6th Grade History Test 11

Question 1

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Russia

Answer 1

Communism

Question 2

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Germany

Answer 2

Nazism (National Socialism)

Question 3

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Italy

Answer 3

Fascism

Question 4

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Japan

Answer 4

Militarism

Question 5

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Adolf Hitler

Answer 5

Nazism

Question 6

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Tojo

Answer 6

Militarism

Question 7

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Benito Mussolini

Answer 7

Fascism

Question 8

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. Joseph Stalin

Answer 8

Communism

Question 9

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. people own property, but lose their freedoms

Answer 9

Fascism

Question 10

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. some groups of people (such as Jews) are considered inferior

Answer 10

Nazism

Question 11

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. the leader is all powerful and more important than the people of the country

Answer 11

Nazism

Question 12

Name the political movement this name or phrase is most closely identified with. the government takes over businesses, homes, and land

Answer 12

Communism

Question 13

The organization formed at the end of World War II that was supposed to help settle world problems

Answer 13

United Nations

Question 14

Although Nazism was defeated in World War II, __ became a growing problem.

Answer 14

Communism

Question 15

The Communist leader who took over China after World War II

Answer 15

Mao Tse-tung

Question 16

The Asian country controlled by the Soviet Union in the north and the United States in the south

Answer 16

Korea

Question 17

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

Battle of Britain

Answer 17

World War II

Question 18

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

“Remember the Maine”

Answer 18

Spanish-American War

Question 19

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the Monitor and the Merrimac

Answer 19

Civil War

Question 20

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

V-E Day

Answer 20

World War II

Question 21

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the Zimmermann Note

Answer 21

World War I

Question 22

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Answer 22

World War II

Question 23

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 23

Civil War

Question 24

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

November 11, 1918

Answer 24

World War I

Question 25

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the Rough Riders

Answer 25

Spanish-American War

Question 26

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 26

Civil War

Question 27

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the first use of U-boats

Answer 27

World War I

Question 28

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the first use of atomic bombs

Answer 28

World War II

Question 29

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the Battle of Vicksburg

Answer 29

Civil War

Question 30

Match the event with the war with which it is associated.

the Holocaust

Answer 30

World War II

Question 31

the black educator who founded Tuskegee Institute

Answer 31

Booker T. Washington

Question 32

the inventor of the telephone

Answer 32

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 33

the botanist who found 285 uses for the peanut

Answer 33

George Washington Carver

Question 34

the inventor of the first successful steamboat

Answer 34

Robert Fulton

Question 35

America’s most famous evangelist during the 19th century

Answer 35

Dwight L. Moody

Question 36

the man who developed the assembly line method of production

Answer 36

Henry Ford

Question 37

inventor of the electric light bulb

Answer 37

Thomas Edison

Question 38

the “Angel of the Battlefield” and the founder of the American Red Cross

Answer 38

Clara Barton

Question 39

the inventor of the telegraph

Answer 39

Samuel Morse

Question 40

the inventor of the first liquid-fuel rocket

Answer 40

Robert Goddard

Question 41

the inventor of the mechanical reaper

Answer 41

Cyrus McCormick

Question 42

The purchase of 1803 that more than doubled the size of the United States

Answer 42

Louisiana Purchase

Question 43

wrote the first major American dictionary

Answer 43

Noah Webster

Question 44

captured Santa Anna and the Mexican army at the Battle of San Jacinto

Answer 44

Sam Houston

Question 45

the author of a children’s reading series used in America in the 1800s

Answer 45

William McGuffey

Question 46

Commodore Matthew Perry was responsible for opening American trade with

Answer 46

Japan

Question 47

the World War II general called “Ike” who later became President

Answer 47

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 48

Study the map of the western hemisphere. I’m sure you have a map skills sheet that you are supposed to study.

Answer 48

Study the map. There are 15 items you need to know.