WWII and Cold War

What was the United States foreign policy before World War II?

• direct involvement

• aid to Axis Powers

• supported Japan

• isolationism

In the World War II poster, what did Rosie the Riveter

symbolize to Americans?

• American women who were placed in internment camps

• American women who fought for the right to vote

• American women who were opposed to the war

• American women who took jobs in defense plants

What did the Lend-Lease program do? 

• Sent weapons to the Axis Powers in hopes we wouldn't be attacked by them
• Sent weapons to the Allied Powers to help them fight the Axis
• Sent troops and supplies to the Allies for the war effort
• Sent troops and supplies to the Axis powers for the war effort

What was the Manhattan Project?

• Testing and creation of the Atomic Bomb
• preparing the borough of Manhattan for nuclear safety
• secret plan to create spies in the war effort 
• Operation to create secret airplanes for the war effort 

Executive Order 9066 relocated what ethnic group b/c Americans feared they would help the Axis Powers?

• Japanese
• Germans
• Italians
• Jews

What were the Tuskegee Airmen known for?

• escorting bombers over Europe
• bombing Tokyo after Pearl Harbor
• Volunteering to fight in China
• bombing the beaches on D-Day

Why did the U.S. military use the Navajo language?

• difficult to decode
• easiest language to learn
• Japanese used it as code so we needed it translated
• Easy to teach to U.S. communication personnel

Two superpowers that emerged after World War II

• Soviet Union and Germany
• United States and Germany
• Soviet Union and China
• United States and Soviet Union 

Peace organization that was formed after World War II

• League of Nations
• Warsaw Pact
• United Nations
• Atlantic Charter

In December of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that the United States had declared war on Japan. The event that led to this decision was Japan's:

• Bombing of Pearl Harbor
• Bombing of England
• Bombing of Normandy
• Bombing of London