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U.S. History 2nd Semester Review
U.S. History 2nd Semester Review
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Review for our U.S. History 2nd semester final!
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1
What year did Japan attack Pearl Harbor, located in Hawaii?
1933
1941
1945
1939
2
Who was the dictator of Japan during World War II?
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
The military (after killing prime minister Hirohito)
Benito Mussolini
3
The type of fighting that American soldiers frequently fought against in Vietnam is called:
Gorilla
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietcong
Guerrilla
4
What was Martin Luther King Jr's philosophy on how to end segregation?
Using violence
Using non violence
5
During Operation Overlord, code named D-Day, where did the Allied troops invade?
Normandy, France
Nagasaki, Japan
Hiroshima, Japan
Pearl Harbor, United States
6
Which word means to keep communism within its present territory?
Super power
Imperialism
Isolationist
Containment
7
The American response to the Soviet Blockade of Berlin was the:
Berlin Wall
Berlin Airlift
Cold War
Marshall Plan
8
Who accused people of being communist without evidence?
Richard Nixon
Joseph McCarthy
Nikita Khruschev
John F. Kennedy
9
What year did Germany invade Poland?
1945
1941
1933
1939
10
What year were atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States?
1941
1945
1933
1939
11
Who was president when Pearl Harbor was attacked and during most of World War II?
Teddy Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
12
What was discussed at the Yalta Conference?
Poland's government
Declaration of Liberated Europe
Dividing Germany into four zones
Germany paying reparations
13
Why were Americans encouraged to practice duck and cover drills and build fallout shelters?
To protect themselves from the Red Scare
To protect themselves from the Truman Doctrine
To protect themselves from a nuclear bomb
To protect themselves from containment
14
At what event did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his I Have a Dream Speech to 200,000 people?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Brown vs. Board of Education
Little Rock Crisis
March on Washington
15
What year did President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act?
1963
1974
1964
1962
16
What was Eisenhower's theory that if Vietnam fell to communism so would its neighbors?
Detente
Game of Life
Domino
Containment
17
Who coined the term iron curtain, meaning communist East Europe vs. noncommunist West Europe?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Benito Mussolini
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
18
What group of people were targeted by this character, Rosie the Riveter?
Females
Students
African Americans
Upper class
19
Which of the following did
NOT
contribute to German aggression during the 1930s and 1940s?
Germany’s military was drastically reduced
Germany was to be divided into East and West Germany
German troops were to return all captured territory
Germany had to pay reparations
20
Which answer is associated with the Korean War?
Expanded the Cold War to Asia
General MacArthur led the United Nations troops
General MacArthur was fired by President Truman
21
Which word means to stay neutral rather than get involved?
Isolationism
Detente
Containment
Appeasement
22
Who was the dictator of Germany starting in 1933 and during World War II?
The military (after killing prime minister Hirohito)
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Benito Mussolini
23
Which answer is an event that happened during the civil rights movement?
Little Rock crisis
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sit in
Brown v. Board of Education
24
Who was the dictator of the Soviet Union during World War II?
Benito Mussolini
The military (after killing prime minister Hirohito)
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
25
Who was the dictator of Italy during World War II?
Joseph Stalin
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
The military (after killing prime minister Hirohito)
