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Know It All Test 5

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

Britain

b)

France

c)

Germany

d)

Russia

2.

What November 9, 1989, event symbolizes the end of the Cold War?

a)

U.S. President Bush worked toward easing tensions

b)

The Soviet Union becomes a communist nation

c)

People in Eastern Europe were gaining more freedom

d)

The Berlin Wall was torn down

3.

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

a)

Allow children to work long hours in factories

b)

Segregate schools based on people’s skin color

c)

Pay African Americans less in the workplace

d)

Return an escaped slave to master

4.

Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks were leaders of what struggle for social justice in the 1950s and 1960s?

a)

Civil War

b)

Urban Renewal

c)

Harlem Renaissance

d)

Civil Rights Movement

5.

What was the purpose of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s plan called the Great Society ?

a)

end poverty

b)

increase civil rights

c)

end lynching

d)

fix the economy

6.

Following the Civil War, large numbers of former slaves earned a living by becoming

a)

conductors on the Underground Railroad

b)

workers in Northern factories

c)

sharecroppers on Southern farms

d)

gold miners in California

7.

What was the impact of yellow journalism on the Spanish American War?

a)

It made people want to go to war with Spain, seeking revenge for the USS Maine

b)

It gave people a chance to protest against unfair working conditions in factories

c)

It forced people to stop immigration at Ellis Island

d)

It encouraged people to stop segregation and want to accept all people in all states

8.

The Allies of World War II were

a)

Japan, Germany, and United States

b)

United States, France, and Japan

c)

United States, France, Soviet Union, and Britain

d)

Germany, China, Japan, and Italy

9.

Which of these is a type of fighting used in World War One, resulting in unprecedented number of casualties?

a)

Trench Warfare

b)

Atomic Warfare

c)

Guerilla Warfare

d)

Drone Warfare

10.

What helped to cause the creation of suburbs after WWII?

a)

highways, automobiles, Baby Boom

b)

airplanes, automobiles, housing needs

c)

automobiles, factories located out of the cities

d)

housing located in the cities, airplanes

11.

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...

a)

Throwback Thursday

b)

Black Tuesday

c)

Black Friday

d)

Black Sunday

12.

This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Great Plains

a)

Tornados

b)

Dust Bowl drought

c)

Bank Failures

d)

Hurricanes

13.

Why did the U.S. enter the Korean and Vietnam Wars?

a)

It wanted to contain the spread of communism

b)

It did not want another country to be split

c)

It wanted to attack North Korea

d)

It wanted to sell more weapons to its allies

14.

What Cold War event is considered the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear war?

a)

the building of the Berlin Wall

b)

the 1980 US Hockey "miracle on ice"

c)

the Cuban Missile Crisis

d)

the Vietnam War

15.

24th Amendment bans poll taxes, which along with literacy tests and the grandfather clause, were originally used as tools to

a)

limit African Americans voting rights

b)

encourage women to vote

c)

support African American suffrage

d)

limit freedoms of Japanese Americans