WWII Test Review

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the American fleet at ________________

• San Diego, California

• New York, New York

• Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

• Kansas City, Missouri

The Prime Minister of Great Britain who led them through the worst years of World War II

• Douglas McCarthy

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Winston Churchill

• Dwight Eisenhower

The Allied invasion of France to fight the Germans on June 6, 1944 was called

• D-Day

• Operation Overlord

• Battle of the Bulge

• Battle for France

The American government forced thousands of Japanese-Americans into ________ because Americans did not trust them.

• prison

• internment camps

• concentration camps

• Iowa

Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill are leaders of the

• Allied powers

• Axis powers

Germany, Italy, Japan were the

• allied powers

• axis powers

Where did the largest land-sea-air invasion in world history take place? 

• Hiroshima, Japan
• Normandy, France
• Nagasaki, Japan
• Berlin, Germany 

At first, European leaders gave into Hitler's demands using what type of policy? 

• aggression
• advancement 
• internment 
• appeasement 

What US policy allowed the sale, loan, or lease of war materials to any country whose defense was necessary for US security?

• Lend-Lease Act

• Neutrality Act

• Cash and Carry

• Borrow and Pay

Which of the following best describes the purpose of the Japanese kamikazes?

• they were one-man submarines that attacked at Pearl Harbor

• they were guerilla fighters who hid in caves on the Pacific islands

• they were suicide pilots who deliberately targeted American ships

• they were guards at prisoner-of-war camps operated by the Japanese