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WorksheetsGrade 8 SHS Expansion-WWII
Total questions: 88
Worksheet time: 1hrs 29mins
During the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover helped people by:
providing direct aid in the form of food, money, and shelter.
hiring people for construction projects and bought farmers' extra crops.
increasing income taxes.
introducing the Economic Aid Act
This president created the New Deal.
Hoover
Roosevelt
Truman
Johnson
Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, sought to make Italy a world power through fascism. Fascism is
a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader with severe economic and social regimentation
a religion/philosophy that honors Roman Catholicism traditions.
a diplomatic approach characterized by collaboration and equality.
He was the leader of the Nationalist Socialist Party and blamed the Jews, intellectuals, and Communists for Germany's economic problems.
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Wilhelm Kaiser II
Nicolas Romanov
_____________invaded_______________, which started World War II.
Russia, Germany
Germany, Poland
Italy, Austria
Serbia, Austria
The WWII Axis Powers consisted of
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Germany, Italy, and Britain
Italy, Germany, and China
The WWI Allied Powers consisted of
Britain, France, and Russia
Italy, Japan, and Germany
This president ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima on the Japanese island of Honshu.
Roosevelt
Truman
Hitler
Johnson
The US deployed a second atomic bomb on the city of
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Berlin
Normandy
These three leaders met at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 and formed the United Nations.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
Roosevelt, Hideki Tojo, and Stalin
Churchill, Stalin, and Truman
After WWII,
West Germany became an independent democracy and East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union.
East Germany occupied the Soviet Union and Italy occupied West Germany.
West Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union and East Germany became an independent democracy.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared after WWII that "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." He was referring to
the division of Europe into the democratic West and communist East
an economic depression throughout the nations of Europe.
a widespread phobia of fascism that gripped the populous
The Truman Doctrine
was a policy that stated the United States would help any country fighting against communism.
was a policy that helped establish a democratic government in North Korea.
specified actions to help the US come out of the Great Depression.
This plan offered $12.5 billion in aid from the US to help Europe's economic recovery after WWII.
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
The Square Deal
Watergate
The McCarthy hearings
vindicated Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy.
publicly accused many innocent US officials of being Communists.
were sealed to protect the innocent.
This was so slow to be implemented that President Eisenhower had to send federal troops to force Arkansas governor, Orval Faubus, to follow the law.
Plessy v Fergusson
Brown v Board of Education
Dred Scott Decision
In 1949, the US, Great Britain, and 10 other countries joined to form the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
Western Alliance Treaty Organization
Several years after WWII, the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries formed a military alliance called the
Warsaw Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Stalin-Lenin Pact
The Chicano Movement
worked to end discrimination and increase cultural pride among Mexican Americans.
was an effort to suppress the advancement of Mexican Americans.
He was the first US president to visit China.
Roosevelt
Truman
Nixon
Kennedy
"Watergate" refers to
a scandal of the Nixon administration involving the break in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
a scandal involving the Environmental Protection Agency and the polluting of US waterways.
a scandal involving the Carter Administration involving the fallout of the Camp David Accords.
...was trained at West Point, led troops that captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and became Commander of the Confederate States Army.
General Robert E. Lee
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Stonewall Jackson
Slavery became illegal everywhere in the United States via the...
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Fifteenth Amendment
All African American men could vote after this amendment was passed.
Fifteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
The Civil War began here in Charleston, SC
Fort Sumter
Fort Vicksburg
Fort William
Official stance of not favoring either side in a war
truce
neutral
alliance
front
an agreement between countries to act as partners to protect their interests
alliance
truce
cease fire
front
Document that officially ended WWI and blamed Germany for the war.
Treaty of Versailles
The Marshall Plan
Treaty of Paris
The Warsaw Pact
Heir to the throne of the Austrian Empire. He was assassinated by Serbian nationalists.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kaiser Wilhelm
Winston Churchill
He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
Jefferson Booth
He was sworn in as president after Lincoln's assassination.
Andrew Johnson
John Wilkes Booth
Harry Truman
Ulysses S. Grant
She was the first woman to receive a license to practice medicine.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Mary Todd Blackwell
Clara Burton
group of people working to establish a perfect society on Earth
utopian community
temperance movement
transcendentalists
middle class
US citizens who viewed immigrants with fear and suspicion and thus opposed immigration
nativists
transcendentalists
abolitionists
prospectors
idea that people could rise above the material things in life
transcendentalism
popular sovereignty
romantic movement
emancipation
overcrowded, poorly built housing for incoming waves of immigrants in the 1800s
tenements
duplexes
condominiums
flats
Dorothea Dix is a reformer known for
advocating for the care of people with mental health problems.
conducting the Underground Railroad.
writing Uncle Tom's Cabin and advocating for the rights of African Americans.
The idea that the United States was called by God to expand across the continent to the Pacific and spread Christianity and democracy.
manifest destiny
imperialism
isolationism
militarism
He is the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Joseph Smith
James K. Polk
Zachary Smith
Joseph Mormon
"to search for gold"
prospect
finagle
litany
emancipate
In 1846 the United States and Britain signed a treaty that gave the US
Oregon and all land south of the ___________ parallel.
49th
54th
39th
66th
After Mexican soldiers attacked a group of US soldiers at the Rio Grande, President ________ urged Congress to declare war on Mexico.
Polk
Johnson
Lincoln
Grant
Supreme Court ruling that held that African Americans, whether slave or free, were not US citizens under the US Constitution.
Dred Scott decision
15th Amendment
Freeport Doctrine
Plessy v. Ferguson
Seizure of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia by abolitionists
John Brown's Raid
Siege of Vicksburg
Pickett's Charge
act of formally withdrawing from the Union
secession
sectionalism
emancipation
annexation
law that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves and allowed slaves to be arrested even in areas where slavery was illegal
Fugitive Slave Act
Plessy v Fergusson
Dred Scott decision
Emancipation Proclamation
principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery
popular sovereignty
sectionalism
Compromise of 1850
capital sovereignty
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Blackwell
Henry Clay
brought California into the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories
Compromise of 1850
Compromise of 1890
Wilmot Proviso
Louisiana Purchase
Inside this Mississippi town, civilians huddled in caves to avoid the cannon shells being fired daily from Grant’s artillery around the town and the guns on the fleet in the river.
Food and other supplies from outside had been cut off for a month and a half. Horses, dogs, cats, reportedly even rats became part of the diet for soldiers and civilians alike.
On July 3, Pemberton rode out to discuss surrender terms with Grant. Grant agreed to parole Pemberton’s men. The next morning, July 4, Confederate soldiers began marching out and stacking their guns. The city of Vicksburg would not celebrate the Fourth of July as a holiday thereafter until well into the 20th century. Despite the prolonged shelling they’d endured, the Confederates’ losses during the siege had been light. Some 29,500 surrendered.
This is an account of:
Siege of Vicksburg
Pickett's Charge
Siege of Sumter
Battle of Antietam
A tactic used by the South to try to gain foreign support and become self-sufficient.
cotton diplomacy
trade embargo
forming alliances
bribing foreign nations
official government pardon of a crime
emancipation
amnesty
impeach
Reconstruction Act
state laws that limited the freedom of African Americans
Black Codes
Freedman Codes
Reconstruction Acts
Northern Republicans who moved to the South were called
scalawags
carpet baggers
abolitionists
sharecroppers
Congress divided the South into military districts by passing the
Reconstruction Acts
Emancipation Proclamation
Jim Crow Laws
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who was responsible for triggering World War I through an assassination?
Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip
Kaiser Wilhelm
Woodrow Wilson
The attack on this ship killed over 100 Americans in WWI.
Titanic
Santana
Sullivan
Lusitania
Which was the most powerful country of the Central powers?
Germany
Bulgaria
France
Serbia
Expanding ones country into other areas to grow or gain economic wealth is called
jingoism
Communism
imperialism
militarism
Conscription or drafting began in WWI due to this law.
Sedition Act
Propaganda Act
Selective Service Act
Treaty of Versailles
Where was trench warfare primarily located during WWI?
Germany
France
Italy
Mexico
Germany pledged its unconditional support of any action the Austro-Hungarian Empire wished to take against Serbia. This was effectively a "blank check", also known as:
Imperialism
carte blanche
treason
sabotage
The "irreconcilables", led by Senator William Borah, proposed that, by accepting President Wilson's Fourteen Points, “We [would] have forfeited and surrendered, once and for all, the great policy of ‘no entangling alliances’ upon which the strength of this Republic has been founded for 150 years.”
Which statement below best expresses this concern?
The irreconcilables feared Hitler.
The irreconcilables feared being drawn into foreign wars.
The irreconcilables did not trust Pres. Wilson
The irreconcilables disagreed with all of the 14 points.
What is a German submarine called?
subway
U-boat
blitzkrieg
dreadnought
Germany built U-boats in response to England's naval strength. What is this an example of?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Ethnic Slavic people in Bosnia Herzegovina wanted to rule themselves, rather than be ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. What explains this?
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
What was the "spark" of WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Nationalist movements in the Balkans
Imperialism in Africa
The sinking of the Lusitania
This country reluctantly signed the Treaty of Versailles and accepted blame for causing World War I.
England
France
Austria
Germany
What happened to Czar Nicholas II of Russia in 1917?
He and his family escaped to the United States
He was allowed to return to power in the role of a limited monarch.
He and his family were assassinated by the Bolsheviks.
He moved to England to avoid being killed.
What incident finally convinced the US that entering the Great War (WWI) was necessary?
The sinking of the Lusitania
The decoding and publication of the Zimmermann Telegram
The end of the Schleiffen Plan
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What were the two sides of WWI?
Allied Powers & Axis Powers
Axis Powers & Central Powers
Allied Powers & Central Powers
The Western Side & The Eastern Side
What two countries began WWI?
Australia & New Zealand
Austria-Hungary & Serbia
Serbia & Turkey
The United States & France
What was another name that people called World War I?
The Spanish-American War
The Great War
The Central War
There was no other name that they called this war.
In 1900, the British Empire covered a fifth of the land area of the earth. This led to conflict between the major countries of Europe. Great Britain was trying to conquer Africa from Cairo (in the north) to Cape Town (in South Africa). France was trying to conquer Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea.
A few years later, Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany wanted colonies in Africa, too. This angered other major countries and increased the tensions that led to World War I.
The desire to take over lands for one's own country is called?
nationalism.
militarism.
imperialism.
patriotism.
The following is a new technology used in WWI
U-Boats
Mustard Gas
Airplanes
all of the above
Who is the leader of Germany during WWI?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Otto von Bismarck
Adolf Hitler
Johannes Gutenberg
What treaty is signed to end WWI?
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Paris
Geneva Convention
Paris Peace Accords
Which country leaves WWI in 1917 to deal with its own revolution?
Russia
United States
Austria-Hungary
Britain
Who leads the Russian Revolution?
Vladimir Lenin
Karl Marx
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Friedrich Engels
Who was the leader of the United States during WWI?
Woodrow Wilson
Nicolas II
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Franklin Roosevelt
Plan presented by Woodrow Wilson to reorganize Europe post-WWI
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
Reparations
Peace Treaty
