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APUSHistory Quiz XI Practice (NB 43, 44, 45)

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the locations of the two primary conferences held near the end of World War II in which the Allied power decided what to do with the European governments and Germany following the conclusion of the war?

a)

Potsdam

b)

Yalta

c)

Croatia

d)

Skopje

e)

Cairo

2.

What did the Allies decide to do with European governments following World War II?

a)

self-determination

b)

colonial rule

c)

destroy it all and start over

d)

push them towards adopting communism

e)

United States took control of the western European governments.

3.

What did the Allies decide to do with European governments following World War II?

a)

Mutually Assured Destruction

b)

Mutually Assisted Defense

c)

Manual Active Defense

d)

Middle American Destruction

e)

Mutually Achieved Directive

4.

What was the organization tasked with gathering intelligence and information about the enemy during the Cold War for the United States?

a)

CIA

b)

KGB

c)

NKVD

d)

FBI

e)

Gestapo

5.

What was the organization that was tasked with gathering intelligence and information about the enemy during the Cold War for the Soviet Union?

a)

KGB

b)

CIA

c)

Gestapo

d)

NTSB

e)

Mossad

6.

This is policy in which the US was determined to stop communism by preventing it from spreading?

a)

Truman Doctrine

b)

Marshall Plan

c)

Roosevelt Corollary

d)

Balfour Agreement

e)

Roosevelt New Deal

7.

This is the name for the massive aid program offered by the United States to any country who agreed to use a free market economy (capitalist) and to purchase certain American manufactured goods.

a)

Marshall Plan

b)

Truman Doctrine

c)

5-Year Plan

d)

Roosevelt Corollary

e)

Roosevelt New deal

8.

This is the name for the supplying of American, British, and French occupants of Berlin when Stalin closed East Germany off to the West in 1947?

a)

Berlin Airlift

b)

Balfour Rescue

c)

Operation Barbarossa

d)

Sarajevo Scramble

e)

Bonn Train Route

9.

These two countries were the first in European that the United States provided direct aid to in hopes of preventing the spread of communism in 1947?

a)

Turkey

b)

Greece

c)

Macedonia

d)

Egypt

e)

Poland

10.

This is the name for the defensive military alliance among Western democracies formed in 1949?

a)

NATO

b)

Warsaw Pact

c)

Triple Alliance

d)

Triple Entente

e)

United Nations

11.

This is the name of the Eastern bloc defensive military alliance among communist nations founded in 1955?

a)

Warsaw Pact

b)

NATO

c)

Triple Alliance

d)

Triple Entente

e)

United Nations

12.

Which of the conflicts below were all proxy conflicts of the Cold War?

a)

Greece/ Turkey

b)

Chinese Civil War

c)

Korean War

d)

Vietnam War

e)

Soviet-Afghan Conflict

13.

This is the name of the security department that was created to monitor communist activities in the United States.

a)

House un-American Activities Committee

b)

House ultra-American Alliance and Committee

c)

House ultra-American Agency against Communism

d)

House un-American Archive Against Communist Committee

e)

House ultra-activity Association against Communist

14.

This U.S. Senator utilized the fear of communism to accuse several members of conspiring against the United States as communist with little or no evidence.

a)

Senator Joseph McCarthy

b)

Senator Joseph Lewis

c)

Senator Dwight J. Johnson

d)

Senator Margaret Rankin

e)

Senator William H. Harrison

15.

Which U.S. political party generally had a more hardline (anti) approach to communism and anarchism following World War II?

a)

Republican Party

b)

Democrat Party

c)

Libertarian Party

d)

Social-Democrat Party

e)

American Republican Party

16.

This term was used to describe several famous actors and writers who were blacklisted as a result of their having spoken out against constitutional violations of the Second Red Scare.

a)

Silent Hollywood

b)

Hollywood Ten

c)

Hollywood Un-American Film Makers Guild

d)

8 Men Out

e)

Hollywood Outsiders

17.

This piece of legislation provided returning soldiers with assistance for housing, vocational training, and college following their service in World War II?

a)

G.I. Bill of Rights

b)

G.I. Bill of Responsibilities

c)

World War II Veteran's League

d)

G.I. Be All You Can Be Army Initiative

e)

Eisenhower's Great Society Plan

18.

Term used to describe the construction of houses outside of dense urban areas?

a)

Suburbs

b)

Mixed-Urbans

c)

Hoveltopia

d)

Utopias

e)

Tenement Districts

19.

This is the term coined by President Eisenhower to represent the continued American federal spending on military production and foreign sales of weapons.

a)

Military-Industrial Complex

b)

Middle-Industrial Cooperation

c)

Military-Initiative against Communism

d)

Mid-Continent Initiative on Collective Security

e)

Global Total War Complex

20.

Which of the following were not technological innovations of the 1950s that were included in our notes?

a)

Televison

b)

Movies

c)

Drive-Ins

d)

Appliances (Washing Machine/ Dryer, etc.)

e)

Internet

21.

Famous TV evangelist the 1950s and 1960s who helped greatly increase church attendance in the United States

a)

Billy Graham

b)

Pope John Paul II

c)

Joel Olsteen

d)

Perdro Sandoval

e)

Margaret Sanger

22.

The term given to the overall movement against the status quo in the 1960s and 1970s in which most young people rejected and attempted to dismantle the culture and systematic oppression present in the United States?

a)

Counter Culture

b)

Young Bohemians

c)

HUAC

d)

Yuppie Culture

e)

M.A.D. Culture

23.

Generally job not requiring physical labor. Tend to have more education and may have higher salaries

a)

White Collar

b)

White Glove

c)

Blue Collar

d)

Leather Clove

e)

Flannel Collar

24.

Which of the 3 (three) U.S. Presidents listed below either actively combated segregation or enforced Supreme Court decisions dismantling segregation from our notes?

a)

Harry S. Truman

b)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Richard M. Nixon

e)

George H.W. Bush

25.

This Supreme Court decision in 1954 declared the practice of segregation to be unconstitutional?

a)

Plessy v. Ferguson

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Roe v. Wade

d)

Texas v. Johnson

e)

Tinker v. Des Moines

26.

This United States Supreme Court Chief Justice led many unanimous decisions in favor of civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.

a)

Ear Warren

b)

John Roberts

c)

John Marshall

d)

Thurgood Marshall

e)

William Rehnquist

27.

The ruling in this court case ruled that state bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional?

a)

Loving v. Virginia

b)

Plessey v. Ferguson

c)

Brown v. Board of Education

d)

Texas v. Johnson

e)

Roe v. Wade

28.

Provide three (3) acts passed by Congress in the 1960s designed to eliminate systematic sexism and racism.

a)

Equal Pay Act (1963)

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Environmental Projections Act (1972)

e)

Non-Discrimination LGBTQ Act (1963)

29.

This was the name given to the boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr.in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks?

a)

Montgomery Bus Boycott

b)

Alabama Metro Boycott

c)

Los Angeles Transportation Ban

d)

Freedom Riders Rebellion

e)

Black American Investment Boycott

30.

Martin Luther King, Jr’s, use of non-violent protest was inspired but what other activities how used non-violence to gain independence for his country?

a)

Martin Luther King, Sr.

b)

Mahatma Gandhi

c)

Billy Sunday

d)

Salvador Dali

e)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

31.

This is the name of the committee which organized students to participate in sit-ins?

a)

SNCC

b)

KGB

c)

FBI

d)

NAACP

e)

Black Power Movement (BPM)

32.

This is the movement that emphasized racial pride, economic empowerment, and the creation of political and cultural institutions for Blacks?

a)

Black Power Movement (BPM)

b)

Back to Origins Movement (BOM)

c)

Students Overcoming Obstacles Movement (SOOM)

d)

Women of Color for Hope and Prosperity Movement (WCHPM)

e)

Anglo-African Coalition for Hope (AACH)

33.

This was a militant group formed in Oakland, California in the 1960s, with the goal of defending Blacks from systematic racism?

a)

Black Panthers

b)

Black Ravens

c)

Black Mambas

d)

Black Knights

e)

Black Storm

34.

What feminist wrote the book "The Feminine Mystique"?

a)

Betty Friedan

b)

Simone de Beauvoir

c)

Aflred Kinsey

d)

Margaret Sanger

e)

Mahatma Gandhi

35.

Identify the feminist author who wrote "The Second Sex"

a)

Simone de Beauvoir

b)

Betty Friedan

c)

Mahatma Gandhi

d)

Cesar Chavez

e)

Jeanette Rankin

36.

Identify the Hispanic American labor and civil rights activist who formed the national Farm Workers Association in 1962.

a)

Cesar Chavez

b)

Alfred Kinsey

c)

Margaret Sanger

d)

Emilio Aguinaldo

e)

Malcom X

37.

This was the psychological researcher who wrote extensively on human sexuality, and along with publication such as Play, helped contribute to a shifting American attitude that considered the topic of sex and nudity less taboo.

a)

Alfred Kinsey

b)

Alfred Nobel

c)

Malcolm X

d)

Billy Graham

e)

Harry S. Truman

38.

What two (2) developments influenced greater control over human reproduction and decreased amount of time for house work?

a)

Birth Control Pill

b)

Home Appliances

c)

Colleges allowing women to enroll

d)

Military allowing women to enlist

e)

Invitro Fertilization

39.

African-American activist who pushed for use of “any means necessary” to achieve racial equality including violence if necessary. Changed his name claiming his name at birth was his slave name.

a)

Marcus Garvey

b)

Malcolm X

c)

Martin X

d)

Marcus X

e)

Mahatma Brown

40.

This was the name of the bipartisan Act that abolished the National Origins Formula from 1924 and greatly expanded US immigration?

a)

Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1963

c)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

d)

Equal Rights Act 1966

e)

Emancipation Proclamation Origins Act of 1966

41.

Members of the working class who perform mostly manual labor and most often earn an hourly wage.

a)

White Collar

b)

Blue Collar

c)

Flannel Collar

d)

White Clove

e)

Leather Glove

42.

A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws.

a)

Civil Disobedience

b)

Civil Deception

c)

Civil Disorder

d)

Civil Litigation

e)

Civil Dystopia

43.

A married couple and their unmarried children living together.

a)

Nuclear Family

b)

Original Family

c)

American Family

d)

Carbon Family

e)

Hybrid Family

44.

Cold War competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their armed forces and weapons.

a)

Arms Race

b)

Resource Escalation

c)

Proxy Race

d)

M.A.D. Race

e)

Containment Race

45.

Nickname given to the time period between 1946 and 1964 in which the post World War II peace led to conditions that allowed for tremendous birth rates and job opportunities.

a)

Baby Boom

b)

Population Explosion

c)

Earth Birth

d)

Zoomer Boom

e)

Generation Xer Exit

46.

Term from the Cold War era that was used to describe an industrialized capitalist democracy (examples include the United States and England)

a)

First World Country

b)

NATO Country

c)

Second World Country

d)

Reform Country

e)

Arms Race Country

47.

Term from the Cold War era that was used to describe a communist and state-planned economy. Examples included the Soviet Union and China.

a)

Second World Country

b)

First World Country

c)

Arms Race Country

d)

Geo Political Country

e)

M.A.D. Country

48.

1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion on the basis of a woman’s right to privacy.

a)

Roe v. Wade

b)

Trapper v Smith

c)

Sullivan v. Smith

d)

Loving v. Virginia

e)

Brown v. Wade

49.

Term U.S. President Johnson called his version of the Democratic reform program, which included Medicare, civil rights legislation, and federal aid for education.

a)

Great Society

b)

New Frontier

c)

New Deal

d)

Great Horizon

e)

Great Leap Forward

50.

Policy designed to address past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities?

a)

Affirmative Action

b)

Employment Empowerment

c)

Equal Opportunity Action Act

d)

Nuclear Action

e)

Civil Standard Action

51.

This was the product that many Arab nations refused to ship to the United States as a punishment for the United States supporting Israel which lead to a world wide economic crisis.

a)

Oil

b)

Gold

c)

Plutonium

d)

Guano

e)

Vibranium