Term 2 Final Quiz!

Question 1

Why did Sen. McCarthy lose support for his investigations?

Accepted Answer

People did not like his interrogation of Army veterans on TV

Question 2

Who was responsible for the decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan?

Accepted Answer

Harry S Truman

Question 3

What was the 1968 Viet Cong/N. Vietnamese military offensive called?

Accepted Answer

Tet Offensive

Question 4

How did LBJ gain authority to expand US involvement in Vietnam?

Accepted Answer

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Question 5

The campaign to register blacks to vote (mostly in Mississippi) was called...

Accepted Answer

Freedom Summer

Question 6

Cold War theory that stated if Vietnam fell to communism other SE Asia countries would too?

Accepted Answer

Domino Theory

Question 7

What were the Pentagon Papers?

Accepted Answer

A report that proved the gov't had been lying about Vietnam

Question 8

How did FDR get around the Neutrality Acts to supply the Allies with weapons and supplies?

Accepted Answer

Lend-lease program

Question 9

Non-violent way of protesting segregation in dining facilities

Accepted Answer

Sit ins

Question 10

The shooting down of a U2 spy plane caused all of the following EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

The US & USSR joined forces to fight a common enemy

Question 11

What was Brown v the Board of Education?

Accepted Answer

Overturned "separate but equal" in educational facilities

Question 12

Where was Korea divided at the end of WWII?

Accepted Answer

The 38th parallel

Question 13

What was the systematic killing of Jews in Europe by the Nazis called?

Accepted Answer

Holocaust

Question 14

Benito Mussolini was the fascist leader of ...

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 15

What was the name of Germany & USSR's plan to divide Poland and avoid war called?

Accepted Answer

Non-aggression Pact

Question 16

On which college campus did the Ohio National Guard shoot and kill 4 student protestors?

Accepted Answer

Kent State University

Question 17

Adolf Hitler was born in which country?

Accepted Answer

Austria

Question 18

Who was the only person to be elected as President of the United States (POTUS) four times?

Accepted Answer

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 19

What was the American policy towards the expansion of communism called?

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 20

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Stalin

Question 21

What form of protest did Dr. King encourage his followers to use in order to achieve justice?

Accepted Answer

non-violent direct action

Question 22

What was not true about the Selma campaign?

Accepted Answer

No police brutality or violent resistance to the march

Question 23

What occurred on December 7, 1941?

Accepted Answer

The Japanese navy attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor

Question 24

Appealing to many black's frustration, _____ preached a militant approach to civil rights

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 25

Who was the general and then leader of Japan during most of WWII?

Accepted Answer

Hideki Tojo

Question 26

What was the turning point on the EASTERN front in the European Theater of War (WWII)?

Accepted Answer

Stalingrad

Question 27

What was the turning point in Pacific Theater of War (WWII)?

Accepted Answer

Midway

Question 28

What happened to most Japanese-Americans during WWII in America?

Accepted Answer

Put in internment camps

Question 29

Who was the Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII & also coined the term "Iron Curtain" ?

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 30

Sent to prison for refusal to testify before HUAC.

Accepted Answer

Hollywood Ten

Term 2 Final Quiz!

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Term 2 Final Quiz!

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