1. What were the most severe punishments included in the Paris Peace Treaties?
reparations
repatriations
border changes
forced labor

What was the goal of the New Yorker editors who decided to publish John Hersey's eyewitness account of the bombing of Hiroshima?
to question whether using atomic bombs had been necessary to end the war
to alert Americans to the dangers that atomic weapons posed to the world
to get Americans to see the Japanese as people just like themselves
to shame Americans for their support of the bombing of Japan

How did President Kennedy's death affect the civil rights movement?

4.
How did President Harding start the U. S. on the path toward the Great Depression?
He slowed down the transition from war production to domestic production.
He wanted to keep business on a "normal" path of slow growth.
He focused Americans on business rather than improving society.
He began the trend of deregulating big business.

5.
What led young people to reject mainstream society in America in the early 1960s?
lack of education
failures of democracy
disillusionment after WWI
exposure to new ideas

How was the Brown v. Board of Education decision received in the American South?

7.
NOW's mission statement said, "NOW is dedicated to the proposition that women, first and foremost, are human beings.” What does that statement mean?
Women are not mysterious creatures who are completely different from men.
Women should not be treated differently because they give birth.
Men had been treated like second-class citizens by women.
Women did not want affirmative action to help them get jobs and equal pay.

8.
Which of the Four Freedoms was about the right to live strong and healthy lives?
Freedom of Religion
Freedom from Fear
Freedom of Speech
Freedom from Want

9.
Cesar Chavez represented what kind of activism in the 1960s in America?
mail campaigns
political campaigns
peaceful protests
violent resistance

10.
What did the War Refugee Board do?
It lowered the quota of Jewish refugees allowed to enter the U. S.
It raised the quota of Jewish refugees entering the U. S.
It resettled European Jews in Palestine after the war.
It helped Jewish people escape Nazi occupation in Europe.

Why was Emmett Till murdered?
He ran over a white man's dog.
He spoke to a white woman.
He stole from a general store.
He killed an older white man.

12.
Why was the space race so important to both Cold War superpowers?
Either communism or capitalism would receive the glory of the accomplishment.
They both needed extraterrestrial resources.
Their people wanted to focus on something other than war.
The victor would have a military advantage.

13.
What did FDR accuse the "Sixty Families" of?
stealing from the government
sabotaging the 1938 elections
being isolationist
being undemocratic

14.
What reason did President Johnson give for deciding not to run for re-election in 1968?
He would not run for re-election when it was clear that the majority of Americans opposed his decision to continue the war.
Another president would be better able to win the war because he would have the support of the American people.
He was tired of the divisiveness in American society, and did not want to be the focus of people's anger over the war any longer.
It would be irresponsible and dangerous for him to spend time campaigning when his full attention should be on the war.

15.
Why did the Allies break up Germany into four occupation zones?
so they could eventually annex those zones
so they could keep the Soviets from annexing Germany
to share the work of prosecuting Nazis
to break up Nazi control of the country

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16.
Which leader was a figurehead?
Hirohito
Mussolini
Haile Selassie
Charles de Gaulle

17.
Why were the U. S. battleships and planes so easy for the Japanese to bomb at Pearl Harbor?
The Japanese had studied maps of the harbor and knew where to attack.
They were lined up in neat rows.
They were still at the docks since they had just arrived in Hawaii.
The Americans did not put up a defense during the attack.

18.
Why did members of Nixon's re-election committee break into the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D. C., in June 1972?
to recover secret tape recordings Nixon had made
to tamper with the 1972 presidential election results
to spy on the Democratic presidential campaign
to cover up illegal Nixon campaign activities

19.
The United States was initially helping which European country regain control of Vietnam?
France
Britain
Belgium
Spain