World War II: Paciffic Front

World War II: Pacific Front

Review Questions from Previous Topics

Multiple Choice

What role did "Rosie the Riveter" play during World War II?

• To persuade women to be as strong as men
• To make women looked after their families during WWII.
• To encourage women to enter the workforce
• To persuade women to fight for equal pay

Multiple Choice

Why did Americans buy war bonds during World War II?

• To avoid paying taxes.

• To donate part of their wages to the military

• To finance public works projects.

• To lend the government money to pay for the war.

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose for rationing by the Office of Price Administration?

• to ensure schools did not run out of supplies
• to ensure that children did not use too many products
• to ensure enough products were available for military use
• to ensure elderly citizens had enough goods

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the "cash and carry" policy adopted by the US government in 1939?

• to preserve US neutrality
• to gain access to new trade markets
• to spread democracy around the world
• to punish aggressor nations

Multiple Choice

Korematsu vs United States, why did the Supreme Court decide internment was constitutional?

• strong evidence of Japanese sabotage on the West Coast
• Many Japanese Americans refused to serve in the armed forces
• This type of action was necessary during national emergency
• Most Japanese Americans were not United States citizens

Multiple Choice

Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt, authorized which of the following actions?

• deployment of US military forces to the Pacific theater
• conscription of adult male citizens into the armed forces
• creation of the Manhattan Project, first US nuclear weapon
• forced internment of US citizens of Japanes, Italian, and German ancestry.

Multiple Choice

Why was the D-Day invasion in June 1944 important to the outcome of World War II?    

• It stopped Soviet advances in Eastern Europe.
• It forced Italy to surrender
• It opened a new Allied front in Europe.
• It avoided the use of atomic weapons.

Multiple Choice

The Battle of __?__ was a 1942 battle in the Pacific during which American planes sunk four Japanese aircraft carriers.

• Bulge
• Midway
• Britain
• Normandy

Multiple Choice

The military strategy practice by Americans against the Japanese was called

• puddle-jumping

• island-hopping

• Operation strikeback

• Island campaign

Multiple Choice

Which country used kamikaze attacks during WWII?

• Germany
• United States
• Japan
• Soviet Union

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the secret project in the United States to develop an atomic bomb? 

• The New York Project
• The Manhattan Project
• The Nuclear Project 
• The Atom Splitting Project

Multiple Choice

Why did the United States decide to drop the bomb rather than invade Japan with soldiers?

• wanted to see if the bomb worked
•  did not think they could defeat the Japanese
• did not have the soldiers or weapons left to attack Japan
• They estimated that 500,000 to 1 million Allied soldiers would die in an invasion

Multiple Choice

The scientists were scared of the damage the bomb created

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

What president made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in World War II?      

• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman
• John F. Kennedy