USHC Unit 6 Review #3 - Wilson HS

Which best describes the policy of the United States towards increasing tensions in Europe in the 1930s?

• Active military engagement

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Neutrality

• Moral diplomacy

The neutrality laws passed in the 1930s were based on the assumption that the surest way to avoid war was for the United States to...

• Restrict loans to and limit trade with warring nations

• Discourage aggressors by threatening military reprisals

• Maintain a superior army and navy

• Enter alliances with other democratic nations

What was one result of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, authorizing the U.S. government to send supplies to the Allied countries of Europe and Asia?

• The act caused an abrupt end to United States’ neutrality

• The act allowed the United States to aid the Allies and still remain neutral

• The act enabled the pacifistic United States to join the war

• The act promoted United States’ isolationism

What event is responsible for United States’ entry into World War II?

• The German invasion of Poland

• The discovery of concentration camps in Eastern Europe

• The sinking of the Lusitania by Germany

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

How were Americans forced by law to make sacrifices for the war effort during World War II?

• Citizens were given rationing coupon books to use certain items

• American women were encouraged to grow victory gardens at their homes

• The government required unemployed women to take war jobs

• Citizens were required to spend a certain percentage of their income on war bonds

Which of the following was a direct result of United States involvement in World War II?

• An increase in the production of consumer goods

• The entry of more women and minorities into the workplace

• A decrease in industrial activity

• A decrease in federal control over the economy

Which federal policy was enacted during World War II and justified as a wartime necessity?

• A ban on German-language books

• Internment of Japanese Americans

• Exclusion of Chinese immigrants

• Adoption of the quota system of immigration

The D-Day invasion in June 1944 was important to the outcome of World War II because it accomplished what goal?

• Opened a new Allied front in Europe

• Avoided use of the atomic bomb against civilian targets

• Forced Italy to surrender

• Stopped Soviet advances in Eastern Europe

In waging war against Japan, the United States relied mainly on what strategy?

• Fortifying China by transporting supplies from India over the Himalayan “hump”

• Heavy bombings from Chinese air bases

• Invading Japanese strongholds in Southeast Asia

• “Island hopping” across the South Pacific while bypassing Japanese strongholds

What was the significance of the American capture of the islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa?

• They held the central naval bases of the Japanese Imperial Navy

• They were significant operating bases for the Japanese espionage programs

• They contained Japanese prisoner-of-war camps with thousands of American POWs

• They were necessary acquisitions for the launch of an invasion of the Japanese mainland