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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where was Alexander Berkman born?
(a) Great Britain
(b) The Russian Empire
(c) Germany
(d) The Netherlands
2. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?
(a) August 9, 1945
(b) September 12, 1944
(c) June 13, 1946
(d) August 6, 1945
3. What U.S. President authorized the Japanese American internment with Executive Order 9066?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt
(b) Martin Van Buren
(c) Woodrow Wilson
(d) Andrew Jackson
4. Who was the most important leader in the Knights of Labor?
(a) Terence V. Powderly
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Betty Friedan
(d) William Calley
5. When did the Korean War take place?
(a) 1944-1949
(b) 1962-1965
(c) 1956-1959
(d) 1950-1953
Short Answer Questions
1. What platoon leader in the Vietnam War was convicted of killing 22 villagers at My Lai and was originally given a life sentence but only served three and a half years under house arrest?
2. When did the Spanish-American War begin?
3. When did the Cuban War of Independence take place?
4. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?
5. What was Malcolm X’s birth name?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Howard Zinn criticize about the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam in Chapter 18?
2. How did the Industrial Revolution impact the common people, according to the author in Chapter 11?
3. How does Zinn describe the differences between the upper and lower classes regarding their trust in the government in Chapter 20?
4. How had governments established order by 1877, according to the author in Chapter 11?
5. How does Zinn characterize the atmosphere of rebellion during the period of American imperialism in Chapter 13?
6. What corruptions of the government are discussed by Howard Zinn in Chapter 20?
7. What were the “Pentagon Papers”? How did these documents come to light?
8. How had public opinion of the government changed by the 1970s, according to the author in Chapter 20?
9. What were the reasons for the period of American imperialism that began in the 1890s? Chapter 12?
10. What wars emerged as a result of American imperialism? How does the author describe these wars in Chapter 12?
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