Answer these questions:
Humanities
1-The first two countries to begin fighting in the conflict that later became known as World War I were:
Select one or more:
a. Belgium and Germany
b. Austria-Hungary and Serbia
c. Great Britain and Germany
d. Russia and Poland
2-Congress passed the Selective Service Act in May of 1917, establishing:
Select one or more:
a. the draft
b. segregation in the military
c. self-determination
d. affirmative action
3-During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were called:
Select one or more:
a. the Junta
b. the Axis
c. the Allied Powers
d. the Central Powers
4-The “flapper” nickname was given to women who tried to hold on to traditional female roles and who criticized the wild ways of the youth of the decade.
Select one:
True
False
5-In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan targeted American Catholics and Jews in addition to blacks.
Select one:
True or false
6-Which group would NOT have been strong supporters of Prohibition?
Select one or more:
a. fundamentalist preachers
b. leaders of the temperance movement
c. immigrants in urban ethnic areas
d. Protestant leaders in the South
7-The Wall Street crash:
Select one or more:
a. was a result of Germany’s invasion of Poland
b. occurred when U.S. steel announced a layoff of over half its workers
c. happened when Herbert Hoover announced he would take no action regarding the faltering farm economy
d. marked the beginning of the depression, but did not cause it
8-The Dust Bowl was caused by:
Select one or more:
a. widespread drought conditions
b. a shift in wind patterns
c. manmade soil erosion
d. both A and C
9-At the depth of the Depression in 1932, the unemployment rate in the United States was estimated to have been:
Select one or more:
a. 75%
b. 10%
c. 50%
d. 25%
10- New Deal was the nickname given to Roosevelt’s depression-fighting plans by journalists even though he never used the term himself.
Select one:
True
False
11-The effort undertaken on the part of the federal government to build dams to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region and to prevent flooding was called the:
Select one or more:
a. Public Works Administration (PWA)
b. National Industrial Recovery Administration (NIRA)
c. Glass-Steagall Act
d. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
12- The Lend-Lease bill, in 1941, empowered Franklin Roosevelt to:
Select one or more:
a. abrogate the Neutrality Act of 1939 by executive order
b. lend physical goods rather than money to the Allies
c. authorize private American loans to the Allies
d. grant government loans to the Allies
13- Over 100,000 Japanese-Americans on the East Coast were sent to internment camps during World War II.
Select one:
True
False
14- President Harry S. Truman ordered the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
Select one or more:
a. to avenge Pearl Harbor
b. to test how useful these new weapons would be in Europe
c. as a first step in a plan to annihilate the Japanese people
d. to force Japan to surrender
Answer these questions:
15- What did prohibition (the Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919) prohibit?
16- October 29, 1929 is known in American history as:
17- The American strategy in the Pacific has often been called:
Essay question:
How and why did America’s entry into World War II impact the Great Depression?
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