WorksheetsWorld History Important Events (Modern Era)
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
This is an image of the USS Arizona going down in flames on December 7, 1941. What is the name of the attack in which it sunk?
The Attack of Midway
The Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Attack on Hiroshima
The Attack of Hawaii
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as the (a) .
The Iron Curtain was ________________.
a metal sheet bordering East and West Berlin.
a heavy curtain used to block out sunlight.
an imaginary border surrounding the Soviet Union.
a line between two kinds of countries: the free ones of the West and the dictatorships of the East in Europe.
These laws were part of a racist system designed to ensure that whites got the best of everything and blacks got the worst under the "separate but equal" policy.
(a)
A time when paranoid Americans looked for communists behind every rock is called the ______________.
Red Scare
Communist Fear
Espionage
Red Paranoia
This Treaty was used to punish Germany for World War I.
Treaty of Vermont
Treaty of Germany
Treaty of World War I
Treaty of Versailles
About 6 million Jews died in the (a) , Hitler's "Final Solution" for the Jews.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed several kinds of discrimination EXCEPT ...
government must treat blacks and whites equally when they registered to vote.
"separate but equal" was finished. All government schools, parks and so on must be open to both blacks and whites.
reading tests, knowledge tests, character tests and the poll tax for black voters.
all hotels, restaurants, theaters and so on must treat blacks and whites equally.
This space mission hosted the first school teacher, Christa McAuliffe.
Columbia
Challenger
Apollo 11
Kennedy
Sixty Americans became hostages during the ___________.
Iraqi Hostage Crisis
Operation Eagle Claw
444 Days a Hostage
Iran Hostage Crisis
During the ___________ _____________, 4,500 tons of supplies to West Berliners were delivered daily.
(a)
Linda Brown could not attend the white school near her home in Topeka Kansas. Her father sued the Topeka school board. This lead to the famous case, which ended desegregation in schools.
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
Browder v Gayle
Bummer v Board of Education
The capital of Germany was divided after WWII to East and West Berlin. West Berlin was free and democratic, however, it was located behind a strong new barrier called the ________ ________, which was ruled by Stalin.
(a)
More than ______ hostages were held in Iran, after 500 Iranians stormed the US embassy in Tehran.
6
16
600
60
This landmark case ended segregation in American schools.
Brown v Board of Education
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Topeka Schools
Plessy v Brown
The Space Shuttle Challenger ...
docked safely at the space station.
orbited the earth for 3 months.
exploded upon re-entry.
exploded shortly after take-off.
The ________________ states used Jim Crow Laws to navigate around the Reconstruction Amendments and keep blacks and whites separated.
Northern
Mid-Western
Eastern
Southern
The ___________ ___________ was a fear of ______________ in the United States during the Cold War.
Red Scare, communism
Red Stair, socialism
Blue Fear, communism
Red October, capitalism
The Challenger exploded because it was too (a) for the booster rockets.
Which Axis Power conducted a surprise attack on the United States during the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
Germany
Italy
Japan
Russia
This Battle took place in the Pacific between the Americans and Japanese in which the carrier, USS Yorktown, was sunk.
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
True or False. The Americans suffered a loss at the Battle of Midway, which empowered the Japanese.
(a)
President _________________ convinced congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to honor deceased President Kennedy's legacy.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Abraham Lincoln
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gerald Nixon
The Berlin Airlift was the Ally response to the ___________ _____________, in which Stalin blocked every road, railroad and waterway into West Berlin.
(a)
This amendment to our constitution outlawed slavery in the United States.
13th
15th
14th
19th
