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American History B Final

Total questions: 70

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

President Franklin Roosevelt's economic program was called the "New Deal".

a)

True

b)

False

2.

The 1920's KKK only discriminated against African Americans.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

World War I veterans who camped out in Washington, D.C. in 1932:

a)

Veteran's Association

b)

Bonus Army

c)

Protest Army

d)

Infantry Corps

4.

Which law provided federal enforcement for Prohibition?

a)

Butler Act

b)

Volstead Act

c)

Patriot Act

d)

Smoot-Hawley Act

5.

A period of severe dust storms on the American prairies during the 1930's.

a)

Death Valley

b)

Dust Bowl

c)

Mud Pit

d)

Tornado Alley

6.

Where did the Scopes Money Trial take place?

a)

Ohio

b)

California

c)

Arkansas

d)

Tennessee

7.

This film was the first "talkie":

a)

The Jazz Singer

b)

The Wizard of Wall Street

c)

Singing in the Rain

d)

The Matrix

8.

Which amendment prohibited the selling and manufacturing of alcohol?

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

9.

All of the following were New Deal programs except

a)

The Social Security Act

b)

The Civil Rights Act

c)

The Emergency Banking Act

d)

The Works Progress Administration

10.

Who was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution at a public school?

a)

Clarence Darrow

b)

William Jennings Bryan

c)

Al Cowlings

d)

John Scopes

11.

Who was the leading Chicago bootlegger during the 20's era prohibition?

a)

Al Capone

b)

Charlie Birger

c)

Carl Shelton

d)

Bugs Moran

12.

The Hindenburg crashed at this American site:

a)

Hyde Park, New York

b)

Stone Mountain, Georgia

c)

Lakehurst, New Jersey

d)

Worchester, Massachusetts

13.

All of the following were states effected by the Dust Bowl except

a)

Texas

b)

Oklahoma

c)

Iowa

d)

New Mexico

14.

Where did most Okies migrate in order to escape the Dust Bowl?

a)

New York

b)

California

c)

Nevada

d)

Missourt

15.

Which amendment repealed prohibition?

a)

17th

b)

18th

c)

20th

d)

21st

16.

Who wrote the Great Gatsby?

a)

William Faulkner

b)

Ernest Hemmingway

c)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

d)

Sinclair Lewis

17.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president when the stock market crashed.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

This singer wrote "Dust Bowl" ballads during the Great Depression.

a)

Pete Seeger

b)

Hank Williams

c)

Jimmie Rogers

d)

Woody Guthrie

19.

This 1915 film glorified the 19th century KKK.

a)

The Jazz Singer

b)

The Birth of a Nation

c)

The Kid

d)

Modern Times

20.

Charles Lindbergh's plane:

a)

The Enola Gay

b)

The Memphis Belle

c)

The Wright Flyer

d)

The Spirt of St. Louis

21.

Which Southern Illinois town was the site of the massacre of 19 strike breakers in 1922?

a)

West Frankfort

b)

Herrin

c)

Harrisburg

d)

Marion

22.

Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic?

a)

Howard Hughes

b)

Jimmy Doolittle

c)

Charles Lindbergh

d)

Wilbur Wright

23.

Who scared millions with his radio adaptation of the "War of the Worlds"?

a)

Clarence Darrow

b)

Orson Welles

c)

Edward R. Murrow

d)

Paul Harvey

24.

A bootlegger was someone who sold alcohol illegally.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

25. All of the following were bootleggers except

a)

Charlie Birger

b)

Al Capone

c)

Carl Shelton

d)

S. Glenn Young

26.

The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city:

a)

Nagasaki

b)

Tokyo

c)

Kokura

d)

Hiroshima

27.

All of the following were Allies during World War II except

a)

United States

b)

Soviet Union

c)

Great Britain

d)

Spain

28.

Who was Great Britain's prime minister through the majority of World War II?

a)

Neville Chamberlain

b)

Tony Blair

c)

Margret Thatcher

d)

Winston Churchill

29.

All of the following countries took part in the D-Day invasion except

a)

United States

b)

Canada

c)

Great Britain

d)

Soviet Union

30.

Who was the commander of the D-Day invasion?

a)

George Patton

b)

Bernard Montgomery

c)

Dwight Eisenhower

d)

John Miller

31.

What was the codename for the U.S. atomic bomb program?

a)

Barbarossa

b)

Trinity

c)

Overlord

d)

The Manhattan Project

32.

What was the American strategy in the Pacific Theater?

a)

Mainland invasion

b)

Island hopping

c)

Containment

d)

Guerilla warfare

33.

Who was the Japanese Emperor?

a)

Isoroku Yamamato

b)

Hirohito

c)

Hideki Tojo

d)

Sheev Palpatine

34.

When did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?

a)

June22, 1941

b)

December 7, 1941

c)

June 6, 1944

d)

August 15, 1945

35.

German living space:

a)

Kristallnacht

b)

Blitzkrieg

c)

Lebrensraum

d)

Badeunzug

36.

What was the site of the D-Day invasion?

a)

Paris, France

b)

Lyon, France

c)

Dijon, France

d)

Normandy, France

37.

Which treaty caused economic problems & resentment for Germans in the 20's and 30's.

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

Treaty of Ghent

c)

Treaty of Versailles

d)

Treaty of Vienna

38.

Hitler's autobiography:

a)

Guten Morgen

b)

Ich bin Krank

c)

Zallen Bite

d)

Mein Kampf

39.

Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews:

a)

The Beer Hall Putsch

b)

The March on Munich

c)

Kristallnacht

d)

The October Revolution

40.

This Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II:

a)

Francisco Franco

b)

Joseph Stalin

c)

Benito Mussolini

d)

Vladimir Lenin

41.

All of the following were a part of the Axis Powers except:

a)

Japan

b)

Germany

c)

Great Britain

d)

Italy

42.

Who was the fascist dictator of Italy?

a)

Francisco Franco

b)

Camilo Benso

c)

Urbano Rattazzi

d)

Benito Mussolini

43.

Laws which discriminated against the Jews of Germany in the 1930's:

a)

Munich Laws

b)

Berlin Laws

c)

Hamburg Laws

d)

Nuremberg Laws

44.

Which U.S. president made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Harry S. Truman

d)

John F. Kennedy

45.

Which ethnic group was placed in U.S. internment camps due to fear of attack?

a)

Germans

b)

Italians

c)

Japanese

d)

Spanish

46.

Kristallnacht means "night of broken glass" in English.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

What title did Hitler give himself after taking absolute power?

a)

Il Duce

b)

Chancellor

c)

Der Fuhrer

d)

Prime Minister

48.

All of the following were Allied codenames for beaches of Normandy except

a)

Omaha

b)

Juno

c)

Gold

d)

Arizona

49.

Which Auschwitz physican was known as the "angel of death"?

a)

Josef Mengele

b)

Josef Goebbels

c)

Martin Bormann

d)

Heinrich Himmler

50.

Which U.S. president asked Congress to declare war on Japan after attacks on Pearl Harbor?

a)

Herbert Hoover

b)

Franklin D. Roosevelt

c)

Harry S. Truman

d)

Dwight D. Eisenhower

51.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed as a defensive alliance for protection against Soviet agression in the U.S. and Western Europe.

a)

True

b)

False

52.

Containment was the policy of keeping communism contained within existing borders.

a)

True

b)

False

53.

The Truman Doctrine was a program to economically and militarily help nations resist communism.

a)

True

b)

False

54.

He charged that many people in government agencies had been corrupted by communism.

a)

Joseph McCarthy

b)

Strom Thurmon

c)

Bob Dole

d)

Daniel Webster

55.

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were executed for giving atomic secrets to the Soviets.

a)

True

b)

False

56.

This former advisor to FDR was charged with having been a Communist spy:

a)

Alger Hiss

b)

Julius Rosenberg

c)

Joseph McCarthy

d)

Logan Zinman

57.

The Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite into Earth's orbit with Sputnik.

a)

True

b)

False

58.

The Eisenhower Doctrine stated that the U.S. would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by Communism.

a)

True

b)

False

59.

Which Soviet leader replaced Joseph Stalin upon his death?

a)

Mikhail Gorbachev

b)

Boris Yeltsin

c)

Vladimir Putin

d)

Nikita Khrushchev

60.

This Chinese communist leader was supported by the USSR:

a)

Chiang Kai-Shek

b)

Mao Zedong

c)

Zhou Ziqi

d)

Lin Sin

61.

Who did John F. Kennedy defeat in the 1960 presidential election?

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

Hubert Humphrey

c)

Richard Nixon

d)

Spiro Agnew

62.

Who led the new communist regime in Cuba?

a)

Fulgencio Batista

b)

Fidel Castro

c)

Che Guevara

d)

Ricky Ricardo

63.

The Bay of Pigs invasion failed, strengthening Castro's position in the Cuban government.

a)

True

b)

False

64.

The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for 13 days.

a)

True

b)

False

65.

In order to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. removed nuclear weapons in Turkey and the Soviets removed from Cuba.

a)

True

b)

False

66.

President Kennedy's plan for improving the economy, education, civil rights and space exploration:

a)

The New Deal

b)

The Great Society

c)

The New Frontier

d)

The Great Leap Forward

67.

Who assassinated President Kennedy?

a)

Jack Ruby

b)

John Wilkes Booth

c)

James Earl Ray

d)

Lee Harvey Oswald

68.

Where was John F. Kennedy assassinated?

a)

Chicago, Illinois

b)

Dallas, Texas

c)

Nashville, Tennessee

d)

Atlanta, Georgia

69.

Who became the president upon the death of JFK?

a)

Lyndon B. Johnson

b)

Richard Nixon

c)

Gerald Ford

d)

Jimmy Carter

70.

Who became the first man to step foot on the moon in 1969?

a)

Buzz Aldrin

b)

John Glenn

c)

Michael Collins

d)

Neil Armstrong