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American History Chapters 8-16
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1
The 101st Airborne was called in to protect black students entering this school.
Birmingham High School
Little Rock Central High School
Tuskegee High School
University of Alabama
2
Levittown created the first modern . . .
Hospital Complex
Apartment complex
Suburb
Atomic Bomb
3
What event drew the United States into World War II?
The sinking of the Bismarck
The attack on the Philippines
The attack on Pearl Harbor
The sinking of the Lusitania
4
This agency funded construction projects to reduce unemployment.
AAA
FDIC
SEC
PWA
5
This organization encouraged people to prepare themselves for nuclear war.
NATO
NASA
Warsaw Pact
Federal Civil Defense Administration
6
This group formed because of the segregation of the military during World War II.
The Flying Tigers
The Tuskegee Airmen
The Screaming Eagles
The Harlem Hellcats
7
This was Truman's policy regarding communism.
Brinkmanship
Flexible Response
Massive Retaliation
Containment
8
This group was jailed because they refused to admit to being Communists.
Wisconsin 5
Salem 4
Hollywood 10
McCarthyists
9
Appeasement began when Hitler was granted this area.
Alsace and Lorraine
Czechoslovakia
Rhineland
Sudetenland
10
This enabled the countries of western Europe to rebuild after World War II.
The GI Bill
The Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
The Kennedy Doctrine
11
The Iron Curtain speech was given in Missouri by this statesman.
Dwight Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman
12
In an effort to provide the maximum resources possible, many Americans participated in these.
Garden Parties
Victory Drives
Scrap Drives
Bond Drives
13
This Amendment outlawed slavery.
13
15
14
16
14
By the end of the fifties millions of Americans had these in their homes.
Televisions
Computers
Swimming pools
Cars
15
This organization was created to protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
SNCC
SCLC
Nation of Islam
Black Panthers
16
The war finally concluded here.
Japan
Africa
Germany
Soviet Union
17
What Soviet Premier met with Kennedy in Vienna in 1961?
Joseph Stalin
Yuri Andropov
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
18
The end of World War II saw the beginning of this generation in the U.S.
Baby Boomers
Greatest Generation
Generation Y
Generation X
19
Whose arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Malcolm X
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Medgar Evers
Rosa Parks
20
This concerned Americans that the Soviets could launch weapons from space.
Vanguard
Laika
Sputnik
Explorer
21
Whose policy with regards to communism was brinkmanship?
Harry Truman
Richard Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
22
This organization was created to promote peace on October 24, 1945.
The Warsaw Pact
NATO
The League of Nations
The United Nations
23
The building of highways in 1956 helped this industry boom.
Automobile
Aviation
Drive In Movies
Drive Through Restaurants
24
This was created to further the Arms Race.
Saturn V
Explorer 1
H-Bomb
Apollo
25
What Amendment allowed citizens of a state to directly elect the people in this photograph?
17
20
19
18
26
What Amendment was enforced by the Volstead Act?
15
17
18
16
27
His slogan, "Two Cars in Every Garage" helped him win the election of 1928.
Warren Harding
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
28
Hoover believed in American's ability to solve their own problems called this.
Rugged Individualism
American Individualism
Self Dependency
American Independence
29
Kim Il Sung wanted to reunite this nation under Communist control.
China
Laos
Korea
Vietnam
30
This picture depicts what group of people?
Levittowners
Vacationers
Tin Can Tourists
Vigilantes
31
What Amendment granted suffrage for African American males?
16
13
15
14
32
The Korean War began when . . .
US invaded North Korea
North Korea invaded South Korea
North Korea bombed the US
South Korea invaded North Korea
33
What was one side effect of our development of the Atomic Bomb?
Angered the Germans
Angered China
Angered the Soviets
Angered Great Britain
34
This organization was created to spy on foreign governments (and occasionally overthrow them).
HUAC
SEC
FBI
CIA
35
What Amendment limited presidential terms?
21
24
22
23
36
This civil rights leader was assassinated for leaving the Nation of Islam in 1965.
Malcolm X
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
Stokely Carmichael
Jesse Jackson
37
What Amendment outlawed the event depicted in this photograph?
21
22
24
23
38
Who did Truman fire in Korea for refusal to obey orders?
Omar Bradley
Matthew Ridgeway
George Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
39
This stated that schools should be desegregated "with all deliberate speed".
Baker v. Carr
Plessy v. Ferguson
Gains v. Canada
Brown v. Board of Education
40
Who blocked the door of the University of Alabama in an attempt to keep two black students out?
Governor George Wallace
Police Chief Bull Connor
Governor Orval Faubus
Governor George Brown
41
This ended the era of Jim Crow.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Plessy v. Ferguson
42
In China, the United States placed their support behind this leader.
Chaing Kai-Shek
Kim Il Sung
Mao Zedong
Sygmon Ree
43
This limited the power of unions in the United States.
The Taft-Hartley Act
The National Labor Relations Act
The Marshall Plan
The Clayton Act
44
This was the "watchdog of the stock market".
SEC
WPA
PWA
FDIC
45
What Amendment granted equal protection of the laws and citizenship regardless of race?
16
17
15
14
46
This was the first altercation between east and west. It lasted for 11 months in 1948 and 1949.
Berlin Airlift
Bay of Pigs invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Wall
47
Places to get alcohol during prohibition.
Bars
Restaurants
Saloons
Speakeasies
48
At Yalta, Stalin promised these in Poland and other Eastern European nations.
Rebuilding Programs
Free Elections
Construction Workers
Aid Payments
49
What segregated Jewish people from the rest of German society?
The Final Solution
The Nuremburg Laws
The Jewish Regulations
Jim Crow Laws
50
Hyperinflation in Germany was a direct result of this after World War I.
Military Limitations
Reparations
Territory Loss
War Guilt
51
This civil rights organization fought in the courts to end discrimination.
NAACP
SNCC
CORE
SCLC
52
This activist called for "Back to Africa".
Stokely Carmichael
W.E.B. DuBois
Malcolm X
Marcus Garvey
53
When people lost money on the stock market, these institutions began to fail as well.
Grocery Stores
Local Governments
Secondary Schools
Banks
54
With "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" this author introduced Americans to flappers.
John Steinbeck
Francis Scott Key
Ernest Hemingway
F.Scott Fitzgerald
55
This group investigated radical groups at home.
McCarran Committee
The Loyalty Review Board
Executive Committee of the National Security Coucil
House Un-American Activites Committee
56
This organization was made up of the western democracies during the Cold War.
The Warsaw Pact
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The United Nations
The League of Nations
57
This pair was convicted and executed for espionage in 1952.
Bert and Ernie
Bonnie and Clyde
Sacco and Vanzetti
Julius and Ethal Rosenberg
58
What Amendment allowed Congress to levy income taxes?
15
16
13
14
59
This helped World War II veterans attend school.
WWII Bonus
Servicemen's Readjustment Act
Montgomery Act
Higher Education Act
60
Who had a list of 205 communists in the State Department?
Richard Nixon
Arthur Miller
Hollywood 10
Joseph McCarthy