WorksheetsUS-11 Final Review
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which side did the USA join during World War I?
a)
Axis
b)
Allies
c)
Central Powers
d)
Avengers
2.
Sacco & Vanzetti were...
a)
accused of robbery
b)
anarchists
c)
executed
d)
all of these
3.
Someone involved in the illegal sale of alcohol during prohibition might be known as...
a)
a bootlegger
b)
a fundamentalist
c)
a teetotaler
d)
a temperant
4.
The law that effectively established prohibition and enforced the 18th amendment.
a)
Volstead Act
b)
Voltron Act
c)
Espionage & Sedition Acts
d)
Pure Food & Drug Act
5.
The main source of news and entertainment during the 1920s.
a)
movies
b)
phonograph
c)
radio
d)
television
6.
Which of the following was a founding member of UNIA and supported the "Back to Africa" movement in the 1920s?
a)
Marcus Garvey
b)
James Weldon Johnson
c)
Zora Neale Hurston
d)
Paul Robeson
7.
It was the name given to when the stock market crashed, initiating the Great Depression
a)
Black Tuesday
b)
Black Friday
c)
Bloody Sunday
d)
9/11
8.
To combat the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover was against it, while FDR and individual states supported it.
a)
supply-side economics
b)
direct relief
c)
a rainy day fund
d)
the Dust Bowl
9.
They marched on Washington in 1932, demanding what the government owed them.
a)
Jacob Coxey's Army
b)
Bonus Army
c)
Students for a Democratic Society
d)
UNIA
10.
During the Depression, what was a Hooverville?
a)
bread line
b)
soup kitchen
c)
homeless shelter
d)
shantytown
11.
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
a)
credit
b)
speculation
c)
buying on margin
d)
direct relief
12.
He was the president that enacted plans that provided relief, recovery, and reform for Americans and the economy during the Great Depression.
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Andrew Johnson
d)
Lyndon Johnson
13.
He became an inspiration to millions of Americans in 1935 by defeating Max Baer for the World's Heavyweight Championship in a boxing match in Madison Square Garden, after being hit hard by the Great Depression.
a)
Muhammad Ali
b)
Joe Frazier
c)
Rocky Marciano
d)
James J. Braddock
14.
This federal pension/retirement program was started during the New Deal.
a)
Securities and Exchange Commission
b)
Social Security
c)
Tennessee Valley Authority
d)
Federal Relief Administration
15.
Its purpose was to create jobs and electrify the American South East
a)
WPA
b)
CCC
c)
TVA
d)
FDIC
16.
This ended World War I, officially.
a)
Geneva Convention
b)
Treaty of Versailles
c)
New Deal Coalition
d)
Treaty of Paris
17.
After World War I, Germany was forced to pay...
a)
settlement
b)
reparations
c)
heavy fines
d)
for dinner
18.
This New Deal creation helped protect Workers' Rights.
a)
Social Security Act
b)
National Labor Relations Board
c)
Securities and Exchange Commission
d)
Federal Deposit Insurance Company
19.
FDR used these to increase public confidence during the Great Depression.
a)
direct relief payments
b)
free movies
c)
conservation efforts
d)
fireside chats
20.
Which New Deal program below is paired witht he problem it solved?
a)
unemployment; Wagner Act
b)
farm foreclosures, Works Progress Administration
c)
Bank failures, Emergency Banking Act
d)
industrial failures, Civilian Conservation Corps
21.
Nazi is to ___ as Soviet is to Communism.
a)
federalism
b)
imperialism
c)
conservationism
d)
fascism
22.
Who was Prime Minister of Britain throughout most of World War II?
a)
Neville Chamberlain
b)
Charles DeGaulle
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
Franklin Roosevelt
23.
Nazi's use this strategy to help conquer much of Europe.
a)
blitzkrieg
b)
lend-lease
c)
lebensraum
d)
trench warfare
24.
What was the United States' official position regarding World War II in the 1930s?
a)
appeasement
b)
intervention
c)
neutrality
d)
parallelism
25.
It was the "Night of Broken Glass," in which Nazis destroyed the property of, and arrested, over 20,000 Jews.
a)
Lebensraum
b)
Kristallnacht
c)
Rhineland
d)
Blitzkrieg
26.
Why did the United States enter World War II?
a)
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
b)
Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
c)
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
d)
Japan, Germany, and Italy signing the tripartite pact
27.
FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech helped gain widespread support in the United States for...
a)
increasing aid to the Allies.
b)
decreasing immigration.
c)
a military and arms buildup.
d)
a presidential election
28.
Which of the following was an IMMEDIATE cause of World War II?
a)
Discontent over the Treaty of Versailles
b)
German invasion of Poland
c)
Economic instability in Europe
d)
Rise of totalitarian government
29.
What was the American research and development program that led to the first atomic bomb?
a)
D-Day
b)
V-E Day
c)
Great Society Program
d)
Manhattan Project
30.
Which of the following was NOT a way the federal government impacted the lives of civilians during World War II?
a)
rationing
b)
convoy system
c)
draft
d)
price controls
31.
Which term refers to the the American strategy versus Japan?
a)
leap-frogging
b)
island-hopping
c)
Operation Overlord
d)
piggy-backing
32.
This civil rights leader helped form the Congress of Racial Equality during World War II.
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
A. Philip Randolph
c)
Marcus Garvey
d)
John Lewis
33.
He led allied forces on D-Day.
a)
Harry Truman
b)
Dwight D. Eisehower
c)
Douglas MacArthur
d)
George S. Patton
34.
Hiroshima was where the first atomic bomb was dropped in World War II. Where was the 2nd bomb dropped?
a)
Tokyo
b)
Nagasaki
c)
Osaka
d)
Kyoto
35.
Which of the following was NOT a change to the US economy during World War II?
a)
women taking jobs outsize the home
b)
decrease in unemployment
c)
housing and food shortages
d)
limited farming
36.
Who was the US president for much of World War II?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Harry Truman
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
37.
Who was the US president that ordered the use of the atomic bomb on Japan?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Harry Truman
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
38.
It provided World War II veterans with cheap home loans, business loans, and education funding.
a)
United Nations
b)
Declaration of Human Rights
c)
GI Bill of Rights
d)
Korematsu v. United States
39.
During World War II, it upheld the federal government's policy of interning the Japanese.
a)
United Nations
b)
Declaration of Human Rights
c)
GI Bill of Rights
d)
Korematsu v. United States
40.
It was a defensive alliance formed after World War II, in the wake of the Cold War.
a)
Marshall Plan
b)
NATO
c)
UN
d)
League of Nations
41.
Which of the following was not a US foreign policy goal in the Cold War?
a)
encourage democracy
b)
promote globalism
c)
rebuild Europe after WWII
d)
contain Soviet expansion
42.
They were executed as spies during the Cold War.
a)
McCarthies
b)
Rosenbergs
c)
Trumans
d)
Roosevelts
43.
Where were Americans first used in combat to fight communism?
a)
China
b)
Korea
c)
Vietnam
d)
Cuba
44.
Which is a long-lasting effect of the Cold War?
a)
Arms race
b)
Truman Doctrine
c)
McCarthyism
d)
Berlin blockade
45.
The Domino Theory was first described by which US President?
a)
Truman
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Kennedy
d)
Johnson
46.
In the 1950s, which did NOT add to suburban growth in the USA?
a)
baby boom
b)
rock 'n' roll
c)
federal highway system
47.
Southern states rights' advocates that opposed Truman in the 1948 election.
a)
Democrats
b)
Tea Party
c)
Dixiecrats
d)
New Deal coalition
48.
They rejected 1950s consumerism and conformity.
a)
beats
b)
hippies
c)
hawks
d)
doves
49.
John F. Kennedy's domestic programs.
a)
Fair Deal
b)
New Frontier
c)
Great Society
d)
New Federalism
50.
Lyndon Johnson's domestic programs.
a)
Fair Deal
b)
New Frontier
c)
Great Society
d)
New Federalism
51.
This supreme court case ended the policy of segregating public schools.
a)
Korematsu v. United States
b)
Plessy v. Ferguson
c)
Brown v. Board of Education
d)
Loving v. Virginia
52.
Eisenhower warned the American people about...
a)
mutually assured destruction.
b)
the CIA.
c)
the "military industrial complex."
d)
fast food consumption.
53.
Kennedy's mistaken actions against Castro.
a)
Bay of Pigs Invasion
b)
Guantanamo Bay Agenda
c)
Cuban Missile Crisis
d)
Havana Conference
54.
Kennedy addressed foreign needs in developing nations, and helped Americans develop a better understanding of foreign cultures through the development of...
a)
NASA
b)
the Alliance for Progress
c)
the Peace Corps
d)
the CIA
55.
He assassinated JFK.
a)
John Wilkes Boothe
b)
Charles J. Guiteau
c)
Leon Czolgosz
d)
Lee Harvey Oswald
56.
Which of the following wasn't part of Johnson's "War on Poverty?"
a)
VISTA
b)
Project Head Start
c)
Job Corps
d)
creation of PBS
57.
Johnson's Great Society had a number of policies and programs in which America's children "...could find knowledge to enrich" themselves. Which of these did not affect education of youngsters?
a)
Project Headstart
b)
Creation of PBS
c)
Medicare Act
d)
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
58.
Which item, passed in LBJ's Great Society, ended the quota system established by Congress in the 1920s?
a)
1964 Civil Rights Act
b)
24th Amendment
c)
1965 Voting Rights Act
d)
1965 Immigration Act
59.
Which item, passed in LBJ's Great Society, had a goal of ending racial discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment?
a)
1964 Civil Rights Act
b)
24th Amendment
c)
1965 Voting Rights Act
d)
1965 Immigration Act
60.
Which item, passed in LBJ's Great Society, outlawed poll taxes which limited access to federal elections?
a)
1964 Civil Rights Act
b)
24th Amendment
c)
1965 Voting Rights Act
d)
1965 Immigration Act
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