WorksheetsFinal Exam US2 - PART 2 PART 2
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Severe drought and wind created dust storms in the western Plains during the 1930s and this area was known as the
Windy West
Dusty Dessert
Dust Bowl
__________ was assassinated shortly after he was re-elected in 1901.
Theodore Roosevelt
William Henry Harrison
William McKinley
Who was the youngest president to take office in 1901?
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
The Department of __________ watched over big business.
Labor and Security
Labor and Commerce
Workforce
The 1920s is known for many things but Jazz music was a major part of society. Where did Jazz music originate?
The North
The South
West coast
Who wanted to pass laws to fix social and political problems in the early 1900s?
Muckrakers
Progressives
Mugwamps
The _________ cut the shipping distance between New York and San Francisco.
South American Canal
Panama Canal
Atlantic Canal
Upton Sinclair wrote a novel called The Jungle that described the horrors of meat packing plants which inspired the passing of the __________ Act.
Meat Inspection
Labor Union
Food and Drug
Theodore Roosevelt sought re-election as a candidate of the __________ in 1912.
Democratic Party
Progressive Party
Bull Moose Party
Who was assassinated to start WWI?
Franz Ferdinand
William McKinley
Woodrow Wilson
Adolf Hitler introduced a new form of warfare during WWII. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and used this new form of warfare called?
Napalm
Blitzkrieg
Search and Destroy
This area of New York City became a creative center for many African Americans during the 1920s.
Bronx
Manhattan
Harlem
The ban on making or selling alcohol during the 1920s and 30s was known as?
Prohibition
Speakeasy
Communism
Who was president of the United States during and throughout WWII?
William Taft
Woodrow Wilson
FDR
The mass murder of European Jews during WWII was known as?
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
the Holocaust
What country used torpedos from U-Boats to sink ships during WWI.
Italy
Great Britain
Germany
What were the ditches soldiers fought from in France during WWI called?
Diggers
Trenches
undergrounds
Who made up the Axis Powers during WWII?
Germany
Italy
Japan
All of these
What is the practice of requiring people to serve in the armed forces called?
Draft
Bonds
sign ups
What country did Germany promise land in the Zimmermann Note to if they helped them by invading the US during WWI?
United States
Mexico
Canada
After FDR died in office, Harry S Truman became President of the U.S., and in order to end fighting with Japan during WWII he made the decision to what?
Invade Tokyo
Drop an atomic bomb on cities Hiroshima/Nagasaki
What was Wilson’s plan for permanent peace called?
United Nations
Wilson’s 14 Points
Wilson for Peace
Women got the right to vote in _________
1915
1918
1920
The _________ amendment gave women the right to vote.
19th
20th
16th
The 1920’s were known as the ___________.
Gilded Age
Roaring 20’s
Jazzy 20’s
__________ was a law that banned the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Prohibition
Nullification
Alcoholism
People illegally sold and consumed alcohol in __________.
Alley Ways
Speakeasies
Back rooms
The Stock Market crashed on __________.
October 2, 1930
October 29, 1929
October 12, 1928
The Stock Market crash date became known as __________.
Black Wednesday
Black Tuesday
Black Friday
After the Stock Market crashed, the __________ began.
Great Sadness
Great Depression
Awful Depression
Many people were out of work and lived in shacks called __________.
Shacktowns
Hoovervilles
Tent Cities
What got the U.S. out of the Great Depression?
Donald Trump
England
WWII
WWII started in 1939 but the U.S. did not enter the war until _______.
1947
1940
1941
What event led the U.S. to enter WWII?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Great Depression
911
Where did governmental officials forcibly place Japanese Americans following the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
Concentration camps
Internment camps
in the US Army
