History Exam Quiz - Answers and Detailed Explanations

This document presents the answers to a history exam, covering a range of historical periods and events. The quiz includes questions on topics such as the Battle of Stalingrad, the origins of the Cold War, the Manhattan Project, the Black Liberation Army, the New Deal, the Tet Offensive, the Monroe Doctrine, and the Vietnam War. It also touches upon key figures like FDR, Harry Truman, and Ho Chi Minh, as well as significant events like the Tonkin Gulf Incident and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The answers provided offer insights into the causes, consequences, and historical context of these events, and the quiz format allows for effective self-assessment and review of the material. The document also references relevant historical concepts, such as the impact of World War I, the rise of fascism and socialism, and the role of the CIA, among others. The quiz covers a wide range of historical subjects, from the early 20th century to the Cold War era, and provides a comprehensive overview of key historical moments and their significance.

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History Exams
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HISTORY EXAMS 2
HISTORY EXAMS
Quiz 1
b) The Battle of Stalingrad
Quiz 2
a) A desire to prevent the Red Army, then liberating Manchuria, from entering Japan
Quiz 3
a) Stigmatize the labor movement, civil rights movement, and anti-war movement as
“subversive” and “un-American
Quiz 4
b) Manhattan project
Quiz 5
d) The “Huns” were blood thirty baby-killers and predators upon women who sought to take
over Europe and destroy Western democracy. They had to be stopped.
Quiz 6
d) Britain committed itself to aiding in the formation of the modern state of Israel in Palestine in
exchange for wartime assistance from members of the European and American Zionist
movement
Quiz 7
d) The Black Liberation Army
Quiz 8
d) FDR was a socialist who sought to undermine the capitalist system
Quiz 9
d) Tonkin Gulf Incident
Quiz 10
c) The New Deal
Quiz 11
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b) Tet Offensive
Quiz 12
a) The Monroe Doctrine
Quiz 13
a) Mobilizing for WW11
Quiz 14
c) France
Quiz 15
d) Outlawed racial segregation in schools
Quiz 16
d) LBJ’s Presidential agenda aimed at funding social uplift and welfare services
Quiz 17
e) All of the Above
Quiz 18
b) To save capitalism by making capitalist society more prosperous and stable for all
Quiz 19
b) The fascist will seize control of the government as a tool for legislating domestic and foreign
policy conducive to private profit, while the socialist will either draw on the government to
legislate reforms conducive to the uplift of the masses or maneuver to wither away the central
government in favor of localized democratic civil institutions and cooperative workplaces
Quiz 20
b) Sykes Picot
Quiz 21
d) Cuban Missile Crisis
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Quiz 22
b) F. Roosevelt
Quiz 23
d) The Brown Barretts
Quiz 24
e) Refused to expand US military involvement in Vietnam after entering office
Quiz 25
a) After liberating Vietnam from Japanese fascists during WWII, HoChi Minh & his followers
militarily resisted efforts by France and its Nazi SS assets to reclaim Vietnam as a colonial
possession.
Quiz 26
d). NAAP- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Quiz 27
e) He believed that true patriotism and love for America demanded condemnation of the nation’s
abandonment of its best ideological foundations and evolution toward self-destruction.
Quiz 28
a) The promotion of race war
Quiz 29
c) The US coopted a great many Nazis and deployed them in Eastern Europe to spy on, sabotage,
and otherwise undermine the Soviet Union.
Quiz 30
d) US efforts to undermine the Japanese attack on China via freezing Japanese bank accounts,
embargoing trade goods, and refusing to sell petroleum to Japan
Quiz 31
a) Midway
Quiz 32
c) The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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Quiz 33
b) Harry Truman
Quiz 34
a) Widespread nihilism, hopelessness, and chaos generated by the carnage and destruction of
World War I, crippling reparations, and economic depression
Quiz 35
b) The phenomena were facilitated by the fabrication of an imminent threat with which to terrify the
American people into compliance, namely a communist menace and Soviet boogieman.
Quiz 36
e) In the context of low public support for a US war on Korea, Washington bypassed seeking a
congressional declaration of war by deploying American troops through the newly created UN as
a “police action.” (Dearinger, 2015).
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References
Dearinger, R. (2015). The Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals
and Railroads in the West. University of California Press.
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