Virginia State History: 20th Century (1900-End of WWII)
Unit Quiz
Student Name: _______________________________________ Date: ____________________
For each of the following slides/questions, fill-in-the-blanks:
Question
Statement(s)
Part A: 1900-1919
1. The Virginia State Constitution of 1902 required a ______________ or literacy test as a
condition of eligibility to vote.
2. In 1912, President Taft and former President Roosevelt divided the
national Republican party vote and let the Democrat
________________________ , from Virginia, get elected President of
the US.
3. Virginia’s prohibition began in ____________, three years before
national prohibition began.
4. The immediate trigger for WWI was the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of
_____________________ and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914.
5. American troops entered the trenches on the Western Front in France in ____________(year);
and, after a series of successful Allied offensives, Germany surrendered on Armistice Day, the
11th of November 1918.
6. President Wilson represented the US at the conference which resulted in
the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Although the US did NOT become a
member, this Treaty established the _______________________ of Nations
– the forerunner of our United Nations today.
7. Virginia’s most outspoken suffragette was ________________
__________________ who founded the Suffrage League of Virginia (later
called the “VA League of Women Voters”.)
Part B: 1920-1939
8. The __________________________ _______________
runs from Mt. Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mt. in
Georgia – 1/4 of the it lies in Virginia.
9. The brother of former Governor and US Senator Harry
Flood Byrd of Winchester was a famous explorer and was
the 1st man to fly over the _______________________.
10. In 1929, Richard Byrd and 3 companions were the 1st to fly over the
______________________.
11. The 1920s was an exciting time of change and experimentation with new life styles in
America. These times were called the “___________________ twenties”.
12. One of the favorite things for people to do in the 1930s was to go to the _______________
___________________. And, the most famous of these was “Gone
with the Wind”.
13. The classic decorative and architectural style of the period from
1925 to 1940 was called “Art _____________” after its first display at
a festival in Paris, France.
14. Alcohol ___________________ in America had the unintended
effect of wide-spread disrespect for the law in the 1920s and 1930s.
15. Herbert Hoover, a Republican, was President of the US at the start
of the “Great ___________________________”. His retreat for
fishing at Camp Rapidan in Virginia was called the “Brown House”.
16. In the US, Wall Street “crashed” in October of ______________.
This began the 10-year economic slump that adversely affected all of
the Western industrialized countries.
17. President ___________________ was elected in 1932 with a
platform of economic reform he called the “New Deal” for Americans.
18. The center-piece of the “New Deal” was called the National
Recovery Act of 1933 (NRA). It was later declared unconstitutional by
the US ____________ ___________.
19. Between 1933 and 1942, ten Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
camps were established on or near the Shenandoah National Park in
_________________. The CCC employed young men in “makework” tasks such as the building of Camp Roosevelt at Big Meadows,
VA.
20. In Virginia, African-Americans employed by the WPA built a
beautiful Botanical Garden out of a swamp near ______________,
Virginia.
21. US Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, co-sponsored the Banking
Act of 1933 which protected bank ____________________ savings
and kept the nation’s banks from failing.
22. Pearl S. _________________ graduated from Randolph Macon
Women’s College in Virginia; and, she won both the
______________________ Prize and the Nobel Prize for her novel
“The Good Earth.”
23. In Europe, Germany and Italy joined forces to attack their
neighbors. Speaking at the Univ. Of Virginia’s graduation ceremony
in 1940, FDR said that the hand that held the “dagger” (i.e., Italy) had
thrust it into its neighbor (i.e., _____________).
24. Japan invaded Manchuria in 1937 and joined forces with Germany and Italy on its road to
conquest in the Pacific. This group of three aligned countries was called the “____________
Powers”.
25. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was physically between Germany’s territory in
Central Europe and Japan’s territories in _______________. So, it was a natural target for attack
by these two powers.
Part C: WWII Era (1940-1948)
26. FDR made the first TV broadcast from the New York World’s Fair in _________________.
27. Before WWII, the US “rented” naval bases on the Atlantic coast of Canada and in the
Caribbean Sea from ________________. As payment, the US traded 50 surplus destroyers for
the bases.
28. During WWII, the Marine Corp Base at Quantico, VA was a major ________________ base
which housed the Marine’s Officer Candidate School (OCS).
29. The US program to provide war materials to countries fighting against the Axis Powers was
called the “___________- __________” program.
30. Japan attacked the United States bases in Hawaii on December 7th,
_____________. The next day, FDR asked Congress to declare war on
Japan.
31. The Pentagon was built in ____________________, VA from 1941
until finished in 1943.
32. Students in Fairfax Co. Public Schools learned the “point-value” of ___________________
goods in their grade schools’ play stores.
33. Movie stars sold _____________bonds to support the War effort.
34. German prisoners of war were brought to Virginia and put to work on ____________
throughout the State (e.g., at the remount facility in Front Royal, VA.)
35. The shipyard at Portsmouth, VA became one of the ___________in the world, producing
many “Liberty Ships” and aircraft carriers during WWII.
36. Several training camps were built in Virginia during WWII. Once of these, Camp Pickett,
was named after Virginia’s famous Civil War general; and, it served as the Army’s
____________ Replacement Training Center.
37. At Alexandria, Virginia, workers made
__________________ at its factory which now serves as an arts
and crafts Center.
38. B-17 Bomber pilots were trained at ________________
Field, VA; and later, served with bomber squadrons in England
flying missions over Europe/Germany.
39. American troops saw combat in North Africa where they
served under the command of General George S.
_____________ who came from a famous family of soldiers in
Virginia.
40. In North Africa and Italy, physicians and nurses from the
Univ. Of Virginia organized and operated a large field
__________________ near the battle fronts.
41. In 1945, the ________________ captured Berlin and the Germans surrendered to the Allies
on May 8th, 1945.
42. For the Americans, the most important naval battle of the war in the Pacific was at/near
_______________________________ island.
43. The Mariana Islands Campaign was fought on 3 islands: Rota, Tinian, and ___________.
Later, Tinian became a major air base from which B-29 bombers flew atomic bombs to Japan.
44. General MacArthur said he would “return” to the __________________ when he left there
just before the Japanese took over there.
45. On ______________ ______________ island the Marines raised an American flag and the
picture of it became the basis for the Marine memorial sculpture depicting that activity in
Arlington, VA.
46. Corporal Desmond T. Doss of Lynchburg, VA received the
Medal of Honor from President Truman for his valiant service as a
_______________ in Okinawa, Japan.
47. President Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki with ___________ bombs called “fat man” and “big boy”.
48. General MacArthur accepted Japan’s formal surrender on the
USS _________________________ anchored in Tokyo bay.
49. Edward R. _______________________, US Secretary of State
and US’ UN Representative from Virginia, signed the UN Charter
for the United States at SF, CA in June of 1945 as the US became a
“charter member” and took a seat on its Security Council.
50. George C. Marshall, of Virginia,
received the
________________________honoring
his plan for the economic recovery of
countries affected by WWII in Europe.