World War II

The Invasion of which country by Germany was the  reason for the beginning of War in Europe 1939?

• invasion of Austria
• invasion of Poland
• invasion of Hungary
• invasion of Czechoslovakia 

 What strategy did France and Great Britain attempt to use at the Munich Conference in an attempt to stop Adolf Hitler from going to War?

• pacifism
• appeasement
• militarism
• fascism

Why did President Roosevelt ask Congress to declare war on Japan?

• the attack at Pearl Harbor
• the attack at Iwo Jima
• the sinking of the Lusitania
• the explosion of the USS Maine

Which was one American effort to assist the Allies before its entry into the war?

• The First Neutrality Act 1935
• Lend Lease Program
• The 2nd Neutrality Act of 1936, banning the sale of arms
• Placing an embargo on Allied nations

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

1944- declared that the government had the right to keep Japanese Americans in internment camps due to the idea of “national security threat”

• Korematsu v. United States
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Marbury v. Madison 
• Plessy v. Ferguson

June 6, 1944—the day of the Normandy landings—initiating the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi Germany.

• V J Day
• V E Day
• D Day

What battle was the turning point for the United States in the Pacific against Japan?

• Hawaii Island

• Midway Island

• Tokyo Island

• Kyoto Island

U.S. Army Chief of Staff that coordinated the war effort from Washington, D.C. - also supplied over 8 million men and oversaw creation of atomic bomb

• Dwight Eisenhower
• Harry Truman
• George Marshall
• General George Patton

The Big Three of World War II consisted of all of these men EXCEPT

• Winston Churchill of Great Britain
• Josef Stalin of the USSR
• Charles de Gaulle of France
• FDR of the US