World War II Question

The Neutrality Acts (1936-1939) held that the United States

• would stay out of World War I.

• would try to prevent a war in Europe.

• would stay out of European discussions to contain Hitler.

• would not sell war material nor give loans to any nation at war.

The Lend-Lease Act was an attempt by the United States to

• stay out of World War I.

• supply iron and oil to Japan.

• divide land acquired from the Mexican War.

• let England borrow weapons in the early 1940s.

The United States became directly involved in World War II following

• Germany's attack on Britain.

• the German invasion of Poland.

• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

• the sinking of the Lusitania.

Franklin Roosevelt's policies of "Cash and Carry" and "Lend-Lease"

• resulted in the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939.

• were designed to supply Great Britain and other Allied nations with war materiel.

• prevented Congress from entangling the Country in the ongoing conflict in Europe.

• were designed to aid the unemployed during the latter years of the Great Depression.

The "Manhattan Project" was the code name for the

• U.S. plan to invade Japan.

• German use of jet aircraft.

• Allied plan to invade Europe.

• U.S. plans to make an atomic bomb.

The Battle of Midway was significant in World War II because it was

• the Japanese assault on China.

• the German advance into France.

• turning point in the war in the Pacific.

• the German bombing of British population centers.

President Truman decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan in 1945 because

• it was the last hope the U.S. had of winning the war.

• he believed it would convince Hitler to surrender.

• Congress would not fund an invasion of the Japanese mainland.

• it would prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths that an invasion of Japan would cause.

The Allied amphibious assault on German-occupied France in June of 1944 is known as

• Operation Market Garden.

• VJ Day.

• Operation Barbarossa.

• D-Day.

While World War II raged outside of the United States, attempts were made in the U.S. to support the war effort by

• rationing consumer goods such as food and gas.

• decreasing taxes to encourage civilian consumption.

• people giving up their homes to house soldiers stationed in that area.

• relocating persons of Italian-American descent living on the east coast.

Most of the people in the internment camps in the United States during World War II were

• German-Americans

• Japanese-Americans.

• African-Americans.

• Italian-Americans.