WWII REVIEW

Aerial battle fought over England. 

• Blitzkrieg
• Battle of the Bulge
• Stalingrad
• Battle of Britain

U.S. isolationism was ended when?

• German Invasion of Poland
• Pearl Harbor was attacked
• Battle of Iwo Jima
• Sinking of the USS Maine 

The genocide of approximately 6 million Jews

• Holocaust
• Kristallnach
• Anti-semitism
• Nuremberg Laws

Which of the following statements best summarizes the Supreme Court’s ruling in Korematsu v. US?

• The US Constitution cannot be used to check the power of the military in a time of war  
• Segregation in the military is unconstitutional  
• While Japanese citizens can be sent to internment camps, US citizens of Japanese ancestry cannot 
• Any person of Japanese ancestry is considered a national security risk and is subject to internment  

To keep America focused on the war effort ____________________ was used extensively on the home front.

• propaganda
• intimidation
• spot checking citizens to make sure they were following the rules
• a curfew

What did the US do to try and make Japan stop attacking China?

• bombed them
• cut off supplies of food
• cut off supplies of iron, steel, and oil
• nothing

To pay for the War the federal government sold? 

• Stocks 
• War bonds 
• Land 
• Silver/Gold 

Regulating the amount of goods a consumer can obtain in order to ensure the fair distribution of scarce goods

• Office of War Information

• Bataan Death March

• rationing

• war bonds

Home project raising about one third of the nation’s vegetables during World War II

Helped reduce demand for commercially grown food

• anti-Semitism

• carpet bombing

• rationing

• victory gardens

-Commanded the invasion of Normandy known as D-Day

-Led the Allied forces in Europe

-Later was elected President of the United States

• Douglas MacArthur

• Vernon Baker

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Harry Truman