WWII - Pearl Harbor, US Enters War, Japanese Internment

Multiple Choice

Which action replaces the question mark on this cause-and-effect diagram?

• implements an embargo against Japan

• sends ground troops to fight the Chinese

• bans the sale of weapons to China

• appeases Japanese demands for new territory

Multiple Choice

What was one reason Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor?

• The U.S. strategy of island hopping had disturbed Pacific trade routes.

• The Japanese naval fleet had been defeated at the Battle of Midway.

• Japanese Americans had been relocated to internment camps.

• U.S. trade sanctions had caused shortages of oil, gas, and rubber.

Multiple Choice

Which event prompted the United States to enter World War II?

• The German annexation of Austria

• The Soviet occupation of Germany

• The landing of Allied soldiers on Normandy Beach

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Multiple Choice

What best describes an internment camp?

• Japanese Americans relocated to controlled camps

• Jews were relocated and executed

• Allied Forces captured POWs and kept them in labor camps

• Nazi capture and imprisonment of political dissidents

Multiple Choice

In this excerpt, President Bill Clinton is apologizing for -

• the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

• the verdict of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial

• the internment of Japanese Americans

• the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee