WWII Test Review

How did the U.S. government deal with the media/press during WWII?

• The avoided confrontation

• US government censored and put limits on what the media/press reported back home

• The blocked media

• The media was discontinued

What was the decision in Korematsu v. United States?

• It was a political case about racial equality

• It allowed Japanese Americans for citizenship

• US was justified in sending Japanese Americans to Interment Camps

• Closed on the end of the war

What two cities were destroyed by the atomic bomb?

• Europe and Russia

• Nagasaki and Hiroshima

• Geneva & Hawaii

• Germany and Europe

Why did President Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb?

• To save American lives & end the war quickly

• To kill Hitler & the arrest the Nazi solider

• To Promote War and gain US support

• It was a quicker attack on Hitler

What was the Geneva Convention?

• Established the Review of Japanese Americans

• Established how prisoners of war should be treated.

• Established how leaders should help prisoners of war

• Established a law to overlook prisoners of war

What was the Holocaust?

• It was ran by Hitler

• A Military tactic to scare Jews

• Systematic extermination (genocide) of Jews and other “undesirables”

• War

What were the Nuremberg Trials and what principle did they establish?

• Tried Nazi leaders and soldiers of war crimes/ Established the principle of taking responsibility for ones actions.

• Established how soldiers of war should be compensated after the war

• Established the law and how people should be held responsible

• Nazi leaders and solider were freed of war crime

What nation was founded for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust?

• Israel

• Egypt

• Africa

• Russia

World War II began in 1939 when ---

• Japan bombed Peal Harbor

• France armed its military

• Hitler invaded Poland

• Stalin came to power in the USSR

• US passed the Lend-Lease Act

During the first two years of World War II, the United States --

• remained officially neutral

• invaded the Soviet Union (USSR)

• officially joined the Axis Powers

• started submarine warfare against Germany

• declared support for Italy and Germany