Unit 8: WWII Review US History

What was the purpose of the War Production Board?

• To quickly produce enough war material to fight a war on two fronts

• To oversee the internment of Japanese-Americans

• To force Americans to work in factories or join the military

• To plan the war and come up with strategies on how to beat the Axis Powers

Which action led to the Allies receiving military aid from an officially neutral United States?

• Neutrality Laws

• Neutrality Act of 1939

• Lend-Lease Act

• Oil Embargo on Japan

The goal of arming the Allied nations against the Axis Powers was...

• To end isolationism

• To prevent war with Japan and Germany

• To protect the United States

• To create jobs and end the Great Depression

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, what did Franklin Roosevelt ask Congress to do?

• Drop nuclear weapons on Japan

• Declare war on Japan

• To create a law banning Japanese-Americans from the West Coast

• Declare war on Germany

How did Japan hope to destroy American naval power in the Pacific?

• By using spies to launch an invasion of America's West Coast

• By invading China and forcing the United States to defend its ally

• By attacking Pearl Harbor and destroying American planes and warships

• By seizing the Philippines, Guam, and Midway to build airstrips to attack the United States.

The prospect of a million casualties and Japan's unwillingness to surrender unconditionally led to...

• The decision to invade the Japanese home islands

• The decision to drop nuclear weapons on Tokyo and Kyoto

• The decision to punish Japanese-Americans

• The decision to drop nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

-Only one American aircraft carrier was lost

-Morale boost for American military forces

-Turning point in the Pacific Theater

What is being described by the list above?

• The Battle of Berlin

• D-Day invasion of France

• The Attack on Pearly Harbor

• The Battle of Midway

In order to avoid mass casualties, which president ordered the use of atomic bombs on Japan?

• Harry Truman

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Dwight Eisenhower

• Herbert Hoover

The knowledge that Germany was working on nuclear weapons and the threat posed by Japan led President Roosevelt to approve...

• The invasion of Japan

• A declaration of war against Germany

• The creation of the Manhattan Project

• The invasion of Nazi-occupied France

How did the United States and its allies force Germany to fight the war on two fronts?

• The invasion of France

• The invasion of Greece

• The invasion of North Africa

• The invasion of Germany