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U.S. History Review

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 34mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the term 'iron curtain' used to describe the division of?

a)

North and South Vietnam

b)

East and West Asia

c)

North and South Korea

d)

East and West Europe

2.
What two nations were in competition with each other during the Cold War?
a)
Spain and Portugal
b)
England and France
c)
Germany and Italy
d)
United States and Soviet Union
3.
Who made the statement "An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent"?
a)
President Roosevelt
b)
Joseph Stalin
c)
Winston Churchill
d)
President Harry Truman
4.
Why did the U.S. enter the Korean War?
a)
It did not want another country to fall to communists
b)
It did not want another country to be split
c)
It wanted to attack North Korea
d)
It wanted to sell more weapons to its allies
5.
What year did the Korean War begin?
a)
1940
b)
1950
c)
1970
d)
1960
6.
Which statement describes the Marshall Plan?
a)
An alliance designed to combine the forces of all democratic nations in Western Europe
b)
An economic plan to spend 12.5 billion dollars on reconstructing Western Europe
c)
A failed military plan to cripple communist influence in Western Europe
d)
A peace treaty with the Soviet Union that was ultimately rejected
7.
How did the US respond to finding out that the Soviets had missiles in Cuba?
a)
They sent the Air Force to bomb Cuba
b)
They began placing missiles in the Soviet Union.
c)
They placed a naval blockade around Cuba.
d)
They invaded Cuba and the Soviet Union.
8.

Dramatic increase in birth rate, especially in the years following WWII. This was due to so many people working and making a better living.

a)

Baby Boom ­

b)

Baby Gap

c)

GI Bill

d)

Transistor

9.

_____________ rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the ruling of unsegregated public places.

a)

Freedom Rides

b)

National Organization for Women

c)

United Farm Workers

d)

Counterculture

10.

What president assured the nation that "we shall overcome" when he signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Lyndon B. Johnson

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Harry Truman

11.

What law was passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II?

a)

VE Loan

b)

GI Bill

c)

FDIC Order

d)

FHA Loan

12.

In order to improve travel in the 1950's, Eisenhower created...

a)

the Eerie Canal

b)

the subway system

c)

the Interstate Highway System

d)

carpooling

13.

Brown v. Board of Education was famous because the court ruled that it is illegal

a)

allow children to work.

b)

to pay black people less than white people.

c)

to return a slave.

d)

to segregate schools.

14.
Court case that created "Separate-but-equal" doctrine.
a)
Sweatt v. Painter
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Plessy v. Ferguson
d)
Mendez v. Kirby ISD
15.

What is the name of Johnson’s legislative program aimed at ending poverty and racial injustice?

a)

the Job Corps

b)

the Great Society

c)

the New Frontier

d)

the Fair Deal

16.

Warren Court decisions on criminal matters tended to strengthen the

a)

rights of the accused.

b)

powers of the states to fight crimes.

c)

powers of the states to prosecute crimes.

d)

powers of the police to investigate crimes.

17.

Which of these cases resulted in law enforcement agencies reading a list of rights to suspects before questioning them?

a)

Gideon v. Wainwight

b)

Brown v. Board of Education

c)

Miranda v. Arizona

d)

Baker v. Carr

18.

Who was the United States President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

a)

Harry Truman

b)

Dwight Eisenhower

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Robert Kennedy

e)

James Gregory

19.

The failed US attempt to overthrow the communist Cuban government in 1961 was called the:

a)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Project to Eliminate Cuban Communism (PECC)

d)

Inchon Invasion

e)

Anti-Totalitarian Takeover (ATT)

20.

How did the US discover that nuclear missile sites were being constructed in Cuba?

a)

from American CIA spies in Cuba posing as farmers

b)

from US spy satellites

c)

from listening in on secret Soviet-Cuban radio transmissions

d)

the British intercepted the telegram which outlined the nuclear missile project in Cuba

e)

from photographs taken from an American U-2 spy plane

21.
The HUAC stands for...
a)
The House Un-American Activities Committee
b)
The House Under American Counsel
c)
The House Un-Republic Activities Committee
d)
The House Under American Communism
22.

President Truman had the FBI screen federal employees to see if they had any communist ties. As a result 3,000 employees were either fired or resigned. What was this called?

a)

McCarran Act

b)

Loyalty Review Board

c)

John Birch Society

d)

Palmer Raids

23.

McCarthyism was what?

a)

a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

b)

an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

c)

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

d)

The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

24.

What did the Eighteenth Amendment state?

a)

This amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

b)

This amendment outlawed the advertisment of alcohol.

c)

This amendment changed the age a person had to be to buy alcohol.

25.

What name was given to the great achievements in art and learning by African Americans during the 1920s?

a)

The Roaring 20s

b)

The Best of Times

c)

Harlem Renaissance

26.
African Americans moving from the South to Northern Cities was called the ____________.
a)
Draining of the South
b)
Migration to the North
c)
Great Migration 
d)
Big Move
27.
What concept did the state of Tennessee prohibit being taught in schools?
a)
Evolution
b)
Listening
c)
Technology
28.
Which action is an example of nativism in the 1920s?
a)
provision of credit to farmers
b)
efforts to improve living conditions for Native American Indians
c)
passage of laws restricting immigration
d)
widespread violation of prohibition laws
29.

Harding won the presidency by appealing to Americans' desire to

a)

Reform society

b)

Return to life before the war

c)

Repeal Prohibition

d)

Become a world power

30.

The golden age of Hollywood began in 1927 with the release of "The Jazz Singer," the first

a)

animated film

b)

feature-length film

c)

full-length motion picture

d)

"talking" motion picture

31.
In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States? 
a)
D-Day on the shores of France
b)
Pearl Harbor
c)
Invasion of Poland
d)
V-E Day
32.
What did allied forces do on D-Day, June 6, 1944?
a)
They sent thousands of troops to Berlin.
b)
They stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.
c)
The fought the Nazi troops in Russia.
d)
They took control of many Japanese islands.
33.
What strategy did the United States develop to help defeat Japan?
a)
island hopping
b)
total war
c)
Anaconda plan
d)
blockade
34.

Which of the following describes a response by France and Great Britain to the German aggression shown on this map?

a)

disarmament

b)

appeasement

c)

Nuremberg Trials

d)

economic sanctions

35.
What President was faced with the decision to invade Japan or use atomic weapons?
a)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
b)
Harry S. Truman
c)
Lyndon B. Johnson
d)
John F. Kennedy
36.
What was the Manhattan Project? 
a)
radio beams used to determine location of objects
b)
the world's first computer 
c)
effort by the US to build the first atomic bomb
d)
a complicated code machine used by German military 
37.

The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were enacted by Congress to

a)

help the United States recover from the Great Depression

b)

stop Nazi Germany from conquering Europe

c)

aid the Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War

d)

prevent the U.S. from being drawn into another world war

38.
This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 
a)
Tornados
b)
Dust Bowl
c)
Black Tuesday 
d)
Hurricanes
39.
The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression 
a)
Roosevelt 
b)
Eisenhower
c)
Hoover
d)
Jefferson
40.
This New Deal program insured the public's deposits to make sure that the bank runs never happened again 
a)
PWA
b)
WPA
c)
SSA
d)
FDIC
41.
What percentage of Americans were unemployed in 1933?
a)
25%
b)
35%
c)
50%
d)
2%
42.
President Hoover's philosophy that Americans must work harder to dig out of the depression.
a)
chicken in every pot
b)
rugged individualism
c)
Square Deal
d)
New Deal
43.

Stocks were rising steadily during the 1920s. We would call this a _________ market?

a)

Bear

b)

Moose

c)

Bull

d)

Lion

44.

Thousands of World War I veterans came to Washington, D.C. in 1932 to lobby Congress to

a)

Provide bonus payments to war veterans and their families

b)

Provide military jobs for family members of veterans

c)

Provide public works jobs for unemployed veterans

d)

Pass legislation giving veterans their promised bonuses early

45.

The ________________ provided pensions for the elderly, unemployed, and people with disabilities.

a)

Smoot-Hawley Tariff

b)

Social Security Act

c)

Welfare Administration

d)

Civilian Conservation Corps

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