wwII review

Which event prompted the United States to enter World War II?

• The German annexation of Austria

• The Soviet occupation of Germany

• The landing of Allied soldiers on Normandy Beach

• The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Which sentence completes this cause-and-effect diagram?

The United States enters WWII, then National Defense spending increases, then BLANK

• The government reduces its use of propaganda

• the level of industrial production increases

• the government reduces its use of rationing programs

• the unemployment rate increases

What was one direct effect of WWII activities like those promoted by this poster?

• changes in the traditional roles of women

• the establishment of women's suffrage

• combat training for women

• the election of women political leaders

Why did Japan attack America at Pearl Harbor?

• they wanted to invade America

• embargo of oil and rubber

• they hated Americans

What is one thing America did to help the Allies before we declared war?

• Lend Lease and Cash and carry act

• never helped our allies

• we just focused on our economy

Who were the Tuskegee airmen?

• drivers

• Alabamian pilots

• African American military pilots

• People from Tuskegee

The day that Japan officially surrendered is called?

• Victory Day

• V-E Day

• D Day

• V-J Day

The Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

• Holocaust
• Fascism
• Rationing
• Nazism

Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the USA during WWII who were sent to camps called "War Relocation Centers" in remote portions of the nation's interior

• Cornelia Fort
• Japanese Internment
• Allied Powers
• Axis Powers

A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb

• The Manhattan Project
• Totalitarianism
• Pearl Harbor
• USS Arizona