WWII

What action did the United States take against Japan that eventually led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• Send troops to fight Chinese

• Implement an embargo against Japan

• Bans the sale of weapons to China

• Appeases Japanese demands for new territory

The skill and courage of the Tuskegee Airmen served to

• Give the US an advantage in military encryption

• Encourage immigrant enlistment in the US Army

• Decrease opposition to integrating the armed forces

• Increase number of women in the armed forces

What was an immediate effect of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

• Outbreak of WWII

• Soviet troops left Japan

• US enters the war against Japan

• Japan surrenders to the US

Who am I?

Commander of the US Pacific Fleet

Commanded the US forced in the Battle of Midway

• Douglas MacArthur

• Chester Nimitz

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• George Patton

Who am I?

Commander of D-Day and Allied invasion of Europe

Later used popularity to be elected President of the US

• Chester Nimitz

• Douglas MacArthur

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• George Patton

Who am I?

Commander of the US Army fighting in the Pacific

In charge of the US occupation of Japan

• Charles Nimitz

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• George Patton

• Douglas MacArthur

Which event led to the US entry into WWII

• Germany invaded Poland

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand is killed

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

• US bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki

What was a primary role women took during WWII on the Homefront?

• They remained unemployed

• Joined the Army

• Gained opportunities in the factories and industries

• Access to higher education

Which era does the following list describe?

High levels of military enlistment

Active recruitment of women into the defense industry

High levels of industrial production

• Spanish-American War

• WWI

• Roaring 20's

• WWII

Which is an example of appeasement?

• US neutrality acts of 1935

• The conquest of Poland in 1939

• US entry into WWII in 1941

• The agreement of Britain and France to give Germany the Sudetentland in 1938