WWII Review

Which action prompted the United States to officially enter World War II?

• The German use of Blitzkrieg tactics in Europe.

• Japanese military actions in Indochina.

• German submarine attacks on U.S. merchant ships.

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

What was one reason Japan attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor?

• The U.S. strategy of island hopping had disturbed Pacific trade routes.

• The Japanese naval fleet had been defeated at the Battle of Midway.

• Japanese Americans had been relocated to internment camps.

• U.S. trade sanctions had caused shortages of oil, gas, and rubber.

• provided technological training for soldiers on the battlefield.

• developed a new weapon designed to gain a strategic advantage over enemies.

• instituted a disaster-preparedness program for civilian population.

• nationalized industries considered essential to national security.

The government issued ration books during World War II in order to ----

• Provide financial security for uninsured citizens.

• safeguard the profits of struggling businesses.

• ensure the fair distribution of scarce goods.

• allow consumers to buy imported goods at discounted rates.

This World War II poster publicizes a national campaign aimed at

• creating agricultural projects to relieve an economic depression

  
  

• 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.

Which of the following issued by FDR in 1942 allowed internment camps to be set up to exclude current

residents believed to be a threat to security?

• Executive Initiative 8802

• The 22nd Amendment

• The Pendleton Civil Service Act

• Executive Order 9066

The rights of citizens under the 4th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution were violated by

the U.S. government when it authorized the establishment of---

• Internment camps for Japanese Americans

• The Office of War mobilization

• Nuclear test sites in Nevada

• The Office of Price Administration

During World War II this program was created to bring workers from Mexico to the United States

to help fill the labor needs on American farms in the West.

• Internment

• Holocaust

• Manhattan Project

• Bracero

This photograph best illustrates the need in 1943 to -

• maintain the country's military and industrial production levels.

• increase the regulatory power of the war production board.

• outlaw closed-shop and collective-bargaining practices by the labor unions.

• increase federal funding for the Manhattan Project.

What one direct effect of World War II activities like those promoted by this poster

• Changes in the traditional roles of women.

• the establishment of women's suffrage.

• combat training for women

• the election of women political leaders.