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US History B Final
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1
Volunteers for The Voter Education Project were attacked in the south but registered many what?
African Americans
Communists
New Vehicles
Handguns
2
Where did Martin Luther King Jr give his famous "I have a Dream" speech?
Washington DC
Selma
Birmingham
New York
3
Shortly after World War 2 there was a large increase in births known as what?
Baby Boom
Kid Crazy
Baby Bomb
Cry Time
4
The failed Constitutional Amendment that was supposed to create gender equity was called?
ERA
NRA
EST
RPM
5
Because many Americans thought WWI was pointless, they embraced this philosophy in WWII?
Jingoism
Issolationism
Militarism
Communism
6
The Oklahoma city bombing was what type of attack?
Nuclear
Domestic Terrorism
Suicide Bombing
Revenge
7
A movement to get African Americans to solve their problems by focusing on their community was?
Freedom Rides
Black Power
Sit Ins
Non Violent Civil Disobedience
8
Duck and Cover was the name of a film and its lesson whose star was?
Tom the Tortoise
Bugs Bunny
Mickey Mouse
Bert the Turtle
9
What year was the first African-American President elected?
2012
2008
2000
2010
10
Who was the first African American President elected in 2008?
Osama bin Ladin
Morgan Freeman
George Washington
Barack Obama
11
Housing and employment discrimination ended after the passage of what law?
Jim Crow Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
12
Who ordered the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Japan hoping to end the war quickly?
President Truman
General Eisenhower
General Patton
General McCarther
13
Where did the NAACP choose to fight Racism?
In the Media
In the Courts
In the Streets
In the Classrooms
14
Civil Rights protesters used what tactic that outraged the populous watching on TV?
Non Violent Civil Disobedience
Violent Civil Disobedience
Angry Rhetoric
Thoughtful Dialogue
15
In order to make America more prestigious by putting a man on the moon, Kennedy expanded what?
OPEC
NATO
UN
NASA
16
Before the US entered the war we used the Lend-Lease Act to supply aid to what nation?
Italy
Philippines
Poland
Great Britain
17
Which event drove Cuba Closer to the Soviet Union and destroyed relations with America?
Cuban Missile Crisis
Korean War
Bay of Pigs invasion
Moon Landing
18
Middle or Upper class families could afford to build special shelters to hide from what?
Rain
Justin Bieber
Fallout
Exams
19
Former Actor Ronald Reagan was good at winning over the public earning him the nickname?
The Great Gatsby
The Great Pumpkin
The Great Escape
The Great Communicator
20
In the 1980's trickle down Reaganomics which helped mostly the wealthy was also known as what?
Econologic
Supply-Side
Do Do Economics
Mondon't Economics
21
Congress tried to limit the powers of the President by passing what law at the end of Vietnam?
Pierson Act
Voting Rights Act
War Powers Act
Civil Rights Act
22
What organization hired Thurgood Marshall to be the lawyer in the Brown case?
NFL
NCAA
NAACP
SCLC
23
Containment was the policy Truman adopted to stop what?
Communism
The Baby Boom
Republicans
The Space Race
24
Neil Armstrong was the first man to do what?
Win the Tour de France
Walk on the Moon
Lead a band as a Trumpet player
Fight in 4 US wars
25
The US entered WWII after what nation attacked us at Pearl Harbor Hawaii?
Japan
Germany
Italy
China
26
Ending segregation in public waiting rooms was the goal of which civil rights movement?
Sit Ins
Selma march
Birmingham march
Freedom Riders
27
To promote peace around the world Kennedy started what organization to send American volunteers
Disney
Coast Guard
NASA
Peace Corps
28
When Servicemen returned from WWII they started families increasing the population is called?
Infant Infestation
Family Planning
Baby Boom
Child Choice
29
What Mexican-American gained national attention for leading a Latino migrant worker strike?
Marco Rubio
Caesar Chavez
George Lopez
Carlos Santana
30
Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind what terrorist attack?
Oklahoma City
Boston Marathon
Anthrax Attack
9-11
31
What accomplishment scared Americans because it showed the USSR was farther science and tech?
Cell Phones
Ice Dancing
Vodka
Sputnik
32
The United States once supplied weapons to the Afghanistan Taliban because who invaded them?
Pakistan
USSR
Iran
China
33
The most recent success in civil rights was on June 26, 2015 when the Supreme Court legalized?
Flag Burning
Same Sex Marriage
Interracial Marriage
Marijuana
34
Rejecting Communism East Germans reunified with the West by tearing down what?
Berlin Wall
Road Signs
Pettit Prison
Communist Flags
35
What city had violent protest that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Washington DC
Birmingham
Selma
Chicago
36
The first fight to stop communism began when US troops went where to stop communist invaders?
Japan
Iraq
Germany
Korea
37
The Axis Alliance was made up of Germany, Japan and who?
United States
The Soviet Union
Russia
Italy
38
Malcolm X was a ____ who was controversial for saying "By any Means Necessary?
Muslim
Lawyer
Communist
Catholic
39
After WWII the US rebuilt Europe with money and other aid called the?
Marshall Plan
Mondoux Plan
Truman Plan
Rebuild Plan
40
Which President used Kennedy's death to push his Great Society and Civil Rights Legislation?
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Reagan
41
To protect petroleum supplies and because of atrocities taking place in Kuwait America attacked
Iran
Israel
Iraq
Afghanistan
42
What fictionalized character represented women who worked for the war effort?
Becky the Builder
Rosie the Riveter
Wendy the Welder
Peggy the Painter
43
Hitler blamed Jews for the problems of Germany feeding anti-Jewish hatred known as?
Racism
Anti-Semitism
Sexism
Homophobia
44
Ending segregation in public restaurants was the goal of which civil rights movement?
Selma march
Freedom Riders
Sit Ins
Birmingham march
45
More than anything else, media, especially TV coverage of the Vietnam war had what effect?
Drove up Support
Turned Public Against it
Had No Effect
The Hamilton Effect
46
What election took weeks to decide because of recounts in Florida?
2004
1996
2000
2008
47
After 9-11 the US invaded what Taliban controlled country?
Afghanistan
China
Pakistan
Iraq
48
The attacks by North Vietnam on New Years Day known as the Tet Offensive marked what in the war
The End
The Turning Point
The Beginning
The Aftermath
49
Believing that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction which President order it attacked in 2003?
George HW Bush
Jimmy Carter
George W Bush
Bill Clinton
50
What year was Pearl Harbor Attacked by the Japanese?
1942
1941
1940
1945
51
Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005 making it the 21st Century's worst what?
Hurricane Name
Oil Spill
Natural Disaster
Day
52
Who was the plaintiff in the school desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education?
James Brown
Linda Brown
Charlie Brown
Jim Brown
53
Gerald Ford Pardoned which President for their role in Watergate?
Nixon
Ford
Hamilton
Clinton
54
During WWII FDR ordered whom to be imprisoned away from the coastline until the war was over?
Communists
Japanese-Americans
German-Americans
Italian-Americans
55
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret program to build what type of bomb?
Anti-Tank
Incendiary
Atomic
Submarine
56
HIV/AIDS is a disease without a cure that will cause _____ deaths in the future.
Hundreds
Thousands
14
Millions
57
McCarthyism was named after a Senator who unfairly accused Americans of being what?
Ugly
Tax Evaders
Communists
Foreigners
58
President Johnson justified attacking North Vietnam in Operation Rolling Thunder because of?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Pearl Harbor
The Bay of Pigs
The Gulf of Tonkin
59
To protect Western Europe from the spread of Communism the United States helped start what?
OPEC
United Nations
NATO
JAZZ
60
The Cuban Missile Crisis began when the US detected Nuclear missiles in Cuba from where?
The Soviet Union
China
North Korea
France
61
What was a form of propaganda used to promote the war effort in WWII?
Chain Letters
Television Comercials
Posters
Direct Mailings
62
After waiting several weeks for the Gov. to integrate Little Rock High who sent in the army?
Thurgood Marshall
President Truman
President Eisenhower
Martin Luther King Jr
63
The belief that one country falling to communism would lead to another and another is called?
Domino Theory
String Theory
Vanderlaan Theory
Theory of Evolution