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WorksheetsU.S. History 2nd Semester Review
Total questions: 90
Worksheet time: 45mins
A major environmental crisis during the Depression was:
Great Crash
Black Tuesday
Dust Bowl
Grapes of Wrath
Which of these groups is not a part of the Democratic coalition created by FDR & New Deal:
Elderly
Unions
Business Owners
Northern African Americans
On 10/29/1929 the stock market crashed. This day was called:
Depression Monday
Black Thursday
Black Friday
Black Tuesday
What was one difference between FDR and Hoover?:
FDR willing to use gov. action to solve economic problems
FDR ignored economic issues during first term
FDR unwilling to create job programs
Hoover unable to win congressional support for eco. program
A lasting result of the New Deal has been:
Control of stock prices by federal gov.
Joint effort of business and labor to strengthen the pres.
Reduction of the national debt
Greater responsibility for the nation's economy by fed. gov.
What was one sign the economy of the 1920's was weakening?:
Underproduction of consumer goods
Too many people buying goods on credit
An increase in savings accounts
Too many people investing in stock market
Many Americans believed they could strike it rich in the 1920's by investing in:
Stock Market
Crops
Gold
War Bonds
FDR's campaign for the presidency in 1932 had as its basic idea:
The need to break up large businesses
Support for the League of Nations
The trickle-down theory of economics
Need for immediate economic action by federal gov.
As a result of the Hawley-Smooth Tariff of 1930:
Other countries raised their tariffs creating a tariff wall
The worldwide depression ended
American economic isolation ended
American industry grew more secure
What is deficit spending?:
Gov. hired workers who spent money foolishly
The government took in more money than it spent
The government raised taxes causing people deficits
The government spent more than it took in
When the Great Depression began in 1929, Hoover believed that:
The economy would recover on its own
An increase in defense spending would stimulate economy
The government should control industry
Unemployed workers should receive unemployment benefits
Even though credit is given to FDR, his New Deal programs:
Were almost no help for the poor
Did not bring an end to the Depression; WWII did
Created biggest deficit in U.S. History
Aided only farmers
Which feature of modern society was created under the New Deal?:
Social Security
Food Stamps
Federal control of businesses and prices
Medicare
The stock market crash of 1929 was caused by:
Buying on the margin
Installment plans
The income tax
Overproduction
Senator Huey Long gained national popularity by:
Advocating for social justice
Blaming the Jews for the Depression
Promising to give every family an annual income of $2500
Providing college loans to students
Congress created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to:
See interest rates for saving accounts
Insured citizen's saving accounts
Enable homeowners to keep their homes
Provide low interest loans to farmers
Which of the following was an effect of the Stock Market Crash of 1929:
Increased investment in stock market to make quick profit
Gov. took hands off approach to stock market
Shut down trade b/w U.S. and other countries
Americans panicked and pulled savings causing bank failures
How did the New Deal change the role of the federal government:
It was now limited so economy could improve on its own
Role grew to intervene in economy to solve problems
It turned to socialism since capitalism did not work
It helped the wealthy hoping their wealth would trickle down
What was a result of FDR serving 4 terms as president:
Stress from being president killed him
22nd Amendment
Americans hated him like they did Hoover
Great Depression ended
President elected in 1928 that Americans hated because he was not helping them during the Great Depression:
Warren G. Harding
Herbert Hoover
FDR
Calvin Coolidge
Which of the following were indirect causes of WWII?:
Treaty of Versailles
Rise of dictators
Weakness of League of Nations
All of the above
Why did Europeans first stick to appeasement when dealing with Hitler?:
Didn't care what happened to Austria & Czech
Accepted this advice from U.S. that it would be effective
Wanted to avoid another major war in Europe
Wanted to support Hitler to restore German pride
The U.S. Congress responded to developments in Europe b/w 1933 and 1938 by:
Providing military aid to England
Declaring war on Germany
Approving disarmament agreements
Passing a series of neutrality acts
What event pulled America into WWII:
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Japanese invasion of the Philippines
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Germans invading Poland
What happened to the federal government as a result of the Great Depression and WWII?:
Gov. became more militaristic
Gov. increased in size and control economy
Gov. suppressed the rights of Americans to fight crises
Gov. continued laissez-faire policies
What was the Manhattan Project?:
Defend New York City against nuclear attack
Create the world's first atomic bomb
Plan how to invade Japan
Increase economic production to meet wartime demands
What was America's foreign policy between WWI and WWII?:
Isolationism
Totalitarianism
Imperialism
Nationalism
Truman's decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan as based on his belief that":
The Soviet Union and Japan were making an alliance
Germany refused to surrender in Europe
Japan was close to producing its own atomic weapons
An invasion of Japan would result in excessive casualties
Why was the U.S. called the "arsenal of democracy" during WWII?:
Supplied Allied nations with war supplies
Welcomed war refugees
Was prepared in case of surprise attack
None of the above
The government used rationing during WWII to:
Increase educational benefits for veterans
Hold down prices for military weapons
Increase imports of scarce products
Provide more resources for the military
Which court case said Japanese interment was constitutional because of military necessity:
Brown v. Board
Marbury v. Madison
Schenck v. U.S.
Korematsu v. U.S.
Which event was the direct cause of WWII?:
Germany invading Poland
Japan attacking Pearl Harbor
Germany annexing Austria
Japan invading China
What did Executive Order 9066 do on the Homefront during WWII?:
Prevented African Americans from working in government
Created internment camps for Japanese Americans
Segregated the military
Prevented women from serving in military
Which of the following were acts passed by America to maintain its isolationism b/w WWI & WWII?:
Neutrality Acts
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Munich Agreement
Nonaggression Pact
During WWII, many women experienced a change in role on the Homefront in that they:
Controlled most businesses
Worked jobs formerly held by men
Served in military combat positions
Chaired several congressional committees
The Double V campaign represented the:
Campaign of African Americans to defeat Nazism and racism
Allied campaign to defeat Germany on land as well as sea
American campaign to defeat both Germany and Japan
Allied campaign to defeat Nazism and Fascism
Cold War refers to the tension between:
China and Japan
Britain and Germany
Egypt and Israel
Soviet Union and the U.S.
The policy in which the U.S. would try to stop the spread of Communism:
Berlin airlift
Containment
Blacklisting
Isolationism
What was the Truman Doctrine?:
Support nations resisting Soviet control
Fight hunger anywhere in the world
Enforce American policy of Brinkmanship
Reject the former policy of containment
The Berlin Airlift was president Truman's response to the:
Reunification of East and West Germany
German development of the atomic bomb
Soviet blockade of West Berlin
Construction of the Berlin Wall
In response to the creation of N.A.T.O., the Soviet Union:
Left the United Nations
Ended the Berlin Airlift
Created the Warsaw Pact
Joined the Marshall Plan
During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union were cautious to fight because of:
The peacekeeping role of the U.N.
Pressure from nonaligned nations
The potential for global nuclear war
Increased tensions in the Middle East
The House of Un-American Activities Committee:
Protested racial segregation in the armed forces
Created films that told of the evils of racism
Investigated disloyalty and communist influences in the U.S.
Protested U.S. involvement in the Korean Ware
What migration occurred in the U.S. following WWII?:
Great migration
Rural to urban
Urban to suburban
North to South
What statement best describes the outcome of the Korean War?:
North and South Korea annexed by China
North and South Korea were reunited under communist rule
North and South Korean was united under democratic rule
North and South Korea remained divided into 2 countries
What was a cause of large amounts of Americans moving to the suburbs?:
Mass production of housing
Automobiles and the interstates
Cheap housing loans
The Great Society
The launching of Sputnik by the Soviets in 1957 signaled the beginning of:
American fears that the Soviets were technologically better
The Red Scare
Soviet aggression in Afghanistan and China
Disarmament discussions between the superpowers
What helped create the post WWII economic boom in America?:
Baby Boom
Automobile Boom
G.I Bill
All of the above
What was the goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion?:
Overthrow Castro
Remove nuclear weapons from Cuba
Overthrow Khrushchev from Power
Remove nuclear weapons from Russia
What started the Cuban Missile Crisis?:
Failed Bay of Pigs invasion
Berlin Wall
Kennedy's assassination
U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
Which of the following made up the compromise to resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis?:
Remove Soviet missiles from Cuba
U.S. promised to never invade Cuba
U.S. removed missiles from Turkey
Castro had to step down as leader of Cuba
Why was the Korean War significant?:
South Korea was not prepared to be independent
China made major economic improvements
U.S. would go to war to stop Communist aggression
MacArthur would never win the presidency
What was the result of Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union?:
SALT I
Increased tension over war in Vietnam
Increased build up of nuclear weapons
S.D.I
What did Ronald Reagan call the Soviet Union?:
Axis Powers
Triple Alliance
Communist Empire
Evil Empire
Why did Reagan increase spending on the U.S. military?:
Prevent a Soviet invasions
Bankrupt the Soviets in an arms race
Invade the Soviet Union
Scare the Soviet Union
What symbolic structure of the Cold War was torn down in 1989?:
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Stalin's Palace
Auschwitz
What led to the fall of the Soviet Union?:
Economic troubles
Call for democracy from satellite states
S.D.I.
Assassination of Gorbechev
Brown v. Board of Education overturned what Supreme Court decision?:
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
Betts v. Brady
Gideon v. Wainwright
The Student Non-Violent Coordination Committee:
Attacked the KKK
Staged Sit-ins
Was lead by MLK
Got in shoot outs with police
MLK main philosophy was on:
Armed construction
Nonviolent protest
Lawsuits
Strikes
What was the purpose of the March on Washington in 1963?:
Get Bull Connor prosecuted for police brutality
Convince Congress pass Civil Rights legislation
Prevent Kennedy from being re-elected
Fight the abusive police of D.C.
Freedom Summer called attention to African Americans' lack of:
Food
Employment
Voting Rights
Housing
Malcolm X was a part of what religious group?:
Quakers
Baptist
Nation of Islam
Hinduism
What laws established separate public facilities for whites and African Americans?:
Jim Crow Laws
Aline and edition Acts
Segregation Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
Supreme Court case that established the doctrine of separate but equal:
Brown v. Board
Miranda v. Arizona
Roe v. Wade
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was on result of the "White Flight?":
African Americans and whites to the suburbs
Led to cities being mostly black and poor
As blacks moved to suburbs whites moved to cities
Cities were mostly white
Leader of the United Farm Workers Organization Committee:
Gloria Steinem
Malcolm X
MLK
Cesar Chaves
What civil rights law has allowed for the increase in African American voters turnout?:
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Equal Rights Amendment
What was the main purpose of LBJ's Great Society?:
Increase foreign aid to developing nations
Limit the power of business in U.S.
End poverty and racial discrimination
Unite democratic nations and end communism
Organization dedicated to helping women gain full equality and right to abortion:
National Organization for Women
American Indian Movement
National Women's Political Causes
SNCC
What eliminated the poll tax?:
ERA
22nd amendment
24th amendment
Voting Rights act of 1965
What law overturned by the Immigration Act of 1965?:
Alien and Espionage Act
Alien and Sedition Act
National Origins Act of 1924
Chinese Exclusion Act
The North Vietnamese supplied the Vietcong in the South by:
Flying supplies in by helicopter
Paying Cambodia to supply weapons
Attacking American soldiers and stealing their weapons
Ho Chi Minh Trail
What happened at the 1954 Geneva Accords?:
Peace was made between Vietnam and U.S.
America agreed to send troops to Vietnam
Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel
Soviet Union sent troops to Vietnam to stop U.S.
Why were the Vietcong such a difficult enemy?:
Used guerilla warfare
Lived and worked among general population
Refused to give up
All of the above
What president escalated troop numbers in Vietnam?:
JFK
FDR
LBJ
Eisenhower
What country controlled Vietnam until WWII and fought to reclaim it after WWII?:
France
Germany
China
USSR
What impact did the Tet Offensive have on the U.S.?:
Americans wanted more troops sent to fight
Americans wanted to withdraw troops because of the loss
Support for war decreased, told NVA was close to defeat
None of the above
What was Vietnamization?:
Increase U.S. troops in Vietnam
End the bombing of North Vietnam
Convince Congress to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Increase role of South Vietnamese military in war
Which of following were not used by the American military in Vietnam?:
Aerial bombing
Agent Orange
Napalm
Nuclear bombs
Which of the following protested the war in Vietnam?:
African Americans
Conservatives
College Students
Veterans
Communist group in North Vietnam:
Vietminh
Vietdiem
Vietcong
Buddhists
What was the major effect of Watergate?:
Americans trusted the gov. more than ever
Jimmy Carter became president after Nixon resigned
More Vietnam war protest
Americans distrusted the government more
Which president pardoned Nixon?:
Carter
Ford
Reagan
Bush
What president was known as the Great Communicator?:
Carter
Nixon
Reagan
Bush
What makes Reaganomics?:
Cut taxes
Increase government welfare spending
Cut spending
Increase military spending
What was a national security challenge the U.S. faced after the Cold War?:
Korean War
Bay of Pigs
Terrorist attacks on 9/11
Cuban Missile Crisis
What law was created to hunt for terrorists following 9/11?:
Reagan Doctrine
Alien and Sedition Acts
Patriot Act
Homeland Security Act
How was globalization challenged the U.S. economy?:
Less manufacturing jobs in U.S.
Forced U.S. businesses to expand
Increased job opportunities for Americans
U.S. manufacturing leader in the world
N.A.F.T.A. was a trade agreement between:
U.S., Puerto Rico, & Mexico
U.S., Canada, Mexico
Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico
U.S., Canada, & Cuba
