Prosperity, Depression, and World War II Unit Test
Connections Academy 8th Grade
Please only use this to check your answers.
1. Infer which "great victory" the author references in the excerpt.
D. passage of the 19th Amendment ***
2. Based on the information in the graph, which was a bull market year?
A. 1928 ***
3. Which of the following was true of people moving to suburbs and purchasing automobiles?
A. Women were allowed to drive and thereby gained more freedom. ***
4. What is a factor that led to the rise of mass culture in the 1920s?
B. greater mobility across the nation ***
5. Which of the following was an effect of nativism in the United States in the 1920s?
D. the quota system ***
6. Why did President Roosevelt begin the Good Neighbor Policy?
D. He wanted to strengthen relations with Latin America in a time of international danger. ***
7. Which of the following best reflects President Roosevelts's attitude as seen in the text?
C. He wants to warn U.S. citizens against pessimism and giving up on the nation. ***
8. Of the following, which occurred after the stock market crash in 1929?
A. the establishment of the Truth in Securities Act ***
9. What was the most likely cause of the Dust Bowl?
D. overplowing the land without periods of rest for the soil ***
10. Which of the following was the main contributor to finally bringing the United States out of the Great Depression?
B. wartime spending ***
11. What inference can e drawn from the lack of U.S. action in response to Japanese aggression against China in 1937?
B. Americans did not believe Japan threatened the directly. ***
12. What is true about both Germany and Italy up to World War II?
A. Both believed they had a right to land outside of their borders. ***
13. Which of the following best reflects a shortcoming of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
A. It was unable to militarily prevent Hitler from marching into the Sudetenland. ***
14. Identify one factor that led to Hitler launching the Battle of Britain.
A. the surrender of France ***
15. Based on this map and your reading of the text, which part of the world was most directly affected by German aggression during the late 1930s?
B. Central Europe ***
16. Which of the following explains how Hitler was able to build up the German army despite the Treaty of Versailles restrictions?
C. He took advantage of appeasement and a lack of force behind the League of Nations. ***
17. What use was made of this order, which set up military areas where the Secretary of War controlled who would enter, who would leave or stay, and who was excluded?
A. This order set up camps where Japanese Americans were forced to live during the war.***
18. Which of the statements demonstrates the outcomes of the Double V campaign?
B. Franklin Roosevelt ended discrimination in hiring practices for government businesses and Victory Over Japan Day was declared. ***
19. In what way did both the U.S. government and its citizens benefit from the war?
C. The government benefited from expansion, and citizens benefited from an improved economy. ***
20. Which of the following best completes the sequence of events in the graphic organizer?
B. death of Hitler ***
21. Which of the following presented a major challenge to U.S. military efforts in the Pacific?
D. the long distance between the United States and battle sites in the Pacific theater ***
22. Why did the Allies warn Japan in the Potsdam Declaration before using the atomic bomb?
C. The Allies only wanted to use the bomb as a last resort to end the war. ***
23. Compare and contrast the rise and fall of Germany and Japan during the period of World War II.
*Your own answer*