World War II Review

Totalitarianism is a political system in which the government

• controls every aspect of citizens' lives

• has one monarch that rules the country

• elects religious leaders to rule the country

Which fascist leader tried to expand his country's territory by attacking Ethiopia?

• Adolf Hitler

• Joseph Stalin

• Benito Mussolini

What happened in the zoot-suit riots?

• Soldiers protested against Mexican Americans.

• White mobs attacked Mexican Americans.

• Soldiers protested against Mexican Americans.

The Battle of Stalingrad affected the rest of World War II by

• forcing Stalin to command his troops to surrender.

• giving the Allies time to plan an attack on France.

• causing the Axis powers to retreat from the Soviet Union, and turning the tide of the war in the East.

Why were Japanese Americans interned during World WAr II?

• U.S. citizens and the government viewed them with suspicion and fear.

• Many Japanese Americans were serving as secret agents for Japan.

• U.S. intelligence showed that they aided the invasion of the West Coast.

In which country did the Bataan Death March take place?

• Japan

• India

• Philippines

• United States

What enabled the Americans to communicate with codes that the Japanese could not crack?

• Many of the messages were non-decodable because they were spoken by Navajo Indians.

• The messages, which only classified Americans knew how to read, were encrypted by computers.

• Many of the messages could only be read with an Enigma machine, which only the Americans had.

• The messages were always destroyed shortly after they were received.

Germany's surrender on May 8, 1945, was known as

• Peace Day

• Ardennes Day

• D-Day

• V-E Day

Why did the Japanese finally surrender on September 2, 1945?

• The Japanese realized that they had no chance of winning the war without support from Germany.

• The US threatened to drop an atomic bomb on the capital city of Tokyo.

• American forces dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki, immediately killing 22,000 Japanese people.

How did Harry Truman come to take over as president?

• President Roosevelt lost his re-election bid in 1944

• President Roosevelt focused his efforts on peace in Europe.

• President Roosevelt died of a stroke in April 1945.

• President Roosevelt chose not to run for a fourth term in 1944.