US History QUIZ Topic 6 Review

What was the ultimate result of the situation President Roosevelt refers to in this excerpt?

• A surge of social unrest in South America

• A shift in favor of policy of Appeasement

• The overthrow of the monarchy in Russia

• The outbreak of World War II

President Roosevelt later used similar reasoning as one justification for-

• The implementation of the Marshall Plan

• US involvement in World War II

• Dropping atomic bombs on Japan

• A. US participation in the League of Nations

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

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 fo Midway.
• Japanese Americans had been relocated to internment camps.
• U.S. trade sanctions had caused shortages of oil, gas, and rubber.

Many of the U.S. soldiers involved in the event mentioned in this headline -

• remained in trenches and resisted Japanese invasion

• were exchanged for Japanese prisoners of war

• escaped and were redeployed in the European theater of war

• died during a forced march to a prison camp in the Philippines

The U.S. Army distributed posters like this one with the goal of encouraging-

• The sale of war bonds
• Young men to voluntarily enlist
• The creation of a selective service
• Young men to return to school

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

Why did the United States seize Pacific islands during World War II?

• To gain access to vital natural resources
• To fulfill commitments to military alliances
• To protect shipping routes for neutral countries
• To establish military bases for use in further attacks

The skill and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen served to --

• give the US an advantage in military encryption
• encourage immigrant enlistment in the US Army during WWII
• decrease opposition to integrating the armed forces
• increase the number of women joining the US military during WWII