EDUC 672-D02
Benchmark Assessment
Assignment
Liberty University: School of
Education
EDUC 672-D02: Curriculum
Development
Introductio
n
The following assessment is set for an 11th grade U.S. History classroom in the state of
Oklahoma. There are 50 questions in total with each question worth 2 points. All questions will
be in a multiple choice format. This test will be taken at the end of the 4th nine weeks of the 1st
semester and will cover the areas of USH 6.1 (Introduction to the origins of international
alliances and efforts at containment of Communism following World War II), USH 6.2
(Describe domestic events related to the Cold War and its aftermath.), and USH 6.3 (Analyze
the series of events and long term foreign and domestic consequences of the United States’
military involvement in Vietnam including the Domino Theory, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
the Tet Offensive, the presidential election of 1968, university student protest led by the
counterculture movement, expanded television coverage of the war, the War Powers Resolution
Act, and the 26 Amendment).
th
1) The principal goal of the United Nations has been to?
a. Develop military alliances around the world.
b. Encourage expansion of international trade.
c. Promote peaceful solutions to world problems.
d. Regulate the use of atomic energy.
,2) The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Origanization (NATO) illustrates a commitment
to the concept of?
a. Colonialism
b. Isolationism
c. Mutual Defense
d. Human Rights
3) United States foreign policy changed following World War II as the United States?
a. Became more involved in world affairs.
b. Returned to a policy of isolation.
c. Rejected membership in the United Nations.
d. Pursed a policy of appeasement toward the Soviet Union.
4) After World War II, the United States was better able than its allies to adjust its economy
from wartime to peacetime because the United States?
a. Possessed nuclear weapons.
b. Raised tariffs on imports.
c. Had collected its war debts from the Allies.
d. Had suffered no widespread wartime destruction.
5) During the Cold War Era, the easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet
Union resulted in?
a. The organization of the Warsaw Pact.
b. The invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia
c. The Berlin Airlift
d. A treaty banned nuclear tests
, 6) The Soviet Union’s equivalent to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was?
a. The United Nations
b. Nuclear weapons
c. A blockade of Berlin
d. The Warsaw Pact
7) After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold
War, which could be best described as?
a. Direct military engagement.
b. Peaceful co-existence.
c. Socialism in one country.
d. Engagement through proxy states and ideological struggle.
8) Political policies or principles that seek to represent the interest of ordinary people can
best be described as?
a. Fascism
b. Nazism
c. Democracy
d. Populism
9) was the name of the Soviet Unions first space satellite?
a. Yuri Gagarin
b. Stalinik
c. Sputnik
d. Valentina Tereshkova
Benchmark Assessment
Assignment
Liberty University: School of
Education
EDUC 672-D02: Curriculum
Development
Introductio
n
The following assessment is set for an 11th grade U.S. History classroom in the state of
Oklahoma. There are 50 questions in total with each question worth 2 points. All questions will
be in a multiple choice format. This test will be taken at the end of the 4th nine weeks of the 1st
semester and will cover the areas of USH 6.1 (Introduction to the origins of international
alliances and efforts at containment of Communism following World War II), USH 6.2
(Describe domestic events related to the Cold War and its aftermath.), and USH 6.3 (Analyze
the series of events and long term foreign and domestic consequences of the United States’
military involvement in Vietnam including the Domino Theory, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
the Tet Offensive, the presidential election of 1968, university student protest led by the
counterculture movement, expanded television coverage of the war, the War Powers Resolution
Act, and the 26 Amendment).
th
1) The principal goal of the United Nations has been to?
a. Develop military alliances around the world.
b. Encourage expansion of international trade.
c. Promote peaceful solutions to world problems.
d. Regulate the use of atomic energy.
,2) The creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Origanization (NATO) illustrates a commitment
to the concept of?
a. Colonialism
b. Isolationism
c. Mutual Defense
d. Human Rights
3) United States foreign policy changed following World War II as the United States?
a. Became more involved in world affairs.
b. Returned to a policy of isolation.
c. Rejected membership in the United Nations.
d. Pursed a policy of appeasement toward the Soviet Union.
4) After World War II, the United States was better able than its allies to adjust its economy
from wartime to peacetime because the United States?
a. Possessed nuclear weapons.
b. Raised tariffs on imports.
c. Had collected its war debts from the Allies.
d. Had suffered no widespread wartime destruction.
5) During the Cold War Era, the easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet
Union resulted in?
a. The organization of the Warsaw Pact.
b. The invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia
c. The Berlin Airlift
d. A treaty banned nuclear tests
, 6) The Soviet Union’s equivalent to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was?
a. The United Nations
b. Nuclear weapons
c. A blockade of Berlin
d. The Warsaw Pact
7) After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold
War, which could be best described as?
a. Direct military engagement.
b. Peaceful co-existence.
c. Socialism in one country.
d. Engagement through proxy states and ideological struggle.
8) Political policies or principles that seek to represent the interest of ordinary people can
best be described as?
a. Fascism
b. Nazism
c. Democracy
d. Populism
9) was the name of the Soviet Unions first space satellite?
a. Yuri Gagarin
b. Stalinik
c. Sputnik
d. Valentina Tereshkova
