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WorksheetsUnit 13 - Chapters 25 and 26
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 1hrs 8mins
Which answer best describes Brown v. Board of Education?
Segregation of the schools
Desegregation of schools
Redistricting of school zones.
Supports the building of new school facilities.
The nation of North Vietnam was formed in 1955 under the leadership of
Ngo Dinh Diem
Kim Il Sung
Chiang Kai Shek
Ho Chi Minh
Many adults, having experienced the Depression and wartime rationing, were hesitant to spend money post WWII.
True
False
When African Americans refused to ride the public busses as a sign of protest; this began when Rosa Parks was jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a black man.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
15th Amendment
Why was Douglas MacArthur fired?
MacArthur committed a crime in Korea against the United States
MacArthur criticized the President and called him "soft on communism" for not letting him invade China
MacArthur ran away from his position as general and joined the Communists
MacArthur was found stealing military rations from the camp
Senator Joseph McCarthy was a politician and created mass fear by doing what?
He claimed he had a list of communists living in the US, but never showed the list
He started trying to convert people to become communists
He started biting people on the streets while screaming, "I'm a zombie!"
He sabotaged military supplies and tried blaming the communists
The problem with the Truman administration’s policy toward controlling the aggression of the Soviet Union was that it took a military approach instead of a political approach.
True
False
The cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union came down to differences between the ideologies of capitalism and communism.
True
False
Who was arrested for helping smuggle atomic bomb plans to the Soviets?
Alger Hiss
James Fields
Julius Rosenberg
Douglas MacArthur
The Red Scare ended up violating the civil liberties of innocent people.
True
False
When President Truman desegregated the military, which branch was the last to comply?
Navy
Air Force
Army
Marines
Which of the following was not provided to the returning servicemen under the Service Readjustment Act of 1944?
Guaranteed jobs
Medical treatment
Unemployment insurance
Education
The Truman Doctrine was the name of the financial and technical assistance package provided to war-ravaged Europe after World War II.
True
False
In the Truman Doctrine, President Truman promised to confront terrorism everywhere.
True
False
Who proposed the strategy of "containment"?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
George Kennan
Joseph McCarthy
Revisionist historians contend that Harry Truman was responsible for the start of the cold war.
True
False
Why did both Republicans and Democrats recruit Dwight Eisenhower to run for president in 1952?
He had taken a stand against the corruption of Truman’s administration.
He was a war hero.
He was considered the “Gentleman of the Senate.”
They did not; only the Republicans sought to nominate him.
A major reason for the tremendous growth of the U.S. economy after World War II was a lack of foreign competition.
True
False
In the 1950s, the radio became the primary force in American life for conveying information.
True
False
Although the post–World War II boom enriched millions of Americans, it primarily enriched the?
Chinese population
Hispanic population
white population
African American population
During the Cold War, what did Soviet agents use to draw attention to defects in the American way of life?
Quality of unions
The treatment of minorities.
The lack of adequate sewage systems
Lack of religious affiliation
Which statement best describes President Eisenhower’s belief on ending segregation?
That it must start in the South
That it must start at the state and local levels.
That it must start at the federal level.
That it must come through executive action.
The greatest social movement in the United States in the 20th century was?
universal women’s suffrage.
universal male suffrage.
abolishing land requirements to vote.
civil rights.
During Eisenhower’s administration, he kept his election promise and ended the war with Korea.
True
False
What was a major stumbling block to the policy of massive retaliation?
Space-based weaponry
The ability to launch intercontinental missiles
That both the United States and the Soviet Union had created more powerful hydrogen bombs
That Soviet spies stole our launch codes
The nation of North Vietnam was formed in 1955 under the leadership of
Ngo Dinh Diem
Kim Il Sung
Chiang Kai Shek
Ho Chi Minh
Because of his political inexperience, the Republican Party chose Jimmy Carter as Eisenhower’s running mate in 1952.
True
False
President Eisenhower’s domestic policy of “dynamic conservatism” was defined as?
conservative when it comes to warfare, liberal when it comes to communism.
conservative when it comes to money, liberal when it comes to human beings.
conservative when it comes to capitalism, liberal when it comes to socialism.
conservative when it comes to state rights, liberal when it comes to minority rights.
Though Eisenhower entered the White House committed to civil rights and did push for improvements in some areas, he refused to make civil rights for African Americans a moral crusade.
True
False
Eisenhower considered this the biggest mistake he had ever made.
Campaigning for the presidency
Abolishing segregation
Appointing Chief Justice Earl Warren
Only running for two terms
A few weeks after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was passed, Arkansa's Democratic Governor, a rabid segregationist called out the National Guard?
to stop the Montgomery Bus Boycott which had began with Rosa Parks refusing to give her seat up to a white man.
to prevent nine black students from entering a high school under a federal court order.
to uphold the segregation of the water foundations throughout the state.
to forcibly remove individuals who attempted to desegregate the local water pools.
The Federal Highway Act of 1956 initiated the construction of 40,000 miles of interstate roads over a decade.
True
False
The South responded to court-ordered desegregation by moving immediately to end discrimination in schools.
True
False
He was the creator of the vaccine that effectively eliminated the polio virus in the United States?
Dr. Jonas Salk
Dr. Benjamin Spock
Dr. C. Everett Coop
Dr. Antonia Wyler
All of the following led to the growth of suburbs after the war EXCEPT?
the G.I. Bill's low mortgage rates that allowed veterans to buy houses.
rising taxes in the cities which forced people to move to the suburbs.
the attractions of suburbia's good schools and open spaces.
William Levitt's building of masses of houses using techniques borrowed from the Ford assembly line.
He coined the term "Iron Curtain" to refer to Soviet controlled Eastern Europe?
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
The first African American to play baseball for a major league team played for the?
Brooklyn Dodgers
Arizona Diamondbacks
New York Yankees
Boston Red Socks
What were the defining characteristics of the Cold War?
Prohibition, Flappers, Jazz
Arms Race, Space Race, Red Scare
Holocaust, Nazi Germany, Pearl Harbor
Poverty, Unemployment, Dust Bowl
What foreign policy guided American presidents during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism?
Open Door Policy
Dollar Diplomacy
Big Stick Policy
Containment
What American policy provided Western European countries financial assistance so they could recover from WWII?
Marshall Plan
Domino Theory
Truman Doctrine
Big Stick Policy
What individual/group contributed to the Red Scare and accused American citizens of being communists?
Martin Luther King & Black Panthers
Jane Addams & Settlement Houses
Joseph McCarthy & HUAC
Cesar Chavez & United Farmworkers Union
What happened as a result of the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
It started the space race.
U.S. began to invest more money into math & science education.
The U.S. started NASA.
All of the above
During what event did the U.S. bypass a Soviet blockade without provoking a military conflict?
Berlin Airlift
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Vietnam War
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did JFK do when he heard that the Soviet Union was construction a missile site in Cuba.
JFK gave into the Soviet demands.
JFK bombed the Soviet Union with an atomic bomb.
JFK ordered a naval blockade of Cuba.
JFK invaded Cuba from Guantanamo Bay.
How did the G.I. Bill contribute to the economic prosperity of the 1950s?
It decreased consumer spending.
It allowed Veterans to get an education and buy homes in suburbs.
It offered incentives under the Bracero Program to temporary laborers.
It created federal domestic programs as part of the Great Society.
After WWII what happened to the population of the U.S?
The population moved westward as a result of the railroad.
African Americans moved north as part of the Great Migration.
The population shifted from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.
The population grew due to the Baby Boom.
What did those in the counter-culture do when the government escalated deployment of troops in Vietnam and implemented a draft?
The counter-culture organized protests.
There were mass anti-war demonstrations.
Some individuals burned their draft cards.
All of the above
What law did Congress pass to limit the military authority of the executive branch in order to avoid another Vietnam?
Marshall Plan
New Deal
War Powers Act
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What innovation limited the spread of infectious diseases like polio?
Vaccines
Internet
Radar
X-rays
What amendment was passed to lower the voting age because it was unfair that 18-20 year olds were fighting in Vietnam but couldn't vote.
18th
22nd
24th
26th
When the United States sent military aid to African governments to help them resist communism, it was continuing a foreign policy first asserted in the
Potsdam Agreement.
Teheran Conference.
Marshall Plan.
Truman Doctrine.
What was one major goal of the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War?
to expand individual liberties in the Baltic republics
to attract foreign economic investments
to create a defensive buffer zone in Eastern Europe
to establish a competitive market economy
Which of these was a cause of the Korean War?
NATO air and naval forces blocked ships sailing to North Korea.
United Nations inattention allowed guerrillas to infiltrate South Korea.
North Korean forces, with Soviet approval, invaded South Korea.
Widespread anti-colonial riots forced the Korean government to begin the war.
Which country, in 1948, controlled the ZONE that the entire city of Berlin was located in.
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
United States
The United States Foreign Policy after World War II was the policy of Containment, which was?
The U.S. would try to restrict the spread of Fascism in Europe.
The U.S. would help to rebuild the nations of Japan and Germany.
Due to the importance, the U.S. would increase spending into the Space Race.
The U.S. would try to prevent the spread of Communism anywhere in the world.
