Ch. 13 World War II

Edward R. Murrow's live radio broadcasts described

• the attack on Pearl Hrbor
• the Battle of Britain 
• D-Day
• the sitzkrieg 

Which policy was espoused by both liberals and conservatives in the United States before World War II?

• isolationism 
• pacifism 
• militarism
• communism

Which of the following was an essential component of fascism?

• liberty and justice
• anarchy
• individualism 
• nationalism

Which of the following is true about the role American women played during WWII?

• For the first time, American women were allowed to take part in combat
• American women took the lead in organizing the Manhattan Project
• To keep up with the demand for war supplies, millions of American women took industrial jobs that had never been offered to them before
• By the end of the war, two out of three general in the U.S. Army were women

Which of the following policies did isolationists favor?

• appeasement 
• combat roles for women
• isolating Japan in Manchuria 
• isolating Hitler in the Sudetenland 

Why was the United States unwilling to let Japan expand into Southeast Asia?

• democracies flourished there
• the area contained valuable natural resources 
• Japan was considered too popular in that part of the world
• Japan was a racist nation

People who did not believe in using military force for any reason were known as

• isolationists
• Communists
• pacifists
• fascists 

In 1939 what caused the prime minister of Great Britain to question the success of his policy of appeasement?

• Hitler attacked Norway and Denmark
• The fall of Poland suggested that Hitler would continue to attack neighboring nations
• A French resistance movement was well organized by the end of the year
• German U-boats sank the USS Kearny and the USS Reuben James

The top-secret program to build an atomic bomb was called the 

• Oppenheimer Project
• Manhattan Project
• Bracero Program
• Operation Liberty

Which event led to Germany's control over France?

• The French were overwhelmed by the German Maginot Line
• France had stationed too many forces in Poland
• French forces did not expect the Germans to attack through the Ardennes Forest
• For nearly a year Germany bombed Paris from the air