WWII Review

What was the justification of the use of the atomic bomb? Check all that apply.

• Reports that Japan was developing a nuclear weapon

• Concerns a land invasion of Japan would lead to 250,000 American casualties

• Evidence of a planned Japanese attack on the United States

• Concerns that Japan would not surrender

(Check all that apply) the United States claimed the incarceration of Japanese-Americans was necessary because of

• Confirmed reports of Japanese Americans planning an attack on American soil

• Unfounded fears that the Japanese would sabotage oil wells

• Proven evidence of Japanese spies on the west coast

• Unproven fears the Japanese citizens on the west coast would be spies

What Supreme Court case upheld Executive Order 9066?

• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Korematsu v. U.S
• Nagasaki v. U.S.
• Gibbons v. Ogden

Why was President Franklin Roosevelt hesitant to get involved in World War II?

• He considered Germany and Japan strong allies of the United States
• He wanted to maintain the U.S. foreign policy of isolationism
• He was opposed to the Lend-Lease Act
• He had supported the Japanese invasion of China in 1937

Name the U.S. strategy of capturing one island at a time, moving toward Japan

• Island hopping

• Naval warfare

• Ground war

• Isolationism

What happened to U.S. soldiers in the Philippines?

• Captured and sent to Japanese internment camps
• Fought against the Japanese and won, halting their advance in the islands
• Died during the Bataan Death March
• U.S. soldiers were traded for Japanese POWs

What event changed the role of the US and led to us declaring war and sending troops into battle?

• attack on Pearl Harbor

• Lend-Lease Act

• Operation Torch

Who transmitted code messages for the allies during WWII?

• women

• Navajo

• African Americans

What was the purpose of rationing?

• increase supply of natural resources

• cause a shortage of crops

• provide supplies to the troops

Why was Germany's economy struggling after WWI?

• The Treaty of Versailles punished Germany for WWI
• Other countries were using imperialism to take over the economies of other governments, including Germany's
• Hitler was keeping his own people in a state of poverty in order to control them
• America was punishing Germany for playing such a major role in WWI