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WorksheetsU.S. History 9 Mid-Term
Total questions: 62
Worksheet time: 34mins
Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," his antisemitic manifesto, while in prison for attempting to _________.
rig the elections
overthrow the German government (coup)
refuse to fight in World War I
destroy Jewish businesses
After the Nazi Party won approximately 37% of the vote, Hitler initially became the ________ of Germany.
Commander in Chief
President
Prime Minister
Chancellor
After the _______ was set on fire, Hitler blamed a communist plot and convinced the government to give him supreme powers, allowing him to suspend basic rights and detain people without trial.
Capitol Building
Luftwaffe
Reichstag
Congress
Hitler's political title as sole leader of Germany was _____.
President
Deutscher
Danke
Führer
Hitler promised the German people all of the following EXCEPT:
restore German pride, glory, and strength
make Germany a place welcoming of everyone
rebuild the German military
bring back jobs for the unemployed
The Minister of Propaganda for Nazi Germany
Joseph Goebbels
Heinrich Himmler
Herman Goring
Erwin Rommel
This was an organization set up by Adolf Hitler in 1933 for educating and training male youth in Nazi principles.
Brownshirts
Hitler Youth
German Youth
German Association
World War II begin when Germany invade its neighboring country of _____.
France
Belgium
Poland
Soviet Union
In WWII, Germany used a new type of war strategy called the _____, which means "lightning war."
blitzkrieg
buchstabieren
Veränderung
gemacht
Germany broke their non-aggression pact with _______ in June 1941.
Austria
Belgium
Poland
Soviet Union
Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain throughout most of World War II?
Winston Churchill
FDR
Harry Truman
Gordon Lightfoot
Benito Mussolini was the fascist dictator of _____ during WWII.
Italy
Soviet Union
France
Poland
Who was President of the United States during World War II?
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Who attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in December 1941?
Japan
China
Germany
Italy
Over 100,000 people of this ancestry where sent to internment camps in the United States between 1942-45.
Italian
German
British
Japanese
Which American General became Supreme Allied Commander during WWII?
General George Patton
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
General Ferdinand Foch
General Franklin D. Roosevelt
The D-Day Invasion of June 1944 took place at the beaches of _____.
Dunkirk, France
London, Great Britain
Normandy, France
Paris, France
The final German OFFENSIVE attack, which took place in December of 1944, was a final chance to push back the Allied Forces. The Americans took massive causalities, but won the battle.
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of Iwo Jima
Battle of Paris
Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of _____.
the Bulge
Berlin
Okinawa
D-Day
After the Civil War, ____________ were used to legalize segregation in the South.
Emancipation Proclamation
The 14th Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
Freedmen's Bureau
African Americans wanted segregation to end, so they started non-violent, peaceful protests which was the start of _________.
Segregation Movement
Integration Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Jim Crow Movement
What was the name of the 14-year-old boy who was wrongfully executed for murders he did not commit in 1944?
William Jackson
Vernon Williams
George Stinney
James Edwards
Who was the 14-year-old boy who was murdered by two white men in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white cashier named Carolyn Bryant?
Medgar Evers
George Stinney
Robert Jones
Emmett Till
What is lynching?
execution by judge & jury sentence
a form of slavery defined by one's race and inherited by children
when a mob murders someone (often by hanging) for an alleged offense or to strike fear
people being treated as the chattel (personal property) of an owner and being bought and sold as commodities
______ was a six-year-old African American child who became the first to desegregate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960.
Rosa Parks
Diane Nash
Ruby Bridges
Daisy Bates
The Little Rock _________ was a group of African American students who became the first to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Five
Seven
Nine
Eleven
Which group did Dr. King help found?
Council on Racial Equality (CORE)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in ______.
armed resistance
separating from whites
peacefully resisting unjust laws
violent protests & rioting if necessary
In 1963, more than 200,000 civil rights supporters marched in the Nation's capital in hopes of earning the civil freedoms afforded to white Americans. This _______________ ended with Dr. King giving his _____________ speech
March from Selma to Montgomery; Letter from Birmingham
March on Washington; Letter from Birmingham
March from Selma to Montgomery; I Have a Dream Speech
March on Washington; I Have a Dream Speech
What civil rights organization was led by a young man named John Lewis?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
UL (Urban League)
In 1963, a bomb created with 15 sticks of dynamite was set off at a Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing ______.
four young black girls
Martin Luther King, Jr.
the leader of the NAACP
four leaders of the SCLC
What march was organized by MLK and advocated for equal voting rights in 1965?
Selma, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Atlanta, Georgia
Birmingham, Alabama
Who was the openly racist governor of Alabama during the Selma marches of 1965?
Jim Clark
Bull Connor
Elmer Cook
George Wallace
The event when state troopers and county possemen attacked the unarmed marchers with billy clubs and tear gas while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL is known as ____.
Bloody Saturday
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Monday
Blood Tuesday
_______ was a black activist who occasionally clashed with MLK, Jr. (and criticized his nonviolent approach to activism). He urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression “by any means necessary.”
Medgar Evers
Malcolm X
John Lewis
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group that still exists today.
True
False
The Black Panther Party was a revolutionary and controversial political organization that used armed "copwatching" to challenge police brutality, but also created social programs such as Free Breakfast for Children to help their communities.
True
False
Which part of Korea was communist?
North
South
Who won the Korean war?
The United Nations
North Korea
Nobody, it ended in a stalemate (tie)
The U.S. failed to get rid of the Communist leader of what country in the Bay of Pigs invasion?
El Salvador
Nicaragua
Cuba
Lyndon B. Johnson's policies to try to end poverty and racism in the United States were called his _______.
New Deal
New Frontier
Great Society
Kewl Beanz
Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
Ngo Dien Diem
Hideki Tojo
The corrupt, non-communist leader of South Vietnam who was assassinated
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
John F. Kennedy (JFK)
What year did the US go to war with North Vietnam?
1945
1955
1965
1975
How did the US military attempt to take away the Vietcong's ability to hide in the jungle?
They used napalm to burn the jungle down.
They used agent orange to kill the plants in the jungle.
both napalm and agent orange
none of the options
This was the name of the Communist rebels in South Vietnam
Viet Cong
Korea Cong
King Kong
Viet Song
In June of 1968, who was the Democratic presidential candidate who was assassinated?
John F. Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Roger Kennedy
Who was elected president in 1968?
Nixon
Johnson
Kennedy
Eisenhower
This famous 1969 music festival attended by over 400,000 people in New York was all about "peace and love."
Coachella
Summer of Love
Counterculture
Woodstock
The name for the group of mostly young people, often called hippies, who believed in a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to war, consumerism, and traditional ways of life.
The Beats
The Opposers
The Counterculture
The Culturalists
Where in Vietnam did a massacre of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers take place?
My Lai
Saigon
Hanoi
Ho Chi Mihn City
