Unit 9 World War II & The Holocaust (US History)

What was a primary goal of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph

Stalin when they met at the Yalta Conference in 1945?

• setting up postwar aid for Great Britain

• sharing the development of atomic weapons

• protecting the colonial empires of the warring nations

• settling major wartime issues of the Allied powers

The war crimes trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo following World War II established the concept that

• nations could be made to pay for wartime damages

• pardons should be granted to all accused war criminals

• those convicted should be given shorter sentences than ordinary criminals

• individuals could be held accountable for their actions in a war

Which of the following shows the correct sequence of events in World War II

• Pearl Harbor; Battle of Midway; D-Day; VE-Day; VJ-Day

• Pearl Harbor; Battle of Midway; VJ-Day; D-Day; VE-Day

• Battle of Midway; D-Day; VE-Day; Pearl Harbor; VJ-Day

• D-Day; VE-Day; Pearl Harbor; Battle of Midway; VJ-Day

Rationing was used in the United States during World War II as a way to...

• ensure adequate supplies of scarce natural resources

• increase the number of imports

• raise production of consumer goods

• provide markets for American made products

Which statement most accurately expresses the point of view of the cartoonist?

• Isolationism is the safest policy for these countries to follow.

• The United States is ignoring the threat caused by foreign aggression.

• Trade restrictions are more of a threat than leaders recognize.

• England can defend itself against Axis agression.

During World War II, women and minorities made economic gains mainly because…

• a shortage of traditional labor created new opportunities in the workplace

• more educational opportunities increased the number of skilled workers in

  these groups

• labor unions successfully demanded equal opportunities for these groups

• new civil rights legislation forced businesses to change their hiring practices

A major cause of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was…

• national segregation policies

• immigration quotas

• racial prejudice

• economic depression

After World War II, the United States was better able than its allies to adjust its economy from wartime to peacetime because the United States…

• possessed nuclear weapons

• raised tariffs on imports

• had collected its war debts from the Allies

• had suffered no widespread wartime destruction

(A) Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

(B) Germany invades Poland.

(C) MacArthur dictates a democratic constitution to Japan.

(D) Allies invade Europe on D-Day.

Which sequence of these events related to World War II is in the correct chronological order?

• D → B → A → C

• B → A → D → C

• C → A → B → D

• A → B → C → D

The quote below comes from the Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v. United

States, handed down in 1944:

"The properly constituted military authorities feared an invasion of our West Coast and

felt constrained to take proper security measures.... Congress, reposing its confidence

in this time of war in our military leaders as inevitably it must determined that they

should have the power to do just this."

What security measures are being referred to in this case?

• Internment of Japanese Americans

• Dropping of atomic bombs on Japan

• Deportation of all recent immigrants from Japan

• Exclusion of Japanese Americans from the draft