History Exam on Units 21-25

Question 1

The British had to evacuate thousands of troops at the French city of ___.

Answer 1

Dunkirk

Question 2

The ___ cleared forest land and helped build state parks.

Answer 2

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Question 3

At the worst point of the Depression, about ___ of American workers were unemployed

Answer 3

one fourth

Question 4

The Communist attempt to cut off supplies to West Berlin was defeated by the ___

Answer 4

Berlin Airlift

Question 5

Dwight Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 and 1956, both times defeating ___.

Answer 5

Adlai Stevenson

Question 6

President Harry Truman ordered that the ___ be desegregated.

Answer 6

military

Question 7

During the 1920s, new laws ___ immigration into the country

Answer 7

restricted

Question 8

___ provided unemployment and retirement benefits.

Answer 8

Social Security

Question 9

___, ___ and Mussoline were dictators who came to power after the Great War (World War I).

Answer 9

Hitler, Stalin

Question 10

The Japanese attacked the United States at ___ on December 7, 1941

Answer 10

Pearl Harbor

Question 11

The 1920 presidential election saw ___ take a prominent place on the American scene as the Democratic vie presidential candidate.

Answer 11

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 12

Winston Churchill called this conflict the ___.

Answer 12

Battle of Britain

Question 13

The number of cars and radios in use dramatically ___.

Answer 13

increased

Question 14

Eisenhower encouraged the major transportation project of the ___.

Answer 14

Interstate highway system

Question 15

Germany had a difficult time paying the ___ required by the Treaty of Versailles, and these payments were eventually ___.

Answer 15

reparations; cancelled

Question 16

Franklin Roosevelt, governor of ___, was elected President in 1932.

Answer 16

New York

Question 17

Communist ___ invaded South Korea to begin the Korean War.

Answer 17

North Korea

Question 18

The end of the war with Japan came soon after the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on ___ and Nagasaki.

Answer 18

Hiroshima

Question 19

The ___ helped European nations reubild.

Answer 19

Marshall Plan

Question 20

Franklin Roosevelt called his program for relief, recovery, and reform the ___.

Answer 20

New Deal

Question 21

Wittaker Chambers revealed the presence of one Communist in the Federal government when accused ___ of being a Communist.

Answer 21

Alger Hiss

Question 22

General Douglas MacArthur had to withdraw from ___ in 1942 but he vowed, “I shall return.”

Answer 22

the Philippines

Question 23

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that maintaining so-called ___school facilities for blacks and whites was unconstitutional. Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man led to the ___.

Answer 23

seperate but equal; Montgomery Bus Boycott

Question 24

World War II started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded ___.

Answer 24

Poland

Question 25

The Kellog-Briand Treaty was a pledge by the signing nations to abstain from ___ except in self-defense.

Answer 25

war

Question 26

Roosevelt also took the U.S. monetary system off the ___ and gave diplomatic recognition to the ___.

Answer 26

gold standard; U.S.S.R

Question 27

A dramatic school integration crisis took place in ___ in 1957.

Answer 27

Little Rock

Question 28

Adding to the misery of the times was the drought in the ___, a large area in the Plains states.

Answer 28

Dust Bowl

Question 29

The rebirth of the ___ troubled blacks, Jews, Catholics, and other minority groups.

Answer 29

Ku Klux Klan

Question 30

Senator Joseph McCarthy capitalized on a concern about Communists infiltration in the United States to create an atmosphere of ___.

Answer 30

fear and suspicion

Question 31

The Russian launch of the ___ satellite punctured American pride and caused the country to place a greater emphasis on science and space exploration. Meanwhile, the ferment for greater civil rights for blacks continued to build.

Answer 31

*Sputnik*

Question 32

The naval battles at ___ halted the Japanese advance in the Pacific.

Answer 32

Coral Sea and Midway Island

Question 33

___ broke the color line in baseball by becoming the first African American in the major leagues.

Answer 33

Jackie Robinson

Question 34

The ___ was a new experiment in unified planning for an entire region.

Answer 34

TVA

Question 35

The most powerful body in the United Nations is the

Answer 35

Security council

Question 36

The massive Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, commonly called, ___ began the fall of Germany.

Answer 36

D-Day

Question 37

May 8, 1945 was celebrated as ___, the end of the war in Europe.

Answer 37

V-E Day

Question 38

Name the first 34 presidents in order

Answer 38

Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower