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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?
(a) Ho Chi Minh
(b) Mao Ze-Dong
(c) Ngo Dinh Diem
(d) Kim Il Sung

2. When did the Cuban War of Independence take place?
(a) 1799-1815
(b) 1895-1898
(c) 1865-1870
(d) 1911-1915

3. The first of the Jim Crow laws was enacted in what year?
(a) 1863
(b) 1876
(c) 1836
(d) 1901

4. 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?
(a) Nathan Bacon
(b) John Whitmore
(c) William Berkeley
(d) William Calley

5. When did the Spanish-American War end?
(a) August 12, 1898
(b) March 12, 1899
(c) September 15, 1900
(d) June 24, 1799

6. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?
(a) 110,000
(b) 200,000
(c) 50,000
(d) 20,000

7. What term refers to the period of feminist activity that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world?
(a) Reverse feminism
(b) Neo-feminism
(c) Second-wave feminism
(d) Cultural feminism

8. When was the American Federation of Labor founded?
(a) 1886
(b) 1865
(c) 1908
(d) 1923

9. The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on what date?
(a) March 27, 1825
(b) June 30, 1892
(c) March 28, 1905
(d) December 15, 1791

10. The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire comprised what side in World War I?
(a) NATO
(b) The Central Powers
(c) The Allies
(d) The Axis Powers

11. When was Amnesty International founded?
(a) 1952
(b) 1914
(c) 1961
(d) 1977

12. The Knights of Labor demanded a workday that consisted of how many hours?
(a) 5
(b) 8
(c) 12
(d) 6

13. When was the American Railway Union founded?
(a) 1905
(b) 1911
(c) 1899
(d) 1893

14. What term refers to an ideology and movement that encourages the solidarity of Africans worldwide?
(a) Anarchism
(b) Pan-Africanism
(c) African Culturism
(d) Black Legionism

15. When did World War I begin?
(a) September 15, 1900
(b) July 28, 1914
(c) March 27, 1925
(d) August 12, 1898

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Feminine Mystique published?

2. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?

3. Where was Alexander Berkman born?

4. During what years did Gerald Ford serve as President of the United States?

5. When did the Philippine-American War take place?

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