WorksheetsContemporary History Review
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 10mins
The __________ of 1996 allowed telephone companies to compete with one another, send television signals and allowed cable companies to offer telephone services.
Pendleton Act
Civil Rights Act
World Wide Web Act
Telecommunications Act
A system of networked computers and supercomputers initially used only by certain government agencies was called:
The World Wide Web
The Internet
Hyperlinks
A regional trade organization that emerged in North America in 1993 was called:
NATO
EU
WTO
NAFTA
The __________ Protocol was signed by several nations in 1997 limiting emissions, but not by the United States.
Tokyo
Athens
Kyoto
Geneva
The __________ Act was created after the attacks on 9/11 to make America more secure and prevent future terrorist attacks.
Pendleton
Patriot
American
Social Security
An act of domestic terrorism in 1995 known as the __________ Bombing destroyed a federal building in the Midwest.
Wall Street
Oklahoma City
Atlanta
Waco
The __________ was a way to navigate cyber-space through the use of hyperlinks.
World Wide Web
Cyber Highway
Internet
Computer Network
The name of the military building that was targeted on 9/11 was the:
Octagon
Hexagon
Decagon
Pentagon
__________ was President of the United States for most of the 1990s.
George W. Bush
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
The attacks on 9/11 happened in the year _________.
1999
2021
2003
2001
The name of the terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for the attacks on 9/11 were called:
The Taliban
Kamikazes
Al Qaeda
The IRA
The economic practice of globalism is called __________.
Nationalism
Globalization
Imperialism
Terrorism
A major concern of environmentalists around the world in the 1990s was __________.
Global Warming
Nuclear Waste
Desalination of the Ocean
Wildfires
President Bush Jr. called the countries of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea an Axis of _____ during a speech he made to the nation in 2002 because of the danger to the world he said they posed.
Danger
Terror
Wickedness
Evil
The flight that didn't reach its intended target on 9/11 was Flight __________.
77
175
93
11
The war that the United States engaged in in 2003 was called the __________ War.
Persian Gulf
Syrian
Iran
Iraq
The recognized leader of the terrorist organization known for committing the attacks on 9/11 was:
Saddam Hussein
Yassir Arafat
Osama Bin Laden
Ayatollah Khomeini
A domestic terrorist known as the __________ sent bombs to people in the mail.
Unabomber
Weatherman
Branch Davidian
Mad Bomber
Which is a reason why Americans supported the Patriot Act?
Invasion of Privacy
Warrantless searches
Better airport security
Limits on freedom of speech
The President of the United States when the attacks on 9/11 happened was:
George W. Bush
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Barack Obama
__________ the long-time dictator of Iraq was suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction and invaded by the United States in 2003.
Saddam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden
Yassir Arafat
Muammar Gaddafi
The name of the building that was struck by hijacked airplanes in New York City on 9/11 was called:
The World Trade Center
Wall Street
The Empire State Building
The Sears Tower
__________ was the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Barack Obama
Marcus Garvey
Why was Iraq labeled a threat to national and world security by the United States after the attacks on 9/11?
Osama Bin Laden
Terrorism
Environmentalism
Saddam Hussein
What continent is Afghanistan located in?
South America
North America
Asia
Europe
Congress declared a _________ after the attacks on 9/11.
War on Al Qaeda
War on Terror
War on Iraq
War on Afghanistan
What region is Iraq located in?
Central America
The Middle East
Oceania
The Baltics
Why did the United States use military force against Afghanistan after 9/11?
Al Qaeda was there
We disagreed with their government
They had a ruthless dictator
They boycotted trade with us
What was the main reason that the United States invaded Iraq in 2003?
Osama Bin Laden
Oil
Al Qaeda was headquartered there
Weapons of Mass Destruction were being developed there
Which is a reason why Americans didn't support the Patriot Act?
Improved airport security
Better national security
Warrantless searches
Better communication between federal agencies
