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Quarterly (WWII/20's & 30's)

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 59mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What word means to wipe out an entire group of people?

a)

Genocide

b)

Kamikaze

c)

Murder

d)

Patricide

2.

What term refers to a leader who controls a nation by force?

a)

President

b)

Monarchy

c)

Deity

d)

Dictator

3.

What is extreme nationalism and racism?

a)

Communism

b)

Fascism

c)

Democracy

d)

Rationing

4.

The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression

a)

Raw Deal

b)

Missouri Compromise

c)

New Deal

d)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

5.

buying a stock by paying only a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest

a)

Installment

b)

Credit Card

c)

On Margin

d)

Below Margin

6.

A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry.

a)

Dust Bowl

b)

Cereal Bowl

c)

Tsunami

d)

Texas Tragedy

7.

(FDR) 1935, guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65

a)

Disability

b)

Workers Compensation

c)

Social Security

d)

Communism

8.

Which term refers to hatred of the Jews?

a)

Anti-Semitism

b)

Anti-Gentile

c)

Segregation

d)

Internment Camps

9.

Which term means "lightning War"?

a)

Rush

b)

Flank

c)

Offensive

d)

Blitzkrieg

10.

Japanese suicide pilot who crashed a plane loaded with explosives into American ships

a)

Bomber

b)

Kamikaze

c)

Evil

d)

Totalitarian

11.

What term refers to the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II?

a)

Concentration Camps

b)

Internment Camps

c)

Holocaust

d)

Prison

12.

avoiding war by giving in to demands

a)

Appeasement

b)

compromise

c)

negotiations

d)

Semitism

13.

Was the communist leader of the Soviet Union

a)

Adolph Hitler

b)

Josef Stalin

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Hideki Tojo

14.

resulted in the destruction of over 190 snyagogues and 7,000 businesses

a)

Blitzkrieg

b)

Kristallnacht

c)

Gestapo

d)

Night of the long knives

15.

"...a date which will live in infamy" refers to

a)

Greenpoint Harbor

b)

Pearl Harbor

c)

Sag Harbor

d)

Arbor Day

16.

Located in remote areas, these prisons housed Japanese Americans

a)

Internment Camps

b)

Concentration Camps

c)

Detention Centers

d)

Correctional Facilities

17.

The Japanese initially attacked the U.S.A. on which day of the week?

a)

Saturday

b)

Tuesday

c)

Wednesday

d)

Sunday

18.

The first atomic bomb, during a time of war, was dropped on

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Hiroshima

c)

Tokyo

d)

Kirin

19.

The B-29 bomber used during the first atomic attack was called the

a)

Independence

b)

Box Car

c)

Enola Gay

d)

Saratoga

20.

Which President was faced with the difficult decision of whether we should use the Atomic Bomb or not?

a)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

b)

Harry S. Truman

c)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

d)

Woodrow Wilson

21.

United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974)

a)

Charles Barkley

b)

Amelia Earhart

c)

Charles Lindbergh

d)

Howard Hughes

22.

A literary and artistic movement celebrating African-American culture.

a)

Worlds-Fair

b)

Harlem Renaissance

c)

Revitalization

d)

Laisse Faire

23.

United States jazz trumpeter and bandleader (1900-1971) of the 1920's

a)

Benny Goodman

b)

Louis Armstrong

c)

Scott Joplin

d)

Ben Vereen

24.

Poet who described the rich culture of African American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance, as well as the culture of Harlem

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Ida Wells

25.

Italian radicals who became symbols of the Red Scare of the 1920s; arrested (1920), tried and executed (1927) for a robbery/murder, they were believed by many to have been innocent but convicted because of their immigrant status and radical political beliefs.

a)

Orville and Moody

b)

Sacco and Vanzetti

c)

Tom and Jerry

d)

Mike and Ike

26.

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

a)

19th Amendment

b)

15th Amendment

c)

1st Amendment

d)

18th Amendment

27.

carefree young women with short, "bobbed" hair, heavy makeup, and short skirts.

a)

Clappers

b)

Flappers

c)

Victorians

d)

Rebels

28.

Hitler's secret police

a)

Gestapo

b)

Reichstag

c)

Bobbies

d)

Lebensraum

29.

A mob king in Chicago who controlled a large network of speakeasies with enormous profits. He illegally smuggled alcohol.

a)

Tony Montana

b)

Frank James

c)

Al Capone

d)

Bugsy Seagal

30.

Hitler used ______________________ in order to get the German people to follow him.

a)

Propaganda

b)

Speeches

c)

Intimidation

d)

All of the above