Unit 10: Quiz 3 Flashcards
Which of the following were members of the committee formed to write the Declaration of Independence?
Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Livingston, and Sherman
first steamboat
Fulton
movable type
Gutenberg
reaping machine
McCormick
cotton gin
Whitney
mass production
Ford
built first United States locomotive
Cooper
The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution was
England
A law passed in 1914 making it illegal to try to drive competitors out of business was called the
Clayton Anti-trust Act
Money invested in factories and industry is called
capital
The unfair treatment of factory workers in the early Industrial Revolution was eased by the growth of
labor unions
The Triple Alliance was made up of
Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary
Germany’s first major defeat in World War II was in which country?
Russia
The United States was forced to fight a two-front war in World War II against which two nations?
Japan and Germany
The president of the United States who ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was
Truman
The beginning of World War II in Europe was brought on by Hitler’s attack on:
Poland
The League of Nations showed its ineffectiveness in 1935 when it did nothing to halt Italy’s invasion of
Ethiopia
Commander of United States forces in the Pacific war was General
MacArthur
Communism fell in Europe in the year 1989 and in the Soviet Union in
1991
Which of the following leaders began the reforms in the Soviet Union that ended the Cold War?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Recall two nations where Communist aggression failed during the Cold War.
Korea and Afghanistan
Recall three nations that became Communist during the Cold War.
North Korea, Vietnam, and China
