5.08 USH World War II Review

What was the effect of the Lend-Lease Act on U.S. foreign policy?

• It ended American neutrality in World War II.

• It helped the U.S. stay neutral by selling weapons to both sides.

• It convinced the American public that the U.S. should join the war.

• It angered America's allies in Western Europe.

The Nazi Party's systemic approach to eliminate specific people groups from Europe was known as...

• D-day

• Blitzkreig

• Final Solution

• Kristallnacht

Where was the Auschwitz Nazi death camp located?

• Germany

• France

• Poland

• Russia

What did the U.S. government do to respond to Nazi persecution of Jews and other minority groups during World War II?

• Sending special ops teams to liberate concentration camps

• Repealing immigration restrictions so Jewish refugees could move to the U.S.

• Launching aerial attacks on concentration camps

• almost nothing until the war was nearly over

Which of the following groups was persecuted during the Holocaust for religious and political reasons?

• the Polish Intelligensia

• Communists

• Jehovah's Witnesses

• people with disabilities

In 1945, General Dwight Eisenhower said

"The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter."

What was he describing?

• The D-Day Attack on Omaha Beach

• the liberation of a concentration camp

• the bomb shelters used by civilians during the blitzkreig

• the capture of Nazi party officers

Which of the following Americans was NOT known to be a Nazi sympathizer?

• Charles Lindbergh

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Henry Ford

• Father Charles Coughlin

Before World War II, most Americans favored what kind of foreign policy?

• Isolationism

• Intervention

• Totalitarianism

• Militarism

For the Allied Nations, what was the relevance of the Battle of Coral Sea?

• It showed the strength of aircraft carriers in battles

• It kept the Soviets out of the Pacific war.

• It re-opened American trade with Europe.

• It demolished the Japanese Navy's carrier fleet.

Why didn't the U.S. enter World War II until after the Pearl Harbor attack?

• The United States did not have economic interests in Europe or Asia.

• The American public was divided on whether we should support the Allies or the Axis powers.

• The U.S. military was not ready for war.

• Isolationist sentiment was strong among Americans.