11.8 WWII Review

What happened after Executive Order 9066 was passed by FDR?

• The atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Discrimination against African Americans was prohibited in the federal government

• The federal government took control of industries to produce war materials

• Japanese-Americans on the West coast were told to report to internment camps

What event directly led to US involvement in World War II?

• Hitler invading Poland

• Pearl Harbor

• Soviet Union joining the Allied powers

• Japan invades China

What was a result of the Manhatten Project?

• Oppenheimer gets a Nobel Peace Prize

• The US drops the bomb on Germany

• The atomic bomb is found to be successful

The Neutrality Acts were passed to promote

• US involvement

• US isolationism

Even though the US was neutral in the late 1930s, the passage of what led to increasing involvement? (Hint: there can be more than one right answer)

• Lend-Lease Act

• Cash and carry policy

• Neutrality Acts

True or False: A direct result of US entry into WWII is the federal government increasing their involvement by taking over industries that produced war materials.

• True

• False

Which standard of justice was applied to Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg after World War II?

• Military attacks on civilian populations are legal

• Military officers are not accountable for crimes if they were obeying orders

• Only the League of Nations can determine international law

• Individuals can be held personally responsible for war crimes

One reason that the Allied powers were able to be successful in the Pacific theater is

• Defense at sea, attack by air

• Kamikaze piolets

• Island hopping

• Raiding German infrastructure

What was a goal of the United Nations?

• Make it easier to collect war debt

• Maintain international peace

• Divide Germany up into military zones

• Promote nuclear war

True or False: The unemployment rate went up after the United States' entry into WWII.

• True

• False