Chapter 25 Test

Why did President Franklin Roosevelt create the Office of War Mobilization?

• to replace the Office of Price Administration
• to centralize agencies dealing with war production
• to build up wartime morale

Production manufacturers like James Byrnes & Henry Kaiser contributed to wartime production with all of the following ways, except

• creating new markets overseas (in other countries)

• organizing the War Production Board to oversee rationing
• using mass production techniques to build Liberty ships.
• converting automobile plants to aircraft production.

V-E Day, May 8, 1945 marked

• the start of the largest landing by sea in history.
• the end of the war in Europe.
• the end of the war in the Pacific.

All of the following are IMPACTS of the Selective Training and Service Act, except

• New recruits were drafted into the military after enacted.
• The federal government fulfilled its quota of military personnel.
• the military was supported with enough men to successfully continue the Allied war effort.
• Theodore Roosevelt (26th President) hosted a large number of rallying troops at American pro-war events.

What important idea came out of the Nuremberg Trials?

• Concentration camps are against the law
• Nazis denied German Jews their civil rights & dehumanized them.
• Justice would require individuals are responsible for their own actions.

What event in WWII is this political cartoon referring to

• the unjust sale of citizens into slavery in southern California beginning in 1941.
• the evacuation of Japanese-American citizens to internment camps beginning in 1941.
• the illegal crossing of citizens into California across the Military Zone that began in 1941.

Carpet bombing is a tactic used by the Royal Air Force where

• planes scatter a large number of bombs over small targets
• planes scatter a small number of bombs over a wide area
• planes scatter a large number of bombs over a wide area
• Planes dropping bombs as they move from island to island to close in on the enemy

These governmental actions of the 1930s were similarin that each was intended to

• support efforts of the Munich Conference
• limit the influence of Japan in Asia
• keep the United States out of international conflicts

The date of the D-Day attack is

• September 1, 1939
• December 7, 1941
• June 6, 1944
• May 8, 1945

The Battle of the Bulge is when

• The German offensive pushed into the Allied line, causing a bulge in the line.
• There was a bulge in the Japanese lines but the Allies continued to fight to drive deep into Germany.
• The allies invaded mainland Europe and liberated Paris