cause of WWI:
a)
Racism
b)
Poverty
c)
Military Alliances
d)
All of the above
6.
Early 20th Century movement of southerners into northern cities for jobs and increased opportunity:
a)
Great Migration
b)
Western Expansion
c)
Exceptionalism
d)
Manifest Destiny
7.
European border countries taken over by Soviets following WWII:
a)
Cold War
b)
Marshall Plan
c)
Fringe Area
d)
Satellite Nations
8.
Division between western Europe (democratic) and eastern Europe (Soviet):
a)
Sputnik
b)
Communism
c)
Iron Curtain
d)
Korean War
9.
Soviet response to NATO:
a)
NAFTA
b)
Warsaw Pact
c)
Geneva Accords
d)
Berlin airlift
10.
The Marshall Plan:
a)
provided free college to everyone
b)
helped to rebuild Europe after WWII
c)
promised to fight spread of communism
d)
established by JFK
11.
US policy to stop the spread of communism:
a)
containment
b)
conscription
trench warfare
trench warfare
c)
militarism
d)
nationalism
12.
Dividing line between North and South Vietnam:
a)
38th parallel
b)
equator
c)
17th parallel
d)
none of these
13.
Fear that allowing one nation to become communist would encourage others to do so as well:
a)
None of These
b)
Space Race
c)
Cold War
d)
Domino Theory
14.
US supported effort to remove Fidel Castro from power in Cuba:
a)
Gulf of Tonkin
b)
Operation Thunder
c)
Bay of Pigs
d)
None of these
15.
Nuclear showdown between JFK and USSR:
a)
Space Race
b)
Hiroshima
c)
Vietnam
d)
Cuban Missile Crisis
16.
President Johnson's program designed to declare "War on Poverty":
a)
New Deal
b)
Voting Rights Act
c)
Great Society
d)
Fair Deal
17.
Chicago teenager killed in Mississippi, sparking renewed interest in civil rights:
a)
Medgar Evers
b)
Emmett Till
c)
Rosa Parka
d)
Marcus Garvey
18.
Laws that supported racial segregation:
a)
Truman Doctrine
b)
Sedition Acts
c)
Jim Crow
d)
None of these
19.
Freedom Riders went south for what purpose?
a)
to protest segregation
b)
to register white voters
c)
Great Migration
d)
None of these
20.
1920s debate over teaching evolution:
a)
Speakeasy
b)
Bonus Army
c)
Scopes Trial
d)
None of these
21.
Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI required:
a)
Russia to have no standing army
b)
Germany to admit full responsibility for war
c)
All of these
d)
None of these
22.
Chemical weapons were first used in:
a)
WWI
b)
WWII
c)
Korea
d)
Vietnam
23.
The USSR's "Sputnik" pushed America into:
a)
WWII
b)
the Space Race
c)
Vietnam
d)
Korea
24.
A "flapper" was a woman from what period in US history?
a)
1940s
b)
1930s
c)
1920s
d)
None of these
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