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**McCarthyism refers to:**\ a) The spread of communism in Latin America\ b) The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper evidence\ c) A military strategy during the Korean War\ d) The use of covert CIA operations **Senator Joseph McCarthy rose to prominence by:**\ a) I...

**McCarthyism refers to:**\ a) The spread of communism in Latin America\ b) The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper evidence\ c) A military strategy during the Korean War\ d) The use of covert CIA operations **Senator Joseph McCarthy rose to prominence by:**\ a) Investigating labor unions\ b) Claiming to have a list of communists working in the U.S. government\ c) Advocating for civil rights legislation\ d) Supporting the Marshall Plan **The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) targeted:**\ a) Civil rights activists\ b) Artists, writers, and government officials accused of communist ties\ c) Leaders of NATO\ d) Military personnel **What caused McCarthy's downfall?**\ a) The collapse of the Soviet Union\ b) His investigation of the U.S. Army, which led to televised hearings\ c) His support for civil rights movements\ d) A Supreme Court decision **The CIA orchestrated a coup in Iran in 1953 to:**\ a) Promote democratic reforms\ b) Overthrow Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and protect Western oil interests\ c) Support the Soviet-backed government\ d) Prevent the spread of communism in the Middle East **The CIA's coup in Guatemala in 1954 was intended to:**\ a) Stop a Soviet invasion\ b) Protect the United Fruit Company's interests and remove President Jacobo Árbenz\ c) Establish a communist government\ d) Aid the Cuban Revolution **Both the coups in Iran and Guatemala were examples of:**\ a) Successful democratic reforms\ b) U.S. covert operations to protect American economic and strategic interests\ c) Soviet-led rebellions against capitalist governments\ d) International support for human rights **The Bay of Pigs invasion was:**\ a) A successful U.S.-backed effort to overthrow Fidel Castro\ b) A failed CIA operation to remove Fidel Castro from power\ c) A Cuban-led revolution against Batista\ d) A naval blockade imposed by the Soviet Union **The Cuban Missile Crisis began when:**\ a) The U.S. attempted to invade Cuba\ b) The Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba\ c) Cuba declared its independence\ d) The U.S. discovered missiles in Turkey **How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?**\ a) The U.S. launched a full-scale invasion of Cuba\ b) The Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba in exchange for U.S. promises not to invade Cuba and to remove missiles from Turkey\ c) Fidel Castro stepped down from power\ d) A peace treaty was signed between Cuba and the U.S. **Emmett Till's death in 1955 was significant because:**\ a) It sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott\ b) It brought national attention to the brutality of racism in the South\ c) It marked the end of legal segregation\ d) It led to the Voting Rights Act **The Little Rock Nine were:**\ a) Black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, amid intense opposition\ b) Civil rights activists arrested for protesting segregation\ c) Leaders of the Freedom Summer campaign\ d) Founders of the NAACP **President Eisenhower responded to the Little Rock crisis by:**\ a) Ignoring the situation\ b) Sending federal troops to enforce school desegregation\ c) Negotiating with Governor Faubus\ d) Advocating for a new segregation law **Malcolm X's philosophy of "by any means necessary" emphasized:**\ a) Nonviolent resistance\ b) The use of violence for self-defense and the pursuit of Black empowerment\ c) Integration into white society\ d) Economic cooperation with white businesses **Malcolm X initially represented which organization?:**\ a) SNCC\ b) SCLC\ c) Nation of Islam\ d) NAACP **Malcolm X differed from Martin Luther King, Jr. because:**\ a) He advocated for integration into white society\ b) He initially rejected nonviolence and called for Black nationalism\ c) He supported civil disobedience\ d) He was part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference **Bull Connor was known for:**\ a) Supporting civil rights legislation\ b) Using fire hoses and police dogs against peaceful protesters in Birmingham, Alabama\ c) Leading voter registration drives in the South\ d) Being the first Black governor of Alabama **The protests in Birmingham were organized to:**\ a) End school segregation\ b) Challenge segregation in public spaces and expose the brutality of southern racism\ c) Advocate for voting rights\ d) Support President Kennedy's re-election campaign **Televised coverage of Birmingham protests:**\ a) Was censored nationwide\ b) Galvanized public support for the Civil Rights Movement by showing the violence against demonstrators\ c) Was ignored by northern audiences\ d) Led to the failure of the protests **Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s strategy of nonviolent civil disobedience was inspired by:**\ a) Malcolm X\ b) Mohandas Gandhi\ c) President Kennedy\ d) Booker T. Washington **An example of nonviolent civil disobedience during the Civil Rights Movement was:**\ a) The Montgomery Bus Boycott\ b) The Watts Riots\ c) The Freedom Rides\ d) Both a and c **Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail argued:**\ a) That civil rights activists should wait patiently for change\ b) That individuals have a moral duty to disobey unjust laws\ c) That violence was necessary to end segregation\ d) That voting rights should be prioritized over integration **The Civil Rights Act of 1964 addressed:**\ a) Voting rights\ b) Discrimination in public facilities and employment\ c) Segregation in schools\ d) Economic inequality **What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides?:**\ a) To desegregate schools\ b) To challenge segregation on interstate buses and facilities\ c) To register voters in the South\ d) To end discrimination in housing **The Voting Rights Act of 1965:**\ a) Outlawed literacy tests and provided federal oversight of voter registration\ b) Guaranteed equal pay for all workers\ c) Prohibited discrimination in housing\ d) Ended segregation in schools **What was the Selma to Montgomery march intended to achieve?:**\ a) Integration of public schools\ b) Awareness of voting rights issues in the South\ c) Support for Malcolm X's philosophy\ d) Protest against police brutality **Who were the Freedom Riders?\ **a) Volunteers challenging bus segregation in the South\ b) Union organizers during the Great Depression\ c) Supporters of the Marshall Plan\ d) Advocates for military intervention in Cuba **What was the primary goal of the March on Washington?**\ a) Advocate for voting rights\ b) Demand civil rights legislation and economic justice\ c) Protest U.S. foreign policy in Vietnam\ d) End segregation in northern cities **What was the most memorable moment of the March on Washington?**\ a) The first meeting of Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.\ b) John Lewis's speech\ c) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech\ d) The appearance of the Black Panthers **The Brown v. Board of Education decision overturned:**\ a) Marbury v. Madison\ b) Gideon v. Wainwright\ c) Plessy v. Ferguson\ d) Dred Scott v. Sandford **Brown v. Board of Education ruled that:**\ a) Segregation in schools was constitutional\ b) \"Separate but equal\" was inherently unequal\ c) States could choose whether to integrate schools\ d) The federal government could not intervene in education **The Supreme Court decision legalizing segregation was:**\ a) Plessy v. Ferguson\ b) Brown v. Board of Education\ c) Dred Scott v. Sandford\ d) McCulloch v. Maryland **Which city did the SCLC target for protests in 1963 to highlight southern racism?**\ a) Money, Mississippi\ b) Birmingham, Alabama\ c) Jackson, Mississippi\ d) Greensboro, North Carolina **Gov. Orval Faubus attempted to block school desegregation in:**\ a) Birmingham, Alabama\ b) Jackson, Mississippi\ c) Little Rock, Arkansas\ d) Atlanta, Georgia **The Freedom Summer campaign of 1964 focused on:**\ a) Integrating schools in Alabama\ b) Voter registration drives in Mississippi\ c) Protesting segregation in bus terminals\ d) Creating civil rights legislation **One of the Civil Rights workers murdered during Freedom Summer was:**\ a) John Carlos\ b) Tommie Smith\ c) James Chaney\ d) James Meredith **Who wrote, "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools"?**\ a) Malcolm X\ b) Martin Luther King, Jr.\ c) George Wallace\ d) Orval Faubus **What role did Rosa Parks play in the Civil Rights Movement?:**\ a) She led the March on Washington\ b) Her refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott\ c) She was the first African American to attend a desegregated school\ d) She founded the NAACP **What was the purpose of the Montgomery Bus Boycott?:**\ a) To protest segregated schools\ b) To challenge bus segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama\ c) To desegregate restaurants\ d) To demand voting rights **The organization known for its militant philosophy during the Civil Rights era was:**\ a) SCLC\ b) SNCC\ c) The Black Panthers\ d) NAACP **Which group was NOT considered militant?:**\ a) SNCC\ b) SCLC\ c) Black Muslims\ d) Black Panthers **Dr. King first gained national attention during:**\ a) The March on Washington\ b) The Montgomery Bus Boycott\ c) The Selma March\ d) The Freedom Rides **Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail stated:**\ a) That unjust laws must be disobeyed\ b) That patience was necessary to achieve equality\ c) That violence was the only solution to segregation\ d) That the federal government should step aside **The March on Washington demanded:**\ a) The immediate end to all segregation\ b) Passage of a civil rights bill and economic equality\ c) Support for school integration in Little Rock\ d) President Eisenhower's intervention in southern protests **The Selma to Montgomery march became infamous for:**\ a) The Voting Rights Act of 1965\ b) \"Bloody Sunday,\" where marchers were violently attacked by law enforcement\ c) The assassination of Medgar Evers\ d) Dr. King's \"I Have a Dream\" speech **The phrase "Black Power" was associated with:**\ a) Dr. King and the SCLC\ b) Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam\ c) Stokely Carmichael and the SNCC\ d) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 **Which city's protests marked the beginning of the sit-in movement in 1960?:**\ a) Birmingham, Alabama\ b) Greensboro, North Carolina\ c) Jackson, Mississippi\ d) Montgomery, Alabama **The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a response to:**\ a) Segregation in schools\ b) Discrimination in employment\ c) Barriers to Black voter registration, including literacy tests\ d) Public transportation segregation **The term "by any means necessary" was popularized by:**\ a) Martin Luther King, Jr.\ b) Malcolm X\ c) John Lewis\ d) Stokely Carmichael **What was the primary purpose of the Social Security Act?**\ a) To provide health insurance to all Americans\ b) To establish economic security for retirees, the disabled, and unemployed individuals\ c) To fund infrastructure projects\ d) To regulate the stock market **What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) best known for?**\ a) Creating jobs through public works projects like roads, bridges, and art programs\ b) Establishing national parks\ c) Providing direct financial aid to farmers\ d) Regulating banking practices **How did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) restore trust in the banking system?**\ a) By auditing all banks annually\ b) By insuring bank deposits, guaranteeing people would not lose their savings\ c) By offering direct loans to small businesses\ d) By closing failing banks permanently **What was the purpose of the Bank Holiday declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?**\ a) To allow citizens a week off work to rebuild homes after the Dust Bowl\ b) To temporarily close banks and assess their stability before reopening\ c) To promote consumer spending during a special event\ d) To provide additional holidays for bank employees **Which of the following was a primary focus of New Deal programs like Social Security, WPA, and FDIC?**\ a) Promoting global trade\ b) Encouraging immigration to boost the economy\ c) Addressing relief for the needy, recovery of the economy, and reform of financial systems\ d) Increasing military production during wartime 55. **What was the significance of D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944?**\ a) It marked the start of the Allied offensive in North Africa\ b) It was the largest amphibious assault in history, opening a second front in Europe\ c) It forced Germany to surrender immediately\ d) It secured control of the Mediterranean for the Allies 56. **What event led to the United States entering World War II?**\ a) The invasion of Poland by Germany\ b) The bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941\ c) The sinking of the Lusitania\ d) The signing of the Tripartite Pact 57. **Which battle is considered the turning point in the Pacific, halting Japanese expansion?**\ a) Battle of Iwo Jima\ b) Battle of Midway\ c) Battle of Guadalcanal\ d) Battle of Okinawa 58. **What strategy did the United States adopt to gain control of the Pacific?**\ a) Blitzkrieg warfare\ b) Island-hopping, capturing key islands while bypassing others\ c) Naval blockades of Japanese ports\ d) Direct invasions of the Japanese mainland 59. **What was the primary purpose of Japanese internment during World War II?**\ a) To recruit Japanese Americans into the military\ b) To relocate Japanese Americans considered a security threat after Pearl Harbor\ c) To encourage agricultural development in the West\ d) To prevent Japanese Americans from leaving the U.S. 60. **What role did women play on the homefront during World War II?**\ a) They were largely excluded from contributing to the war effort\ b) They joined the workforce in large numbers, taking jobs in factories and industries\ c) They served only in medical roles in the military\ d) They focused exclusively on rationing and household duties 61. **How did the U.S. government fund the war effort?**\ a) By borrowing from European allies\ b) Through increased taxes and the sale of war bonds\ c) By reducing military expenses in other areas\ d) By confiscating gold from private citizens 62. **What was the purpose of rationing during World War II?**\ a) To limit spending and increase savings\ b) To ensure a fair distribution of scarce resources for civilians and military needs\ c) To encourage conservation of natural resources for post-war use\ d) To support agricultural exports to allies 63. **What was the Battle of the Bulge?**\ a) A naval engagement in the Atlantic\ b) Germany's last major offensive in Europe, aiming to break through Allied lines\ c) The liberation of Paris from German occupation\ d) The Allied invasion of Italy 64. **What was the primary goal of the Allied North Africa campaign?**\ a) To liberate France from Axis control\ b) To secure control of the Suez Canal and access to Middle Eastern oil\ c) To push Japanese forces out of the region\ d) To defend against a Soviet invasion of North Africa 65. **Explain the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. What was their purpose and impact on Jewish citizens in Germany?**\ a) They granted citizenship to Jewish Germans\ b) They were anti-Semitic laws that stripped German Jews of citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and non-Jews\ c) They established ghettos in German cities\ d) They outlined the military strategy for Germany's eastern front 66. **How did the Warsaw Ghetto play a role in Jewish resistance during the Holocaust?**\ a) It was the site of a Nazi concentration camp\ b) Jewish resistance fighters staged a major uprising against the Nazis in 1943\ c) It was the first ghetto established in France by the Nazis\ d) It served as the location for Hitler's headquarters in Poland 67. **What was the \"Final Solution\"?**\ a) The German strategy to defeat the Soviet Union\ b) The Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe through genocide\ c) A diplomatic agreement to relocate Jews to other countries\ d) A policy aimed at imprisoning political opponents in concentration camps 68. **What was the primary goal of the women's suffrage movement?**\ a) Achieving equal pay for women\ b) Gaining the right to vote for women\ c) Advocating for child labor laws\ d) Establishing women's colleges 69. **Who were muckrakers during the Progressive Era?**\ a) Politicians who supported laissez-faire economics\ b) Journalists who exposed corruption and social injustices\ c) Activists advocating for women's suffrage\ d) Industrial leaders supporting monopolies 70. **What was a major difference between \"old immigrants\" and \"new immigrants\" in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?**\ a) Old immigrants primarily came from Southern and Eastern Europe, while new immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe\ b) Old immigrants tended to assimilate quickly, while new immigrants faced more discrimination due to cultural and religious differences\ c) Old immigrants arrived during the Great Depression, while new immigrants arrived during World War II\ d) Old immigrants were predominantly Catholic, while new immigrants were Protestant