Post World War 2 US

In the 1930s, Congress attempted to avoid the situations that led to United States involvement in World War I by

• enacting a peacetime draft law

• passing a series of neutrality acts

• authorizing the deportation of American Communist Party members

• relocating Japanese Americans to internment camps

Prior to the start of World War II, Great Britain and France followed a policy of appeasement when they

• rejected an alliance with the Soviet Union

• allowed Germany to expand its territory

• signed the agreements at the Yalta Conference

• opposed United States efforts to rearm

Which action is an example of international appeasement?

• Congress authorizing the Manhattan Project

• Japan attacking Pearl A Harbor

• Germany signing a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union

• Great Britain and France agreeing to Hitler’s demand for part of Czechoslovakia

This image relates to what WW2 event?

• The Manhattan Project

• Pearl Harbor

• D - Day invasion of Europe

• Hitler gaining power

A. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

B. Germany invades Poland.

C. MacArthur dictates a democratic constitution to Japan.

D. Allies invade Europe on D-Day.

Which sequence of these events related to World War II is in the correct chronological order?

• D→B→A→C

• B→A→D→C

• C→A→B→D

• A→B→C→D

During World War II, Japanese Americans were sent to internment centers primarily because they

• were considered illegal aliens

• had been convicted of spying for Japan

• were thought to be threats to national security

• refused to enlist in the United States military

The decision of the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944) upheld the power of the president during wartime to

• ban terrorists from entering the country

• limit a group’s civil liberties

• stop mistreatment of resident legal aliens

• deport persons who work for enemy nations

What was a primary goal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin when they met at the Yalta Conference in 1945?

• setting up postwar aid for Great Britain

• settling major wartime issues of the Allied powers

• sharing the development of atomic weapons

• protecting the colonial empires of the warring nations

The major reason for President Harry Truman’s decision to use atomic bombs against Japan was the

• potential loss of American lives from invading Japan

• need to defeat Japan before defeating Germany

• plan to bring democratic government to Japan after the war

• failure of the island-hopping campaign against Japan

What was the reason for the trials mentioned in this newspaper article?

• bring Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo to justice

• force Japan to pay for the attack on Pearl Harbor

• make German leaders accountable for the Holocaust

• punish the German government for bombing England