8th Grade Final Review

Question 1

Which event prompted the US to enter WWII?

Accepted Answer

Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor

Question 2

Which 2 countries emerged as world powers during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

US & USSR

Question 3

After WW2 ended, the Allied Powers punished enemy leaders who committed terrible war crimes. This was known as the ____?

Accepted Answer

Nuremberg Trials

Question 4

What happened as a result of the 9/11 attacks?

Accepted Answer

The US declared war on terrorism

Question 5

Whose literary achievements were celebrated in the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

African Americans

Question 6

What is the significance of the 2008 presidential election?

Accepted Answer

Barack Obama became the first African American president

Question 7

What is the name of reporters who exposed corruption in the early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 8

Which of the following was a plan to stop the spread of Communism?

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 9

The systematic murder of the Jews by Nazis is known as the:

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 10

Which system of agriculture kept African Americans in debt and a lifestyle similar to slavery?

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 11

Why did President George HW Bush send American troops to Iraq in 1991?

Accepted Answer

To protect American oil interests

Question 12

Which Civil Rights leader supported nonviolent protest as a means to achieve equality?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 13

Which of the following was a shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean?

Accepted Answer

Panama Canal

Question 14

Which New York City tragedy led to improved working conditions?

Accepted Answer

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Question 15

What was the purpose of the League of Nations

Accepted Answer

To prevent future wars

Question 16

What was the name given to homeless communities during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Hoovervilles

Question 17

Which of the following was NOT a way African Americans were denied the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Segregation

Question 18

Which exaggerated headlines encouraged Americans to declare war on Spain?

Accepted Answer

Yellow Journalism

Question 19

What was the purpose of the Quota system?

Accepted Answer

To reduce the number of immigrants from certain nations

Question 20

What change occurred in the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Machine made good replaced handmade goods

Question 21

Which is the closest that the Cold War came to "turning hot"?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 22

Which Supreme Court case established "separate but equal" facilities?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 23

Which president resigned as part of the Watergate Scandal?

Accepted Answer

Richard Nixon

Question 24

Why did organized crime grow in the 1920s?

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 25

What was the goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

Accepted Answer

Regulate big businesses

Question 26

Which amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

15th

Question 27

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the transcontinental railroad?

Accepted Answer

Increased control of the west by Native Americans

Question 28

Which foreign policy involves taking over overseas territories?

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 29

What industry was exposed in The Jungle?

Accepted Answer

Meatpacking

Question 30

Which is the primary reason the US entered WWI?

Accepted Answer

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Question 31

How was the majority of WWI fought?

Accepted Answer

Trench warfare

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