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WorksheetsUS Hist 1302 Review
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
First woman on the Supreme Court
O'Connor
Albright
Ginsberg
Sotamayer
Rice
1996 presidential election
Dole
Clinton
Perot
Bush
Saddam Hussein invaded what oil rich country i 1990
Iran
Kuwait
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Oman
First African American Secretary of State
Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Jackson
Colin Powell
Condoleeza Rice
Who was the Republican challenger in the 1992 election?
George Bush
Bill Clinton
Newt Gingrich
H. Ross Perot
Operation Just Cause was the means GHW Bush used to remove known drug lord and murderer Noriega from office when he lost the election, refused to leave office, US military personal were attacked wounded and killed, American lives were threatened in the country of
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Panama
Venezuela
In 1994, Republicans offered as their election platform "Contract with America" and subsequently gained control of the House of Representatives. The well-known Republican largely responsible for this Republican Revolution was a Representative from Georgia
Perot
Dole
Powell
Gingrich
In response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, George W. Bush created the department of ...
Internal Terrorism Oversight
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Domestic Defense
Internal Security Affairs
Reagan's most hotly debated foreign policy was
Nuclear Build up Crisis
Iranian Hostage Crisis
War on Terror
opposition to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua
In the later 1940s the first living area known as a "suburb" was built by the Levitt brothers. That very first suburb in America was in the state of:
New York
Alabama
Texas
California
First televised presidential debates were
Nixon
Eisenhower
Johnson
Kennedy
In the 1950s President Eisenhower's Secretary of State and hard-line cold warrior who was the chief architect of the "Domino Theory" in southeast Asia was:
John Marshall
Henry Kissinger
John Foster Dulles
Dean Rusk
Who was the U.S. President, post WWII, who opened doors between the U.S., Russia and China for diplomatic and economic purposes?
Nixon
Kennedy
Johnson
Ford
In 1964 President Johnson asked Congress for special powers to resist military aggression because he claimed that North Vietnamese gunboats had attacked U.S. naval ships in the:
Coral Sea
Gulf of Tonkin
Indian Ocean
Bay of Bengal
The US foreign policy proposal promised economic aid to European governments to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which the free instiutions can exist under the European Recovery Plan, which proposed in June of 1947, called?
Truman Doctrine
Stimson Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Roosevelt Corollary
In 1954,the Supreme Court called for the desegregation of public school in the landmark ruling in
Gibbons v. Ogden
Brown v. Board
Hopwood v Texas
McCulloch v Maryland
In an effort to reduce tensions between the western countries, including the US, and the Soviet Union, to try to push Human Rights issues to be addressed by the Soviets, but it resulted in recognizing post WW II eastern Europe borders. The US tried to establish a ban on above ground nuclear testing through this gathering of nations in
The Great Society
Helsinki Accords
NATO
Detente
Candidate who won the 1928 presidential election?
Roosevelt
Smith
Hoover
Taft
President who brought the US into WW II
T. Roosevelt
Truman
Hoover
F. Roosevelt
Who was the US President when the Marshall Plan was created and began implementing?
F. Roosevelt
Dulles
Truman
Hoover
What Mid-westerners moved West to California to work in the the fruit and vegetable rich fields?
Texans
Nebraskans
Kansans
Okies
US commander in the Pacific WW II
Bradley
Eisenhower
Marshal
MacArthur
President who authorized the use of the atomic bomb
Hoover
F. Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
What country reached out the US for help before its election, bringing Franco to power?
Italy
Germany
Belgium
Spain
The United Nations created what Middle East country in 1948?
Iraq
Israel
Iran
Saudi Arabia
In 1916 the American General picked to lead the punishment expedition against Pancho Villa and who was later the Commander of American forces in World War I in Europe was:
John J. Pershing
Douglas MacArthur
George Patton
Dwight Eisenhower
After World War I many historians believed the League of Nations failed because one key and very powerful nation failed to join the League. That nation which did not join the League was:
England
France
United States of America
Italy
Members of the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Hurston
Louis Armstrong
Booker Washington
Langston Hughes
When the Bonus March occurred, who was the US President?
F. Roosevelt
Truman
Hoover
Wilson
In the 1890s female activists frequently led social reform movements against the evils of alcohol in American Society. One of those women and president of the W.C.T.U. from 1879 to 1899 was:
Clara Barton
Susan B. Anthony
Charlotte P. Gilman
Francis Willard
The American inventor who invented the phonograph and who was responsible for technical advances in lighting and electricity was:
Nicolai Tesla
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
In the 1880s one of the cultural landmarks in American literary history was the publication of the book Huckleberry Finn written by:
Lew Wallace
Mark Twain
Henry Thoreau
Ralph W. Emerson
In 1913 this act of Congress provided for 12 regional federal banks and issued the kind of paper currency that we know today. The name of the act was the:
Federal Deposit Insurance Act
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Federal Reserve Act
