US History EOC Review

WWII

1) In the 1930s, Congress attempted to avoid the situations that led to United States involvement in World War I by

a) enacting a peacetime draft lawb) passing a series of neutrality actsc) authorizing the deportation of

American Communist Party members

d) relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps

2) What was one result of World War II?

a) the arms race endedb) the Cold War endedc) communism was eliminatedd) the Cold War Begins

3) Which term BEST describes the diplomacy followed by some European nations in their relations with Germany, Italy, and Japan between 1931 and 1939?

a) Appeasementb) non-aggressionc) Isolationismd) containment

4) At the beginning of World War II, national debate focused on whether the United States should continue the Foreign policy

a) coexistenceb) containmentc) imperialismd) isolationism

5) Which statement BEST explains the rise of totalitarianism governments in Europe during the 1930s?

a) Many European nations were desperate for help in recovering from the depression and saw leaders like Hitler and Mussolini as their answer

b) There was no United Nations to prevent a Communist takeover and as a result Joseph Stalin and his Soviet regime came to dominate the region

c) The philosophy of fascism was sure to spread across war-ravaged Europe due to the heavy infusion of jingoism in the post-Cold War era

d) Some people demonized democracy because the United States was prospering in the 1930s while every other country was languishing

6) In the cartoon, most of the “diseases” refer to thea) Military dictatorships of the 1930sb) Allied powers of World War IIc) Nations banned from the United Nations

after World War IId) Communist bloc countries in the Cold war

7) Between 1934 and 1937, Congress passed a series of neutrality acts that were designed primarily to

a) strengthen the nation’s military defenses

b) provide aid to other democratic nations

c) create jobs for unemployed American workers

d) avoid mistakes that had led to American involvement in World War I

8) What was the intention of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Lend Lease proposal?

a) To give aid to German minorities stuck behind enemy lines without officially entering the war

b) To forgive the World War I debts of Great Britain, Russia, and France and help the allies without officially entering the war

c) To allow United States companies no right to sell supplies to any Allied country without officially entering the war

d) To provide supplies for the Allies to use against the Germans without officially entering the war

 9) The policy of Cash and Carry, the Destroyers for Naval Bases Deal, and the Lend-Lease Act were all designed to

a)contribute to the success of the Axis powers

b)relieve unemployment caused by the Great Depression

c)aid the Allies without involving the United States in war

d)guarantee a third term to President Franklin D. Roosevelt

10) In the 1944 case Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that wartime conditions justified the

a)use of women in military combatb)ban against strikes by workersc)limitations placed on civil libertiesd)reduction in the powers of the

president

11) This telegram was sent as a response to

a) start of World War IIb) attack on Pearl

Harborc) passage of a law

to ban Japanese immigration

d) drafting of Japanese Americans into the military

12) Which factor contributed to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II?

a) labor shortages during the warb) influence of racial prejudicec) increased terrorist activities on the

West Coastd) fear of loss of jobs to Japanese

workers

13) During World War II, many women experienced a change in role in that they

a) served in military combat positionsb) worked in jobs formerly held by menc) controlled most corporations d) chaired several congressional

committees

14) The use of this card, issued by the federal government, was intended to

a) help the automobile industryb) support the troops in wartimec) increase the use of gasolined) decrease the cost of automobiles

 15) During World War II, the federal government used rationing to

a) hold down prices of military weaponsb) increase educational benefits for

veteransc) increase imports of scarce productsd) provide more resources for the war

effort

16) To help pay for World War II, the United States government relied heavily on the

a) money borrowed from foreign governments

b) sale of war bondsc) sale of United States manufactured

goods to neutral nationsd) printing of additional paper money

 17) Why did President Truman decide to use the atomic bomb near the end of WWII? a) The Japanese Empire had to be taken

out of the war in order for the Allies to defeat Nazi Germany

b) Truman wanted to save the lives of US soldiers who would have to invade mainland Japan

c) The decision was an attempt to show US military strength to communist China

d) Truman believed that the Allies could not defeat Japan otherwise.

18) Which advertising campaign represents the expanding role of women in the workplace during World War II?

a) “Loose Lips Sink Ships”b) “The Harvest is Plentiful”c) “Rosie the Riveter”d) “Sweetless, Meatless, Wheatless Days”

19) Shortly after entering World War II, the United States began the Manhattan Project to

a) work on the development of an atomic bomb

b) increase economic production to meet wartime demands

c) defend New York City against a nuclear attack

d) recruit men for the military services

20) Convictions of war criminals by courts at Tokyo and Nuremberg following World War II showed that

a)the United Nations did not accepted responsibility for international peacekeeping

b)the League of Nations could successfully enforce international law

c)government officials and military leaders could be held accountable for their actions

d)nations that start wars would be forced to rebuild war-torn nations

21) What Alliance did Italy, Germany and Japan belong to?

a. Axisb. Alliedc. Rome-Berlin packd. Central Powers

21) Which description does not describe Adolf Hitler?a. Nazib. Military expansionistc. Supporter of the treaty of Versaillesd. Wrote Mein Kampf

23) What day did President Roosevelt say would go down in infamy? a. Dec 7, 1940 b. Dec 11, 1940 c. Dec 7, 1941 d. Dec 11, 1941

24) Why did the Japanese Attack the United States?

a) They wanted to dominate Asiab) They wanted to rid themselves of the

embargoc) They wanted to cripple the American

Navyd) All of the above

27) What is Genocide, as practiced by the Nazis?

a) The Broadcasting of anti-Semitic ideasb) The abuse of a nation’s people by their

Gov’tc) The deliberate extermination of a

specific group of peopled) All of the above

26) Why did Germany resent the Treaty of Versailles?

a) They had to repay 32 Billion in war reparations

b) They had to reduce their militaryc) Germany wanted to reclaim lost land d) All of the above

27) What event caused the official American declaration of war and entrance into WWII?

a) German U-boats firing on American merchant ships carrying arms across ocean

b) Japanese kamikaze pilots bombed U.S. islands in Pacific Indochina

c) Germany’s 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union

d) Japan’s peacetime attack on the main U.S. Naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii

28) World War II began with the invasion of?

a) Ethiopiab) Russiac) Britaind) Poland

29) Which of the following is a result because of the other three?

a) Six million Jews died in Nazi death camps

b) The Nazis masterminded the Final Solution

c) The Nuremberg trial were heldd) Jews were forced to were yellow stars

30) Who were the major targets of the “final solution”?

a) Mr. Rimmer’s Students who failed his class

b) Jews, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, the disabled, the terminally ill

c) U.S. and other Allied soldiers who were fighting on the European front

d) German citizens who would not cooperate with Nazi Party politics