Test Review - WWI through WWII

Question 1

Our definition of "modernism"

Accepted Answer

Experimentation in art form

Question 2

Which U.S. president initiated the concept of the fireside chat?

Accepted Answer

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 3

Held in internment camps within the U.S. during World War II

Accepted Answer

Japanese-Americans

Question 4

First Progressive President of the United States

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 5

Term coined by critic H.L. Mencken, labeling the social intellect of the American people

Accepted Answer

booboisie

Question 6

Propaganda character associated with the slogan, "We can do it!"

Accepted Answer

Rosie the Riveter

Question 7

Leader of the Soviet Union during World War II

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Question 8

Generally credited as the person who created the assembly line in American factories

Accepted Answer

Henry Ford

Question 9

These infamous words were placed over the entry gate to Auschwitz (translated)

Accepted Answer

"Work will make you free"

Question 10

The title of Hitler's "Mein Kampf" translates to ...

Accepted Answer

My Struggle

Question 11

Estimated number of Jews who lost their lives in Nazi concentration camps, during World War II

Accepted Answer

6,000,000

Question 12

Leader of Russian political group called the Bolsheviks

Accepted Answer

Lenin

Question 13

Name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb

Accepted Answer

Enola Gay

Question 14

Form of protest against discrimination; protesters take seats in restaurants but do not order

Accepted Answer

sit-ins

Question 15

British Prime Minister more successful at persuading US to help in the war than his predecessor

Accepted Answer

Churchill

Question 16

Complained about "hyphenated Americans" during World War I

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 17

The "Red Scare" was a widespread fear of ____________________ in the United States.

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 18

"Black Tuesday" - Date on which the stock market crashed, thereby starting the Great Depression

Accepted Answer

October 29, 1929

Question 19

Which of these was NOT a product of Roosevelt's New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 20

Governor of New York whose Catholicism was scary to most American voters in the 1920s

Accepted Answer

Al Smith

Question 21

Franklin Roosevelt's government reform policies are forever known as the ___________________.

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 22

The Scopes Monkey Trial surrounded this controversial topic.

Accepted Answer

Evolution

Question 23

Nickname of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan

Accepted Answer

Little Boy

Question 24

German for "lightning war"

Accepted Answer

blitzkrieg

Question 25

Dr. Josef Mengele is best known as ...

Accepted Answer

Lead Nazi physician who conducted human experiments

Question 26

Opposite of Isolationism

Accepted Answer

Interventionism

Question 27

U.S. President who promoted the notion of "rugged individualism"

Accepted Answer

Herbert Hoover

Question 28

Joe Louis is in our reading not just for his championship boxing talents, but also for ...

Accepted Answer

helping to recruit black soldiers into the U.S. Army

Question 29

Movement of African-Americans from rural, southern living and jobs to urban, northern lifestyle

Accepted Answer

Great Migration

Question 30

Primary members of the Triple Alliance in World War I

Accepted Answer

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Question 31

First African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard University

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. DuBois

Question 32

Notable Supreme Court case centered on the issue of Japanese-American internment camps

Accepted Answer

Koramatsu vs. U.S.

Question 33

Type of bar/establishment where customers went illegally to consume alcohol, during Prohibition

Accepted Answer

speakeasy

Question 34

Woody Guthrie is remembered as one of the influential _________ singers in American history.

Accepted Answer

folk

Question 35

18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Accepted Answer

Prohibition

Question 36

"He kept us out of war!" (at least until 1917)

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 37

Name of the ship whose sinking many point to as cause of American entry into World War I

Accepted Answer

Lusitania

Question 38

Year in which the World Series was "fixed" by gamblers

Accepted Answer

1919

Question 39

Which nation was NOT a member of the Triple Entente?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 40

Some say this is a synonym for "liberalism".

Accepted Answer

Progressivism

Test Review - WWI through WWII

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Test Review - WWI through WWII

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