U.S. and World War II

The immediate event that started World War II was

• Britain and France’s policy of appeasement.

• the Treaty of Munich allowing Hitler to occupy part of Czechoslovakia.

• Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.

• Hitler’s alliance with the Italian dictator, Mussolini.

Germany encountered no successful resistance from any European country until it sought to defeat

• France

• Britain

• United States

• Soviet Union

Although officially neutral, the United States increasingly helped Britain through actions like

• the Neutrality Acts.

• the Lend-Lease Act.

• the America First committee.

• enforcement of the arms embargo.

“A date which will live in infamy” was President Roosevelt’s description of the

• invasion of Poland by Germany.

• bombing of Pearl Harbor by Japan.

• surrender of France after Paris was captured.

• the Battle of Britain.

   The diplomatic policy of “appeasement”—

• Takes into account the ethnic diversity of an allied country or territory.

• Makes political and material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.

•   Is used only between communist nations.

• Has not been used by a world power since 1820

   What was Kristallnacht?   

•    An anti-Semitic pogrom that took place on the night of November 9 and 10, 1938.

• The event considered to be the “start” of the Holocaust.

•   The “Night of Broken Glass.”

•   All of the above.

Thousands of African Americans soldiers served bravely in a WWII flight crew known as the

• Nisei Airmen

• Navajo Code Talkers

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Harlem Flyers

Despite removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast,

• Japanese Americans, or Nisei, served honorably in segregated regiments

• Japanese Americans were still disloyal to the United States government.

• Japanese were still allowed to emigrate to the United States.

• Japanese businesses on the West coast prospered.

The Navajo code-talkers were instrumental in

• breaking Germany’s communication codes.

• breaking Japan’s communication codes.

• creating a communication code that the Japanese could not break.

• creating a code that the Germans could not break.

President Truman’s main decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was influenced by all of the following reasons except the:

• Lend Lease Acts

• fear that an invasion of Japan would mean death for thousands of American soldiers.

• refusal of Japan to surrender in spite of their losses.

• thousands of American lives already lost in the war.