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US-II Quarter 3 Review - WWII, Early Cold War, 1950s
US-II Quarter 3 Review - WWII, Early Cold War, 1950s
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Which of the following reasons is true about the attack on Pearl Harbor?
It is located in California.
We trusted new tech but it didn't detect the Japanese planes
No foreign power had attacked US territory while at peace
We were at war with Japan at the time
2
The Neutrality Acts prohibited the US government from...
Send any weapons to countries at war
Loan any money or send any weapons to countries at war
Send messages to countries at war
Loan any money to countries at war
3
When was Pearl Harbor?
December 7, 1941
October 18, 1943
June 14, 1924
September 1, 1939
4
What group was targeted and relocated during WWII due to fears of espionage?
Japanese Americans
Native Americans
Italian Americans
German Americans
5
Which of these are conditions in the Holocaust?
Prisoners branded on their arms and stripped of their names
All of the Above
Prisoners crammed into cattle cars for days
Prisoners stripped of every personal belonging
6
Which of the following is part of the Holocaust?
Concentration Camps
Extermination of "undesirables"
All of the Above
Forcing "undesirables" into ghettos
7
Who told American children to "Duck and Cover" to protect themselves from nuclear explosions?
Terry the Tortoise
Mark the Monkey
Fred the Chimp
Bert the Turtle
8
Pearl Harbor was known as...
A day which will live in infamy.
The day the whole world stopped
The day the whole word cried
A day which we can never forget.
9
Which of the following would likely NOT be considered an “undesirable” by Hitler?
An elderly woman
A Jewish merchant
A pure-blood German man (aka "Aryan")
A crippled boy
10
Truman's plan to combat communism by restricting its expansion is known as...
Limitism
Red Line Politics
Brinkmanship
Containment
11
The other popular name for McCarthyism was the....
Communist Creep-In
Red Scare
Immigrant Infultration
McCarthy Manhunt
12
What WWII conference was decided D-Day?
Potsdam
Yalta
Tehran
13
Which of these examples best exemplifies Malcolm X's philosophies?
Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Black Panthers
NAACP
Freedom Riders
14
The result of the Korean War was...
A unified democratic country
2 countries - Communist North Korea & Democratic South Korea
The Cuban Missile Crisis
A unified communist country
15
Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House of Un-American Activities' goal was to...
A political espionage cover-up by the President
To attempt to a communist revolution in the USA
Evaluate a Federal Money Laundering scandal in the USA
To investigate the belief that Communist infiltrated the Gov
16
Why is the generation born between 1945-1964 in the USA called the “Baby Boomers”?
The infancy mortality rate rose exponentially at that time
Many accidental pregnancies were had during this time.
The group was the most revolutionary in American history.
There was a large increase in the # of births at that time
17
What WWII conference did the USSR decide on their plan to help the Allies fight Japan?
Yalta
Tehran
Potsdam
18
How did America handle the Soviet blockade of West Berlin?
We charged armored tanks with supplies through the blockade
We threatened the USSR with nukes
We invaded Korea
We airlifted supplies over the blockade
19
What WWII conference was the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb decided?
Yalta
Potsdam
Tehran
20
The Japanese army invaded China & killed over 300k citizens and raped over 20k of the women at
Shanghai
Nanking
Hiroshima
Bejing
21
The entrance to Auschwitz read “
Arbeit Macht Frei”.
In English, this would roughly translate to
Submission to authority
Work will make you free
Your debt must be payed
Abandon all Hope
22
What WWII conference was the creation of the UN discussed?
Tehran
Yalta
Potsdam
23
What is the type of protest in the photo above most commonly called?
Eat-Ins
Dine-Ins
Sit-Outs
Sit-In
24
What major event turned the tides of WWII militarily?
The Battle of Dunkrik
The Battle of the Bulge
D-Day
Pearl Harbor
25
The purpose of the Highway system was to...
Get America out of its pattern of Stagflation
provide for evacuation and military mobilization
Encourage commerce and economic growth across the USA
Decrease traffic through residential areas
26
The beginning of WWII is most often marked by...
The Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Germany's invasion of Poland
None of these
The signing of the Treaty of Versailles
27
The first war testing the American Containment policy was in...
China
Afganistan
Vietnam
Korea
28
The 1st country to fall to Communism after WWII in Asia was ____ when Mao Zedong took it over.
China
Korea
USSR
Vietnam
29
What was the imaginary line that divided the democratic world from the communist world?
Iron Wall
Iron Curtain
Steel Wall
Berlin Wall
30
What made the USA join WWII?
Discovery of the Holocaust
Pearl Harbor
News of D-Day
Germany breaking the Nazi-Soviet Pact
31
Who coined the phrase "Black Power"?
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Huey Newton
32
The Truman's economic plan to combat communism by providing aid to post-WWII Europe was called:
Dawes Act
Amistad Agreement
Marshall Plan
Kellog-Briad Pact
33
During the Holocaust, what was the most notorious camp?
Dresden
Krakow
Warsaw
Auschwitz
34
What court case ordered desegregation in all public schools in the US?
Brown v. Board of Education
None of the Above
Roe v. Wade
Bush v. Gore
35
A person from which country would most likely deny what happened at Nanking?
USA
Japan
China
Korea
36
What happened to the Rosenbergs and Why?
They were American spies who were caught in the USSR
They were jailed for trying to destroy the Statue of Liberty
They were alleged communist Spies who were executed
They were Freedom Riders that were beaten to death
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RANDOM BONUS:
What was the first question of this quiz?
What ended the Great Depression?
When was Pearl Harbor?
When did the Great Depression begin?
What made the US join WWII?
38
Who was the Soviet leader of the USSR through WWII and the beginning of the Cold War?
Stalin
Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Lenin
39
At what WWII conference did the USSR pledge to allow self-determination of Eastern Europe?
Yalta
Tehran
Potsdam
40
__ was an international organization was created immediately after WWII to promote world peace.
League of Nations
United Nations
Atlantic Charter
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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Dictators that rose to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
Were in Asia
Loved and respected their past leaders
All of the Above
Used military force to justify their power
42
Where were the Atomic Bombs droped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Tokyo and Nagasaki
Hiroshima and Manchuria
Tokyo and Nanking
43
Eisenhower's policy of pushing a situation to the verge of war to threaten our opponent to quit
Flexible Response
Brinkmanship
Risky Business
Detente
44
What ended the Great Depression?
None of the Above
Steven Lora
The Court Packing Scandal
The New Deal
45
Which Civil Rights leader preached the philosophy of non-violent resistance?
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther
Stokely Carmichael
46
9 students are refused entry into an Arkansas high school that refuses to desegregate
Little Rock 9
Fayetteville 9
None of the Above
Arkansas 9
