History Quiz (Focus--World History)

Question 1:The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II as global superpowers and soon became locked in a tense ideological and military competition known as the ............War
Civil
Cold
Guerrilla

Question 2:The ..............air attack on Pearl Harbor (on the Hawaiian island of Oahu), December 7, 1941, was the climax of a decade of rising tension between Japan and the United States.

German
Japanese
Russian

Question 3:Known as D-Day, the Allied invasion of .................. on June 6, 1944, was the largest amphibious assault in history.
Banzai Hill
Pearl Harbor
Normandy

Question 4:Name the US Presiedent who led America though the Great Depression and World War II?
Richard Rixon
Franklin Rossevelt
John F Kennedy

Question 5:Around how many Americans died during World War II?
205,000
405,000
605,000

Question 6:On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded which country?
Serbia
Czechoslavakia
Poland

Question 7:Two hours after the first bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes hit Clark Field, the main U.S. base in the ...................?
Kansas
Philiphines
Massachusetts

Question 8:On.............,a day known forever after as "Black Tuesday," the American stock market--which had been roaring steadily upward for almost a decade--finally crashed, plunging the United States into an economic depression that was more severe than any the nation had experienced before.
Nov 28,1932
Oct 29,1929
Sept 11,1935

Question 9:The Autobiography of Hitler was .................
Childhood
In Cold Blood
Mein Kempf

Question 10:The Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any other military conflict in American history, grew out of the U.S. government’s Cold War-era policy to prevent the spread of communism at home and abroad.Among whom was this war fought between?
Vietnam and Palestine
South Vietnam bcked by US and North Veitnam bcked by communists
Cuba and Vietnam