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USH - Term 2 Final Review Tool

Total questions: 103

Worksheet time: 52mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the agreement between Hitler and Stalin to not attack each other but divide Poland for an easy win?

a)

Atlantic Charter

b)

Paris Peace Conference

c)

Munich Conference

d)

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

e)

Nuremberg Laws

2.

What was the WWII era effort of black Americans to gain "a victory over racism at home as well as victory abroad?"

a)

Double V Campaign

b)

desegregation

c)

Korematsu v. United States

d)

Brown v. Board of Education

e)

The Great Migration

3.

What were the German laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing the citizenship of people without "Aryan blood?"

a)

anschluss

b)

kristallnacht

c)

lebensraum

d)

Nuremberg Laws

e)

The Law of October 9

4.

What was Hitler's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people?

a)

anchluss

b)

blitzkrieg

c)

lebensraum

d)

kristallnacht

e)

Mein Kampf

5.

What was the term coined by US President Roosevelt describing America's role in supplying the British and Soviets with materials to fight the Axis?

a)

Arsenal of Democracy

b)

Double V Campaign

c)

War Production Board

d)

Atlantic Wall

e)

War on Terror

6.

What was the influential book written by Adolf Hitler describing his life and ideology?

a)

Mein Kampf

b)

Of Mice and Men

c)

As I Lay Dying

d)

Mein Albtraum

e)

Green Eggs and Ham

7.

What was the 1944 Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of interning more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese descent in camps during WWII?

a)

Korematsu v. United States

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Plessy v. Fergusen

d)

Cory Matsuwabi v. California

e)

Mapp vs. Ohio

8.

Who were the members of the Axis in WWII?

a)

Germany, Italy, & Japan

b)

Italy, Japan, & France

c)

Japan, China, & Germany

d)

Soviet Union, Great Britain, & US

e)

Great Britain, France, & US

9.

What US program converted factories from civilian products to military production, tripling out during WWII?

a)

War Production Board

b)

The New Deal

c)

Fair Deal

d)

The Great Society

e)

Consumer Protection Agency

10.

What is the policy of making concessions to an aggressor in the hopes of preventing war?

a)

appeasement

b)

negotiation

c)

lebensraum

d)

anschluss

e)

kowtow

11.

What is the German term for lightening war used in WWII?

a)

blitzrieg

b)

anschluss

c)

lebensraum

d)

kristallnacht

e)

farfegnugen

12.

Who were the members of the Allies in WWII?

a)

Great Britain, Soviet Union, & US

b)

France, Germany, Italy

c)

Austria-Hungary & Germany

d)

Soviet Union, US, Japan

e)

US, Great Britain, Italy

13.

What is the Nazi attack of German Jews before WWII?

a)

anschluss

b)

kristallnacht

c)

lebensraum

d)

farfegnugen

e)

blitzkrieg

14.

What were the extensive coastal fortifications built Germany built along the Atlantic to deter an Allies invasion of Europe?

a)

Atlantic Charter

b)

Atlantic Wall

c)

Atlantic Ocean

d)

Atlanta

e)

Maginot Line

15.

What was the pit stop US troops made while traveling across America to fight the Axis powers?

a)

North Platte Canteen

b)

Kansas City Central Station

c)

Omaha Durham Station

d)

Fargo Family Forum

e)

Denver Rest Stop

16.

What is the German word for the union of Austria and Germany?

a)

anschluss

b)

blitzkrieg

c)

lebensraum

d)

farfegnugen

e)

kristallnacht

17.

Who was the WWII propaganda character designed to increase production of female factory workers and became a rallying symbol for women to be a part of the war effort?

a)

Rosie the Riveter

b)

Paula the Pilot

c)

WAVES

d)

WASPS

e)

WAACS

18.

Who were the American volunteer pilots fighting the Japanese in Chain prior to and immediately following Pearl Harbor?

a)

Flying Tigers

b)

Tuskegee Airmen

c)

Dolittle Raiders

d)

Fighting Dragons of Saipan

e)

Devil Dogs

19.

What were the women's appointments to the US Navy's Volunteer Emergency Service during WWI?

a)

Flying Tigers

b)

Tuskegee Airmen

c)

WAACS

d)

WASPS

e)

WAVES

20.

Who was the founder of the Italian fascists and plunges Italy into WWII?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Vasco da Gama

c)

Enrique Fermo

d)

Hideki Tojo

e)

Joseph Stalin

21.

What were the members of the National Socialist German Workers Party collectively called?

a)

NAZIS

b)

FASCISTS

c)

COMMUNISTS

d)

PATRIOTS

e)

STASI

22.

What were the African American fighting squadrons that escorted US bombers over Europe during WWII called?

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Flying Tigers

c)

WAVES

d)

WAACS

e)

WASPS

23.

What were the women army air force service pilots called during WWII?

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Flying Tigers

c)

WAVES

d)

WAACS

e)

WASPS

24.

Who was the prime minister of Japan during WWII?

a)

Hideki Tojo

b)

Hirohito

c)

Chiang Kai Shek

d)

Mao Zedong

e)

Ichiro Honda

25.

What was the name for women in the Army's Axillary Corps during WWII?

a)

Tuskegee Airmen

b)

Flying Tigers

c)

WAVES

d)

WAACS

e)

WASPS

26.

Who was the dictator of Germany during WWII?

a)

Adolf Hitler

b)

Heinrich Himmler

c)

Herman Goering

d)

Benito Mussolini

e)

Joseph Stalin

27.

What was the US naval defeat of Japan in which the Japanese lost 4 carriers and was the turning point in the Pacific during WWII?

a)

Battle of the Coral Sea

b)

Battle of Gaudalcanal

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of the Bulge

e)

Battle of Stalingrad

28.

What was the attempt by European leaders to appease Hitler by turning over to him the Sudetenland in exchange for promises to not expand German territory in the future?

a)

The Final Solution

b)

Munich Conference

c)

London Conference

d)

Yalta Conference

e)

Potsdam Conference

29.

What was the battle that represented the first Allied counter-strike against Japanese forces resulting in an Allied victory, forcing Japanese forces to abandon the South Pacific Island?

a)

Battle of the Coral Sea

b)

Battle of Gaudalcanal

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of the Bulge

e)

Battle of Stalingrad

30.

What was the retaliatory attack by American bombers after Pearl Harbor?

a)

Battle of the Coral Sea

b)

Doolittle Raid

c)

Operation Torch

d)

D-Day

e)

Battle of Stalingrad

31.

What was the 1942 forced march of Allied prisoners of war by the Japanese that resulting in hundreds of prisoner dying along the way?

a)

Bataan Death March

b)

Batman March for Life

c)

the Ides of March

d)

The Final Solution

e)

Battle of Stalingrad

32.

What was the Allied invasion of occupied France that opened a western front in Europe during WWII?

a)

D-Day

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Stalingrad

d)

Dunkirk

e)

Operation Torch

33.

What was the Allied invasion of North Africa?

a)

D-Day

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Stalingrad

d)

Dunkirk

e)

Operation Torch

34.

What was the Soviet defeat of the German Army which was the turning point of WWII in Europe?

a)

Battle of Stalingrad

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of Guadalcanal

e)

Battle of the Coral Sea

35.

What was Hitler's program of systemically killing the entire Jewish population in Europe?

a)

Auschwitz

b)

the Final Solution

c)

Munich Conference

d)

Operation Torch

e)

Operation Barbarrossa

36.

What was the battle where the Allies turned back the last German offensive in the Ardennes Forest during WWII?

a)

Battle of Stalingrad

b)

Battle of the Bulge

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Battle of Guadalcanal

e)

Battle of the Coral Sea

37.

What was the largest extermination camp in Poland during the Holocaust?

a)

Auschwitz

b)

The Final Solution

c)

kristallnacht

d)

Nuremberg Laws

e)

Bataan

38.

Which battle of was a Japanese surprise attack on the naval and air forces of the United States located in Hawaii?

a)

Battle of the Bulge

b)

Battle of Guadalcanal

c)

Battle of the Coral Sea

d)

Battle of Midway

e)

Pearl Harbor

39.

Which battle was a bloody and vicious defeat of Japanese forces on a tiny Pacific island the US needed for launching heavy bombers on the main island of Japan?

a)

Battle of the Coral Sea

b)

Iwo Jima

c)

Battle of Midway

d)

Pearl Harbor

e)

Battle of Guadalcanal

40.

Which battle was made possible by the US reading Japanese naval codes and knowing their attack plans on the island, resulting in the turning point in the Pacific during WWII?

a)

Iwo Jima

b)

Battle of Midway

c)

Battle of the Coral Sea

d)

Battle of Guadalcanal

e)

Pearl Harbor

41.

When did World War II begin?

a)

December 7, 1941

b)

September 1, 1939

c)

June 6, 1944

d)

June 1, 1941

e)

August 6, 1945

42.

When was Pearl Harbor?

a)

December 7, 1941

b)

September 1, 1939

c)

June 6, 1944

d)

June 1, 1941

e)

August 6, 1945

43.

When was D-Day?

a)

December 7, 1941

b)

September 1, 1939

c)

June 6, 1944

d)

June 1, 1941

e)

August 6, 1945

44.

Who was the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

e)

Harry Truman

45.

Who was US president during the Great Depression and most of WWII?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

e)

Harry Truman

46.

Who was US president during the closing days of WWII, dropping the bomb on Japan?

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

e)

Harry Truman

47.

Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

a)

Douglas MacArthur

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

e)

Harry Truman

48.

Who was the mastermind and manager of the Final Solution during WWII?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Heinrich Himmler

e)

Emperor Hirohito

49.

Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union during and after WWII?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Heinrich Himmler

e)

Emperor Hirohito

50.

Who was the ceremonial leader of Japan during WWII?

a)

Benito Mussolini

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Adolf Hitler

d)

Heinrich Himmler

e)

Emperor Hirohito

51.

What was the period in the 1950s when anti-communism in America was at a fever pitch?

a)

McCarthyism

b)

Fascism

c)

Communism

d)

Consumerism

e)

farfegnugen

52.

Who was the US government official accused of being a communist spy and convicted of perjury during the 2nd Red Scare?

a)

Alger Hiss

b)

Joseph McCarthy

c)

Julius Rosenberg

d)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

e)

Richard Nixon

53.

What was the time period called when there was a larger than expected generation in the United States born shortly after WWII?

a)

Baby Boom

b)

Baby on Board

c)

The Greatest Generation

d)

The Lost Generation

e)

Family Generation

54.

What is the preoccupation with purchasing material goods?

a)

consumerism

b)

desegregation

c)

generosity

d)

McCarthyism

e)

recession

55.

What was President Truman's extension of the New Deal that increased the minimum wage, expanded Social Security, and constructed low-income housing?

a)

New Deal

b)

Fair Deal

c)

Let's Make a Deal

d)

Square Deal

e)

The Big Deal

56.

What is the law passed in 1944 to help returning WWII veterans to buy homes and pay for higher education?

a)

The GI Bill

b)

The Fair Deal

c)

The National Defense Education Act

d)

Nuremberg Laws

e)

The Great Society

57.

What was the committee, led by Joseph McCarthy, which investigated un-American propaganda following WWII?

a)

McCarthyism

b)

House Un-American Affairs Committee

c)

House Select Committee on Propaganda

d)

The Fair Deal

e)

House National Security Committee

58.

Which US Senator led an anti-communism campaign from 1950-1954?

a)

Joseph McCarthy

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

Alger Hiss

d)

Julius Rosenberg

e)

Harry Truman

59.

Who was arrested in 1950 and executed in 1953 for conspiring to commit espionage by passing atomic bomb plans to the Soviet Union?

a)

Joseph McCarthy

b)

Julius Rosenberg

c)

Alger Hiss

d)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

e)

Tony Stark

60.

What became the word for accusing people of disloyalty and communist leanings?

a)

McCarthyism

b)

consumerism

c)

Communism

d)

fascism

e)

farfegnugen

61.

What law was passed in response to to Sputnik, providing funds for upgrading the sciences, foreign language, guidance services, and teaching innovation in US schools?

a)

National Defense Education Act

b)

Patriot Act

c)

GI Bill of Rights

d)

The Great Society

e)

the Fair Deal

62.

What was the joint effort by the US and Great Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet Ion blocked all ground routes into the city?

a)

Berlin Airlift

b)

Berlin Wall

c)

Berlin Olympics

d)

Operation Torch

e)

Operation Barbarrossa

63.

What was the American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world following WWII?

a)

containment

b)

consumerism

c)

Cold War

d)

NATO

e)

United Nations

64.

What is the international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war?

a)

Geneva Convention

b)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

c)

Geneva Accords

d)

United Nations

e)

Paris Paris Conference

65.

What was the political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe following WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region?

a)

Berlin Wall

b)

Berlin Airlift

c)

Iron Curtain

d)

containment

e)

Marshall Plan

66.

Which war began when communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea, nearly winning conquering all of Korea before the US-led coalition pushed the communists back, almost to the China border?

a)

Korean War

b)

Vietnam War

c)

World War II

d)

Operation Desert Shield

e)

Iran - Iraq War

67.

What was a US program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe following WWII?

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Marshall Mathers

c)

Berlin Airlift

d)

Truman Doctrine

e)

NATO

68.

What was the European and US alliances made to defend one another if attacked by the Warsaw Pact?

a)

NATO

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

Allies

d)

Axis

e)

OWACA

69.

What was President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or a totalitarian regime?

a)

Truman Policy

b)

Marshall Plan

c)

NATO

d)

United Nations

e)

Berlin Airlift

70.

What was the international organization formed after WWII to promote peace, security, and cooperation?

a)

the United Nations

b)

the League of Nations

c)

Geneva Convention

d)

Marshall Plan

e)

Warsaw Pact

71.

What was the alliance of Eastern European nations behind the Iron Curtain agreeing to protect each other from a NATO invasion?

a)

NATO

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

Marshall Plan

d)

United Nations

e)

OWACA

72.

What was the physical structure separating East and West Berlin that was built to keep East Berlin citizens out of West Berlin?

a)

Berlin Wall

b)

Iron Curtain

c)

NATO

d)

Warsaw Pact

e)

Truman Doctrine

73.

What was the power struggle between the Soviet Union and the US after WWII until 1991?

a)

Cold War

b)

containment

c)

Truman Doctrine

d)

Marshall Plan

e)

Iron Curtain

74.

Starting in the 1950s, what innovation developed from the growth of the automobile?

a)

increasing church membership

b)

the television

c)

the family vacation

d)

rock and roll music

e)

TV dinners

75.

The automobile and suburban growth resulted in a shift in the US population from...

a)

cities to rural areas.

b)

cities to suburbs.

c)

suburbs to rural areas.

d)

suburbs to cities.

76.

Why did the US become involved in Vietnam?

a)

containment

b)

desegregation

c)

Vietnamization

d)

the Tet Offensive

e)

the Great Society

77.

What areas did the Great Society address?

a)

Health and Welfare

b)

Education

c)

Military Spending

d)

Containment of communism

e)

Desegregation

78.

Why is the Tet Offensive key to understanding Vietnam?

a)

the US won the battles but lost US public support for the war

b)

the US lost the battles

c)

Tet is a lunar holiday in Vietnam

d)

the US media was very supportive of the war in Vietnam and broadcast the good things going on in the war

e)

it began US involvement in the Vietnam war

79.

Which group did the US support and fight alongside during the Vietnam War?

a)

ARVN

b)

VC

c)

NVA

d)

Dien Bien Phu

e)

Allies

80.

What was the name of the 1961 failed invasion of Cuba by a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles?

a)

U2 Incident

b)

Tet Offensive

c)

Bay of Pigs

d)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

e)

Cuban Missile Crisis

81.

What was the 1962 confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba?

a)

Bay of Bigs

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

U2 Incident

d)

Tet Offensive

e)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

82.

What was the alleged attack on US Navy ships by the North Vietnamese that escalated US involvement in the Vietnam War?

a)

Tet Offensive

b)

Bay of Pigs

c)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

d)

Cuban Missile Crisis

e)

Dien Bien Phu

83.

What was the 1954 battle in which the French were defeated by the Vietnamese communists?

a)

Tet Offensive

b)

Bay of Pigs

c)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

d)

Cuban Missile Crisis

e)

Dien Bien Phu

84.

Which group was the army of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

a)

ARVN

b)

VC

c)

NVA

d)

Dien Bien Phu

e)

Allies

85.

What was the massive surprise attack by the Vietcong and the NVA on South Vietnamese towns and cities in early 1968?

a)

Tet Offensive

b)

Bay of Pigs

c)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

d)

Cuban Missile Crisis

e)

Dien Bien Phu

86.

What was the downing of a US spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960?

a)

Bay of Bigs

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

U2 Incident

d)

Tet Offensive

e)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

87.

Which group was the communist guerrillas during the Vietnam War?

a)

ARVN

b)

VC

c)

NVA

d)

Dien Bien Phu

e)

Allies

88.

What was the US President Nixon's strategy for gradually ending US involvement in the Vietnam War?

a)

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

b)

Tet Offensive

c)

Vietnamization

d)

the Great Society

e)

Operation Linebacker II

89.

What lowered the US voting age from 21 to 18?

a)

War Powers Act

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

26th Amendment

d)

25th Amendment

e)

19th Amendment

90.

Which court case overturned the separate but equal standard of discrimination in public education?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Plessy v. Ferguesen

c)

Roe v. Wade

d)

Mapp v. Ohio

e)

Flynn v. United States

91.

What outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin?

a)

Brown v. Board of Education

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

13th Amendment

d)

26th Amendment

e)

Anti-Discrimination Act of 1968

92.

What is the term for ending the policy of racial segregation in the US?

a)

desegregation

b)

integration

c)

segregation

d)

the Great Society

e)

amalgamation

93.

What was the name for the group of civil rights workers who took bus trips through the southern US in 1961 to protest illegal bus segregation?

a)

Freedom Riders

b)

Freedom Writers

c)

the Great Society

d)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

e)

March on Washington

94.

What was US President Lyndon B. Johnson's domestic program the instituted federally sponsored social welfare programs?

a)

desegregation

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

the Great Society

d)

the New Deal

e)

the Fair Deal

95.

Which US president dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

a)

John F. Kennedy

b)

Lyndon B. Johnson

c)

Richard M. Nixon

d)

Gerald R. Ford

e)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

96.

Who was the charismatic Black Muslim leader who promoted racial separatism in the early 1960s?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Stokley Carmichael

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

Lyndon B. Johnson

e)

Rosa Parks

97.

What was the 1963 demonstration in which more than 200,000 people rallied for economic equality and civil rights?

a)

the Great Society

b)

the March on Washington

c)

the Freedom Riders

d)

the Montgomery Bus Boycott

e)

Kent State

98.

Who was the influential, non-violent, civil rights leader that was assassinated in 1968?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Stokley Carmichael

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

Rosa Parks

e)

Jesse Jackson

99.

What was the 1955-56 protest by African Americans against racial segregation in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system?

a)

the Great Society

b)

the March on Washington

c)

the Freedom Riders

d)

the Montgomery Bus Boycott

e)

the Sit-Ins

100.

Who was the civil rights leader that refused to give up a seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and triggered the national civil rights movement?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Coretta Scott King

d)

Oprah Winfrey

e)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

101.

Who was the first African American student to attend an all-white elementary school in the South?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Ruby Bridges

c)

Coretta Scott King

d)

Oprah Winfrey

e)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

102.

Who urged the abandonment of peaceful demonstrations and instead promoted "black power?"

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Stokley Carmichael

c)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

d)

Rosa Parks

e)

Jesse Jackson

103.

What limited the US President from sending troops into action abroad only with the expressed authorization of Congress or to meet an imminent threat or attack?

a)

the Patriot Act

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

War Powers Act

d)

26th Amendment

e)

the Constitution