WorksheetsSemester 2 Final - US History
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
What nations made up the Axis Powers in WWII?
United States, Great Britain, USSR, France
Germany, Italy, Japan
Italy, United States, Great Britain
Great Britain, USSR, France
What nations made up the Allies in WWII?
United States, Great Britain, USSR, France
Germany, Italy, Japan
Italy, United States, Great Britain
Great Britain, USSR, France
Britain & France tried to give in to Hitler’s demands to avoid war with their _____ policy.
Appellate
Internment
Apathy
Appeasement
Who is this leading U.S. general famous for “Island Hopping” in the Pacific during WWII?
George S. Patton
Neville Chamberlain
Douglas Macarthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which event marked the start of WWII in Europe?
Austrian Anschluss
Germany’s Invasion of Poland
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Pearl Harbor
What was the main idea of Executive Order 9066?
It allowed the President to declare war on Japanese Americans by ordering them all to be executed.
It banned Americans from traveling on fighting nations’ ships until the war was over.
It allowed the War Department to declare any part of the U.S. a military zone and evacuate anyone seen as a threat to that zone.
It allowed people to loan money to the government and be paid back with interest later.
Which of the following was NOT a major impact of women in the WWII effort?
Women took jobs left by men joining the army & fighting to keep America’s wartime industry & production going.
Women joined the army and fought next to men in combat.
Women took clerical/administrative jobs in the army to free up more men to fight.
Women grew Victory Gardens to help rationed food go farther.
What resulted from the Battle of the Bulge?
The U.S. & Allies won and Germany was left extremely weakened so that it could no longer stop the Allies from entering Germany.
Germany won due to its final, massive desperate attempt to force the Allies out of France and the Allies were forced to take defensive action.
The U.S. & Allies won, but Germany was still able to keep the Allies from entering Germany and ending the war.
Winston Churchill was banned from all public beaches.
Who was the Nazi Germany dictator during WWII?
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
The __________ Project was set up by Roosevelt to research/build the atomic bomb before Germany.
Manhattan
Little Boy
Fat Man
Oppenheimer
What was the name given to the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan?
Fat Man
Little Boy
Little Man
Fat Boy
Which of the following is NOT a cause of WWII?
Rise of Dictators
World Wide Great Depression
Sinking of the Lusitania
Appeasement
The pledge by the US to defend Middle East countries from Communist takeovers was known as the:
Truman Doctrine
Eisenhower Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
Marshall Plan
The conflict between the US and the Soviet Union in which neither side directly confronted the other on the battlefield was known as:
brinkmanship
Containment
the Cold War
McCarthyism
The line that divided North Korea & South Korea was called:
the Iron Curtain
58th parallel
containment line
38th parallel
The Warsaw Pact was:
a coalition of Eastern European nations & the Soviet Union
a world peacekeeping body
U.S. effort to rebuild the nations of Europe
an alliance of the US & Western European nations against communist aggression
The policy of going to the edge of an all-out war & threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression was called:
the Cold War
Termination Policy
communism
Brinkmanship
Which of the following is NOT a cause of the Cold War?
Soviet domination of Eastern Europe
Communist victory in China
McCarthyism
Mutual suspicion between the US and the Soviet Union
What is the name of an international peacekeeping organization to which nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development?
United Nations
NATO
League of Nations
Warsaw Pact
What is the term for the blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence—especially the efforts of the US to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940’s-1950’s?
Appeasement
Brinkmanship
Containment
McCarthyism
Which two countries were involved in the Space Race?
U.S. & Japan
Japan & Soviet Union
Soviet Union & U.S.
U.S. & Cuba
What happened at the Bay of Pigs?
The CIA trained Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro because he was a threat to the US with his alliance with the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union sent missiles to Cuba and aimed them at the US.
The Soviet Union trained Cuban exiles to remove the US government from Cuba.
Cubans banned the consumption of pork and threw all pork products into the ocean.
Which mission was the first successful landing on the moon?
Apollo 13
Freedom 17
Apollo 11
Apollo 1
Who was the Cuban communist dictator who caused the US to become nervous due to his alliance with the Soviet Union?
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khruschev
Ho Chi Minh
Antonio Juarez
During the Vietnam War, who was the North Vietnamese communist leader who led the Vietcong against South Vietnam & the US?
Mao Zedong
Ngo Din Diem
Kim Il Sung
Ho Chi Minh
_____________________ was JFK’s successor who carried on his legacy by creating several programs to better American society with the Great Society.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Earl Warren
Barry Goldwater
What event brought the US & Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war when the Soviets placed long range missiles in Cuba & aimed them at the US?
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Geneva Accords
Tet Offensive
What famous Supreme Court case ordered the end of public school segregation?
Miranda v. Arizona
Gideon v. Wainwright
Plessy v. Ferguson
Brown v. Board of Education
___________________ was a civil rights leader who advocated non-violent resistance, gave the famous “I Have A Dream” speech, led the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was assassinated in 1968.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gandhi
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
What was the name given to the nine African American students who volunteered to integrate Little Rock Central High School?
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Ten
Selma Nine
Little Rock Five
_______________ were teams of blacks & whites who rode buses into segregated towns to draw attention to segregation.
Freedom Summer
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock Nine
Freedom Riders
_______________ is the name of the Black Muslim leader who took a militant, separatist approach to the civil rights struggle.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gandhi
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
What law, passed in 1964, outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin?
Civil Rights Act
Voting Rights Act
14th Amendment
22nd Amendment
This picture illustrates which word?
desegregation
segregation
massive resistance
civil disobedience
The Immigration Act of 1965
Began quotas based on nationalities
Ended quotas based on nationalities
Stopped immigration from European countries
Stopped immigration from non-European countries
Many of the founders of the National Organization of Women were previously part of what
movement?
The Civil Rights Movement
The Immigration Movement
The Women’s Suffrage Movement
The War Protest Movement
During the 1950s, increased incomes and easy to acquire credit (loans) led to increased
socialism
consumerism
racism
feminism
Immigration patterns changed between 1950 and 2000. The majority of immigrants to the U.S. were no longer arriving from Europe; instead, the majority of immigrants came from
Africa
Middle East
Australia
Latin America
Which is a major way President Johnson and President Reagan differed in economic policies?
Johnson wanted more money to go for public programs to help those in need.
Johnson wanted lower taxes for corporations.
Reagan thought military spending should be a lower priority.
Reagan wanted to increase the number of Americans receiving welfare benefits.
Women in the 1950s were often limited to jobs thought to be “women’s work”, like secretarial, teaching, and nursing jobs. This is ironic because...
Women had never worked outside of the home before.
During WWII the government filled the majority of available jobs (including factory jobs) with women.
Men had wanted those jobs for a long time
During WWII the government could not get women to work outside of the home.
