America in WW2 Test Review

The immediate event that started World War II was

• A Britain and France’s policy of appeasement.
• B the Treaty of Munich allowing Hitler to occupy part of Czechoslovakia.
• C Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939.
• D Hitler’s alliance with the Italian dictator, Mussolini.

Germany encountered no successful resistance from any European country until it sought to defeat

• A France.
• B Britain.
• C The United States.
• D Belgium.

Although officially neutral, the United States Increasingly helped Britain through actions like

• A the Neutrality Acts.
• B the Lend-Lease Act.
• C the America First committee.
• D enforcement of the arms embargo.

The main reason that the Soviet Union became an ally of Britain and the United States was because the Soviet Union:

• A was Fascist and opposed Communism.
• B mistrusted Japan.
• C needed the soldiers of Britain and the United States.
• D was attacked by Germany in spite of their 10-year Non Aggression pact

The liberation of Europe from Hitler began with the

• A invasion of Normandy Beach on the coast of France.
• B evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk on the coast of France
• C defense of Britain by the Royal Air Force.
• D deciphering of German communication codes by British Intelligence

The Pacific victory that ended the Japanese threat to Hawaii and encouraged additional victories island by island was the battle of

• A Guam.
• B Iwo Jima.
• C Midway.
• D the Philippines.

President Truman’s main decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan was influenced by all of the following reasons except the:

• A Lend Lease Acts
• B fear that an invasion of Japan would mean death for thousands of American soldiers
• C refusal of Japan to surrender in spite of their losses.
• D thousands of American lives already lost in the war.

Thousands of African Americans soldiers served bravely in a WWII flight crew known as the

• A Nisei Airmen
• B Navajo Code Talkers
• C Tuskegee Airmen
• D Harlem Flyers

The Navajo code-talkers were instrumental in

• A breaking Germany’s communication codes.
• B breaking Japan’s communication codes.
• C creating a communication code that the Japanese could not break
• D creating a code that the Germans could not break.

The government policy of removing Japanese Americans from the West Coast and other places into special camps was called

• A mobilization.
• B isolationism.
• C internment.
• D liberation.