USH 2nd Semester Common Assessment Review

Which of the following best describes satellite nations?

One group that suffered economically during the 1920s was...

What was the foreign policy of the United States government during the Cold War?

Which of these best explains why Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to the presidency four times?

After Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965,

What was the main reason European Jews were forced into concentration camps?

What did President Truman promise in the Truman Doctrine?

What was one purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps?

Which American philosophy and policy toward post-war Europe was reflected in The Marshall Plan?

It was the Gulf of Tonkin that decisively turned the American public against the Vietnam War.

Most Allied troops fighting against enemy forces before the Allied invasion of Europe were in the South Pacific.

Why did President Franklin Roosevelt create the Office of War Mobilization?

What type of warfare was used in the dense jungles of Vietnam?

Isolationism is a national policy of avoiding political or economic entanglements with other countries.

What was the main method used to move men and materials to fight in the battles of the Pacific?

Throughout most of the 1920s, Americans were generally

Which event of the early 1960s brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?

How did television promote economic growth in the 1950s?

The 21st Amendment repeal of Prohibition led to the end of bootlegging and speakeasies.

When Japan invaded Manchuria in 1932, what geographic reason did Japan use to justify the attack?

The Red Scare was a response to...

What was the name of the alliance the nations of Eastern Europe belonged to after World War II?

Which of the following describes McCarthyism in the 1950s?

Why were there more major highways in the Eastern half of the country than the Western?

One sign that the economy might be weakening in the 1920s was

The US knew that Eastern Europe was lost to communism after WWar II, so US policy of containment then focused where?

The main consideration in Pres. Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb was the projected loss of American soldiers.

What was the purpose of rationing during World War II?

Nixon was impeached after Watergate.

It was the imprisonment of Jews in German concentration camps that prompted the United States to enter the war in 1941.

What geographic strategy did the Soviet Union use to resist the German invasion in 1942?

The United States' growing reliance upon foreign oil caused Australia to become a world power?

Long-held prejudice/fears inflamed by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led the government to evacuate J-A.

Which of the following had a wartime application only?

This ended both the separate-but-equal doctrine and segregation in public schools.

What was the biggest social change that occurred during World War II?

What was the American view of the Soviet Union after World War II?

According to President Eisenhower, which region was most susceptible to the Domino Effect during the Cold War?

Which pair of events illustrates a cause and effect relationship during the 1920s?

What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allow federal officials to do?

Which event of World War II had the greatest impact on the earth's physical environment?

Why did the allies use the strategy of "island hopping" to recapture territories from the Japanese?

What was the outcome of the Korean War?

In 1961, President Kennedy committed NASA and the nation to the goal of

Which group was affected by wage cuts and unemployment during the Depression?

How did the Montgomery bus boycott influence protests during the Civil Rights movement?

Why was the Berlin Wall built in Germany after World War II?

After Kennedy authorized a military buildup to show that the U.S. would not be bullied by the Soviets, the Soviets...

What caused the rapid suburbanization of the United States in the 1950s?

A consumer economy is one that depends on a large amount of...

T/F - The rise of organized crime was an unintended consequence of Prohibition?

Which political and social conflict of the 1920s was highlighted in the trial of John Scopes?

Though relatively few in numbers, flappers represented:

Who would most likely support Prohibition?

During the Depression, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans lost jobs to white people.

Marcus Garvey led a movement to...

The second New Deal was a wave of legislation including more social welfare benefits.

Several of the important decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren focused on...

Why did students protest at many universities during the Vietnam War?

During the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s, which of the following groups accepted violence as a way to achieve results?

Which of the following did the New Deal programs fail to address?

Which New Deal agency was created to help businesses?

One result of the Civil Rights Movement was that many African Americans registered to vote.

Which new businesses started as a result of the increase in automobiles during the 1920s?

At first, some women did not exercise their newly won right to vote because...