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WorksheetsAmerican History B Final
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 35mins
President Franklin Roosevelt's economic program was called the "New Deal".
True
False
The 1920's KKK only discriminated against African Americans.
True
False
World War I veterans who camped out in Washington, D.C. in 1932:
Veteran's Association
Bonus Army
Protest Army
Infantry Corps
Which law provided federal enforcement for Prohibition?
Butler Act
Volstead Act
Patriot Act
Smoot-Hawley Act
A period of severe dust storms on the American prairies during the 1930's.
Death Valley
Dust Bowl
Mud Pit
Tornado Alley
Where did the Scopes Money Trial take place?
Ohio
California
Arkansas
Tennessee
This film was the first "talkie":
The Jazz Singer
The Wizard of Wall Street
Singing in the Rain
The Matrix
Which amendment prohibited the selling and manufacturing of alcohol?
16th
17th
18th
19th
All of the following were New Deal programs except
The Social Security Act
The Civil Rights Act
The Emergency Banking Act
The Works Progress Administration
Who was arrested for teaching the theory of evolution at a public school?
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Al Cowlings
John Scopes
Who was the leading Chicago bootlegger during the 20's era prohibition?
Al Capone
Charlie Birger
Carl Shelton
Bugs Moran
The Hindenburg crashed at this American site:
Hyde Park, New York
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Lakehurst, New Jersey
Worchester, Massachusetts
All of the following were states effected by the Dust Bowl except
Texas
Oklahoma
Iowa
New Mexico
Where did most Okies migrate in order to escape the Dust Bowl?
New York
California
Nevada
Missourt
Which amendment repealed prohibition?
17th
18th
20th
21st
Who wrote the Great Gatsby?
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemmingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president when the stock market crashed.
True
False
This singer wrote "Dust Bowl" ballads during the Great Depression.
Pete Seeger
Hank Williams
Jimmie Rogers
Woody Guthrie
This 1915 film glorified the 19th century KKK.
The Jazz Singer
The Birth of a Nation
The Kid
Modern Times
Charles Lindbergh's plane:
The Enola Gay
The Memphis Belle
The Wright Flyer
The Spirt of St. Louis
Which Southern Illinois town was the site of the massacre of 19 strike breakers in 1922?
West Frankfort
Herrin
Harrisburg
Marion
Who was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic?
Howard Hughes
Jimmy Doolittle
Charles Lindbergh
Wilbur Wright
Who scared millions with his radio adaptation of the "War of the Worlds"?
Clarence Darrow
Orson Welles
Edward R. Murrow
Paul Harvey
A bootlegger was someone who sold alcohol illegally.
True
False
25. All of the following were bootleggers except
Charlie Birger
Al Capone
Carl Shelton
S. Glenn Young
The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city:
Nagasaki
Tokyo
Kokura
Hiroshima
All of the following were Allies during World War II except
United States
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Spain
Who was Great Britain's prime minister through the majority of World War II?
Neville Chamberlain
Tony Blair
Margret Thatcher
Winston Churchill
All of the following countries took part in the D-Day invasion except
United States
Canada
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Who was the commander of the D-Day invasion?
George Patton
Bernard Montgomery
Dwight Eisenhower
John Miller
What was the codename for the U.S. atomic bomb program?
Barbarossa
Trinity
Overlord
The Manhattan Project
What was the American strategy in the Pacific Theater?
Mainland invasion
Island hopping
Containment
Guerilla warfare
Who was the Japanese Emperor?
Isoroku Yamamato
Hirohito
Hideki Tojo
Sheev Palpatine
When did the attack on Pearl Harbor take place?
June22, 1941
December 7, 1941
June 6, 1944
August 15, 1945
German living space:
Kristallnacht
Blitzkrieg
Lebrensraum
Badeunzug
What was the site of the D-Day invasion?
Paris, France
Lyon, France
Dijon, France
Normandy, France
Which treaty caused economic problems & resentment for Germans in the 20's and 30's.
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Ghent
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Vienna
Hitler's autobiography:
Guten Morgen
Ich bin Krank
Zallen Bite
Mein Kampf
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews:
The Beer Hall Putsch
The March on Munich
Kristallnacht
The October Revolution
This Communist dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II:
Francisco Franco
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
Vladimir Lenin
All of the following were a part of the Axis Powers except:
Japan
Germany
Great Britain
Italy
Who was the fascist dictator of Italy?
Francisco Franco
Camilo Benso
Urbano Rattazzi
Benito Mussolini
Laws which discriminated against the Jews of Germany in the 1930's:
Munich Laws
Berlin Laws
Hamburg Laws
Nuremberg Laws
Which U.S. president made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy
Which ethnic group was placed in U.S. internment camps due to fear of attack?
Germans
Italians
Japanese
Spanish
Kristallnacht means "night of broken glass" in English.
True
False
What title did Hitler give himself after taking absolute power?
Il Duce
Chancellor
Der Fuhrer
Prime Minister
All of the following were Allied codenames for beaches of Normandy except
Omaha
Juno
Gold
Arizona
Which Auschwitz physican was known as the "angel of death"?
Josef Mengele
Josef Goebbels
Martin Bormann
Heinrich Himmler
Which U.S. president asked Congress to declare war on Japan after attacks on Pearl Harbor?
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed as a defensive alliance for protection against Soviet agression in the U.S. and Western Europe.
True
False
Containment was the policy of keeping communism contained within existing borders.
True
False
The Truman Doctrine was a program to economically and militarily help nations resist communism.
True
False
He charged that many people in government agencies had been corrupted by communism.
Joseph McCarthy
Strom Thurmon
Bob Dole
Daniel Webster
Julius & Ethel Rosenberg were executed for giving atomic secrets to the Soviets.
True
False
This former advisor to FDR was charged with having been a Communist spy:
Alger Hiss
Julius Rosenberg
Joseph McCarthy
Logan Zinman
The Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite into Earth's orbit with Sputnik.
True
False
The Eisenhower Doctrine stated that the U.S. would use force to help any Middle Eastern nation threatened by Communism.
True
False
Which Soviet leader replaced Joseph Stalin upon his death?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Nikita Khrushchev
This Chinese communist leader was supported by the USSR:
Chiang Kai-Shek
Mao Zedong
Zhou Ziqi
Lin Sin
Who did John F. Kennedy defeat in the 1960 presidential election?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Hubert Humphrey
Richard Nixon
Spiro Agnew
Who led the new communist regime in Cuba?
Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Che Guevara
Ricky Ricardo
The Bay of Pigs invasion failed, strengthening Castro's position in the Cuban government.
True
False
The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for 13 days.
True
False
In order to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. removed nuclear weapons in Turkey and the Soviets removed from Cuba.
True
False
President Kennedy's plan for improving the economy, education, civil rights and space exploration:
The New Deal
The Great Society
The New Frontier
The Great Leap Forward
Who assassinated President Kennedy?
Jack Ruby
John Wilkes Booth
James Earl Ray
Lee Harvey Oswald
Where was John F. Kennedy assassinated?
Chicago, Illinois
Dallas, Texas
Nashville, Tennessee
Atlanta, Georgia
Who became the president upon the death of JFK?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Who became the first man to step foot on the moon in 1969?
Buzz Aldrin
John Glenn
Michael Collins
Neil Armstrong
