World War II Released STAAR Questions

• Axis violations of international law caused the United States to hold criminal trials

• German expansion in Western Europe caused the United States to assist France

• Japanese aggression in the Pacific caused the United States to declare war

• Allied defeats on the battlefield caused the United States to develop new weapons

Which event prompted the United States to enter World War II?

• The German annexation of Austria

• The Soviet occupation of Germany

• The landing of Allied soldiers on Normandy Beach

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• implements an embargo against Japan

• sends ground troops to fight the Chinese

• bans the sale of weapons to China

• appeases Japanese demands for new territory

• the implementation of sanctions against Japan

• U.S. entry into World War II

• the establishment of the Truman Doctrine

• U.S. annexation of Hawaii

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

How did President Harry S. Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb affect international relations?

• It initiated the arms race with the Soviet Union

• It prompted other nations to begin investigations of war crimes

• It enabled the United Nations to administer territory in Japan

• It led to the establishment of the first global peacekeeping force

Which phrase best defines the Holocaust?

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

• The Allied plan to liberate concentration camps in Eastern Europe

• The Nazi campaign to use genocide to eliminate European Jews

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

• Long range submarines

• Radio navigation

• Atomic bombs

• Jet engines

The rights of citizens under the Fourth and Fourteenth 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