Final Practice Test Questions - Matching

Question 1

General that oversaw “Operation Overlord” (D-Day Invasion).

Answer 1

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 2

Objected killing, but became a war hero during WWI.

Answer 2

Alvin York

Question 3

Italian leader who conquered Ethiopia during WWII.

Answer 3

Benito Mussolini

Question 4

Astronaut who became the first human to walk on the moon.

Answer 4

Neil Armstrong

Question 5

Activist whose protest helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott.

Answer 5

Rosa Parks

Question 6

US President who had conflicts with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Answer 6

John F. Kennedy

Question 7

Civil rights leader and minister who believed in the power of nonviolent protest.

Answer 7

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 8

Austro-Hungarian leader who’s death sparked WWII.

Answer 8

(Archduke) Franz Ferdinand

Question 9

US President during Great Depression and WWII.

Answer 9

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 10

First man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping.

Answer 10

Charles Lindbergh

Question 11

Convicted of teaching evolution in Tennessee schools.

Answer 11

John Scopes

Question 12

US President famous for his 14 step plan to peace.

Answer 12

Woodrow Wilson

Question 13

Last surviving veteran of WWI.

Answer 13

Frank Buckles

Question 14

Wrote the Great Gatsby.

Answer 14

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 15

Pro-business president during the 1920’s.

Answer 15

Calvin Coolidge

Question 16

Wrote the Grapes of Wrath.

Answer 16

John Steinbeck

Question 17

Dictator who industrialized the Soviet Union.

Answer 17

Joseph Stalin

Question 18

Wrote A Farewell to War.

Answer 18

Ernest Hemmingway

Question 19

Prime minister of Japan during WWII.

Answer 19

Hideki Tojo

Question 20

US President that was plagued by scandals in the 1920s.

Answer 20

Warren G. Harding