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 1924 Act introduced strict national quotas to sharply reduce immigration from southern and eastern Europe?

    • Chinese Exclusion Act
    • Alien Act
    • Immigration Act
    • Emergency Quota Act

  3. Which October 1929 financial event triggered the onset of the Great Depression in the United States?

    • Wall Street Crash
    • Banking Holiday
    • Bonus March
    • Crash of 1893

  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 1935 New Deal Act created a national system of old-age pensions and unemployment insurance in the US?

    • Social Security Act
    • Wagner Act
    • Agricultural Adjustment Act
    • National Recovery Act

  6. Which Constitutional Amendment introduced the nationwide prohibition of alcohol in the United States in 1920?

    • Eighteenth Amendment
    • Sixteenth Amendment
    • Nineteenth Amendment
    • Twenty-First Amendment

  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 Japanese attack on 7 December 1941 brought the USA into the Second World War?

    • Midway
    • Coral Sea
    • Pearl Harbor
    • Iwo Jima

  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 saw US and UN forces fight communist troops in East Asia?

    • Indochina War
    • Vietnam War
    • Korean War
    • Malayan Emergency

  12. Which landmark 1954 ruling declared US school segregation unconstitutional?

    • Roe v Wade
    • Plessy v Ferguson
    • Brown v Board
    • Dred Scott ruling

  13. Which 1964 law outlawed discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex, or national origin in the USA?

    • Fair Housing Act
    • Civil Rights Act
    • Voting Rights Act
    • Taft-Hartley Act

  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 US president made a historic diplomatic visit to mainland China in February 1972?

    • Lyndon B Johnson
    • Gerald Ford
    • Richard Nixon
    • John F Kennedy

  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 event ultimately ended the Great Depression in the USA by restoring full employment?

    • Marshall Plan
    • Second World War
    • First World War
    • New Deal

  20. What status did the United States achieve by 1945 alongside the Soviet Union?

    • Neutral nation
    • Superpower
    • Isolationist state
    • Colonial empire

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