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WorksheetsUnit 7: Ch. 25, 26, 27, 28
Total questions: 44
Worksheet time: 22mins
1. In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech
saw the president call for further isolation from the nation's enemies.
warned Japan it faced a U.S. embargo if it continued to be aggressive.
saw Roosevelt challenge England and France to limit the aggression of Germany.
received a decidedly hostile response by the American people.
2. The Neutrality Act of 1937
stripped the president of many of his powers as commander-in-chief.
allowed warring nations to purchase nonmilitary goods in the United States if they paid cash.
loosened the trade policy for England, while tightening it for Germany and Japan.
exempted Asian nations from the provisions of the 1935 Neutrality Act.
3. In 1932, the Hoover administration, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria,
issued warnings to the Japanese government.
imposed economic sanctions against Japan.
sent Americans to Manchuria to train Chinese pilots.
called for Japanese recognition of the Open Door policy.
4. In what became known as the 1933 "bombshell" message, Franklin Roosevelt declared that
all foreign war debts would be forgiven.
America would no longer recognize fascist governments.
the Monroe Doctrine was now null and void.
America would reject any international agreement on currency stabilization.
5. The America First Committee
was a powerful lobby against U.S. involvement in the war.
was strongly opposed by both major political parties.
called for increased U.S. assistance to England without any actual intervention.
tried and failed to enlist the support of Charles Lindbergh.
6. By September 1941,
Germany had agreed with Japan to fight against the United States.
the United States extended lend-lease privileges to the Soviet Union.
President Roosevelt made a secret agreement to send American troops to England.
Germany claimed it had no interest in engaging America in war.
7. In 1941, prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
Japanese troops attacked the Philippines.
the Japanese developed a new, unbreakable communication code.
President Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japan's diplomats to leave Washington.
President Franklin Roosevelt froze all Japanese assets in the United States.
8. The Washington Conference of 1921
attempted to prevent a global naval arms race.
saw the Harding administration refuse to participate in it.
sought to expand the global markets of the United States.
attempted to create a world court.
9. In 1941, the Atlantic Charter
was signed in Washington, D.C.
was completed by senior military officials in the United States and England.
saw President Roosevelt agree to an eventual invasion of Europe to drive out the Nazis.
saw the United States and England claim to share common principles.
10. The Munich agreement of 1938
was the result of negotiations involving the League of Nations.
put most of Poland under German control.
was supported by President Franklin Roosevelt.
was signed by Joseph Stalin despite misgivings about German intent.
11. The Burke-Wadsworth Act of 1940
reaffirmed the desires of isolationists to stay out of the war.
approved sending U.S. weapons to England.
approved the first peacetime draft in American history.
saw the United States end all trade with any nation allied with Nazi Germany.
12. President Franklin Roosevelt's decision in 1940 to give fifty American destroyers to England
was cancelled by Congress.
circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts.
was in response to requests by the U.S. ambassador to London.
both circumvented the cash-and-carry provision of the Neutrality Acts and was in response to requests by the U.S. ambassador to London.
13. In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the braceros program, which
increased the number of Mexican immigrants the United States would accept as new citizens.
allowed U.S. businesses to establish war production factories in Mexico.
admitted Mexican contract laborers into the United States for a limited time.
accepted Mexican citizens into the U.S. armed forces.
14. The 1943 "zoot-suit riots" in Los Angeles
resulted from tensions between the African American and Mexican American communities.
led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits.
began when off-duty Mexican American soldiers refused to wear their military uniforms.
both began when off-duty Mexican American soldiers refused to wear their military uniforms, and led the city to prohibit the wearing of zoot suits.
15. The costliest battle in the history of the United States Marines Corps was the Battle of
Iwo Jima.
Leyte Gulf.
Okinawa.
Guadalcanal.
16. The Allied decisions that delayed an invasion of France
left the Soviet Union deeply embittered.
put the Soviet Union in a better position to control eastern Europe.
occurred after the Soviet Union had won a significant victory in Stalingrad.
All these answers are correct.
17. In 1942, in the North African campaign against the Nazis, the
Americans advanced under the command of Omar Bradley.
Americans successfully regrouped from a defeat at Kasserine Pass.
Germans suffered a major defeat at Stalingrad.
British lost a key early battle at El Alamein.
18. During World War II, the War Production Board
was maintained under the auspices of the Department of Labor.
was directed by Roosevelt ally Leon Henderson.
had complete control over military purchases.
favored large over small contractors.
19. During World War II, the U.S. military
used quotas to limit the number of black servicemen in the military.
excluded blacks from combat duty.
began to relax its practices of racial segregation.
doubled the number of black servicemen to 200,000.
20. In April 1945, American and British forces halted their advance on Germany at the Elbe River
because their supply lines had become overextended.
to wait for the Russian army to arrive.
due to fierce German resistance.
because all bridges over the river had been destroyed.
21. The U.S. government acquired definite knowledge of the Holocaust
prior to World War II beginning in Europe.
before the U.S. had entered the war.
as early as 1942.
only after the war was over.
22. The Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942
saw the Americans take the offensive for the first time.
saw the United States forced to withdraw its naval forces.
saw the Japanese lose most of its aircraft carriers.
marked the first important victory by the United States against Japan.
23. In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in "relocation centers,"
all of the affected Japanese were American citizens.
a powerful popular movement sprung up to protest the internments.
the move was protested by California Attorney General Earl Warren.
there was no evidence that the Japanese Americans were a domestic security risk.
24. Prior to ordering the use of an atomic bomb against Japan, President Harry Truman
sent evidence of a test explosion to the Japanese government.
issued an ultimatum to Japan to surrender or face utter devastation.
warned the Japanese about the atomic bomb but sent no evidence of its effect.
did not send any kind of message to Japan.
25. The Truman administration responded in 1950 to the onset of fighting in Korea by
declaring war on North Korea.
calling on the United Nations to intervene.
warning China not to intervene.
telling South Korea to stand down.
26. President Harry Truman initially decided to "get tough" with the Soviet Union
following the end of the war in the Pacific.
once the United States had successfully used the atomic bomb.
at the Potsdam Conference.
after his first few days in office.
27. The McCarran Internal Security Act
outlawed all communist organizations in the United States.
created the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
required communist organizations to register with the government.
stripped American citizenship from all known communists.
28. The election of 1952 saw
a contest between two war heroes, neither of whom had ever held elective office.
President Harry Truman run for another term.
Richard Nixon forced to step down from the Republican ticket.
television play a role in the campaign.
29. In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
was created in response to the Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact.
called for a de-militarized zone across Western Europe.
declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.
both was created in response to the Soviet Union's Warsaw Pact, and declared that an attack on one member nation was an attack on all.
30. In the last months of 1949, events in the Soviet Union and China included
Russia's successful test of an atomic weapon.
the collapse of Mao Zedong's government to communist forces.
the death of Joseph Stalin.
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
31. U.S. aid through the Marshall Plan
was offered to the Soviet Union.
failed to significantly revive European industrial production.
had little impact on communist influence within nations that accepted aid.
was opposed by many Republicans in Congress.
32. In 1950, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were accused of spying for
North Korea.
China.
the Soviet Union.
Poland.
33. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
was limited to servicemen who had been wounded in combat.
mainly provided counseling for emotionally troubled veterans.
helped to reduce government spending.
gave economic and education subsidies to veterans.
34. Beginning in 1947, the United States' policy of "containment" was
the basis for its foreign policy for more than forty years.
first applied in Poland.
an extension of the Atlantic Charter.
the reason for the United States to invade China.
35. The rapid rise in the popularity of rock music was partly due to
innovations in radio programming.
innovations in television programming.
the success of American Bandstand.
All these answers are correct.
36. In 1954, the United States Senate voted to
expel Joseph McCarthy from the Senate.
censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct unbecoming a senator."
charge Senator McCarthy with slander and libel.
convict Senator McCarthy of perjury.
37. The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956
failed to end the segregation policies on public city buses.
was ruled illegal by the Supreme Court.
was sparked by a beating of an African American woman.
marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest.
38. The Eisenhower administration responded to Fidel Castro's coming to power in Cuba by
ending diplomatic relations.
blockading Cuban ports.
establishing a military presence in Guantanamo Bay.
sending troops to Cuba.
39. The first American to be launched into space, in 1961, was
Yuri Gagarin.
John Glenn.
Alan Shepard.
Neil Armstrong.
40. The primary goal of the American Apollo program was to
launch manned vehicles into space to orbit the earth.
land men on the moon.
build an orbiting space station.
send men to Mars.
41. Between 1945 and 1959, U.S. policy in the Middle East saw
the Eisenhower administration assist in the construction of the Aswan Dam.
the Truman administration refuse to recognize the state of Israel.
President Eisenhower seek to end the rule of Egyptian leader Gamal Nasser during the Suez crisis.
the CIA engineer a coup that brought the shah of Iran to power.
42. In 1954, the Eisenhower administration ordered the CIA to help overthrow the government of
Panama.
Colombia.
Guatemala.
Haiti.
43. The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
reaffirmed the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
passed by a narrow 5-4 vote.
set specific timetables for enactment.
declared that separate educational facilities were unlawful.
44. Martin Luther King Jr. was leader of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
United Negro Improvement Association.
Congress of Racial Equality.
