APUSH: Period 7B Pre-Assessment

Question 1

Why did the Great Depression end?

Accepted Answer

U.S. involvement in World War II

Question 2

What term refers to the daily measurement of the stock market on the NYSE?

Accepted Answer

Dow Jones

Question 3

How many Presidential elections did Franklin Roosevelt win?

Accepted Answer

4

Question 4

Which of the following actions was NOT taken by the U.S. after the outbreak of WWII?

Accepted Answer

Signed a specific non-aggression pact with Japan

Question 5

Which Axis nation was attacked as the "soft underbelly"?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 6

Pearl Harbor was targeted for which reason?

Accepted Answer

Position of U.S. Pacific Fleet

Question 7

Why did the U.S. choose to island-hop?

Accepted Answer

Minimize losses & time in fighting

Question 8

Which minority group was the focus of the Double V campaign?

Accepted Answer

African-Americans

Question 9

The result of the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial was most closely related to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Rise of Ku Klux Klan

Question 10

Which of the following would NOT describe a "flapper"?

Accepted Answer

Married housewives who pushed for suffrage

Question 11

At the Yalta Conference, the Allies determine to do what with Germany?

Accepted Answer

Temporarily split into four zones

Question 12

During the 1920's, what was true about the entertainment of the time?

Accepted Answer

Spectator sports popular

Question 13

Why was there ruinous violence in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932?

Accepted Answer

WWI veterans asked for money early

Question 14

Which of the following was NOT a battle in the Pacific Theater?

Accepted Answer

Bulge

Question 15

What was the President's reaction to the onset of the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Do nothing

Question 16

Which of the following about Prohibition was FALSE?

Accepted Answer

Speakeasies were legalized and openly found

Question 17

The Manhattan Project will come to fruition at what location?

Accepted Answer

Hiroshima

Question 18

After WWII, what was created by the Allies to prevent future wars?

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT a Republican President after the Great War?

Accepted Answer

Harry S Truman

Question 20

Which turn of events created the Stock Market Crash of 1929?

Accepted Answer

Selling more stock than demanded

Question 21

Which of the following was NOT a part of the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Refinancing

Question 22

President Roosevelt created a unique coalition of voters that did NOT include which?

Accepted Answer

Business owners

Question 23

Which group caused the most problems for the New Deal, sparking a failed effort at reforming?

Accepted Answer

Supreme Court

Question 24

Which of the following events did NOT occur in the ten years following the Great War?

Accepted Answer

Back-to-back-to back Democratic Presidents

Question 25

The landings of D-Day occurred on the shores of which nation?

Accepted Answer

France

Question 26

Which of the following was NOT a popular purchase of the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

War bonds

Question 27

Which of the following was NOT a direct by-product of the Great Migration?

Accepted Answer

Zoot Suit Riots

Question 28

Which industry did President Roosevelt seek to first remedy?

Accepted Answer

Banks

Question 29

Which program was revolutionary in aiding workers to retire, opening jobs for others?

Accepted Answer

Social Security

Question 30

Which nation suffered the greatest loss of life during the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 31

Which of the following was NOT a product of the Great War?

Accepted Answer

Philippine-American War

Question 32

What do Huey Long, Francis Townsend and Charles Coughlin all have in common?

Accepted Answer

Outspoken critics of the New Deal

Question 33

Which of the following was NOT an Axis nation?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Union

Question 34

Which of the following nations suffered the LEAST casualties from the Second World War?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 35

The invasion of which nation led to a war declaration by Britain and France?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 36

On what date was Pearl Harbor attacked?

Accepted Answer

December 7, 1941

Question 37

Which event happened FIRST?

Accepted Answer

FDR died of natural causes

Question 38

Which of the following New Deal programs is NO longer in existence?

Accepted Answer

National Recovery Administration

APUSH: Period 7B Pre-Assessment

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