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WorksheetsSTAAR Review American in the World Wars
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 44mins
Why is WWI important to history?
It showed that the US was a strong military power.
It served as a break in US isolationism.
It led to shift of more African Americans and women in northern factories.
All of the above.
Which country signed the war guilt clause?
USA
Germany
France
Great Britain
Wilson's plan for peace was called the ...
Treaty of Versaille
14 Points
Treaty of Paris
League of Nations
What are reparations?
When a country sends workers to repair damage from the war.
When a defeated country pays for war damage.
The amount of money it will take to repair a country after war.
When you "repair" something physical.
Which country rejected the Treaty of Versailles?
France
Great Britain
USA
Japan
What event caused many banks to close?
The Dust Bowl
Auto and Construction Industry collapse
The Stock Market crash
High income inequality
Where in this diagram would be the WORST place to spend a lot of time?
The support trench
Communication trench
Company HQ dugout
No Man's Land
What does the German word 'Blitzkrieg' mean?
air attack
attack
lightening war
tank war
World War I began in ___________.
1614
1714
1814
1914
WWI began because of the assassination of ______________________________.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Pope Pius V
King John II
Duke of Buckingham
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a secret organization called the ___________________________.
Black Head
Black Foot
Black Arm
Black Hand
Cooperating teams that promise to defend each other are called _________________.
alliances
enemies
agencies
Orderlies
Nationalism means...
identification with one's own nation and support for its interests
hating your country
betraying your country
going to college
Imperialism is...
extending a country's power and influence through education
extending a country's power and influence through colonization and military force
extending a country's power and influence through industry and technology
extending a country's power and influence through science
At the end of WWI, an agreement was signed called the _________________________.
Treaty of London
Treaty of Rome
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Amsterdam
The Treaty of Versailles said that WWI was the fault of which country?
Austria
Yugoslavia
England
Germany
The Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to...
pay large reparations
cut their military
give back all of their colonies
All of the above
WWII started in 1939 and ended in _________.
1940
1952
1945
1930
The Axis Powers were what three countries?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Germany, Italy, and Poland
Japan, Italy, and China
Japan, Indonesia, and Taiwan
Poland, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece were conquered and occupied by what country?
Italy
Germany
Spain
Finland
The genocide of six million Jews committed by the Nazis was called the __________________.
Black Plague
Apartheid
Reign of Terror
Holocaust
The event that brought the U.S. into WWII was the Japanese attack on __________________________.
Washington, DC.
New York City, New York
Atlanta, Georgia
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
In August of 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bombs on two cities in Japan. These cities were called ______________________________.
Hiroshima & Tokyo
Osaka & Tokyo
Okinawa & Iwo Jima
Hiroshima & Nagasaki
The event where thousands of Allied soldiers invaded the beaches of Normandy and pushed the Germans out of France is called ____________.
V-J Day
V-E Day
D-Day
K-Day
What does this political cartoon best represent?
Public opposition to the League of Nations
German Imperial Fleet discussing a blockade of Mexico
The Zimmerman Telegram
Talks of Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare
In January 1918, President Wilson spoke to Congress about the war aims of the nation. His plan ultimately became known as the _______________________ and was designed to create a lasting peace in the world.
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
Wilson's suggestions
League of Nations
Below is a list of reasons for the United States entering World War I. What would be the third reason?
- German attempts to have Mexico invade the United States
- Acts of sabotage
- ??????????
Sunken American battleships
Destroyed American skyscrapers
Exploded nuclear weapons
Unrestricted submarine warfare
In 1919, after communist revolutionaries known as Bolsheviks overthrew the czar in Russia, established the Soviet Union, and called for a worldwide revolution to destroy capitalism, people in the United States began to fear communists. This fear of international communism was called __________________.
Socialism
The Red Scare
The Immigrant Scare
The Isolationism Movement
The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, usually called the _____________________, was a law Roosevelt proposed to give presidents the power to appoint an extra Supreme Court justice for every sitting justice over the age of 70 ½.
court-packing bill
the New Deal
Lend0-Lease Act
14 Points
Which legislation was passed during the Second New Deal to give federal assistance to the elderly?
the Wagner Act
the Social Security Act
the Fair Labor Standards Act
the Emergency Banking Relief Act
Dirt loosened by the drought and the poor farming practices that had eroded the soil led to this ecological disaster ____________________.
Hoovervilles
the Dirt Bowl
(TVA)
the Dust Bowl
The project code named the Manhattan Project was hiding what?
The U.S. building Nuclear Weapons
Internment Camps built to hold minorities
Secret plant building new airplanes
New submarine technology
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. What is this?
Trench-less warfare
Fighting with horses
Trench Warfare
Fortnite
A close association of nations acting together for a common objective
Alliances
Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
What made WWI different and more deadly than previous wars?
Faster Horses
It was the first war ever
It was a peaceful war
The technology of weaponry
What was the most often result of Trench Warfare?
Stalemates
Allied Victories
Very few deaths in no mans land
Taking over the other trench
Name the WW2 cause: Small nations soon learned that they could not expect protection and that aggressive totalitarian states could act without consequence. Second the inability to act and their slowness made the League appear incompetent, scared and ineffective.
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailes
Failure of the League of Nations
Invasion of Poland
Name the WWII cause: European governments seemed unable to handle the crisis. The traditional approaches to handling economic crises seemed to only cause more problems. With the current governments unable to ease the pain and suffering of unemployment and inflation, Europeans were drawn to totalitarian leaders who promised economic recovery.
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Great Depression and Rise of Dictatorships
Failure of League of Nations
Name the WWII Cause: the policy of giving aggressive or enemy nations what they want in order to avoid conflict.
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Invasion of Poland
Failure of League of nations
Name the WWII cause: German forces invaded. Only two days later, Britain and France declared war on Germany and World War II officially began
Appeasement
Treaty of Versailles
Rise of dictatorships
Invasion of Poland
What word means, the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Holocaust
Genocide
WW2
Trench Warfare
Why did Japan Surrender in August 1945?
The Russians took over Berlin
The United States gave up
Germany invaded japan and forced them to surrender
The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan
During World War I, the Germans asked Mexico to join them in fighting the United States. In return for Mexico's participation, the victorious Germans would have given Mexico- (7.7E)
unrestricted access to the Panama Canal
favorable trading rights to central Europe
the western Caribbean islands
the southwestern United States
All of the following are characteristics of Texas during the Great Depression EXCEPT — (7.1A)
internment camps
New Deal programs
Dust Bowl drought
boom and bust in the cotton industry
Which list of events are in the correct order they occurred?(7.1A)
World War II, New Deal, Dust Bowl, Great Depression
Dust Bowl, World War II, New Deal, Great Depression
New Deal, World War II, Great Depression, Dust Bowl
Great Depression, Dust Bowl, New Deal, World War II
