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Grade 8 SHS Expansion-WWII

Total questions: 88

Worksheet time: 1hrs 29mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

During the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover helped people by:

a)

providing direct aid in the form of food, money, and shelter.

b)

hiring people for construction projects and bought farmers' extra crops.

c)

increasing income taxes.

d)

introducing the Economic Aid Act

2.

This president created the New Deal.

a)

Hoover

b)

Roosevelt

c)

Truman

d)

Johnson

3.

Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, sought to make Italy a world power through fascism. Fascism is

a)

a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader with severe economic and social regimentation

b)

a religion/philosophy that honors Roman Catholicism traditions.

c)

a diplomatic approach characterized by collaboration and equality.

4.

He was the leader of the Nationalist Socialist Party and blamed the Jews, intellectuals, and Communists for Germany's economic problems.

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Benito Mussolini

c)

Wilhelm Kaiser II

d)

Nicolas Romanov

5.

_____________invaded_______________, which started World War II.

a)

Russia, Germany

b)

Germany, Poland

c)

Italy, Austria

d)

Serbia, Austria

6.

The WWII Axis Powers consisted of

a)

Germany, Italy, and Japan

b)

Germany, Italy, and Britain

c)

Italy, Germany, and China

7.

The WWI Allied Powers consisted of

a)

Britain, France, and Russia

b)

Italy, Japan, and Germany

8.

This president ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima on the Japanese island of Honshu.

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Truman

c)

Hitler

d)

Johnson

9.

The US deployed a second atomic bomb on the city of

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Tokyo

c)

Berlin

d)

Normandy

10.

These three leaders met at the Yalta Conference in February 1945 and formed the United Nations.

a)

Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin

b)

Roosevelt, Hideki Tojo, and Stalin

c)

Churchill, Stalin, and Truman

11.

After WWII,

a)

West Germany became an independent democracy and East Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union.

b)

East Germany occupied the Soviet Union and Italy occupied West Germany.

c)

West Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union and East Germany became an independent democracy.

12.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared after WWII that "an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." He was referring to

a)

the division of Europe into the democratic West and communist East

b)

an economic depression throughout the nations of Europe.

c)

a widespread phobia of fascism that gripped the populous

13.

The Truman Doctrine

a)

was a policy that stated the United States would help any country fighting against communism.

b)

was a policy that helped establish a democratic government in North Korea.

c)

specified actions to help the US come out of the Great Depression.

14.

This plan offered $12.5 billion in aid from the US to help Europe's economic recovery after WWII.

a)

The Marshall Plan

b)

The Truman Doctrine

c)

The Square Deal

d)

Watergate

15.

The McCarthy hearings

a)

vindicated Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy.

b)

publicly accused many innocent US officials of being Communists.

c)

were sealed to protect the innocent.

16.

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.

a)

Plessy v Fergusson

b)

Brown v Board of Education

c)

Dred Scott Decision

17.

In 1949, the US, Great Britain, and 10 other countries joined to form the

a)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

Western Alliance Treaty Organization

18.

Several years after WWII, the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries formed a military alliance called the

a)

Warsaw Pact

b)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

c)

Stalin-Lenin Pact

19.

The Chicano Movement

a)

worked to end discrimination and increase cultural pride among Mexican Americans.

b)

was an effort to suppress the advancement of Mexican Americans.

20.

He was the first US president to visit China.

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Truman

c)

Nixon

d)

Kennedy

21.

"Watergate" refers to

a)

a scandal of the Nixon administration involving the break in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

b)

a scandal involving the Environmental Protection Agency and the polluting of US waterways.

c)

a scandal involving the Carter Administration involving the fallout of the Camp David Accords.

22.

...was trained at West Point, led troops that captured John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and became Commander of the Confederate States Army.

a)

General Robert E. Lee

b)

General Ulysses S. Grant

c)

General Stonewall Jackson

23.

Slavery became illegal everywhere in the United States via the...

a)

Thirteenth Amendment

b)

Fourteenth Amendment

c)

Fifteenth Amendment

24.

All African American men could vote after this amendment was passed.

a)

Fifteenth Amendment

b)

Thirteenth Amendment

c)

Fourteenth Amendment

25.

The Civil War began here in Charleston, SC

a)

Fort Sumter

b)

Fort Vicksburg

c)

Fort William

26.

Official stance of not favoring either side in a war

a)

truce

b)

neutral

c)

alliance

d)

front

27.

an agreement between countries to act as partners to protect their interests

a)

alliance

b)

truce

c)

cease fire

d)

front

28.

Document that officially ended WWI and blamed Germany for the war.

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

The Marshall Plan

c)

Treaty of Paris

d)

The Warsaw Pact

29.

Heir to the throne of the Austrian Empire. He was assassinated by Serbian nationalists.

a)

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

b)

Kaiser Wilhelm

c)

Winston Churchill

30.

He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.

a)

John Wilkes Booth

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Jefferson Booth

31.

He was sworn in as president after Lincoln's assassination.

a)

Andrew Johnson

b)

John Wilkes Booth

c)

Harry Truman

d)

Ulysses S. Grant

32.

She was the first woman to receive a license to practice medicine.

a)

Elizabeth Blackwell

b)

Mary Todd Blackwell

c)

Clara Burton

33.

group of people working to establish a perfect society on Earth

a)

utopian community

b)

temperance movement

c)

transcendentalists

d)

middle class

34.

US citizens who viewed immigrants with fear and suspicion and thus opposed immigration

a)

nativists

b)

transcendentalists

c)

abolitionists

d)

prospectors

35.

idea that people could rise above the material things in life

a)

transcendentalism

b)

popular sovereignty

c)

romantic movement

d)

emancipation

36.

overcrowded, poorly built housing for incoming waves of immigrants in the 1800s

a)

tenements

b)

duplexes

c)

condominiums

d)

flats

37.

Dorothea Dix is a reformer known for

a)

advocating for the care of people with mental health problems.

b)

conducting the Underground Railroad.

c)

writing Uncle Tom's Cabin and advocating for the rights of African Americans.

38.

The idea that the United States was called by God to expand across the continent to the Pacific and spread Christianity and democracy.

a)

manifest destiny

b)

imperialism

c)

isolationism

d)

militarism

39.

He is the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

a)

Joseph Smith

b)

James K. Polk

c)

Zachary Smith

d)

Joseph Mormon

40.

"to search for gold"

a)

prospect

b)

finagle

c)

litany

d)

emancipate

41.

In 1846 the United States and Britain signed a treaty that gave the US

Oregon and all land south of the ___________ parallel.

a)

49th

b)

54th

c)

39th

d)

66th

42.

After Mexican soldiers attacked a group of US soldiers at the Rio Grande, President ________ urged Congress to declare war on Mexico.

a)

Polk

b)

Johnson

c)

Lincoln

d)

Grant

43.

Supreme Court ruling that held that African Americans, whether slave or free, were not US citizens under the US Constitution.

a)

Dred Scott decision

b)

15th Amendment

c)

Freeport Doctrine

d)

Plessy v. Ferguson

44.

Seizure of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia by abolitionists

a)

John Brown's Raid

b)

Siege of Vicksburg

c)

Pickett's Charge

45.

act of formally withdrawing from the Union

a)

secession

b)

sectionalism

c)

emancipation

d)

annexation

46.

law that made it a federal crime to assist runaway slaves and allowed slaves to be arrested even in areas where slavery was illegal

a)

Fugitive Slave Act

b)

Plessy v Fergusson

c)

Dred Scott decision

d)

Emancipation Proclamation

47.

principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery

a)

popular sovereignty

b)

sectionalism

c)

Compromise of 1850

d)

capital sovereignty

48.

wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Cady Stanton

c)

Elizabeth Blackwell

d)

Henry Clay

49.

brought California into the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Compromise of 1890

c)

Wilmot Proviso

d)

Louisiana Purchase

50.

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:

a)

Siege of Vicksburg

b)

Pickett's Charge

c)

Siege of Sumter

d)

Battle of Antietam

51.

A tactic used by the South to try to gain foreign support and become self-sufficient.

a)

cotton diplomacy

b)

trade embargo

c)

forming alliances

d)

bribing foreign nations

52.

official government pardon of a crime

a)

emancipation

b)

amnesty

c)

impeach

d)

Reconstruction Act

53.

state laws that limited the freedom of African Americans

a)

Black Codes

b)

Freedman Codes

c)

Reconstruction Acts

54.

Northern Republicans who moved to the South were called

a)

scalawags

b)

carpet baggers

c)

abolitionists

d)

sharecroppers

55.

Congress divided the South into military districts by passing the

a)

Reconstruction Acts

b)

Emancipation Proclamation

c)

Jim Crow Laws

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

56.
Which of the following was NOT a cause of WWI?
a)
Communism
b)
Nationalism
c)
Imperialism
d)
Militarism
57.

Who was responsible for triggering World War I through an assassination?

a)

Franz Ferdinand

b)

Gavrilo Princip

c)

Kaiser Wilhelm

d)

Woodrow Wilson

58.

The attack on this ship killed over 100 Americans in WWI.

a)

Titanic

b)

Santana

c)

Sullivan

d)

Lusitania

59.
What is the purpose of propaganda? 
a)
to educate 
b)
to persuade
c)
to punish
d)
to entertain
60.

Which was the most powerful country of the Central powers?

a)

Germany

b)

Bulgaria

c)

France

d)

Serbia

61.

Expanding ones country into other areas to grow or gain economic wealth is called

a)

jingoism

b)

Communism

c)

imperialism

d)

militarism

62.

Conscription or drafting began in WWI due to this law.

a)

Sedition Act

b)

Propaganda Act

c)

Selective Service Act

d)

Treaty of Versailles

63.

Where was trench warfare primarily located during WWI?

a)

Germany

b)

France

c)

Italy

d)

Mexico

64.

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:

a)

Imperialism

b)

carte blanche

c)

treason

d)

sabotage

65.

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?

a)

The irreconcilables feared Hitler.

b)

The irreconcilables feared being drawn into foreign wars.

c)

The irreconcilables did not trust Pres. Wilson

d)

The irreconcilables disagreed with all of the 14 points.

66.

What is a German submarine called?

a)

subway

b)

U-boat

c)

blitzkrieg

d)

dreadnought

67.

Germany built U-boats in response to England's naval strength. What is this an example of?

a)

Militarism

b)

Alliances

c)

Imperialism

d)

Nationalism

68.

Ethnic Slavic people in Bosnia Herzegovina wanted to rule themselves, rather than be ruled by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. What explains this?

a)

Militarism

b)

Alliances

c)

Imperialism

d)

Nationalism

69.

What was the "spark" of WWI?

a)

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

b)

Nationalist movements in the Balkans

c)

Imperialism in Africa

d)

The sinking of the Lusitania

70.
What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on WWI?
a)
It quickly ended the war.
b)
Mass production made war deadlier. 
c)
It didn't have an impact.
d)
It caused most of the fighting to be at sea.
71.
Which alliance were the Germans a part of during WWI?
a)
Axis Powers
b)
Central Powers
c)
Allied Powers
d)
Super Powers
72.

This country reluctantly signed the Treaty of Versailles and accepted blame for causing World War I.

a)

England

b)

France

c)

Austria

d)

Germany

73.
Which person was the leader of the political group that brought communism to Russia?
a)
Vladimir Lenin
b)
Leon Trotsky
c)
Josef Stalin
d)
Aleksander Kerinsky
74.

What happened to Czar Nicholas II of Russia in 1917?

a)

He and his family escaped to the United States

b)

He was allowed to return to power in the role of a limited monarch.

c)

He and his family were assassinated by the Bolsheviks.

d)

He moved to England to avoid being killed.

75.

What incident finally convinced the US that entering the Great War (WWI) was necessary?

a)

The sinking of the Lusitania

b)

The decoding and publication of the Zimmermann Telegram

c)

The end of the Schleiffen Plan

d)

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

76.
What impact did the Treaty of Versailles have on the borders of Europe?
a)
No impact, all borders remained the same.
b)
France gave land to Germany.
c)
The Soviet Union was given more land to keep them from invading the rest of Europe.
d)
All of the empires of Europe were split up, and many new countries were created.
77.
Which of the following did NOT happen to Germany as a result of Versailles?
a)
They were able to rebuild, and became a powerful ally to France and England.
b)
They were left powerless with a weak military.
c)
They were forced to pay heavy reparations to the rest of Europe.
d)
They were denied entry to the League of Nations.
78.

What were the two sides of WWI?

a)

Allied Powers & Axis Powers

b)

Axis Powers & Central Powers

c)

Allied Powers & Central Powers

d)

The Western Side & The Eastern Side

79.

What two countries began WWI?

a)

Australia & New Zealand

b)

Austria-Hungary & Serbia

c)

Serbia & Turkey

d)

The United States & France

80.

What was another name that people called World War I?

a)

The Spanish-American War

b)

The Great War

c)

The Central War

d)

There was no other name that they called this war.

81.

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?

a)

nationalism.

b)

militarism.

c)

imperialism.

d)

patriotism.

82.

The following is a new technology used in WWI

a)

U-Boats

b)

Mustard Gas

c)

Airplanes

d)

all of the above

83.

Who is the leader of Germany during WWI?

a)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

b)

Otto von Bismarck

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Johannes Gutenberg

84.

What treaty is signed to end WWI?

a)

Treaty of Versailles

b)

Treaty of Paris

c)

Geneva Convention

d)

Paris Peace Accords

85.

Which country leaves WWI in 1917 to deal with its own revolution?

a)

Russia

b)

United States

c)

Austria-Hungary

d)

Britain

86.

Who leads the Russian Revolution?

a)

Vladimir Lenin

b)

Karl Marx

c)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

d)

Friedrich Engels

87.

Who was the leader of the United States during WWI?

a)

Woodrow Wilson

b)

Nicolas II

c)

Kaiser Wilhelm II

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

88.

Plan presented by Woodrow Wilson to reorganize Europe post-WWI

a)

Fourteen Points

b)

Treaty of Versailles

c)

Reparations

d)

Peace Treaty