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WorksheetsUSHC EOC Review Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
Total questions: 125
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The New Deal:
set prices for farmers they could depend on for years
gave retirees a pension that would lift them out of poverty
created the FDIC and SEC to restore faith in banks and the stock market
added Supreme Court justices to fix the problems the existing justices started
The passage of the Social Security Act of 1936 led to:
The Roosevelt Recession of 1937
The end of the Great Depression
The end of Roosevelt's presidency
The end of the Roosevelt Recession
Which of the following politicians believed his "Share the Wealth" program could be applied to the United States and help bring America out of the Depression?
Franklin Roosevelt
Huey Long
Francis Townsend
Charles Coughlin
Which ethnicity group was sent to internment camps?
Japanese
Chinese
Russians
Germans
On August 6, 1945 where was the 1st atomic bomb dropped?
Nagasaki
Beijing
Hiroshima
Berlin
Blitzkrieg means
lightning storm
lightning war
fire fight
bombing war
The Great Depression in Germany caused:
Germany to turn to Communism to solve their economic problems
The election of Adolph Hitler, because he was going to help restore their country and solve their economic problems
to split into two separate countries, East Germany and West Germany
to create a stronger Parliament, called the Reichstag to help govern over the country during such trying rimes
European appeasement of Germany
worked because it stopped Germany's expansion once and for all.
did not work and actually encouraged more aggressive militaristic maneuvers from Germany.
It stopped the Soviets from attacking Germany
It ended the War in Europe
The Neutrality Act of 1939 was also known as "Cash and Carry" because:
The Allies could get war materiel from America, but had to pay for them upfront and transport them back across the Atlantic
The United States would transport the war materiel to them across the Atlantic as long as it was paid for in advance
It gave only cash payments of aid to the allies for the use of their tanks and guns once we reached the European battlefields
It gave cash payments to Germany to stop their expansion and to transport any prisoners of war back to the Allies for prisoner exchange
Interventionists were:
In favor of joining the war to help stop German expansion
Not in favor of joining the war in any capacity
In favor of giving aid to Great Britain but not sending the American military
In favor of joining the war, but only to stop Japanese expansion
Which of the following departments oversaw the use of industry resources?
Office of War Mobilization
Office of Veteran Affairs
National War Labor Board
Office of Price Administration
Mussolini showed his power through:
recreating the Italian government to resemble Nazi Germany because he admired Hitler
recreating the Italian government to resemble the Soviet Union because he admired Stalin
Outlawed political parties and became the head of Italy for life
Defeating the Communists
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor to:
Win control of the Hawai'an Islands
Defeat America once and for all
Show Italy and Germany that they were going to be a great support to them in the Pacific
destroy planes and ships that America had that seemed an imminent threat in the Pacific
Mobilization occurred after the United States declared war. What does this mean?
A total conversion from peacetime industries to wartime industries
Creating as many tanks to sell to Great Britain as they could to help out on the battlefield
Creating many amphibious vehicles to help with a cross channel invasion
Offering mobile phones to all companies in the battlefield to help with communication to overtake the Nazis.
Entering World War II
Made the Great Depression worse
Ended the Great Depression
put half of the unemployed to work
gave many more opportunities to child laborers
Executive Order 9066 ordered:
Japanese, Italian and German American into Concentration Camps called Internment camps
Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps called Internment Camps
All Soviets deported
Blacks to be integrated into the military
Which President ordered the Atomic Bomb to be dropped?
Harry Truman
Henry Wallace
Franklin Roosevelt
John Garner
The bomb was dropped on Japan because
the conventional thinking was that the Japanese would never surrender and would fight to the death and this was the only way that would save American lives.
the conventional thinking was that the Japanese would never surrender, so the only way to prepare an American invasion of Japan was to disable them through the most brute force possible
they dropped the atomic bomb on America first
they attacked Pearl Harbor
Hitler's plans of European domination ended after
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Leningrad
The Battle of the Bulge
D-Day
many Jews were barred from leaving Germany because
They did not have enough money to leave
They did not have the proper passports
Anti-Immigration policies in countries like America
They wanted to stay and run their businesses
The plan to exterminate the Jews from Germany-controlled regions was called:
Kristallnacht
Mein Kampf
Final Solution
The Wave
Auschwitz was
the largest Nazi death camp
HItler's headquarters
Where the Germans were finally defeated
The capital of Poland
Robert Oppenheimer:
Was the scientist who oversaw the Manhattan Project
Was the scientist who developed an immunization for polio
Created Mark I
Was a code breaker
Blitzkrieg was:
Lightning War used buy the Germans to shock the enemy
The largest Nazi Death Camp in Poland
The nickname for Josef Mengele
the chemical used in the gas chambers to kill the Jews
Which event in the 1940s reflected a major milestone in
achieving the second victory described in this excerpt?
"The symbol of black participation [during World War II] was ‘the Double V.’ In other words, ‘Double V’ meant two victories: victory against the enemy abroad, and victory against the
enemy at home. The enemy at home of course being racism,discrimination, prejudice and Jim Crow."
Bill DeShields, founder of the Black Military History Institute of America
passage of the GI Bill to provide veteran’s benefits
the executive order desegregating the military
establishment of the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe
the formation of an international peacekeeping organization
The 1941 March on Washington promoted greater
opportunities for African Americans in the defense industry and the desegregation of the military. Which labor and civil
rights leader organized this event?
Thurgood Marshall
A. Phillip Randolph
James Meredith
Martin Luther King Jr.
were given
Which Executive order ensured fair hiring practices among jobs funded by federal money?
Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 6606
Executive Order 9011
Loans to GI's after the war enabled:
A housing construction boom
The banks to foreclose on veterans after they defaulted.
The redevelopment of the inner cities
The end of military arms buildup.
Which of the following destroyed inner cities because the tax base almost completely disappeared?
white flight
riots
redistricting
the death of John Kennedy
How many people migrated to the suburbs between 1940 and 1960?
300 million
more than 40 million
2 million
600,000
The development of the Eisenhower Interstate system made which of the following possible?
The growth of the suburbs
The decline of the suburbs
The birth of a new agricultural movement
The rise of mall construction
Which of the following changed the way that politicians ran for office beginning in the 1950s and 1960s?
television
radio
the internet
front porch speeches
Which of the following became a symbol of youth culture in the 1950s:
rock and roll
drive in movie theatres
the telephone
the television
Social critics like John Galbratih with his book The Affluent Society charged that America had become
A remarkable success story
A conformist society
A society that promoted equality
The leading military in the world
The United States government's Termination Policy:
Encouraged Indians to assimilate to white American society
Pushed for the final extinction of the Indians
Helped to address the unjust treatment of Asian Americans during World War II
Terminated the Black Panther Party
Which event lasted for 380 days and forced desegregation?
Montgomery County Bus Boycott
Sit Ins at Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counters
The Freedom Rides
The federalization of the Arkansas National Guard
Which city was considered by many to be the most segregated city in America?
Jacksonville, Florida
Memphis, Tennessee
Mobile, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Laws that enforced segregation in America were known as:
De Facto Segregation
Jim Crow
Black Codes
Plessy v Ferguson
Which of the following organizations gave legal challenges to Jim Crow and won several major cases?
SNCC
Black Panthers
NAACP
Young Republicans
Orville Faubus fought desegregation of the school in:
Birmingham, Alabama
Little Rock, Arkansas
Memphis, Tennessee
Oakland, California
James Meredith was:
the first Black student admitted to Ole Miss amid protest, riots and the deaths of two people
the governor of Arkansas who openly opposed desegregation of the high school in Little Rock
The Black lawyer for the NAACP that fought and won desegregation of schools in Brown v. Board
The leader of SNCC
Which Birmingham city commissioner gave the authority to the police and firefighters to turn high powered hoses and the use of police dogs to attack Black protesters?
Eugene "Bull" Connor
Orville Faubus
George Wallace
Earl Warren
Blacks around the country reacted to the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. by:
holding vigils to honor his memory
rioting
killing White leaders
creating the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
Which law was passed by Congress soon after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fair Housing Act
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Brown v. Board
President Kennedy took which stance on Civil Rights early on?
He was cautious because he did not want to run afoul of the southern Democrats
He was vigorous to change laws to help Blacks regardless of the political cost
He leaned on the Republicans for help because he knew the southern Democrats
He did not give much thought to the reaction of southern Democrats, because he knew there were more northern Democrats
The lives of many poor Americans improved under:
The New Frontier
The Great Society
The Warren Commission
The Black Panther Party
The election of 1964 showed that:
Southerners were moving towards the Republican Party because of their opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Barry Goldwater was incredibly successful at appealing to southerners
Lyndon Johnson was an outsider to southerners and could not connect to them
Southerners were deeply affected by the death of Kennedy and began to vote Republican
Many saw Johnson circumvent (go around) the constitution:
By using the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to declare war which a president can not do.
By giving great authority to the Federal government with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
By ordering the Arkansas National Guard to desegregate Central Little Rock High.
By creating a program to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.
What did the United States Army use as a defoliant in Vietnam?
Napalm
Agent Orange
Sarin Gas
Anthrax
Vietnam was originally divided into two countries by:
The Warsaw Pact
NATO
The French Parliament
The Geneva Accords
How did President Johnson escalate the war in Vietnam?
He ordered a massive bombing campaign of North Vietnam and Cambodia known as Rolling Thunder
He sent hundreds of advisers to inspect the ongoing Vietnamese civil unrest
He ordered the CIA to kill South Vietnamese president Ngo Dien Diem
He gave hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to South Vietnam but none to North Vietnam
The Vietcong:
fought with guerilla warfare
was the army of North Vietnam
was the army of South Vietnam
was the air force of North Vietnam
During the Vietnam War, Blacks served mostly as:
infantry (combat) positions
officers
medics
cooks and porters
The surprise attack that showed that the communists were not done fighting yet was
The Tet Offensive
Rolling Thunder
Gulf Of Tonkin Incident
My Lai Massacre
Who won the 1968 presidential election?
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Robert Kennedy
What was a big draw to the Sunbelt?
jobs in defense and aerospace
inexpensive land
racially segregated cities
racially mixed cities
Which president pledged to end discrimination in housing "with the stroke of a pen"?
Eisenhower
Johnson
Kennedy
Nixon
How much were former detainees of Japanese Internment Camps paid starting in the 1990s?
Each one received twenty thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Each one received two thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Each one received sixty thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Each one received four hundred thousand dollars and a letter of apology from the President
Which Supreme Court Case made it illegal for public school officials to practice religious ceremony with students?
Miranda v. Arizona
Gideon v. Wainright
Griswold v. Connecticut
Engel v. Vitale
Which Supreme Court Case struck down a state law which banned the use of contraceptives?
Griswold v. Connecticut
Gideon v. Wainright
Engel v. Vitale
Miranda v. Arizona
Which Supreme Court case ruled that the accused had a right to remain silent?
Miranda v. Arizona
Griswold v. Connecticut
Engel V. Vitale
Gideon v. Wainright
Robert Kennedy was killed by Sirhan Sirhan because:
Kennedy helped pass Civil Rights legislation
Kennedy supported Israel in the Six Day War
Sirhan Sirhan supported Nixon
Kennedy was a former Attorney General who oversaw Sirhan Sirhan's imprisonment
The protests of the war at Kent State and Jackson State Universities ended in:
The deaths of six protesters.
Nixon meeting with the protesters and pledging to end the war by the end of his first term.
a change in university policy to end student protests on campus
a change in university policy to allow student protests on campus
What "October Surprise" did Nixon have weeks before the election of 1972?
He announced he would not run for re-election
Henry Kissinger announced "Peace is a Hand" and that the war was near its end
Henry Kissinger announced he was stepping down from his position as Secretary of State
Nixon announced he was resigning to avoid impeachment proceedings
The 24th Amendment
ended the poll tax
ended discrimination in housing
ended discrimination based on gender
ended voter intimidation throughout the South
Which of the following was a part of Nixon's Southern Strategy?
Establishing the Environmental Protection Agency
Being critical of and calling for a moratorium (freeze) on forced school busing
Traveling to China to open up trade
Forcing the integration of southern schools that were still segregated in the South
Nixon believed __________________ gave him the right to refuse to cooperate with investigators and refuse to turn over the White House tapes of conversations.
fake news
the Warren Commission
The Kerner Commission
Executive Privilege
Nixon's claim of executive privilege was overruled by:
The Kerner Commission
The Pentagon Papers
Nixon v United States
The Great Society
After Nixon resigned: (choose two)
Gerald Ford became president
Nixon was impeached by the Senate
Americans further lost faith in the American government
Nixon's vice president Spiro Agnew became president
The energy crisis which took place during Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations was spurred on by
The shrinking oil reserves in Texas
OPEC's oil embargo
The invasion of Mexico
America's rate of inflation
Which President presided over the Camp David Accords?
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Many saw which of the following as being Jimmy Carter's greatest diplomatic achievement?
Camp David Accords
The handling of the Iran Hostage Crisis
Oil Crisis
Election of 1980
The conflicts in the Middle East figured prominently in American foreign policy after:
The Iranian Hostage Crisis
The Oil Embargo
The Camp David Accords
Yom Kippor War
Under the Camp David Accords, Egypt
vowed to attack Israel to get territory back from the1967 Six Day War
created a parliament for the first time in its history
recognized Anwar Sadat as the president
recognized Israel as a sovereign, independent nation for the first time
Gerald Ford tried to defeat inflation through a program of voluntary measures known as:
WIN
Camp David Accords
Watergate
Helter Skelter
When civil rights legislation passed in the 1960s, it caused
The Democrats to gain more voters because southern voters shifted to the conservatism of the Democrat Party
The Republicans to gain more voters because southern voters shifted to the conservatism of the Republican Party
a downturn in the economy because the Civil Rights laws hurt private businesses
Lyndon Johnson to resign the presidency
Who promised to not raise taxes by imploring the American people to "Read My Lips, No New Taxes"?
Ronald Reagan
George Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, which was derisively (negatively) called:
Star Wars
Invasion of Grenada
The New Warsaw Pact
Space Balls
The USSR's invasion of Afghanistan was too expensive and lead Mikhail Gorbachev to propose
Gulags
To double down (increase) the invasion of Afghanistan
a treaty with Afghanistan
perestroika and glastnost
Which country did Iraq invade in 1990?
Kuwait
Oman
Yemen
Saudi Arabia
Which group bemoaned (complained about) the loss of traditional "family values"?
Neoconservatives
Democrats
Centrists
Neoliberals
The number of working poor
actually increased after the end of the recession in 1983
decreased after the end of the recession in 1983
decreased to a decade's low number after the recession in 1983
helped vote Reagan out of office in 1984
Sandra Day O'Connor was a justice:
who ruled conservatively on all issues before the court during her time on the court.
who ruled liberally on all issues before the court during her time on the court.
who ruled conservatively on most issues but ruled liberally in favor of abortion
who ruled liberally on most issues but ruled conservatively against abortion
Reagan's stance on military buildup was:
He was in favor of a massive arms buildup
He was in opposed to a massive arms buildup.
He was only in favor of military buildup when the United States was provoked to war.
He was only in favor of military buildup if countries in the western hemisphere were threatened by communism
Which president actually lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College in a controversial recount which was stopped by The United States Supreme Court?
Clinton
George W. Bush
Al Gore
Barack Obama
Which of the following WAS NOT a reason that Americans stopped supporting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq?
The torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Haditha Massacre
No WMD's were ever found
Bombing of the USS Cole
Which Secretary of State under George W. Bush went before the United Nations Security Council and provided evidence of Iraq creating WMD's (Weapons of Mass Destruction) to secure an alliance for an invasion of Iraq?
Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice
Madeline Albright
Warren Christopher
The Fundamentalist religious group in Waco, Texas that was targeted for stockpiling weapons
Heaven's Gate
Branch Davidians
Manson Family
Berean Independent Baptist
Which third party candidate amassed an astonishing 19% of the popular votes in the 1992 presidential election?
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Dan Quayle
Ross Perot
First woman named to supreme court?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Oprah Winfrey
Michelle Obama
Natalie Gonzalez
Who ran in the highly controversial presidential election of 2000?
Bush & Gore
Bush & Kerry
Obama & Bush
Clinton & Trump
Al Qaeda formed as a result of
Osama bin Laden's hatred of America's involvement in the Middle East
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
America's invasion of Iraq
The movement of Pakistani troops across the Afghan border
Why was Bill Clinton impeached?
He lied in a deposition in a civil trial about an affair with a White House intern
He pushed through legislation to restrict handgun sales in America
He had an affair with a White House intern
He made profits off of a real estate scheme that was not successful
Which event helped Republicans win back Congress in the 1994 midterm elections?
Contract With America
The Lewinsky Scandal
The Brady Bill
Bob Dole's loss in the presidential election
Which president failed at an attempt to push forward a national health care?
Bill Clinton
George Bush
George W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
The Brady Bill:
placed a five day waiting period on all purchases of handguns.
began the process of dismantling the Berlin Wall
created a five day waiting period for all assault rifles
Allowed inmates in Massachusetts weekend furloughs
The Taliban:
controlled Afghanistan until the Afghanistan War
fought for the United States in the Afghanistan War
controlled Iraq until the Iraq War
fought for the United States in the Iraq War
