WorksheetsKnow It All Test 5
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
WWI ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles at 11am on November 11th, 1918. The treaty included harsh punishments for ______________, leading to World War II.
Britain
France
Germany
Russia
What November 9, 1989, event symbolizes the end of the Cold War?
U.S. President Bush worked toward easing tensions
The Soviet Union becomes a communist nation
People in Eastern Europe were gaining more freedom
The Berlin Wall was torn down
Brown vs. Board of Education was a famous case heard by the United States Supreme Court in 1954. The court ruled that it is illegal to
Allow children to work long hours in factories
Segregate schools based on people’s skin color
Pay African Americans less in the workplace
Return an escaped slave to master
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were leaders of what struggle for social justice in the 1950s and 1960s?
Civil War
Urban Renewal
Harlem Renaissance
Civil Rights Movement
What was the purpose of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan called the Great Society ?
end poverty
increase civil rights
end lynching
fix the economy
Following the Civil War, large numbers of former slaves earned a living by becoming
conductors on the Underground Railroad
workers in Northern factories
sharecroppers on Southern farms
gold miners in California
What was the impact of yellow journalism on the Spanish American War?
It made people want to go to war with Spain, seeking revenge for the USS Maine
It gave people a chance to protest against unfair working conditions in factories
It forced people to stop immigration at Ellis Island
It encouraged people to stop segregation and want to accept all people in all states
The Allies of World War II were
Japan, Germany, and United States
United States, France, and Japan
United States, France, Soviet Union, and Britain
Germany, China, Japan, and Italy
Which of these is a type of fighting used in World War One, resulting in unprecedented number of casualties?
Trench Warfare
Atomic Warfare
Guerilla Warfare
Drone Warfare
What helped to cause the creation of suburbs after WWII?
highways, automobiles, Baby Boom
airplanes, automobiles, housing needs
automobiles, factories located out of the cities
housing located in the cities, airplanes
On October 29, 1929 share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed and partially caused the Great Depression. This day is known as...
Throwback Thursday
Black Tuesday
Black Friday
Black Sunday
This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Great Plains
Tornados
Dust Bowl drought
Bank Failures
Hurricanes
Why did the U.S. enter the Korean and Vietnam Wars?
It wanted to contain the spread of communism
It did not want another country to be split
It wanted to attack North Korea
It wanted to sell more weapons to its allies
What Cold War event is considered the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war?
the building of the Berlin Wall
the 1980 US Hockey "miracle on ice"
the Cuban Missile Crisis
the Vietnam War
24th Amendment bans poll taxes, which along with literacy tests and the grandfather clause, were originally used as tools to
limit African Americans voting rights
encourage women to vote
support African American suffrage
limit freedoms of Japanese Americans
