2nd Period WWII (EOC)

In this excerpt, President Clinton is apologizing for --

• the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

• the verdict of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial

• the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee

• the internment of Japanese Americans

The event reported in this dispatch led directly to--

• the implementation of sanctions against Japan

• U.S. entry into World War II

• the establishment of the Truman Doctrine

• U.S. annexation of Hawaii

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

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

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.

How did President Harry S. Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb affect international relations?

• It initiated the arms race with the Soviet Union

• It prompted other nations to begin investigations of war crimes

• It enabled the United Nations to administer territory in Japan

• It led to the establishment of the first global peacekeeping force.

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 surrounding to the Allies and promised to help in the fight against Japan.

• World War II ended with Japan surrendering to the Allies.

The right of citizens under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution were violated by the U.S. government with 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

This diagram indicates that during World War II the federal government --

• developed a new technological training for soldiers on the battlefield

• provided technological training for soldiers on the battlefield

• instituted a disaster-preparedness program for the civilian population

• nationalized industries considered essential to national security

The Twenty-second Amendment was passed in response to which event?

• The election of Franklin D Roosevelt to a 4th presidential term

• Herbert Hoover's reelection defeat

• Bill Clinton's impeachment trial

• The resignation of Richard Nixon after Watergate