Before reunification in 1990, Germany was divided by this structure into East and West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
Diary entries, letters, artifacts, and paintings are all examples of this type of source.
What is a primary source?
100
This French term, meaning "leave it alone", describes the 19th century U.S. economic policy of non-interference in business.
What is laissez-faire?
100
World War II; Germany
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
This type of question can earn up to 4 points based on focus, organization, sound logic, and relevance.
What is an Extended-Response question?
200
This political action group formed to help reduce gender discrimination.
What is the National Organization for Women (NOW)?
200
Newspaper articles, commentaries, and history books are examples of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
200
An agreement by the governed on a set of rules by which they are governed. Written about by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
What is a social contract?
200
World War I; Russia (before abdicating the throne in 1917)
Who is Nicholas II?
200
This type of question has four possible answers.
What is a Multiple-Choice question?
300
These laws counted African Americans as only three-fifths of a person for the purpose of Congressional representation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
300
A commonly held, generalized belief about social groups or types of people
What is a stereotype?
300
The man-made channel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, started by the French and completed by the United States under Teddy Roosevelt
What is the Panama Canal?
300
World War II; Soviet Union
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
These questions can earn up to 2 points and require only a few sentences.
What are Short-Answer questions?
400
McDonald's in Japan, French films being shown in Minneapolis, and foreign cars built in America are all examples of this movement of people and capital.
What is globalization?
400
The main idea of an argument, often written as a sentence in the first paragraph of an essay
What is a thesis?
400
The name for payments made by Germany to the Allied nations for all "loss and damages" suffered during World War I.
What are reparations?
400
World War II; United States (before Germany surrendered)
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
400
The OGT asks questions based on what you should know and be able to do by this grade level.
What is the tenth grade?
500
The genocide of 850,000 people in this country involved clashes between rival ethnic groups, the Tutsis and Hutus.
What is Rwanda?
500
The inability to make a neutral judgment
What is bias?
500
This plan was created by the United States government to assist European countries recover after World War II (it was rejected by the Soviets).
What is the Marshall Plan?
500
World War I; German Empire
Who is Wilhelm II (William II)?
500
The amount of time you will have to take the OGT Social Studies test