WWII Study Guide

Why were there “Rosie the Riveter” posters to encourage women to enter the workforce

• Women needed to be encouraged

• Women didn't want to work

• Most men were fighting in the war and the factories needed workers, so the women needed to work.

• Men wanted women to work.

Where did the US soldiers raise the American flag in this picture

• Pearl Harbor

• Iwo Jima

• the moon

• China

Why did America enter WWII?

• Japan bombed Pearl Harbor

• sank the U.S.S Maine

• The Holacaust

• bomb the World Trade Centers

America did not want to become involved in WWII at first because it was being

• communisim

• democracy

• nationalist

• isolationist

Who wrote the diary about her time during the Holocaust?

• Anne of Green Gables

• Anne Frank

• Scarlet Ohara

• Rosie The Riveter

What was a turning point in the war?

• D-Day

• Pearl Harbor

• December 7th, 1941

• VE DAY

Name 3 causes of WWII?

• VE-Day

• Pearl Harbor, Holocaust

• Hitler invaded Poland

• Treaty of Versailles, Hitler invaded Poland, Hitler’s rise to power

Who was the leader of Italy during WWII?

• FDR

• Mussolini

• Truman

• Churchill

Which President ordered the dropping of the atomic bomb?

• Truman

• FDR

• Churchill

• Isenhower

What was the largest sea invasion that pushed German out of France?

• VE-Day

• D-Day

• Pearl Harbor

• Holocaust