A 15 Question Quiz I am submitting as a project! If you get a question wrong, press the Green Flag to try again, it's as simple as that really! Enjoy. - Azalea W. (Hour 5)
Question 1 Explain: Because the Revolution had opened so many trade routes for the USA, Mercantilism became a defunct practice as the USA became independent. Question 2 Explain: The War of 1812 changed the course of American history. Because America had managed to fight the world's greatest military power to a virtual standstill, it gained international respect. Furthermore, it instilled a greater sense of nationalism among its citizens. Question 3 Explain: The gigantic expansion of land the USA would accrue from the Mexican War allowed the USA to become a Pacific Power, which helped them both colonially and economically. Question 4 Explain: The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Lincoln during the Civil War which permanently freed slaves from their masters to make them independent USA citizens. Question 5 Explain: The end of the Spanish-American War allowed the USA to gain Florida as a sate, Cuba as a territory, alongside the Pacific's Philippines, cementing the USA's new international age as a colonial power. This becomes significant as the USA enters more global conflicts later in its life. Question 6 Explain: The successful war effort allowed the USA to prosper due to the Treaty of Versailles. It ushered in the Roaring 20s, probably the second-greatest time to be alive in the 1900s if you were an American. The country also became one of the highest exporter of goods ever! Question 7 Explain: With the attack on Pearl Harbor came an extreme new sense of xenophobia against people of Japanese Descent, it could even be seen with the camps that the USA set up in their borders for Japanese-American Citizens. This kind of xenophobia holds up today as well, whether or not for the same reasons. Question 8 Explain: D-Day is commonly considered by historians as the greatest military achievement in human history...I mean, it's difficult to top this for sure. This allowed the USA to make that jump to a superpower that it would maintain until the end of the 1900s as a whole. Question 9 Explain: Given the USA won, and the 1950s loomed after. Under Eisenhower's presidency, the USA saw a period of great economic prosperity for quite a while with a large increase in jobs and alongside a lack of conflict which kept it all coming. Question 10 Explain: The bombings on Japan showed how terrifying these atomic bombs can be, which laid down the basis for M.A.D (Mutually Assured Destruction) between the USA and USSR. Something which remained for the entirety of the Cold War, and loosely remains even today as we speak. Question 11 Explain: The Korean War would spark a domino effect in the way the USA and USSR fought each other in the Cold War, particularly in the form of Proxy Wars (as seen with the Hungarian Uprising, Vietnam War, and in Afghanistan). Question 12 Explain: Due to the extreme failure of the invasion as a whole, the USA's current government looked weak. With Fidel Castro being heralded a hero in Cuba, the island nation drifted away from the USA and joined sides with the USSR, something the USA lives with to this day due to Cuba's communistic government. Question 13 Explain: When the war in Vietnam came to a hushing finish, Congress was quick to establish the War Powers Act, which would limit the power presidents had when going into wars like this to cause less deaths and damages. LBJ and Nixon showed why this act was a good idea, although it made Carter's time as President particularly difficult for him. Question 14 Explain: As shown not just in the war in Afghanistan but also through the Arab Spring, media became an enormous outlet for opinions and explanations to come out, showing a new era of absolute outrage towards wars such as this, which only damages lives. Question 15 Explain: The Iraq War of the 2000s was fought on the basis of 9/11, our Foreign Policy was greatly amended after the war to say that such wars should not occur again, and that neutrality really should be the first step. This is by far one of the biggest changes to occur in said policy in the last few decades.
