Lesson 1K.2.1

1K.2.1 Crises and the rise to world power, 1920–1975 Quiz: AQA History, Unit 10

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The 20 questions

  1. Which Republican President, serving from 1921 to 1923, was followed by Calvin Coolidge after his death in office?

    • Warren G. Harding
    • Herbert Hoover
    • Theodore Roosevelt
    • Woodrow Wilson

  2. Which Act of 1924 set strict quotas that greatly reduced immigration from southern and eastern Europe?

    • The Pendleton Act
    • The Wagner Act
    • The Immigration Act of 1924
    • The Social Security Act

  3. Which event of October 1929, when share prices collapsed on Wall Street, began the Great Depression in the United States?

    • The Wall Street Crash
    • The Stock Split, a corporate decision to divide shares into smaller units that rose sharply in 1928
    • The Dust Bowl, a severe drought and soil erosion crisis on the Great Plains that began in the early 1930s
    • The Bank Holiday, a period in which banks were closed nationwide by Roosevelt in March 1933

  4. Which package of programmes launched by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 aimed to relieve the Depression through government intervention?

    • The New Deal
    • The Great Society
    • The Fair Deal
    • The New Frontier

  5. Which Act of 1935 created a national system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance in the United States?

    • The Social Security Act
    • The Fair Labor Standards Act
    • The Taft-Hartley Act
    • The Wagner Act

  6. Which Act of 1920 to 1933 prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks in the United States, and was later repealed?

    • Prohibition
    • The Temperance Act of 1912
    • The Dawes Act
    • The Comstock Act

  7. Which 1941 programme allowed the United States to supply Britain and other Allies with weapons and materials without immediate payment?

    • The Truman Doctrine
    • The Monroe Doctrine
    • Lend-Lease
    • The Marshall Plan

  8. Which attack on 7 December 1941 brought the United States into the Second World War?

    • The German invasion of Poland
    • The Italian invasion of Ethiopia
    • The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
    • The Japanese attack on Midway

  9. Which 1947 policy, named after President Truman, promised American support for countries threatened by communism?

    • The Carter Doctrine
    • The Nixon Doctrine
    • The Truman Doctrine
    • The Eisenhower Doctrine

  10. Which 1948 economic programme gave aid to Western European states to rebuild their economies after the war?

    • The Lend-Lease Act
    • The Dawes Plan
    • The Young Plan
    • The Marshall Plan

  11. Which 1950 to 1953 conflict on the Korean Peninsula saw the United States and the United Nations fight against communist forces?

    • The Cuban Missile Crisis
    • The Vietnam War
    • The Korean War
    • The Gulf War

  12. Which 1954 Supreme Court decision declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional?

    • Marbury v. Madison, which established the power of the Supreme Court to strike down laws in 1803
    • Plessy v. Ferguson, which upheld racial segregation in public facilities under the separate-but-equal doctrine in 1896
    • Brown v. Board of Education
    • Roe v. Wade, which recognised a constitutional right to abortion in the United States in 1973

  13. Which 1964 Act outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex or national origin in employment and public accommodation?

    • The Civil Rights Act of 1957
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
    • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
    • The Fair Housing Act of 1968

  14. Which programme of domestic reform, announced by Lyndon Johnson in 1964, aimed to end poverty and expand federal welfare and education?

    • The Great Society
    • The New Frontier
    • The Fair Deal
    • The New Deal

  15. Which 1972 event saw President Nixon visit mainland China, beginning the normalisation of relations?

    • Nixon's visit to Moscow
    • Nixon's visit to Havana
    • Nixon's visit to Beijing
    • Nixon's visit to Hanoi

  16. Which crisis of 1972 to 1974 led to President Nixon's resignation after investigation into a break-in at the Democratic National Committee?

    • Iran-Contra
    • Whitewater
    • Teapot Dome
    • Watergate

  17. How many years separated the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941?

    • 16 years
    • 14 years
    • 12 years
    • 10 years

  18. How many years separated the Brown v. Board decision of 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

    • 18 years
    • 10 years
    • 14 years
    • 6 years

  19. Which statement best explains why the New Deal did not fully end the Depression by 1939?

    • The Depression ended in 1929 before the New Deal began, which meant recovery came from market forces alone
    • Recovery was uneven and the economy remained vulnerable, with unemployment still high until the war boosted demand
    • The New Deal ended the Depression completely by 1933, which restored full employment in every state
    • The Supreme Court approved every New Deal programme without exception, which allowed all reforms to continue

  20. Which statement best evaluates the significance of the American rise to world power by 1945, as described in the spec's theme of the USA's international role?

    • The United States withdrew from all international organisations in 1945, which rejected the UN Charter entirely
    • The war and post-war settlement left the United States as the leading economic and military power in the world
    • The United States ended the war as a minor power with no influence abroad, which left Britain in control of Europe
    • The United States lost its industrial base during the war and fell behind Britain, which was the leading economy in 1945

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