WWII/Cold War

During WWII, what was the primary duty of the Navajo Code Talkers?

• Interpreting confiscated German battle plans

• Transmitting secret messages to U.S. forces during combat

• Translating confidential Japanese communications

• Informing the press about the number of Allied war casualties

Many Americans opposed the 1941 Lend-Lease Act because they feared it would

• draw the United States into the war in Europe.

• cause the economy to fall into an economic recession.

• be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

• place the United States in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

The U.S. Congress passed a series of neutrality acts beginning in August 1935 in response to

• British requests to blockade German ports.

• American antiwar sentiment.

• the German invasion of Poland.

• the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the internment of Japanese Americans residing on the West Coast by ruling that the actions were

• part of an international agreement with U.S. allies.

• approved by both houses of Congress.

• allowed under the 14th Amendment.

• necessary for national security.

How did WWII impact of the lives of African Americans from 1941 to 1945?

• African Americans were widely elected to public office.

• African Americans served with whites in desegregated military units.

• Civil rights reforms greatly improved the social status of African Americans.

• Defense industry jobs led many African Americans to migrate from the South.

Even though President Franklin Roosevelt supported the Allies with war supplies before 1941, why was the US unable to enter the war until after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?

• The Supreme Court disapproved the war.

• Most citizens refused to support England.

• Many state governors approved of the Axis Powers.

• Most of Congress refused to support the war.

One consequence of WWII was that the United States

• returned to its isolationist tendencies.

• avoided foreign conflict.

• remained deeply involved in world affairs.

• reduced its military spending.

The government raised money for WWII efforts in all of the following ways except----

• selling war bonds.

• raising personal income taxes.

• defaulting on reparations payments.

• borrowing funds.

In July and September 1940, the US imposed embargos on the sale of petroleum and scrap metal to Japan in response to Japanese aggression in China. Which of the following is a direct effect of the above events?

• Japan attacked the Soviet capital of Moscow.

• The US sent Japanese Americans to concentration camps.

• Japan attacked US naval facilities in Hawaii.

• The US order the closure of Japanese factories in American territories.

When the US entered WWII, it became allied with

• Germany.

• Great Britain.

• Italy.

• Japan.