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US. History Spring Final
KPHS
Spring 2011
1. During the 1930’s, the United States focused largely
on
domestic issues.
2. During the 1930’s, Hitler, Mussolini, and the military
leaders of Japan
began invading neighboring lands.
3. Nazism was an extreme form of
fascism.
4. An important strategy used by American forces in
the Pacific was
island hopping.
5. In 1940, one of the greatest rescues in the history of
warfare occurred
at Dunkirk.
6.Who inspired the British people to resist the German
invasion?
Winston Churchill
7.Hitler used which of the following military strategies when
invading Poland?
blitzkrieg
8.When did the U.S. declare war on the Axis Powers?
after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
9.Which is NOT a reason women faced new job opportunities
during the war?
married women were required to work or volunteer time for the
war effort
10.What did the federal government do to finance WWII?
launch bond drives, raise income taxes and use deficit spending.
11. The War Relocation Board placed what group of Americans in
internment camps during WWII?
Japanese Americans
12. How did things change on the home front for AfricanAmericans during the war years?
African Americans took direct action to promote racial equality
13. The Germans were finally halted in their advance into the
Soviet Union at the battle of
Stalingrad.
14. When was DDay? What happened?
June 6, 1944. The landing of Allied forces on France’s Normandy
Coast.
15. What did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin decided to do at the
Yalta conference?
Divide the defeated Germany into four sectors—American, British,
French and Soviet.
16. How were Nazi concentration camps different from
traditional concentration camps?
They held people such as Jews, homosexuals, people with mental
and physical disabilities and Jehovah’s witnesses.
17. Because of the war, large numbers of women began to work
as
steelworkers and welders
18. What happened to Japanese-Americans during World War II?
They were interned in camps in isolated areas
19. The largest battle fought in Western Europe during WWII was
the Battle of the Bulge
20. What inspired Franklin Roosevelt to organize the top-secret
Manhattan Project quickly?
Germany was developing the Atom bomb before the United States
21. What happened after the United States dropped atomic
bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Japan acceptd American terms of surrender
22. The Soviet Union wanted to rebuild after the war in ways that
would
protect its own interests
23. Why did the United States become involved in affairs in the
Middle East following World War II?
To prevent oil-rich Arab nations from falling under Soviet
influence
24. After World War II, what organization was formed on the basis
of the Atlantic Charter?
The United Nations
25. What changes took place in the African-American civil rights
movement after WWII?
The movement accelerated
26. After the war, the Soviet Union quickly took control
of
several Eastern European countries
27. What are satellite nations?
Nations dominated by the Soviet Union
28. What did President Truman promise in the Truman
Doctrine?
To support nations trying to resist Soviet control
29. What was the main goal of the Marshall Plan?
To create stable democracies that could resist
communism
30. What was the Berlin airlift?
President Truman’s response to the Soviet blockade of
West Berlin
31. When did the Berlin Airlift occur?
After the Soviets blocked Allied access to West Berlin
32. For nearly 50 years, the Cold War was characterized by
political conflict and military tensions
33. President Truman ordered an end to discrimination in
the armed forces
34. Which country controlled Korea for much of the first half of
the twentieth century?
Japan
35. How was Korea divided at the end of World War II?
Southern pro-American government and Northern proCommunist government
36. The Chinese Civil War also led up to the Korean War.
37. Which president ordered an end to discrimination in
the military?
Truman
38. Americans thought the invasion by North Korea was
initiated by
the Soviet Union
39. What was the outcome of the Korean War?
Korea remained divided at almost exactly the same place
as before the war
40. As a result of the Korean War, the United States
succeeded in
keeping South Korea free of communism
41. What was the final resolution of the Korean War?
the dividing line stayed about the same
42. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was based on
the principle of
collective security
43. What impact did Joseph McCarthy have on American society?
He encouraged a widespread fear of communism
44. Under President Eisenhower, the United States acted to
oppose Soviet influence in
the Middle East
45. What was the result of the Soviet launch of Sputnik in 1957?
Caused Congress to increase spending on teaching science and
mathematics
46. Television helped spur economic growth through its
advertisements
47. What did American society in the 1950s expected women to
do?
Manage the household
48. Rock-and-roll gave the young people of the 1950s
a style they could call their own.
49. The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education
ended
the separate but equal doctrine
50. Kennedy’s victory in the 1960 presidential election was a
very slim margin
51. What major issues were addressed in the New
Frontier proposals?
The economy, poverty and the space program
52. What did president Eisenhower do when Fidel Castro
seized American property in Cuba?
He halted exports to Cuba
53. In 1961, President Kennedy committed NASA and the
nation to the goal of
landing a man on the moon within the decade
54. What event brought the United States and the Soviet
Union to the brink of nuclear war?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
55. Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall?
To prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West
56. How did the Soviets provoked Kennedy to quarantine Cuba?
Positioning missiles on Cuban soil
57. What was the eventual result of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba
58. What was the Warren Commission decision on Kennedy’s
assassination?
It was committed by a lone assassin
59. How was Martin Luther King, Jr. influenced by Gandhi?
He was influenced by Ghandi’s belief in nonviolent protest
59. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other members of the SCLC
encouraged a policy of
nonviolent protest
61. What were the major beliefs of the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE)?
using nonviolent techniques to end racism
62. Who were the organizers of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC)?
African American clergymen
62. The Black Panthers wanted African Americans to
lead their own communities
64. Who wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail” ?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
65. Why did Civil rights leaders target Birmingham in
1963?
it was the most segregated city in the country
67. The goal of Freedom Summer and the Selma March
were to make people aware of what?
African American’s lack of voting rights
68. What effect did television coverage of the brutal
tactics used against protesters by the Birmingham
police have on Americans?
They were appalled by the violence
69. What was the goal of the 1963 March on
Washington?
Convince congress to pass civil rights legislation
70. What was the highlight of the March on
Washington?
Many African Americans were elected to office at all
levels
71. What changes took place after Congress passed the
Voting Rights Act of 1965?
many African American registered to vote
73. What were the results of the of the civil rights
movement?
Thousands of African Americans could vote for the first
time
74. Which U.S. leaders were assassinated in 1968?
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy
75. What were the major guiding principle behind the
foreign policies of Kennedy and Johnson?
to stop the spread of Communism
76. The term feminism describes the theory of
equality of men and women
77. The women’s movement of the 1960s grew out of
women’s frustration with
various forms of job discrimination
78. What was exposed by the book Silent Spring?
The harmful use of chemicals such as DDT
79. The women’s movement borrowed legal tools and
inspiration from which other movement?
Civil Rights Movement
80. How did the appearance of counterculture, men and
women change during the 1960s?
Men and women grew their hair long and wore
nontraditional clothes
81. What was the Woodstock festival?
400,000 people gathered for a peaceful concert of major rock
bands
82. What did the United States fear would happen if it did not get
involved in Vietnam?
Communists would take over
83. What major advantage did the Viet Cong guerrillas have over
the U.S. military?
Elaborate tunnel systems
84. What was Agent Orange used for during the Vietnam War?
expose Viet Cong hiding places
85. What event caused the major escalation of the war in
Vietnam?
Passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
86. What effect did television have on the Vietnam War?
it brought the brutality of the war into people’s living
rooms
87. The student protest movement of the 1960s
emerged from the
civil rights movement
88. What happened at Kent State University?
Tensions between student protesters and National
Guardsmen resulted in four deaths
89. The Vietnam War finally ended in 1975 when
North Vietnam gained control over all of Vietnam