World War II Review

In the 1930s, how did the US respond to the rise of fascism in Europe?

• By invading Germany and Italy
• By forming military alliances
• By joining the League of Nations.
• by passing a series of neutrality laws.

Executive Order 9066, issued by President Roosevelt, authorized which of the following actions?

• deployment of US military forces to the Pacific theater
• conscription of adult male citizens into the armed forces
• creation of the Manhattan Project, first US nuclear weapon
• forced internment of US citizens of Japanes, Italian, and German ancestry.

What was the purpose of the "cash and carry" policy adopted by the US government in 1939?

• to preserve US neutrality
• to gain access to new trade markets
• to spread democracy around the world
• to punish aggressor nations

Why did the US enact the Lend-Lease Act?

• To stay out of World War II
• To divide land acquired from the Japanese.
• To supply iron and oil to Japan.
• To let England borrow weapons in the early 1940s.

Why did President Truman ultimately decide to use atomic weapons in Japan?

• To prevent the potential loss of American lives from an invasion of Japan.
• The need to defeat Japan before defeating Germany
• plan to bring democratic government to Japan 
• The failure of the island hopping campaign against Japan

The goal of the Double V Campaign was Victory for the Allies in Europe and Victory over which social issue?

• discrimination and inequality in the United States
• government censorship and propaganda
• the gender wage gap in the United States
• the suspension of civil liberties during wartime

The American campaign to defeat the Japanese shown in the map above was known as

• island blitzkrieg
• shock and awe in the islands
• island hopping
• island trenching

A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule, 3-class structure with no freedom to move between the classes

• Communism

• Fascism

• Democracy

• Monarchy

Appealed to Italy's wounded pride and fear of communism, established the first Fascist Party, took over the Italian government after the March on Rome, "I1 Duce"

• Benito Mussolini

• Joseph Stalin

• Francisco Franco

• Adolf Hitler

What country invaded Manchuria in 1931?

• Italy

• Japan

• Austria

• Germany