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WorksheetsUS History Final Exam Review, Part 1
Total questions: 85
Worksheet time: 43mins
What historical trend can be inferred from the above chart?
After the demand for jobs diminished when WWII ended, women returned back to the typical housewife mentality
Women stepped up to fill jobs during WWII and continued to enter the workforce in large numbers
When men returned back from WWII, they preferred to have women working and for the men to stay at home and take care of the house and children
Women never took up a significant percentage of the workforce until after 2000
What historical trend can be inferred from the above chart?
Struggled significantly in his early campaigns to take over other countries
Is going to eventually fail at his plan
Bribed the “Spineless Leaders of Democracy” into allowing him to take control of other countries
Took advantage of the fact that no one tried to stop him
Which nation listed in the chart suffered the greatest human cost?
Germany
Japan
USSR
France
“YESTERDAY, December 7, 1941- a date which will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”- President F. D. Roosevelt
To what event is President Franklin Roosevelt referring to in the above quote?
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
D-Day invasion
Japanese attack on the World Trade Center
The dropping of the first Atomic Bomb
Which region of the United States were Japanese Internment camps primarily located?
Midwest
West
Northeast
West
What event directly led to the United States entering World War II?
Germany invaded Poland
The Allied forces asked for help to land in Normandy
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
Germany attacked Pearl Harbor
The Allied powers used the policy of ___________ to end German imperialism but it unfortunately encouraged Hitler to act more aggressively?
New Deal
Appeasement
Non-Aggression Pact
Lend-Lease Act
The invasion of what country caused Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?:
Normandy
Czechoslovakia
Sweden
Poland
Which of the following allowed the United States to remain neutral while supplying war goods to nations that it deemed vital?
Atlantic Charter
Lend-Lease Act
Neutrality Act
Military Conquest Act
What was the importance of the Tuskegee Airmen?
This group of Latino-Americans was the first to lead non-segregated units in the Air Force
This group of African-Americans was the first to successfully complete the Army Air Corps for military combat and not lose anybody on their missions.
This group of African-Americans was the first to successfully complete the Army Air Corps for military combat and not lose anybody on their missions.
The purpose of using the atomic bomb was to:
Save Japanese lives
Prevent Japan from invading the United States
Save American lives
Demonstrate America’s dominance over Europe
Why were communication codes of the Navajo used by the military during World War II?
It was the official language of all military personnel involved in the war
The oral language of the Navajo was impossible for the Japanese to break
The Navajo were the largest group of soldiers fighting in World War II
The American military strategy of _____________ involved American planes attacking strategic islands
and skipping over other ones in the Pacific.
Bounce attacking
Pond skimming
Stone skipping
Island hopping
The purpose of the Manhattan Project was to
build the atomic bomb
decide where to attack Japan next.
develop ways to locate German U-Boats.
deliver much needed supplies to war-torn Europe.
What International peacekeeping body was developed at the end of World War II?
League of Nations
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
Based on the above graph: which was the first country to begin accumulating nuclear weapons?
The Soviet Union
Britain
The United States
China
Which Cold War term is best represented by the above political cartoon?
Iron Curtain
Arms Race/Mutually Assured Destruction
Space Race
NATO
According to the map above, the result of the Korean War was North Korea and South Korea ________
combined into one
remained separated at the 38th parallel
became fully communist
became fully democratic
The purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to aid any country whose stability was threatened by communism. When the North Koreans invaded the South in June 1950, it seemed obvious that the U.S. should play a role in Asia to contain communism. Although President Truman was surprised by the invasion, Gen. MacArthur was not. Fifteen other nations sent troops on behalf of the United Nations. Truman named Gen. MacArthur as commander of the U.N. forces. U.N. armies pushed North Korea back across the 38th parallel before the Chinese and Soviets intervened. According to Truman “Beating a fourth-rate country like North Korea was one thing, but fighting the Chinese army with Soviet support was quite another. We started negotiations with North Korea and China.” Those negotiation did not sit well with Mac Arthur. MacArthur told reporters, “We used the bomb to end WWII. If we used it again we would have ended the Korean conflict a whole lot sooner.”
According to the reading above, why did the US get involved in the Korean conflict?
To contain the spread of communism
To aide China in spreading communism
To gain a military base in North Korea
To annex Korea and China to the United States
What was the first major aid given by the U.S. to Greece and Turkey and other European Nations that showed we were serious about stopping the spread of communism?
Truman Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine
NATO
What was the military alliance between the U.S, Canada, and ten other European nations that said, “Fight one of us is a fight against all of us”?
Warsaw Pact
NATO
CIA
Containment
Who were two superpowers that emerged at the end of World War II?
Soviet Union and China
United States and Soviet Union
United States of America and Great Britain
Great Britain and Italy
During the 1950s, which country was divided and put under the control of The Soviet Union, U.S., France, and Great Britain?
Germany
The Eastern Bloc
Yugoslavia
Afghanistan
What was the main conflict of the Cold War?
A philosophical conflict between capitalism and communism
A philosophical conflict between socialism and communism
A reflection of the disagreements between the two superpowers of the world
A reflection of Truman’s hostility toward the Soviet Union
What was the campaign called when American government officials were accused of being communists and put on trial during Congressional hearings without sufficient evidence?
The Red Scare
McCarthyism
The Rosenberg Trials
The Truman Accords
Which government agency was responsible for investigating and prosecuting suspected communists in the United States?
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
McCarthyism
Red Scare
Espionage
During the 1950s, the main goal of the civil rights movement was to:
create separate African American economic and social institutions
eliminate legal segregation from American life
establish new laws to reinforce Jim Crow
form a new nation for African Americans named Liberia
What Supreme Court ruling deemed the “separate but equal” principle to be unconstitutional?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. Board of Education
What was the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
It demonstrated that all buses did not follow the concept of “separate but equal”
It demonstrated the success of a nonviolent protest to challenge racial segregation
It demonstrated that violent protests against racism were successful to get laws changed
It demonstrated that protests changed bus fares to be the same for all races
How did President Eisenhower assist in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
He urged Congress to pass civil rights legislation
He issued an executive order allowing segregation to continue
He had the Justice Department file a suit in the federal courts
He sent federal troops to escort the nine African-American students to attend Central High School
What Cold War event is being exhibited in the Kennedy-Khrushchev political cartoon?
Vietnam War
Camp David Accords
Iran-Contra-Affair
Cuban Missile Crisis
Which statement best applies to the chart above?
During the 1960’s, voting percentages did not change.
By 1968, more than twice the number of African-Americans were registered to vote.
By 1968, Texas had the lowest percentage of registered African-American voters.
During the 1960’s, Mississippi saw a significant decrease in registered African-American voters.
According to the map, the Vietcong controlled parts of which geographic region?
Cambodia
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Thailand
According to the map, where was the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam located?
37th parallel
17th parallel
27th parallel
80th parallel
Which of the following authorized President Johnson to intervene in Vietnam?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Geneva Accords
War Powers Act
Commander in Chief Power
What was the result of the My Lai Massacre?
The social response was a distrust in the government regarding the war effort
Members of the military get to attack civilian targets without orders being given
The United States Military had singled out officers to advance to the position of general in the Vietnam War as a reward for their conduct.
The United States Government saw that the South Vietnamese were losing so U.S. troops were withdrawn.
What was the significance of the Tet Offensive?
It was depicted in the American news media as a major victory for the U.S. forces
Led to the belief in the U.S. that the Vietnam War was incapable of being won and support for the war decreased
It was a military victory for the communist Northern Vietnamese forces
Brought an immediate end to the Vietnam War
Which of the following was a reason the American public began to dislike the war in Vietnam?
Increased casualties/deaths
Negative media coverage
Distrust of the United States government
All of the answers are correct
Which two issues led to protests and riots in many American cities during the 1960s?
Space exploration and environmental pollution
The Vietnam War and racial injustice
Inadequate health care and women’s liberation
Gasoline shortages and illegal immigration
Which of the following had the effect of bringing LGBTQ+ rights awareness to the United States due to its brutality and mistreatment of people at a LGBTQ+ nightclub by police officers?
Watts Riots
Kent State Riots
Stonewall Riots
Woodstock Riots
What was the significance of counterculture on American Society?
The counterculture movement was the grassroots movement for Civil Rights
The counterculture brought stability to American society because of its conservative and traditional ways of thinking
The counterculture movement was a time for social change due its freedom of expression and non-traditional outlook on life
The counterculture movement was a time for political experimentation with communism in America
What was the purpose of the March on Washington in 1963?
To pressure Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964
To protest the overturning of Plessy v Ferguson
To protest the violence that occurred to the Freedom riders
To pressure Southern Democrats to pass a new bill outlawing literacy tests
What was the impact of the March on Selma in 1965?
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law
President Johnson got the Voting Act of 1965 to move forward and passed
It brought national attention to the Black Panthers
Americans saw the violence and brutality and moved towards volunteering to ride buses to Mississippi to desegregate interstate transportation
Which of the following was one accomplishment of the Freedom Riders?
Bringing about a federal ban on segregation in all interstate travel
Desegregating public transportation in Southern cities
Registering many non-registered African-American to be voters in the deep South
Protesting in Birmingham to end the Jim Crow laws
Which piece of legislation reflected President Kennedy’s proposal to ban public segregation and ban discrimination on the basis of race, religion and sex?
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Human Rights Act of 1962
Jim Crow Act of 1960
What was the major effect of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Racial discrimination in public facilities was banned
Citizenship and voting rights were extended to Native American Indians
The use of poll taxes and literacy tests for voting were outlawed
Busing to integrate schools was authorized
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) are all associated with which movement?
Temperance
Abolition
Civil Rights
Environmentalism
How did the Bay of Pigs invasion affect the relationship between the United States and Cuba?
The Cuban government turned to the United States for protection from the Soviet Union
Fidel Castro moved closer to the United States when he enacted democratic reforms
The United States sent food and supplies to thank the Cuban government for their assistance during the invasion
The Cuban government turned to the Soviet Union for protection from the United States
What was the end result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nuclear War began when Russia fired the first missile
JFK was impeached and removed from office
Nuclear missiles remained in Cuba and the Soviets gained a nuclear advantage
The United States removed missiles in Turkey and the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba to avoid a nuclear war
What was the goal of Vietnamization?
To defeat the Soviet Union through the Vietnam War
To gradually transfer responsibility for the Vietnam War to the South Vietnamese
To gradually reduce U.S. presence in Vietnam at the end of Vietnam War
To gradually increase the responsibility of training Vietnamese troops to Vietnam
Which event of the 1970’s does the political cartoon reflect?
The Energy Crisis
Watergate
Siege at Wounded Knee
3 Mile Island Incident
What led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon?
The fall of Saigon
The Watergate Scandal
He was impeached and convicted
Convicted of a felony for bribery
Which statement best describes the Watergate Scandal?
It involved the choice of the Reagan Administration to secretly supply aid to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
It involved the illegal establishment of government agencies to set and enforce campaign standards.
Why was the War Powers Act of 1973 passed?
Congress was ineffective in making decisions regarding troop movement
To limit the president’s ability to fight an undeclared war
Restrict power of U.S. military leaders
Restrict the Supreme Court from becoming involved in foreign affairs
What was the purpose for establishing the Environmental Protection Act?
To create federal laws that protect human health and the environment.
To create federal and local laws that prohibit all sources of pollution.
.
To create federal laws that only protect the land so that all national parks can flourish.
Using the graph, which president had the lowest percentage of public trust between the years 1970 -1985?
President Johnson
President Clinton
President Carter
President Reagan
What was the major goal of SALT?
Cooperation between the Soviet Union and United States in nuclear development
Encouragement of nuclear development in China for peaceful energy use
Freezing the production of offensive missiles and promoting space and science cooperation
Support for free elections in the Soviet Union
What was stagflation?
An economic condition in which the money supply is high, national income is high and the unemployment rate is almost non-existent
An economic condition in which the national income rate is high due to an increase in money supply and there is high unemployment
An economic condition in which the inflation rate is high, economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high
An economic problem where the rate of unemployment rises quickly and inflation drops causing the stock market to crash and a depression to occur
Which of these best describes the cause of the Iranian Hostage Crisis?
The U.S. embargo on Iranian oil
Tension between Iran and the U.S. caused by the takeover of Ayatollah Khomeini
Prime Minister Medhi Bazargan was taken out of power
The OPEC embargo on oil
During the 1980s, the U.S. began greater involvement in which region?
Europe
South-East Asia
Africa
The Middle East
What event is considered the physical representation of the fall of the Soviet Union?
The fall of the West German Border
The disbanding of the Soviet Union
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The 1987 letter by Reagan to Gorbachev
What impact did Harvey Milk have in the civil rights movement?
He was a political activist for the LGBTQ community and was the first openly gay elected official in California
He was a political activist for immigration reform.
He was a politician that fought against allowing reform in the LGBTQ community.
Which best describes the purpose of Affirmative Action?
To create quotas for representation of minorities in workplaces and higher education
To create policies that assist with the representation of minorities in the workplace and higher education
To ensure all minority groups are equally represented in the workplace and higher education
What is meant by the term “Reaganomics”?
The use of trickle-down economics
The use of Free Enterprise
A more conservative view on economic theories
The use of Supply-Side Economics
Which group was disproportionately affected by the AIDS crisis?
All Women
Straight Men
Gay Men
Black Men
Why was Sandra Day O’Connor an important figure in the 1980s?
She was the first women to practice law in front of the Supreme Court
She was the first woman confirmed to the Supreme Court
She was the first woman confirmed to the Supreme Court
She was the second woman added to the Supreme Court after Ruth Bader-Ginsburg
In what scandal did The Reagan Administration secretly sell weapons to Iran, and send the profits to help Contra rebels fighting communism in Nicaragua?
Camp David Accords
Operation Desert Storm
Iran Hostage Crisis
Iran Contra Affair
Which viewpoint did the Moral Majority align with?
Conservative
Liberal
Who was Reagan's former Vice President that won the 1988 Presidential election? His biggest foreign affair is Operation Desert Storm- supporting Kuwait in the Gulf War.
Ross Perot
Bill Clinton
Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
Which President is a democrat from Arkansas elected president in 1992; known for Health Care reform and creating NAFTA. He is the second American President to be impeached.
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan
John Kerry
What federal law was passed in the 1990s that requires employers to provide employees with job protection and health insurance while employees take leave to care for a family member?
Americans with Disabilities Act
No Child Left Behind Act
Family Medical Leave Act
Civil Rights Act
President Clinton was impeached on charges of
fraud and tax evasion
embezzlement
insider trading
perjury and obstruction of justice
Using the map above, what type of attacks were mostly used during the Persian Gulf War?
Air
Air
Sea
Nuclear
Ground
Why did the Persian Gulf War begin?
America’s desire to bring democracy to the Middle East
Iraq's air strikes on Israel
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait
Iran’s invasion of Saudi Arabia
What was the goal of Operation Desert Storm?
To destroy al Qaeda
To overthrow Saddam Hussein
To overthrow Ayatollah Khomeini
To prevent Iran from gaining control over all of the Middle East
Who was elected as the 46th President of the USA in November 2020 and is still in the office?
Joe Biden
Donald Trump
George Washington
George W. Bush
What new law did George W. Bush pass after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which gave the government increased powers in searching for suspected terrorists?
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Immigration Act
Department of Homeland Security
Patriot Act
Immigration Act
Department of Homeland Security
Patriot Act
The World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995, and the Waco Siege are all examples of a surge of what in the 1990s?
Religion
Racial Discrimination
Domestic Terrorism
Foreign Terrorism
“Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. . . . Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, wicked acts of terror. . . . These acts of mass murder were meant to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. . . .”
—President George W. Bush, September 2001
To what event is President Bush referring in the above quote?
The death of Saddam Hussein
The 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center
The Oklahoma City bombing
The attack on the American embassy in Kenya
What presidential cabinet position was created as a response to terrorist attacks on 9/11; its goal to keep the country safe from terrorist attacks and have plans to be able to respond to any future attacks?
DREAM Act
Department of Defense
No Child Left Behind
Department of Homeland Security
What American President is known for passing bills to stimulate the economy, creating national health care, adopting global climate change agreements, and supporting the national legalization of gay marriage?
Obama
Bush
Clinton
Reagan
Who was primarily responsible for the terrorist attacks on America in September of 2001?
Saddam Hussein
Kim Jung Il
Osama Bin Laden
Kim Jung Il
Using the chart above, what historic event contributed to African-Americans being the demographic with the highest voter turnout?
9/11 terrorist attacks
Obama’s re-election
Bush’s re-election
The death of Saddam Hussein
Who was the first woman to hold a U.S. Senate seat and be a leading Presidential candidate, twice. She was also Obama's Secretary of State 2009-2013.
Laura Bush
Michelle Obama
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Hillary Clinton
Using the map above, explain why the election of 2016 was so controversial.
Voters only voted for Trump
Voters only voted for Clinton
Very few voters actually voted
The voters were very split
