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2019 Spring Final exam review random

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A plan during the Great Depression for the US government to provide electricity for rural areas.

a)

Great Depression

b)

Shantytown

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

Deficit Spending

e)

Totalitarian

2.

Government economic plan where more money is spent than the government brings in as taxes.

a)

Great Depression

b)

Shantytown

c)

Tennessee Valley Authority

d)

Deficit Spending

e)

Totalitarian

3.

1920s and 1930s drought in the USA Great Plains led to what event?

a)

The New Deal

b)

The Tennessee Valley Authority

c)

The building of the Hoover Dam

d)

The Dust Bowl

4.

Where did the workers of the Bracero program come from originally?

a)

New York

b)

Canada

c)

Mexico

d)

Cuba

5.

A directive issued by the President of the United States, which carries the weight of law.

a)

Allied Powers

b)

Atlantic Charter

c)

Executive Order

d)

Internment Camp

e)

Cold War

6.

The plans made by FDR and Churchill for the rest of the world after WWII ended.

a)

Allied Powers

b)

Atlantic Charter

c)

Executive Order

d)

Internment Camp

e)

Cold War

7.

This primary source is referring to what type of weapon that was used in WWII?

a)

Conventional explosives

b)

Atomic Bombs

c)

Chlorine Gas weapons

d)

Biological weapons

8.

Name the secret WWII weapon development program.

a)

The Trenton Project

b)

The Los Angeles Project

c)

The Alamogordo Project

d)

The Manhattan Project

9.

During WWII, the United States did use these weapons on which of the following cities?

a)

Dresden, Germany

b)

Nagasaki, Japan

c)

Berlin, Germany

d)

Moscow, USSR

10.

After WWII, the United States worked to rebuild Western Europe under what plan?

a)

Operation Paperclip

b)

Executive Order 9066

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

NATO

11.
Famous African American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin
a)
Louis Armstrong
b)
Langston Hughes
c)
Jesse Owens
d)
Duke Ellington
12.
During the Great Depression people were worried because the economy was doing poorly.  How did this fear affect their consumption of goods?
a)
People consumed more things because they thought they wouldn't be able to buy them later.
b)
People consumed fewer things because they wanted to save as much money as they could.
c)
People consumed more things because they wanted businesses to do better.
d)
People consumed fewer things because the government was rationing consumption.
13.

Phrase coined by Winston Churchill to describe the Eastern European countries that fell to communism after WWII.

a)

Iron Curtain

b)

Containment

c)

Arms Race

d)

Domino Theory

e)

Consumerism

14.

Ideas in the US after WWII that people should use their new wealth to purchase goods and items that they want, even if they are not necessary.

a)

Iron Curtain

b)

Containment

c)

Arms Race

d)

Domino Theory

e)

Consumerism

15.

The author of this quote is whom?

a)

Franklin Roosevelt

b)

Harry Truman

c)

Joseph McCarthy

d)

Dwight Eisenhower

16.

The author of this quote is stirring up fear of Communism in the US. This became known as what?

a)

Red Scare

b)

Evangelicalism

c)

Federalism

d)

Authoritarianism

17.

The dangerous rhetoric being used in this passage increased tension between the USA and USSR. When politicians do this, it becomes a form of what?

a)

National elections

b)

Brinkmanship

c)

Supreme Court Decisions

d)

Espionage

18.

One of the largest infrastructure projects ever completed by the US was initiated by President Eisenhower. It was known as what?

a)

Tennessee Valley Authority t

b)

Works Progress Administration

c)

Manhattan Project

d)

Interstate Highway Project

19.
What organization was created by Congress to hunt for communist spies?
a)
Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)
b)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
c)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
d)
House Un-American Activites Commitee (HUAC)
20.

The US government plan after WWII to contain the spread of communism globally

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Peace Corps

c)

Berlin Wall

d)

Space Race

21.
McCarthyism was based on people's ________ of communism
a)
Support
b)
Fear
c)
Use
Love
d)
Practice
22.
This involved an invasion of Cuba
a)
Cuban Missile Crisis
b)
Bay of Pigs
c)
D-Day
d)
The Berlin Wall
23.

Which US president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Jimmy Carter

d)

Richard Nixon

24.

President Johnson’s plan to expand civil rights to all Americans that was put into place after JFK’s assassination

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
25.

Civil Rights leader who advocated black separation from white society, using force if necessary

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
26.

Supreme Court case that ruled that separate but equal schools were unconstitutional and led to school desegregation

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
27.

Civil Rights activists who took buses from the North to the South, testing whether or not the buses were truly desegregated. They were often attacked by Southerners

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
28.

Supreme Court case that ruled that law enforcement officers were required to let people being arrested know that they have certain rights

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
29.

This legislation passed by Congress did, amongst other things, prevent legal discrimination in hiring.

a)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Equal Rights Amendment

d)

Title VIIII

30.
The Camp David accords were between what two countries?
a)
USA and Vietnam
b)
Isreal and Egypt 
c)
South Vietnam and North Vietnam
d)
USA and Isreal
31.

Which is an example of detente'?

a)

building the Berlin Wall

b)

blockade of Cuba by the US

c)

Soviet invasion of Afganistan

d)

Nixon's visit to China

32.

SALT stands for

a)

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

b)

Secondary Army Life Treaty

c)

Selective Army Limitation Treaty

d)

Strategic Allied Lifetime Treaty

33.

Which Ohio university saw a protest become deadly?

a)

Ohio State

b)

University of Ohio

c)

Kent State

d)

Case Western

34.

A proposed and failed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have prohibited any government discrimination on the basis of Sex.

a)

Feminism

b)

Civil Rights Movement

c)

AIM

d)

Equal Rights Amendment

35.

The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960's seeking to create an alternative society based on peace, love and individual freedom.

a)

Counterculture

b)

Feminism

c)

Woodstock

d)

United Hippie Movement

36.

Organization founded to fight for gender equality during the 1970s.

a)

United Farm Workers

b)

American Indian Movement

c)

National Organization for Women

d)

Equal Rights Amendment

37.

Organization that was formed to promote the advancement of Native American rights

a)

United Farm Workers

b)

American Indian Movement

c)

National Organization for Women

d)

Equal Rights Amendment

38.

Support for the Vietnam conflict decreased after the release of these government documents that showed the US government had been lying to them.

a)

My Lai Memo

b)

Pentagon Papers

c)

CIA Communiqué

d)

Department of Defense Dossier

39.

What was the youth movement that began to protest the Vietnam War called?

a)

Hawks

b)

The Silent Majority

c)

The New Left

d)

The Responsible Right

40.

North Vietnamese series of attacks that caught the south by surprise and gathered more opposition to the Vietnam conflict

a)

Ho Chi Minh

b)

Agent Orange

c)

Hawk

d)

Tet Offensive

e)

Silent Majority