WWII EOC Review

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 fleet jhad 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

Which action prompted the United States to officially enter World War II?

• The German use of blitzkrieg tactics in Europe
• Japanese military actions in Indochina
• German submarine attacks on U.S. merchant ships
• The Japanese bombing of a U.S. military base

This 1944 poster was produced most likely in response to the -

• growing demand for equal pay for equal work
• growing demand for personnel to support the war effort
• lack of women with the skills necessary to join the labor force
• lack of women able to serve in combat

The government issued ration books during World War II in order to -

• provide financial security for uninsured citizens
• safeguard the profits of struggling businesses
• ensure the fair distribution of scarce goods
• allow consumers to buy imported goods at discounted rates

The skill and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen served to -

• give the United States an advantage in military encryption
• decrease opposition to integrating the armed forces
• encourage immigrant enlistment in the U.S. army during World War II
• increase the number of women joining the U.S. military during World War II

This World War II poster publicizes a national campaign aimed at -

• creating agricultural projects to relieve an economic depression
• encouraging a healthy diet for soldiers
• lowering the cost of living by creating a surplus of food
• supporting the war effort by reducing the demand for commercially grown food

This photograph best illustrates the need in 1943 to -

• Maintain the country's military and industrial production levels
• increase the regulatory power of the War Production Board
• outlaw closed-shop and collective-bargaining practices by labor unions
• increase federal funding for the Manhattan Project

The rights of citizens under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution were violated by the U.S. Government when it authorized the establishment of -

• internment camps for Japanese Americans
• the Office of War Mobilization
• nuclear test sites in Nevada
• the Office of Price Administration

"JAPANESE FORCES OCCUPY BATAAN PENINSULA"
Many of the U.S. soldiers involved in the event mentioned in this headline -

• remained in trenches and resisted the Japanese invasion
• were exchanged for Japanese prisoners of war
• escaped and were redeployed to the European theater
• died during a forced march to a prison camp in the Phillipines

"ATOMIC BOMBS DROPPED ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI"
What was the main effect of the event reported in this headline?

• The Soviet Union invaded Japan to gain access to natural resources
• The United States initiated the Marshall Plan to help with the rebuilding of Japan
• Germany surrendered to the Allies and promised to help in the fight against Japan
• World War II ended with Japan surrendering to the Allies