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U.S. History
4th Six Weeks Assessment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First area Hitler "unified" with Germany was | Austria |
| Iwo Jima was an important objective for the American military because | U.S. planes could bomb Japan from there |
| In the Munich Conference, Britain & France | gave in to Hitler's demands for the Sudetenland |
| American program to build the first atomic bomb was called | Manhattan Project |
| Air battle between the German Luftwaffe & the British Air Force that began in June 1940 & lasted until fall of 1940 became known as: | Battle of Britain |
| Germany, Japan, & Italy were known as the | Axis Powers |
| A United States bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on | Hiroshima |
| The D-Day invasion in June 1944 on the beaches of Normandy was important to the outcome of World War II because | Opened a new Allied front in Europe |
| The Nazis "final solution" referred to their plans to | Exterminate Europe's Jews |
| What impact did WWII have on many women in the United States? | Women began to work in jobs previously held by men |
| Who proposed the European Recovery Program that promised European nations American aid to rebuild their economies? | George Marshall |
| The name of the doctrine which pledged the U.S. would stop communism | Truman |
| Name for an era of competition/confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union? | Cold War |
| What provided U.S. soldiers returning from WWII with loans for college tuition, homes, or businesses? | GI Bill |
| What was the name for the military alliance between the Soviet Union & the other communist nations? | Warsaw Pact |
| The U.S. senator known for his use of unreliable information to accuse suspected communists in America? | Joseph McCarthy |
| What was the name of the 1954 court case that ruled segregation in public schools was unconstitutional? | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
| Who was the civil rights leader associated with the Nation of Islam? | Malcolm X |
| Who was the civil rights leader who called for a non-violent approach to end segregation and racism? | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| What was the name of the court case that established "separate-but-equal"? | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| The 24th amendment abolished | Poll Tax |
| A group of African-American students that were integrated into an all-white school in 1957? | Little Rock Nine |
| The first African-American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives was | Shirley Chisholm |
| Civil Rights activists who sought to overturn racial segregation on public transportation | Freedom Riders |
| The statement "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever" most clearly represents the views of | George Wallace |
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