Assessment Test

Question 1

Scopes “monkey” trial

Answer 1

The trial between William Bryan and Clarence Darrow over the issue of the teaching of evolution in schools

Question 2

Dust bowl

Answer 2

the drought and dust storms which traversed the midwest

Question 3

Harlem renaissance

Answer 3

African american writers, artists, and musicians, such as Langston Hughes, Zora neale hurston, and duke ellington

Question 4

causes of the depression

Answer 4

1. ‘Black Thursday’
2. investors begin selling stocks
3. ‘Black Tuesday’
4. farm and coal industries were depressed

Question 5

Bonus army

Answer 5

WWI veterans march on Washington to lobby for early payment of verterans bonus -driven out by the navy

Question 6

scottsboro nine

Answer 6

9 African american boys acussed of the rape of 2 white girls

Question 7

Works progress administration (WPA)

Answer 7

gave unemployed work in building construction and arts programs

Question 8

social security

Answer 8

retirement plan for persons over 65 years of age, pensions, disability, payments, unemployment benefits

Question 9

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Answer 9

prohibits unfair labor practice and enforced the wagner act, right to unionize, collective bargaining

Question 10

Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)

Answer 10

(regional public planning) built over 20 dams

Question 11

Four freedom’s speech

Answer 11

FDR proposed that people “everywhere in the world” ought to enjoy freedom: of speech, of worship, from want, from fear

Question 12

US embargo on Japan

Answer 12

1941, president FDR seizes all Japanese assets in the US in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China

Question 13

Island Hopping

Answer 13

strategy employed by US to gain military bases and secure the many small islands in the pacific

Question 14

pearl harbor

Answer 14

the american naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by the Japanese (1941)

Question 15

Bataan

Answer 15

the intense phase of Japan’s invasion of the Philippines during WWII

Question 16

Midway

Answer 16

a crucial and decisive naval battle in the pacific theater of WWII

Question 17

Iwo Jima

Answer 17

major battle in which the US armed forces landed and captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese imperial army

Question 18

Okinawa

Answer 18

82- day long battle, amphibious assault in the pacific war during WWII

Question 19

European Theater of Operations (ETO)

Answer 19

US army formation which directed US army operations in parts of Europe from 1942-1945

Question 20

Atlantic charter

Answer 20

endorses self-determination of all nations, basis of the united states

Question 21

Battle of Britain/blitz

Answer 21

air campaign by the German air force against that United Kingdom in 1940

Question 22

Normandy/ D-day

Answer 22

the landing and invasion of German- occupied Western Europe by allied forces

Question 23

Barbarossa

Answer 23

Nazi Germany’s invasion of the soviet union during WW!!, June 22,1941

Question 24

Battle of the bulge

Answer 24

a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France

Question 25

Tuskegee Airmen

Answer 25

group of African american military pilots who fought in WWII

Question 26

442nd regimental combat team

Answer 26

a fighting unit composed almost entirely of american soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in WWII

Question 27

Interim committee

Answer 27

secret high level group created for the urging of the leaders of the Manhattan project to advice on matters pertaining to nuclear energy

Question 28

Marshall plan

Answer 28

american initiative to aid europe, $13 billion to rebuild european economics

Question 29

Truman doctrine

Answer 29

established that the US would provide political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations