Transcript File - Mr. Sager World History

WARM UP – December 19
• Using your notes from Friday, Answer the
following questions on a post it:
• 1. What was the goal of the Bay of Pigs
Invasion?
• 2. What event signaled the closest the U.S.
and USSR ever came to having an all out
nuclear war?
• 3. What event signaled the end of the Cold
War?
UNIT 8: World War II and Cold
War TEST REVIEW
1. Which trend in United States foreign policy
is shown by the passage of the Neutrality
Act of 1939, the Cash and Carry act, and the
Lend-Lease Act of 1941?
• (A) withdrawal from overseas colonies
• (B) expansion of trade with the Axis powers
• (C) increase in support for the Allied powers
• (D) reduction in war preparedness
2. Which event caused the policy of appeasement
to be viewed as a failure?
•(A) creation of the League of Nations
•(B) forced famine in Ukraine
•(C) invasion of Czechoslovakia and further
aggression by Hitler
•(D) atomic bombing of Hiroshima
• 3. When Germany invaded Poland, they
began to round up and Jews and separate
them into wall off sections of cities called:
• (A) Death Camps
• (B) Concentration Camps
• (C) Ghettos
• (D) Apartments
• 4. Laws passed by the Nazis that made it legal
to discriminate against the Jews were called:
• (A) Appeasement
• (B) Night of Broken Glass
• (C) Nuremburg Laws
• (D) Nazi Propaganda
5. The largest military invasion in the history of
warfare, that was also a major Allied victory in
World War II that allowed the Allies to push
further in France towards Germany was
referred to as:
• (A) The Battle of Stalingrad
• (B) D-Day invasion of Normandy
• (C) Battle of Iwo Jima
• (D) Battle of the Bulge
• 6. Which agreement was labeled by the Nazis
as unfair to Germany?
• (A) Treaty of Versailles
• (B) Soviet Nonaggression Pact
• (C) Munich Pact
• (D) Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• 7. The event that involved the North
Vietnamese attack of U.S. patrol ships and
was used by President Lyndon Johnson to
send troops into Vietnam was:
• (A) Gulf of Tonkin
• (B) My Lai Massacre
• (C) Tet Offensive
• (D) Bay of Pigs Invasion
• 8. All of the following were reasons Americans
turned against the Vietnam war EXCEPT:
• (A) The My Lai Massacre, Invasion of Cambodia
and release of the Pentagon Papers
• (B) The advent of television and the daily display
of the brutalities of war on the nightly news
• (C) The cost of lives and money spent on another
country’s “civil war”
• (D) Nixon’s promise to end the war with “Peace
with Honor”
9. The two competing ideologies during the
Cold War were:
• (A) Fascism and Communism
• (B) Democracy and Communism
• (C) Democracy and Capitalism
• (D) Democracy and Imperialism
• 10. All of the following were ways that the
United States and Soviet Union competed in
the Cold War EXCEPT:
• (A) Space Race
• (B) Olympics
• (C) Nuclear Arms Race
• (D) Acquisition of land in Latin America
• 11. The Vietnam War was referred to as the “working
class war” because:
• (A) The Vietnam War shifted focus of the American
government from domestic policies to foreign policies
• (B) The ability of wealthy young males to escape the
draft led most soldiers to be African American and
from lower socioeconomic backgrounds
• (C) The South Vietnamese military forces were weak
and from working class families
• (D) The American public that was for the war tended to
be from the “working class”
• 12. The strategy used by the United States
during the Cold War where they attempted
to stop the spread of communism is called:
• (A) Containment
• (B) Domino Theory
• (C) Self Determination
• (D) Imperialism
13. The Warsaw Pact was an alliance formed by:
• (A) Western allied countries to defend each other
and prevent war
• (B) Communist Countries in response to the
formation of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization
• (C) Democratic western countries to protect
Southeast Asia
• (D) Democratic western countries to protect
Berlin
14. The United States responded to a Soviet
Blockade by airlifting goods and supplies into
which city?
• (A) Berlin
• (B) Stalingrad
• (C) Saigon
• (D) Hanoi
• 15. The leader of the North Vietnamese
during the Vietnam War was:
• (A) Joseph Stalin
• (B) Douglas MacArthur
• (C) Ho Chi Minh
• (D) General Westmoreland
• 16. The end of American troop involvement in
the Vietnam War was signaled with:
• (A) The invasion of Cambodia
• (B) The signing of the Paris Peace Accords
• (C) The North Vietnamese attack and overrunning
of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon
• (D) The launching of the Tet Offensive
17. The economic policies of Mikhail Gorbachev
of the Soviet Union included:
• (A) elements of capitalism
• (B) boycotts on foreign products
• (C) a one-child policy
• (D) a reliance on agricultural self-sufficiency
• 18. In 1989, the goal of the protest
movement staged by Chinese students in
Tiananmen Square was to:
• (A) bring about democratic reforms
• (B) improve job opportunities in the military
• (C) expand foreign investment in Hong Kong
• (D) limit the amount of land designated for
the “responsibility system”
• 19. The end of the Cold War was marked
with:
• (A) The fall of the Berlin Wall
• (B) The Soviets leaving Afghanistan beaten
and frustrated
• (C) The election of Boris Yeltsin and the
adoption of democratic principle
• (D) The United States emergence as a
superpower
20. While the United Nations sent troops, the
main country to assist the South in both Korea
and Vietnam was:
• (A) The Soviet Union
• (B) China
• (C) France
• (D) United States
• 21. Axis Powers during World War II
• 22. Allied Powers during World War II
• 23. June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a
million troops (the largest invasion force in
history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and
began the process of re-taking France. The
turning point of World War II
• 24. Code name for the U.S. effort during World
War II to produce the atomic bomb.
• 25. Competing ideologies in the Cold War
26. President that ordered the overthrow of Fidel Castro
during the Bays of Pigs Invasion
27. Name of U.S. strategy to stop the spread of communism
during the Cold War
28. South Vietnamese leader originally supported by United
States; inability to lead led to coup to overthrow and execute
him
29. Gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization,
without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use
of military force in Southeast Asia.
30. Act passed in 1973 in reaction to American fighting in
Vietnam that requires presidents to consult with Congress
whenever possible prior to using military force