WorksheetsUnit 8 Assessment
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 25mins
-speculating in the stock market
-overproducing farm products
-overproducing industrial products
These events led to
What event forced the United States to enter World War II?
Germany's invasion of Poland
Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor
Japan's attack on China
Germany's invasion of France
How did President Roosevelt try and help Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union before the United States declared war on Germany?
The Lend-Lease Act
The New Deal
Naval Blockades
Housing Prisoners of War
What is the best explanation why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
Japan wanted to surprise and destroy the U.S. Navy in the Pacific ocean so it would expand it's Empire
The United States had already declared war on Germany and Japan and Japan wanted to attack first
Japan was responding to threats made by the United States Navy
Japan was following orders from Germany to attack the U.S. Navy
Like during World War I, one of Georgia's main contributions to the World War II war effort was
Training troops at military bases throughout the state
Helping develop the atomic bomb
Producing fabric for soldier's uniforms
Training African-American pilots at the Tuskegee Institute
Due to demand for workers in factories during the war, which part of the population was employed in large numbers for the first time?
Women
African-American Men
Children
The elderly
What was the name of the factory that opened in Marietta, GA and brought industry to Cobb County for the first time?
Bell Bomber
Boeing Aircraft
Rolls Royce Engines
Northrop Bomber
How did the cities of Savannah and Brunswick Georgia benefit from World War II?
The shipyards and ports employed hundreds of workers to help build Naval ships
The cities became major training centers for the Army.
They became centers for building bombers
They became major training centers for the Air Force
The U.S. Senator from Georgia that helped get 15 military bases built in Georgia
Richard B. Russell
Carl Vinson
Herman Talmadge
William B. Hartsfield
The U.S. Representative from Georgia that was a supporter of the "two ocean Navy", which led to increased shipbuilding
Carl Vinson
Richard B. Russell
Ivan Allen, Jr.
William B. Hartsfield
The extremely popular mayor that worked to develop Atlanta as a major air travel (Aviation) center and called Atlanta, "The city to busy to hate".
William B. Hartsfield
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Eugene Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
Who died to create the Three Governor's Episode after the election of 1946?
Eugene Talmadge
Herman Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
Melvin Thompson
The Atlanta Mayor that took down "colored" signs in city hall and desegregated the cafeteria on his first day.
Ivan Allen, Jr.
William B. Hartsfield
Eugene Talmadge
Herman Talmadge
The Atlanta Mayor that was responsible for bringing major league sports teams (Baseball, Football, and Basketball) to Atlanta.
Ivan Allen, Jr.
William B. Hartsfield
Ellis Arnall
Herman Talmadge
Who was allowed to vote after the white primary was declared illegal?
African-Americans
Women
Whites that were 18 years old
Republicans
Ivan Allen, Jr. and William B. Hartsfield are both known as
Progressive Atlanta mayors that supported Civil Rights and equality
Segregationists Governors that supported transportation and economic development
Conservative Congressmen that resisted the Civil Rights Movement
The extremely popular mayor that worked to develop Atlanta as a major air travel (Aviation) center and called Atlanta, "The city to busy to hate".
William B. Hartsfield
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Eugene Talmadge
Ellis Arnall
Why is Atlanta's longest serving mayor, William Berry Hartsfield, known as Atlanta's "father of aviation"?
He was an accomplished pilot who began Delta airlines.
He was a colleague of airplane inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright.
He developed the C5 mass transport airplane for Georgia's Lockheed Aeronautical plant.
He believed that an airport for Atlanta would be a key to the city's economic prosperity.
Eugene Talmadge was MOST LIKELY elected as Georgia's governor for a final time in 1946 because he
vowed to enforce Jim Crow laws and keep Georgia segregated.
wanted to get rid of the corruption inside the state government.
was determined to get rid of controversial educators in Georgia.
believed the state’s white colleges should lose their accreditation.
Former Atlanta mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., received the Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Peace Prize in 1981. Which BEST explains why Allen received the award?
Allen was instrumental in increasing downtown construction.
Allen was responsible for bringing major sports teams to Atlanta.
Allen helped arrange Martin Luther King’s funeral after his assassination.
Allen helped keep Atlanta’s citizens calm during the Civil Rights Movement.
In 1966, the Atlanta Braves made history by
playing to a sold-out Atlanta crowd.
losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates after thirteen innings of play.
being known as the worst team in major league baseball’s history
becoming the first major league sports team to call the Deep South home.
Which transportation system has had the BIGGEST impact on making Georgia a center of international business?
The Port of Brunswick
the MARTA rail system
Interstates 75, 85, & 20
Hartsfield-Jackson Airport
All of the phrases are describing what Atlanta mayor?
Asa Candler
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Andrew J. Young
Maynard Jackson
What do these terms have in common?
They were all prevented from being enforced to do the efforts of Radical Republicans.
They were all enacted as part of President Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal" program.
They were all used to ensure that African-Americans were allowed to vote in Southern states in the late 1800s.
They were all used to disenfranchise African-Americans in the South in the years following the Civil War and Reconstruction.
As Georgia began to diversify its agricultural production in the years following World War II, which crops replaced cotton as the state's primary crops?
oranges, apples, and rice
rice, indigo, and tobacco
sugar cane, cotton, and peanuts
pecans, peanuts, soybeans, and corn
What can you conclude from this passage from a decision made by the Supreme Court?
The end of the "Jim Crow Era" was finally a reality.
The ideals of the Reconstruction Era would never become a reality.
The black residents of Southern states would never have full equality.
The practice of having "white primaries" in the South was unconstitutional.
The decision in King v. Chapman, et al (1945) was key in ending which of these in Georgia?
racism
discrimination
the "Jim Crow" era
the "White Primary"
What evidence could you site that would show the importance that William B. Hartsfield had in the growth of Atlanta?
He served for six terms as mayor.
Atlanta Municipal Airport was renamed in his honor.
He order three interstates to be built through the city
Hartfield became the only Atlanta mayor to later serve as governor.
