WWII Test Review

What event led to a decisive shift away from isolationism in the United States?

• the Battle of Britain

• the discovery of Auschwitz

• the sinking of American ships by German submarines

• the attack on Pearl Harbor

The Allied D-day invasion of Europe was

• last battle of the war in Europe

• Japan’s destruction of the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor

• Germany’s mass murder of Jews and other “inferior people” across Europe.

• a massive air and sea attack on German-occupied France

Newspapers in the US reported Nazi atrocities towards Jews as early as 1942. Which response best describes the reaction of the general public to these reports

• Suggestions for covert operations against concentration camps

• Support for economic sanctions against Germany

• Demand for immediate military action in Europe

• Denial that such reports could be true

An important effect of World War II on US foreign policy was a

• refusal to become involved in world affairs.

• stronger commitment to collective security and world leadership

• smaller role for the President in foreign policy and national security issues

• willingness to intervene only when the national economy is involved

Which trend in United States foreign policy is shown by the passage of the Lend-Lease Act

• withdrawal from overseas colonies

• increase in support for the Allied powers

• expansion of trade with the Axis powers

• reduction in war preparedness

What was a major reason for wartime rationing?

• restricting lower-priced food imports

• ensuring that troops were adequately supplied

• providing jobs for the unemployed

• preventing currency deflation

Reduction of the loss of American lives in the Pacific was a primary consideration in

• relocation of Japanese-Americans to internment camps

• Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb

• rationing food and critical materials on the home front

• forming the United Nations.

The objective of the Manhattan Project was to develop

• the atomic bomb.

• synthetic rubber

• a system of coastal defenses.

• new Naval weapons to be used in WWII

What was rationing? 

• growing a garden to help with food supplies in your backyard
• donating money to the government to help in the war effort
• a practice of limiting the amount of food or resources people could buy
• used to show support of the war effort (usually posters or movies) 

During World War II, the Japanese word kamikaze referred to

• atomic fallout.

• ritual disembowelment

• the lightning speed with which Japanese armies swept through Southeast Asia

• a suicide mission in which a Japanese pilot purposely crashed his plane into an enemy ship