WWII & Post WW2 Test

Select the following that are associated with Pearl Harbor

• significant American casualties
• a declaration of war against Japan
• the fall of the allies to Japan
• the sinking of US warships, including the USS Arizona

When was Pearl Harbor attacked by Japan?

• July 4, 1941
• September 12, 1941
• December 7, 1941

• November 5, 1942

On December 8, 1941

• Lend-Lease Act was passed

• U.S. declared war against Japan

Lend-Lease Act

• allowed U.S. govt to detain Japanese Americans during WWII

• passed by Congress & FDR to supply weapons & supplies to Allies during WWII

• imprisoned draft dodgers during WWII

• provided weapons to Germany for an overpriced rate

5. Why was the Lend-Lease Act signed into law?

• The government planned to share nuclear technology with the Allied powers.
• The government believed that communist spies were working in the White House.
• The government feared that the Allied powers would be defeated by the Axis powers.
• The government wanted to remain neutral by giving weapons to all sides in World War II.

Savannah's and Brunswick's economic impact from World War II?

• Unemployment rose sharply as factories closed due to declining consumer demand.
• The need for Liberty ships for the war effort helped create thousands of jobs in the cities' shipyards.
• Farmers grew wealthy as the cities became major agricultural producers for the military.
• Business profits declined due to a mass migration to Marietta following the opening of a bomber plant.

effect of the Bell bomber plant

• The construction of the plant displaced thousands of people from the area.
• The plant created numerous jobs and employed many people in the state.
• The plant resulted in severe labor shortages on the state's largest farms

• The construction of the plant increased opposition to World War II.

led to a significant increase in manufacturing activity in Georgia

• the end of the Civil War
• US involvement in World War II
• crop failure during the Dust Bowl
• passage of the Thirteenth Amendment

The small town of Marietta, Georgia, became a large industrial center after

• the Bell Aircraft Company built a production facility there
• the government built a military base to train soldiers there.
• the J. A. Jones Construction Company built a shipyard to build knot ships there.
• the Defense Department built a research facility to develop an atomic bomb there

For the state of Georgia, World War II can be characterized as a period of

• major agricultural diversification
• major industrial development.
• rapid rural population growth.