American History II Final Exam

The Battle of Britain was an air conflict between the British Royal Air Force and the German Lutfwaffe.

This was the first Japanese city attacked with an atomic bomb.

Which of the following were not segregated in the first half of the 20th century?

His book, The Power of Positive Thinking encouraged people to look to themselves and not to God for life's answers.

The German invasion of this nation started the Second World War.

He won the presidential election of 1928.

These developed as people moved out of the cities into the surrounding areas.

Fundamentalism was the theology of the inerrancy of the Bible.

The Japanese attacked American military forces at Pearl Harbor and other facilities located in this U.S. territory.

This country suffered a civil war between 1936 and 1939 and it led to a fascist government.

South Korea invaded North Korea on 25 June 1950.

Which of the following did not experience a denial of civil rights in United States history?

The Ohio Gang were unscrupulous politicians who served under this president.

President Hoover believed that giving people money would ruin their work ethic.

Appeasement was the policy of giving in to aggressors in order to avoid war.

Flappers were young women who resisted the changes of the 1920's in favor of living traditional lives.

Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand's murder at the hands of French terrorists was the spark that started WWI.

This was the American process of recapturing Japanese-held islands in the Pacific.

The Marshall Plan was a post-WWII U.S. program to give money to European nations to stop them from becoming communist.

By 1933, unemployment in the United States reached this percent.

Japan invaded this area of China in 1931.

Between 1940 and 1960 churches experienced a drastic decline in membership.

In the early 1900's France possessed a deep hatred for this nation.

Operation Overlord was the U.S., British, Canadian and French invasion of Europe through Italy.

This American highway system was started under President Eisenhower and was modeled after the German autobahn.

This group suffered an economic depression throughout the 1920's.

This was the world peacekeeping agency created by the treaty that ended the First World War.

This local school district desegregated its schools in 1954.

He won the election of 1948.

The American invasion of Italy eventually led to the overthrow and defeat of Benito Mussolini.

The Truman Doctrine stated that the United States would work to keep communism in its current borders.

He was the first African American to play major league baseball.

This provided a pension for Americans 65 or older.

The Dust Bowl referred to this part of the United States.

Who of the following was not a powerful figure at the Versailles Peace Conference?

After the Second World War, these two nations were the world's two superpowers.

The charter for this world peacekeeping agency was adopted in San Francisco in 1945.

Which of the following was not one of the "R's" of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal?

He led the Bolsheviks in Russia following the overthrow of the moderate socialist government.

This court case ruled that separate but equal public facilities for the races were acceptable.

This Latin American country became communist in 1959 under the leadership of Fidel Castro.

In June 1941, Germany launched a massive invasion of this European nation.

He became the Emperor of Japan in 1926.

Trench warfare dominated the Western Front in the First World War.

This organization grew dramatically during Prohibition because of its opposition to blacks, Jews and immigrants.

The Battle of the Somme was the first to introduce this weapon.

He became the fascist leader of Italy in 1922.

FDR suffered a major defeat when he tried to change the composition of this American institution.

This court case ended separate but equal in education.

Which of the following was not a lifestyle change created by the automobile?

In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. led a civil rights march of 250,000 people on this city.

Which of the following was not a German death camp?

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a husband and wife who were executed for passing U.S. nuclear secrets to the Soviets.

Viet Cong were South Vietnamese communist rebels.

He seized power in the Soviet Union in 1928 following the death of the first leader of communist Russia.

This president was allegedly assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.

The Tennessee Valley Authority provided this to the regions of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers.

He won the presidential election of 1960.

The second Russian Revolution in November brought this group to power.

According to the Versailles Peace Conference, this nation had to assume blame for the First World War.

He won the American presidential election of 1920.

Which of the following was not part of the Triple Entente?

He became the fascist leader of Germany in 1933.

The Western powers used this to end the Soviet blockade of Berlin.

Approximately 20 million people died as a result of the Second World War.

This military alliance was used to counter the Soviet threat in Europe.

He emerged as the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

He was the head of the American Expeditionary Force in France.

He won the presidential election of 1932.

A major crisis occurred when the U.S. found out that this country was installing nuclear weapons Cuba.

Prohibition was a time period in American history when this was outlawed.

Germany signed a non-aggression treaty with this nation in August of 1939.