WWII Exam 2019-20

This event triggered the United States into entering WWII.

• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

• Soviet Union occupies Germany

• Germany annexes Austria

• Japan defeats China

What is a good definition of the Holocaust?

• the Allied plan to liberate concentration camps in Eastern Europe

• the Japanese military strategy to destroy U.S. aircraft carriers

• the Nazi campaign to use genocide to eliminate European Jews

• the U.S. plan to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps

What was the effect of this dispatch?

• U.S. entry into World War II

• the establishment of the Truman Doctrine

• the implementation of sanctions against Japan

• U.S. annexation of Hawaii

What did this national campaign attempt to do?

• encouraging a healthy diet for future soldiers

• lowering the cost of living by creating a surplus of food

• supporting the war effort by reducing demand for commercially grown food

• force people to buy American

What is General Eisenhower reacting to in this excerpt?

• the Bataan Death March

• Japanese American internment camps

• Nazi concentration camps

• the bombing of Hiroshima

What action officially prompted the US to enter WWII?

• the Japanese bombing of a U.S. military base

• the Japanese occupation of China

• Germany's attack of Pearl Harbor

• the German use of blitzkrieg tactics in Europe

What important contributions did the Navajo soldiers provide during WWII?

• encoding military communications for secure transmission

• flying bombing missions

• developing a new form of warfare

• providing intelligence on enemy positions

Why did the government issue ration books during WWII?

• to be able to track the movement of Japanese Americans

• to ensure the fair distribution of scarce goods

• to allow consumers to buy imported goods

• to provide financial security to the elderly

In this photograph we see the need in 1943 for what?

• outlaw close-shop and collective-bargaining practices by labor unions

• increase federal funding for aviation

• maintain the country’s military and industrial production levels

• pass an amendment to protect women from discrimination

What was the purpose for this order by the NWLB?

• to prevent unions from discriminating against unskilled workers during the war

• to double the output of equipment needed to support U.S. troops overseas

• to ensure fair treatment for women in the workplace during the war

• to weaken the “Rosie the Riveter” image for women working on the home front