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US History REVIEW Part 2Instructions for use:

A) click mouse and a question will appear with possible answers.

B) select your answer and click on it.

C) you will be shown the correct answer.

D) click again and the next question will appear

There are approximately 175 prompts in the review, if you can not finish the review in one setting use the scroll bar to remember where you left off.

The response of the League of Nations to the aggression of warlike countries during the 1930’s was to

A) Take military action against the aggressors

B) Force the aggressor nations out of the League

C) Give military supplies to nations that were being attacked

D) protest, but avoid taking military action

In 1931, Japan took the first step in building an empire by conquering

A) China

B) French Indochina

C) Malaya

D) Manchuria

Totalitarian governments gained control in Germany, Italy, and Japan because of the

A) Poor economic conditions

B) Spread of communism

C) Fear of the military

D) Treaty of Versailles

How did the worldwide depression of the 1930’s contribute most to the World War II?

A) Germans thought other countries were vulnerable

B) Dictators were able to gain popular support by promising

to solve economic problemsC) Europeans became increasingly resentful of United States demands for repayment of World War I debts

D) Major world powers were in severe competition for scarce natural resources

World War II finally ended the Great Depression because

A) People were too concerned about the war to worry about the economy

B) Roosevelt ordered the New Deal

C) Of the great demand for weapons and supplies

D) The United States began to purchase more goods from European Nations

The US entered World War II after

A) The Germans attacked Great Britain

B) Italy controlled the Mediterranean

C) The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

D) France fell to the Germans

The __________ policy gave money and supplies to the Allies before the US entered World War II?

A) Cash and Carry

B) Open Door

C) Lend-Lease

D) Good Neighbor

The Allied Powers of World War II refers to all of the following countries except

A) France, the United States, and Great Britain

B) France, Great Britain, and Italy

C) Great Britain, France, and Soviet Union

D) Belgium, France, and the United States

Turning points for the Allies in World War II refers to all of the following except

A) El Alamein

B) Midway

C) Battle of the Bulge

D) Stalingrad

In the war against Japan in the central Pacific, the United States forces

A) Used the strategy of island hopping

B) Took many Japanese prisoners

C) Often did not have enough supplies

D) Were usually outnumbered

The long awaited invasion of France on June 6th 1944 is sometimes called

A) D-day

B) V-J day

C) V-E day

D) F-day

A violation of civil rights that occurred in the United States during World War II was the

A) Arrests made as a result of the Palmer Raids

B) Passage of an open immigration law

C) Internment of Japanese Americans

D) Forced removal of Native American Indians from their reservations

In the US during World War II, the role of women changed at they

A) Were drafted and assigned military roles equal to those held by men

B) Continued to work outside the home only in jobs traditionally performed by women

C) Made major contributions to the war effort by taking jobs in factories

D) Achieved positions of leadership in most major industries

As World War II was ending, the US decided to join the United Nations mainly because we

A) Sought to meet the American public’s overwhelming demand for free trade

B) Wanted to continue to play the same role it had in the League of Nations

C) Wanted to stop the growing influence of new independent developing nations

D) Recognized that efforts to achieve world peace required United States involvement

Which of the following best explains why the United States did not return to isolationism after World War II

A) Fear of renewed Japanese aggression

B) Lack of leadership in Allied countries

C) Threat of Soviet expansion

D) American guilt for using the atomic bomb

All of the following are associated with American patriotism during World War II except

A) Victory Gardens

B) War Bonds

C) hoarding

D) Scrap metal drives

What was the immediate affect of the end of World War II on American family life?

A) Decrease in birth rate

B) Baby boom

C) Decline in living standards

D) Greater family instability

The GI Bill benefited veterans in all of the following ways except

A) Money for college tuition

B) Loans in buying a house

C) Vocational training

D) Exemption from income taxes

Which of the following pairs are associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?

A) Sigmund Freud and Ernest Hemingway

B) Gertrude Ederle and Rudolph Valentino

C) Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen

On the Political spectrum Roosevelt’s domestic program for relief, recovery, and reform was

A) At the far left between socialism and communism

B) At the far right between conservatism and fascism

C) Right of center between moderate and conservative

D) Left of center between moderate and liberal

In the early 1940’s, the “destroyers-for-military-bases deal” with Great Britain and the Lend-Lease Act were evidence

that the United States

A) Followed its policy of neutrality more strictly as World War II progressed in Europe

B) Recognized that its policy of neutrality conflicted with its self-interests and the interests of our allies

C) Believed that the Allied policy of appeasement would succeedD) Wanted to honor the military commitments it had made just after World War I

War measures adopted by the U.S. prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor included all of the following except

A) Passage of the Lend-Lease Act

B) Repeal of the 1939 Neutrality Law

C) Assignment of African Americans to integrated army units

D) Arming of American merchant vessels to combat Nazi submarines

Brown v. Board of Education is a significant Supreme Court Decision because

A) It reaffirmed the legality of separate but equal schooling for blacks and whites

B) It ended segregation of U.S. armed forces

C) It ruled that separate schools for blacks and whites were illegal

D) It declared bussing to be a legal and necessary option to achieve desegregation of schools

Martin Luther King, Jr. was all of these except

A) A Nobel Prize winner

B) An admirer of Mohandes Gandhi in his non-violent protests

C) An ordained minister who was jailed sixteen time

D) A one time mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957. It was

A) A U.S. initiated space probe

B) The first man-made object to orbit the Earth

C) A Soviet Union space telescope

D) A joint U.S./ Russian communications satellite

A) He was commenting on the progress of the Johnson civil rights acts

B) He had just become the first person to land on the moon

C) He was commenting on U.S. victory in the Vietnam TET offensive

D) He was inspired by Richard Nixon’s announced trip to China

In July 1969 Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Why?

U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War can be traced to all of the following except

A) We were allies of the French and gave economic aid to them after World War II

B) We were trying to contain communism and were enthralled by the “domino theory”

C) After a nation wide Vietnamese election we were asked to send aid and assistance

D) We were very concerned about Ho-Chi-Minh’s support of communism and his pro-Soviet leanings

Watergate is all of the following except

A) The scandal that brought down the Nixon administration

B) A hotel/apartment complex in Washington, DC

C) The tragic site of a botched burglary attempt by the committee to reelect the president

D) The dam in Colorado that’s over-inflated price toppled and led to Nixon’s impeachment

The Berlin Airlift was the significant and heroic response by the US to

A) The Soviet Union’s attempted blockade of West Berlin

B) Anglo/French attempts to speed up German war reparations

C) The Soviet Union’s attempts to take over large portions of West Germany

D) The German attempt at reviving Nazism after World War II

The term “iron curtain” refers to all of the following except

A) Term coined in speech by Winston Churchill

B) The Soviet Union’s attempt to assert its control and create a buffer zone with the west

C) The symbol for the distrust between the Soviets and the west due to their felling of betrayal by the Allies during World War II

D) President Truman’s attempt to isolate the Soviet Union as exemplified by the Marshall Plan

The United States was the first country to recognize Israel because

A) It was the right thing to do in principle

B) The Jewish state would serve as a strong voice of democratic principles in the region

C) Israel’s strategic importance in the Middle East and its potential as a natural ally of the USD) All of the above

The Iran hostage crises was caused by

A) The overthrow of the Shah and creation of a fundamentalist Islamic Republic

B) The Discovery of new oil resources coveted by the US

C) The Yom Kippur War

D) Richard Nixon’s insistence of aid for Iraq

The Cuban Missile crisis was

A) The armed US reaction to the tariff on Havana cigars

B) The Soviet attempt to place nuclear missile in Cuba

C) The creation of a communist state by Fidel Castro 90 mile form Florida

D) The exiled Cuban population in Florida clamoring to recapture their homeland

The TET offensive in Vietnam was all of the following except

A) A well engineered strategic plan by General Ngo Vinhgiap (hero of Dien Binh phu) to attack US bases

B) An overwhelming defeat of US forces with great US casualties

C) An example of careless media reporting which directly led to a feeling that the US was losing the war

D) An event which further polarized opinion in the US both for and against the war

The civil rights acts of the mid 1960s were intended to accomplish all of the following except

A) A disenfranchise the black minority in the north

B) Serve as an answer to desegregating in the south

C) Provide more equality of opportunity for all US citizens

D) Correct 100 years of racial injustice linked to ignoring Amendments 13, 14, and 15 to the Constitution after the Civil War

How did Senator Joseph McCarthy achieve his fame?

A) False accusations against members of the State Department

B) Running for president against Harry S. Truman in 1948

C) His use of the press to further Democratic goals

D) His opposition to the Korean War

The President who issued the executive order integrated the armed forces was

A) John F. Kennedy

B) Harry S Truman

C) Lyndon B Johnson

D) Dwight D Eisenhower

Voting patterns in the post World War II era strongly suggest that

A) African Americans and young people vote often

B) African Americans vote Republican

C) Most labor unions support the Republican party

D) Citizens over age fifty vote more often than other groups

Which president never won a presidential election?

A) Richard Nixon

B) Gerald Ford

C) George Bush

D) William Clinton