4/27
1.
Who was the President of the USA at the end of WWII?
a. Franklin Roosevelt
b. Harry Truman
c. Dwight Eisenhower
2.Who was the leader of the Soviet Union (USSR) at the end of WWII?
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Leonid Brezhnev
c. Nikita Khrushchev
3. What city in Germany was split in half by the Eastern and Western Bloc countries?
a. Munich
b. Berlin
c. Wolfsberg
4. What was the USA’s plan to help countries fight against Communist takeovers?
a. Truman Doctrine
b. Munich Pact
c. McCarthy Plan
5. What nations fought between 1950 - 1953 with China helping on one side and the USA on the
other side?
a. North and South Korea b. North and South Vietnam c. Laos and Cambodia
4/28
1.
against?
Who was the first country to use atomic weapons and who were they used
a. USA against Japan
b. USSR against Germany
c. North Korea against South Korea
2.What international organization was formed after WWII in order to maintain world peace?
a. League of Nations
b. United Nations (UN)
c. New World Order (NWO)
3. What is the term for the USA’s plan to fight the spread of communism?
a. containment
b. McCarthyism
c. Red Scare
4. What was the term for the widespread fear of communism in the USA and other Western Bloc
countries?
a. containment
b. McCarthyism c. Red Scare
5. What was the term for the campaign to rid the government of the USA of communists?
a. containment
b. McCarthyism c. Red Scare
4/29
1.
Who won the 1960 presidential election?
a. Richard Nixon
b. Alan Shepard
c. John F. Kennedy
2.What country did the United States fear would fire missiles at it in 1962??
a. USSR
b. China
c. Cuba
3. In the 1950s and 1960s, civil rights protests and riots broke out because of __________.
a. segregation
b. unemployment
c. space race
4. What war was the USA involved in during the 1960s and early 1970s in east Asia?
a. Korean War
b. Vietnam War c. Cuban War
5. Who were important civil rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s?
a. Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson
b. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
c. Jack Kerouac and Charles Manson
4/30
1.
a. 10
b. 50
How many African nations gained independence between 1945 and 1990?
c. 100
2. What was the system of segregation in South Africa called and who led the fight against it?
a. Reconstruction, Kwame Nkrumah
b. Apartheid, Nelson Mandela
c. Rastafari, Robert Nesta Marley
3.
What new nation was created from part of Palestine by Jewish settlers in 1948?
a. Israel
b. Jordan
c. Syria
4. Who became the leader of the Indian independence movement away from British rule?
a. Mohammad Ali
5.
b. Mohandas Gandhi
c. Che Guevara
Which side took control of Vietnam when the USA pulled all of its troops out in 1975?
a. The North Vietnamese
b. The South Vietnamese
c. The Pan-Asian Movement
5/1
1.
Which US president met with Chinese and Soviet leaders in 1972 ?
a. Richard Nixon
b. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan
2.Which president resigned from office in 1974 due to the Watergate scandal??
a. Richard Nixon
b. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan
3. Which president took office in in 1974 and dealt with various problems with OPEC?.
a. Richard Nixon
b. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan
4. Who won the election of 1976 and dealt with massive energy crises in the 1970s?
a. Jimmy Carter
b. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan
5. What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979 to overthrow their pro-west government?
a. USA
b. USSR
c. China
5/4
1.
Who became president of the USA in 1981 ?
a. Richard Nixon
b. Gerald Ford
c. Ronald Reagan
2.Who became the leader of the USSR in 1985?
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Mikhail Gorbachev
c. Muammar Gadaffi
3. Who became president of the USA in 1989?.
a. Ronald Reagan
b. George Bush
c. Bill Clinton
4. In what year did East Germany begin to allow its citizens to leave the country for the first time
since the end of WWII?
a. 1979
b. 1984 c. 1989
5. Who became the president of Russia when the USSR fell apart in 1991?
a. Vladimir Putin
b. Mikhail Gorbachev
c. Boris Yeltsin
5/5
2.
Where did many people in the USA migrate from and to in the early to mid 1900s
?
a. Rust Belt to Sun Belt
b. Sun Belt to Rust Belt
c. Brown Belt to Black Belt
2.Who became the president of the USA in 1989?
a. George H.W. Bush
b. Bill Clinton
c. George W. Bush
3. When was the Environmental Protection Agency created and by what President?
a. 1970, Richard Nixon
b. 1980, Jimmy Carter
c. 1990, George H.W. Bush
4. In what year did East Germany begin to allow its citizens to leave the country for the first time
since the end of WWII?
a. 1979
b. 1984 c. 1989
5. In what year did the Soviet Union collapse and become various independent nations including
the Russian Federation?
a. 1990
b. 1991
c. 1992